Books & Works on Paper

(Japan.) Herbert G. Ponting: 'Fuji San', Tokyo, K. Ogawa, 1905, 1st edition, 25 black & white plates from photographs by Herbert Ponting (of which...

(Japan & China.) Captain A. Brinkley: 'Japan and China. Their History, Arts and Literature', London, T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1903-1904, 1st edition, "Li...

R.L. Hobson: 'Chinese Pottery and Porcelain: An Account of the Potter's Art in China, from Primitive Times to the Present Day', London, Cassell, 1...

(China, Chinese Art and Antiques.) Dana H. Carroll: 'Illustrated catalogue of the remarkable collection of ancient Chinese bronzes, beautiful old ...

(Japan, History, Art, Travel.) Engelbert Kaempfer: 'The History of Japan. Together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam 1690-92', Glasgow, 1...

A box of 30+ assorted Japanese interest books, including art, culture, history, Manga, Go, Hiroshige, Shibata Zeshin, Rimpa art, ideology of Kokug...

(Shunga Emaki, Japanese Erotic Hand Scrolls.) Twelve circa late C19th/C20th Shunga Erotic scrolls, including circa late 19th/Early 20th Century Me...

(China.) John Henry Gray: 'China: A History of the Laws, Manners, and Customs of the People', London, Macmillan & Co, 1878, 1st edition, 2 volumes...

(China, Xi River, Wuzhou, Guangxi, Guangdong, Pearl River.) Photograph Album WEST RIVER TRIPS. China, Leonard Philpott 1902 – 1907. ...

(Lai Afong, China, Canton, Hong Kong, Singapore, Asia.) Three large photograph albums containing 145+ albumen and other photographs c.1870's/1880'...

(Chromolithograph plates, Costume.) Auguste Racinet: 'Le Costume Historique', Paris, Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1888, 20 portfolios, containing 285 chro...

(Mountaineering), Charles Granville Bruce (1866-1939): 'Twenty Years in the Himalaya', London, Edward Arnold, 1910, 1st edition, portrait frontisp...

A collection of 15 albumen photographs of India, including Delhi, Simla, Kutab Minar at Dehli, Taj Mahal, Red Fort at Delhi, Lahore, Lucknow, Cawn...

(India, British Raj, East India company), George Franklin Atkinson: 'Curry & Rice', on forty plates: Or, the Ingredients of Social Life at 'Our St...

An archive of letters circa 1870's-1900 relating to the Peppé family of India, of Ranchi and Chota Nagpur, Jharkand, the numerous autograph letter...

Edward Tuite Dalton: 'Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal', Calcutta, Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing', 1872, 1st edition, 40 lith...

Six diaries of Arthur Tosio Peppe (1873-1949) of Ranchi Bengal, India, for the years 1903-1908, all with manuscript entries throughout, all Traill...

A victorian photograph album circa 1860's/ 70's containing approx 75 mounted albumen print photographs of India & Ceylon (Sri Lanka), some images ...

A circa late 19th Century photograph album containing approximately 18 albumen print and other photographs of India, in the historical regions of ...

(Travel & Exploration.) William Barry Lord & Thomas Baines: 'Shifts and Expedients of Camp Life, Travel and Exploration', London, Horace Cox, 1871...

(India.) William Daniell (ill.); Hobert Caunter: 'The Oriental Annual, Or Scenes in India.', London, Edward Bull, Bul & Churton, Charles Tilt etc....

(Sindh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Afghan Wars.) The Rev. Isaac Nicholson Allen: 'Diary of a March Through Sinde and Affghanistan, with the troops und...

(India, Sikh Empire, Punjab.) Prince Frederick Duleep Singh (1868-1926), 'Trumpet and Bugle Sounds for the Army with Instructions for the Training...

(India, Sikh Empire, Punjab.) Elveden Hall Christie's sale catalogue, 1984, a complete set of 8 Christie's on the premises auction catalogues for ...

(India, Sikh Empire, Punjab.) Maharani Bamba Duleep Singh (1848-1877) Cartes de Visite photograph c.1865 of the wife of Maharajah Duleep Singh of ...

(India, Sikh Empire, Punjab.) Prince Frederick Duleep Singh (1868-1926), Cabinet card photograph by JW Clarke of Bury St Edmund's depicting Prince...

(India, Sikh Empire, Punjab.) Maharani Bamba Duleep Singh (1848-1877), holding her daughter Princess Bamba (1869-1957), Cabinet card photograph by...

(India, Sikh Empire, Punjab.) Blo Norton Hall, Norfolk, pictorial lace textile circular doily c.1920 of Blo' Norton Hall, South Norfolk, the forme...

A large mounted photograph of Queen Victoria (1819-1901), the image depicting the Queen c.1860's, published by The Rotary Photographic Company Ltd...

(South Africa.) A photograph album of South Africa, Rhodesia etc circa 1921, 250+ mounted photographs on 63 pages with snapshot and larger photos ...

Lawrence G. Green: 'Strange Africa', London, Stanley Paul, 1938, 1st edition, frontis + 56 b/w ills. from photographs as called for, original clot...

Albert Schweitzer: 'On the Edge of the Primeval Forest. Experiences and Observations of a Doctor in Equatorial Africa', London, A & C Black, 1922,...

(Istanbul, Turkey.) Julia Pardoe; William Henry Bartlett (ill.): 'The Beauties of the Bosphorus. By Miss Pardoe. Illustrated in a series of views ...

(Grand Tour, Rome, Vatican Costume.) 'Costumi Della Corte Pontificia', Roma, 1844, 31 hand coloured engraved plates of Vatican costume & Papal uni...

(Grand Tour, Italy, Rome.) Domenico Pronti: 'Nuova Raccolta di 100 Vedutine Antiche della Citta di Roma e sue Vicinanze.', Roma, Presso Il Sud. In...

[Anon.]: 'To Gibraltar and Back in an Eighteen-Tonner, by One of the Crew', London, W.H. Allen, 1888, 1st edition, inscribed at head of title pag...

(Arctic Expeditions, North Pole.) Edward Adams-Ray (translated): 'The Andree Diaries being the diaries and records of S.A. Andree, Nils Strindberg...

Captain Robert Falcon Scott; Leonard Huxley (edited): 'Scott's Last Expedition', London, Smith, Elder & Co, 1913, 1st edition, 2 volumes, embossed...

(Antarctica, Southern Ocean, Falkland Islands, Scientific Expeditions.) Eustace Rolfe Gunther: 'Notes and Sketches Made During Two Years on the 'D...

Charles Darwin: 'Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the ...

John Hunt: 'The Ascent of Everest', London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1953, 1st edition, signed by the author and leader of the successful 1953 British ...

G.W. Bacon: 'Bacons New Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection', Manchester, Royal London Building, c.1906, large colour lithograph folding m...

'The Oarsman's and Angler's Map of the River Thames, From It's Source to London Bridge, One Inch to a Mile', London, Edward Stanford, [nd], c.1932...

National Geographic Society (pub.): 'The Southwestern United States', 1940, large decorative folding lithograph map by Charles E. Riddiford, 66 x ...

'Stanford's London Atlas of Universal Geography. Quarto Edition. Fourty-Four Coloured Maps and Alphabetical Index.', London, Edward Stanford, 1882...

(Atlas.), EARLIEST ISSUES INCLUDING LOUISIANA, JEAN BAPTISTE BOURGUIGNON D’ANVILLE. A Composite Atlas, 1743-1764. Folio (approx. 55 x 47cm). Compo...

Samuel Lewis: 'A Topographical Dictionary of England', London, S. Lewis and Co., 1831, 4 volumes in 5 (4 vols + maps in separate atlas volume), 44...

After Johannes Kip, hand coloured engraved estate plan, 'Henbury the Seat of Simon Harcourt Esq.', approx. 34 x 43cm, framed & glazed, the whole a...

Edward Wedlake Brayley & John Britton: 'The Beauties of England and Wales; Or, Delineations Topographical, Historical and Descriptive, of Each Cou...

(Richmond, Yorkshire, Topography.) [Christopher Clarkson]: 'The history of Richmond, in the country of York; including a description of the Castle...

(Scotland.) Charles Cordiner: 'Remarkable Ruins, and Romantic Prospects, of North Britain. With Ancient Monuments and Singular Subjects of Natural...

Samuel Swarbreck: 'Sketches in Scotland', London, C. Hullmandel, 1839, 1st edition, pictorial lithograph title page + 25 lithograph views on 24 fu...

(Northamptonshire, History & Topography.) Christopher Markham & Rev. J. Charles Cox: 'The Records of the Borough of Northampton', Published by Ord...

Sir William Dugdale: 'Monasticon Anglicanum sive Pandectae Coenobiorum Benedictinorum, Cluniacensium, Cisterciensium, Carthusianorum, a Primordiis...

Francis Blomefield and Charles Parkin: 'An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk...', Fersfield and Lynn, 1739-1775, firs...

(Norfolk.) Seventeen assorted books and booklets mainly Norfolk history and topography etc., including H. Munro Cautley 'Norfolk Churches' , M.R. ...

(Bury St. Edmund's, Suffolk.) Rev. Richard Yates: 'An Illustration of the Monastic History and Antiquities of the Town and Abbey of St. Edmund's B...

(Suffolk.) 'The Harwich guide, containing an account of the ancient and present state of that borough; likewise a description of Dover-Court, Mist...

(Suffolk, Wortham.) [Ambrose Wretts.] A large manuscript account book, compiled 1772-1780 in the Wortham area of Suffolk, recording sale of all ma...

(Suffolk.) Mark Knights: 'In and About Ancient Ipswich', Norwich & London, Jarrold & Sons, 1888, large paper edition, limited edition, No. 53 of 7...