Browse by Date—1850–1899
Gunner Jingo's Jubilee
1893, first edition of T Bland Strange's entertaining military autobiography
Thomas Bland Strange
Remington & Co Ltd, London, 1893
£60.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Building News and Engineering Journal, Volume 47, July to December 1884
1000+ pages, profusely illustrated, including an early photo-lithograph of the Statue of Liberty
The Building News and Engineer
E J Kibblewhite for the Building News, London, 1884
£60.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Building News and Engineering Journal, Volume 45, July to December 1883
1000+ pages, profusely illustrated, a remarkable sourcebook of Victorian architecture
The Building News and Engineer
E J Kibblewhite for the Building News, London, 1883
£120.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, Volume 2
1885, ex-library but in strong readable condition
Charles Darwin
John Murray, London, 1885
£20.00
Natural History | Hard Cover
The Evolution of the English House
1898, first edition of S O Addy's history of domestic architecture
Sidney Oldall Addy
Swan Sonnenschein, London, 1898
£40.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | First Editions
Rambles Round London Town
1891, a late Victorian tour of London sights
C L Mateaux
Cassell, London, 1891
£20.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover
Water Analysis
1876, A Practical Treatise on the Examination of Potable Water
J Alfred Wanklyn, and Ernest Theophron Chapman, rewritten by J Alfred Wanklyn
Trubner & Co, London, 1876
£12.00
Science, Mathematics & Technology | Hard Cover
Popular Astronomy
1866, A Series of Lectures Delivered at Ipswich
George Biddell Airy
Macmillan, London, 1866
£25.00
Science, Mathematics & Technology | Hard Cover
Home Comfort: A Complete Manual of Domestic Economy
1876, in an impressive fine black velvet and engraved white metal binding
Jane Stoker
W Stewart & Co, London, 1876
£150.00
Food & Drink | Hard Cover | First Editions | Fine Bindings
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
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
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
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
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 | Bookplate
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
