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Anderson (George William, editor). A New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World, undertaken and performed by Royal Authori...

Anson (George). A Voyage round the World in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV, 5th edition, London: for the author, by John and Paul Knapton, 1749,...

* [Arabic calligraphy]. Pseudo-Arabic calligraphic composition, Ottoman territories or Iran, c.1875-1900, reverse-painted on glass, in the form of...

Auldjo (John). Sketches of Vesuvius, with Short Accounts of its Principal Eruptions, from the commencement of the Christian era to the present tim...

Azevedo (Luiz Marinho de). Fundaçaõ, antiguidades, e grandezas da mui insigne cidada de Lisboa, e seus varones illustres em santidade, armas, et l...

Baker (Sir Samuel W.). The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1867,...

Blunt (Lady Anne). A Pilgrimage to Nejd, the Cradle of the Arab Race, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1881, half-title to each volume...

Bone (Muirhead & Gertrude). Old Spain, 2 volumes, London: Macmillan and Co., 1936, 120 full-page illustrations in various media, including 3 doubl...

Bowyer (Robert). The Triumphs of Europe in the Campaigns of the Years 1812, 1813, 1814: commemorated by a series of twelve views of Moscow, The Kr...

Brion de la Tour (Louis). Atlas General, Civil, Ecclesiastique et Militaire, Méthodique et elementaire pour l'etude de la geographie et de l'histo...

[Castro, Casimiro]. [Album del Ferrocarril Mexicano, colleción de vistas, 1st edition, Mexico City: Victor Debray, 1877 or 1878], 2 parts in 1 vol...

Chapman (Abel). On Safari. Big-Game Hunting in British East Africa, with Studies in Bird-Life, 1st edition, London: Edward Arnold, 1908, 34 plates...

Chardin (John). The Travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies... To which is added the Coronation of this present King of Persia...

Chénier (Louis de). Recherches historiques sur les Maures et histoire de l'empire de Maroc, 3 volumes, 1st edition, Paris: chez l'auteur, Bailly, ...

Chinese Export School. Album of pith paintings, Yut Shing, Canton, 19th century, 12 miniatures in watercolour and bodycolour on pith paper (33.5 x...

* Company School. Set of Indian mica paintings, possibly Madras or environs, c.1850-80, 16 gouaches on mica (22 x 14.5 cm), laid into a contempora...

Cook (James). The Voyages of Captain James Cook Round the World, 7 volumes, London: Richard Phillips, 1809, engraved portrait frontispiece to volu...

Cottafavi ( Gaetano ). Raccolta delle Principale Vedute di Roma e suoi contorni , Tommaso Cuccioni, Rome, [1858], engraved pictorial title with so...

* Dalhousie (James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of, 1812-1860). Two autograph letters signed to Sir John Littler during the Second Anglo-Burmese War...

Daniell (Thomas & William). Hindoo Excavations in the Mountain of Ellora, near Aurangabad in the Decan, in Twenty-Four Views, from the Drawings of...

De Vaugondy (Robert). Nouvel Atlas Portatif destine principalement pour L'instruction de la Jeunesse d'apres la Geographie Modern de seu L'Abbe De...

* [East India Company & British Army]. Group of autograph letters signed, 18-19th century, including: 1) Edward Clive (1754-1839; later 1st Earl o...

* [East India Company]. Printed document signed, 19 January 1687, assigning the wages of Christopher Brewster of the East Indiaman Mary to his nom...

Evelyn (John). Navigation and Commerce, their Original and Progress. Containing a Succinct Account of Traffick in General; its Benefits and Improv...

Evelyn (John). The State of France as it stood in the IXth yeer of this present Monarch Lewis XIIII. Written to a Friend, 1st edition, London: by ...

Ferres (Achille). Descrizione storica delle chiese di Malta e Gozo, 1st edition, Malta: [no publisher], 1866, [7] 8-700 [2] pp., half-title (with ...

* [French Polynesia]. Small ethnographic archive compiled by Katherine and William Scoresby Routledge, c.1921-3, comprising: ‘Rapa & Tuamotu’ [cov...

Freshfield (Douglas W.). Italian Alps. Sketches in the Mountains of Ticino, Lombardy, the Trentino, and Venetia, 1st edition, 1875, wood-engraved ...

Gibson (John). Atlas Minimus, or a New Set of Pocket Maps of the several Empires, Kingdoms and States of the known World, with Historical Extracts...

Herbert (Thomas). Some Years Travels into Divers Parts of Africa and Asia the Great, describing more particularly the Empires of Persia and Indust...

* [India]. Group of 12 autograph or typed letters signed from various governors-general of India, 20th century, i.e. Curzon (4 letters, all autogr...

Landon (Perceval). Lhasa, an Account of the Country and People of Central TIbet and of the Progress of the Mission sent there by the English Gover...

Lyon (George Francis). The Private Journal of Captain G. F. Lyon of H.M.S. Hecla, during the Recent Voyage of Discovery under Captain Parry, 1st e...

Maffei (Giovanni Pietro). Historiarum Indicarum libri XVI. Selectarum item, ex India Epistolarum, eodem interprete, libri IV. Accessit Ignatii Loi...

* Malcolm (Sir John, 1769-1833). [Manuscript report signed on the siege of Asirgarh], [1819], secretarial manuscript, 28 leaves, signed by Malcolm...

Morgan (Henry J.) . Bibliotheca Canadensis: or a manual of Canadian literature, 1867, Ottawa, period inscription by the author to front endpaper, ...

Moschetti (Alessandro). Principali Monumenti di Roma. Raccolta delle Principali vedute di Roma Antica & Moderna, Rome: Luigi Frezza, 1846, engrave...

Moseley (Henry Nottidge). Notes by a Naturalist on the "Challenger," ... made during the Voyage of H.M.S. "Challenger" round the World, in the Yea...

[Napoleonic Wars]. 'State of New Iron Ordnance Proved at Woolwich for His Majesty's Service on the 26th and 27th June 1801 [-17th & 18th Aug[ust] ...

* O'Brien (Lucius Robert, c.1780-?). Small archive of letters and documents relating to the Third Anglo-Maratha War, Jabalpur ('Jubbulpore') and e...

* [Ottoman Turkish Manuscript]. Firman issued in the name of Sultan Mahmud II (r. 1808-39), Constantinople, 1813, Ottoman Turkish manuscript in bl...

Pardoe (Julia). The Beauties of the Bosphorus, circa 1840, 2 additional engraved titles, two portraits, 3 engraved maps, 162 steel-engraved plates...

* [Persia]. Talismanic manuscript, Qajar Iran, 1264 AH [i.e. 1847/8 CE], Persian and Arabic manuscript in black ink on paper, comprising several c...

Piranesi (Giovanni Battista, & others). Roma antica distinta per regioni, secondo l'esempio di Sesto Rufo, Vittore, e Nardini; ornata di rami [......

Raleigh (Sir Walter). The History of the World, in Five Books ... Whereunto is added in this Edition, the LIfe and Tryal of the Author, London: fo...

Ramsey (Albert C.). The Other Side: Or Notes for the History of the War Between Mexico and the United States. Written in Mexico. Translated from t...

Rowlandson (Thomas, illustrator). The Grand Master or Adventures of Quii-Hi? in Hindostan. A Hudibrastic Poem in Eight Cantos by Quiz, 1st edition...

[Rowlandson, Thomas, illustrator]. Naples and the Campagna Felice. In a Series of Letters addressed to a Friend in England, in 1802, 1st edition i...

Sandys (George). Sandys Travailes: containing a History of the Original and Present State of the Turkish Empire ... the Mahometan Religion and Cer...

Sarakhsi (Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-, c.1009-1090 CE). Tarjumat Sharh al-siyar al-kabir [Ottoman Turkish title], 2 volumes in 1, 1st edition in Ottoma...

Scortia ( Joannes Baptista ). De natura et incremento Nili, libro duo. In quibus inter disputandum plures aliae quaestiones physicae explicantur, ...

Stedman (John Gabriel). Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition, against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South Amer...

[Totti, Pompilio]. Ritratto di Roma antica ... seconda impressione, Rome: Andrea Fei, 1633, engraved additional title-page, 1 engraved and 3 woodc...

Wheler (George). Voyage de Dalmatie, de Grèce, et du Levant ... traduit de l'anglois, 1st edition in French, Amsterdam: Jean Wolters, 1689, additi...

Wild (Frank). Shackleton's Last Voyage. The Story of the Quest. From the Official Journal and Private Diary kept by Dr. A. H. Macklin, 1st edition...

Atkyns (Sir Robert). The Ancient and Present State of Glocestershire , 2nd edition, 1768, 8 engraved armorial plates, double-page county map, plan...

Bowles (Carington). Bowles's Pocket Atlas of the Counties of South Britain or England and Wales..., printed and sold Carington Bowles, [1785], dou...

Camden (William). Britannia: or a Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland and the Islands adjacent...

Cary (John). Cary's New and Correct English Atlas: Being a New set of County Maps from Actual Surveys..., 1793, engraved title, twelve pages of ro...

Cary (John). Cary's New Map of England and Wales with part of Scotland on which are carefully laid down all the Direct and Principal Cross Roads, ...