Printed Books, Maps & Documents

Amici (Domenico). Raccolta delle principali vedute di Roma disegnate dal vero ed incise da Domenico Amici, Rome: Giovanni Raffaelli, 1835, 43 engr...

Anderson (George William). A New Authentic and Complete Collection of Voyages round the World, undertaken and performed by Royal Authority. Contai...

Atkinson (Lucy). Recollections of Tartar Steppes and their Inhabitants, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1863, half-title, five wood-engraved pla...

Baikie (William Balfour). Narrative of an Exploring Voyage up the Rivers Kwo'ra and Bi'nue (commonly known as the Niger and Tsadda) in 1854, 1st e...

Benoist (Félix). La Bretagne Contemporaine, Sites Pittoresques, Monuments, Costumes, Scenes de Moeurs, Histoire, Legendes, Traditions et Usages de...

Bruyn (Cornelius de). 11 engraved plates from various works, including from Reizen over Moskovie, door Persie en Indie... c.1700, 11 copper-engrav...

Chesney (Francis Rawdon). The Expedition for the Survey of the Rivers Euphrates and Tigris, carried on by order of the British Government in the y...

Chesney (Francis Rawdon). Narrative of the Euphrates Expedition carried on by order of the British Government during the years 1835, 1836, and 183...

Euphrates Expedition. Euphrates Expedition. Return to an Order of the Honourable The House of Commons, dated 3 July 1837, for Copy of Instructions...

Cordiner (James). A Description of Ceylon, Containing an Account of the Country, Inhabitants, and Natural Productions; with Narratives of a Tour R...

D'Oyly (Charles). Armoury Book, circa 1860, 9 watercolours of armour (many with corresponding sketches to adjacent pages), 14 landscape watercolou...

Goujon (Jacques). Histoire et Voyage de la Terre-Sainte, ou tout ce qu'ily a de plus remarquable dans les saints lieux, est tres-exactement descri...

Landscape Annual. Jennings' Landscape Annual for 1835 - The Tourist in Spain. Granada, by Thomas Roscoe, illustrated from drawings by David Robert...

Lansdell (Henry). Russian Central Asia, including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva and Merv, 2 volumes, 1st American edition, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co...

Mecham (Clifford Henry). Sketches and Incidents of the Siege of Lucknow. From drawings made during the siege by Clifford Henry Mecham, Lieutenant ...

* Mexico & North America. San Blas from the river (West Coast of Mexico), circa 1850, pencil landscape on thin cream card, titled to lower margin,...

Moor (Edward). The Hindu Pantheon, 1st edition, London: T. Bensley for J. Johnson, 1810, 105 engraved plates, including frontispiece, one or two p...

* Mount Everest, 1953. A scarce printed luncheon menu for an event given by Smiths English Clocks Ltd, in honour of members of the British Mount E...

Nansen (Fridtjof). Farthest North. Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1893-96, 2 volumes, 1st English edition, London: A...

North-West Frontier. Routes in Chitral, Gilgit & Kohistan, 4th edition, General Staff, India, 1941. printed by the manager, Government of India Pr...

Nostitz (Pauline Mathilde). Travels of Doctor and Madame Helfer in Syria, Mesopotamia, Burmah and other lands, translated by Mrs George Sturge, 2 ...

Paruta (Paolo). Historia Vinetiana, 2 parts in 1, Venice: Giuseppe Nicolino Angeli, 1703, titles with woodcut devices, woodcut initials, occasiona...

Pennant (Thomas). The View of India Extra Gangem, China, and Japan (Outlines of the Globe, volume III only), London: printed by Luke Hansard, sold...

Perronet (Jean Rodolphe). Description des Projets et de la Construction des Ponts de Neuilly, de Mantes, d'Orleans & autres; Du Projet du Canal de...

Polar & Travel Menus. A group of 18 various menus, 1930s/1960s, including printed menus for Gonville & Caius College, on the occasion of the openi...

Polar Menus. A group of 19 menus for the Arctic Club, 1933/59, comprising printed menus for dinner celebrations in 1933, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1938 (2...

Polar Menus. A group of 5 menus for Cambridge expeditions. 1926/32, comprising printed menus for dinners celebrating the East Greenland Expedition...

Polar Menus. A group of 5 menus for the Antarctic Club, 1929/59, comprising printed menus for dinner celebrations in 1929 (2), 1935, 1940 & 1959, ...

Prior (James). Narrative of a Voyage in the Indian Seas, in the Nisus Frigate, to the Cape of Good Hope, Isles of Bourbon, France, and Scychelles;...

Rottiers (Bernard Eugene Antoine). Monumens de Rhodes, Atlas only, Brussels, 1828, lithograph title, map and 74 engraved and lithographed plates o...

Salmon (Thomas). Modern History: or, the Present State of all Nations, describing their respective situations, persons, habits, buildings, manners...

* Spanish costume. Four watercolours of Spanish costume,1846, pen, black ink and watercolour on paper, each inscribed and with artist's monogramme...

Stanford (Edward, publisher). Stanford's London Atlas of Universal Geography, Exhibiting the Physical and Political Divisions of the Various Count...

Thiel (P.W.H. & Co., publishers). Twentieth Century Impressions of Western Australia, Perth: P.W.H. Thiel & Co., 1901, numerous folding panoramas ...

Thornton (Thomas Henry). General Sir Richard Meade and the Feudatory States of Central and Southern India. A Record of forty-three years' service ...

Tizard (Thomas Henry). The Yangtse Kiang Pilot, containing a description of, and sailing directions for, the Yangtse Kiang, from the Wusung River ...

Tott (Francois, Baron de). Mémoires du baron de Tott, sur les Turcs et les Tartares, 4 parts in two, Amsterdam, 1784-85, half-titles to parts 2, 3...

Wolff (Joseph). Narrative of a Mission to Bokhara, in the years 1843-1845, to ascertain the fate of Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly, 4th edit...

Lorimer (John Gordon). Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia, [Completed and edited by R. L. Birdwood], 2 volumes, Calcutta: Supe...

Abu Dhabi and Sa‘udi Arabia. Arbitration concerning Buraimi and the Common Frontier between Abu Dhabi and Sa‘udi Arabia, Memorial submitted by the...

Aitchison (Charles Umpherston). A Collection of Treaties, Engagements and Sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries, Volume X, containin...

De Jong (Everdene). Spoken Arabic of the Arabian Gulf, 1st edition, Beirut: The American Press, 1958, 248pp, leaves with slightly marginal toning,...

De Jong (Everdene). Spoken Arabic of the Arabian Gulf, 1st edition, Beirut: The American Press, 1958, 248pp, H.M. Political Agency of Abu Dhabi st...

King Hussein of Jordan. Uneasy Lies The Head, 1st edition, London: Heinemann, 1962, signed by King Hussein of Jordan to half-title, small portion ...

Lane (Edward William). An Arabic-English Lexicon, 8 volumes, Beirut: Librairie du Liban, 1968, half-titles, contemporary green cloth, some faint b...

Bukh?r? (Mu?ammad ibn Ism???l). Le Recueil des Traditions Mahométanes, par Abou Abdallah Mohammed ibn Ismaîl el-Bokhâri, publié par M. Ludolf Kreh...

Lorimer (John Gordon). Extracts from Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia, no publisher, c. 1950, 161pp., hinges repaired, Hende...

Abi Zayd (Ibn). First Steps in Muslim Jurisprudence: consisting of excerpts from Bakurat al-sa'd of Ibn Abu Zayd, translated by Alexander David Ru...

Robson (James, translator). Mishkat Al-Masabih, English translation with explanatory notes, 4 volumes, Lahore, Sh. Muhammad Ashraf, 1963-1965, mar...

Springett (Bernard H.). Secret Sects of Syria and Lebanon, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1922, ownership inscription of 'E. F. Henderson, Haifa, 1...

Thesiger (Wilfred). Arabian Sands, London: Collins, 1983, presentation copy to Edward Henderson signed by the author to title page, numerous illus...

Thesiger (Wilfred). Across the Empty Quarter (Geographical Journal, volume CXI, numbers 1-3), & Desert Borderlands of Oman (Geographical Journal, ...

Thomas (Bertram). The Kumzari Dialect of the Shihuh Tribe, Arabia, and a vocabulary, 1st edition, London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1930, 70pp., Hend...

Wensinck (A.J.) Concordance et Indices de la Tradition Musulmane, les six livres, le Musnad d'Al-Darimi, le Muwatta'de Malik, le Musnad de Ahmad I...

Wensinck (A.J.). A Handbook of Early Muhammadan Tradition, alphabetically arranged, reprinted, Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1971, original publisher's maro...

Ackermann (Rudolph). The History of the Abbey Church of St Peter's Westminster, Its Antiquities and Monuments, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 2nd issue, ...

Aikin (John). A Description of the Country from Thirty to Forty Miles Round Manchester, 1st edition, London: John Stockdale, 1795, engraved fronti...

Barclay (James). The Universal English Dictionary..., London: J. & F. Tallis, circa 1848, engraved frontispiece of Buckingham Palace, additional e...

Bartlett (W.H.). Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland, Illustrated from Drawings by W. H. Bartlett; The Literary Portion of the Work by J. Stirling ...

Batty (Robert). Welsh Scenery. From Drawings, London: R. Jennings, 1825, large paper copy, 35 engraved plates, occasional spotting, offsetting to ...