1820s Books

By George Howard. A lovely and finely bound first edition work on the Lady Jane Grey and her life and times, a smart extra illustrated copy with a total of thirty-three plates. Th...

AUTHOR: PLANCHE, James Robinson. TITLE: The Vampire; or, The Bride of The Isles. A Romantic Melo-Drama, in Two Acts: Proceeded by An Introductory Vision. As Performed at The Theatr...

AUTHOR: SHELLEY, Mary. TITLE: PRESUMPTION! Or, The Fate Of Frankenstein. Third Night of New Ballad Opera. Theatre Royal, English Opera House, Strand...

2 Volumes. Museo Borbonico, Raccolta de Monumenti più Interessanti. Bound in full green morocco with very ornate gilt-tooled border details. Raised bands gilt with panels displaying ...

Torrey, Jr. Jesse. A Mental Museum for the Rising Generation. With an Appendix, Containing the Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the First Free Circulating Library &c. : Designed for the Middle Classes of Readers in American Schools and Families. Adapted to American Customs and Manners, and Proposed as a Substitute for Foreign Compilations Or Reading Lessons. Philadelphia: Thomas Desilver, 1829. 16mo. In original gilt stamped leather and paper boards with a new archival slipcase. This is a first edition printing of Jesse Torrey Jr.’s "A Mental Museum for the Rising Generation." Published in Philadelphia by Thomas Desilver in 1829, this beautiful book is presented in its original gilt stamped leather and paper boards. Divided into three sections, this book was “designed for the middle classes of Readers in American Schools and Families.” Collectors will appreciate this prime example of early childhood educational text, as well as consider it for its Appendix, which includes very early printings of "The Declaration of Independence," "The Constitution of the United States," and the "Constitution of the First Free Circulating Library." "A Mental Museum for the Rising Generation" was one of several books written by Torrey to entertain, instruct, and edify children and young adults. The book is divided into three parts, as indicated on the title page, “PART I - Familiar conversations on Natural History and the Universe, Reflections on Providence, etc. Part II - Lessons calculated to excite a taste for Reading and Mental Improvement - on Industry, Economy, Preservation of Health, etc. Part III - Various Instructive and Entertaining Articles and Poetry.” The Appendix contains a very early printing of "The Declaration of Independence" and the "Constitution of the United States", as well as the "Constitution of the First Free Circulating Library." Jesse Torrey, Jr., (1787 – 1834) was an American physician, writer, and ardent advocate for abolition, the American education system, and free public libraries. Torrey is most celebrated as an abolitionist who gathered first-hand narratives of African Americans and eye-witness accounts by white observers of slavery and kidnapping. He published these, along with his personal observations, in an early 1817 anti-slavery book, "A Portraiture of Slavery in the United States." Torrey also wrote juvenile guides to moral philosophy, natural history and government. Torrey argued that young readers were important to the early American imagination of its populace, both in terms of the reading public and the broader national community of citizens. He believed that children were not merely witnesses to American history and governance, but rather young reading practices played a crucial role in establishing a free, educated, and engaged populace. To this end, Torrey was the founder of the free public library movement in the United States. In 1804, at the age of 16, he established the Library of the “New Lebanon...

Author: WEBB, Jane ( Mrs. John Claudius Loudon ). Title: The Mummy ! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century. Publisher: London: Henry Colburn, 1828. Description: Second edition. 3 vols., 7-5/8" x 5", bound in 19th C. 1/2 tan calf, rebacked somewhat recently, gilt lettered red morocco spine labels. Condition: Internally clean and bright with minimal foxing, a VERY GOOD copy. Housed in a brown cloth clamshell slipcase, with a printed paper spine label. Additional information: The text of the second edition, like the first edition, was also published anonymously, but differs substantially from that of the 1827 first edition. "The Mummy" is one of the three most important British science fiction novels published during the early nineteenth century, the others being Mary Shelley...

1826 Works of Francis Bacon. 10 Volume set.

Goodrich, Charles. Lives of the SIgners of the Declaration of Independence. New York: William Reed & Co., 1829. 12mo. Presented in its original leather bo...

An attractive set of the complete works of Lord Byron in 7 half green morocco leather bindings with gilt lettering and tooling on raised leather...

4 Volumes. M.Savary. Memoirs Of The Duke Rovigo(Written By Himself). Illustrative Of The History Of Emperor Napoleon. Bound in 3/4 green morocco, marbled boards and endpapers, top ed...

William Shakespeare. The Plays. A History Of The Stage, And A Life of Shakespeare By Alexander Chalmers 9 volumes Bound in 3/4 brown Morocco, cloth boards, marbled edges, rais...

This is a wonderful collection of twenty-four magnificent framed plaster Grand Tour intaglios, wonderfully arranged in two panels of a scholar's book, circa 1820 in date. This impressive set of...