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All main information about all countries and continents of the world View picture(s) 21 BOHN, HENRY G. A Pictorial hand-Book of modern geography, on a popular plan, compiled from the best authorities, English and foreign, and completed to the present state; with numerous tables and a general index London, Henry G. Bohn, 1861. Sm.8vo. Orig. green cloth, richly blind-stamped, with gilt title and publisher's address on spine. With 51 steel-engraved maps, one folding, and 150 wood-engraved views and illustrations in text. X, (2), 529, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Encyclopædic Works  English  Geography  Manuals  Popular Books  Provenance  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Popular biography of Sir Francis Drake View picture(s) 22 BROWN, Robert. Der Englische Held und Ritter Franciscus Dracke. In einer ausführlichen Beschreibung von dessen Leben, Thaten und See-Reisen, darunter besonders die Reise un die Welt sehr merckwürdig. Welcher ein Anhang beybefüget von dem erstaunens-würdigen Schiffbruch des Ost-Indischen Jagdt-Schiffes, der Schelling genannt. Leipzig, Wolffgang Deer, 1726. 8vo. Original boards. With engraved frontispiece portrait of Sir Francis Drake mounted. 472 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Discovery & Exploration  English  Exploration  Piracy  Shipwrecks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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English translation of the Dutch adaptation of Richardson's Clarissa View picture(s) 23 CAMBON (-VAN DE WERKEN, M.G.) DE. Letters and Conversations between several Young Ladies, on Interesting and Improving Subjects. Translated from the Dutch, with Alterations and Improvements. London, Printed for C. Dilly, 1792. Contemp. half morocco. (4), 414, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Children's Books  Dutch  English  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A Dutch adaptation of Richardson's Grandison that became a classic in its own right View picture(s) 24 CAMBON-VAN DER WERKEN, (M.G.) DE. De Kleine Grandisson, of de Gehoorzaame Zoon. In eene reeks van brieven en saamenspraaken. Tweede vermeerderde druk. 's-Grav., J.C. Leeuwestijn, 1798. 4 parts in 1 vol. 12mo. Contemp. half marbled calf, spine gilt. With 12 full-page engraved plates by H. Roosing after Cuylenburg. VIII, 239, (1 blank); (4), 256; (4), 198, (2 blank); 198 (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Children's Books  Dutch  English  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Witty satire on British upper-class life and hunting, illustrated with 24 coloured funny aquatints View picture(s) 25 CARELESS, John. The old English 'squire. "A jovial gay fox hunter, bold, frank and free." London, Howlett & Brimmer for Thomas M'Lean, 1821. Small folio (295 x205 mm). Rebound in the second half of the 19th century: polished blue morocco with richly gilt decorated spine with title and author lettered in gold, two gilt rules along the edges of both covers, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. (ZAEHNSDORF). 24 coloured aquatints "Published May 1821 by Thomas McLean, Hay Market". VIII, 136 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Colour Plate Books  English  Hunting  Satire  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Chinese influences on British gardening View picture(s) 26 CHAMBERS, William. A dissertation on Oriental gardening. The second edition, with additions. To which is annexed, an explanatory discourse by Tan Chet-qua, of Quang-chew-fu, Gent. London, W. Griffin & T. Davies, 1773. 4to. Three-quarter reddish mottled calf with red morocco title label lettered in gold. With engraved allegorical title (dated 1772) and engraved dedication to King George III, both by F. Bartolozzi after G.B. Cipriani. 163 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Agriculture & Husbandry  China  English  Gardens  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With manuscript dedication by the author View picture(s) 27 CORNFORD, F. Death and the princess. A morality. Cambridge, 1912. Orig. wrappers. Frontispiece illustration. (6), 112 pp.- With manuscript dedication by the author, dated March 1913.- Good copy. Full description >> Related Subjects: 20th Century  England  English  Painting & Drawing  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition View picture(s) 28 CRANE, WALTER. The Baby's Opera. A Book of Old Rhymes with new Dresses. The Music by the Earliest Masters. London, New York, Edmund Evans, Frederick Warne & Co., (1877). Sm.4to. Orig. half cloth, with beautifully designed and decorated boards, printed in black and white on reddish brown boards, red painted edges. With finely designed and illustrated title-page printed in light blue and yellow, colour-printed wood-engraved frontispiece, 10 full-page colour-printed wood-engraved plates, beautifully illustrated colour-printed borders and book decoration throughout, and with musical scores to all the old rhymes, all designed by Walter Crane and wood-engraved and printed in colours by Edmund Evans. 56 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Children's Books  English  Picture Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of Dickens's famous novels in its first edition View picture(s) 29 DICKENS, Charles. Bleak House. London, Bradbury & Evans, 1853. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, gilt spine blind tooled in compartments with black title label lettered in gold. Frontispiece, extra lithographed title and 38 full-page lithographed plates all by H.K. Browne. XVI, 624 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  English  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The exemplary life of a native of Hawaiï View picture(s) 30 DWIGHT, E.W. Memoir of Henry Obookiah, a Native of the Sandwich  Islands, who died at Cornwall, Connecticut, February  17, 1818, aged 26. Revised edition. New York, The American Tract Society, (ca. 1830). 12mo. Contemporary half calf. With engraved portrait of Henry Obookiah by Dagget, Hinman & Co. for frontispiece. 124 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  America, North  English  Hawaii  Pacific  Sandwich Islands  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The ocean and her rulers View picture(s) 31 ELWES, A.A. De zee en hare beheerschers, of beknopte geschiedenis der voornaamste zeemogendheden uit vroegeren en lateren tijd. Naar het Engelsch voor Nederlanders bewerkt door A.A. Deenik. Sneek, Van Druten & Bleeker, 1861. Sm.8vo. Contemp. half red morocco. XXV, 368 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Dutch  English  History  Maritime History  Navigation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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An American scientist on the Land of Cocoa View picture(s) 32 EWBANK, Thomas. Life in Brazil; or, a journal of a visit to the land of the cocoa and the palm with an appendix, containing illustrations of ancient South American arts. In recently discovered implements and products of domestic industry, and works in stone, pottery, gold, silver, bronze, &c. New York, Harper & Brothers, publishers, 1856. Large 8vo. Publishers embossed cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Wih over one hundred illustrations. XVI, 469 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Brazil  English  Travel  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A British view on Dutch affairs View picture(s) 33 FELL, R. A Tour through the Batavian Republic during the latter part of the year 1800. Containing an Account of the Revolution and recent events in that Country. London, for R. Phillips, 1801. 8vo. Contemporary cloth, with red title-label on spine. XII, 395, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  English  Netherlands  Travel  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The alphabet along with lessons in morals and civil behaviour View picture(s) 34 FENNING, D. The Universal Spelling-Book; or, A New and Easy Guide  to the English Language. Containing I. Tables of Words  in one, two, three, and Four Syllables; with natural  and easy Lessons in each, adapted to the Capacity of  Children, from Three Years old and upwards. II. A very easy and rational Guide to English Grammar, by Way of Question and Answer. III. A Collection of near 5000 of the most useful Words of two, three and four Syllables, viz. Nouns Substantive, Adjectives, and Verbs. IV. Many useful Things necessary to help the young beginner. V. Chronological Tables of the Succession of the Kings of England, and many of the most memorable Occurrences in sacred and prophane History. Thirty-Fifth Edition, with Additions. London, for S. Crowder, B.C. Collins in Salisbury, 1789. Sm.8vo. Contemp. buckram. With illustrations of a boys' and a girls' classroom and of children playing on engraved frontispiece, 2 engraved plates, one with various alphabets in Roman printing types and the other with various writing types in "round hand", and 8 woodcuts within ornamental borders to the reading exercises, which include some fables. (12), 152, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Children's Books  Education  English  Linguistics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to draw easy without knowing any rule at all View picture(s) 35 FERGUSON, James. The art of drawing in perspective made easy to those  who have no previous knowledge of the mathematics. London, W. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1775. 8vo. Contemporary sprinkled calf, red gilt title label on spine, spine gilt. With 9 folding engraved numbered plates with perspective drawings. XII, 123, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Art  English  Painting & Drawing  Perspective  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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English life and morals translated into Dutch View picture(s) 36 FIELDING, H. De Historie of Gevallen van Joseph Andriessen, Broeder van Pamela, en zyn Vriend den Heer Abraham Adams. Geschreeven in navolging van Cervantes, Schryver van Don Quichot. Na den derden druk uit 't Engels vertaelt. Amst., Steeve van Esveldt, 1744. 2 parts in 1 vol. Contemp. half calf, spine ribbed and gilt, with dark brown title-label. With engraving on first title, woodcut vignette on second title, and 12 full-page engraved plates by C. de Putter. (24), 256; (8), 276, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Dutch  English  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First Dutch edition View picture(s) 37 FIELDING, H. Leevensbeschryving van wylen den Heere Jonathan Wild, den Grooten. Naar den laatsten druk uit het Engelsch overgezet. Amst., Pieter Meyer, 1757. Sm.8vo. Modern plain half cloth. With engraved frontispiece by S. Fokke. (28), 388 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Dutch  English  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The most sexually explicit novel by Ian Fleming View picture(s) 38 FLEMING, Ian. The spy who loved me. London, Jonathan Cape, (1962). 8vo. Original cloth with silver blade dagger on front cover and silver printed title on spine and original dust jacket designed by Richard Chopping. Double page plate of Dreamy Pines motor court. 221 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 20th Century  Bibliophily  English  Popular Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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English translation of Il Pastor Fido View picture(s) 39 GUARINI, B. (= G.). The Faithful Shepherd. A Pastoral Tragi-comedy, Written in Italian. Translated into English, and Adorn'd with a new Set of Cuts. London, Printed for Richard Montagu, John Torbuck, Charles Corbett, 1736. Sm.8vo. Contemp. marbled calf, spine gilt-lined with black title-labels. With engraved frontispiece, signed S.F, and with several fine woodcut head- and tail-pieces. 236 (=238) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  English  Italy  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Interesting picture of warfare in the Netherlands during the Eighty-Years-War View picture(s) 40 HEXHAM, Henry. The principles of the art militarie, practised in the warres of the United Netherlands: represented by figure, the word of command, and demonstration (Part 1-3 and the Appendix to part 1). London, Delft & The Hague, Robert Young, Jan Petersen Waelpote & Francis vander Spruyt, 1637-1640. 4 parts in one vol. Folio. Contemporary calf (rebacked). With 19 double-page, 44 full-page and 25 half-page engraved plates of instructions for the use of the musket and other weapons, military formations on the battle field, fortifications, etc. ca. 210 pp. (see collation below). Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  England  English  Militaria  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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