1830s Books

AUTHOR: WASHINGTON, George, edited by Jared Sparks. TITLE: The Writings of George Washington: Beings His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private...

AUTHOR: DICKENS, Charles TITLE: Memoirs of Grimaldi. PUBLISHER: London: Richard Bentley, 1838. DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION EXTRA ILLUSTRATED. 2 vols., 8-1/16" x 5-1/8", engraved f...

A beautifully bound set of the collected works of Robert Burns, a wonderful example of the poetry of the National Bard, complete with illustrations throughout. In a half crushed morocco binding with marbled paper to the boards by W. Worsfold and C. P. Putnam's Sons of London. Complete in eight volumes. A collection of the poems of Robert Burns. Burns is the national poet of Scotland, and is a widely celebrate author. He wrote mostly in the Scots language, and is best known for his poem 'Auld Lang Syne...

AUTHOR: GIBBON, Edward. TITLE: The History of The Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire. PUBLISHER: London: For T. Cadell, 1838. DESCRIPTION: NEW EDITION. 8 vols., 8-5/8" x 5-5/8"...

Antique leather bound Holy Bible, published by Morgan and Sanxay of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1834. Morgan and Sanxay published the first bible in Ohio in 1830.

34 Volumes. Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Library Edition. Bound in full tan calf with covers bordered in gilt. Raised band spines w...

3 Volumes. John Carne, Syria, The Holy Land, Asia Minor. First Edition. Bound in 3/4 purple morocco and ornately detailed linen boards. Raised band spine wi...

4 Volumes. James Browne, A History of the Highlands and of the Highland Clans. First Edition. Bound in full tan calf with diced boards bordered in gilt. Raided band spines with panel...

AUTHOR: Shelley, Mary. TITLE: Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus, Revised, Corrected, and Illustrated with a New Introduction by the Author ...

AUTHOR: DICKENS, Charles. TITLE: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. PUBLSIHER: London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1839. DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION BOUND FROM THE PART...

The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America: Together with the Psalter, or Psalms of David. New York: Louis Sherman, 1839. 12mo. Full Moroccan leather binding with three flat-raised bands, gilt titles and stamps to spine, gilt tooling and owner’s name gilt-stamped to front board. With a new archival cloth slipcase. Presented is The Book of Common Prayer, printed in 1839, and previously owned and used by a Civil War sailor. The book was owned by Henry B. Woodbridge (1825-1862), as indicated by the ownership inscription, dated 1840, and Woodbridge’s name gilt stamped on the front boards. The prayer book also includes a note from Woodbridge’s daughter explaining how the book belonged to her father and was “used by him through the Civil War and returned to my mother with his uniform.” Henry Woodbridge was a Paymaster in the U.S. Navy, one of the first appointments in the Navy after President Lincoln was inaugurated. He was assigned to the brig USS Bainbridge, which was ordered to the Gulf of Mexico as part of the East Coast blockading squadron. The USS Bainbridge sailed for Aspinwall in September of 1862, and Woodbridge remained on that station, until his death later that year. A permanent feature of the Church of England's worship and a key source for its doctrine, the Book of Common Prayer contains the written liturgies for almost any service that would be held at an Anglican church. The original Book of Common Prayer, published in 1549 in the reign of Edward VI, was a product of the English Reformation following the break with Rome. This was soon succeeded by a more reformed revision in 1552 under the same editorial hand, that of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury. In 1604, James I ordered further changes, the most significant of these being the addition to the Catechism of a section on the Sacraments. Following the tumultuous English Civil War, another major revision was published in 1662, and that edition has remained the official prayer book of the Church of England. Together with the King James Bible...

The Gallery of Portraits: With Memoirs, Volume III, by Arthur Thomas Malkin. London: Charles Knight, 1834. 1st Ed hardcover leather and board. A interesting...