Vintage Photographs & Prints

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...

A monumental and important reference work on the history of Portuguese cartography and maritime exploration, Portugaliae Monumenta Cartographica wa...

Thailand ephemera; Unused Postcard set from Ayudhya 1980s. An unusual, fully intact, postcard set from Thailand featuring places of interest for to...

A fascinating survival from the early twentieth-century classroom, Bacon's Excelsior Emulation Ladder was designed as a visual record of pupils' ac...

The Plays of William Shakespeare. Edited and Annotated by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke. Illustrated by H.C. Selous. In 3 Volumes, complete; The C...

First published in Germany as one of the nineteenth century's most influential architectural pattern books, The Gothic Model-Book was intended as a...

A scarce pair of original Meiji-period Japanese woodblock-illustrated books from the popular serial novel 夜嵐阿衣花廼仇夢 (Yoarashi Okinu Hana no Adayume)...

A beautifully illustrated Meiji-period Japanese woodblock printed painting manual by the celebrated artist Kobayashi Eitaku (1843-1890), one of the...

Specimens of Mediaeval Architecture by William Eden Nesfield is an impressive folio study of twelfth and thirteenth century architecture in France ...

Gil Blas Illustré was the celebrated weekly illustrated supplement to the influential Parisian literary newspaper Gil Blas, and ranks among the fin...

A magnificent facsimile reproduction of one of the great monuments of Scottish topographical publishing, Theatrum Scotiae reproduces John Slezer's ...

A richly illustrated contemporary account of Britain's campaign against Napoleon's forces in Egypt, written by Thomas Walsh, who served as ...

A striking and historically important Chinese Cultural Revolution propaganda poster directly referencing the foundational ideological dire...

A powerful and visually dramatic Chinese Cultural Revolution-period propaganda poster centred on themes of national self-reliance, civil defence, a...

A striking Chinese Cultural Revolution-period propaganda poster promoting the revolutionary ideal of labour, agricultural work, and ideological sel...

An unusual and visually striking Chinese silk-screen poster issued during the Cultural Revolution period, presenting a highly atypical example of l...

Robert Freke Gould's History of Freemasonry is one of the landmark nineteenth century studies of the subject, long regarded as a foundational work ...

A complete original set of Reynolds' Geognostic Profiles, an exceptionally scarce and visually striking suite of Victorian scientific educational w...

An original Second World War escape and evasion map issued for Allied use in the South East Asian theatre, printed in colour on rayon cloth (genera...

Acts of Light brings together selected poems by Emily Dickinson with luminous colour paintings by Nancy Ekholm Burkert, accompanied by an appreciat...

The Story of Edinburgh Castle by Louis Weirter is an ambitious early twentieth-century study of one of Scotland’s most iconic historic sites, combi...

A wonderful piece of vintage Glasgow transport ephemera with an especially evocative literary association - an original Glasgow bus blind displayin...

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...