Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

“Miss Pearce” Manuscript atlas – “England Delineated” “With outline maps of all the counties”, 1817. Compiled at Mrs Keeble’s School, Camberwell,...

Atlases comprising Bartholomew & Co. Black. Road & Railway Travelling Map of Scotland, [n.d., 1870s?] Folding map, linen-backed, hand-coloured, i...

Blaeu, Johannes Le Theatre du Monde, ou Nouvel Atlas, cinquieme partie [Scotland and Ireland] Amsterdam: Johannes Blaeu, 1654. Folio (50 x 33cm),...

Blaeu, Johannes Collection of maps of Scotland, mid 17th century, Amsterdam dimensions generally approx. 60 x 45cm, all hand-coloured, with centr...

Burma British Burma. Tenasserim Division. Port of Maulmain Surveyed by Mr. Maurice Bean. Calcutta: Published at the Marine Survey Department unde...

Cary, John Cary's New and Accurate Map of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark and parts adjacent; viz. Kensington, Chelsea, Islingto...

Dixon, Robert Map of the Colony of New South Wales [and other folding maps] London: J. Cross, 1837. Folding map, 76 x 126cm, hand-coloured, in or...

Indian maps Map of the Island of Bombay constructed on reductions from Colonel Laughton's Map of 1872, with alterations up to July 1874. Poona: ...

Mogg, Edward A Survey of the High Roads of England and Wales London: E. Mogg, 1817. Volume 1 (all published), additional engraved title, 223 maps...

Orkney and Shetland Collection of engraved maps and charts, 17th to early 19th century Collins, Greenvile. 10 sea charts, c.1693 or later, approx...

Orkney Ordnance Survey Six Inch, first edition, Scotland Ordnance Survey. Southampton: O.S. Office, 1882, [one or two "Reprinted 1891 or 1894", ...

Scotland Collection of engraved maps, 17th and 18th century [Blaeu, William Janszoon]. Scotia Regnum. Amsterdam, c.1650. 50 x 59.5cm, German text...

Scotland 16 maps of Scotland and its regions Nouvelle Carte d'Ecosse, ou on fait observer l'Etat de la Noblesse..., 55 x 42.5cm, left margin repa...

Scotland Collection of maps, 18th and 19th century Mackenzie, Murdoch. Four large coastal charts, 1775, engraved, all folding and on multiple she...

Scotland Four volumes of railway plans and sections, 19th century Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway. Plans and Sections of Proposed Extensi...

Speed, John and Peter Keer [Volume of miniature maps of Scotland and Ireland] [London, c.1650]. Oblong 12mo (10.3 x 15.3cm), modern half calf, 12...

Survey of Palestine [Map] Palestine 1: 100,000 Compiled, drawn and reproduced by Survey of Palestine, 1942-1944 (mostly 1942), a mixed-edition se...

Thomson, John The Atlas of Scotland, containing Maps of Each County Edinburgh: J. Thomson, 1832. Large folio, hand-coloured double page panorama ...

Wilkinson, Robert A General Atlas being a Collection of Maps of the World and Quarters the Principal Empires, Kingdoms etc. with their several Pr...

Staunton, Sir George Leonard An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China taken chiefly from the pap...

Tibet Who's Who in Tibet corrected to the Autumn of 1937, with a few subsequent additions up to February 1938. Calcutta: Government of India Pres...

British India (modern Pakistan) Monograph on Swat State, 1933 by Major W. R. Hay, C.I.E., Political Agent, Dir, Swat and Chitral. Simla: Governme...

India Group of rare Indian imprints [Reily, E. J.]. A Year of my Life in India. Calcutta: Thos. S. Smith, 1888. First edition, small 8vo, later ...

[Early Bombay printing] Harris, William Cornwallis Narrative of an Expedition into Southern Africa during the Years 1836 and 1837 Bombay: America...

Indian lithographic printing Persian and Urdu literature, collection of works, 19th and early 20th century all in semi-uniform recent Indian bind...

Indian lithographic printing Collection of works on Islam, 19th and early 20th century [Ahmadiyah Islam]. The Baharin-i-Ahmadiyah ... (Discourses...

Indian lithographic printing Collection of works on science, cookery and other subjects [Medicine] Muhammad A'zam Khan Chishti (1814-1902). Nira-...

Indian lithographic printing Geography and travel, collection of works in Urdu, 19th and early 20th century Le Bon, Gustave. Tamaddun-i Hind [Les...

Indian lithographic printing Women's health and conduct, and general medicine, collection of works, 19th and early 20th century Chavasse, Henry. ...

Indian lithographic printing Law and government, collection of works, 19th and early 20th century Rao Saheb Mayaram Shambhunath, Pensioner, Deput...

Indian lithographic printing Collection of works including Persian literature all 8vo, in recent half leather bindings, decorative title-pages, i...

Indian lithographic printing Persian and Urdu literature, collection of works, 19th and early 20th century Jami (1414-1492). Yusuf wa-Zulaykha ['...

Indian lithographic printing Collection of works, 19th and early 20th century [Indian convict autobiography] Muhammad Jaffer Thanesari (1838-1905...

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...

Busbecq, Augier Ghislain de Legationis Turc[icae] Epistolae IV, eiusdem De Re Militari contra Turcam consilium. Munich: 1620. 12mo, engraved titl...

Biblical and Near Eastern languages Collection of works Robertson, James. Grammatica Linguae Hebraeae. Edinburgh: Hamilton, Balfour & Neill, 1758...

Dickson, H. R. P. Kuwait and her Neighbours London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1956. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original cloth, dust ja...

Knolles, Richard The Generall Historie of the Turkes London: Adam Islip, 1610. Second edition, folio, engraved portraits in text, engraved title ...

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

Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke The Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia [Volume 1:] A Selection from the Historical Inscriptions of Chaldaea, Assyr...

Rycaut, Sir Paul The History of the Present State of the Ottoman Empire London: John Starkey & Henry Brome, 1675. Fourth edition, 8vo, 12 engrave...

Rycaut, Sir Paul The History of the Present State of the Ottoman Empire Containing the Maxims of the Turkish Polity, the most Material Points of ...

Weinthal, Leo The Story of the Cape to Cairo Railway and River Route, from 1887 to 1922 London/Luton: Darling & Son/Gibbs, Bamforth & Co., [1923]...

Sandys, George Sandys Traviles: containing a History of the original and present state of the Turkish Empire London: R. and W. Leybourn, John Swe...

Netherlands; Germany; Rhineland Admirandorum quadruplex spectaculum delectum, pictum, et aeri in cisum, per Johannem van Call. Amsterdam: Pieter ...

Pompeii and Herculaneum Mosaics and paintings, an album of painted copies Mid-19th century, comprising 48 watercolour and egg tempera paintings e...

Rossini, Luigi Le antichita dei Contorni di Roma Rome, 1826. Oblong folio, 44 engraved plates only (of 72), 19th century half morocco, many plate...

Texier, Charles and Richard Popplewell Pullan Byzantine Architecture Illustrated by Examples of Edifices Erected in the East During the Earliest...

Stuart, James The Antiquities of Athens London: printed by John Haberkorn, 1762-1794. 3 volumes (of 5, without the 1816 and 1830 volumes), large ...

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

Watercolours, sketches and photographs 19th century portfolio, including West Indies and North America interest contents include: 'Sketch of the ...

Mackenzie, Alexander Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Laurence, through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans; i...

Parry, Edward and others [Voyages, abridged] Journal of a Voyage of Discovery to the Arctic Regions. London: Richard Phillips, [n.d.] 8vo, foldin...

Australia - Racism and Emigration George Cruikshank Probable Effects of Over Female Emigration, or Importing the Fair Sex from the Savage Islands...

Baedeker Collection of travel guides, 19th and 20th century including: United States; Canada (2 copies); Northern France (2 copies); Paris; Rivie...

View books, Baedekers, Scottish interest and miscellaneous Collection of works 11 view books (c.1900, oblong 4to, with plates from photographs, v...

Travel Group of 19 Goldberry, Silv. Meinard Xavier. Travels in Africa. London: James Ridgway, 1802. 3 volumes, 12mo, maps and plates, contemporar...

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

Travel and topography Collection of works, 18th and 19th century Parboni, Achille. Nuova raccolta della principali vedute antiche, e moderne dell...

Travel Collection of works Shackleton, Ernest H. South. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1920. First US edition, 8vo, original green cloth, all p...