19th Century Books

AUTHOR: DICKENS, Charles. TITLE: The Personal History of David Copperfield. (20 Parts in 19). PUBLISHER: London: Bradbury and Evans, May 1849 - November 1850. DESCRIPTION: FIRST ...

Whittaker, Frederick. A Popular Life of Gen. George A. Custer, Major-General of Volunteers, Brevet Major-General U.S. Army, and Lieutenant-Colonel Seventh U.S. Cavalry. New York: She...

This is an antique art reference book. An English, illustrated catalogue of the Marquis of Stafford's private collection, dating to the Georgian period, published 1818. Full Title: Engravings of the Most Noble, The Marquis of Stafford's Collections of Pictures in London, Arranged According to Schools and in Chronological Order with Remarks on Each Picture. By William John Otley. A controversial figure in later life, the Marquis of Stafford, George Granville Leveson-Gower - 1st Duke of Sutherland (1758 - 1833) was a patron of the arts, landowner, politician, diplomat and at times, the richest man in Britain. As part of the Leveson-Gower family of nobility, George was related to Dukes and Earls across the nation. Educated in Westminster and at Christ Church, Oxford, the later Marquis of Stafford was the Member of Parliament for Newcastle-Under-Lyme from 1779 - 1784 and the county of Staffordshire from 1787 - 1799. He also held positions as an Ambassador to France during their revolutionary years and held various other posts until his passing. A third volume representing the vast art collection of the Marquis of Stafford Leather bound with gilt titling and detail - some historical wear present Presented intact, with light ageing to pages commensurate with age Organised as descriptions with the related engraving assigned a figure number Part 1 featuring German, Flanders and Holland, with part 2 the Spanish, French and English Schools This is a fascinating antique art collection...

AUTHOR: [MISSAL]. TITLE: Paroissien romain contenant les offices de tous les dimanches et des principales fetes de l'annee. (Roman Parishioner Containing the Services of All Sunday...

FIRST EDITION Sandmann, František Xaver (1805-1856) Malerische Ansichten / Picturesque Views (of first railway lines in Slovenia); To commemorate the opening of the railway line from...

A superb copy of this sought-after fairy book by Andrew Lang, the first volume in his colourful series. The sought after first edition, first impression. ...

Presenting an extremely rare first edition hardback copy of The Seven Seas by Rudyard Kipling from 1897. This rare book is in fair to good condition for ...

19th Century wooden Bible box "Forget Me Not" with secret concealed compartment The four words in the corners are quite cute and charming: Danish...

London: T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1803. Third Edition. 12mo, 6 1/4 x 4 inches (160 x 114 mm); pp. xii + 202. Half-bound in tan calf with raised bands and gilt decorations, black l...

This is a large antique reference book, Monumenta Historica Britannica. Printed in English and multiple languages, a later bound encyclopaedia, dating to the Victorian period, published 1848. Full title: Monumenta Historica Britannica or Materials for the History of Britain from the Earliest Period to the end of the Reign of King Henry VII - Volume I. Superb collection of reference in English, Anglo-Saxon 'Old English' Latin and Welsh Charming lithograph engravings illustrate throughout Later professional binding in a quality green textile cover with gold tooled titling Pages intact, text perfectly legible - some colouration present Impressive proportion and weight at 6.52kg (14.3 lb) This is an fascinating large antique reference book, published by command of Queen Victoria. Presented in multiple languages including modern English, with a selection of charming illustrations and antique records...

Life in Paris; comprising the Rambles, Sprees, and Amours, of Dick Wildfire of Corinthian Celebrity, and his Bang-up Companions, Squire Jenkins and Captain O Shuttleton.... London: ...

This is a set of 4 antique botany books, the Flowers of Modern Voyages by William Adams. An English language botany record with maps, dating to th...

Villon, François, John Payne [translator/editor]. The Poems of Master François Villon of Paris; now first done into English verse, in the original forms, with a biographical and cri...

This is a set of 3 antique Badminton Library Books. An English language, hard bound reference title on sporting topics, dating to the late Victorian ...

This is a first edition copy of this book which has been bound in Red Morocco leather with beautiful gold tooling around the edges and to the spine. A breathtaking and informative bo...

One of the great 19th-century English color plate books illustrating the scenery along the Seine. Sauvan, Jean Baptiste Balthazar. Picturesque Tour of the Seine, from Paris to the Sea; with Particulars Historical and Descriptive. London: R. Ackermann, 1821. First Edition. 4to, 13 1/2 x 11 (343 x 280 mm), pp. x, 177, title vignette and 24 hand colored aquatints, map. Later three-quarter yellow levant morocco with fillets, spine decorated in gilt with 5 raised bands and black title label; marbled boards and endpapers, a.e.g.. Spine and boards in very good condition, binding tight and square, text and plates with very occasional spotting. [Abbey, Travel 90; Tooley 445; Bobins, Exotic and the Beautiful II: 548] Condition: Near fine. This is a first printing of one of the great nineteenth-century English color plate books illustrating the scenery along the Seine from Paris to Le Havre. Luminous impressions of the plates, beautifully hand-colored. Engraved by Thomas Sutherland (1785 – 1825) and Daniel Havell (1785 – 1826) from sketches and drawings by Augustus Pugin (1812 – 1852) and John Gendall (1790 – 1865), the illustrations also include a vignette on the title page representing the Château de Rosny (home of the Duchess of Berry...

Robertson, William, Frost, John. The History of the Discovery and Settlement of America, With an Account of His Life and Writings, To which are added Questions for the Examination of...

One of the most desirable of all nineteenth century color plate books. RARE. Morris, Richard. Flora Conspicua; A Selection of the most ornamental flowering, hard, exotic and indig...

AUTHOR: PEAKE, Richard Brinsley (Mary W. Shelley). TITLE: Presumption! Or The Fate of Frankenstein. Last Night... Of Mr. T. P. Cooke. This Present Evening, Saturday, March 9, 1833, will be performed the Celebrated Romance... Theatre-Royal, Edinburgh. PUBLISHER: Edinburgh, 1833. DESCRIPTION: THE LAST PERFORMANCE BY COOKE AT THE THEATRE-ROYAL EDINBURGH FOR 1833. Printed letterpress playbill/broadside, 11-3/16" x 7-5/8", laid down on early cardstock. CONDITION: Toning heaver around edges, all broadsides mentioning Cooke playing the Monster are scarce. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The play's author, Richard Brinsley Peake (1792-1847), was a prolific dramatist of the London popular theatre from 1818 until the time of his death. Presumption! appeared at the Lyceum (the English Opera House) in the late summer of 1823. During the autumn of the same year, other serious adaptations of Frankenstein appeared at the Royalty and the Coburg. The part of the Monster was taken by Thomas Potter...

AUTHOR: FIELD, Eugene. TITLE: The Works, Writings in Prose And Verse, of Eugene Field. PUBLISHER: NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. DESCRIPTION: LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY FIELD'...

This is an antique 4 volume set of The Waverley Novels by Sir Walter Scott. A Scottish, bound collection of literary interest, dating to the Victorian period, published 1868. A pro...

New shipment of over 200 leather bound books in English, photo's are of sets. Preconditioned as we fully condition all of our books before they go out. Also have an extensive collect...

Author: Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. Title: Valperga: or, The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca. Publisher: London: for G....

AUTHOR: FOX, John. TITLE: Trial of John Fox, for the Murder of John Henry, at the Special Term of the Middlesex over and Terminer, at New-Brunswick, N.J., May, 1856, Containing the...

Eighteen smart leather-bound volumes, containing the illustrated works of the enduringly popular Charles Dickens. Twenty-five works in eighteen volumes, bound in half morocco bindings, with gilt detailing to the spines and marbled end papers. Top edges gilt. A smart collection of Dickens' best-known works, full of his characteristically interesting and varied characters such as the unnerving Miss Havisham from Great Expectations, the loveable Artful Dodger in Oliver Twist, and the villainous Sir John in Barnaby Rudge. Also with Gilbert A...

Combe, William (uncredited). Illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern Provinces of France Shortly Before the Revolution; Embellished with Seve...

AUTHOR: POE, Edgar Allan. TITLE: The Works Of Edgar Allen Poe. PUBLISHER: London: A. & C. Black, 1899. DESCRIPTION: STANDARD EDITION. 4 vols., 7-1/2" x 5-1/4", engraved frontis p...

Author: Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin). Title: The Dramatic Works of Moliere. Publisher: NY: R. Worthington, 1880. Description: new edition revised. 3 vols., 8-11/16 x 6-...

This is an antique reference book, Old English Glasses. An English language, bound historical title by Albert Hartshorne, published in the late Victorian period, 1897. Full title: O...

AUTHOR: SPENSER, Edmund (J. Payne Collier - editor). TITLE: The Works Of Edmund Spenser. PUBLISHER: London: Bickers & Son, 1873. DESCRIPTION: 5 vols., 9" x 6-5/16", frontis portr...

The poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Four Volumes, 1882. London: Reeves and Turner, 1882. Revised edition with important, exceptionally bound gilt decorated Moroccan hardcov...

19th century German Baronship Document, Archduke Ludwig III of Hessen Outstanding document bound with threaded rope in crimson red leather with burnished 24-carat gold embossed. A...

3 Volumes. John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice. Second Edition. Bound in full brown morocco with the covers and raised band spines displaying gilt-tooling. All edges gilt with gilt-too...

Egerton, M. & George Hunt Here and There over the Water: Being Cullings in a Trip to the Netherlands. (The Field of Battle and Monuments - Waterloo, &c.) by Omnium Gatherum. London: George Hunt, 1825. 4to; 10 x 8 3/8 in. (253 x 212 mm); (2), 34 pp, 28 plates by George Hunt after M. Egerton, including 24 hand-colored engraved and aquatint plates and four plates (21-24) of Waterloo memorials uncolored. Modern half morocco binding, title gilt, spine sunned. Occasional offsetting from plates, otherwise a fine copy. [Abbey Travel 188; Tooley 207]. An uncommon aquatint work, illustrating a regency excursion to the Low Countries. Egerton was a humorous designer and social satirist active in London between 1820 and 1829, who supplied drawings to members of the print trade (including the Hunts and Pyall) for engraving. For this project he begins his tour at Ostend, where he was stuck for a day as it was a Sunday. He took time to describe the people's custom-house hotel and the 'Purgatory Gate' attached to the church (destroyed in a fire later in the nineteenth century) before traveling the next day by 'Great Coach' and barge to Ghent, observing the 'Belgic Military' various 'Diligences' and peasant costumes before continuing onto Brussels. Here he examined the Market Pavilion of the Prince of Orange before traveling on the next leg of the journey, which takes the artist once more to Ghent, where he describes and illustrates the Exchange. Egerton then returns to Brussels to view the Palace of Schoonenberg and then on to the main reason for his excursion: a trip to Waterloo, taking in all the main sites of the battle, including graves and monuments. Michael Egerton flourished between 1821 and 1828 and produced a number of caricatures, mainly of social comedy, sporting scenes, and jokes on the weather; almost all his work was engraved by George Hunt. OCLC records six copies in North America at Harvard Yale New York Public Library, Brown Claremont College, and the Art Institute of Chicago. "A tourist (Egerton) soars high above birds and the Channel, a vignetted strip of water which a steam-packet and sailing vessel are traversing. He is propelled by steam from a big Patent kettle strapped to his back; from a large spout in the form of a bird's head black smoke drifts behind him. He holds out in his right hand a pair of lazy-tongs, in his left he holds up a plaid travelling-bag marked O.G. He wears a round flat peaked cap, with fashionable white cuffs and collar to his shirt, and white strapped trousers. His legs drift behind him." [The British Museum, number A tourist (Egerton) soars high above birds and the Channel, a vignetted strip of water which a steam-packet and sailing vessel are traversing. He is propelled by steam from a big Patent kettle strapped to his back; from a large spout in the form of a bird's head black smoke drifts behind him. He holds out in his right hand a pair of lazy-tongs, in his left he holds up a plaid travelling-bag marked O.G. He wears a round flat peaked cap, with fashionable white cuffs and collar to his shirt, and white strapped trousers. His legs drift behind him.] Plates in order: 1. Frontis. Patent. [Flying over the Channel]. 2. Quay, Custom House & Hotel - Ostend. 3. The Purgatory Gate, Ostend. 4. Post Office - Ostend. 5. [Dandy chimney sweeper...

This is a set of 3 antique fiction books, Popular Tales by Maria Edgeworth. An English language, hard bound 3 volume set of novels, dating to the Georgian period, published 1814. A prolific novelist of adult and children's literature, Maria Edgeworth (1768 - 1849) was born in Oxfordshire before moving to Ireland. Her best-known work Castle Rackrent was an Irish Catholic...

12 Volumes. Lord Macaulay, History of England. Albany Edition. Limited to 250 copies of which this is 218. Bound in full red morocco with gilt tooling on the covers and raised band s...

Cruikshank, George (illus.), Apel (auth.) Der Freischütz Travestie. By Septimus Globus.; With twelve etchings by George Cruikshank, from drawings by an amateur; and the original tale...

The important and heavily revised second edition of Thomas Robert Malthus's discussion of the problems of a growing human population. First published in 1798, this is the substantia...

19th century Shakespeare 10 volumes, circa 1894 Edited by William Aldis Wright Macmillan and Co., London and New York Each volume measures 7" wide x 10.5" high Offered as...

This is a vintage folio A Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture. An unbound reproduction of the 18th century original by Sir William Cham...

1 Volume. John Brown, The Self-Interpreting Holy Bible. Bound in full black morocco with the covers and raised bands displaying gilt-tooled detailing. All edges gilt, gilt-tooled den...

4 Volumes. Cervantes, Don Quixote. Bound in full red morocco. Top edges gilt. Gilt-tooling on the covers and raised band spines. Embellished with engravings from pictures painted by ...

California Illustrated by J. M. Letts Published New York: R. T. Young, 140 Fulton Street. Later edition, published 1853. Rebound in 3/4 blue calf with marbleized boards and end paper...

Philadelphia: New York Publishing Company, 1892. First Edition Small 8vo., 7 3/8 x 5 inches (188 x 127 mm), pp. 180, printed on heavy laid paper and illustrated with a frontispiece ...

The book it´s in Spanish. Catalan Region Beautiful handmade engravings 996 pages.

Antique Japanese Oraimono book Edo period, circa 1833 Woodblock print book Book dimensions: 260 mm x 180 mm There are damages because it is antique item as we show on the photos.

AUTHOR: SMOLLETT, Tobias. TITLE: The Works Of Tobias Smollett. PUBLISHER: NY: Chas. Scribner's Sons, 1899. DESCRIPTION: 12 vols., 8-13/16" x 6-1/8"...

A beautiful edition of naval historian William James's detailed and richly illustrated history of the Royal Navy. A 'New Edition' of naval historian William James's impressive work,...

This antique 1st Edition book titled Martin Chuzzlewit was authored by Charles Dickens and published by Chapman and Hall of England in 1844 in the period Victorian style with 40 full page etchings by Hablot Knight Browne...

AUTHOR: BURTON, Richard. TITLE: The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night. PUBLISHER: London: H. S. Nichols, Ltd., 1897. DESCRIPTION: 12 vols., 1...

2 Volumes. Vizetelly, Henry. The Story Of The Diamond Necklace. (Short Story by Guy DeMaupassant) Bound in full blue morocco with an oval portrait under glass of Marie Antoinette and...

A wonderfully illustrated collection of important Roman views. Merigot, James A Select Collection of Views and Ruins in Rome and its Vicinity ; Recently Executed From Drawings Made ...

Antique Japanese History book Meiji era, circa 1878 Woodblock print book Book dimensions: 182 mm x 121 mm There are damages because it is antique item as we show on the photos.

This is the original and complete edition of the Classic. Contains all 60 plates.

This is an antique copy of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. An English, professionally bound literary classic, dating to the Victorian period, circa 1895 and later. Origin...

Combe, William (Dr. Syntax), & George Cruikshank The Life of Napoleon; A Hudibrastic Poem in Fifteen Cantos London: T. Tegg, 1817. George Cruikshank. First Edition, Second Printing...

Kane, Paul (1810-1871) Wanderings of an Artist Among the Indians of North America; From Canada to Vancouver Island and Oregon Through the Hud...

This is a 2 volume antique book set, The Lives of Scottish Poets. An English language biographical work, dating to the Regency period, published 1821....