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Original photograph of Constitutionalists occupying the Ottoman Embassy during the Persian Revolution.

UNIDENTIFIED PHOTOGRAPHER.

Original photograph of Constitutionalists occupying the Ottoman Embassy… 1910.

Rare photograph from the Persian Constitutional Revolution

On the Conditions of the Antarctic Regions: A Lecture delivered in the City Hall, Glasgow; under the Auspices of The Glasgow Science Lectures Association, on Thursday, 23rd November, 1876.

THOMSON (Sir Charles Wyville).

On the Conditions of the Antarctic Regions: A… 1877.

A RARE LECTURE ON THE ANTARCTIC BY THE SCIENTIST OF THE CHALLENGER EXPEDITION

Savage Abyssinia

BAUM (James E.)

Savage Abyssinia, 1928.

Nova e curiosa relaçaõ do fatal combate que teve o capitaõ de mar e guerra espanhol D. Jozé Ponçe de Leon, com huma nao de mouros argelinos na altura do Cabo de S. Vicente pelo exordio e methodo que nesta egregia e louvavel scena poderá ver todo o curioso

[PONCE DE LEON (Francisco).]

Nova e curiosa relaçaõ do fatal combate que… 1759.

Album and scrapbook relating to Chinkiang (Zhenjiang).

SAUNDERS (William). & GRIFFITH (David Knox), and other photographers.

Album and scrapbook relating to Chinkiang (Zhenjiang), 1880.

C.19TH CHINKIANG THROUGH THE LENS OF A WESTERN MERCHANT

through british guinana

through british guinana

Sixteen Years in Chile and Peru from 1822 to 1839.

SUTCLIFFE (Thomas).

Sixteen Years in Chile and Peru from 1822… 1841.

Moths

OUIDA, [Marie Louise de la Ramée]

Moths, 1894.

"Marriage could never bring her aught better than it brought her already - a luxurious and ornamented slavery..."

Held in Bondage

OUIDA [Marie Louise de la Ramée]

Held in Bondage, 1893.

An "immature and most imperfect romance." (Ouida)

Epanaphora Indica. Na qual se dà noticia da viagem, que o illustissimo, e excellentissimo senhor Marquez de Castelo Novo fez com o cargo de vice-rey ao estado da India, e dos primeiros progressos do seu governo : e se referem tambem os successos da viagem

MASCARENHAS (José Freire Monterroio).

Epanaphora Indica. Na qual se dà noticia da… 1752.

A Village Commune

OUIDA [Marie Louise de la Ramée]

A Village Commune, 1882.

"... it is a little Italian borgo, like many other, lying under the sweet blue skies of this beloved and lovely land that has been mother to Theocritus and Tasso."

Strathmore

OUIDA [Marie Louise de la Ramée]

Strathmore, 1886.

"Those swift, silent Strathmores, they are very cold, they say, and love very rarely; but when they love, it must be imperiously, passionately, madly, tout au rien."

Strathmore

OUIDA [Marie Louise de la Ramée]

Strathmore, 1882.

"Those swift, silent Strathmores, they are very cold, they say, and love very rarely; but when they love, it must be imperiously, passionately, madly, tout au rien."

Kyoto minka fu [Record of Kyoto's Minka Houses].

IWAI (Taketoshi)., KATO (Minoo). & KAWAI (Kanjiro). design

Kyoto minka fu [Record of Kyoto's Minka Houses], 1934.

Recording the craftsmanship of minka architecture

Captain Scott's Trip to the South Pole, British Antarctic Expedition.

[SCOTT (Capt. Robert Falcon).]

Captain Scott's Trip to the South Pole, British… 1912.

EARLY NEWS FROM SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION

Thirteen Wood Engravings by David Jones for The Book of Jonah.

JONES (David). & CLOVER HILL EDITIONS.

Thirteen Wood Engravings by David Jones for The… 1979.

"Engravings of tremendous power, in which the harmony between the designs and the type was managed with great skill"

Seifu Sagen [Miscellaneous Comments on Pure Elegance].

UEDA (Akinari). & MURASE (Kotei), preface.

Seifu Sagen [Miscellaneous Comments on Pure Elegance], 1912.

Le pourquois Pas? dans l'Antarctique. Journal de la Deuxième Expédition au Pole Sud.

CHARCOT (Jean-Baptiste).

Le pourquois Pas? dans l'Antarctique. Journal de la… 1910.

INSCRIBED BY CHARCOT.

Christmas card made by the I.E.F.

INDIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE "D".

Christmas card made by the I.E.F. "D" in… 1915.

Happy Christmas from Mesopotamia

Snapshot of the Hejaz Railway.

[HEJAZ RAILWAY.]

Snapshot of the Hejaz Railway, 1917.

An Abstract of the Evidence delivered before a Select Committee.

[WILBERFORCE (William).]

An Abstract of the Evidence delivered before a… 1791.

A VITAL CONTRIBUTION TOWARD THE ABOLITION PROCESS

The Semi-Virgilian Husbandry, Deduced from Various Experiments: or, an Essay Towards a New Course of National Farming.

RANDALL (John).

The Semi-Virgilian Husbandry, Deduced from Various Experiments: or,… 1764.

WITH MANUSCRIPT ANNOTATIONS

[A remarkable ALS relating to the fate of an enslaved family in North Carolina.]

STARBUCK (Darius Henry).

[A remarkable ALS relating to the fate of… 1849.

PLEADING WITH GERRIT SMITH FOR “THE FREEDOM OF EIGHT SLAVES”

A View of China, for Philological Purposes; Containing a Sketch of Chinese Chronology, Geography, Government, Religion and Customs. Designed for the use of persons who study the Chinese language.

MORRISON (Rev. Robert).

A View of China, for Philological Purposes; Containing… 1817.

An Account of the Origin, Spread, & Decline of the Epidemic Fevers of Sierra Leone ...

BRYSON (Alexander).

An Account of the Origin, Spread, & Decline… 1849.

DEBATING THE CAUSES & TREATMENT OF YELLOW FEVER IN SIERRA LEONE

A Voyage to Æthiopia

PONCET (Charles J.)

A Voyage to Æthiopia, 1709.

A VALUABLE EARLY ACCOUNT OF ETHIOPIA

Gekko Zuihitsu [Gekko’s Miscellaneous Jottings].

Gekko Zuihitsu [Gekko’s Miscellaneous Jottings], 1896.

A complete album of Ogata Gekko's masterpiece

The Literature of Political Economy: A Classified Catalogue of Select Publications in the Different Departments of that Science, with Historical, Critical, and Bibliographical Notices.

McCULLOCH (John Ramsay).

The Literature of Political Economy: A Classified Catalogue… 1845.

Mélanges et correspondance d'économie politique, ouvrage posthume de J.B. Say; publié par Charles Comte, son gendre.

SAY (Jean-Baptiste).

Mélanges et correspondance d'économie politique, ouvrage posthume de… 1833.

Lettres a M. Malthus, sur différens sujets d'économie politique: notamment sur les causes de la stagnation générale du commerce.

SAY (Jean-Baptiste).

Lettres a M. Malthus, sur différens sujets d'économie… 1820.

Ueber Handel und Handelsfreiheit. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt und mit einer Einleitung über die Nothwendigkeit unbedingter Freiheit des Verkehres versehen von J. Gambihler.

[McCULLOCH (John Ramsay).]

Ueber Handel und Handelsfreiheit. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt… 1834.

Researches into the Mathematical Principles of the Theory of Wealth. Translated by Nathaniel T. Bacon with a Bibliography of Mathematical Economics by Irving Fisher.

COURNOT (Augustin).

Researches into the Mathematical Principles of the Theory… 1897.

A PIONEER OF MATHEMATICAL ECONOMICS

Première Introduction à la philosophie économique; ou analyse des Etats policés. Par un disciple de l'Ami des Hommes.

[BAUDEAU (Abbe Nicolas).]

Première Introduction à la philosophie économique; ou analyse… 1771.

The Street.

The Street, 1947.

A RARE SIGNED COPY

Ten Spiritual Designs Enlarged from Proofs of the Originals on Copper, Wood and Stone MDCCCXXVII - MDCCCXXXI

CALVERT (Edward)

Ten Spiritual Designs Enlarged from Proofs of the… 1913.

Grongar Hill

Grongar Hill, 1982.

'Quite clearly the Promised Land'

Calligraphic manuscript of verse taken from William Morris' Earthly Paradise

BENNETT (Miss M. G.)

Calligraphic manuscript of verse taken from William Morris'… 1929.

Catalogus sanctorum & gestorum eorum ex diversis voluminibus collectus . . . multis novis additionibus decoratus.

Venice: Nicolaus de Frankfordia, 1 Dec.

NATALIBUS (Petrus de)

Catalogus sanctorum & gestorum eorum ex diversis voluminibus… 1516.

ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF SAINTS, WITH MANUSCRIPT PILATE LETTER

Paduan doctoral degree diploma, illuminated manuscript on vellum.

Paduan doctoral degree diploma, illuminated manuscript on vellum, 1641.

A SCOTTISH SCHOLAR IN ITALY, WITH THE ILLUMINATOR'S STRIKING ADVERTISEMENT

Annales, non tam de Augustorum vitis, quam aliorum Germanorum gestis.

(Mainz, Johann Schöffer, August 1521.

REGINO (Abbot of Prüm)

Annales, non tam de Augustorum vitis, quam aliorum… 1521.

WITH A POSTHUMOUS PORTRAIT OF THE EDITOR

The Guns of Navarone.

MACLEAN (Alistair).

The Guns of Navarone, 1957.

Playback.

CHANDLER (Raymond).

Playback, 1958.