Kol. Kupferstich von J.W. Zinke, dat. 1855, 23 x 34 cm. Nebehay-Wagner 637, 38. - Aus G.A. Schimmer, "Das alte Wien".

P. Bertrand, 1855. Large quarto Illustrated with 20 lithographed plates in colour original brown wrappers, in mylar jacket, in custom red cloth folding box (fine) This is part seven of Castelnau's complete fourteen volume work, considered "one of the most valuable contributions of its kind in all zoological literature" (Wood 281). This volume on the ornithology of South America is part of his section on zoology. Francois Louis Nompar de Caumont LaPorte, comte (earl) de Castelnau (1810 - 1880) was a French naturalist, born in London. He studied natural history in Paris and led a scientific expedition to Canada between 1837 - 1841. There he studied the fauna of the Canadian lakes and the political systems of Upper and Lower Canada (roughly corresponding to the modern provinces of Ontario and Quebec) and of the United States. [King] Louis Philippe sent Castelnau in 1843 together with two botanists and a taxidermist to South America. There they crossed the continent following the watershed between the Amazon and La Plata river systems from Rio de Janeior to Lima and From Lima to Para. The expedition lasted five years, and Castelnau sered as the French consul in Bahia in 1848. He later led expeditions to the far east and Australia Wrappers and some edges a little nicked and rubbed, plates fine and complete with tissue guards

New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1855. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. pp: 99, (1) tables of moneys, 36 publisher's catalogue; hand-colored, folding map at rear, opens to 22" x 24". Few spots of foxing to first and last few text leaves, map in excellent condition. Bound in red cloth, blind-stamped designs on both boards, gilt lettering on front cover. 6" x 3.75" The Western States here are Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, and the Territories of Minnesota, Kansas and Nebraska. The eastern portion of the Northwest Territory, Ohio, had by 1855 attracted some two million settlers, while Minnesota had only six thousand. The text and map cover all the crossroads and villages west of Pennsylvania, including waystops along the Oregon Trail between Independence, Missouri and Oregon. About half-way along that trail, another intersects, the route to Sacramento via Lake Truckee, site of the Donner Party tragedy. Canals in Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana are included in this guidebook. Provenance: Pencilled on the front free-endpaper is the signature of H. Dunbar.

Liverpool: Philip, 1855.(). Folio. 51 maps and plans; half morocco.

1855.

Two Volumes London: Henry G. Bohn 1855, 1855. Full Vellum. In 2 volumes complete. xlviii, 768; xiv, (ii), 733 pp. Contemporary full vellum with decorative gilt-patterned spines and maroon leather title labels. All edges gilt. Bevelled edges. Marbled endpapers. Armorial bookplate to front pastedowns. Minor rubbing to vellum. Spotting to prelims. Faint staining to final few leaves of volume one. Internally clean. Extra coloured illuminated title-page. With 116 in-text woodcut engravings. A handsome pair. 25 cms. tall.. Fine .

London: Office, 16, Wellington Street, Strand, [Nov. 3 - Nov. 24, 1855, Dec. 8 - Dec. 22, 1855, Feb. 16, 1856, March 1 - May 17, 1856]. Original parts as issued, 8vo., 313-408, 435-504, 97-120, 145-432 pp. Printed wrappers. Some chipping and minor foxing to outer wrappers and edges, else very good. First edition in original parts. Contributions by Dickens include "A Slight Depreciation of Currency" (Nov. 3, 1855), "Why?" (March 1, 1856), "Proposals For a National Jest Book" (May 3, 1856), and "Railroad Dreaming" (May 10, 1856). Contributions also include all original five chapters of A Rogue's Life by Wilkie Collins (March 1 - March 29, 1856). Eckel 202-219. Kitton 107-137. Podeschi E113.

Philadelphia: Collins, 1855. 40pp, stitched in original stiff cardboards with title printed on front cover. Very Good, with the folding 'Map of the Pennsylvania Rail Road from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh; and of the Columbia & Lancaster & Harrisburg R.Rs. from Philadelphia to Harrisburg 1855. H. Haupt, Chf. Eng. J.P. & J. Lesley, Jr. Topographers.' Large, brightly hand-colored, 20 x 178 cm, folded accordion-style. Light toning, Very Good. A scarce and desirable item on the Nation's dominant railroad. The large hand-colored map is visually appealing. It is a "Topographic strip map of Pennsylvania between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh showing drainage, relief by form lines, county boundaries, cities and towns. A list of stations and distances is given to the right of the map" [Modelski]. The Guide is a detailed description of the area traversed by the Railroad on this Map.Modelski 517. Sabin 60358n.

NY: Putnam, 1855. As called for by Blanck on pp. 141, 237, 238 and 239. 12mo, pp. 276. Bound in brown cloth, (first issue with pendants under the "F, Y, E" on the spine. Some rubbed. Front hinge little tender. Some foxed throughout, a very good copy. BAL 13667. Wright II, 1700. Israel Potter "is based on Henry Trumbull's biography, The Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel Potter (1824) In search of freedom and adventure, Israel become involved in the battle of Bunker Hill. He meets three Americans: Benjamin Franklin, who robs him...John Paul Jones, who genuinely befriends him, and Ethan Allen, who posses America's most admirable characteristics...An archypal American, he is taken prisoner by the English, exiled for 50 years, and returns home to die"[p. 507]. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

No Binding. Very Good. Collection of 124 letters, 477 manuscript pages (no retained mailing envelopes) correspondence dated 2 August 1855 - 29 January 1891, with the bulk being from 1867-1873. With: Manuscript diary of Nettie Isbell, dated 1865-1867, small quarto, 246 pages, bound in contemporary ¼ leather and marbled boards, written in ink, in a legible hand. The 124 letters include 18 undated letters, which appear to be from the late 1860s to early 1870s time period. Besides the 124 letters, there are an additional 12 incomplete letters, or notes, numbering 24 manuscript pages, which are also not dated. The amount of letters and the range of the years they were written are: 11 letters 1855-1864; 85 letters 1867-1873; 10 letters 1875-1891; and then there are the 18 undated letters that are circa 1860s-1870s. Of the 124 letters, more then half (64 of 124) are written by Arthur D. Lee to Annette ""Nettie"" C. Isbell, his fiancée, later his wife. These letters were written between 1867 and 1873. There are 29 letters written by Nettie's sister Jesse to Nettie, mainly from 1872-1873, when she was in a sanitarium. The remaining letters are written by other members of the Isbell family, and perhaps by some friends of the family. The miscellaneous letters are posted from various places: Chicago (IL) and Coldwater (MI), as well as a number of cities and towns in New York State (Binghamton, Buffalo, Oswego, Utica, Vernon Center), as well as other locations. Annette ""Nettie"" C. Isbell (1845- 1914) and Arthur Delos Lee (1845- 1920) Nettie Isbell was born about 1845. She was … [Click Below for Full Description]

1855. TARBUCK, E.L. THE BUILDER'S PRACTICAL DIRECTORY OR, BUILDING FOR ALL CLASSES. Leipzig and Dresden: A.H. Payne, (1855). 4to. Publisher's half-morocco. Frontispiece, engraved title leaf, iv, 264, (2) pages, 132 plates, 49 of which are hand-colored. First edition. The text concentrates on a wide range of smaller homes, from laborer's cottages to villas, city row houses, and stores. Of particular interest are plans for converting freehold land into housing estates. The designs included estimated prices and technical information for the working contractor and builder. Printed in Germany, Ben Weinreb theorized, because hand-coloring could be done significantly cheaper there. The publisher was an English engraver who settled in Leipzig. Light sporadic foxing else very good.

J.H. Colton, New York, 1855. Folding pocket map, first published in 1854. Broadside map of North Carolina, 13 3/4 x 16 3/4 inches, folded to 16mo (5 x 3 1/2 inches), the counties hand-colored in light shades of pink, blue, green, and yellow, the state borders outlined in a darker pink; railroads, highways and other roads, cities, towns, and villages, rivers, creeks, and other waterways, and topographical features are located, all enclosed within an ornamental border; the front pastedown is a publisher's ad for "maps, atlases, guides, books, etc." With an inset map of "Beaufort Harbor" (2 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches). Cover title: "Map of North Carolina, J.H. Colton." Not in Phillips. Laney and Hill 214 (but as included as a frontispiece in an 1869 immigration promotional, not as the folding pocket map). OCLC locates eight copies (Buffalo/Erie Co. Public, North Carolina-Greensboro, North Carolina, Duke, Memphis Public, Brigham Young, Buffalo Bill History Center, Western University). Very good. Original gilt-stamped brown cloth. (#7603). [Attributes: Hard Cover]

Hardcover. George Lewis ("Louis") Becke (1855-1913), was born in Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia. A trader and adventurer in the South Pacific, he began his career as a journalist and writer in 1893, eventually publishing 35 books (six in collaboration with Walter James Jeffery), and enjoying literary fame in the 1890s. James A. Michener and A. Grove Day considered him to be the best writer about the South Pacific. Uniformly bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in half emerald morocco and marbled boards, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers, bound-in ribbon markers, spines with raised bands, gilt decorations (ship, anchor, shell, fish), date at foot. Two blank leaves at front and at rear of each volume, all with half-titles except where noted. Spines evenly sunned to brown; slight darkening to margins of sides and leather corners; some small scuff spots to the leather inner margin of the sides of a few volumes (touched up); else fine, no chipping to the spines, no owner names, hinges and joints not cracked. All volumes octavo but various sizes. Contains: *A FIRST FLEET FAMILY By Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery. London: Unwin, 1896. First edition. xvi, 271 pp. Folding map at front. * ADMIRAL PHILIP. The Founding of New South Wales. By Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery. London: Unwin, 1899. First edition. (v)-xx, 336 pp + frontispiece portrait with tissue guard + 2 maps. THE ADVENTURES OF LOUIS BLAKE. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1913. Later printing. [4], 307, [1, ad] pp. THE ADVENTURES OF A SUPERCARGO. London: Unwin, (1925). Second impression (re-set). 285 pp. BREACHLEY, BLACK SHEEP. Lond … [Click Below for Full Description]

Bradbury & Evans, Bouverie Street, [December, 1855 - June, 1857 8vo., 20 monthly parts in 19 as issued, with 40 engraved plates including frontis and title vignette with tissue guards. Original printed blue wrappers with trade advertisements to inner sides as well as outside back wrappers, with a variety of publishers ads, and slips bound-in. Wrappers have sustained a varying amount of chipping and wear, plates are foxed and damp stained, most of the parts have been repaired, otherwise a good set with most of the advertising slips intact. First edition in original parts, with the white "Missing" slip intact in part 16. "In this book Dickens made a second assault on the archaism of imprisonment for debt..." Eckel 82-86. This was the last of the big novels published by Bradbury & Evans after a dispute over the publishing of Dickens marital in-tranquilities. Hatton and Cleaver 307-330. Thomson 73.

Folio. 20 pp. Accompanied by the final leaf (2 pp., 8vo) of a letter dated 23 Dec. 1855, signed "AGB.". Manuscript account of the journey from the Crimea to England in late 1855. The author, a Lieutenant Colonel, considers how the presence of cholera and a predicted Russian attack could have prevented his return, then describes his journey on the ship "Thames", visits to Constantinople and Malta, military figures encountered and the condition of the wounded. The account ends with the reception at Woolwich. - Occasional edge defects (slight loss to text).

Very Good. Hardcover. A complete set of Pacific Railroad surveys. Twelve volumes bound in thirteen. Large, thick quarto. Numerous printers: A. O. P. Nicholson (Vols. I-X) , George W. Bowman (Vol XI) , and Thomas H. Ford (Vol XII Part I and II) , Washington, 1855-1860. Quarter or half leather binding over marbled boards, Volume XI in publisher's cloth. Volumes with plates include: Vol. II, 37 plates, 2 folding maps; Vol III, 31 plates, 3 folding maps; Vol IV, 59 plates, 1 folding map; Vol. V, 58 plates, 8 folding maps; Vol. VI, 45 plates; Vol. VII, 51 plates, 2 folding maps; Vol. VIII, 43 plates; Vol. X, 122 plates; Vol. XI, 17 plates, 29 folding maps; Vol XII Part 1, 70 plates, 3 folding maps; XII Part 2, 53 plates. Bindings worn and chipped in places; occasional light to heavy foxing and toning throughout text block and plates. Some leaves browned in Volume II, Part 2; Volume X, Part 4 has a few leaves with heavy foxing; volume XI cracked at top of rear gutter with heavy foxing to early leaves and small tear to the front endpaper, "Map of the Territory of the U. S. From Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean" has a 10" tear, affecting content; Volume XII, Part 2 has damage to 55pp and 56pp. Vol. III has extra color plates: "View of Black Forest Mount Hope" and "Mojave Indians" and lacks text plate 35, "Pictographs at Yampais Spring" and includes one extra folding map; Vol. V, geology plate 10 lacking, and plate 3 of mammals trimmed on right side; Vol. X, birds section has 2 extra plates; Vol. XII, Part 1, plate 22 lacking and plate 23 duplicated. A very good … [Click Below for Full Description]

- Litho m. Tonplatte n. u. v. F. Meyer b. Schröder in Berlin, um 1855, 16,5 x 23,5 Kiewitz 848; ernst, F. Meyer, Nr. 4. - Blick von der Kurfürstenbrücke über die Spree zu den neuen Mühlen am Mühlendamm. Links das Nikolaiviertel.

1855. 6 Antique master prints, titled: 'Skizzen zu Shakespeare's Sommernachtstraum [.].' - A set of 6 illustrations to Shakespeare's "Midsummernights dream". Etching on wove paper. Description: Complete set in the original boards with description in four languages, published in Leipzig, ca.1855.Artists and Engravers: Made by 'Ludwig Sigismund Ruhl' after own design. Ludwig Sigismund Ruhl (1794-1887) worked with the Nazarener member and is one of the more interesting memebers of the Romantic period in Germany. Condition: Good, given age. Full margins, some foxing, boards show traces of use, spine quite worn. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully. Storage location: Kast achter The overall size is ca. 11.6 x 9.4 inch. The image size is ca. 8.1 x 10.5 inch. The overall size is ca. 29.5 x 23.8 cm. The image size is ca. 20.5 x 26.6 cm. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

Paris. Firmin Didot. 1855.1 vol. in-12, plein maroquin vert, fleuron doré au centre des plats, dos à nerfs orné et passé, tranches dorées, roulette intérieure. Reliure signée Hardy. [2] ff. ; XLVI pp. ; [1] f. bl. ; 299 pp. [Attributes: Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

with a sketch of their mission history. Written for young people. London : Hamilton, Adama & Co., 1855. Octavo, gilt lettered cloth (spine sunned), bookplate to front pastedown, frontispiece engraving, pp. vi; [2]; two engraved maps, 427, engravings and maps. Presentation copy, inscribed on the title page 'F. S. Butler from Miss Farmer 1860'. A detailed history of Tonga including chapters on coral, Captain Cook's visits, Christian missions, etc. A very good presentation copy. Hill 583; Muir 8438. Not in Beddie.

1855. London: Bradbury & Evans, Bouverie Street, [December, 1855 - June, 1857]. 8vo., 20 monthly parts in 19 as issued, 32, 16, [1]-32, 4, [4], 4, [1], [1], 16; 12, 33-64, [1], [8], [2], [2], [4]; 12, 65-96, 4; 12, [97]-128, [2], [2], [4]; 12, 129-160, [2], [1], 16; 12, 161-192, 8, 4, [2], [2], [4]; 12, 193-224, 4, [2], [2], 4; 12, 225-256, [4], [3], 2; 12, 257-288, 4, [4]; 12, 289-320, [4], [2], 4; 12, [321]-352; 353-384, [4], [4], [1]; 12, 12, 385-416, 24, [4]; 12, 417-448, [4], [1-2], [2], [3-4], [2], [8]; 12, 449-480, [4]; 8, [1], 481-512, [4], [4]; 12, 513-544, [2]; 12, 545-576, [4], [2]; 12, 577-625, xiv pp., with 40 engraved plates including frontis and title vignette with tissue guards. Original printed blue wrappers with trade advertisements to inner sides as well as outside back wrappers, with a variety of publishers ads, and slips bound-in. Wrappers have sustained a varying amount of chipping and wear, plates are foxed and damp stained, most of the parts have been repaired, otherwise a good set with most of the advertising slips intact. § First edition in original parts, with the white "Missing" slip intact in part 16. "In this book Dickens made a second assault on the archaism of imprisonment for debt..." Eckel 82-86. This was the last of the big novels published by Bradbury & Evans after a dispute over the publishing of Dickens marital intranquilities. Hatton and Cleaver 307-330. Thomson 73.

Saunders And Otley, London 1855 - Inscribed by Illustrator. Anonymous. Book - in Fair/Good blue boards with gilt lettering - some marking to the boards, some rubbing/wearing and bumping to the extreme edges and corners and the spine. Contents, scattered browning and spotting, some staining to the yellow paste downs and free front and rear end paper, previous owner's stamp to the bottom edge of the rear paste down, hinges cracked but holding otherwise clean and tightly bound. WITH AN INSCRIPTION BY THE ILLUSTRATOR TO HER BROTHER which unfortunately we are unable to decipher but see the scan 'William ? from his sister Mel? the Illustrator.' Scarce original first edition in any condition. Size: 7.75 inches tall by 4.75 inches. xvi, 55 pages with a 4 page catalogue to the rear. Five pages with an illustration to them with a protective tissue, one in colour & the others are engravings . Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Poetry; Myths, Legends & Folklore. Inscribed by Illustrator. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 9021. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

Poughkeepsie: Abraham Tomlinson, 1855. First Edition. Very good+ in gray-green cloth covered boards with gilt text and decorations on the front board together with blind embossed borders on both boards. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 5 3/4 inches with the cloth at the head and heel of the spine worn through with the same being the case for the cloth over the tips of the boards. The preliminaries up to the title page and page 11 show light foxing. Illustrated with a frontispiece engraving of the ruins of Fort Ticonderoga. The full title as printed on the title page is: "The Military Journals Of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775, With Numerous Illustrative Notes To Which is Added, A Supplement, Containing Official Papers On The Skirmishes At Lexington And Concord." This volume contains the first-person accounts of two soldiers. The first is by Lemuel Lyon of Woodstock, Connecticut who was recruited to engage in the campaign to lay siege to Fort Ticonderoga then occupied by the French. This narrative taking place during the French and Indian War comprises pages 11 to 45. The second narrative is that of Samuel Haws of Wrenthram, Massachusetts who was engaged as in the Boston militia during the nine month effort to bottle up the British on Boston and Charleston peninsulas at the start of the American Revolution. It is contained within pages 51 to 90. The remained of the book (to page 128) contains the "Supplement, containing Official Papers On The Skirmishes At Lexington And Concord And A List Of Revolutionary Articles In The Poughkeepsie Museum". Extensive footnotes appear throughout … [Click Below for Full Description]

o.O., o.A. 1855 (ca.). 2 Bände. schöne Halblederbände mit Goldprägung auf dem Rücken. Minimaler Größenunterschied der Bände, abweichende Goldprägung. Insgesamt ca. 560 Stahlstichtafeln. Kein fortlaufenderText. Bildunterschriften in französisch und spanisch. Sehr guter Zustand unpaginiert, Illustrationen Französisch 1470g

M-Imp. Carlos Bailly-Baillière, 1855. 19,5 cm. XLVIII-414 p., 1 h. Trad. por Tomás Pellicer y J. Álvarez Peralta. Sello de anterior poseedor. Enc. en media piel. (10962-M3). MEDICINA.

First edition. Folding map. 8vo. Modern half morocco, gilt. xi, 267pp. London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans,

Berlin Georg Reimer 1855 gr. 8°, Lwd. d. Zeit. m. Goldprägung, X, 520 S. - Einband stellenw. berieben u. m.. Knivkspur, Buchblock leicht verzogen, Namenseintrag, die ersten und letzten Seiten etwas stockfleckig, sonst sauberes Exemplar Versand D: 5,50 EUR

Georg Reimer, Berlin, 1855. gr. 8°, Lwd. d. Zeit. m. Goldprägung, X, 520 S. - Einband stellenw. berieben u. m. Knivkspur, Buchblock leicht verzogen, Namenseintrag, die ersten und letzten Seiten etwas stockfleckig, sonst sauberes Exemplar [Attributes: Hard Cover]