Books published during the 19th century as well as some significant reprints. Showing 21-40 of 161
Price: $175.00
Publisher: Paris, Unknown: 1825
Seller ID: 010807
Condition: Very Good
Engraved map. 38x49 cm (15 x19.25 inches) plus text at sides and bottom, on sheet 52x67.5 cm (20.5 by 26.5 inches). Well-engraved Hand-colored map of Cuba. French text borders on three sides, describing the religious, commercial, historical and other aspects of life on Cuba. The map appeared in Buchon's edition of Carey & Lea's Atlas, which was highly prized not only for its cartographic information but for the marvelous information about each of the states and territories included. The atlas was issued in 6 editions in English, French & German, between 1822 and 1827. The French ... View more info
By: Buckland, Frank
Price: $34.95
Publisher: London:, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge,: 1891.
Seller ID: 009215
Condition: Good
Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear. Penciling on half-title. Scuffing along headbands; corners bumped and rubbed. REF: Hampton p. 20; Starkman & Read p. 67 View more info
Price: $34.95
Publisher: London and New York:, Frederick Warne and CO.,: 1888.
Edition: 4th Edition.
Seller ID: 009268
Condition: Very Good
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (1849 – 1924) was a British-American novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children's novels Little Lord Fauntleroy. A Little Princess, and The Secret Garden. Two books bound as one, both with numerous full-page illustrations, including frontispieces. Red publisher's cloth with stamped titles and decorations in black and gilt beveled edges. Bindings tight with a minor spine lean. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear. Previous owner's name on front-free endpage. Scattered foxing. View more info
By: Burns, Robert; Edited with an Introduction by James Burke
Price: $49.95
Publisher: London and Glasgow:, Collins: 1969
Seller ID: 010354
Condition: Near Fine
Dark blue leather wraps with gilt spine titles in slipcase. 12mo; 7.25 inches tall. 736 pages with an index of first lines. The book is without flaw; bindings tight and text clean. Slipcase has light shelf handling. The most complete and definite collection of the works of Robert Burns. View more info
![Image for <b>Doctor Johns: Being a Narrative of Certain Events in the Life of an Orthodox Minister in Connecticut. Two Volumes [Complete]</b>](/assets/images/product/002555_c73bf680d1cf754d3ddf2306f71aeede.jpg)
By: By the Author of My Farm of Edgewood [Donald C. Mitchell]
Price: $65.00
Publisher: New York:, Charles Scribner and Company,: 1866.
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 002555
Green cloth covered boards with stamped gilt spine titles Bindings square, hinges solid. Moderate shelf wear, Top spine bands pulled on both. On laid paper, toning, clean text. 7.5 inches tall. 300 and 295 pages.Donald Grant Mitchell (1822-1908) was an essayist and novelist who often wrote under the pseudonym "Ik Marvel". This publication is a work of fiction. View more info
By: Camp, Walter and Brooks, Lilian
Price: $395.00
Publisher: Boston, L.C. Page: 1899
Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
Seller ID: 011205
Condition: Very Good
Collaboration of the "father of American football" and a leading woman golfer, outspoken on the importance of women's physical development and unfettered opportunity. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo; 7.125 inches tall,18 cm; 243 pp. Frontispiece. 14-page publisher's catalogue at the rear. ----Ref: Donovan and Murdoch 780. Light wear, rubbing and bumps to edges and corners; binding slightly shaken; very good or better. View more info
By: Campe, M. [Joachim Heinrich] [Translated from the German]
Price: $185.00
Publisher: J. Harris and Son, London: 1823
Seller ID: 010879
Condition: Good
An early 16th century attempt to locate the Arctic Northwest passage from Europe to China. Joining Van Heemskerk was Commander Jan Rijp; Pilot Willem Barents and Historian Gerrit de Veer. Discoveries made on the voyage were Bear Island in the Barents Sea; and after sailing above 80 degrees N. Lat. Spitsbergen (now known as Svalbard), and was believed (incorrectly) to be a part of Greenland. This exploration also for the first time successfully faced an Arctic winter. The voyage stands in the first rank among the polar enterprises of the 16th century and led to a flourishing whal... View more info
Price: $345.00
Publisher: London, David Bogue: 1848
Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
Seller ID: 010718
Condition: Very Good
Publisher's gilt and blind-stamped decorated green cloth with gilt-stamped illustrated spine. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Spine Sun-faded. First Edition, First Printing. 12mo. 6.75 inches tall; viii, 153 pp. Illustrated from wood engravings, vignettes. ------ A handsome copy. REF: Westwood & Satchell, 50; Albee, 34; Heckscher 357 View more info
By: Carter, N. H.
Price: $325.00
Publisher: New York, G. & C. Carvill: 1827
Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
Seller ID: 011445
Condition: Very Good
A collection of letters and diary entries written during the course of a three-year tour of Western Europe. After returning these were edited into a very detailed account of travels and events. Rebacked in later polished calf lettered on spine, with original marble-paper covered boards, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Small bookplate on verso of free endpages. [H. W. Miller, Worchester]. Moderate shelf handling wear, light rubs to the corners; light ripple to leaves; First Edition, First Printing. 8vo; 8.75 inches tal... View more info
By: Choderlos de Laclos, Pierre
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York, Everyman's Library: 1992
Seller ID: 010256
ISBN: 0679413251
Condition: New
No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. [No Jacket as issued] Reprinted from the 1924 Routledge & Sons translation from the French by Richard Aldington with an Introduction by Peter Washington. In the two hundred years since its original publication, Les Liaisons Dangereuses has provoked, on the one hand, shock and censorship, and on the other, the admiration of readers as different as Marie Antoinette, Andre Gide, and Charles Baudelaire. Numerous Contemporary ArtistsThe story it tells of the intrigues of a pair of sexually carnivorous aristocrats in pre-Revolutionary France has yet to lo... View more info
Price: $245.00
Publisher: William Pickering,, London:: 1829.<br>
Edition: Second Edition. The first edition was of 12 copies. Complete in three volumes.<br>
Seller ID: 005622
Condition: 8vo; Width: 5.25" Height: 7.75".<br>
Rebound in [Contemporary] 19th-century custom full leather. Showing moderate external wear, with some rubbing and chipping to the spines. Top edge gilt. Bindings firm. Text clean and bright, Printed on laid-paper; an occasional foxing spot noted. The front cover of the third volume displays a small stain in the lower left corner. Antique bookplates can be seen on the front pastedowns. Joints seem tender and books are protected and reinforced by custom clear Mylar sleeves. [spot on lead photo is reflected light from flash] Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary cr... View more info
![Image for With Ski & Sledge Over Arctic Glaciers [Polar Exploration]](/assets/images/product/010810_1)
Price: $495.00
Publisher: London, J.M. Dent & Co.: 1898
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 010810
Condition: Good
Companion and acting as an appendix to The First Crossing of Spitsbergen. 8vo. 8 inches tall; vi, [4], 235pp. with index; gravure frontispiece, 11 plates, 2 text illustrations, folding map (tape-repaired along folds), top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original cloth, stamped with gilt. First Edition, First Printing. Illustrated with photographs by E. J. Garwood. Ex-library, with markings from Cardiff Public Libraries; spine relaid along back cover, extremities bumped, cloth torn; foxing, chipping, and tears throughout. Difficult to find in any condition. The append... View more info
![Image for <b>Private Correspondence of William Cowper, Esq. with several of his most intimate friends. Now first published from the originals in the possession of his kinsman, John Johnson </b><br>[Complete in 2 volumes]](/assets/images/product/008348_f3ccdd27d2000e3f9255a7e3e2c48800.jpg)
By: Cowper, William [Johnson, John]
Price: $85.00
Publisher: London:, Printed for Henry Colburn. new Burlington Street. and Simpkin and Marshall. Stationers' Hall Court ,: 1884.
Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
Seller ID: 008348
William Cowper (1731 – 1800) was an English poet and hymnodist. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside. In many ways, he was one of the forerunners of Romantic poetry.Half bound in contemporary aniline calf over marbled boards, four raised bands. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even age-toning, more pronounced in preliminaries. Rubs on corners and tips. Spine label lacking on Volume 2. View more info
![Image for Granite Crags of California, [Yosemite]](/assets/images/product/011446_1)
Price: $165.00
Publisher: Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons: 1886
Edition: New Edition [Second Edition].
Seller ID: 011446
Condition: Very Good
An important early account of Yosemite. Illustrations: The Sentinel Rock; The Yo-Semite Fall; Indian Camp beside the Merced River; The Nevada and Vernal Falls; View of the Sierras from Sentinel Dome. Fold out map at the end [unflawed]. 8vo; 8.1 inches tall, 384 pages with appendix plus 32-page publisher's catalogue. New Edition [Second Edition]. ---- Includes information on Yosemite Falls, Watkin's Photographs, Vigilantes, orchards, olive groves, California grapes and wines. ---- Light blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine, Front cover stamped in black and silver with a scene of a large mountains... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York:, Harper Brothers Publishers,: 1867.
Edition: Later Edition.
Seller ID: 004020
Condition: Good
Brown cloth boards with stamped spine title in gilt, Decorations and blind-stamped decorative boarder. Moderate handling wear, Text clean with a hint of toning. Bindings firm. Rub to spine tips and corners. 7.5/8 inches tall. 214 pages. Essays from an ardent support of Lincoln without his usual political bite. View more info
![Image for <b>Sir John Franklin's Last Arctic Expedition: a Chapter in the History of the Royal Navy Description </b><br> [Polar Exploration]](/assets/images/product/443.jpg)
By: Cyriax, Richard J. (1885-1967)
Price: $1,125.00
Publisher: London, Methuen & Co. Ltd.: 1939
Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
Seller ID: 009495
Condition: Very Good
The first edition of one of the rarest works on the twentieth-century Franklin search. This important scholarly account of Franklin's last voyage is based largely on the account of George McClintock. Scarcity due to many copies being destroyed during WW II London bombing which hit Metheun's warehouse. Only two other copies are recorded by ABPC and RBH. Compiled from both published and non-published sources. Of importance is the account addressing the fortunes of the expedition' the account of the search for the lost expedition with an outline of the principal eve... View more info
Price: $39.95
Publisher: New York:, Hurd and Houghton at the Riverside Press,: 1869.<br>
Edition: Early Edition, Second printing.<br>
Seller ID: 003066
Condition: Profusely illustrated with plates and in-text drawings by Felix O. C. Darley; Drawings engraved on wood by J. Augustus Begert and James L. Langridge. [88 drawings]. <br>
Text and drawings of American illustrator's trip to England and the Continent undertaken in 1867-68. Green pebbled morocco leather covered beveled boards, stamped titles and spine decoration in gilt, decoration in circle of travelers in stamped gilt on front. All edges gilt.Bindings square and tight; Light wear. A stripe of bio-predation across front. Three previous ownership marks: bookplate front paste-down; cursive inked name on front free endpage; inked number on top title page. Minor foxing to preliminary pages. Text clean and bright. View more info
Price: $34.95
Publisher: 1883, Washington Law Book,: Washington D.C.:
Seller ID: 009110
Condition: Very Good
"Shakespeare's persistent and correct use of law terms was long ago noticed and caused the conjecture that he must have studied in an attorney's office. …… but that he was more addicted to the employment of legal nomenclature than any English writer (excepting, of course, the jurists) is incontestable;" From Introduction. The author through example from Shakespeare’s plays gives legal explanation. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear. previous owner's name stamped on endpage. with index. 12mo; 7.5 inches tall; 303 pages View more info
Price: $24.00
Publisher: New York:, Harper & Brothers Publishers,: 1901.
Edition: Later edition.
Seller ID: 002441
Wine red cloth covered boards with stamped spine titles with black bordered armorial design with gilt titles inside on front. Bindings firm with a hint of a shelf lean. Light shelf wear with a spot of rub at corners and spine tips. Text clean with light even toning. 7.5 inches tall. 349 pages. View more info
Price: $24.00
Publisher: New York:, Harper & Brothers Publisher.: 1892.
Edition: First Edition, First Issue. (blanck 4512)
Seller ID: 002635
Green cloth covered boards with stamped spine titles with black bordered armorial design with gilt titles inside on front. Bindings firm with a hint of a shelf lean. Light shelf handling with rubbed corners and spine tips. Text clean with toning heavier at the edges. Previous owner's name on front paste-down. A small white sticker on verso of title page, believe it is closing a closed tear or thin spot. Did not attempt removal. Minor dampstain text block near lower spine tip., -249. Frontispiece and 3 plates inserted. 71/4 x 4 13/16. White Laid paper endpage, no advertiseme... View more info
