Deluxe edition with the plates hand-coloured. During the Crimean War William Simpson (1823-1899), became a pioneer war artist: dispatched by the pr...

First edition of Jones' seminal work. The finest of the great chromolithographic books of the nineteenth century, and certainly one of the most in...

The first edition of this guide to the 'chief elements of a Fashionable Dessert' by the mâitre d'hotel to Queen Victoria, Charles Elmé Francatelli...

Rare catalogue describing the splendid collection of Greek vases in the National Archaeological Museum at Athens.First edition; 2 vols, 8vo text w...

The first large size prints of Moscow. A fine, complete example of Cadolle's first Russian work, showing dramatic views of the Russian capital duri...

Rare coloured copy. Rare copy coloured in a contemporary hand and heightened with gilt, of one of the most important books shaping the European con...

With fabulous colour. A rare set of the finest early 19th-century series of racehorse portraits by John Herring, one of the greatest sporting artis...

Sommerard's monumental publication on medieval arts: architecture, tapestry, goldsmithing, furniture, miniature, etc, illustrated with colour plat...

The first edition in English of Karl Russ' (1833-1899) introductory guide to 'Speaking Parrots', describing over 100 species of bird, with 8 chrom...

On the road to Mandalay, where the flyin'-fishes play, an' the dawn comes up like thunder.... Moore's views of Rangoon constitutes the finest depic...

Beautiful plates of exotic ornithology. The preferred second edition of Elliot's work on the pittidae, with new text and twenty plates by Hart not ...

The finest and most important sporting book of the last two centuries. Very rare. The first and only edition of the finest and most important sport...

Infiniment rare, surtout en couleurs' (Thiébaud). A remarkable series of lithographs of horses, beautifully hand-coloured. A group of these plates ...

Very rare first issue with fine double provenance. The Schwerdt-Jeanson copy of the rare first edition, first issue with the additional title dated...

A rare set of 'Spooner's Upright Series' depicting officers of the British Army. William Spooner was a prints publisher specialising in topical an...

With 72 hand-coloured plates. First French edition of Cruz Cano Y Olemedilla's popular Spanish work, with 72 hand-coloured plates. The collection o...

Two extremely rare works bound in a single volume: the first work illustrating the costume of the Ottoman court and the Ottoman empire, almost cer...

Souancé's Perroquets is a fine sequel to the works of Levaillant and Bourjot Saint-Hilaire. Together these three works constitute the definitive s...