Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1893. Illustrated by Howard Pyle, A collection of essays written by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. The essays were originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1857 and 1858 before being collected in book form.

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover in a Custom Box. The expedition proved that Franklin's ships had not been lost in Baffin's Bay. Much of the success of the voyage was due to the steam tenders, which, opened new prospects for.....

London: R.H. Porter, 1899. First Edition, First Printing. A Near Fine Hardcover. A remarkable account of an ambitious project, this book forms part of the nineteenth-century genre of scientific travel literature and contains still-relevant information about the Arctic environment.In 1895, naturalists Henry J. Pearson and Colonel H. W. Feilden sailed.....

Boston: , 1894: Roberts Brothers, 1894. 1st Edition. Hardcover.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1899. First Edition, First Printing. Description:Report to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution concerning the respective rights of European nations in the newly discovered territory, foreign policy toward the Indians, Colonial policy toward the Indians and United States policy toward the Indians. The report includes a......

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1882. Hardcover. All of the essays except the first were originally contributed to the North American review.Background Information:William Hickling Prescott was an American historian and Hispanist, who is widely recognized by historiographers to have been the first American scientific historian.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855. 1st Edition. Hardcover.

New York: National Temperance Society and Publication House, 1888. 1st Edition. Hardcover.

Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1905. Illustrations by Vawter, Will. Hardcover. James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet" and "Children's Poet" for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively. His poems tended to be humorous or.....

London: T. Cadell, 1830 & 1834. Full Leather Hardcovers. Rogers an English poet of the Romantic School is best remembered as a witty conversationalist and as a friend of greater poets. On Wordsworth’s death, in 1850, Rogers was offered the laureateship, which he refused.His visit to Italy in 1815 suggested.....

New York and London: Macmillan and Co & George Allen, 1896. Illustrations by Chris Hammond. Hardcover. Background Information:George Saintsbury was an English writer, literary historian, scholar and critic; the most influential English literary historian and critic of the early 20th century. His lively style and wide knowledge helped make his.....

[Bloomfield, N.J.] : New York: Scott & Bowne, 1894. Stapled Wraps. Scott & Bowne was a pharmaceutical company that produced cod-liver oil (Scott's Emulsion) and was located at 132-134 South Fifth Avenue, New York City, as well as in London and throughout Europe. The firm was established in 1873 by.....

New York: Brentano's, 1909. Very Good Hardcovers. Shaw was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He received the Nobel Prize in literature in 1925.