BOOKS TO TREASURE

This series of important and generally unavailable books were produced in association with the British Library.

In five subject areas, these books are facsimiles of famous volumes that can no longer be purchased in their original form. They are all bound in slate-blue Irish Linen Buckram and blocked in two colours on the front and spine. A number of the series are no longer available so we have taken the opportunity to offer these remaining titles at substantially reduced prices, many of them at a fraction of the original amount. 

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DISCOVERY OF THE PACIFIC AND AUSTRALASIA

The Present State of Australia - Robert Dawson
London 1830; 488pp, 214mm x 140mm £45

History of Australian Discovery
Sydney 1865; 128pp; 4 plates, 186mm x 120mm. £28

Voyage Autour du Monde par les Mers de L'Inde et de Chine - Cyrille Pierre Theodore Laplace
Tome 1; Paris 1833; 602pp + 1 pull-out chart, 214mm x 140mm. £40

Voyage Autour du Monde... sur la Corvette La Coquille - Rene Primevere Lesson
Tome 1; Paris 1838; 518pp, 20 plates,1 pull-out chart, 214mm x 140mm. £40

Journal de la Navigation autour du Globe de la Fregate Thetis et de la Corvette l' Esperance
Hyacinthe de Bougainville
Paris 1837; 72pp + 1 pull-out chart 500mm x 325mm (folio). £135


HERITAGE OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

The Mechanical Principles of Engineering - Henry Moseley
London 1843; 656pp, 214mm x 140mm. £45

A Practical Treatise of Cast & Wrought Iron Bridges - William Humber
London 1857; 236pp; 400mm x 280mm. £75

Life of James Watt - James Patrick Muirhead
London 1858; 608pp, 214mm x 140mm. £45

Railway Practice – Samuel Charles Brees
140pp + 63 plates +15 pull-outs 280 x 225mm £65

Travaux Publics des Etats-Unis Amerique en 1870 - J.& E. Malzieux
Paris 1873-4; 2566pp + 7 pull-out charts, 214mm x 140mm. £40


EARLY CLASSICS ON MAPPING THE STARS

Sidereus Nuncius - Galileo Galilei
Venice 1610 ; 64pp, 210mm x 145mm. £25

Harmonia Macrocosmica seu Atlas Universalis et Novus - Andreas Cellarius
Amsterdam 1708; 128pp, 510mm x 317mm. £195

THE SCIENCE OF PERSPECTIVE AND ITS DEVELOPMENT

Maniere Universelle de Monsieur Desargues - Abraham Bosse
Paris 1648; 520pp, 187mm x 122mm. £45

Perspective made easie - Bernard Lamy
1710 256pp _+ 1 pull-out, 187mm x 122mm. £45

La Perspective Affranchie - Johann Heinrich Lambert 
Zurich 1759; 208pp + 6 pull-outs, 187mm x 122mm. £45


BOOKS OWNED BY STEWART ROYALTY

De Triplici Nodo. Triplex Cuneus - James 1
London 1607; 256pp, 184mm x140mm. £45

Diclides Coelometricae seu Valuae Astronomicae Universales - Nathaniel Torpolaeus
London 1602; 272pp, 184mm x 140mm. £45

Trois Dialogues de l'Exercise de sauter et voltiger en l'Air - Arcangelo Tucarro
Paris 1599; 416pp, 214mm x 140mm. £45

The Second Folio of Shakespeare
London 1632; 920pp, 375mm x 250mm. £175

The Advancement of Learning - Francis Bacon
Oxford 1640; 624pp, 280mm x 204mm. £65


OTHER LEARNED PUBLICATIONS

The Travels of Ibn Battuta - A.D. 1325 - 1354
Translated, with revisions and notes from the Arabic text by C. Defrenery and B.R. Sanguinette, by H.A.R. GIBB.

Volume I 288pp, 2 maps, 1 plate: North-west Africa, Egypt, Syria, Mecca
Volume II 262pp, 3 maps, 1 plate: southern Persia, Iraq, southern Arabia, east Africa, the Persian Gulf, Asia Minor, south Russia 
Volume III 246pp, 1 map, 5 plates: Turkestan, Khurasan, Sind, north-western India, Delhi
£30 per volume

The Heir of Parham, Robert Curzon 14th Baron Zouche, 1810-73 - Ian Fraser
248pp, 25 plates, 215mm x 145mm. £15 REDUCED TO £10

The Lady's Country Companion - Jane Loudon
1845; 416pp, 17 engravings, 215mm x 145mm. £15 REDUCED TO £10