Browse by Date—1850–1899
Mr John Carnegie's Application and Declaration Relating to Land at Fish Creek
An report from the Australian Government into land acquisition in Victoria
Australian Government
John Ferres, Melbourne, 1885
£30.00
History | Soft Cover | First Editions
Madame de Maintenon d'apres sa Correspondance Authentique (Signed copy)
Signed by Mathieu Auguste Geffroy, with a handwritten letter
Mathieu Auguste Geffroy
Librairie Hatchette et Cie, Paris, 1887
£80.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Leather Bound
Our Little Sunbeams
1896, with the bookplate of the illustrator, Kenneth M Skeaping
Alice F Jackson, illustrated by Kenneth M Skeaping
Jarrold and Sons, London, 1896
£30.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions | Association Copy
Strange Tales from "Vanity Fair"
c1875, by Silly Billy, 28 short sketches, and with ownership signature of Horace Pym
Silly Billy, pseud Eustace Clare Grenville-Murray
"Vanity Fair" Office, London, 1875
On Hold
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Army List for June 1851
A record of ranks, promotions, deaths, army, marines, ordnance etc etc
War Office
Parker, Furnivall, and Parker, London, 1851
£20.00
Military & War | Soft Cover
The Healing Waters of Israel
or, The Story of Naaman the Syrian. 1873, first edition.
John Ross Macduff
James Nisbet & Co, London, 1873
£30.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
1891, a decent Victorian pocket edition of a Gothic masterpiece
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
George Routledge & Sons, London, 1891
Sold
Fiction | Hard Cover
Contes Populaires Berberes, Recuillis, Traduits et Annotes
The myths, legends and poems of the North African Berbers
Rene Basset
Ernest Leroux, Paris, 1887
£40.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | First Editions
Collins' Derbyshire and its Railways
A folding hand-coloured map from the 1850s/1860s
Not stated
H G Collins, London, 1860
£25.00
Transport | Soft Cover | First Editions
Chroniques et Legendes des Rues de Paris
1864, the first French edition
Eduoard Fournier
E Dentu, Paris, 1864
£30.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
The Management of Grass Land
1881, with the bookplate of Blackburn confectioner James Boyle
Arthur Roland, edited by William H Ablett
Chapman & Hall, London, 1881
£20.00
Farming & Agriculture | Hard Cover | First Editions | Association Copy
The True Crime of Christmas
1897, an early crime novel set in Paris
P Hay Hunter
Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, Edinburgh, 1897
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
William Morris, His Art, Writings and Public Life
1898, with the bookplate of The Burlington Fine Arts Club
Aymer Vallance
George Bell & Sons, London, 1898
Sold
Art | Hard Cover
The Clergy List for 1890
An alphabetical guide to vicars, deacons, parishes, etc
Not stated
J S Phillips, London, 1890
£40.00
Genealogy | Hard Cover
Kelly's Directory of Cumberland 1894
Professionally rebound, complete with folding map
Kelly's Directories
Kelly & Co, London, 1894
£50.00
Genealogy | Hard Cover
Kelly's Directory of Hampshire, Wiltshire and Dorsetshire 1895
Professionally rebound, with three maps
Kelly's Directories
Kelly & Co, London, 1895
Sold
Genealogy | Hard Cover
Modeste Mignon
1899, limited edition, the fifth story in Balzac's Scènes de la vie privée (Scenes of Private Life)
Honore de Balzac, translated into English by Gertrude Christian Fosdick. With five etchings by Eugene Decisy after paintings by Pierre Vidal
Leonard Smithers, London, 1899
£12.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Limited Editions | First thus
Odd Bits of History (Signed copy)
Signed by Henry William Wolff, founder of the International Co-operative Alliance
Henry William Wolff
Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1894
£15.00
Essays | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Miser, Ricketicketack
1855, early English printings
Hendrik Conscience
Lambert & Co, London, 1855
£12.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
Annals of the Lords of Warrington and Bewsey from 1587 to 1833
When Warrington Became a Parliamentary Borough. In Two Parts, 1. Warrington, 2. Bewsey, with Notices of Historical and Local Events
William Beamont
Charles Simms & Co, Manchester, 1873
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
Le Manuscrit de Ma Mere
Alphonse de Lamartine's editing of his mother's diary in a half-vellum binding
Alphonse De Lamartine
Libraire Hachette, Paris, 1886
£30.00
Autobiography & Biography | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings
Seven Charles Kingsley titles in Truslove & Hanson leather bindings
1897–1900; Poems, Yeast, Hypatia, Westward Ho, Two Years Ago, Hereward the Wake, and Alton Locke
Charles Kingsley
Macmillan, London, 1897
£60.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound
From London Bridge to Lombardy by a Macadamised Route
1869, the first edition
W R Richardson, illustrated by Sydney Prior Hall
Sampson, Low, Son & Marston, London, 1869
£50.00
Travel & Exploration | Hard Cover | First Editions
My Little Lady
Eleanor Frances Poynter's first novel
Eleanor Frances Poynter, but published anonymously
Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig, 1871
£12.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First thus
Queens of Song
Signed by Dr Fordyce Barker to American soprano Clara Louise Kellogg
Ellen Creathorne Clayton
Harper & Brothers, New York, 1865
£100.00
Music | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
