UK Interest Books

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...

This small collection of three vintage guidebooks to the historic town of St Andrews spans more than sixty years and reflects the enduring...

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

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...

Pleasure in Ruins by Rose Macaulay, first published in 1953, is a highly personal work of nonfiction that blends travel writing, cultural history, ...

The Political Economy of War by Arthur Cecil Pigou is an important early twentieth-century analysis of the economic consequences of modern ...

A New American History by William E. Woodward is a revisionist and accessible survey of United States history by one of the most influentia...

Observations on a Tour of the Highlands and Part of the Western Isles of Scotland by Thomas Garnett is one of the most substantial illustra...

A particularly fine and complete example of Prospects and Observations on a Tour in England and Scotland, first published in 1791, and one ...

The Blaeu Atlas of Scotland (2006) is a finely produced modern edition of one of the most important cartographic works ever devoted to Scotland, or...

An Act for Repairing the Road from the Powder-Mills on Hounslow Heath, in the County of Middlesex, to a Place called Basing-Stone, near the Town of...

A cornerstone account of one of the most ambitious Arctic undertakings of the nineteenth century, Sir George Naress Narrative of a Voyage to the Po...

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...

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...

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...

A very smart first edition copy of the General circulation issue of this book (following the Private printing in 1926). T.E. Lawrence's autobiograp...

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

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...

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

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

A wide-ranging handbook of the crowned heads of Europe and their dominions at the opening of the 18th century, including heraldry, mottoes, titles,...

A revised and expanded second edition of Roderick Beaton’s influential study of late Byzantine literature, The Medieval Greek Romance examines the ...

A striking visual record of early 20th-century Greece, This is Greece (1941) presents a curated selection of black-and-white photographs captured b...

A beautifully illustrated limited edition retelling of classical Greek myths, Helden von Hellas (Heroes of Hellas) presents Ernst Roenau’s evocativ...

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

This is a handsome set of four large-format 19th‑century bound volumes of Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, originally launched in 1832 by the enterpri...

This is a handsome 19th‑century bound volume of Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal – New Series, Volume II, comprising issues 27–52 from July to December...

This is Volume II of Andrew Mackay’s The Theory and Practice of Finding the Longitude at Sea or Land (1801, second edition, improved and enlarged),...

A smart copy of this detailed biography of Lord Macaulay — the eminent 19th-century historian, essayist, and politician best known for his History ...

This is the fifth and final volume of A New and Complete System of Practical Husbandry, a comprehensive 18th-century agricultural manual compiled b...

This substantial historical work by Scottish historian William Russell (1741–1793) presents a broad, Enlightenment-era view of ancient global histo...

This two-volume historical work by Thomas Arnold offers a detailed account of the political and military development of Rome during its transition ...

This elegant two-volume set presents Ruskin’s celebrated architectural travel guide, tailored for the practical use of visitors exploring Venice an...

Venice: The Lion and the Peacock by Laurence Scarfe is a reflective account of the city, combining elements of travel writing, history, and visual ...

Middle East Diary by Noel Coward (published by William Heinemann in 1944) is a brief firsthand account of Coward’s entertainment tour through North...

Offered here is a 1927 reprint of Scott’s Last Expedition, published by John Murray. This edition presents the poignant and historic personal journ...

An attractive album of 20 albumen prints from 1885 (dated from gift presentation inscription). The photographer can be identified from the 'G.W.W.'...

The Century Album of London Views. An attractive album of captioned photographs of London scenes and landmarks. Published by E. & S., London (E...

Winston Churchill; The Second World War, 6 Volume set, complete, 1948-1954.  SOLD Published by Cassell & Co. Limited, London, Toronto, Melbourn...

An attractive Folio Society production, which is well illustrated throughout, exploring 'the culmination of the rich young eighteenth-century Engli...