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The Interpretation of Dreams is Sigmund Freud's pioneering work on the unconscious mind and is widely regarded as one of the most influential books...

The Future of An Illusion, by Sigmund Freud, M.D., LL.D.. Translated by W.D. Robson-Scott. The International Psycho-Analytical Library, edited by E...

War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy. Translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett. Published by Time Warner Libraries, New York (no definitive printi...

The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy. Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. Illustrated by Elaine Raphael and Don Bolognese. Publi...

Anna Karenina; A Novel by Leo Tolstoy. Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. With the Paintings of James Tissot. Published by The Franklin Library...

Composed around 29 BC, The Georgics is Virgil's celebrated four-book poem on agriculture, rural life, and mankind's relationship with the natural w...

A Distant Mirror is Barbara W. Tuchman's acclaimed narrative history of the turbulent fourteenth century, exploring an age shaped by the Black Deat...

Fleck is Alasdair Gray's verse adaptation of Goethe's Faust, presented as a dramatic script and illustrated throughout by the author. Revising and ...

Specimens of Mediaeval Architecture by William Eden Nesfield is an impressive folio study of twelfth and thirteenth century architecture in France ...

Gil Blas Illustré was the celebrated weekly illustrated supplement to the influential Parisian literary newspaper Gil Blas, and ranks among the fin...

A beautifully presented book, custom bound by Dugald H.C. Lang of Glasgow School of Art in 1966, which creates a sammelband of works on the art of ...

An Artist in Corfu is the beautifully illustrated record of Sophie Atkinson's travels on the Greek island of Corfu, combining personal observations...

First published in Berlin in 1914, Die Plastik der Ägypter (The Sculpture of the Egyptians) is one of the pioneering studies of ancient Egy...

A richly illustrated contemporary account of Britain's campaign against Napoleon's forces in Egypt, written by Thomas Walsh, who served as ...

The Oxford History of England. Complete in 17 Volumes, including the Consolidated Index. Edited by Sir George Clark. Published by Oxford University...

Robert Freke Gould's History of Freemasonry is one of the landmark nineteenth century studies of the subject, long regarded as a foundational work ...

A complete original set of Reynolds' Geognostic Profiles, an exceptionally scarce and visually striking suite of Victorian scientific educational w...

Arctic Adventure is the memoir of the Danish explorer, writer and anthropologist Peter Freuchen, one of the twentieth century's best-known Arc...

The Householder by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is the author's acclaimed early novel, first published in 1960, offering a perceptive and often gently humo...

Cultural Amnesia by Clive James is an expansive and highly personal work of literary and cultural criticism, first published in 2007. Structured th...

With Malice Toward Some by Margaret Halsey is a humorous travel memoir first published in 1938, recounting the author’s experiences in Britain (and...

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,...

Banshee Harvest by Jim Phelan is a novel first published in the United States in 1945, having earlier appeared in England under the title And Black...

Clinical Lectures on Pulmonary Consumption by Felix von Niemeyer is a nineteenth-century medical work addressing the diagnosis and treatment of tub...

A striking mid-century Spanish graphic design booklet issued by Filograf, the imprint of Ricard Giralt-Miracle, produced as a Christmas greeting fo...

An Italian private press issue by the noted Sicilian artist and illustrator, Bruno Caruso, exploring the expressive and creative possibilities of t...

Ich Will Ihn (I Want Him), by Alexander Merz is a limited edition work issued by the Hertenstein-Presse in 1988, reflecting the tradition of finely...

Morning of Life by Kristmann Guðmundsson is a novel set against the rugged backdrop of Icelandic life, drawing on a landscape and culture shaped by...

O diese Dackel! is a delightful and humorous German illustrated work devoted to the antics of dachshunds, presented here in two volumes. Published...

First published between 1954 and 1955, The Lord of the Rings is Tolkien's epic high-fantasy masterpiece and one of the most influential works of mo...

A Sketch of a Tour on the Continent by James Edward Smith is an engaging early nineteenth-century travel account, first published in 1793 and prese...

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...

Castle Richmond by Anthony Trollope is a social novel set in Ireland during the Great Famine, first published in 1860. Drawing on his own e...

A complete twelve-volume, uniformly bound 18th century set assembled contemporarily, of Nouvelle Bibliotheque de Campagne, ou Choix d'Episo...

A celebrated work of the French Enlightenment, Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grèce by Jean-Jacques Barthélemy was first published in 1788 a...

The collected works of Antoine Hamilton (c.1646–1720), the Franco-Irish court writer best known for his elegant and often playful prose, co...

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 comic and satirical poetry of Francesco Berni occupies a distinctive place in Italian Renaissance literature. Writing in the early sixt...

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 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 key reissue of a foundational text in social and demographic history, reproducing Francis Place's Illustrations and Proofs of the Princip...

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