History

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 small but attractive group of six issues of The China Journal, spanning the years 1928 to 1940, a period of significant political and social chan...

یک متن یا گواهینامهٔ رسمی به زبان فارسی از دانشگاه آکسفورد که اعطای درجهٔ افتخاری دکترای حقوق مدنی را به اعلیحضرت امانالله خان، پادشاه افغانستان، ا...

First published in 1823, the Memoirs of General Count Rapp provide a vivid first-hand account of the Napoleonic era from one of the Emperor’s most ...

Captain Gronow’s lively recollections of Regency and early Victorian society remain one of the most engaging first-hand accounts of life in the cam...

History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic by William H. Prescott is a landmark work of nineteenth-century historical writ...

Haig by Duff Cooper is a major two-volume biography of Field Marshal Douglas Haig, first published in 1935. Drawing on extensive research a...

The Hermits by Charles Kingsley is a series of engaging historical and biographical sketches exploring the lives of early Christian ascetic...

A substantial and handsomely bound six-volume set of John Richard Green's celebrated histories of England, comprising the complete four-volume Hist...

A well-matched two-volume set of John Willcock’s detailed biographical studies of the Argyll family, focusing on two of the most significan...

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 handsome early twentieth-century edition of selected philosophical works by Francis Bacon, one of the most influential thinkers of the e...

The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's gathers a series of literary and historical essays by the Scottish scholar David Masson...

A richly illustrated nineteenth century account of the Waterloo campaign, bringing together eyewitness testimony, official reports, and bio...

First published in the late nineteenth century, A Naturalist on the Prowl or In the Jungle is a lively account of wildlife observation and...

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 smart set of 2 volumes on the history of the University of St Andrews, Scotland's oldest university, and the third oldest university in t...

A fascinating album of life at the Royal Air Force Photographic Section at Luqa, Malta, c. 1942-43. This album features many original photog...

Published in 1794, this fourteenth edition of The History of Scotland by William Robertson presents his account of the reigns of Mary, Quee...

First published in 1908 in a strictly limited edition of 240 numbered copies, The Kirkcaldy Burgh Records by Lachlan MacBean is a substanti...

First published in 1925, The Medieval Village by G. G. Coulton is a classic and accessible study of everyday rural life in medieval England...

First published in 1935 by Victor Gollancz, The Nature of Capitalist Crisis is John Strachey's influential Marxist analysis of the structural weakn...

A smart first edition copy of Nicolas Cheetham's Mediaeval Greece, published by Yale University Press, New Haven and London. 1981 first edition. Pr...

The Duchess of Cleveland – Invitation to “Mr Henry James” 17 St James’s Square – Saturday Evening, May 7th[Likely 7 May 1876 or 7 May 1881] A finel...