Books and Manuscripts

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...

The Saga of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald the Tyrant presents in English the dramatic histories of two of medieval Norway's most celebrated warrior...

The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald is the first English translation of Kormáks saga, one of the Icelanders' sagas and an important example of t...

John Ward's The Young Mathematician's Guide was a successful early eighteenth-century mathematical textbook, intended to provide students and pract...

Stanley Jackson's The Sassoons traces the remarkable history of the wealthy and influential Sassoon family, from their origins in Baghdad and the e...

An important and substantial resource for Scottish history, genealogy and antiquarian studies, Northern Notes & Queries was founded in 1886 und...

William Hickling Prescott's History of the Conquest of Mexico is one of the great nineteenth-century narrative histories of the Americas, tracing t...

William Hickling Prescott's History of the Conquest of Peru is one of the great nineteenth-century narrative histories of the Americas. First publi...

Henry Tuke's The Duties of Religion and Morality is a concise work of Christian instruction by the prominent English Quaker writer and minister Hen...

A striking collection of traditional French children's songs and singing games, Vieilles Éternelles Rondes et Chansons was produced by the celebrat...

Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist, originally published serially between 1837 and 1839, was his second novel and one of the works that established his...

Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son, first published in twenty monthly numbers between October 1846 and April 1848, is one of the major novels of his ...

Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy's History of the Ottoman Turks is a substantial history of the Ottoman Empire, tracing its development from its emergenc...

An attractively bound, full tan leather binding of Scott's poetry. The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott; Including Introduction and Notes. The "A...

P. G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton's Bring on the Girls! is a lively and frequently irreverent memoir of their years in American musical com...

Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van recounts the remarkable true story of Miss Mary Shepherd, the eccentric and fiercely independent woma...

The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame. illustrated with paintings by James Lynch, with an introduction by Alan Bennett. Published ...

This interesting set comprises a text volume and a matching box resembling a book, which contains 10 full colour First World War battle ...

Written by Winston S. Churchill (1940-2010), grandson and namesake of Sir Winston Churchill, First Journey recounts the young author's a...

A useful collection of publications relating to the history and development of Freemasonry in Hong Kong, China and the wider Far East, principally ...

Kitagawa Utamaro (c.1753-1806) was one of the great masters of Japanese ukiyo-e, celebrated particularly for his elegant and psychologically subtle...

Joan Blaeu / Timothy Pont - Insulae Quaedam Minores ex Aebudis quae Mulam et Skiam insulas interjacent. Some of the Smaller Westerne Yles lying bet...

An original Autograph Letter Signed (ALS) from Lord Randolph Churchill, dated 1890. Lord Randolph Churchill (1849-1895) was a prominent ...

An original British Post Office Telegram sent by Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) to A. L. Ball, manager of the Pall Mall branch of Llo...

A handsome and substantial uniformly bound eight-volume collection of the principal historical and critical writings of Thomas Babington Macaulay (...

An attractive late nineteenth-century edition of the works of Molière, based upon the celebrated illustrated edition of 1734 and reproducing the de...

This handsome tree-calf prize volume was awarded to Charles Thomson in 1886, while a pupil at Hutchesons' Boys' Grammar School, Glasgow, several ye...

This handsome Glasgow University prize volume was awarded for English Literature in 1891 and personally signed on the presentation label by Andrew ...

This handsome two-volume Glasgow University prize set was awarded for Mathematics in 1889 and personally signed on the presentation label by Willi...

This handsome Glasgow University prize volume was awarded for Latin in 1889 and personally signed on the presentation label by George Gilbert Rams...

A particularly substantial and extensively illustrated Victorian edition of John Howie's celebrated Scots Worthies, the classic collecti...

First published in 1775, John Howie's The Scots Worthies became one of the best-known collections of biographies from Scotland's Presbyt...

California Fire & Life, by Don Winslow, Uncorrected Book Proof - scarce UK version. "From the author of The Death of Bobby Z; a vast...

An attractive and complete set of Dickens' Works in nineteen volumes, uniformly bound in three-quarter leather. The Biographical Edition...

An interesting text containing an intriguing collection of scientific papers, this handsome Glasgow University prize volume was awarded in 1893 und...

An interesting text on the subject of Logic, this handsome Glasgow University prize volume was awarded in 1891 under the authority of John Veitch, ...

Ars Quatuor Coronatorum; The Transactions of the Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076, Volume 137, 2024. Edited by John Wade, PhD. Various authors. Publ...

Ars Quatuor Coronatorum; The Transactions of the Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076, Volume 136, 2023. Edited by John Wade, PhD. Various authors. Publ...

“This edition of Boswell’s Life of Johnson is reprinted from that prepared by Mr. Mowbray Morris for the Messrs. Macmillan’s ‘Globe’ series in 1893...

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 reset new format hardback of this work by Tolkien, published in 1976; Farmer Giles of Ham, by J.R.R. Tolkien. With illustrations by Pauline Bayne...