Browse by Date—1850–1899

A French study of Chinese civilization, with three engraved plates

Alfred Mame et Cie, Tours, 1854

An attractive silk-bound copy of D G Rossetti's sonnet sequence

Ellis and Elvey, London, 1898

A nice quarter leather binding of François Coppée's poetry, c1880

Alphonse Lemerre, Paris, 1880

1875, second edition, Henry Havard's travels to the Dead Cities of the Zuiderzee

E Plon & Cie, Paris, 1875

1878, third edition, in a decorative gilt binding

Macmillan, London, 1878

Complete in four volumes, with Braybrooke's notes

Swan Sonnenschein, London, 1890

A Record of Mountain Adventure and Scientific Observation, with two maps and colour plates

Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, London, 1867

1897, this copy owned by Admiral Gerald Walter Russell (1850–1928)

William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, 1897

1896, the first Tauchnitz edition in two volumes

Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig, 1896

Inscribed by William Haig Miller in 1867, illustrated by John Tenniel

Religious Tract Society, London, 1867

1882, a rare first edition from philosopher Penelope Frederica Fitzgerald

Printed for the Author by Trubner & Co, London, 1882

Signed by Mathieu Auguste Geffroy, with a handwritten letter to Charles Schefer, a prominent orientalist and bibliophile

Librairie Hatchette et Cie, Paris, 1887

The myths, legends and poems of the North African Berbers

Ernest Leroux, Paris, 1887

Rochdale interest, and Nicholson persecution for fighting against Ritualism in the Parish Church

Not stated, Rochdale, 1892

Liverpool MP and philanthropist Samuel Smith's memorial book to his only son

Turner, Routledge & Co, Liverpool, 1899

A transcription of parish records of births, deaths and marriages, and list of Rectors

The Parish Register Society, London, 1899

Collected and edited by E S Hartland

Walter Scott Publishing Co, Ltd, London, 1890

A witty, illustrated trip from London to Italy.

Sampson, Low, Son & Marston, London, 1869

Including articles on chrysanthemums, gladioli, and forcing lilies of the valley

Spottiswoode & Co, London, 1897

including details of the Crystal Palace Fruit Show of 1895

Spottiswoode & Co, London, 1896

Papers presented to a conference on trees, and on British-grown fruit

Spottiswoode & Co, London, 1895

including Lord Bute's Vineyards, and rare trees in the Arnold Arboretum

Spottiswoode & Co, London, 1895

including the effect of urban fog on cultivated plants, the treatment of American Blight etc

Spottiswoode & Co, London, 1894

including an array of articles on sunflowers, cultivation of the railway embankment etc

Spottiswoode & Co, London, 1893

Containing articles and presentations on Conifers

Spottiswoode & Co, London, 1892