London: 1876. First Edition. Paperback. A collection of over 400 rare and uncommon Offprints from the prestigious Journal of The Royal Asiatic Society. A huge and wide ranging selection that would prove very expensive to buy individually and be very time consuming to assemble, if you even could easily do..... More

1803-25. Softcover. All original publications, generally quite uncommon and unusual to find so many together. Original printed wrappers, in generally very good condition, with no loose covers or missing pages. Varying paginations. See pictures for full details of what is included in this collection.. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Booklets &..... More

London: Historical Association, 1980. Hardcover. 8 volumes bound in blue buckram cloth, gilt lettered. Ex university library, with shelf labels to the foot of the spines, and bookplate on inner board. Very clean throughout, and quite possibly largely unread. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Quantity Available: 1. Category: Collections; History..... More

David & Charles and Alan Godfrey. Paperback. This huge collection, covering much if not all of Yorkshire consists of 42 Alan Godfrey Old Ordnance Survey maps, many apparently unopened, together with 9 David & Charles reprints of the 1st editions of the 1 inch Ordnance Survey map of England and..... More

London: Henry S. King, 1879. First Edition. Disbound. Alfred Russel Wallace, 1823-1913 was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist. He is best known for independently conceiving the theory of evolution through natural selection. Aside from scientific work, he was a social activist who was critical of what he..... More

London: Henry S. King, 1878-96. First Edition. Disbound. The demand for prison reform was formalised by the Prison Act 1877, when Edmund Du Cane became chairman of the three prison commissioners, under the new act to reorganise and administer the county and borough prisons. On 1 April 1878 these prisons..... More

London: Henry S. King, 1898-1900. First Edition. Disbound. Elizabeth Banks, 1872–1938 was an American journalist and author. Although she never renounced her American citizenship, she remained in England throughout the last forty years of her life. In London, she became a regular contributor to publications such as The Daily News..... More

London: Henry S. King, 1878-85. First Edition. Disbound. An ironclad was a steam-propelled warship in the early part of the second half of the 19th century, protected by iron or steel armour plates. The term battleship was not used by the Admiralty until the early 1880s, with the construction of..... More

London: Henry S. King, 1877. First Edition. Disbound. Manning was very influential in setting the direction of the modern Catholic Church. His warm relations with Pope Pius IX and his ultramontane views gained him the trust of the Vatican, though "it was ordained that he should pass the evening of..... More

1860. First Edition. Disbound. The Origin of Species aroused international interest and a widespread debate, with no sharp line between scientific issues and ideological, social and religious implications. Much of the initial reaction was hostile, in a large part because very few reviewers actually understood his theory, but Darwin had..... More

London: Henry S. King, 1893. First Edition. Disbound. The foundation of the Meiji Restoration was the 1866 Satsuma-Choshu Alliance between Saigo Takamori and Kido Takayoshi, leaders of the reformist elements in the Satsuma Domain and Choshu Domain. These two leaders supported the Emperor Komei (Emperor Meiji's father) and were brought..... More

London: Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research. 1884-89. First Edition. Disbound. Note; these are original articles separated from larger volumes, not reprints or copies. Edmund Gurney (1847-1888) was an English psychologist, psychical researcher, musical theorist and philosophical writer. Almost forgotten today, Gurney was a well-known and widely respected intellectual..... More

Nineteenth Century, 1882. First Edition. Disbound. In 1881 the Anglo-French Submarine Railway Company began to tunnel into the Channel from both the French and English sides. With interesting new technology to handle the task of boring, and engineering expertise developed from the railways and the Suez Canal, relatively good progress..... More