THE SAXON CHRONICLE
First edition in modern English of the complete ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE, a key historical document of the Early Medieval era composed during the reign of Alfred the Great.
First edition in modern English of the complete ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE, a key historical document of the Early Medieval era composed during the reign of Alfred the Great.
First edition of this history of Arab and European invasions and occupations of the African continent, with great attention to the eventual British opposition to the slave trade.
A history of Oxford University by the academic and folklorist.
First edition, second issue (as common) of Burton's classic account of his travels in Somalia and Ethiopia, with appendices including the diary and observations of John Speke and an early effort at a grammar of the Harari language.
First edition of this anthology of African, Arab, European, and Asian historical sources, from Pharaonic inscriptions to twentieth-century accounts.
Deluxe limited first edition, in a striking Art Deco binding, of this midcentury popular history of England.
First paperback printing of this 1958 account of capturing and handing over for execution the leader of the Mau Mau uprising by proud British imperialist and 'Butcher of Bahrain' Ian Henderson, assisted by Conservative MP Goodhart.
First edition of these essays presenting arguments for the international abolition of the slavery by the Treasurer of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, specially bound for presentation and inscribed by the author.
First edition of this illustrated tour of horrible things and the people they happened to, undertaken with great enthusiasm by the author-publisher, whose quarter-century of prior research formed the basis for this work.
First edition thus of this lively and vindictive argument for the historicity of Pope Joan, adapted with a new preface from Alexander Cooke's 1610 DIALOGUE BETWEEN A PAPIST AND A PROTESTANT.
First edition of this historic account of Virginia, the Roanoke colony, and its environs, including the landmark map of Virginia and all the famed engravings of Native American life in the 1580s.
First US edition of this epic overview of 1870s London, with a focus on the squalor and poor working conditions of the city's poor — executed by Doré in his signature dramatic style.
First printing of this history of various artforms in Nigeria, including beadwork, brass work, carving, pottery, and weaving – illustrated with photographs of objects and diagrams by Michael Foreman.
Album of photographs chronicling the activity of the Hambros Bank after it was evacuated to an estate at the start of WWII — once owned by a Hambros employee and likely produced by them for workers.
First edition of this first-hand account of Henry M. Stanley's years traveling the Congo in the service of the colonial aspirations of Belgium.
Later edition of this description of the disastrous Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, as told by its leader Henry M. Stanley.
Uncommon account of the life of a South African ostrich farmer near the turn of the twentieth century.
First edition of this fascinating piece of World War I ephemera, celebrating the downing of four zeppelins in a parody of the "Ten Little" rhyme.
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.
Scarce American edition of the bookseller's Confessions, with one of the earliest Brooklyn imprints.
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.