Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Middle East and Arabia Four works Tamisier, Maurice. Voyage en Arabie. Séjour dans le Hedjad. Campagne d'Assir. Paris: Louis Desessart, 1840. Firs...

Ottoman Empire - Penzer, N. M. 4 volumes The Harem. An Account of the Institution as it existed in the Palace of the Turkish Sultans. London: G. H...

[Rousseau, Jean-Baptiste-Louis-Jacques] Description du Pachalik de Bagdad suivie d'une notice historique sur les Wahabis, et de quelques autres pi...

Stuart, James and Nicholas Revett The Antiquities of Athens measured and delineated. London: Priestley and Weale, 1825-27. New edition, 4 volumes,...

Heath, Leopold (1817-1907) "Hong Kong &c. as seen from the Anchorage. Drawn by Lieut. L.G. Heath of HMS Iris 1846. London: Published according to ...

Indonesia View of the Island of Banda-Neira ... Captured by a Force landed from a Squadron under the Command of Captain Cole, in the Morning of th...

Japan The Port and Harbour of Yokohama [cover-title] [Yokohama: Municipal Harbour Bureau, c.1927]. First edition, 8vo, original buff card wrappers...

Waddell, L. A. The Buddhism of Tibet or Lamaism with its mystic cults, symbolism and mythology, and its relation to Indian Buddhism. London: W.H. ...

Arago, Jacques Souvenirs d'un Aveugle Voyage autour du monde. Troisième edition, ouvrage enrichi de soixante dessins coloriés, de Notes scientifiq...

Cook, Capt. James The Journals of Captain James Cook edited by J.C. Beaglehole. Cambridge University Press for The Hakluyt Society, 1955-74. 5 vol...

Prévost, l'abbé Anton François Histoire Générale des Voyages ou Nouvelle Collection de toutes les relations de voyages. The Hague: Pierre de Hondt...

Mandeville, Sir John The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevile, Kt. Which Treateth of the Way to Hierusalem, and of Marvayles of Inde, with ...

Mountaineering and Fishing 10 volumes Sinigaglia, Leone. Climbing Reminiscences of the Dolomites. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. 8vo, frontispiece...

Travel and social anthropology 9 works Malinowski, Bronislaw. The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia. London, 1929. First edition, ...

Shaykh Muhammad Amir of Karraya or studio (fl. c. 1830-50) The Balfour album 26 watercolours on wove paper, each approx. 27 x 21cm (all portrait f...

Indian Company School paintings On mica and paper 52 paintings on mica, comprising: 18 loosely inserted into a blue morocco gilt album (snake char...

India - Sanskrit printing Hitopadesa, or Salutary Instruction. In the original Sanscrit [Part 2:] Dasa Cumara Charita, abridged by Apayya]. [Part ...

India - Malayalam printing Compendiosa legis explanatio omnibus Christianis scitu necessaria Malabarico idiomate [Title in Malayalam at head:] Nas...

[East Indies Sailing Directory] A New Directory for the East-Indies containing I. The First Discoveries made in the East Indies by European Voyage...

Government of India Alqabnamah [Title at head:] List showing the Names, Titles and Modes of Address of the More Important Sovereigns, Ruling Princ...

Robson, Francis The Life of Hyder Ally with an Account of his Usurpation of the Kingdom of Mysore, and other Contiguous Provinces. To which is ann...

India - Meghalaya Report on Successions to Siemships in the Khasi States by Captain D. Herbert, Indian Army, Deputy Commissioner, Khasi and Jainti...

Grandpré, Louis Maria Joseph, Comte de A Voyage in the Indian Ocean and to Bengal undertaken in the years 1789 and 1790; containing an Account of ...

Harkness, Henry A Description of a Singular Aboriginal Race inhabiting the Summit of the Neilgherry Hills or Blue Mountains of Coimbatoor, in the ...

Moorcroft, William and George Trebeck Travels in the Himalayan Provinces of Hindustan and the Panjab in Ladakh and Kashmir; in Peshawar, Kabul, Ku...

Sri Lanka [Ceylon] Forbes, Major Jonathan Eleven Years in Ceylon. Comprising Sketches of the Field Sports and Natural History of that Colony, and ...

Fergusson, James Tree and Serpent Worship or, Illustrations of Mythology and Art in India in the First and Fourth Centuries after Christ. From the...

India - Bengal Presidency Collection of Calcutta imprints Directions for Revenue Officers in the North-Western Provinces of the Bengal Presidency ...

India - Bhopal Two biographical dictionaries of Persian poets Ali Hasan Khan ibn Muhammad Siddiq Hasan. Subh-i Gulshan ['The Morning Rose-Garden']...

Wheeler, Stephen History of the Delhi Coronation Durbar held on the first of January 1903 to celebrate the Coronation of His Majesty King Edward V...

Indian lithographic printing Tarikh-i darbar-i taj pushi ['History of the Coronation Durbar'] Lucknow: Nawal Kishore, c.1904. 4to, recent red leat...

Delhi History of Delhi the Imperial City A Most Comprehensive Account of the History and Archaeology of Delhi (with Numerous Illustrations). By Ba...

India - North-Western Province Set of Agra imprints, 19th century 1) Report on Indigenous Education and Vernacular Schools, in Agra, Aligarh, Bare...

India - Punjab, Oudh (Awadh) & other regions Group of official reports, 19th century 1) Report on the Administration of the Punjab and its Depende...

India Collection of rare Indian imprints on various subjects, 19th-20th century 1) Suburban Villas, Market Gardens, and Residential Farms in Kathi...

Indian lithographic printing Group of works on science and medicine all in Urdu, lithographed throughout, comprising:Kuhne, Louis. Sayins af faysh...

India Group of rare Indian imprints, 19th-20th century 1) Hindu Anatomy, Physiology, Therapeutics, History of Medicine and Practice of Physic. By ...

India Group of rare pamphlets, Indian imprints, British and native presses, 19th century 1) The Rajasthanic Naya Prubundh. A Code of Penalties ado...

India Group of rare Indian imprints 1) Report on the Territories Conquered from the Paishwa. Submitted to the Supreme Government of British India,...

Indian lithographic printing Volume of treatises on Arabic grammar Lucknow or Kanpur: Nawal Kishore, 1870s. 4 works in one volume, tall 8vo (27 x ...

Indian lithographic printing Urdu poetry all 8vo and in contemporary half leather bindings unless otherwise stated, all with marbled paper sides, ...

Indian lithographic printing Collection of works in Persian 8vo or large 8vo, lithographed throughout and with decorative title-pages, titles comp...

Indian lithographic printing Shrimad Bhagwat Gita bi'l-tasawir [Bhagavad Gita, in Urdu, illustrated] ... mu'allifuhu [edited by] Rai Bahadur Pand...

Pratap Narayan Singh, Maharaja of Ayodhya (1855-1906) Raskusumakar, or a Book on Rhetoric Allahabad: printed at the "Indian Press", 1894. First ed...

Shah Jahan Begum, Nawab Begum of Bhopal (1838-1901) Tahdhib al-niswan wa-tarbiyah al-insan [Arabic title, i.e. 'The refinement of women and the ed...

[Indian convict autobiography] Muhammad Jaffer Thanesari (1838-1905) Tawarikh-i 'Ajib ['Wonderful Stories'] [Place illegible:] Temple Press, 1307 ...

Mackenzie, Alexander History of the Relations of the Government with the Hill Tribes of the North-East Frontier of Bengal Calcutta: Home Departmen...

Stein, Sir Aurel Two works On Alexander's Track to the Indus. Personal Narrative of Explorations on the North-West Frontier of India. London: Macm...

Indian National Congress Volume of pamphlets 8vo, later cloth, variable browning, contents comprise:1) Audi Alteram Partem, being Two Letters on C...

Wrede, Konrad (1865-1947) Streifzüge durch Ceylons Wunderwelt Jahreswende 1893-1894. Hanover: [privately printed], 1939. First edition, number 18 ...

India Quantity of works, including Indian imprints Firminger, Rev. W.K., editor. Bengal Past and Present. Journal of the Calcutta Historical Socie...

Blaeu, Joannes [Theatrum Orbis Terrarum: Volume V] - Scotia, quae est Europae Liber XII [Scotland & Ireland] Amsterdam: Joannes Blaeu, 1662. Folio...

Jamieson, Alexander A Celestial Atlas comprising a Systematic Display of the Heavens in a Series of Thirty Maps. Illustrated by Scientific Descrip...

Homann, Johann Baptiste - Ottoman Empire Turkey and Arabia Imperium Turcicum in Europa, Asia, et Africa Regiones. Nuremburg, c. 1720, 48.5 x 56cm...

Wit, Frederick de Africa Totius Africae Accuratissima Tabula denuvo correcté revisa, double page engraved map, 487 x 573mm, Amsterdam [after 1685]...

Fife and St Andrews Two maps Duncan, J. [surveyor] Skeleton Plan of the St. Andrews District of Fife-Shire, with delineation of the turnpike and s...

Speed, John Britain, as it was divided in the tyme of the Englishe Saxons... London: John Sudbury & George Humble, 1616, with Latin text to revers...

Speed, John Cambridgshire described with the devision of the hundreds, the Townes situation, with the Armes of the Colleges of that famous Univers...

Post Office London. 1853. Drawn and engraved expressly for the Post Office Directory engraved folding map, 41.5 x 69.5cm. [Bound in as issued:] Po...

Florida Plan de l'île d'Amelia à la côte de la Floride orientale Tiré de la carte de la Georgie et de la Caroline Méeridionale de De Brahm et assu...