Trade, Travel & Overseas Exploration Books

A smart copy of this epic historical Portuguese poem, by Camões, based on Vasco de Gama's 1497/98 discovery of the sea route to India. First publis...

A biographical essay on the life of American railroad magnate, John Murray Forbes (1813-1898), written by Edward, the son of Ralph Waldo Emerson - ...

The Scots Magazine was found in 1739, and claims to be the world's oldest magazine still in publication today (although with gaps in its publicatio...

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 library set of 8 Rudyard Kipling works, comprising; Traffics and Discoveries, 1904, 1st edition;  Life's Handicap; Being Stories of M...

A handsome volume in full blue calf with blind embossed decals and gilt armorial to the front of this lovely prize binding from Oxford High School ...

A set of 2 smart photo albums carrying the gilt initials 'M.R.' and dated to 1872. The first featuring topographical European settings, and the sec...

An interesting collection of vintage books on the development of television, the first of which dates to just 1933, the year after the first UK tel...

Statistical, Political, and Historical Account of the United States of North America; From the Period of Their First Colonization to the Present Da...

A Short History of the English People. By J.R. Green, M.A. (John Richard Green). Illustrated Edition. Edited by Mrs. J. R. Green and Miss Kate Norg...

Memories of Two Cities; Edinburgh and Aberdeen, by David Masson, LL.D., Litt.D., Late Historiographer Royal for Scotland, Late Professor of Rhetori...

The Penny Pictorial Magazine, 3 bound volumes of issues, 1899-1900. The Penny Pictorial Magazine was sold weekly and its one penny price tag was de...

Edinburgh and Round About, by Jean M. Speedy. Sketches by Pat Adam. A collection of the articles and essays by the author, which were previously pu...

The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, by Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S., &c. With Photographic and Other Illustrations. Published by...

The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, by Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S., &c. With Photographic and Other Illustrations. SOLD Publish...

The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, by Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S. Second Edition, Revised and Augmented. With Illustrations. Pub...

The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, by Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S. With Illustrations. Published by John Murray, London, April, 1...

Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage Round the World of H.M.S. 'Beagle' Under Comm...

The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, by Charles Darwin, M.A., L.L.D...

Charles Darwin; On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, by Charles ...

The Minerva Library of Famous books, edited by G.T. Bettany; Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited Du...

Charles Darwin and The Voyage of The Beagle. Edited with an introduction by Nora Barlow. Published by Pilot Press Ltd, London, 1945 first edition. ...

Charles Darwin; The Living Thoughts of Darwin. Presented in a New and Revised Edition with a Preface by Julian Huxley, assisted by James Fisher. SO...

The Expansion of England; Two Courses of Lectures, by J. Seeley. Published by Macmillan and Co., London and New York, 1886. Printed in Great Britai...

The Student's Gibbon; History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon. Abridged, Incorporating the Researches of Recent Comme...

The Third Statistical Account of Scotland; Glasgow. Editors: J. Cunnison and J.B.S. Gilfillan. Published by Collins, Glasgow, 1958. First edition. ...

The Third Statistical Account of Scotland; Ayrshire. By John Strawhorn and William Boyd. Published by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh and London, 1951. ...

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

Hunting & Stalking The Deer; The Pursuit of Red, Fallow and Roe Deer in England and Scotland. By Lionel Edwards and Harold Frank Wallace. With ...

A Standard Dictionary of the English Language, upon original plans; designed to give, in complete and accurate statement, in the light of the most ...

Famous Scottish Burghs; Their Romantic Story. By George Eyre-Todd, With an Introduction by Neil Munro. Published by Heath Cranton Limited, London, ...

The Mountain is Young, by Han Suyin (韓素音). Han Suyin was the pen name of Rosalie Matilda Kuanghu Chou (周光瑚), c. 1917-2012. She was a physician and ...

"A personal record of the Orkney shore, including observations on its marine fauna and biographical notes on early Orkney naturalists. It also pres...

Charles Rennie Mackintosh was commissioned by Blackie and Sons to design the covers for two series of their books - The Rambler Travel Books and Ra...

Famous Scottish Burghs; Their Romantic Story. By George Eyre-Todd, With an Introduction by Neil Munro. Published by Heath Cranton Limited, London, ...