Early Printed Books, Historical Autographs & Documents, Travel, Maps & Decorative Prints

Adams (John). The Young Lady's and Gentleman's Atlas, for Assisting them in the Knowledge of Geography, printed and sold by Darton and Harvey, 180...

Allom (Thomas, illustrator). Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor, illustrated..., With an historical account of Con...

Ayyar (A. S. Panchapakesa). An Indian in Western Europe, 2 volumes in one, Bangalore: R. C. S. Maniam, 1929-30, portrait frontispiece, spotted, en...

Brees (Samuel Charles). Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand, 2nd edition, London: John Williams, 1848, additional engraved title (dated 1847), ...

Buonaiuti (B. Serafino, Van Ler Bergi, P. & Godby, James). Italian Scenery; Representing the Manners, Customs, and Amusements of the Different Sta...

Carter (Howard). The Tomb of Tutankhamen, 1st editions, 1st impressions, 2 volumes, London: Cassell & Company, 1923-27, frontispieces, numerous bl...

Chunder (Bholanauth). The Travels of a Hindoo, to various parts of Bengal and Upper India, 2 volumes, London: N. Trübner, 1869, folding map fronti...

Churchill (Winston Spencer). My African Journey, 1st edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1908, half-title, 61 monochrome illustrations after phot...

Conway (William Martin, 1856-1937). English mountaineer, art critic, politician and cartographer. Mountain Memories: A Pilgrimage of Romance, 1st ...

Cook (James). A Voyage towards the South Pole, and round the World, 4th edition, London: Strahan & Cadell, 1784, portrait frontispiece to volume 1...

Cunningham (Alexander). The Bhilsa Topes; or, Buddhist Monuments of Central India, 1st edition, London: Smith, Elder, and Co, 1854, half-title, ca...

De Bry (Johann Theodore, Duarte Lopes). Regnum Congo, hoc est, Warhaffte und Eigentliche Beschreibung dess Königreichs Congo in Africa..., 2nd Ger...

De Bry (Theodore). Americæ Pars Quarta, sive, Infignis & Admiranda Historia de reperta primum Occidentali India à Christophoro Columbo anno 1492, ...

De Bry (Johann Theodore). Americæ Pars Quinta, 1st edition, Frankfurt: Theodore De Bry, 1595, engraved title and Columbus portrait with later hand...

Führer (Alois Anton). The Sharqi Architecture of Jaunpur; with notes on Zafarabad, Sahet-Mahet and other places in the North-Western Provinces and...

Garstin (Sir William). Report upon the Basin of the Upper Nile with Proposals for the Improvement of that River..., to which is attached a Report ...

Grant (James Augustus). A Walk Across Africa, or Domestic Scenes from my Nile Journal, 1st edition, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and So...

Henderson (George & Hume, Allan O.). Lahore to Yarkand. Incidents of the Route and Natural History of the Countries Traversed by the Expedition of...

Taylor (Major Joseph). A Dictionary, Hindoostanee, and English... Revised and prepared for the press, with the assistance of learned natives in th...

Italy. Raccolta delle principali vedute di Roma disegnate dal vero ed incise da Domenico Amici, Rome: Giovanni Raffaelli, 1835, 43 engravings, som...

Knolles (Richard). The Generall Historie of the Turkes, 2nd edition, London: Adam Islip, 1610, numerous engraved portraits throughout text, contem...

Koldewey (Karl). The German Arctic Expedition of 1869-70, and narrative of the wreck of the "Hansa" in the ice, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low,...

Le Clerc (Nicolas Gabriel). Histoire Physique, Morale, Civile et Politique de la Russie Ancienne (Moderne), together 6 volumes only (of 7, lacking...

[Lucas, Samuel]. Dacoitee in Excelsis; or, The Spoliation of Oude, by The East India Company, London: J. R. Taylor [1857], ownership inscription i...

Mackenzie (George Steuart). Travels in the Island of Iceland, During the Summer of the Year MDCCCX, 1st edition, Edinburgh: Thomas Allan & Company...

Macrae (Farquar C). Bombay Gymkhana Album 1880-1891, Bombay: A. J. Combridge & Co, 1910, 25 plates mounted on black pages, contemporary gift inscr...

Matthews (L. Harrison). South Georgia, The British Empire's Subantarctic Outpost, A Synopsis of the History of the Island, 1st edition, Bristol: J...

Orlich (Leopold Von). Travels in India, including Sinde and the Punjab, 1st edition in English, 2 volumes, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Long...

Parkinson (Sydney). A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, in His Majesty's Ship The Endeavour, 2nd edition, London: Charles Dilly and James Phi...

Pasquin (Anthony). Authentic Memoirs of Warren Hastings, Esq, late Governor General of Bengal, new edition, London: J. Bew, 1793, 72pp, half-title...

Rao (Ram Chandra). Memoirs of Hyder and Tippoo, Rulers of Seringapatam, Madras: Simkins and Co, 1849, 52pp, preliminary leaves spotted, a few leav...

Serrano (Ramon). Derrotero del Estrecho de Magallanes Tierra del Fuego I Canales de la Patagonia, 1st edition, Santiago: Imprenta Nacional, 1891, ...

Seymour (H.D). Russia on the Black Sea and Sea of Azof..., 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1855, lithographic frontispiece, folding map to rear,...

Shahjahan (H. H. The Nawab). The Taj-ul Ikbal Tarikh Bhopal; or, The History of Bhopal, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co, 1876, presentation copy s...

Sherer (John Walter). Daily Life During The Indian Mutiny, personal experiences of 1857, London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co, 1910, half-title, portrai...

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

Stein (Marc Aurel). Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan. Personal Narrative of a Journey of Archaeological and Geographical Exploration in Chinese Turkest...

Stevens (Henry). New Light on the Discovery of Australia, London: Henry Stevens, Son and Stiles, 1930, half-title, folding map to rear pocket, lib...

Thevenot (Jean de). The Travels of Monsieur de Thevenot into the Levant. In three parts. Viz. into I. Turkey. II. Persia. III. The East-Indies. Ne...

Wallace (R.G). Memoirs of India: Comprising a brief geographical account of the East Indies; a succinct history of Hindostan, from the most early ...

Yeld (George). Scrambles in the Eastern Graians 1878-1897, 1st edition, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1900, 20 monochrome illustrations plus a folding ...

Franklin Expedition. Arctic expedition. Return to an order of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 5 February 1850; 4 copies 'of any new rep...

Franklin Polar Expedition. Original manuscript instructions for the building of 4 boats used on the Rae-Richardson Arctic Expedition of 1848, the ...

Shackleton (Ernest). South. The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917, 1st edition, London: William Heinemann, 1919, colour frontispiece...

Shackleton (Ernest, 1874-1922). The Royal Squadron Memorials of its Members, with an Enquiry into the History of Yachting and its Development in t...

Shackleton (Ernest, 1874-1922). Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer. Autograph Signature in blue ink, signed and inscribed 'yours truly, Ernest Shackle...

British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876. Banquet to Captain G.S. Nares and the Officers of the Arctic Expedition Given by the Major of Portsmouth, ...

Banks (Joseph, 1743-1820). English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences. An original autograph draft of a letter to Sir Joseph ...

British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913. Typescript of the diary of expedition member Henry Robertson Bowers (1883-1912), c. 1970, 108 numbered pa...

The Hope Bay Howler, nos. 1-7 [all published?], 21 June - 25 December 1945, cyclostyled from typewritten and hand drawn copy, the first 2 issues 4...

The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition. A vintage photograph of the 12 members of Sir Vivian Fuchs's party smiling to camera in front of a Sn...

The Polar Record. A complete run, issues 1-240, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1931-2012, original paper wrappers (two early volumes bound...

Aikin (J.). A Description of the Country from thirty to forty miles round Manchester, John Stockdale, June 4th, 1795, additional decorative title,...

Baker (J.). The Imperial Guide with Picturesque Plans of the Great Post Roads containing Miniature Likenesses engraved from Real Sketches of the C...

Birmingham. Views of the ruins of the principal houses destroyed during the riots at Birmingham, 1791, 8 aquatint plates by William Ellis after P....

Britton (John). Picturesque Antiquities of the English Cities, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1830, half-title, numerous etchings ...

Camden (William). Guili. Camdeni Viri Clarissimi Britannia, sive florentiss Regnorum Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae, Insularumq Adiacentium ex Intima...

Cary (John). Cary's New and Correct English Atlas..., 1793, title page, dedication and contents list, 47 (complete as list) engraved maps with con...

Hall (Sidney). A Travelling County Atlas with all the Coach and Rail Roads..., 1842, title page a little stained, 43 double-page engraved maps and...

Hermannides (Rutgerus). Britannia magna, sive Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae et adjacentium insularum geographico-historica descriptio, 1st edition, ...