Browse by Date—1850–1899
Paul Cuffee, The Black Hero
c1880, a Victorian account of the African American businessman, whaler and abolitionist
Not stated
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Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover
Silas Marner, The Weaver of Raveloe
A reading copy of the 1861 first edition
George Eliot
William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh & London, 1861
£35.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Wayside and Woodland Blossoms
1896, first edition of the Second Series
Edward Step
Frederick Warne & Co, London, 1896
£20.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | First Editions
A Synopsis of the British Diatomaceae
1853 & 1856, first edition, with 7 colour & 62 black and white plates
The Rev. William Smith, illustrated by Tufffen West
Smith and Beck, London, 1853
£250.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
The Seven Champions of Christendom
1861, decorative binding and illustrated by Edward H Corbould
Richard Johnson, illustrated by Edward H Corbould
Griffin, Bohn & Co, London, 1861
£30.00
History | Hard Cover | First thus
Henry Ponsonby, 1870 signed envelope with royal seal in black wax
and two cabinet card portraits of Ponsonby, Private Secretary to Queen Victoria
Henry Ponsonby
Not Published, Windsor, 1870
£50.00
Ephemera | Hard Cover
Original photograph: Tarporley, Cheshire 1886
showing two ladies, a horse and cart, and a pug by an ostlers
Not stated
Not stated, Tarporley, 1886
£20.00
Ephemera | Hard Cover
A Biography of David Cox; with remarks on his Works and Genius
1881, first edition of this study of the Birmingham artist David Cox
William Hall, edited, with additions, by John Thackray Bunce
Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co, London, 1881
£25.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions
Blackberries
Am 1893 edition of William Allingham's verse
William Allingham
Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1893
£25.00
Poetry | Hard Cover
Lectures on Art
1882, 1st edition, William Morris, E J Poynter et al...
William Morris, with Reginald Stuart Poole, Prof W B Richmond, J T Micklethwaite, and E J Poynter, RA
Macmillan, London, 1882
£20.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Best Plays of the Old Dramatists: Philip Massinger, Volume One
1887, with the bookplate of MCC wicket-keeper and Oxford rower Joseph William Chitty
Arthur Symons, editor
Vizetelly & Co, London, 1887
£12.00
Drama | Hard Cover | First Editions
Church Music in the Metropolis
1884, first edition, a study of London's church music
Charles Box
William Reeves, London, 1884
£30.00
Music | Hard Cover | First Editions
Reminiscences of the Opera
1864, the memoirs of Her Majesty's Theatre owner Benjamin Lumley
Benjamin Lumley
Hurst & Blackett, London, 1864
£70.00
Music | Hard Cover | First Editions
A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe
c1880, a fairly poor reading copy.
John MacGregor
Sampson Low, Marston & Co, London, 1880
£15.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover
Poems and Prose by The Penge Poet
1899, the poetry of Joseph Gwyer, one of the world's worst poets
Joseph Gwyer, the Penge Poet
F Perraton, London, 1899
£60.00
Poetry | Hard Cover
Euphues, The Anatomy of Wit (1579)
and Euphues and his England (1580), published 1868 in Arber's English Reprint series
John Lyly, carefully edited by Edward Arber
Alex Murray & Son, London, 1868
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | First thus
Language and Poetry of Flowers
1857, an early edition of this charming miniature Victorian book
Miss S C Edgarton
Thomas Nelson, London, 1857
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Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover
A Harmony of the Essays, etc
1871, Arber's English reprint of all Francis Bacon's 58 essays
Francis Bacon, arranged by Edward Arber
Not stated (Edward Arber), London, 1871
£60.00
Essays | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound | First thus
A La Recherche du Bonheur
1885, sixth edition signed by Scottish educationalist Sophie Weisse
Leo Tolstoy, as Comte Leon Tolstoi, traduit et precede d'une preface par M E Halperne
Perrin et Cie, Paris, 1885
£25.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
The Golden Sceptre
1899, a Ruritanian thriller romance
Gerald H Thornhill
C Arthur Pearson, London, 1899
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
Letters from Head-Quarters; or, the Realities of the War in the Crimea
1857, including an eye-witness account of The Charge of the Light Brigade
Somerset John Gough Calthorpe, as An Officer of the Staff
John Murray, London, 1857
£40.00
Military & War | Hard Cover
Book of Common Prayer & Proper Lessons
c1860, beautifully bound leather set in leather carry case
Common Prayer
George E Eyre & William Spottiswoode, London, 1860
£120.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
Six Plantations Songs (Volumes 1 & 2)
c1893, first edition of Alfred Scott-Gatty's popular songs
Alfred Scott-Gatty
Boosey & Co, London, 1893
£20.00
Music | Soft Cover | First Editions
A Frenchman in America (Signed copy)
1891, Signed by Max O'Rell in 1894
Max O'Rell, pseud of Léon Pierre Blouet, illustrated by E W Kemble
J W Arrowsmith, Bristol, 1891
£30.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Superb 1880s album of albumen prints of Milan, Verona and Venice
Photographs by V Florianello, Giacomo Brogi and Fratelli Alinari
V Florianello, and Giacomo Brogi and Fratelli Alinari
Not stated, 1880
£200.00
Photography | Hard Cover