Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books in Association with Methuen, 1960. First Printing. First Paperbound Edition of the title that launched Morton's In Search of . . . series. Foolscap 8vo (179 x 107mm): 252pp. Publisher's card covers printed in blue and black. Tightly bound and clean throughout, very faint edge-wear, lightly..... more

London: George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent [through 1881], 1875. Leatherette. First Editions (excepting Santa Croce, which is a second edition, with preface folios in Roman numerals), complete in six parts, of this great classic on Renaissance art. Crown 8vo (172 x 115mm): iv,23,[1]; [4],25-52; [4],57-95,[1]; [4],97-120; [4],121-151,[1]; [4],153-187,[1]pp. Original red..... more

Bombay: Thacker & Co Ltd, n.d. [1914]. Stiff Wrappers. Scarce album of original photographs of Bombay locales from the dawn of the twentieth century. Oblong crown 8vo (148 x 195mm): [48]pp, with 24 postcard-sized photographs, each titled to lower margin and mounted on heavy brown stock to obverse of each..... more

London: Elliott Stock, 1879. Decorative Cloth. First (and only) Edition of this travelog with original woodbury-type photographs. 8vo (212 x 136mm): vi,[3]-98pp, with five woodbury-type prints mounted on separate leaves. Publisher's blue-green cloth, spine lettered in gilt and ornamented in black, front cover decorated and lettered in black. An excellent..... more

London: John Constable, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Scarce First Printing of this clandestine tour of the Near East. Demy 8vo (213 x 138mm): viii,[2],349,[1]pp, with seven plates from photographs (one a map) and large folding map of Arabia in black and blue inserted at rear. Publisher's Prussian blue cloth stamped..... more