19th Century Literature

Firenze: Gaetano Ducci 1828. (Hardcover) 251, 260pp. Good to very good, no dust jacket. Textured green boards over green leather spine. Edges speckled green, portrait frontispiece, includes a biography of the author. The covers are worn. Text in Italian Language. (Poetry, Poetry).

1862 Slave Trade Africa & American Flag Foote Voyages Civil War Slavery Plates

'Africa and the American Flag' is an interesting account of Commander Andrew Foote's exploits in suppressing the African slave trade off the coast of Africa in the early part of the 19th century. The book became an important source for the growing anti-slavery movement in the Unites States at the time.

This fine 1862 edition is Foote's own account of his experience as commander of the Perry off the African coast in the early 1850's, where his dogged attempts to suppress the African slave trade (illegal then under American law) became legendary. His impassioned account here did much to stir the growing public repugnance for the trade in America. This edition includes seven hand tinted steel lithographic plates and a map, with the frontis of the slave trade in action!

Item number: #7672
Price: $499
FOOTE, Andrew H.
Africa and the American flag
New York. D. Appleton and Company. 1862.
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1864 1ed Trumpet of Freedom American Patriotic Hymns Battle Hymn Star Spangled Banner

A rare and highly valuable Civil War era hymn book!
Published at the height of the Civil War, 'Trumpet of Freedom'
is a collection of military and patriotic hymns, most notably "Battle Hymn of the Republic", "My Country Tis of Thee", and "The Star-Spangled Banner".
Item number: #12211
Price: $599
United States
Trumpet of freedom.
Boston : Published by Oliver Ditson & Co., 1864. First edition.

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
o [3], 4-63, [1]
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Provenance: Handwritten – Fred A. [T]ilben
· Language: English
· Binding: Softcover; tight & secure
· Size: ~6.25in X 9.75in (16cm x 25cm)
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1834 QUAKER anti Slave Trade Slavery Book of Discipline War Sexuality RARE
'Book of Discipline' is one of the many books published by the Quakers in the 19th-century. Throughout this era, the Quakers, or Society of Friends, held a yearly meeting to decide on books that would help define what it means to be a Quaker. Books include rules, faith and practice principles, disciplines, and much more.
This particular issue includes an important section on the Quaker views of slavery and slave trade.
Item number: #15580
Price: $499
Quakers
Rules of discipline, with advices being extracts from the minutes and epistles of their yearly meeting held in London, from its first institution.
London: Darton and Harvey, 1834.

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
o [2], xxviii, 335, [1]
· Language: English
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Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~11.25in X 8.75in (28.5cm x 22.5cm)
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London: J. Johnson, 1814. Second. Very Good-. A good+ to very good- set of this 4-decker novel All volumes are bound in full leather, with blindstamped borders and gilt rulings on both covers and gilt titles on spines Vol 4 has two chips missing in the leather on its spine, but otherwise all volumes have just minor scuffing and edge wear, primarily at corners and spine ends Text is slightly age toned, but entirely clean and unmarked in all volumes Maria Edgeworth (1768 â€"1849) was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adult and children's literature She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe She held views on estate management, politics and education, and corresponded with some of the leading literary and economic writers, including Sir Walter Scott and David Ricardo 418, 431, 400, 388 pp.

1856 ENORMOUS Ballou Pictorial Magazine Revolutionary War Boston Tea Party

Maturin Ballou was a 19th-century American publisher who is known for his work on periodicals, magazines, and journals. He is most famous for his 'Pictorial' which was highly influenced by the Illustrated London News. Ballou himself said of the work that it was to be
"a weekly literary mélange of notable events of the day. Its columns are devoted to original tales, sketches, and poems, by the best American authors and the cream of the domestic and foreign news; the whole well spiced with wit and humor." (issue 1)
This particular issue contains news and current events stories, but also includes essays on American history including a report on George Washington at Valley Forge and the famous Boston Tea Party!
Item number: #18532
Price: $599
BALLOU, Maturin M.
Ballou's pictorial. Jul-Dec, 1856.
Boston, Mass. : M.M. Ballou, 1856.

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1870 HUGE Illustrated London News Explosion at Bryn Mawr Marathon Greece Ruins

A rare, mid-19th-century issue of 'The Illustrated London News' – an enormous tome!
This series of issues from 1870 covers a wide variety of important topics; however, the entirety of topics included is too vast to include here. Nonetheless, some of the most important and interesting topics include:
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British emigrants headed to Canada
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1870 Dilessi murders, Massacre in Greece
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Description of the first Marathon run, distance from Marathon to Athens
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The Gunpowder Explosion at Bryn-Mawr
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Prehistoric remains found in Jersey
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Trial of Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte from murder of Victor Noir
o Description of Noir's funeral
Item number: #18589
Price: $599
periodical
The Illustrated London News, vol LVI
London: printed by George C Leighton, 1870.

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o iv, 668
o Wanting p. 603-606
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1870 Vanity Fair ART Henry Bulwer Frederick III of Prussia Illustrated COLOR
A rare printing of the first volume of the Vanity Fair Album. Vanity Fair is best known for full-page, color lithographs of world celebrities and dignitaries including artists, athletes, royalty, , scientists, authors, and scholars. More than 2000 of these images appeared, and they are considered the chief cultural legacy of the magazine, forming a pictorial record of the period. According to author and editor Jehu Junior,
"The Vanity Fair Portraits are and remain the only work of their kind ever attempted; and as such they must always hold a special and distinct place as a permanent record of men of eminence in the nineteenth century."
This 1870 edition includes 24 full page color plates of famous figures including

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Marquis of Westminster
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The Duke of Sutherland
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Lord Henry Gordon-Lennox
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Robert Montagu
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Prince of Prussia, Frederick III
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Henry Bulwer
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1842 1ed Omnibus by George Cruikshank Comic English Essays & Art FINE BINDING
George Cruikshank was one of England's best and most notable 19th-century caricaturists and book illustrators. In 1841, Cruikshank sought an outlet for his for his art that he had complete control over – no publisher or editor control. The result was the 'Omnibus'
in 1842. This 'Omnibus' contained numerous comedic articles, essays, and even short stories with 100 engravings on both wood and steel engravings of the famed Cruikshank art.
Item number: #19674
Price: $599
CRUIKSHANK, George
George Cruikshank's Omnibus.
London: Tilt and Bogue, 1842. First edition.

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vi, [2], ii, [2], 300
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22 steel engravings
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78 wood-cut engravings
· Language: English
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~9in X 6in (23cm x 15cm)
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1805 EARLY Constitution United States New Hampshire LAW Trials Taxes Americana
A rare, early 19th-century printing of the United States Constitution and the Constitution of state of New Hampshire! This book contains notes on civil trials, acts of congress, laws, taxes, as well as letters from founding fathers, and much more!

Item number: #20828
Price: $499
United States

Constitution and laws of the state of New-Hampshire: together with the Constitution of the United States
Dover: Samuel Bragg, 1805.

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
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[4], 392, [393]-[400], 393-531, [1]
· Provenance: Handwritten – John Mulony
· Language: English
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
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Size: ~8.75in X 5.5in (22.5cm x 14cm)
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1865 Freemason Monitor Masonic Manual Rites Ceremonies Civil War America Macoy
'The Freemason's Monitor' was a regularly published masonic treatise and handbook throughout the 19th-century. Originally published by Robert Macoy, it contained articles, essays, directions, hymns, and lodge descriptions by numerous contributors and writers. This particular Civil War-era issue was published in 1865 New York by Daniel Sickels. Macoy was a deputy Grand Master who wrote numerous books on freemasonry, rituals, and ancient religions.
Item number: #21104
Price: $499
SICKELS, Daniel [edit.]
The Freemason's monitor; containing the degrees of freemasonry, embraced in the lodge, chapter, council, and commandery; embellished with nearly 300 symbolical illustrations
New York: Macoy & Sickels, 1865.

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Part I – vi, 7-211, [1]
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Part II – 120
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Part III – 19, [1]
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Part IV – 92
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Heavily illustrated throughout
· Language: English
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Obras de jose jacinto milanes coleccion de sus poesias dramas leyendas cuadros de costumbres y articulos literarios 2 vols primera edicion habana cuba 1846. rarisima edicion libro de coleccion.2 vols encuadernados en un tomo encuadernacion original de la epoca.milanes fue uno de los mas importantes escritores cubanos del siglo XIX.
José Jacinto Milanés (16 de agosto de 1814 Matanzas, Cuba - >ibídem, 14 de noviembre de 1863).Los primeros poemas de Milanés fueron publicados en La Habana por >Ramón de Palma y >José Antonio Echevarría en la revista literaria >Aguinaldo Habanero. Las obras de Milanés tuvieron una acogida favorable en entre la crítica y el público cubano de su tiempo.. Poeta, dramaturgo y ensayista. Uno de los principales cultivadores del drama romántico en lengua española. Considerado como el primer ingenio poético cubano. Casi toda su creación se desarrolló desde 1835 y hasta 1843, período enmarcado en el romanticismo de la literatura española.

1889 Mark TWAIN 1st ed Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Magic Novel

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
― Mark Twain

A first edition printing of the famous Mark Twain novel, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court." Follow A Yankee engineer from Connecticut who is accidentally transported back in time to the court of King Arthur, where he fools the inhabitants of that time into thinking he is a magician!

A rare first edition published in 1889.

Item number: #30535
Price: $750

TWAIN, Mark

A Connecticut Yankee in king Arthur's court by Mark Twain.

New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1889. First edition

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
o xv, [1], 17-575, [3]
o 220 illustrations
· References: BAL 3429; MacDonnell, 48-49
· Notes on edition:
o Half-title not on verso of frontispiece
o Does not include 'S' device on p.59
o Unbroken text on p. 72
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London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1907 Macmillan and Co., Limited. London 1907. 901 pages. Finely bound by Bickers and Son in tree calf bordered with foliate gilt ruling. Central gilt motif of the 'Girls Public Day School Trust Bromley High School' to front boards, raised bands, brown label and gilt decoration to spine.All edges vividly marbled, matching marbled endpapers, board edges decorated with gilt. With frontispiece portrait of Lord Tennyson. Binder's stamp on ffep. With a neat inscription on the flying leaf. Some minor foxing to the first pages otherwise internally clean and bright. This is a very decorative book which contains the work of the famous Victorian poet. The motto "Knowledge is now no more a fountain sealed" is a quote from the poem "The Princess": "This blank verse narrative poem by Tennyson (1809–1892) is a satire on the state women's education. The narrative centres on a princess who sets up a University for women, although her plans are disrupted by the intrusion of a… Read More

Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith, Simpkin, Marshall & Co, 1889. First Edition, first state. Original Cloth. Very good +. A. Fredericks. A masterpiece of Victorian comic writing, gently poking fun at convention, with several renowned setpiece scenes. Original publisher's blue grey cloth with gilt titles to spine, black stamped title and silhouette of a boat to front cover. Small 8vo (19cm). [6], 2–315, [3]. First edition, first state with "Quay Street" as address to title page but without the street number of 11. Arrowsmith's 2/- series advert to front pastedown; two pages pub.'s adverts to rear, 'Arrowsmith's Bristol Library', listing 37 titles, with to facing page 'Books for Children' over two pages; to rear pastedown, two titles 'Ready in October', Prince Prigio and Jonathan and His Continent. The word "stream" present at the end of page 271. (Rodgers & Read). A Walsall bookseller's label, coincidentally Jerome's birthplace, to front pastedown. Neat previous owner's name to flyleaf in ink, dated Nov.… Read More