19th Century Literature

hardback. Very Good. 18 vols. Frontispieces and vignette titles. Small 8vo. London (Baldwin & Cradock) 1832-3. Maroon 1/2-calf, top edge gilt, green spine labels. Hinge of vol.1 rubbed, else a very nice set.

1806 1st ed Pons Voyage to Terra Firma South America Tobacco INDIANS Venezuela

François Raimond de Pons's 'Voyage to the Eastern Part of Terra Firma' is one of the most important accounts of voyages in the New World. Perhaps these references provide the best description of this work:

According to Field,
"Beside his account of the slaughter and destruction of Indians during the conquest of their nations, the author gives a portrait of the Indians before the arrival of the Europeans."
Per Hill,
"This is an important account of Venezuela giving a description of the country and people and also accounts of growth and production of cocoa, indigo, sugar, cotton, coffee, and tobacco."
Item number: #9363
Price: $550
De PONS, François Joseph
A voyage to the eastern part of Terra Firma, or the Spanish Main, in South-America, during the years 1801, 1802, 1803, and 1804 : containing a description of the territory under the jurisdiction of the Captain General of Caraccas, composed of the provinces of… Read More

1841 1ed English Efes Dammim Jerusalem Jewish Zaslav Poland Damascus Affair

'Éfés dammîm. A series of conversations at Jerusalem' was written by the famous Jewish scholar Levinsohn. Levinsohn s work was written in response to the blood accusation charge brought against the Jews of Zaslav in Poland charged with killing Christians to use their blood in communion. Levinsohn's purpose was to acquit the Jews before the eyes of Christians, and to save them from the false accusation of using Christian blood for communion. "Efes Dammim" is written dialogically between a patriarch of the Greek Church in Jerusalem, Simias, and the chief rabbi in the Jewish synagogue.
This 1841 first English edition was published just one year after the Damascus Affair.
Item number: #10496
Price: $499
LEVINSOHN, Isaac Baer
Éfés dammîm. A series of conversations at Jerusalem between a patriarch of the Greek church and a chief rabbi of the Jews, concerning the malicious charge against the Jews of using Christian… Read More

1862 1ed SLAVE Census DATA Indians Confederacy Civil War Steel Industry
The 'Preliminary Report on the Eighth Census' is the last census report to show slavery data. Interestingly, since the preceding Census of the U.S. (1850) added every member of the household including women, children and slaves, Kennedy added also American Indians if they had renounced tribal rules. Particularly are the government discussions on disabilities of blindness, idiocy, and the major diseases at the time.

This 1862 edition of Kennedy's census report includes topics such as:
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Growth of New York with an added population of 783,000 to Virginia where the population had gone down by 17% for the white population (and 3.88% of the slave population)
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Indian slavery
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Manumission
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Fugitive slaves
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Mortality rates and notes the rates of both whites and slaves
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Various disabilities including the deaf and dumb as well as the blind
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Growth of various asylums for the… Read More

1866 1st ed Henry Hudson River Bay Voyages America Discovery Muscovy Merchant
This first edition of the late 19th century book 'A Historical Inquiry Concerning Henry Hudson' is a complete history of Henry Hudson from John Read's discourse to the Historical Society of Delaware. Read gives a history of Hudson his family and the founding of the Muscovy Company of merchants, to his voyage with the Dutch East India Company searching for a Northwest Passage and discovering the Hudson Bay and Hudson River.
Read's discourse was delivered at Wilmington before the Historical Society of Delaware, on its first anniversary. The appendix includes English translations of the printed accounts of Hudson's last two voyages as related by Hessel Gerritz in 1612-13, as well as extracts from Purchas' Pilgrimes and De Laet's Nieuwe Werelt.
Larned remarks this book is
"a most scholarlike and admirable example of a species of investigation which lies at the base of all accurate and trustworthy history".

Item number:… Read More

Boston, MA: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 299pp; Green cloth boards with gilt titling to spine, slight wear to spine ends & corners of boards, previous owner's name to FFEP, pages slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is sound, VG condition. Scarce, antique metaphysical New Thought novel.

1871 1ed HUGE Black Letter Anglican Bible Common Prayer 1636 John Bill England

Aside from the Bible, the Book of Common Prayer is one of the most widely read liturgical texts in Western Christianity. It has been issued countless times since the 17th-century including this impressive 1871 edition. This particular printing, entitled 'The Black-Letter Prayer-Book' is a facsimile edition of the 1636 John Bill 'Booke of Common Prayer'.
Item number: #18085
Price: $599
Church of England
Fac-simile of Black letter prayer-book [i.e. that of 1636] containing manuscript alterations and additions made in the 1661, "out of which was fairly written" the Book of Common Prayer
London: Longmans and Co., 1871. First edition.

Details:

· Collation: Complete with all pages
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[12], 513, [1]
· Provenance: Armorial Bookplate – John Allan Rolls
o John Allan Rolls, 1st Baron Llangattock (19 February 1837 – 24 September 1912) was a Victorian landowner, Conservative Party politician, socialite,… Read More

1836 1ed Stanfield Coast Scenery British Channel Landscape ART Castles 40 Views
"I do not know of any work in which, on the whole, there is a more unaffected love of ships for their own sake, and a fresher feeling of sea-breeze always blowing, than Stanfield's Coast Scenery." – Nicholas Tracy
Clarkson Stanfield was an early 19th-century painter known for his large-scale prints of marine subjects and landscapes. His book 'Stanfield's Coast Scenery' is an illustrated account of the scenery and landscapes in the British channel. This book includes 40 views and descriptions of castles, lakes, mountains, and much more!
Item number: #40177
Price: $499
STANFIELD, Clarkson
Stanfield's Coast Scenery : A series of views in the British Channel, from original drawings taken expressly for the work
London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1836. First edition.

Details:
· Collation: Complete
o
128
o 40 leaves of plates
· References: Nicholas Tracy, Britannia's Palette: The Arts of Naval Victory
·… Read More

1857 Jefferson Davis West Point Heavy Cannon Report American Army Illustrated

"I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came."
– Jefferson Davis

A rare first edition printing of report number 6 from papers on practical engineering addressed to Jefferson Davis written by Joseph Totten, Brevet Brigadier General and colonel and chief Engineer of the US army. Totten rans experiments of missile and cannon fire from 1852 to 1855 at West Point. Totten experimented to understand effects of firing different materials, different casings, different quantities, different targets, containing or erasing smoke from firings, trajectory influencers on missiles, and more. Totten's report includes detailed graphs and illustrations on the construction, execution, and results of each experiment.

Item number: #30090
Price: $499
TOTTEN, Joseph G.
Report Addressed to the Hon. Jefferson Davis, secretary of… Read More

1811 1st ed John Rastell Pastime of People English Chronicles FOLIO Woodcuts

John Rastell was a 15th-century English author most known for his work 'Pastime of the People'. First appearing in 1529, this work is a chronicle of the people of England from the earliest known times through the right of Richard III. Notable contents include biographies of Richard I, William Rufus, and King John, as well as histories of other kingdoms including Rome, Flemish, Norman, and French histories. Rastell also includes a thorough description of the Papacy.
According to Lowndes, this is one of only 500 known printed copies! Very rare! This edition, edited by Dibdin, was the first reprinted edition and systematically arranged with facsimile woodcuts. The 18 woodcuts are some of the most impressive full-page, folio woodcuts you will ever see in a 19th-century printing.

Item number: #21020
Price: $950
RASTELL, John
The pastime of people, or, the chronicles of divers realms ; and most especially of the realm of England.… Read More

1876 1ed Jules Verne Indes-Noires + Chancellor Extraordinary Voyages SciFi 2in1

"In a very real sense, Jules Verne is one of the pioneers of the space age."
― Frank Borman, Daytona Beach Morning Journal, 1969.

Jules Verne's adventure novels are some of the most popular and famous works of literature of all time. OF course, he is best known for books such as '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea', and 'Around the World in 80 Days', he also wrote lesser-known books like 'Underground City'.

This book, also known as 'The Child of the Cavern', is a story about the good fortunes that come from mining in Scotland; however, Verne opens up a world of mysteries and bizarre goblin encounters in the mine! This work is the 16th part of 'Voyages Extraordinaires', Verne's largest collection of fantasy novels and stories.

In addition to 'Les Indes-noires', this book contains Verne's 'Wreck of the Chancellor' – the story of the final voyage of British sailing ship the Chancellor, told from the perspective of the… Read More

1802 1ed English Botany Plants Sowerby Flowers Illustrated Goutweed Bugloss RARE

English naturalist James Sowerby published what would become the preeminent illustrated work on English botany. Entitled simply, 'English Botany.' This work was a compendium of the native plants in Great Britain. Sowerby provided beautiful illustrations accompanied by descriptions of the various properties, natural habitat, and other characteristics of numerous plants across Britain.

This edition includes 72 beautifully hand-colored botanical plates including views of Bugloss blueweed, Hornwort, Hare's-foot Trefoil, Ramping Fumitory, Hedge-mustard, Gout-weed, Cow Parsnep, and Bitter Ladies'-smock.

Item number: #21569
Price: $599

SOWERBY, James

English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants. Vol. 14.

London: Wilks and Taylor, 1801. First edition.

Details:
• Collation: Complete
o [2], 937-1008 leaves, [6]
o 72 hand-colored plates
• References: Sitwell pg. 140
• Language: English
• Binding:… Read More

1800 1ed Vancouver Voyage Pacific Northwest Canada Alaska Illustrated French 3v

Rare first edition on the most important voyage of the North Pacific!

In 1791, Royal Navy officer George Vancouver set out on an expedition to North America's Pacific Northwest, exploring western Canada, Alaska, and parts of Northwest United States. The specifics of this voyage were published at the turn of the century, both in English and French, and is often considered to be the most accurate account of the Pacific Northwest. This 1800 first French edition includes impressive full-page views of Vancouver's discoveries, including an impressive engraving of Mount Rainier. Perhaps Cowan's perspective is the most telling:
"This work is superior to any of its kind, and constitutes the chiefest source of authority of that period."

According to Howes, of all modern expeditions to the Pacific, Vancouver's is one of the most important. In this work Vancouver also describes Alaskan and Canadian natives, nautical and… Read More

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. 1864 Tauchnitz (this edition printed after 1877 as Emma is on ad card), 340 pages. Marbled boards and endpapers, gilt pages, leather bound. A classic in beautiful presentation.
Condition: Good+, pages have warping and browning
"He was not handsome, and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing."

1873 Jules Verne 1ed Around the World in 80 Days Adventure Voyages French Hetzel

"Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them."
― Jules Verne

Jules Verne's adventure novels are some of the most popular and famous works of literature of all time. Known mostly for his works of science fiction, 'Voyages Extraordinaires' was Verne's largest collection of fantasy novels and stories. Perhaps his most famous work of all was none other than 'Around the World in 80 Days'. This story remains hugely popular today, combining exploration, adventure, and a race against time!

Note on dating: like many other Verne first editions, the title page included was issued in each edition, including later printings. The dating comes from the ads in the back of the book – however, this edition has no ads! A rare 1873 true first edition of Verne!

Item number: #23304
Price: $950

VERNE, Jules

Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours

Paris: J Hetzel et Cie,… Read More