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A distinctive three-volume grouping centred on Dennis Wheatley's Murder Off Miami, illustrating the evolution of one of the most inventive crime pu...

A smart and well-presented group from the Autograph Edition of the Works of William J. Locke, issued by John Lane at The Bodley Head in the mid-192...

With Malice Toward Some by Margaret Halsey is a humorous travel memoir first published in 1938, recounting the author’s experiences in Britain (and...

A uniform group of volumes from The Uniform Edition of the Works of J. M. Barrie, published primarily by Hodder and Stoughton, comprising a selecti...

The work of David Roberts (1796-1864) remains among the most celebrated visual records of the Near East produced in the nineteenth century. Based o...

A substantial run of twelve issues of The China Quarterly spanning 1972 to 1975, a period marked by the later years of the Cultural Revolution and ...

A highly evocative trio of 1967 issues of The China Quarterly, produced at the height of the Cultural Revolution and reflecting contemporary Wester...

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...

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

The life and travels of Isabella Bird (1831-1904) are among the most remarkable of the nineteenth century, and this biography by Anna M. Stoddart o...

The works of Isabella Bird (1831–1904) remain among the most vivid and engaging travel narratives of the nineteenth century. Among the Tibetans off...

On the Phenomena of Hybridity in the Genus Homo by Paul Broca is a nineteenth-century work reflecting early anthropological and scientific thought ...

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...

The Fountain by Charles Morgan is a reflective and psychologically nuanced novel first published in 1932. Set largely within the confined world of ...

The Midnight Folk by John Masefield is a classic work of early twentieth-century children’s fiction, combining elements of fantasy, adventure and m...

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 Sketch of a Tour on the Continent by James Edward Smith is an engaging early nineteenth-century travel account, first published in 1793 and prese...

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...

A complete 1858 first edition set of The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray, with all plates present. A sequel of sorts to Henry Esm...

A complete 1849 first edition set of The History of Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray, with all plates present. First published in s...

The Book of Dust: The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman is the second volume in his companion trilogy to His Dark Materials, continuing...