Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, Chesnut Street. Baltimore: Carey, Hart & Co, 1834. First American edition. Source... Read More about Memoirs of Vidocq, Principal Agent of the French Police until 1827. Written by Himself....
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London: F. Wingreave, 1799. Sixth edition, carefully revised. Read More about The New Dispensatory: containing I. The Elements of Pharmacy. II. The materia medica, or an...
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London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1828. First edition. Captain Lyon set out for Mexico in January 1826 as one of the Commissioners of the Real del Monte Mining Company, and on his way back from New York was wrecked at Holyhead and lost all his papers. This work contains an..... Read More about Journal of a Residence and Tour in the Republic of Mexico in the year 1826. With some Account of...
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London: John Murray, 1828. First edition. Read More about Journal of a Residence and Tour in the Republic of Mexico in the year 1826. With some account of...
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Edinburgh: Printed for Adam Black and William Tait.. 1826. First edition. Read More about Elements of Arithmetic, Algebra, and Geometry, for the Use of the Students in the Edinburgh...
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New York: D. Appleton and Company, 200 Broadway. Philadelphia: George S. Appleton, 148 Chestnut St, 1843. Leech, John. First American Edition. Read More about The Fortunes of Hector O'Halloran, and his Man Mark Anthony O'Toole
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London: Henry Colburn, 1841. First edition. Sporting Triple-Decker in Boards. Sadleir, who had a copy in boards, writes: "I remember an old bookseller in Edinburgh (who had been at one time employed by W.T. Spencer) telling me that Spencer regarded a board copy of THE OLD ENGLISH GENTLEMAN as one..... Read More about The Old English Gentleman, or, The Fields and the Woods
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London: J. Taylor, 1811. First edition. An important work on the origins of the Gothic style in England. Read More about A Treatise on the Ecclesiastical Architecture of England, During the Middle Ages, with Ten...
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Boston: Wells & Lilly, 1823. First Edition. "Born in to a wealthy family in Boston, Massachusetts, she received an extensive education, which is reflected in her neo-classical verse. Resisting her family's Loyalist proclivities during the American Revolution, she devoted herself to the Patriot cause. She remained an activist throughout her..... Read More about My Mind and Its Thoughts, in Sketches, Fragments and Essays
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Swansea: Printed for the Author by H. Griffith, and sold by Longman and Co., London, 1825. First edition. A scholarly examination of the Ossian poems and evidence. Read More about The Claims of Ossian, Examined and Appreciates: An Essay on the Scottish and Irish Poems...
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London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street, 1833. First edition. Read More about Piozziana; or, Recollections of the Late Mrs. Piozzi, With Remarks by a Friend
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London: Printed for R. Ackermann, 101, Strand, by J.Diggins, Saint Ann's Lane, 1813. Rowlandson, Thomas. First edition. UNCUT. According to the Advertisement, “The originals of the plates…were sketches made as souvenirs of the place during a visit to Scarborough, 1812. They were not intended for publication, but being found to..... Read More about Poetical Sketches of Scarborough: Illustrated by Twenty-One Engravings of Humorous Subjects…
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London: J. Dodsley, 1781. Second edition, considerably enlarged. ALL THE SUBJECTS OF INTEREST. A defense of polygamy by a Methodist divine (1726-90), who believed that it was justified by Mosaic law and consistent with Christianity. The original edition appeared the year before in 2 volumes. "The publication in 1780 of..... Read More about Thelyphthora; or, A Treatise on Female Ruin, in its Causes, Effects, Consequences, Prevention,...
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Edinburgh: Maclachan and Stewart, 1831. Second edition. Read More about Elements of Practical Chemistry, comprising a Systematic Series of Experiments Arranged So as to...
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Berlin: Rücker, 1822. First edition. "In 1804 the Academy of Sciences in Berlin offered a price for the best essay on the structure and the function of the lungs. The Strasburg physician, Franz Daniel Reisseisen, obtained the price; Soemmering received honourable mention. The texts of both prize essays were jointly..... Read More about Über den Bau der Lungen - De fabrica pulmonum commentatio
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Philadelphia: Printed for the Author. Lydia R. Bailey, Printer, 1820. First edition. "Chief contemporary authority on the audacious filibustering expedition against Mexico under Mina, launched with a handful of men, through Texas in 1817. Notable also for its advocacy of a communication between the Atlantic and Pacific via Nicaragua" (Howes)..... Read More about Memoirs of the Mexican Revolution: Including a Narrative of the Expedition of General Xavier...
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London: F.S. Ellis [Printed by Strangeways and Walden, Printers, Castle St. Leicester Sq.], 1870. Large Paper copy, one of 25 printed for private circulation. ONE OF 25. Read More about Poems
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London: R. Ackerman, 1822. Rowlandson, Thomas. First edition. The Last Syntax, in Original Boards. The last of the authentic Combe-Rowlandson Dr. Syntax series, whose success prompted numerous imitations. This remainder binding, in superb shape, resembles that seen on the earlier Syntax books, but we have never seen it on Johny..... Read More about The History of Johnny Quae Genus, the Little Foundling of the Late Doctor Syntax: a Poem, by the...
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London: Mathew Iley, Somerset Street, 1821. First edition. UNCUT AND IN BOARDS. This is a satire on Samuel Johnson"s Tour of the Hebrides. Read More about The Tour of Doctor Prosody, In Search of The Antique and The Picturesque through Scotland, The...
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New York: M'Dermut & Arden, 1814. An early American edition of what has been called the "earliest manual of household management with any pretensions to completeness, it called forth many imitations" (DNB). Originally published 1806 or 1807 in London, and the first American edition in 1807 in Boston. "The first..... Read More about A New System of Domestic Cookery, formed upon principles of Economy: and Adapted to the Use of...
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London: Sherwood and Co, 1825. Sixth edition. A classic work, first published in 1814, which went into numerous editions. Read More about The Angler's Guide
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Philadelphia: Published by A. Tower [J. H. Cunningham, printer], 1828. Read More about The Lady of the Lake; A Poem
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Philadelphia: M. Carey, July 12, 1813. First American edition. Read More about Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border: Consisiting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in...
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Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson & Son, 1818. First edition. "Prior to the adoption of the present governement of the United States of America, it was not practicable to collect the facts and data for a statistical account of our country; the more important civil institutions were then exclusively under the control..... Read More about Statistical Annals Embracing Views of the Population, Commerce, Navigation, Fisheries, Public...
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