The 19th century was the century marked by the collapse of the Spanish, First and Second French, Chinese, Holy Roman and Mughal empires. This paved the way for the growing influence of the British Empire, the Russian Empire, the United States, the German Empire, the Second French Colonial Empire and the Empire of Japan, with the British boasting unchallenged dominance after 1815.
![Item #014698 An Introduction to Algebra Upon the Inductive Method of Instruction [1830]. Warren...](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/014698.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1649510834)
Boston: Willard: Gray, Little and Wilkins, 1830. Hardcover. The author attended Harvard College and graduated with honors. He wrote a series of elementary mathematics texts intended for children. He attempted to use the then most up-to-date methods of instruction, employing psychological methods.
Boston: Little Brown, 1891. Limited Edition. A Very Good Hardcover. A beautiful example of late 19th century book binding and illustration. Included are works from the major Elizabethan poets.
![Item #17266 [Steam Punk] [Science Fiction, 1886] The Log of the Flying Fish. A Story of Aerial...](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/17266.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1695154675)
New York: Scribner and Welford, 1886. First Edition, First Printing. Decorated Cloth Hardcover. Classic boy’s adventure, combining grit and pluck with steam punk high tech, in the style of Jules Verne.'The Flying Fish actually surpasses all Jules Verne's creations; with incredible speed she flies through the air, skims over the.....
Auburn [N.Y.]: James M. Alden, 1849. A compilation of aphorisms, short texts, and poetry by various authors.Subjects: Anthologies; Conduct of life; Victorian Gift books.
Chicago, New York, Toronto: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1899. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth Hardcover. University of Toronto educated Charles William Gordon, ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1890. An internationally best-selling author he wrote under the pseudonym Ralph Connor, and published more than thirty novels.
![Item #010810 [Norway] With Ski & Sledge Over Arctic Glaciers. Sir Martin Conway](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/010810.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1647802057)
London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1898. Photography by E. J. Garwood (1864-1949). First Edition, First Printing. A Good Hardcover. Difficult to find in any condition.Background Information:An exploration of the interior of West Spitsbergen undertaken during the summers of 1896 and 1897, in the company of E. J. Garwood, whose photographs.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The author Sir Reginald Coupland was a prominent historian of the British Empire.
London: Henry Colburn, 1824. A Good Hardcover. William Cowper 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.....
London: Griffith and Farran, 1858. First Edition, First Printing. A temperance parable with a Christmas Theme printed at the Chiswick Press by C. Whittingham.Subject: Illustrated Books; Christmas stories; Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction; Woodcuts; TemperanceRef: YCBA.
New York: Harper Brothers Publishers, 1867. Later Edition. Hardcover.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859. First Edition, First Printing. A Near Fine Hardcover. Best known as the author of Two Years Before the Mast, Dana only authored three books and this travelogue has significance as his travels were in 1859, while the U.S. Senate was considering whether the United States.....
Dayton, OH: Leach, Shewell & Sanborn, 1889. Hardcover.
Paris: Flammarion, Editeur, 1940. Hardcover.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1901. Hardcover. Later edition. Illustrated with tissue-guarded frontispiece and 3 more plates. 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.....
New York: Harper & Brothers Publisher, 1892. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Richard Harding Davis was an American journalist and writer of fiction and drama, known foremost as the first American war correspondent to cover the Spanish–American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War. His writing greatly.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1892. Illustrated by Frederic Remington. First Edition, First Printing. A Good Hardcover. In New York, acclaimed reporter Richard Harding Davis hopped a train westward, hoping to encounter the Wild West he had read so much about. This is his account of long train journey in.....
![Item #011625 Florida Days [19th Century North Florida Travelogue]. Margaret Deland](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/011625.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1647610066)
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1889. Illustrated by Louis K. Harlow. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. An early travel account in Northern Florida through St. Augustine and along the St. Johns River in the 1880s. The authors vivid reminiscences of the scenery, natural history, and the local.....
![Item #17271 The Validity of Marriages with a Wife's Sister, Celebrated Abroad [Theology] [English...](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/17271.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1696442431)
London: John W. Parker and Son, 1852. Pamphlet - Unbound. In the 19th century, England was embroiled in heated controversy over the idea of marriage to a deceased wife's sister, a practice deemed controversial within the strict religious and societal norms of Victorian society. The influential Church of England vehemently.....
Chicago: Manual Publishing Co, 1888. Hardcover.
![Item #17199 The High-Mettled Racer [18th Century English Racehorses] [Chapbook]. Charles Dibdin](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/17199.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1692905711)
London: William Kidd, 1831. Illustrations after Robert Cruikshank (1789-1856). First Edition, First Printing. Illustrated Wraps. Contains biographies of the most famous racehorses of the late 18th century including Eclipse, King Herold, Marsk, Forrester and others. Additionally, stories of famous races are included.From the title page: “by the late Charles Dibdin;.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. Second issue with mixed issue points. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club was the first novel by English author Charles Dickens. Because of his success with Sketches by Boz published in 1836, Dickens was asked by the publisher Chapman & Hall to supply descriptions.....
London: Folio Society, 2005. Illustrations by R.Seymour, R.W. Buss and Phiz. Hardcover in a Slipcase. Charles Dickens' first novel, written when he was 14, The Pickwick Papers holds a pivotal position in the evolution of the novel, marking a shift from serialized storytelling to a cohesive narrative form. It introduced.....
New York: Barse & Hopkins, c1912. Gift books, literary annuals, or keepsakes were 19th-century books, often lavishly decorated, which collected essays, short fiction, and poetry. They were primarily published in the autumn, in time for the holiday season and were intended to be given away rather than read by the.....
London: William Jackson Books, 1929. John Austen (1886-1948). Limited Edition. Hardcover. The novelist William Beckford appreciated the novel conveying the message to its author via a friend, 'Pray tell Disraeli that I have read, enjoyed, and admired his Infernal Marriage. The sly, dry humour of that most original composition is.....
![Item #16848 The Doings of Raffles Haw [Scientific Romance - Mad Scientist]. Conan A. Doyle](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/16848.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1683836874)
London: Cassell & Company, 1892. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth Hardcover. Doyle’s first scientific romance and In a review for White Dwarf #82, literary critic Dave Langford stated that "Doyle has an old and familiar tale to tell: The Well-Meaning (but Mad) Scientist who can Make Gold, yet finds out.....