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A classic Victorian travel guide from John Murray's famous "Handbooks for Travellers" series, this 1884 fifth revised edition of Handbook for Trave...

A landmark in both printing and aesthetics, The Nature of Gothic forms a key chapter from John Ruskin’s The Stones of Venice and embodies his passi...

Journals of the Western Isles: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Samuel Johnson and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by James Bo...

A very scarce copy of this family history of the Macdonalds behind the world famous Glenmorangie whisky brand, and related branches of that family....

Fifty Years and More of Sport in Scotland is the Duke of Portland's engaging memoir of deerstalking, salmon fishing, grouse shooting and country pu...

Joseph Swan (1796-1872) was one of Scotland's foremost 19th-century engravers and publishers, known for his finely detailed steel-plate views of Sc...

The Portable Handbook of Texas, edited by Roy Barkley and Mark F. Odintz and published by the Texas State Historical Association in 2000, is a sing...

The New Handbook of Texas (1996) is a comprehensive six-volume encyclopedia covering the history, geography, culture, and people of Texas from its ...

Kokushi Daijiten [國史大辭典] – The Great Historical Dictionary of Japan Published Tokyo, Meiji 41 (1908)Publisher: Yoshikawa Kōbunkan [吉川弘文館]Printed by...

A remarkable group of nine official NASA Manned Spacecraft Center letters sent to Ed Conifray of Irvington, New Jersey, between 1963 and 1966, toge...

Hilaire Belloc’s The Old Road (1904) is his celebrated account of the ancient Pilgrims’ Way from Winchester to Canterbury, tracing both the physica...

A full leather prize presentation copy of this work. William Whewell's Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural Theology ...

An attractive Victorian prize binding, presented by The College School, Huyton. The Half Hour Library of Travel, Nature and Science for Young Reade...

This volume brings together two uncommon contemporary accounts of the Napoleonic wars. The first, The Campaigns of Paris in 1814 & 1815, is the...

A scarce first edition of Nesbit’s practical instructional work on surveying, A Complete Treatise on Practical Land-Surveying, In Six Parts (York: ...

A handsome facsimile edition presenting two landmark voyages of the early 17th century bound as one: The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake, Be...

A scarce first edition of Walter Anderson's monumental historical work. He offers a detailed and insightful account of late 16th‑ and early 17th‑ce...

Photographic Album of Egypt and Burma, c. 1898 – With Albumen Prints of the Nile, Pyramids, Rangoon Colonial Architecture and Burmese Rural Life. A...

Philip Adolphe Klier (c.1845-1911) was a German photographer who worked in British Burma from the 1860s until the early 20th century. After establi...

Augustus Hare in Italy. Edited by Gavin Henderson from the Italian travel books of Augustus Hare and illustrated from the original wood engravings....

Florence, by Augustus J.C. Hare. Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1834-1903) was one of the most widely read Victorian travel writers, known for his ri...

Venice, with Map and Twenty Three Woodcuts, by Augustus J.C. Hare. Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1834–1903) was one of the most popular Victorian tr...

Days Near Rome, by Augustus J.C. Hare, in Two Volumes (complete). Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1834-1903) was a celebrated Victorian travel writer ...

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