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 #015111 [19th Century Handbill] Silvoceas The King of Fish. Maconochie Brothers](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/015111.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1647807404)
London and Lowestoft, England, Maconochie Brothers, 1880. No Binding. Background Information:Silvoceas is actually a preparation for herring developed by Maconchie Brothers. The handbill claims that they are supplied to the Queen and Prince of Wales.Maconochie Brothers was the largest tinned food manufacturer in the world during the late Victorian period.....
Guelph, Ont. The World Publishing Company, 1882. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. During the course of five separate surveys conducted between 1872 and 1881, the author examined the agricultural potential of various western regions and incorrectly concluded that all of the northwest was ideally suited for agriculture.....
Dublin: James Duffy, 1853. 2nd Edition. A Good Hardcover. Henry Grattan (1746 - 1820) was an Irish politician and member of the Irish House of Commons, who campaigned for legislative freedom for the Irish Parliament in the late 18th century.He has been described as a superb orator - nervous, high-flown.....
Chicago: Reilly & Britton Co, 1912. 1st Edition. Hardcover.
London: C. and R. Baldwin, 1807. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. .. intended to form the Danish youth to magnanimity valour generosity and other virtues by means of such models as the Danish history furnishes a competent acquaintance with the events of his country and the character.....
New York: Charles Scribner, 1856. Cloth Hardcover. Popular and sentimental the author's first book. A record of the author's travels to Europe. Throughout his life he showed a particular interest in agriculture and landscape gardening, which he followed at first in pursuit of health. These features are prominent in this.....
Roslyn, New York: Blacks' Reader Service, c1930. Hardcover.
London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1872. Illustrations by H. K. Brown [Phiz]. A Very Good Hardcover. A tale of London life in the mid-Victorian era focusing on street life in the manner of Lamb and Dickens. The expressed goal of this book is to "write a truthful.....
![Item #011171 [Crimean War] Recollections of a Zouave Before Sebastopol. Felix Maynard, Mrs....](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/011171.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1648380429)
London and New York: Hayes & Zell, 1856. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Personal memoir recounts the experience of a Zouave trumpeter in the Crimean War. In addition to descriptions of camp-life and combat, the narrative includes short discussions of Florence Nightingale and the Sisters of Charity.....
London: George Bell and Sons, 1895. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A very handsome little volume which delivers, completely in verse, instruction, the rules and how to behave when playing the game.Ref: D&J C30160; Murdoch 166; D&M 1020.Background Information:As a player, Mr McHardy was a long driver and an excellent.....
![Item #011035 [West Indies, Slavery, Cuba] The Cruise of the Montauk to Bermuda, The West Indies...](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/011035.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1648128226)
New York: Thomas R. Knox & CO., 1885. A Very Good Hardcover. The Montauk's cruise was from New York to the Caribbean, which set sail February 21, 1884 and returned May 3, 1884 stopping at Bermuda, St. Kitt's, St. Pierre, Martinique, Trinidad, Curacao, Jamaica, Cuba, Havana and Florida. An interesting.....
London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Finely Bound Hardcover. Our Village is a collection of about 100 literary sketches of rural life written by Mary Russell Mitford, and originally published during the 1820s and 1830s. The series first appeared in The Lady's Magazine. The full title is.....
London: Macmillan and Company, 1910. Illustrations by Alfred Rawlings & Hugh Thomson. Hardcover. Mary Russell Mitford's "Our Village", is comprised of a series of sketches of English country life during the Edwardian Age.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1881. Illustrations by Walter Crane. First Edition, First Printing. A Near Fine Hardcover. Mrs Molesworth is best known as a writer of books for the young, known as "the Jane Austen of the nursery." She typified late Victorian writing for girls. Aimed at girls too old.....
New York: Charles Scribner, 1859. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth Hardcover. An early chess teaching book considered to be the first complete guide to the study of the game of chess published in the English Language, eight years after the first modern chess tournament was held in London in 1851.....
![Item #17200 The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore. Complete in One Volume [Romanticism] [Irish]....](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/17200.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1692993350)
London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1863. Leather Hardcover. Thomas Moore, a prominent figure of British Romanticism, resonated with the artistic spirit of his era. He is primarily remembered by the Irish, who cherish his songs and claim him as their own. A gifted lyricist, musician, satirist, and advocate.....
London: The Folio Society, 1978. Hardcover.
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1903. Ben Marshall, Henry Alken, Wolstenholme, R. B. Davis. Wm. Webb, H. D. Chalon, James Ward, R.A., etc. A Very Good Hardcover. Background:Charles James Apperley (1777 - 19 May 1843), English sportsman and sporting writer, better known as Nimrod, the pseudonym under which he.....
London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, 1926. Illustrations by Numerous Contemporary Artists. Hardcover.
Edinburgh: Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1806. 1st Edition. Soft cover in modern boards. The Grampian Mountains are one of the three major mountain ranges in Scotland, occupying a considerable portion of the Scottish Highlands in northern Scotland. The other major mountain ranges in Scotland are the Northwest Highlands and the.....
New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1873. Darley, Felix Octavius Carr ; Holl, Frank. No Binding.
New York: Harper's Weekly, 1878. Illustration by Frenzeny, P. [Paul]. Paul Frenzeny was born in France in 1840. He is said to have joined the French cavalry in Mexico. He and Jules Tavernier were commissioned by the American magazine Harper's Weekly to Travel from the East Coast to the West.....
New York and Chicago: Ivison, Blakeman and Company, 1883. Hardcover.
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.
New York: A. L. Burt Company, cp 1898. Reprint Edition. A Very Good Hardcover. The Grey Dog of Kenmuir, also titled Bob, Son of Battle for US editions, is a children's book by English author Alfred Ollivant. It was published in 1898 and became popular in the United Kingdom and.....