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Companion to Alfred Ronald's Fly Fisher's Entomology. The Extracts are printed from the Sixth Edition of the Work, by permission of Messrs. Longman...

Two scarce Victorian travel accounts by David Kennedy, Junior, describing the Kennedy family's professional tours performing Scottish songs in Indi...

A substantial study of the art of Jack B. Yeats, one of Ireland's leading twentieth-century painters. T.G. Rosenthal examines Yeats's distinctive a...

A particularly attractive early edition of one of Richard Jefferies' best-known works on English country life and natural history. Drawing extensiv...

The Decameron is a collection of 14th Century short stories. The tales are said to be told by a group of seven young women and three young men, tak...

An uncommon early history of British horse-racing, tracing the development of the sport and the establishment of its principal race meetings, toget...

An entertaining and wide-ranging collection of nineteenth-century sporting anecdotes by the Scottish journalist and author James Glass Bertram (182...

A handsome uniformly bound group of four novels by Charles Kingsley (1819-1875), one of the prominent novelists, clergymen and social commentators ...

First edition of Sir Walter Scott's historical novel The Fortunes of Nigel, published anonymously in 1822 as the work of "The Author of Waverley". ...

A landmark study of William Caxton (c.1422-c.1491), the merchant, translator and printer who introduced the printing press to England and produced ...

An extensive contemporary account of the extraordinary political and military events of 1815, written and published immediately following Napoleon'...

Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is one of the great works of historical scholarship and literature, tracing...

Robert Bloomfield's The Farmer's Boy was one of the remarkable literary successes of the early nineteenth century. First published in 1800, the poe...

Frederic Prokosch's The Asiatics was his first novel and the work which established his literary reputation, presenting the episodic journey of a...

Frederic Prokosch's The Seven Who Fled is an atmospheric novel of adventure and psychological tension, following seven Europeans whose journeys c...

Rupert T. Gould's The Case for the Sea-Serpent is a serious and remarkably detailed investigation into one of the most enduring mysteries of mari...

Rupert T. Gould's Enigmas: Another Book of Unexplained Facts follows his successful Oddities with a further collection of historical mysteries, u...

Rupert T. Gould's Oddities: A Book of Unexplained Facts is a fascinating collection of historical mysteries, strange phenomena and apparently ine...

William Enfield's Scientific Amusements in Philosophy and Mathematics is an engaging early nineteenth-century introduction to science a...

Evelyn Waugh's The Holy Places is a short account of his journey through the Holy Land, combining observations on the sacred sites of Chri...

Ida Pfeiffer's A Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North is the account of the celebrated Austrian traveller's journey to Iceland and Scandinav...

William Wagner's Asgard and the Gods is a substantial and attractively illustrated survey of Norse mythology, retelling the myths and legends prese...

H. A. Guerber's Myths of the Norsemen is a wide-ranging and highly readable account of Scandinavian mythology, drawing principally upon the Poetic ...

Alice S. Hoffman's The Book of the Sagas retells for younger readers a selection of the great legends and heroic stories of the medieval Scandinavi...