Story of Nell Gwyn, and the Sayings of...
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1852. First edition. Pretty, witty Nell, as Samuel Pepys referred to her, was the... Read More
Price: $1,250
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23 Chromolithographic Plates from "Florilegium Harlemense"
[London: 1908] ]. Read More
Price: $1,200
The Comic History of Rome.
London: Bradbury & Evans. 11, Bouverie, [1852]. Leech, John. First Edition with the original parts bound in at back, with ads. With inserted ads as per Abbey. Read More
Price: $750
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The Comic History of England.
London: Published at the Punch Office, 85, Fleet Street, 1847. Leech, John. First edition. PRINTED WRAPPERS BOUND IN. Read More
Price: $850
![The Comic History of England [with:] The Comic History of Rome. Gilbert Abbott a'Beckett.](/pictures/thumb/261010.jpg?v=1438725292)
The Comic History of England [with:] The Comic History of Rome.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1847; 1848; [1852]. First editions. A fine and attractive set. Read More
Price: $850
The Comic History of England [with] The Comic History of Rome.
London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co, nd. Early Editions. A fine and attractive set. Read More
Price: $450
Along the Rhine with Ackermann
A Picturesque Tour Along the Rhine, from Mentz to Cologne: With Illustrations of the Scenes of Remarkable Events, and of...
London: R. Ackermann, 101, Strand, 1820. First edition, early issue, with the plates unnumbered. Along the Rhine with Ackermann. One of Ackermann’s most breathtaking color plate books — these exquisite views of the Rhine are justly prized for their matchless beauty. Read More
Price: $4,500
Fine Early Copy of Ackermann's Oxford
A History of the University of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings.
London: Rudolf Ackermann, 1814. First edition. Fine Early Copy of Ackermann's Oxford. An early copy. The list of plates in vol. I is the first state (it does not list the portraits of Founders; this copy does not include the Founders). Plate 1, vol.1, is mislabeled “History of Cambridge” and... Read More
Price: $6,000
History of the Merchant Taylors' School.
London: Ackermann, 1816. First Edition, First Issue (paper watermarked 1816). This folio forms part of one of Ackermann’s larger, though not so successful projects, his History of the Colleges. Ford in his book on Ackermann notes that William Combe wrote the text for this, as well as five other schools... Read More
Price: $750
!["The Upholsterer's Repository/ Published by R. Ackermann's, 101, Strand,/ Price £1. 4s, in boards." [drop title]. Rudolph Ackermann.](/pictures/thumb/256777.jpg?v=1459971493)
"The Upholsterer's Repository/ Published by R. Ackermann's, 101, Strand,/ Price £1. 4s, in boards." [drop title].
London: R[udolph] Ackermann, 101, Strand, c. 1813. First Edition. Read More
Price: $750
Chronological Chart of Ancient, Modern and Biblical History. Synchronized by Sebastian C. Adams. Salem Oregon.
Cincinnati, Ohio: Strobridge & Co, 1871. First edition. "In 1871, his Chronological Chart of Ancient, Modern and Biblical History was published by Strobridge & Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, the premier publisher of American commercial art. The technique of chromolithography offered the emerging middle class affordable color reproductions and, in this case, made lessons of history... Read More
Price: $1,750
The Subtyl Historyes and Fables of Esope Translated out of Frensshe into Englysshe by William Caxton of Wesmynster in the...
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1930. Angelo, Valenti. Number 160 of 200 copies (175 for sale). Read More
Price: $1,250
![A Natural History of English Insects Illustrated with a Hundred Copper Plates, Curiously Engraven from the Life: And (for those whose desire it) Exactly Coloured by the Author [With:] [Large Notes, and many Curious Observations. By W. Derham]. Eleazar Albin.](/pictures/thumb/32863.jpg?v=1438724395)
A Natural History of English Insects Illustrated with a Hundred Copper Plates, Curiously Engraven from the Life: And (for those...
London: William and John Innys, 1720-24. With preliminaries and titles of both first and second editions. Read More
Price: $7,500
Hand-Colored Lithograph, heightened with Gum Arabic, : "Morabite. (Garçon de Bains.)" from "Galerie Royale de Costume, Costumes, Algériens, 27."...
Paris: Chez Aubert, Place de la Bourse, No. 25, c 1842. Read More
Price: $400
A Cockney's Shooting Season in Suffolk.
London: Thomas M'Lean, 1822. First edition. A RARE EXAMPLE IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, with title on upper cover and advertisment for 6 works published by McLean on lower cover. Five copies listed in ABPC since 1977, 2 in wrappers. The work tells the amusing tale of the new wealthy Londoner on... Read More
Price: $8,500
The Plates of Maclise's Surgical Anatomy, with the Descriptions from the English Edition … Printed in Oil Colors, after Baxter's...
Boston: John J. Jewett and Company, 1857. American edition of the medical illustrations from Joseph Maclise's Surgical Anatomy, first printed in London, 1851, with hand-colored lithographical plates. The plates, which show successive states of dissection of the human body, are printed here in oil, using Baxter's process, which the editor... Read More
Price: $500
The Complete Andersen: All of the 168 Stories by...(Some Never Before Translated Into English, and a Few never before published)...
New York: The Limited Editions Club, [1949]. No. 1135 of 1500 copies, signed by the artist. Read More
Price: $450
Instructions for the Sword Exercise; Selected from Her Majesty's Rules and Regulations, and Approved of by Authority, for the Yeomanry...
London: W. Clowes and Sons, 1840. Second edition. The second edition of this cavalry sword manual by Henry William Angelo, the grandson of Domenico Angelo, founder of London's School of Arms. The first edition was published in 1835 with 10 plates. Read More
Price: $650
The Chace, The Turf, and The Road by Nimrod.
London: Edward Arnold, 1898. New Edition with Illustrations by Henry Alken. A Portrait by D. Maclise, R.A. and other Portraits. Read More
Price: $200
Present from a Prince
The Life of a Sportsman. By Nimrod.
London: Kegan Paul, 1914. Present from a Prince. Handsome standard edition of this classic sporting work, with the small engraved card of Primce Dimitri de Russie (1901-1980, nephew of tsar Nicholas II), and his handwritten birthday wishes, “Many happy returns of the day, and best wishes Dimitri” [with a flourish]... Read More
Price: $375
Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq....by Nimrod. With a Brief Memoir of Nimrod, by the Author...
London: Rudolf Ackermann, Eclipse Sporting Gallery, 191 Regent Street, 1851. Alken, Henry. Third edition, third issue, with both engraved and printed titles dated 1851. Desirable edition, as it is the first to include The "Brief Memoir of Nimrod, by the Author of 'Handley Cross'"[Surtees]. Read More
Price: $600
Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq.…by Nimrod. With a Brief Memoir of Nimrod, by the Author...
London: Rudolf Ackermann, Eclipse Sporting Gallery, 191 Regent Street, 1851. Alken, Henry. Third edition. Desirable edition, as it is the first to include The “Brief Memoir of Nimrod, by the Author of ‘Handley Cross’”[Surtees]. Read More
Price: $450