Miscellaneous Books

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

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

The work of David Roberts (1796-1864) remains among the most celebrated visual records of the Near East produced in the nineteenth century. Based o...

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

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...

The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, Consisting of Original Pieces, and Selections from Performances of Merit, Foreign and Domestic, A Work c...

The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, Consisting of Original Pieces, and Selections from Performances of Merit, Foreign and Domestic, A Work c...

The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, Consisting of Original Pieces, and Selections from Performances of Merit, Foreign and Domestic, A Work c...

A smart copy of this detailed biography of Lord Macaulay — the eminent 19th-century historian, essayist, and politician best known for his History ...

This early and more comprehensive collected edition of Jonathan Swift’s writings represents a significant moment in the dissemination of his satiri...

Winston Churchill; The Second World War, 6 Volume set, complete, 1948-1954.  SOLD Published by Cassell & Co. Limited, London, Toronto, Melbourn...

A fascinating unpublished typescript journal of an 1839 voyage undertaken by Agnes Paterson from Scotland (nee Aird, 1809-1893). An introductory No...

In 1880, a young medical student named Arthur Conan Doyle, in need of remuneration and adventure, took time away from his medical studies in Edinbu...

A beautifully presented volume of this work, first published in 1983. Very much a deluxe edition from Gryphon Editions, in full pigskin leather, sp...

A copy of the very first printing of the Guinness Book of Records, which went on to became a worldwide publishing phenomenon. Initially produced as...

A very smart full leather volume which has been professionally rebacked, and contains fine condition text.  Joseph Locke (1805–1860) was a prominen...

A very smart 2 volume set of professionally rebacked full leather volumes containing fine condition text. Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries...

A charming bound copy of Chambers Miscellany containing a wealth of informative essays and features to interest Victorian readers. Still an enterta...

A charming set of Chambers Miscellany containing a wealth of informative essays and features to interest Victorian readers. Still an entertaining r...

An attractive prize presentation copy from Glasgow School of Art. Anecdote Lives of William Hogarth, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, Henr...

An attractive prize presentation copy from Glasgow School of Art. The Lives and Works of Michael Angelo and Raphael. By R. Duppa and Quatremere De ...

Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville (1794-1865), held the office of Clerk of the Council in Ordinary and served under the three monarchs of King Georg...

Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to 'The Edinburgh Review' by Lord Macaulay. Authorised Edition. Published by Longmans, Green, and Co., L...

Miniature Painters British and Foreign, With Some Account of Those Who Practised in America in the Eighteenth Century. Illustrated by Numerous Exam...

Ian Hay was the pen name of John Hay Beith (1876-1922), British schoolmaster, soldier, novelist, playwright and historian. His humorous account of ...

Cassell's Illustrated Readings, First and Second Series bound as one. An illustrated compendium of 'Penny Readings' to be read and shared with the ...

Men of Mark; A Gallery of Contemporary Portraits of Men Distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in Science, Literature and Art, the Army, Navy, La...

The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone, LL.D., Carefully Compiled from Reliable Sources. The front cover also carries the title 'The Life &...

The Bee and Other Essays by Oliver Goldsmith, Together with the Life of Nash. Published by Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press. Printed in Ox...

Os Luciadas de Luiz de Camoes. Nova Edicao. Segundo a do Morgado Matteus. Com as Notas e Vida do Autor pelo Mesmo, Corrigida Segundo as Edicoes de ...

Polyhistor Literarius Philosophicus et Practicus. Maximam Partem Opus Posthumum. Accurate Revisum, Emendatum, ex Autoris Annotationibus... Morhofii...

The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins. Complete in One Volume.  Published by John Grigg, Philadelphia, 1831. Stereotyped ...

A New Account of the East Indies, by Alexander Hamilton. With Numerous Maps and Illustrations. Now Edited with Introduction and Notes by Sir Willia...

The Clairmont Correspondence; Letters of Claire Clairmont, Charles Clairmont, and Fanny Imlay Godwin; Volume 1, 1808-1834 & Volume 2, 1835-1879...

Bound Collection of Biblical Pamphlets, 1914. With authors' names to spine; Thackeray, Simpson, Findlay, Mayor, Stawell, Bladon, Peake, Burkitt, La...

Geschichte der Basler Mission, 1815-1899, mit vier Kartenstizzen, by Paul Eppler (History of the Basel Mission with four map sketches). Published b...

Stanley Gibbons Royal Wedding Stamp Collection 1981, 3 Volume Set; The Royal Wedding, H.R.H. Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, 29th July 1981....

Piracy, The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates, by Adrian Johns. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - ...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Beginnings of Female Emancipation in France and England, Jacob Bouten, Amsterdam, 1922. Doctorate Thesis. Text is in En...

The Illustrated Globe Encyclopaedia of Universal Information, edited by John Ross. SOLD Published by A. Fullarton & Co, London, Edinburgh and D...

The Works of Lord Byron. A New, Revised and Enlarged edition with Illustrations. 13 Volumes Complete. 7 Volumes of Poetry edited by Ernest Hartley ...