Travel, Maps & Topographical Views, Antiquarian Literature, Cookery & Science

[Alexander, William]. The Costume of the Russian Empire, 1st edition, London: for W. Miller by S. Gosnell, 1803, all preliminary text leaves in En...

Alvarez de Colmenar (Juan). Annales d'Espagne et de Portugal ..., 8 volumes, Amsterdam, François L'Honoré, 1741, 165 folding engraved plates (of 1...

Belnos (Mrs S[ophia] C[harlotte]). The Sundhya or the Daily Prayers of the Brahmins. Illustrated in a Series of Original Drawings from Nature, dem...

Bowles (Thomas, publisher). Geographia sacra illustrata. Or Sacred Geography Illustrated. Containing, a View of many things belonging to ye Jews a...

Bruce (James). Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, 1773, 5 volumes, 1st edition, Edinburgh: by ...

Castlemaine (Roger Palmer, Earl of). An Account of the Present War between the Venetians & Turk; with the state of Candie: (in a letter to the kin...

Clüver (Philipp). Germaniae antiquae libri tres ... Adjecta sunt Vindelicia et Noricum ejusdem auctoris, 1st edition, Leiden: Louis Elzevier, 1616...

Conway (William Martin). Climbing and Exploration in the Karakoram-Himalayas, 1st edition, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1894, half-title (newspaper cu...

Cook (James). The Journals of Captain James Cook, edited by J.C. Beaglehole, 4 volumes in 5, 2nd edition, CUP for the Hakluyt Society, 1967-74, nu...

Coxe (William). Sketches of the Natural, Civil, and Political State of Swisserland; in a Series of Letters to WIlliam Melmoth, 1st edition, London...

Darjou (Alfred, illustrator). Le Caire et la haute Egypte. Texte par Florian Pharaon, 1st edition, Paris: E Dentu, 1872, half-title, 30 tinted lit...

[Egypt]. Description de l'Egypte, ou recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont étét faite en Egypte pendant expédition de l'armée françai...

Evans (Admiral Sir E.R.G.R.) Library of Classics. South with Scott, London and Glasgow: Collins Clear-Type Press, [1924], half-tone illustrations,...

Horsburgh (James). India Directory, or Directions for Sailing to and from the East Indies, China, New Holland, Cape of Good Hope, Brazil and the I...

Lanté (Louis Marie). A collection of 36 costume plates by Georges-Jacques Gatine after Lantè, 1824-28, 36 fine hand-coloured engraved plates, a fe...

Lowe (George, 1924-2013). Collection of mountaineering books from the library of George Lowe, last surviving member of the 1953 British Mount Ever...

Pierotti (Ermete). Jerusalem Explored. Being a Description of the Ancient and Modern City, with Numerous Illustrations consisting of Views, Ground...

Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia, from Drawings made on the Spot. With Historical Descriptions by George Cr...

Roscoe (Thomas). The Landscape Annual, 3 volumes, London: Jennings & Chaplin, 1830, 1832 & 1834, comprising: The Tourist in Switzerland and Italy;...

[Russia]. Le faux Pierre III. Ou la vie et les avantures du rebelle Jemeljan Pugatschew. D'après l'original russe de Mr. F. S. G. W. D. B., 1st ed...

[Russia]. The Russian Catechism, compos'd and publish'd by Order of the Czar: To which is annex'd, a Short Account of the Church-Government and Ce...

The Scots Magazine, containing A General View of the Religion, Politicks, Entertainment, &c. in Great Britain..., 61 volumes, a near-unbroken run,...

Volney (Constantin-François). View of the climate and soil of the United States of America: to which are annexed some accounts of Florida, the Fre...

Wright (George Newenham). The Shores and Islands of the Mediterranean, London: Fisher, Son & Co., circa 1842, additional engraved title (dampstain...

Wyld (James). An Atlas of the World, Comprehending Separate Maps of its Various Countries, constructed and drawn from the latest Astronomical and ...

Wyld (James). Atlas Minimus Universalis, or A Geographical Abridgement, Ancient and Modern of the several parts of the Earth, London: James Wyld, ...

Allom (Thomas, illustrator). China in a Series of Views, displaying the Scenery, Architecture, and Social Habits, of that Ancient Empire ... WIth ...

Arlington (Lewis Charles). The Chinese Drama from the Earliest Times until To-Day, 1st edition, Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, Limited, 1930, half-tit...

Baker (Samuel White). The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon, 1st edition, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854, half-title, 6 chromolitho...

Bishop (Isabella, née Bird). The Yangtze Valley and Beyond. An Account of Journeys in China, chiefly in the Province of Sze Chuan and among the Ma...

Blakeney (William). On the Coasts of Cathay and Cipango Forty Years Ago. A Record of Surveying Service in the China Yellow and Japan Seas and on t...

Buchanan (Sir George). My Mission to Russia and Other Diplomatic Memories, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1923, pho...

Callery (Joseph-Marie, & Melchior Yvan). History of the Insurrection in China ... Translated from the French, with a Supplementary Chapter, narrat...

Cave (Henry W.). A Series of Forty Aionograph Ceylon Views, 1st edition, Colombo: H. W. Cave & Co., [1893], 40 'aionograph' plates from photograph...

Curzon (Robert). Armenia: A Year at Erzeroom, and on the Frontiers of Russia, Turkey, and Persia, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1854, 5 wood-e...

David-Neel (Alexandra). Tibetan Journey, 1st edition, London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1936, 16 photographic plates, folding map, half-title spo...

Doughty (Charles M.). Travels in Arabia Deserta, with a New Preface by the Author, Introduction by T. E. Lawrence, and all original Maps, Plans an...

Ebers (Georg). Aegypten in Bild und Wort, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, Stuttgart & Leipzig: Eduard Hallberger, c.1880, wood-engraved plates, 2 colour m...

Erskine (John Elphinstone). Journal of a Cruise among the Islands of the Western Pacific, including the Feejees and Others inhabited by the Polyne...

Europe. Photograph album, c.1870-80, containing 313 albumen print photographs mounted rectos and versos to 68 thick card leaves, including landsca...

Francklin (William). Inquiry concerning the Site of Ancient Palibothra, parts 2-4 of 4 in 1 volume, 1st editions, London: Kingsbury, Parbury, and ...

Harris (Walter B.). From Batum to Baghdad via Tiflis, Tabriz, and Persian Kurdistan, 1st edition, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1896, hal...

Hose (Charles). Natural Man. A Record from Borneo, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1926, numerous halftone photographic plates (all presen...

Ibn Battuta. The Travels of Ibn Battuta A.D. 1325-1354. Translated with revisions and notes from the Arabic text edited by C. Defrémery and B. R. ...

Jack (R. Logan). The Back Blocks of China. A Narrative of Experiences among the Chinese, Sifans, Lolos, Tibetans, Shans and Kachins, between Shang...

Kennedy (Sir Alexander B. W.). Petra. Its History and Monuments, 1st edition, London: Country Life, 1925, 76 collotype photographic plates includi...

Kennedy (Sir William Robert). Sport, Travel and Adventure in Newfoundland and the West Indies, 1st edition, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons,...

Landon (Perceval). Lhasa. An Account of the Country and People of Central Tibet and of the Progress of the Mission sent there by the English Gover...

Lay (G. Tradescant). The Chinese As They Are: their Moral, Social, and Literary Character; a New Analysis of their Language; with Succinct Views o...

Lowth (George Thomas). Around the Kremlin; or, Pictures of Life in Moscow, 1st edition, London: Hurst and Blackett, 1868, half-title, wood-engrave...

Lyon (George Francis). A Brief Narrative of an Unsuccessful Attempt to reach Repulse Bay, through Sir Thomas Rowe's "Welcome," in His Majesty's Sh...

Mackenzie (Charles). Notes on Haiti, made during a Residence in that Republic, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, ...

Mariner (William). An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean, 2 volumes, 2nd edition ('with additions'), London: ...

Mason (John Abraham). A Treatise on the Climate and Meteorology of Madeira, 1st edition, London: John Churchill, 1850, errata slip, 3 engraved pla...

Melville (George Wallace). In the Lena Delta. A Narrative of the Search for Lieut.-Commander DeLong and his Companions. Followed by an Account of ...

Milne [Mary Lewis]. The Home of an Eastern Clan. A Study of the Palaungs of the Shan States, 1st edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924, 20 halfto...

Morier (James). A Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, in the Years 1808 and 1809; in which is included, some Accou...

Osborn (Sherard). Quedah; or, Stray Leaves from a Journal in Malayan Waters, 1st edition, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1857...

[Ottoman Turkey]. Thirty Years in the Harem: or, the Autobiography of Melek-Hanum, Wife of H.H. Kibrizli-Mehemet-Pasha, 1st edition in English, Lo...

Philby (Harry St John Bridger). The Empty Quarter, being a Description of the Great South Desert of Arabia known as Rub' al Khali, 1st edition, Lo...