The World in Miniature … Russia
London: R. Ackermann, [1822-3]. First edition. The complete four-volume Russia set from this celebrated work, consisting of descriptions... Read More about The World in Miniature … Russia
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London: R. Ackermann, [1822-3]. First edition. The complete four-volume Russia set from this celebrated work, consisting of descriptions... Read More about The World in Miniature … Russia
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London: Chapman & Hall, 1881-1882. "Ten copies (this is Number 3) of the Edition De-Luxe of the Chapman and Hall Dickens are specially bound in Ten Different Bindings and extra-illustrated by insertion of a series of original water color drawings, on Whatman paper, after Kyd and others. The Most Elaborate..... Read More about The Works of Charles Dickens
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Philadelphia: J. & T. Doughty, 1830-1833. First edition. COMPLETE SET - THE PHILLIPS COPY. "A mine of information on contemporary sport and natural history" (Phillips). A landmark of American sporting publication, issued in parts by the brothers Thomas and John Doughty. Subscriptions dwindled after Thomas departed for Boston, and the..... Read More about The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports
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London: T. McLean 26, Haymarket, July 19, 1832. John Doyle (1797-1868), 'HB'; Irish Caricaturist Lithographer of Portraits and Cariactures. Born in Dublin he studied under Gabrrielli and the Miniaturist W. Corneford, but came to London in 1821He is best known as a Caricaturist of H.B. Sketrches 1829-1851 This is from..... Read More about Hand-colored Lithograph: "The Great Unknown."
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London: Wm. S. Orr and Co, 1849. Doyle, Richard. First edition. With "Dicky" Doyle's Illustrations. Wonderfully amusing verses and parodies. Read More about The Book of Ballads. Edited by Bon Gaultier
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Paris: Chez l'Auteur, 22 rue des Acacias, (1860). Read More about La Légende de Sainte Ursule, Princesse Britannique et Ses Onze Mille Vierges d'apres les...
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London: Printed for Jones & Co, 1821-2. First edition, Third issue (with Jones & Co., as Publishers). An imitation of Pierce Egan's famous Life in London, with some merit of its own and a foil to its contemporary, and as a guide to the social history of early nineteenth century..... Read More about Real Life in London; or, The Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq. and His Cousin, The Hon....
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London: Sherwood, Neely and Jones., Paternoster-Row, 1821. Cruikshank, I.R. and George. First edition, first issue, with first music sheet unnumbered and no footnote on page 9 and the word "good-bies" in the first line of p.376. Hand-colored plates and fold-out music. First edition of this colorful classic, which engendered numerous..... Read More about Life in London or the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. and His Elegant Friend...
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London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1822. Cruikshank. Second edition. Second edition, published the year after the first, of this popular work which set the style for a host of imitators and remains a vivid panorama of Georgian London, from its heights to its depths. Read More about Life in London, or the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. and his elegant friend...
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London: Pickering and Chatto, 66 Haymarket, S.W, 1892. Lane, Theodore. Read More about The Life of an Actor. Dedicated to Edmund Kean, Esq. The Poetical Descriptions by T. Greenwood
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London: Printed for Knight & Lacey, Paternoster-Row and Pierce Egan, 113, Strand, 1827. Lane, Theodore. First edition. Subjects illustrated by color plates include: horse racing, rat catching, dogs versus lion fight, the theatre, taverns, bull-baiting, dogs, duck hunting and rowing. Read More about Pierce Egan's Anecdotes (original and Selected) of The Turf, The Chase, The Ring, and The Stage;...
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London: Jones and Company, Temple of the Muses, Late Lackington’s, Finsbury Square, 1829. Fourth edition. Read More about Real Life in Ireland; or, The Day and Night Scenes, Rovings, Rambles, and Sprees, Bulls,...
Price: $500
Chester: Printed for J. Seacombe, 1834. Read More about Hunting Songs, & c. By R.E.E. W-Esq
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Paris: Chez Barrois, 1788-1789. First edition in French. Extremely Rare with Hand-colored Plates. An extremely rare, if not unique copy of Engel’s classic treatise on acting, with the plates colored by hand. This is the very scarce first French edition of Engel’s famous Ideen Zu Einer Mimik, first printed in..... Read More about Idées sur le geste et l'action théatrale; … suivies d’une lettre, du même auteur, sur la...
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London: R. Evans. White Row, Spitalfields, 1816. Read More about English Military Print, hand coloured "Lieutenant General Ralph Abercrombie" etc
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1830s. WITH WATERCOLOURS, PRINTS, ETC. With a inlaid title-page "Album" heightened in gold 2 Watercolours of Birds signed Santagnello. Many floral watercolors designs of baskets and urns of flowers, some (5) signed J. Leigh, one of Peacock. The Dumb Alphabet Plate The Second. London , Knight, 1834 by Nicholas. The..... Read More about English Scrapbook
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Guben (Germany): F. Fechner, nd (c. 1865). Read More about Excercises in Colouring. The English Farm. Part I
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London: Bradbury & Evans, 1852. First edition. Pretty, witty Nell, as Samuel Pepys referred to her, was the long-time mistress of Charles II, and the pre-eminent actress of Restoration England. The volume contains many portraits of Nell, Charles II, and many of their famous contemporaries, such as John Dryden, Godfrey..... Read More about Story of Nell Gwyn, and the Sayings of Charles the Second
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London: John C. Nimmo, 1889. Number 598 of 780 copies for America and Great Britain. Amorous Intrigues at the Court of Charles II, Extra Illustrated. A chronicle of the profligate court of Charles II, written with grace and vigor by a French noble ex-patriate. EXTRA ILLUSTRATED with the insertion of..... Read More about Memoirs of Count Grammont. Edited, with notes, by Sir Walter Scott
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London: Chapman & Hall, 1849. First edition. 30 EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED PLATES. With this biography, Lewes (famous partner of George Eliot) is credited for the first treatment of Robespierre “without histeria”. He stated in the preface that his intention was to bring together scattered facts, thus presenting “a view of the separate..... Read More about The Life of Maximilien Robespierre; with extracts from his unpublished correspondence
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London: John Murray, 1874. Second edition. Dedicated to Queen Victoria, this volume relates the life of Princess Charlotte (1766-1828), the daughter of George III. The extra plates in the volume include portraits of Princess Charlotte, Queen Victoria, George III, the Prince of Wales (later George IV), Queen Charlotte (consort of..... Read More about Brief Memoir of Princess Charlotte of Wales: with selections from her correspondence and other...
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Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1887. An abundantly extra-illustrated set of Boswell’s classic biography of the great lexicographer Samuel Johnson. Read More about Boswell’s Life of Johnson. Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's...
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London: Saunders and Otley, 1837. Third Edition. Read More about The Romance of Biography or Memoirs of Women Loved and celebrated by Poets from the Days of the...
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London: Macmillan and Co, 1879. Read More about Ancient Streets and Homesteads of England
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London: Printed for C. and G. Kearsely, 1793. Abridged edition. Beautifully bound and extra-illustrated copy of the abridged edition of the Harleian Miscellany, a collection of tracts and pamphlets from the library of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford, first published in 8 volumes in 1744. Read More about A Selection from the Harleian Miscellany of Tracts, Which Principally Regard the English History;...
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Paris: Chez Aubert, Place de la Bourse, No. 25, c 1842. Read More about Hand-Colored Lithograph: "Cavasse Officier de Paix (Alexandre, Eygpte)" from...
Price: $400