The Works of A. Conan Doyle: One Volume Edition
Roslyn, New York: Blacks' Reader Service. Hardcover.
19th CENTURY PUBLICATIONS
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.
Johnnie Courteau and Other Poems
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1909. A Good Hardcover. William Henry Drummond was an Irish-born Canadian poet whose humorous dialect poems made him "one of the most popular authors in the English-speaking world," and "one of the most widely-read and loved poets" in Canada.
The Splendid Advantages of Being a Woman and Other Erratic Essays
New York: Lovell: Adam, Wesson & Company, 1876. 1st Edition. Hardcover.
The Works of Ralpf Waldo Emerson: One Volume Edition
Roslyn, New York: Blacks' Reader Service, 0[No Date: circa 1930]. Hardcover.
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The History of Magic [Bohn’s Scientific Library]
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854. First English Translation. Two Fine Leather-bound Volumes. Joseph Ennemoser was a German doctor and scientist, noted for his use of magnetism and hypnosis. He was a forerunner of Freud in his belief in the connection between the mind and physical health, and his interest in.....
The Planter's and Mariner's Medical Companion
Philadelphia: Printed by John Bioren, 1807. First Edition. Leather Hardcover. First Published in Philadelphia, 1807, it was widely sold in the South and West, and ran into ten editions. With its pleasant mingling of poetical quotations, anecdotes, sentiment and sound practical counsel, it was a valued possession on isolated plantations.....
Observations Made At Paris During The Peace; And Remarks In A Tour From London To Paris Through Picardy, ……. That May Amuse The Mind Of The Curious And Scientific.
London: Robinson, and Longman and Rees, 1803. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Edmund John Eyre was an English dramatist who left university to join a theater troupe. He became first a comedian, then an actor who appeared at Drury Lane. Full Title: Observations Made At Paris During.....
Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Map of Cuba and The Bahama Islands
Philadelphia: Published by Carey & Lea, 1822. Drawn by Fielding Lucas, Jr. (1781-1854). One of the most detailed maps of the Bahama Islands to appear in a Commercial Atlas. Lengthy narrative text below includes details about the islands, climates, towns, soils, government and history of each.Carey & Lea's Atlas is.....
Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Map of Hispaniola, or St. Domingo.
Philadelphia: Published by Carey & Lea. c.1822. Fielding Lucas, Jr. "The best atlas of early nineteenth century America."With the French part of the island, to the west, shown in pink and the Spanish part in yellow. With the history of unrest on the island described in the text below the.....
The Transvaal From Within, A Private Record of Public Affairs
New York: Frederick Stokes Company, 1899. Hardcover.
Madame Bovary: A Storey of Provincal Life
Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1979. Malcolm Liepke. Hardcover.
An Introductory History of England; 4 Volumes; Earliest Times to 1815
London: John Murray, 1909. Near Fine Leather-bound Volumes. Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher was an English historian a strong Conservative, imperialist and Protestant Anglican. Fletcher said democracy was still on trial in Britain and that the King would be obliged to dismiss any government that tried to reduce the size of.....
A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago. A Narrative of Travel and Exploration From 1878 to 1883.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885. Illustrations by J.B. Gibbs. First Edition, First Printing. A Near Fine Hardcover. The British zoologist H.O. Forbes (1851-1932) travelled from the Keeling Islands through Indonesia between 1878-1883. He visited Java, South-Sumatra, the Moluccas and New Guinea. Giving in addition to a general travel-account, special.....
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[Trappist Monk, Founder De La Trappe D’Aiguebelle] Vie du R. P. Dom Etienne. (Pierre-Francois De Paule Malmy) Foundateur Et Abbe De La Trappe D’Aiguebelle
Paris: Auguste Vaton, Libraire, Avignon, 1841. First Edition, First Printing. Quarter Leather. Aiguebelle Abbey is a Trappist monastery located in Montjoyer and Réauville, in the Drôme region of France, near the borders of Dauphiné and Provence.Initially, this site held a Benedictine monastery established in 1045 by Hugues Adhemar, who was.....
The Plays of John Galsworthy
London: Duckworth, 1929. 2nd Edition. A Near Fine Hardcover. John Galsworthy OM was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include "The Forsyte Saga" (1906-1921) and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932.
Recreations Philologiques, ou Reguell de Notes Pour Servir a l'historie des mots de la Langue Francaise - Tome Second
Paris: Chamerot, Librairep-Editeur, 1858. Hardcover.
An American Student Abroad from the letters of James F. Magee.
Philadelphia: The Magee Press, 1932. Robert R. Murray. Limited Edition. Hardcover.
Facts and Opinions. Tending to Shew The Scriptural Lawfulness of Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister and the Consequent Necessity for its Legalization in England
London: Marriage Law Reform Association, 1859. Disbound and still stitched. In the 19th century, England saw significant controversy surrounding the concept of marrying a deceased wife's sister, primarily due to the prevailing religious and societal norms of the time. This issue presented Victorian society with complex religious, moral, and social.....
Shakespeare Commentaries
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1890. Hardcover. The author, German historian, regarded Shakespeare as its ‘necessary complement’. This work had its genesis in the period of disappointment following the failure of the 1848 revolution, and recommended its readers to draw ethical strength from the British playwright; it became one of.....
Eye Spy; Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1897. First Edition, First Printing. collection of nature observations, penned and illustrated by American illustrator and naturalist William Hamilton Gibson.
Lectures and Essays on Irish Other Subjects
New York: D. & J. Sadlier & CO., 1869. A Good Hardcover. Henry Giles after moving to the United Sates in 1840 wrote, lectured and was well-received. He was a Unitarian minister born in County Wexford to a Roman Catholic family, Giles changed his religious belief several times, becoming a......
She Stoops to Conquer or the Mistakes of a Night
New York: Heritage Press, 1962. Illustration by T. M. Cleland, Hardcover in Slipcase. She Stoops to Conquer is a comedy by Oliver Goldsmith, first performed in London in 1773. The play is a favourite for study by English literature and theatre classes in the English-speaking world. It is one of.....
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Poems by Thomas Grey [Eton College Leaving Book]
[Eton, England]: Printed at the Eton College Press, 1894. Full Leather. This is a prize book for students leaving Eton, with certificate printed before half-title. Signed by Headmaster Edmond Warre (1884-1905) to Jacob (James) Colin Dundas (1883-1966) He retired from a military career to participate in as a Magistrate in.....
A Treatise on Surveying, Containing the Theory and Practice: To Which is Prefixed a Perspicuous System of Plane Trigonometry
Philadelphia: Kimber and Sharpless, 1843. A Very Good Hardcover. John Gummere though self-taught was one of the most eminent mathematicians of during the late 18th and early 19th century in the United States. He was a keen astronomer and one of the founders of Haverford College in Pennsylvania. His surveying.....
Maiwa's Revenge; or, The War of the Little Hand
London and New York: Longmans, Green, 1888. First Edition, First Printing. A Good Hardcover. The further adventures of Allan Quartermain, Haggard's recurrent adventurer-hero. Simultaneously issued in cloth and boards, the boards issue being the much less common of the two. The fourth book in the Allan Quatermain series. Before there.....