Beautifully bound copy of the classic Christian devotional texts, bound in velvet with hallmarked silver furniture.

Contemporary peepshow of the Great Industrial Exposition of Berlin, the "impeded world fair" that combined innovative technological exhibits with an amusement park.

Limited first edition of this idiosyncratic collection of re-designed chapbooks, based upon the collection of chapbook-collector Joseph Crawhall – his own copy, inscribed to him by the publisher.

First edition of this important ethnographic work on turn-of-the-20th century Borneo by "the most artistically tattooed man in the world," with some of the earliest photographs of its inhabitants.

First edition of this book of collected writings by the American Presbyterian missionary, regarding 19th-century Syrian customs and his dedicated efforts to interfere with them.

First edition of the final African journals of Scottish missionary, abolitionist, and explorer David Livingstone, including his own account of the famous meeting with Stanley.

Victorian edition of this important survey of Norse literature and history – with a fore-edge painting of a Viking ship, a color frontispiece of Yggdrasil, and an excerpt from the PROSE EDDA.

Spectacular late-Victorian anti-marriage feminist fantasia, loosely based on the life of historical reformer Emily Massingberd, in beautiful pictorial cloth.

Rare Victorian guide to the principles of detection, as practiced in British-administrated India by an investigator of the Calcutta Police Detective Department.

Later edition of this description of the disastrous Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, as told by its leader Henry M. Stanley.

First edition of the first handbook printed for the police force governed by London's Court of Aldermen, 5 years before the Metropolitan Police Act that formed the Scotland Yard.