Browse by Date—1800–1849
The New Bath Guide (1807)
Christopher Anstey's satire of the Blunderhead family navigating Bath society
Christopher Anstey, published anonymously
John Browne, Bath, 1807
£30.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Illustrated
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (1828)
A lovely half-leather copy of Samuel Johnson's philosophical romance
Samuel Johnson
John Sharpe, London, 1828
£40.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Illustrated
Treatises on Architecture and Building (1832)
William Hosking's text from the Encyclopaedia Britannia, with 27 plates
William Hosking
Adam Black, Edinburgh, 1832
£40.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | Illustrated
The English Counties Delineated (1837 first edition)
Thomas Moule's topographical guide to the counties in two volumes, with 62 maps and engravings
Thomas Moule
George Virtue, London, 1837
£200.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound | Illustrated
The New British Traveller; or, a Modern Panorama of England and Wales
1819, volume 1, Bedfordshire to Cumberland, with 8 maps and 10 engraved plates
James Dugdale
J Robins, London, 1819
£70.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | First thus | Illustrated
J M W Turner, View of Hythe, Kent (1824)
A framed and glazed hand-coloured engraving from 1826
J M W Turner, engraved by George Cooke
John and Arthur Arch et al, London, 1826
£40.00
Artwork | Hard Cover | Framed | Illustrated
The "Hungry Forties" 35 Original Handwritten Family Letters (1840s)
A rare Victorian phonetic record of daily life, health, and hardship during the late 1840s and early 1850s
The Guest and Wilding Families, Kirkdale, Liverpool
Not Published, Liverpool, Chorley, Withnell, 1848
£300.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten
Sammelband: A collection of 13 rare 19th & 20th century pamphlets
including the SS Great Eastern in Liverpool, Banting's Letter on Corpulence, and British Israelism with hand-coloured map. 1817 to c1908
Various, including William Banting, M. Le Comte de Montalembert, and Lewis's of Liverpool
Various, London, Leeds etc, 1817
Sold
Collections | Hard Cover | Mixed Editions
A Practical Treatise on the Breeding Cow (1844)
A 19th century livestock breeding guide. Hardback, rebound, with thirteen fold-out plates
Edward Skellett
Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, London, 1844
£60.00
Farming & Agriculture | Hard Cover | Illustrated
Legends and Stories of Ireland (1832, 2nd edition)
Samuel Lover's tales from Irish folklore, ghosts and the supernatural
Samuel Lover, with six etchings by the Author
W F Wakeman, Dublin, 1832
£70.00
Mythology, Customs & Folklore | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
Paymaster-in-Chief Alfred Whitehouse: Original Royal Navy Commissions (1850–1907)
Including two original commissions, 1850 & 1858 and handwritten record of service
Alfred Whitehouse. Paymaster-in Chief of the Royal Navy
The Office of Admiralty, London, 1847
£150.00
Ephemera | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | Handwritten
An Act Relating to the Relief of the Poor (Scotland) 1845
Rebound hardback in plain blue cloth
Not stated
William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, 1848
£15.00
History | Hard Cover
Observations on Various Passages of Scripture (1808)
Clarke's Harmer, volume 3 only, with chapters on honouring the dead, Judea and Egypt
Adam Clarke, from the writings of The Rev Thomas Harmer
J Johnson, London, 1808
£12.00
Religions, Beliefs & Spirituality | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
Hand-coloured engraving Yarmouth, with Nelson's Monument
c1840, a fine view from the Lowestoft Road, framed and glazed
W H Bartlett, artist, engraved by H. Griffiths
Not stated, London, 1840
£20.00
Artwork | Hard Cover | Framed
A Pronouncing Gaelic Dictionary
1845, 2nd edition of Neil McAlpine's Gaelic Dictionary and grammar
Neil McAlpine
Printed for the Author(s), Edinburgh, 1845
£25.00
Language | Hard Cover
On the Cure of Piles, Fistula, Hoemorrhoidal Excrescences, Tumours and Strictures
1844, hardback. S J Van Butchell's treatments and cases
S J Van Butchell
H Renshaw, London, 1844
£40.00
Health & Medicine | Hard Cover
L'Algérie [Algeria]
Volumes 2 & 3 of Baron Baude's 1841 study of Algeria
Baron Jean Jacques Baude
Meline, Cans et Compagnie, Bruxelles et Leipzig, 1841
£40.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
The Omnipresence of The Deity, A Poem
1828, fifth edition in the same year as the first edition of this popular religious poem
Robert Montgomery
Samuel Maunder, London, 1828
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
An Historical and Descriptive Account of The Coast of Sussex
1833, with delightful hand-coloured plates
J D Parry
Printed for The Author by Wright & Son, Brighton, 1833
£60.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound
Oeuvres de Crebillon
1812, in a Simier R. du Roi binding, and plates by Clement Marillier
Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon
P Didot L'Aine, Paris, 1812
£30.00
Drama | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Bookplate
The New Canterbury Tales
1811, a rare early title from Oliver Outline, pseudonym of poet Edward Quillinan
Oliver Outline, pseudonym of Edward Quillinan
Henry Colburn, London, 1811
£60.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakespeare
In a decorative painted calf binding, 6 vols including the Tragedies, Comedies, Biography and Doubtful Plays
William Shakespeare, edited by Charles Knight
Charles Knight, London, 1842
£150.00
Drama | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings | Bookplate
