London: printed by W. Bulmer and Co., for G. Nicol, 1797. First edition. The official account of Lord Macartney's voyage and embassy to the Qianlong emperor in 1792-94, “compiled by the Secretary (and Minister Plenipotentiary in the absence of the Ambassador) Sir George Leonard Staunton. Macartney’s chief object was to..... Read More about Authentic Account of an Embassy to the Emperor of China.. Taken chiefly from the papers of His...

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1899. First American edition. "Popular account of three and a half years' explorations in the Pamirs, the deserts of Takla Makan and Lob-nor region, Tsaidam and Southern Tibet in 1893-97" (Yakushi). Read More about Through Asia

London: Methuen, 1898. "The Matablele Rebellion which broke out in March 1896 had spread by June to Mashonaland. While the Matabele Relief under Col. Plumer went into action a force of Mounted Infantry originally sent from Britain to serve in Matabeleland arrived in Mashonaland for a five-month campaign to subdue..... Read More about With the Mounted Infantry and the Mashonaland Field Force 1896

London: Constable & Co. Ltd, 1913. First Robinson edition. Read More about Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales with Illus. by Heath Robinson

Lonon: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906. Second edition. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED. Read More about Napoleon's Last Voyages

London: Sands, 1901. First edition. The extensive travels of the botanizing Miss Doughty, who “makes the glaciers and peaks of the Himalaya sound as tame as the South Downs … And after cataloguing the pleasures and perils of a Kashmiri holiday she has the effrontery to insist that any ‘idle..... Read More about Afoot through the Kashmir Valleys

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853. Browne, H.K. First edition, bound from the parts. ‘Fog everywhere. Fog up the river …’. Attractively bound copy of this Dickens classic. Read More about Bleak House

London: Jonathan Cape, 1953. First edition. INSCRIBED TO HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW. Presentation copy of the first edition of the first James Bond novel, inscribed on the flyeaf by Fleming to his brother-in-law Hugo Charteris, "To Hugo, This sitting bird, from, the author."Charteris (1922-1970), a novelist and screenwriter, was the brother of..... Read More about Casino Royale

London: Chatto and Windus, 1884. First edition. Read More about In the Himalayas and on the Indian Plains

Garden City, New York: Doubeday, 1952. First American edition. Read More about The Diary of a Young Girl. Translated from the Dutch by B.P. Mooyaart-Doubleday with an...

Paris: Chez Buisson, Libraire, rue Hautefeuille, 1792. First French edition, variant issue. First French edition: The ‘Federalist’ in the French Revolution. The first French edition of Hamilton, Madison, and Jay's celebrated collection of articles supporting the ratification of the United States Constitution. The other issue of this printing contains an..... Read More about Le Fédéraliste, ou Collection de quelques Écrits en faveur de la Constitution proposée aux...

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. First edition of the author's first book. FIRST BOOK. Read More about Soldiers' Pay

[Harrogate]: PS Publishing, 2002. First edition, no. 490 of 500 paperback copies, signed by the author. Inscribed to Tom Disch. “It made him look a bit of a mod, a movie crook, an east ender”: Jerry Cornelius puts on a suit and gets involved after the attack on America in..... Read More about Firing the Cathedral