Boston: Bruce Humphries, Inc, (1934). First edition. Inscribed to Colonel Donald Shumway Rockwell by the author. Read More about In Eastern Seas. With a Visit to Insulinde and the Golden Chersonese

n.p. [Edinburgh? 1725?]. First edition. Rare and Early British Bibliography. Rare, anonymously published bibliography of approximately 350 works on British history. Attributed by the British Library to James Anderson, writer to the Signet and noted Scottish genealogist and antiquarian. Divided into fifteen sections, it lists works printed between 1480 (Caxton's..... Read More about Libri de Rebus Britannicis, scilicet, Anglicis, Scoticis et Hibernicis

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1934. First edition. IN DJ. Written by the Curator of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm. Read More about Children of the Yellow Earth: Studies in Prehistoric China

Lisbon: Martins, 1861. Description of the condition of the people of Angola, "deprived of teachers, priests and churches, with reflections concerning the necessity and simplicity of rectofying such great evils" Read More about Noticias do Estado em que se acha o Povo Angola, desituido de mestres, parochos e egrejas, e...

c.1908. RARE PHOTOGRAPHS OF NORTH CHINA. An excellent group of images documenting a tour though the little known, and rarely photographed, mining districts of northern China. The photographer was likely attached to the Anglo-French Quicksilver and Mining Concession which had claims in the Guizhou province. Among the photographs is an..... Read More about Bound volume containing 48 original photographs of mining activities in northern China, and...

Dublin: William Folds, 1818. Read More about The Voyage of Commodore Anson round the World

[London]: [Printed for R. Baldwin], [1681]. Read More about A Brief Account of the designs which the Papists have had against the Earl of Shaftsbury,...

Montreal: Consolidated Paper Corporation Limited, Anticosti Division, [n.d., ca. 1937]. Sixth edition. Anticosti, “the treasure island of the Saint Lawrence,” was maintained as a private hunting preserve by French chocolate manufacturer Henri Menier from 1896 until 1926. It was bought by a Canadian paper consortium and this brochure is evidence..... Read More about The Salmon Streams of Anticosti Island

[London, New York]: 1950-1984. These guestbooks from the London and New York showrooms of Hanns Weinberg's Antique Porcelain Company form a virtual who’s-who of mid- to late-20th century European royalty, high society, and art world luminaries. Weinberg was the favored dealer to the Rockefeller, Mellon, and Phipps families, and his..... Read More about Collection of seven “Visitors” books from The Antique Porcelain Co. Ltd

London: Rudolf Ackermann, Eclipse Sporting Gallery, 191 Regent Street, 1851. Alken, Henry. Third edition, third issue, with both engraved and printed titles dated 1851. Desirable edition, as it is the first to include The "Brief Memoir of Nimrod, by the Author of 'Handley Cross'"[Surtees]. Read More about Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq....by Nimrod. With a Brief Memoir of Nimrod, by...

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co, [c. 1903]. Alken, Henry. Reprint. Read More about Memors of John Mytton. [Note on Henry Alken's "Mytton Illustrations" by Joseph Grego

Copenhagen: Chez Nicolas Möller, 1773. First edition in French, with half-title. With the large fold-out map of Yemen hand-colored in outline. Account of the ill-starred Royal Danish expedition (1761-1767) to the Arabian Peninsula, the first scientific expedition, from which Niebuhr returned as the only survivor. Niebuhr only covered a small..... Read More about Description de l'Arabie, d'après les observations et recherches faites dans le pays même