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Philip Adolphe Klier (c.1845-1911) was a German photographer who worked in British Burma from the 1860s until the early 20th century. After establi...

A wide-ranging handbook of the crowned heads of Europe and their dominions at the opening of the 18th century, including heraldry, mottoes, titles,...

Lettres de Vincent Van Gogh à Émile Bernard presents a selection of correspondence from Vincent van Gogh to fellow artist Émile Bernard, offering a...

First published in 1823, the Memoirs of General Count Rapp provide a vivid first-hand account of the Napoleonic era from one of the Emperor’s most ...

Captain Gronow’s lively recollections of Regency and early Victorian society remain one of the most engaging first-hand accounts of life in the cam...

History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic by William H. Prescott is a landmark work of nineteenth-century historical writ...

Haig by Duff Cooper is a major two-volume biography of Field Marshal Douglas Haig, first published in 1935. Drawing on extensive research a...

A substantial and handsomely bound six-volume set of John Richard Green's celebrated histories of England, comprising the complete four-volume Hist...

A scarce first edition of Histoire secrète de la cour de Berlin (1789) by Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, one of the most influ...

The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's gathers a series of literary and historical essays by the Scottish scholar David Masson...

A richly illustrated nineteenth century account of the Waterloo campaign, bringing together eyewitness testimony, official reports, and bio...

A paired set of two editions of Axel Munthe's celebrated memoir The Story of San Michele. The English edition, published by the Folio Socie...

A fascinating album of life at the Royal Air Force Photographic Section at Luqa, Malta, c. 1942-43. This album features many original photog...

First published in 1935 by Victor Gollancz, The Nature of Capitalist Crisis is John Strachey's influential Marxist analysis of the structural weakn...

A smart first edition copy of Nicolas Cheetham's Mediaeval Greece, published by Yale University Press, New Haven and London. 1981 first edition. Pr...

Pleasure in Ruins by Rose Macaulay, first published in 1953, is a highly personal work of nonfiction that blends travel writing, cultural history, ...

A substantial and well-regarded eight-volume historical series tracing the development of Europe from the fall of the Roman Empire to the e...

An album of fine early colour photographic views of the type assembled for affluent European travellers in the late nineteenth and early tw...

A coherent and historically interesting group of 18 original Imperial Russian photographic portraits, dating from the late nineteenth to ea...

A major scholarly work by Sir James George Frazer, expanding the comparative method that made The Golden Bough famous and applying it to th...

A deluxe limited folio facsimile of Antoine-Jean-Baptiste Thomas's celebrated Un an à Rome et dans ses environs, issued in Rome in 1972 by Gabriele...

Marci Antonini Imperatoris, Libri XII (Marcus Aurelius – The Meditations / Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν) One of the great works of Stoic philosophy, preserved in ...

La Décoration et le Mobilier à l’époque romantique et sous le le Second Empire, by Albert Keim. Preface by Léon Bérard. Paris: Editions Nilsson, c....

An impressive, large folio-sized volume which features 50 scaled, detailed line-drawing plates of Italian Renaissance architectural details. Orname...