Books & Works on Paper

(Japan.) Herbert G. Ponting: 'Fuji San', Tokyo, K. Ogawa, 1905, 1st edition, 25 black & white plates from photographs by Herbert Ponting (of which...

(Japan & China.) Captain A. Brinkley: 'Japan and China. Their History, Arts and Literature', London, T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1903-1904, 1st edition, "Li...

R.L. Hobson: 'Chinese Pottery and Porcelain: An Account of the Potter's Art in China, from Primitive Times to the Present Day', London, Cassell, 1...

(Japan, History, Art, Travel.) Engelbert Kaempfer: 'The History of Japan. Together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam 1690-92', Glasgow, 1...

(China.) John Henry Gray: 'China: A History of the Laws, Manners, and Customs of the People', London, Macmillan & Co, 1878, 1st edition, 2 volumes...

(China, Xi River, Wuzhou, Guangxi, Guangdong, Pearl River.) Photograph Album WEST RIVER TRIPS. China, Leonard Philpott 1902 – 1907. ...

(Lai Afong, China, Canton, Hong Kong, Singapore, Asia.) Three large photograph albums containing 145+ albumen and other photographs c.1870's/1880'...

(Mountaineering), Charles Granville Bruce (1866-1939): 'Twenty Years in the Himalaya', London, Edward Arnold, 1910, 1st edition, portrait frontisp...

(India, British Raj, East India company), George Franklin Atkinson: 'Curry & Rice', on forty plates: Or, the Ingredients of Social Life at 'Our St...

An archive of letters circa 1870's-1900 relating to the Peppé family of India, of Ranchi and Chota Nagpur, Jharkand, the numerous autograph letter...

Six diaries of Arthur Tosio Peppe (1873-1949) of Ranchi Bengal, India, for the years 1903-1908, all with manuscript entries throughout, all Traill...

A victorian photograph album circa 1860's/ 70's containing approx 75 mounted albumen print photographs of India & Ceylon (Sri Lanka), some images ...

A circa late 19th Century photograph album containing approximately 18 albumen print and other photographs of India, in the historical regions of ...

(India.) William Daniell (ill.); Hobert Caunter: 'The Oriental Annual, Or Scenes in India.', London, Edward Bull, Bul & Churton, Charles Tilt etc....

(Sindh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Afghan Wars.) The Rev. Isaac Nicholson Allen: 'Diary of a March Through Sinde and Affghanistan, with the troops und...

(India, Sikh Empire, Punjab.) Prince Frederick Duleep Singh (1868-1926), 'Trumpet and Bugle Sounds for the Army with Instructions for the Training...

(India, Sikh Empire, Punjab.) Elveden Hall Christie's sale catalogue, 1984, a complete set of 8 Christie's on the premises auction catalogues for ...

(South Africa.) A photograph album of South Africa, Rhodesia etc circa 1921, 250+ mounted photographs on 63 pages with snapshot and larger photos ...

Lawrence G. Green: 'Strange Africa', London, Stanley Paul, 1938, 1st edition, frontis + 56 b/w ills. from photographs as called for, original clot...

Albert Schweitzer: 'On the Edge of the Primeval Forest. Experiences and Observations of a Doctor in Equatorial Africa', London, A & C Black, 1922,...

(Istanbul, Turkey.) Julia Pardoe; William Henry Bartlett (ill.): 'The Beauties of the Bosphorus. By Miss Pardoe. Illustrated in a series of views ...

(Grand Tour, Rome, Vatican Costume.) 'Costumi Della Corte Pontificia', Roma, 1844, 31 hand coloured engraved plates of Vatican costume & Papal uni...

[Anon.]: 'To Gibraltar and Back in an Eighteen-Tonner, by One of the Crew', London, W.H. Allen, 1888, 1st edition, inscribed at head of title pag...

(Arctic Expeditions, North Pole.) Edward Adams-Ray (translated): 'The Andree Diaries being the diaries and records of S.A. Andree, Nils Strindberg...

Captain Robert Falcon Scott; Leonard Huxley (edited): 'Scott's Last Expedition', London, Smith, Elder & Co, 1913, 1st edition, 2 volumes, embossed...

Charles Darwin: 'Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the ...

John Hunt: 'The Ascent of Everest', London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1953, 1st edition, signed by the author and leader of the successful 1953 British ...

'Stanford's London Atlas of Universal Geography. Quarto Edition. Fourty-Four Coloured Maps and Alphabetical Index.', London, Edward Stanford, 1882...

Samuel Lewis: 'A Topographical Dictionary of England', London, S. Lewis and Co., 1831, 4 volumes in 5 (4 vols + maps in separate atlas volume), 44...

Edward Wedlake Brayley & John Britton: 'The Beauties of England and Wales; Or, Delineations Topographical, Historical and Descriptive, of Each Cou...

(Richmond, Yorkshire, Topography.) [Christopher Clarkson]: 'The history of Richmond, in the country of York; including a description of the Castle...

(Scotland.) Charles Cordiner: 'Remarkable Ruins, and Romantic Prospects, of North Britain. With Ancient Monuments and Singular Subjects of Natural...

(Northamptonshire, History & Topography.) Christopher Markham & Rev. J. Charles Cox: 'The Records of the Borough of Northampton', Published by Ord...

Sir William Dugdale: 'Monasticon Anglicanum sive Pandectae Coenobiorum Benedictinorum, Cluniacensium, Cisterciensium, Carthusianorum, a Primordiis...

Francis Blomefield and Charles Parkin: 'An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk...', Fersfield and Lynn, 1739-1775, firs...

(Norfolk.) Seventeen assorted books and booklets mainly Norfolk history and topography etc., including H. Munro Cautley 'Norfolk Churches' , M.R. ...

(Bury St. Edmund's, Suffolk.) Rev. Richard Yates: 'An Illustration of the Monastic History and Antiquities of the Town and Abbey of St. Edmund's B...

(Suffolk.) 'The Harwich guide, containing an account of the ancient and present state of that borough; likewise a description of Dover-Court, Mist...

(Suffolk, Wortham.) [Ambrose Wretts.] A large manuscript account book, compiled 1772-1780 in the Wortham area of Suffolk, recording sale of all ma...

(Suffolk.) Mark Knights: 'In and About Ancient Ipswich', Norwich & London, Jarrold & Sons, 1888, large paper edition, limited edition, No. 53 of 7...

(Norfolk.) Mark Knights: 'The Highways and Byeways of Old Norwich', Norwich & London, Jarrold & Sons, 1887, large paper edition, limited edition, ...

Henry Swinden: 'The History and Antiquities of The Ancient Burgh of Great Yarmouth in the County of Norfolk. Collected from the Corporation Charte...

(East Anglia, Topography, Fine Binding.) Thomas Kitson Cromwell, 3 titles: 'Excursions in the County of Essex', London, Longman et al, 1818-19, 1s...

(Essex.) Thomas Kitson Cromwell: 'Excursions in the County of Essex', London, Longman et al, 1818-19, 1st edition, large paper copy, 2 volumes, en...

(Medicine, Anti-Slavery, 19th Century etc.) John Millar: 'Observations on the Prevailing Diseases in Great Britain Together With A Review Of The H...

(Folio Society.) 'The Holkham Bible', London, 2007, limited edition, number 252 of 1750 copies, 42 colour illustrated leaves being a facsimile edi...

(Rome, Byzantine Empire, History.) Henry Fynes Clinton: 'Fasti Romani : the civil and literary chronology of Rome and Constantinople from the deat...

(Theology, Doctrinal.) [Thomas Blackwell]: 'Schema Sacrum: Or, A Sacred Scheme of Natural and Revealed Religion', Edinburgh, Printed by the heirs ...

Ludwig Wittgenstein: 'Philosophical Investigations', translated by G.E.M. Anscombe, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1953, 1st edition in English, English...

Johann Caspar Lavater: 'Essays on Physiognomy; for the promotion of the knowledge and the love of mankind . translated into English by Thomas Holc...

(Germanic Philology, Gothic & Old Germanic Languages, Dictionary Gothic & Latin, Runes.) Franciscus Junius (the younger) (1591-1677): 'Gothicum gl...

Three handwritten certificates of birth for slaves, all Cape Town, 1820's-30's, comprising handwritten certificate of birth 27th April 1821, a boy...

(Spain.) [Jodocus Crull]: 'The Compleat History of the Affairs of Spain...', London, Jos. Barnes et al, 1707, 1st edition, engraved frontispiece, ...

(French Revolution, Bastille, Man in the Iron Mask.) [Quintin Craufurd]: 'The History of the Bastile: With a Concise Account of the Late Revolutio...

Ernst Jünger: 'The Storm of Steel. From the Diary of a German Storm-Troop Officer on the Western Front', London, Chatto & Windus, December 1929, 5...

(Lusitania, World War I.) Charles Emelius Lauriat Jr: 'The Lusitania's Last Voyage. Being a Narrative of the Torpedoing and Sinking of the R.M.S. ...

(Ballooning, Aviation, Montgolfier Brothers etc.) Barthelemy Faujas de Saint-Fond: 'Description des Expériences de la Machine Aérostatique de MM. ...

(Ballooning, Aviation, Montgolfier Brothers.) Barthelemy Faujas de Saint-Fond: 'Description des Expériences de la Machine Aérostatique de MM. de M...

(Battle of Britain, WW2 RAF.) John P.M. Reid & Cuthbert Orde: 'Some of the Few', L, Macdonald, 1960, 1st edition, signed by Johnnie Johnson (1915-...

Winston Churchill: 'The Second World War', London, Cassell, 1948-1954, 1st edition, 6 volumes, original cloth gilt, dust wrappers (6)