Miscellaneous Books

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...

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...

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

Hypnotism or Suggestion and Psychotherapy by Auguste Forel is a significant early work in the scientific study of hypnosis and its therapeutic appl...

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...

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 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...

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...

Two impressive folios from the British Museum’s celebrated Description of the Collection of Ancient Marbles, a monumental series issued between 181...

Carl Fraenkel & Richard Pfeiffer – Mikrophotographischer Atlas der Bakterienkunde. Erste und zweite Lieferung. Berlin: August Hirschwald, 1889....

A scholarly early 18th century Latin edition of the first six books of Euclid’s Elements, the foundation of classical geometry. Edited and correcte...

Welcome to the wonderful world of Luigi Serafini. Piccola Pulcinellopedia is a surreal visual suite in nine scenes, dedicated to the Pulcinella mas...

A smart copy of this in-depth study of the musical history and repertory of Orvieto Cathedral during the Renaissance, richly supported in the conte...

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