Day & Son. In 8° (mm 290x205); frontespizio, pagg. VIII, 72 con 40 tavole fuori testo in litografia a colori (la 39 dell'assedio di Peschiera in antiporta) e 2 carte delle battaglie di Magenta e Solferino nel testo iniziale.Legatura editoriale in percallina rossa con impressioni in oro raffiguranti scene di battaglia ed a secco a piatti e dorso, titolo in oro al piatto ed al dorso, tagli in oro. Le belle tavole sono delineate da Bossoli ed eseguite in litografia da vari autori Il ticinese Carlo Bossoli (Davesco Lugano 1815- Torino 1884) pittore, disegnatore e litografo, seguì l'esercito sardo nella guerra del 1859 e documentò con grande bravura gli episodi bellici salienti rendendo le scene con realismo e paesaggismo di buona fattura. Il testo è opera del colonnello magiaro Nandor Eber, corrispondente dalla Crimea per il Times di Londra. Discrete condizoni generali con qualche abrasione, macchia ed escoriazione alla legatura. Una piega al frontespizio, qualche ossidazione e fioritura all'interno.

Day & Son, Londra. In 8? (mm 290x205); frontespizio, pagg. VIII, 72 con 40 tavole fuori testo in litografia a colori (la 39 dell'assedio di Peschiera in antiporta) e 2 carte delle battaglie di Magenta e Solferino nel testo iniziale.Legatura editoriale in percallina rossa con impressioni in oro raffiguranti scene di battaglia ed a secco a piatti e dorso, titolo in oro al piatto ed al dorso, tagli in oro. Le belle tavole sono delineate da Bossoli ed eseguite in litografia da vari autori Il ticinese Carlo Bossoli (Davesco Lugano 1815- Torino 1884) pittore, disegnatore e litografo, seguÏ l'esercito sardo nella guerra del 1859 e documentÚ con grande bravura gli episodi bellici salienti rendendo le scene con realismo e paesaggismo di buona fattura. Il testo Ë opera del colonnello magiaro Nandor Eber, corrispondente dalla Crimea per il Times di Londra. Discrete condizoni generali con qualche abrasione, macchia ed escoriazione alla legatura. Una piega al frontespizio, qualche ossidazione e fioritura all'interno. storia.

This album represents an early voyage, quite possibly the inaugural voyage, of Royal Yacht SMS Grille, an important Prussian sailing vessel which would later be chosen for the passage through the Suez Canal on its grand opening of 17 November 1869 with the Crown Prince Louis of Hesse being on board, and the longest serving warship of the German Imperial Navy. Germany: 11-14 July 1859. Commemorative morocco album purpose-made for what was most likely the inaugural voyage of SMS Grille, an important Prussian sailing vessel, containing a manuscript dedication to Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia (1828-1885) with the original signatures of six notables who were onboard. Folio. Red morocco boards, titled and tooled in gilt to front, exquisite blindstamped detail, white satin endpapers. Volume measures approximately 38 x 28,5 x 2 cm. Accompanied by a manuscript letter written in 1874, Folio. 2 pages double-leaf measuring approximately 35 x 21,5 cm. Von Stettin nach Ystadt den 11. bis 14 Juli 1859. [From Szczecin to Ystadt 11 to 14 July 1859.] Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia (1828-1885), to whom the volume is dedicated, was at the time a Lieutenant General in the Prussian Army. After many years of service and distinguished leadership in battle, the Prince was made Inspector-General and was given the rank of Field Marshal of Russia by Alexander II of Russia. In 1878 he was created an honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. The sea route is revealed with ports of call printed in gilt to the front boards, beginning at Stettin [Szczecin], proceeding to S … [Click Below for Full Description]

1859. No binding. Good. Archive of letters from and to Charles B. Safford, written from 1859-1866, including 51 letters from Safford to his wife Clara between June 1862 and October 1866, detailing his enlistment, experiences in camp in the western theater, his wounding and convalescence in army hospitals, his commission as a captain in the U.S.C.T., and his experiences in Virginia after the war in mustering soldiers out, participating in courts martial, and leading a company of African-American troops. Also included are 2 letters from Edward P. Safford, Charles' brother and fellow soldier, to Clara; 11 letters from Clara to Charles, all from 1865; and 8 letters from his mother and other relatives in Massachusetts to Charles in 1865. Notable as well is the response to Clara Safford's February 1865 letter to Abraham Lincoln, requesting her husband's discharge. The army denied the request in April 1865. Postwar letters include 39 love letters from Thomas Brooks to Clara Safford from 1870-1871, shortly before he became her second husband; 11 letters from Mary L. Estabrook, Clara's former mother-in-law, to Clara and her grandson, 1870-1876, and assorted other family letters. The collection also includes a 1/9 plate ambrotype, two cdvs (possibly of Clara), and two mounted photos, c. 1885 of two men. ""Things are getting along here pretty nicely since the President's Proclamation declaring all slaves free after the first of January 1863. The niggers are leaving quite fast and it does make their owners so mad. There is nothing scarcely that pleases me so well as to see how awful … [Click Below for Full Description]

Gebr der Scheitlin, Stuttgart, 1859. In 8? (mm 210x170); pagg. 293 con 35 tavole fuori testo incise in acciaio potrette da velina rosa editoriale raffiguranti usi, costumi, vedute di citt?; mezza tela con piatti percallina verde-nera marmorizzata, tagli azzurri a spruzzo. Ottimo esemplare geografia-viaggi.

London: John W. Parker and Son, 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first printing. [3]-207, (8, ads) pp. Recent full speckled calf binding, ruled and decorated in gilt, with gilt stamping on spine and title in gilt over crimson morocco, bound without first blank. Near Fine. Small faint stain to edge of page block. An exposition of classical liberalism often cited for its defense of individual freedom against the tyranny of the majority.

Paris: M. L�vy fr�res & Hetzel, 1859. Paris: M. Lévy frères & Hetzel, 1859. Fine. M. Lévy frères & Hetzel, Paris s.d. (1859), 9x13,5cm, broché. - First edition. Contributions by Théophile Gautier, Théodore de Banville, Aurélien Scholl, Emile Deschamps... Copy without foxing, part of the leaves are detached. Rare and sought-after. Printed ex libris imprimé on half title. - [FRENCH VERSION FOLLOWS] Edition originale. Contributions de Théophile Gautier, Théodore de Banville, Aurélien Scholl, Emile Deschamps... Exemplaire exempt de rousseurs et en partie débroché. Rare et recherché, ex-libris imprimé sur la page de faux-titre.

London: John W Parker, 1859. MILL,John Stuart. On Liberty. London, John W.Parker 1859Octavo contemporary calf, worn, covers with greek key pattern, spine skilfully rebacked, red and brown morocco labels lettered gilt, marbled endpapers, leaf edges gilt, pp.207 + (1), inscribed in ink on the title in a secretarial hand From the Author, numerous pencil lines throughout in the blank margins and a few annotations in pencil in the margins and the front blank by Buckle, tipped in at the front 6 pages of notes in ink Mill on Liberty in the hand of Henry Thomas Buckle.Printing & the Mind of Man: no. 345. Downs: Famous Books since 1492, no.82.FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, WITH THE MANUSCRIPT NOTES BY HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE [1821-1862] FOR HIS REVIEW OF J.S.MILL'S ON LIBERTY which appeared in Fraser's Magazine May 1859Henry Buckle, author of The History of Civilisation in England 1857-1861, eminent chess player, and book collector [his library extended to over 20,000 volumes].Buckle regarded John Stuart Mill as the greatest living thinker, but he also learned much from Enlightenment philosophers such as Voltaire, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, and Kant. He was influenced by the work of Auguste Comte, but even more by that of the statistician Adolphe Quételet. From these various thinkers Buckle concluded that all human behaviour is subject to law, and therefore that there can be a science of human society. Many critics in his own day and later thought of Buckle as the English disciple of Comte, but, as Mill declared, Buckle agreed with the founder of positivism on little other than the ba … [Click Below for Full Description]

Petersburg: Józafat Ohryzki, 1859-1860. MILL,John Stuart. Zasady ekonomji politicznej z niektóremi zastosowaniami do ekonomji społecznej. Napisal po angielsku...tłumaczyli R.P.i B. Tom pierczwy [-drugi] Petersburg, Józafat Ohryzki 1859, 18602 volumes, octavo, contemporary cloth, spines lettered gilt but faded, pp.iv, 428, v; xiii, (3), 559, viii, leaves a lightly spotted, contemporary Polish ownership in ink on the titles and old Polish library stamps, an excellent copy.First edition in Polish, but printed in St Petersburg in Russia. The translator has been partially identified as Bankowski and to avoid the Russian censor Mill's passages on communism and the French utopian movements have been excluded. Bankowski published three books in Polish in St Petersburg - educational books for the poorer and rural classes of Poland.Very rare, we have located one copy, in the Polish National Library.Estreicher,XIX, stólecia, III,p.135

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1859. First Edition. This practical guide for overland travelers to California and other western destinations was a nineteenth-century bestseller. Marcy provides advice on selection of route, preparation of a wagon, supplies and packing, finding and purifying water, fording rivers, herding and guarding pack animals, making fires and smoke signals, drying meat, dealing with friendly and hostile Indians, and pretty much everything else a traveler might need to know. Howes M-279. pp xiii, 340, with illustrations, folding map. Original brown cloth with blind-stamped decoration, re-backed with spine laid down. Very good.This practical guide for overland travelers to California and other western destinations was a nineteenth-century bestseller. Marcy provides advice on selection of route, preparation of a wagon, supplies and packing, finding and purifying water, fording rivers, herding and guarding pack animals, making fires and smoke signals, drying meat, dealing with friendly and hostile Indians, and pretty much everything else a traveler might need to know. Howes M-279. [Attributes: First Edition]

Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1859. 432pp. Original green patterned cloth, gilt-stamped spine. Front hinge cracked. Slight foxing. Overall very good. From the library of Guy Littell, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Second issue, probably the same sheets as the first of 1857, with a cancel title and Cooke's new rank of colonel. Cooke's career was largely in the West, beginning as an escort for a Santa Fe caravan in 1829, and including service at Fort Atkinson in 1831 and on the Oregon Trail in 1845, which is as far as this volume carries his story. An interesting military memoir. WAGNER-CAMP 288:2. CLARK III:24. HOWES C740. FIELD 359. SABIN 16339. RITTENHOUSE 132. GRAFF 871.

Please feel free to request a detailed description. Short description (computer translated from Russian into English): Tales of contemporaries about Dimitri Pretender: In 2 Parts. / [Preface by N. Ustryalov]. - 3rd Edition. Spanish. - St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1859. Part 1: Ber, Paerle, Marguerite and de Tu. - XII, 463 p., [1] front. (port.), [1] ill.; Part 2: Moskvich and diaries. - 367 pp., [1] front. (port.); 23.4 ? 16.1 cm.The portrait of False Dmitry is made in the technique of woodcuts (v. 1), the portrait of Marina Mniszek is made in the technique of engraving on metal. A sheet of photographs from the signatures of False Dmitry I, False Dmitry II and Captain Margaret (part 1). In two half-leather bindings of the era and a specially made case. Font publisher's covers are preserved. SKUAN7/495 Language: n/a [Attributes: Hard Cover]

Please feel free to request a detailed description. Short description (computer translated from Russian into English): A memorial book for the year 1860. - St. Petersburg. Military Pub., [1859]. - XIV, [2], 1-124, [2], 125-619, [6] with: ill., [1] zagl., [10] ill.; 12,5x8,3 cm.In contemporary half-leather binding. Illustrations and the title page are made in the technique of engraving on steel Lloyd according to the drawings of Russian artists - Maksyutov, Aivazovsky and others. A folding diagram of fire signals used in St. Petersburg. SKUAN7/973 Language: n/a [Attributes: Hard Cover]

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1859. London: Smith, Elder and Co.,, 1859. From authentic sources. To which is added an essay on Christianity. Octavo (194 x 128 mm). Original presentation binding of half vellum, spine tooled in gilt, red morocco label, single gilt rule to red boards, red endpapers, edges red. Engraved portrait frontispiece. Boards a little rubbed, otherwise a very good copy. Second edition, presentation copy inscribed by Lady Jane Shelley, Shelley's daughter-in-law, "The Countess of Malmesbury, from J. Shelley", on the front binder's blank. Jane Shelley was motivated to produce this memoir of her father-in-law as a response to his biography by Thomas Jefferson Hogg, which was published in 1858 to unfavourable reviews. In particular, the family was upset at what they perceived to be inaccuracies and fictions about the poet's life. First published in 1859, the first edition proved so popular that this second edition was published only four months later in the same year.

London: John W. Parker and Son, 1859. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (194 x 123 mm). [5] 6-207 [1], [4] pp., including 4 pp. of smaller-sized publisher's advertisements tipped in at end. Original publisher's plum cloth with blind-stamped borders and spine lettered in gilt (rebacked preserving original spine, extremities and boards little rubbed, corners worn). Pages untrimmed. Internally only little age-toned, a few annotations in light pencil, small ink spot to fore-edge. Provenance: David Rowland (ink inscription dated 1859 to front pastedown), The 19th Century Shop (card loosly inserted). A near fine, clean copy. ---- PMM 345; Schumpeter, pp. 430, 528. - FIRST EDITION of a key work by Mill, partially based on Utilitarian doctrine, remarkable for establishing philosophically the virtue of the liberty of the individual as an absolute good for the community as a whole, rather than simply as a relative virtue, in relation to tyranny and oppression. Mill's "most widely read book ... represents the final stage in the growth of Utilitarian doctrine ... Mill realized that the 'greatest good' of the community is inseparable from the liberty of the individual. Hitherto, liberty had always been considered relative, in relation to tyranny or oppression: Mill extended tyranny to include a custom-ridden majority, and declared that 'the sole end for which mankind is justified in interfering with liberty of action is self-protection.' ... Many of Mill's ideas are now the commonplaces of democracy. His arguments for freedom of every kind of thought or speech have n … [Click Below for Full Description]

London: John W. Parker and Son, 1859. On Liberty by John Stuart Mill First edition of Mill's best-known work, a cornerstone of classical liberalism London: John W. Parker and Son, 1859. [3]-207, (8, ads) pp. Recent full speckled calf binding, ruled and decorated in gilt, with gilt stamping on spine and title in gilt over crimson morocco, bound without first blank. First edition, first printing. Near Fine. Small faint stain to edge of page block. An exposition of classical liberalism often cited for its defense of individual freedom against the tyranny of the majority. [Attributes: First Edition]

London: W.H. Smith and Son, 1859. Small octavo, with 12 tinted lithograph plates and two folding maps; a very good copy in the original pictorial boards, later cloth spine, preserved in a folding box. First edition, in the very rare original pictorial boards. The twelve plates are by S.T. Gill and were commissioned for the book: they represent one of few examples of his work illustrating other people's books.This interesting account of Australasian travel was by the radical democrat owner-editor of the Argus, based on extensive travels throughout Australasia in the later 1850s. The appendix contains a variety of information relating to the Victorian Gold Rush, including details on the yields of different districts.Ferguson knew various cloth bindings of this first edition. Charmingly, the back board to this copy features a simple illustration of the two poles, featuring "Winter Night", a top-hatted northern hemisphere gentleman huddling from the cold, and "Summer Noon", a tramp making his way in the heat of Australia. In good condition.

London: John W. Parker and Son, 1859. On Liberty by John Stuart Mill First edition of Mill's best-known work, a cornerstone of classical liberalism London: John W. Parker and Son, 1859. [3]-207, (8, ads) pp. Recent full speckled calf binding, ruled and decorated in gilt, with gilt stamping on spine and title in gilt over crimson morocco, bound without first blank. First edition, first printing. Near Fine. Small faint stain to edge of page block. An exposition of classical liberalism often cited for its defense of individual freedom against the tyranny of the majority. [Attributes: First Edition]

Victor Masson, Paris, 1859. ORIGINAL WRAPS. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST FULL PUBLICATION OF THE RESULTS OF FIZEAU'S EXPERIMENTS WITH THE VELOCITY OF LIGHT. Note that the brief announcement of Fizeau's experiment was first published in Comptes Rendus in 1851. This paper "is less famous, for some reason, than the failure of Michelson and Morley to detect the aether drag, but no less significant. For it showed that the velocity of light increases in a medium according to the formula, v (1 - 1/n2), where v is the velocity of the medium, and n is the refractive index"(Gillespie in "The Edge of Objecticity" p. 427). Fizeau's paper is the first full experiment of an experiment measuring the speed of light in water. Known as the 'interference experiment', Fizeau's paper proved that the speed of light in water is affected by the direction of flow of the water. As Einstein himself would later acknowledge, the interference experiment with moving water is one of the main experiments confirming the special theory of relativity. Fizeau's work employed rotating mirrors and really involved two experiments, one with water moving in the direction of light and one with water moving opposite to the direction of the light - a method "capable of rendering evident any change of velocity due to motion" (Weinstein). In 1862, he would again use a modified version of this apparatus to determine the absolute speed of light. At the time, many believed that 'carrying medium' existed - an aether presumed to transmit light from its source to a given reflecting object and only from there to the human eye. I … [Click Below for Full Description]

1859 [et] 1861, 1859 [et] 1861, in-8, 135 pages, 1 pl. dépliante + [4]-156 pages, 1 pl. dépliante, brochés, couverture muette d'attente et couverture imprimée de l'éditeur, titres manuscrits au dos, Tirés à part, extraits des Annales des Mines, de ces deux travaux co-écrit par Sainte-Claire Deville, célèbre découvreur de l'aluminium, et son élève Henri Debray : Du platine et des métaux qui l'accompagnent, paru à l'origine dans le tome XVI de la 5e série (1859) ; et De la métallurgie du platine et des métaux qui l'accompagnent, publié originellement dans le tome XVII de la même série (1860). En parallèle à ses recherches et ses expériences sur l'aluminium, Sainte-Claire Deville (1818-1881) s'est également occupé de travaux importants sur la mine de platine, à la demande du gouvernement russe ; dès 1854, à l'aide du chalumeau à oxyhydrogène, il sépare du platine et identifie, outre le pal­la­dium et l'osmium, l'iri­dium, le rho­dium et le ruthé­nium, à partir de pépites provenant de l'Oural. En 1860, il présente à Académie des scien­ces des lin­gots de platine et de platine iridié, fondus dans le four de son laboratoire. "Deville and Debray examined platinium-iridium alloys on behalf of the Russian Government to determine their suitability for coinage. They found that they were superior to platinium in strenght and corrosion resistance. The 15 per cent alloy was used for the chemical plant, and the 10 per cent alloy was selected for the construction of the standard metre, the metal being fused and casted in Paris in May 1874 by Henri Tresco and George Matthey, under the super … [Click Below for Full Description]

Paris & Strasbourg, Veuve Berger-Levrault & fils, 1859. Folio (465 x 310 mm). Title, 2 pp. (list of plates), 147 plans and tables (the majority folding). Contemporary half cloth with original printed boards. The monumental atlas volume of this French General Staff account of the most famous operation of the Crimean War. "This book was compiled by General Charles Auger (1809-59), Deputy Chief of Staff of the artillery of the army of the East, based on the original notes of artillery officers who took part in the siege; it was reviewed by the General Thiry, artillery commander of the Eastern army" (cf. Brunet). The Siege of Sevastopol lasted from September 1854 until September 1855, during the Crimean War. The French, Ottoman, and British allies landed at Eupatoria on 14 September 1854, intending to make a triumphal march to Sevastopol, the capital of the Crimea, with 50,000 men. The 56-kilometre traverse took a year of fighting against the Russian forces. Major battles along the way were conducted, and finally, Sevastopol surrendered in September 1855. During the siege, the allied navy undertook six bombardments of the capital, on 17 October 1854; 9 April, 6 June, 17 June, 17 August, and 5 September 1855. The Russian field army withdrew before the allies could encircle it. The siege was the culminating struggle for the strategic Russian port in 1854-55 and was the final episode in the Crimean War. - Boards soiled and rubbed along edges, scattered spotting throughout, some paper flaws. Bookplates of the Bourges Artillery School on the pastedown, cancelled and with later bookp … [Click Below for Full Description]

London: John Murray, 1859. 8vo, ix, 502 pp. with a folding diagram facing p. 117. A very good copy, rebound without the ads in contemporary three-quarter brown calf, rebacked with backstrip laid down, marbled paper boards, edges and endpapers, gilt pannelled backstrip with red morocco label, minor rubbing to the boards and backstrip, page 23/24 skillfully repaired. Inscribed on the title page "George Stuart White Captain 92nd Highlanders 1st September 1865". Bookplate of John C. Hay on front paste down. First edition of the single most important scientific book ever published. "The publication of [On the Origin] ushered in a new era in our thinking about the nature of man. The intellectual revolution it caused and the impact it had on man's concept of himself and the world were greater than those caused by the works of Copernicus, Newton, and the great physicists of more recent times. . . . Every modern discussion of man's future, the population explosion, the struggle for existence, the purpose of man and the universe, and man's place in nature rests on Darwin" (Ernst Mayr). Dibner 199. Freeman 373. Garrison and Morton 220. Horblit 23b. Norman Library I, 594. Printing and the Mind of Man 344b. 1250 copies were printed.Provenance: George Stuart White (1835-1912), officer of the British Army and recipient of the Victoria Cross; John C. Hay (bookplate); private collection, California. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

London, Bradbury and Evans. 1859. 2 volumes Roy8vo (6.5 x 10in.) original brick red blind-stamped and gilt cloth, gutta percha "perfect" binding, some sections loosening. 2 engraved and nature-printed titles, 122 Nature-Printed coloured plates of ferns. A good set in the attractive and bright publisher's binding. Nissen BBI 1401. The works by Bradbury "constitute the crowning achievement of nature printing.it is unlikely that the process.will ever again be put to serious scientific use." (Blunt p.142.) [Attributes: Hard Cover]

J. H. Colton, New York. 177pp. Three maps on two folding sheets. [6]pp. of advertisements. Publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gilt and lettered blind. Provenance: W. B. Goodwin (signature dated 1859); Lowell Historical Society (inked stamp on title and fore-edge) Rare Pike's Peak overland guide, with important maps. A rare Colorado gold rush guide book with three important maps of the region. The text contains an account of the Kansas region, descriptions of the various routes, information on the gold discoveries in the Rockies, and advice on outfitting a trip to the gold fields. "Pre-emption" laws relate to land claims and are treated in an appendix. The first two maps, on one sheet and both outlined in color, are "Kansas and Nebraska" and "Nebraska and Kanzas. Showing Pikes Peak and the Gold Region." The third map is "Military Map of Parts of Kansas, Nebraska, and Dakota by Lieut. G.K. Warren from Explorations made by him in 1855-57." The second and third maps are particularly significant, showing Denver, Montana, and as far west as Salt Lake. "The authors were correspondents for eastern newspapers. Redpath, a rabid abolitionist, came to Kansas Territory soon after it was established. Hinton came in 1856 as a correspondent for the Boston Traveller " - Dary. Many of the advertisements at the rear are for rail routes to the Pike's Peak gold region. The Eberstadts describe this guide book as the "original 'Pike's Peak or Bust' overland guide." Dary, Kanzana 74; Eberstadt 137:522; Graff 3437; Hafen, Pike's Peak Gold Rush Guidebooks of 1859 , 14; Howes R120, "aa"; Rader 2773; … [Click Below for Full Description]

1859. Folio broadside (502 by 356mm)., printed ornamental border containing an image of a large bunch of grapes above and between four columns of text. Laid down neatly on later card (some very light browning and a little damp staining to the upper part of the sheet).Concord, Mass, March, A scarce broadside advertising - and celebrating - the most iconic of all American grapes. Although numerous types of grapes had flourished in American soil none of them had ever proved resilient enough to survive the cold climates of New England. Bull, who was a gold beater and amateur horticulturalist, had long experimented with different types of vine in the New England area but it was not until he moved to a house in Concrod in 1836 that he noticed the eponymous fruit beginning to flourish in his garden. The possibly apocryphal story is that young boys returning from playing in the Concord River had scattered various seeds in the area and this had resulted in a fortuitous cross pollination and a resulting hardier grape. This handsome broadside advertises the sale of Bull's own Concord vines and is a valuable document of American viticulture and the (greatly unsung) achievement of Bull to produce a grape that would go on to become hugely popular. Either side of the image of the grapes is a list of the superior qualities of the Concord grape including the boast that it appears ?four weeks earlier than the Isabella' and about two weeks earlier than the Diana?; the text also states that the grape is ?an inch in diameter? with a ?very dark? colour and ?soft, tender and juicy? flesh. The app … [Click Below for Full Description]

1859Rotterdam - Wijt and Zonen - 1859 - 1861 - 3 volumes [XII], 415; [VIII], 415; [VIII], 445 p. - Avec un portrait, 27 planches en lithographie couleurs de C.W. Mieling, et une carte lithographique en couleurs. Quelques planches un peu piquées - Belle reliure en percaline trés ornées d'éditeur avec une grande scène de chasse dorée au centre de chaque plat et quatre scénettes en médaillon aux angles - Coins un peu frottés - menus défauts - Etiquette: "F-J-H. Van der Ven" sur chaque volume - Edition originale - L'auteur était un ministre protestant et en 1851 a été chargé de l'inspection des églises et des écoles protestantes dans les Indes Néerlandaises - Il lui a fallu cinq ans et cela a abouti à «peut-être le plus complet des livres de voyage du XIXe siècle sur l'Indonésie. plus qu'un récit de voyage, contenant des informations sur un large éventail de sujets habilement entrelacés dans le récit" - Notre exemplaire a la particularité d'avoir une page de titre en français "Les Indes Orientales Néerlandaises", dans chaque volume, toutes datées de 1861 -

London: Royal Society, 1859. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Offprint from: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 149,1859, pp. 43-48, 2 engraved plates. London: Royal Society, 1859. 4to (304 x 232 mm). Original plain wrappers (soiled and little frayed), 2 engraved plates of fossil bones. Text and plates little age-toned only, some dust-soiling and very minor foxing. Provenance: Author's dedication copy to Hermann Meyer, Frankfurt (inscribed on front wrapper "M. Herman v. Meyer / Frankfurt / With the authors best respect")* ---- FIRST EDITION, rare offprint issue, inscribed by Owen. Megalania (Megalania prisca or Varanus priscus) is an extinct giant goanna or monitor lizard. They were part of a megafaunal assemblage that inhabited southern Australia during the Pleistocene. The name Megalania prisca was coined in 1859 by Sir Richard Owen to mean "ancient great roamer"; the name was chosen "in reference to the terrestrial nature of the great Saurian". Owen used a modification of the Greek word ?????? ?lain? ("I roam"). The close similarity to the Latin word: lania (feminine form of "butcher") has resulted in numerous taxonomic and popular descriptions of megalania mistranslating the name as: ancient giant butcher. Owen introduced the genus Megalania to accommodate the species Megalania prisca (Wikisource). *Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer (1801-1869), known as Hermann von Meyer, was a German palaeontologist. He was awarded the 1858 Wollaston medal by the Geological Society of London. Today, Meyer is probably best known for descri … [Click Below for Full Description]

London: John Murray, 1859. Third Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; G+; Green spine with gilt lettering; Third edition; 429 pages with two fold outs and pages of advertisements.; Darwin's contribution present and corrected on page 268. NOTES: The first edition of 1849 had a transposition error in Darwin's essay, some later states included a corrected text in a rear pocket. The second edition was issued in 1851, with no offprint of Darwin's article. This is the third edition, complete. Fold out maps are present, with some slight tears to the rear map.; Book has been repaired with original green cloth still present; Some cloth missing from the spine, lettering still present but worn; Former library book with bookplate from the Royal Navy on front paste down and faded ink stamp on title page; Boards show wear along the edges, corners bumped and beginning to fray. Pages are age toned, as is typical with some minor spotting, mostly at the beginning and on the fold outs; Interior otherwise clean and free of marking.; shelved case 3. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

London, Lovell Reeve, [November] 1859 [first separate edition]. Large quarto, viii, 128 pages (complete with the half-title). Later half roan and stippled cloth, lightly rubbed at the extremities; a very crisp and bright copy. 'The first important botanical work by a supporter of the doctrine of evolution by natural selection' (Norman, often quoted, but not going nearly far enough in our opinion!). A singular rarity, of the utmost importance. In the concluding paragraph of the postscript, unique to this edition, Hooker writes: 'I would further observe here, to avoid ambiguity, that my friend Mr. Darwin's just completed work "On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection" [sic], from the perusal of much of which in MS. I have profited so largely, had not appeared during the printing of the Essay, or I should have largely quoted it. Kew, November, 4, 1859'.

8vo. London: John Murray, 1859. 8vo, ix, 502 pp. with a folding diagram facing p. 117. A very good copy, rebound without the ads in contemporary three-quarter brown calf, rebacked with backstrip laid down, marbled paper boards, edges and endpapers, gilt pannelled backstrip with red morocco label, minor rubbing to the boards and backstrip, page 23/24 skillfully repaired. Inscribed on the title page “George Stuart White Captain 92nd Highlanders 1st September 1865”. Bookplate of John C. Hay on front paste down. First edition of the single most important scientific book ever published. “The publication of [On the Origin] ushered in a new era in our thinking about the nature of man. The intellectual revolution it caused and the impact it had on man’s concept of himself and the world were greater than those caused by the works of Copernicus, Newton, and the great physicists of more recent times. . . . Every modern discussion of man’s future, the population explosion, the struggle for existence, the purpose of man and the universe, and man’s place in nature rests on Darwin” (Ernst Mayr). Dibner 199. Freeman 373. Garrison and Morton 220. Horblit 23b. Norman Library I, 594. Printing and the Mind of Man 344b. 1250 copies were printed.Provenance: George Stuart White (1835-1912), officer of the British Army and recipient of the Victoria Cross; John C. Hay (bookplate); private collection, California.

Hauteville House, 25 January [1859]. 8vo. 1 p. In French, to Jules Noirit: "In my solitude, I often receive some verse. I am not saying so out of pride, since I am nothing but a quiet soldier of duty, but as a tribute to the cause for which I have been exiled as well as to all the poets in my country. Well, sir, your stanzas are among the most beautiful verses I have received in seven years. Your poems have the innate nobleness of the ideal; they come from a deep, generous heart, which gives them wings. I thank you very much, and I congratulate you even more warmly. Your soul sings in you. I shake your hand, poet". - By 1859 Hugo had adopted a new lifestyle, prompted by ill health, in which he spent the summers away from his island home on Guernsey. Although he avoided France, he would have been able to return home and end his now voluntary exile. - With integral address leaf attached; browning with some water staining.

1859 Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Gothic Feminism Currer Bell CLASSIC Novel “I would always rather be happy than dignified.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre First appearing in October of 1847, ‘Jane Eyre’ was immediately popular and the public demanded more print runs. In January and April of the following year, second and third editions were quickly reproduced. Charlotte Bronte’s ‘Jane Eyre’ follows the story of Jane and her transformation into adulthood and her discovery of own moral compass. This timeless novel was far beyond its time as it explored the world of sexuality, feminism, and religion through the lens of a female protagonist. Item number: #3022 Price: $750 BRONTE, Charlotte Jane Eyre : an autobiography New York: Derby & Jackson, 1859. Details: • Collation complete with all pages: 483, [1] • References: Smith 2 • Language: English • Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure • Size: ~7.5in X 5.25in (19cm x 13cm) • Rare and early edition with no other example for sale worldwide at present Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 3022 Photos available upon request. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

8vo. London: John Murray, 1859. 8vo, ix, 502 pp. with a folding diagram facing p. 117. A very good copy, rebound without the ads in contemporary three-quarter brown calf, rebacked with backstrip laid down, marbled paper boards, edges and endpapers, gilt pannelled backstrip with red morocco label, minor rubbing to the boards and backstrip, page 23/24 skillfully repaired. Inscribed on the title page “George Stuart White Captain 92nd Highlanders 1st September 1865”. Bookplate of John C. Hay on front paste down. § First edition of the single most important scientific book ever published. “The publication of [On the Origin] ushered in a new era in our thinking about the nature of man. The intellectual revolution it caused and the impact it had on man’s concept of himself and the world were greater than those caused by the works of Copernicus, Newton, and the great physicists of more recent times. . . . Every modern discussion of man’s future, the population explosion, the struggle for existence, the purpose of man and the universe, and man’s place in nature rests on Darwin” (Ernst Mayr). Dibner 199. Freeman 373. Garrison and Morton 220. Horblit 23b. Norman Library I, 594. Printing and the Mind of Man 344b. 1250 copies were printed.Provenance: George Stuart White (1835-1912), officer of the British Army and recipient of the Victoria Cross; John C. Hay (bookplate); private collection, California. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy]

Victor Masson, Paris, 1859. ORIGINAL WRAPS. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST FULL PUBLICATION OF THE RESULTS OF FIZEAU'S EXPERIMENTS WITH THE VELOCITY OF LIGHT. Note that the brief announcement of Fizeau's experiment was first published in Comptes Rendus in 1851. This paper "is less famous, for some reason, than the failure of Michelson and Morley to detect the aether drag, but no less significant. For it showed that the velocity of light increases in a medium according to the formula, v (1 - 1/n2), where v is the velocity of the medium, and n is the refractive index"(Gillespie in "The Edge of Objecticity" p. 427). Fizeau's paper is the first full experiment of an experiment measuring the speed of light in water. Known as the 'interference experiment', Fizeau's paper proved that the speed of light in water is affected by the direction of flow of the water. As Einstein himself would later acknowledge, the interference experiment with moving water is one of the main experiments confirming the special theory of relativity. Fizeau's work employed rotating mirrors and really involved two experiments, one with water moving in the direction of light and one with water moving opposite to the direction of the light - a method "capable of rendering evident any change of velocity due to motion" (Weinstein). In 1862, he would again use a modified version of this apparatus to determine the absolute speed of light. At the time, many believed that 'carrying medium' existed - an aether presumed to transmit light from its source to a given reflecting object and only from there to the human eye. I … [Click Below for Full Description]

Milano, Borroni e Scotti, 1859-62. 7 tomi in 8 voll. in-4° (30 x 20), di pp. 640; pp. 612; pp. 735; pp. 447; pp. 558; pp. 595; pp. 452; pp. 260. Con 11 frontespizi litografici acquerellati, 2 carte geografiche ripiegate f.t. anch'esse acquerellate, e complessive 568 tavv. f.t., parte incise su legno e parte in litografia, per la gran parte in bella coloritura coeva ad acquerello; numerose altre vignette xilografiche nel testo. Cartonatura editoriale con vedute impresse ai piatti in xilografia. Timbri di biblioteca estinta ai frontespizi, qualche traccia d'uso, ma buon es. (10827) Opera riccamente illustrata sulle usanze ed i costumi di tutti i popoli allora conosciuti, difficile da reperire completa. I primi 5 tomi (il II é diviso in due volumi) riguardano l'Europa, con particolare attenzione all'Italia, che occupa due interi tomi e parte del terzo; il V tomo riguarda America e Oceania; il VI l'Asia; il VII ed ultimo è dedicato all'Africa. Si tratta chiaramente di opera dedicata soprattutto alla divulgazione storica e geografica, ma pregevole per il grande impegno posto dagli editori Borroni e Scotti nella realizzazione del corredo illustrativo, attinto dalle fonti iconografiche più disparate. Particolarmente belle le litografie acquerellate, eseguite da Lanti, Guzzi ed altri incisori, raffiguranti costumi locali, arredi e oggetti tipici, ed anche vedute di città (tra cui Atene, Cagliari, La Valletta, Palermo, Trento, Rovereto); le altre illustrazioni sono per buona in xilografia, ed in parte minore incise su rame. Lipperheide, Ad. 34 (cfr. la dettagliata collazione dei sin … [Click Below for Full Description]

Firenze, Tip. Soliani, nn.1-200 (12 agosto 1859-31 dicembre 1860). In 4, in ogni numero figura la stessa testata (scena animata con Arlecchino), numer. vignette satiriche a mezza o piena pagina, leg. m.pelle (staccata e guasta), tit. dor. al dorso. Qq. fioritura. Le pp. dei nn. 198 e 199 sono in fotocopia così come le pp. strappate dei nn. 81,122, e 200. Raro periodico con i supplementi ai nn. 65,78,101. Qq. pagina brunita e qq. fioritura. L'Arlecchino nacque come giornale umoristico quotidiano, poi divenne un giornale umoristico con vignette e, infine, un giornale serio umoristico con caricature. Iniziò le pubblicazioni a Firenze il 12 agosto 1859, cessò le pubblicazioni l' 11 ottobre 1861, per riapparire dal 12 luglio 1868 al 27 settembre 1868 e, in successive piccole serie, fino alla fine del secolo. Diretto da Enrico Soliani, presentava caricature di Pellegrini (Ape) e di Foggi, nascondendo i collaboratori sotto pseudonimi burleschi quali, ad esempio, Matteo Baccalà e Isidoro Carota.

Washington, Beverley Tucker, 1855-1859. Large 4to (30x25 cm). Contemporary full calf with red and black morocco title-labels on spine (a few rubbings). (Endpapers browned and spotted). Part I & II: 1855. Letter and Memoir. 120 pp. with 4 lithographed maps. Part III: 1859. (Atlas) Topographical maps, profiles and sketches. (iv) pp. and 8 steelengraved views on thick paper, 5 folding engraved views, each with the length of about 80 cm., printed on thin paper and 32 maps, including a few profiles: all large folding plates, measuring between 130 x 65 cm and 50 x 60 cm. printed on thin, fragile paper (1 map with 2 tears and some other maps with small tears to the folts, some repaired). - On the title mention "33d Congress, 2nd Session; Senate; Ex. Doc. No 78" and on spine mention on title-label "Vol.13. Pt 11, 1854-55". - Outter margins dust-soiled and a bit browned, but interior condition good and very clean. - This Vol. XI, complete with all the interesting views and maps (all the maps of the preceeding volumes), is the most rare of the series. 2700g

New York, 1859. Folio, 11" x 17", preprinted register with tabbed index and lined pages. [13-index], 638pp [manuscript entries total 425pp, other pages blank]. Full contemporary calf, [rubbed, worn through at edges and spine], front hinge split, index leaves coming detached. Occasional later owner's doodles (most notably on page 390), some spotting . Else, contents generally sound. A loose receipt from Husted's inserted within its pages, preprinted on blue paper with heading "New York....., 185...." and "H.P. Husted, Dr., Bonded Warehouse, 221 South Street," printed on blue paper completed in manuscript and made out to Messrs. Fisched & Von Stade, Ship Pelican State, dated May 29, 1859, for 3 bales of hemp yarn. Two random manuscript invoices of Carman, Mesick & Co., of Melbourne, Australia, one undated and one dated 1853, unclear if related but both are for shipments received from Bark Gem of the Sea, one states from New York. Overall, register and contents Good+ to Very Good. This register is a window on the merchant trade in New York City during the 1850s. Typical entries in this detailed book name the ship, identify its port of origin, owner, date and description of cargo entry, date of withdrawal, fees charged. Husted does not sign his name, but an inserted invoice appears on his letterhead which matches the entry on page 306. Merchants sometimes left their goods in the warehouse for a year or more. For example, the first entry is for 300 cases of licorice from Liverpool left in the warehouse on 20 September 1854; they were retrieved in three batches in Fe … [Click Below for Full Description]

(St. Petersburg 1859). (35,5:55 cm). Getönter lith. Titel nach K. Huhn u. 23 getönte lith. Tafeln. (ohne die Karten, Pläne u. botanischen Tafeln). Halblederband der Zeit (fachmännisch restauriert), ein gutes Exemplar. Oboljaninow 1537; Henze III, 319. - Erste Ausgabe, selten. Richard Karlowitsch Maack (1825-1886) erforschte 1855/56 im Auftrag der Kaiserlich Russischen Geographischen Gesellschaft das Amurgebiet. Zu seinem 1859 erschienenen Bericht gehört der vorliegende Tafelband.Die schönen Tafeln zeigen Landschaftsszenen und indigene Bewohner der Gegend (num. 1-17) die letzten 6 (num. 1-6) mit jeweils mehreren Abbildungen von Häusern, Werkzeugen, Waffen etc. Die Tafeln gehen zum Teil auf Zeichnungen des Verfassers zurück, die von Karl Huhn (1831-1877) umgezeichnet wurden, zu anderen schuf der akademische Maler Jegor Jegorowitsch Meier (1822/23-1867) die Vorlagen, der von 1855-1863 in Sibirien lebte. Die ebenfalls zum Atlas gehörigen 2 Karten, 2 Pläne und 10 Tafeln mit Pflanzen waren diesem Exemplar offensichtlich nie beigebunden. - Obere Außenecke etwas gestaucht. With lith. title and 23 tinted lithographs (17 depicting landscapes and indigenous people of the Amur region, 6 show houses, weapons, tools etc.). - Upper outer corner somewhat creased. Without the 2 plans, 2 maps and 10 botanical plates. Atlas only. Contemporary half-calf, worn, lacking spine.

1859. 8vo. 3 vols. in one. (4), CXII, 264 pp. 455, (1) pp. 388 pp. With lithographic portrait and a large folding lithographed plate. Contemporary half calf over red marbled boards with giltstamped spine. First edition thus. An important edition which contains the author'a major works, edited and with an introduction by Charles Lemonnier, who was among the most able and dedicated of Saint-Simon's followers. Contains: - 1. Lettres d'un habitant de Genève à ses contemporains. Introduction aux travaux scientifiques du dixneuvième siècle. - 2. Mémoire sur la science de l'homme. Travail sur la gravitation universelle. De la réorganisation de la société européenne. Profession de foi du Comte de Saint-Simon au sujet de l'invasion du territoire français par Napoléon Bonaparte. Opinion sur les mesures à prendre contre la coalition de 1815. Extraits de l'Organisateur. Lettres aux jurés. Suite à la brochure: des Bourbons et des Stuarts. - 3. Du système industriel (Extraits). Catéchisme des industriels. Opinions littéraires, philosophiques et industrielles. Nouveau Christianisme. - A well-preserved, appealing volume. Stammhammer I, 217, 88. Mazzone p. 5. Walch 103. Walch-Gerits 376. Einaudi 4952.

1859. Kiel. - Ansicht mit Kieler Förde. - "Kiel". MENÜ Über uns Kategorien Ansichten & Karten Dekorative Graphik Druckgraphik Fotografie Gemälde & Plastik Künstlergraphik Mappenwerke Papierantiquitäten Rahmen Sonstige Zeichnung & Aquarell Kiel „Kiel" Ansicht mit Kieler Förde Artikelnummer: 00095677 Lithografie aquarelliert 1859 19,4 x 28,7 cm (Darstellung) 29,7 x 38,3 cm (Blatt) Beschreibung Zahlung & Versand Werk „Kiel" Historische Ortsansicht. Lithografie, aquarelliert, 1859. Von Friedrich Wilhelm Alexander Nay. 19,4 x 28,7 cm (Darstellung) / 29,7 x 38,3 cm (Blatt). Unterhalb der Darstellung mittig betitelt und mit den Angaben des Künstlers links "A. Nay del. & lith.", der Druckanstalt "Em. Baerentzen & C. lith. Inst.", sowie des Verlages "Em. Baerentzen & Co. Forlag, eneberettiget" unterhalb des Titels versehen. Das Blatt zeigt die Stadt nebst Kieler Förde. Im Hintergrund liegen in der Bucht Segelschiffe vor Anker. Im Mittelgrund auf der linken Seite ist Kiel selbst zu sehen. Deutlich hervor sticht der Turm der St. Nikolaikirche. In der rechten Bildhälfte befinden sich Gebäude der Vororte. Im Vordergrund ist eine ländliche Szene zu sehen mit Kühen und einem bäuerlichen Paar, eine Frau melkt. Das Blatt wurde nach dem Druck mit sanften Aquarellfarben koloriert, mit kräftigen Rot und Blau wurden Akzente in der Kleidung der Staffage-Figuren und bei den Dächern gesetzt. Blattränder minimal gebräunt. Linke Kante stauchspurig. Insgesamt im gutem Erhaltungszustand. Künstler Nay, Friedrich Wilhelm Alexander - (1822 Magdeburg - 1883 Stockholm). Deutscher Zeichner und Lithograf. Sc … [Click Below for Full Description]

February 1858-December 1859. Twenty-three issues. 10 x 13. Each issue is 4 pages. The first and last pages contained news, articles on the history of printing, and classified ads, printed in 3 columns. The centerfolds are specimens of the foundry's new type faces (sometimes set as text), "cuts," ornaments, and an occasional machine. Originally folded for mailing; then bound into boards with a leather spine. Boards have perished, leaving a fragment of the spine. Sewing is still tight except for Vol. I, no. 2 which is loose and in two parts. Uncommon house organ of the Boston Type Foundry was published monthly, then bi-monthly, until July 1891. After 1868 it's name was changed to "The Printers' Bulletin." Ulrich & Kup, p. 24. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

Ca. 1859. Ca. 54x75 cm. Black ink on rice paper, hand coloured in yellow, red, black, and grey. Extensive text in Japanese on the right and left margins. Fold marks, otherwise a very good plan. Interesting early detailed Japanese plan of the first Russian settlement on Sakhalin Island - Fort Muravyovsky, founded by a Russian navigator and explorer Gennady Nevelskoy on 21 September O.S./ 3 October N.S. 1853. The fort was erected on the site of the Ainu village Kushinkotan in southern Sakhalin (according to the Russian sources, the name of the village was Tomari Aniva), on the shore of the Salmon Inlet of the Aniva Bay. The first commander of the fort was Russian military officer Nikolay Busse (1828-66). In May 1854 the fort was relocated to the Emperor's Harbour, due to the beginning of military actions against Russia by Britain and France during the Crimean War. The fort was rebuilt in 1869, under the name of Korsakovsky, and quickly became the centre of the Sakhalin penal colony of the Russian penitentiary system. It was handed over to the Japanese government in 1905 after Russia's defeat in the Russo-Japanese War, and was returned to Soviet Union in August 1945, after World War II. Renamed Korsakov in 1946, it is now an important administrative centre of Russia's Sakhalin Oblast. The plan states that it was copied in October 1859 from the original sheet drawn in September 1853 after the construction of the Russian fort. The plan depicts a rectangular fort with two watch towers (each with a guard on top, one is mounted with a flag), tall fence and several buildings, includ … [Click Below for Full Description]

London: Chapman and Hall, 1859. Octavo (214 × 135 mm). Near-contemporary purple half calf with marbled sides, endpapers and edges. Spine faded to brown, a little worn around cover edges, front cover lightly rubbed, some gatherings standing very slightly proud, some foxing to plates and title page, offset on p. 1 from where a slip of paper had been inserted. An excellent copy. Frontispiece with tissue-guard, engraved title, and 14 plates by H. K. Browne. First edition bound from the original monthly parts, first issue, with page 213 incorrectly numbered 113 and signature "b" on list of plates. From the library of the novelist Richard Adams (1920–2016), best known as the author of Watership Down (1972), with his bookplate to the pastedown. Adams used the proceeds of his novels to develop an extensive book collection, including first editions of various Dickens works. Eckel, pp. 86-90; Gimbel A142; Sadleir 701; Hatton & Cleaver p. 331. [Attributes: First Edition]

- getönte Lithographie v. P. Eckardt b. Levy Elkan, Bäumer & Co. (vormals Arnz & Co. in Düsseldorf), 1859, 13,5 x 23 Reiniger, Stadt- u. Ortsansichten des Kr. Bad Kreuznach 1523 - 1899, 166.

La Librairie Antique - ARMENGAUD M. J.-G.-D. LES GALERIES PUBLIQUES DE L'EUROPE - ROME-Gênes, Turin, Milan, Parme, Mantoue, Venise, Bologne, Pise, Florence, Naples, Pompeï Paris, typographie de Ch. Lahure et Cie, 1859-1866, 434, 288, 312 pages - nombreuses gravures en noir et blanc dans et hors texte - bandeaux en tête de chapitre - lettrines et culs-de-lampe, intérieur frais, belles reliures, 28 x 34 cms, demi-cuir, tranches dorées, coins émoussés, épidermures en coiffes, mors frottés, jolis motifs dorées en médaillons sur les plats (dont un est bien frotté).   Bien bel & colossal ensemble    le Vatican, galerie des tableaux, le musée Chiaramonti, le musée Pie-Clementin, les chambres de Raphael, la chapelle Sixtine, la chapelle Nicolas V, le Capitole, les monuments antiques, les Catacombes, les palais, les eglises. ORIGINE ET CARACTERES DE L'ECOLE GENOISE - LES PALAIS DE GENES - TURIN VUE PANORAMIQUE - LE PALAIS MADAMA A TURIN - L'ACADEMIE DES BEAUX ARTS DESSINS A TURIN- MILAN - ORIGINE ET CARACTERES DE L'ECOLE MILANAISE - LE PALAIS BRERA A MILAN - LE CENACLE DE LEONARD DE VINCI A MILAN - EGLISES ET MONUMENTS A MILAN - BIBLIOTHEQUE AMBROISIENNE DESSINS A MILAN - PARME - LE MUSEE DE PARME - CHAMBRES DU CORREGE A PARME - EGLISES ET MONUMENTS A PARME - MANTOUE VUE PANORAMIQUE - LE PALAIS DU TE A MANTOUE - VENISE - BOLOGNE - PISE - EGLISES ET MONUMENTS DE PISE-Florence, Naples, Pompeï   Les envois vers l'étranger & les dom-tom sont payants.

Hastings: George Lindridge. [1859]. FIRST EDITION. Half title, tinted litho. front., folding map on thin paper; spotting to prelims. Unopened in orig. green pebble-grained cloth; spine sl. dulled. Hunting of boars, panthers, etc. in Algeria with some account of Moorish culture. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Leipzig, Hermann Fries, 1868, 1859. Red half leather hardcover, gilt. Leather corners. xxiv,744 pp.; ill., plates, map.; 27x20 cm. Text in German / Deutsch. - (sl. worn, paper sl. browned, plates browned, small stamp on title page, front inner hinge bit loose) Although still very good, see picture, more pictures on request - rare

John Murray. FIRST EDITION With 1 folding plate. Half-morocco over marbled boards of the period. An excellent copy inscribed by Leonard Darwin, Charles Darwin's son, with related material bound in at the end, including a 2-page letter signed by Darwin, and an unrecorded offprint of a paper on Darwin's work. Preserved in a half-morocco solander box (see provenance). First edition, first issue, of Darwin's historic and pioneering work on the theory of evolution; certainly the most important biological book ever written. Bound in: 1. Half-title inscribed by Leonard Darwin: This is the first edition of the Origin -- written by my father -- containing a passage on p. 184 which he always regretted to have omitted in later editions -- 10 April 1927. Refers to the black bear and the possibility of their development by natural selection into aquatic animals, reprinted in the first four American editions (Osborn, Book Collector, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 77-78 (1960); Freeman, p. 76). 2. ALS. Charles Darwin to Lady Drysdale. [ca. 1859]. 2 pp. (possibly lacking 1 page). The letter is addressed to the mother-in-law of Dr. Lane, whose Moor Park spas Darwin and his wife frequented after 1857. The letter was probably written while Darwin was at a hydropathic spa in Ilkley, Yorkshire from October to December, 1859. At that time Lane was moving to Sudbrooke Park, Surrey, which Darwin and his wife visited the following year. 3. ALS. George Augustus Rowell to Sir James Emerson Tennent (of Tempo Manor). 3 Alfred Street, Oxford, December 12, 1860. 3 pages. 4. ROWELL, George Augustus. "Mr. Darwin's The … [Click Below for Full Description]

1859. Zeitschrift für Garten- und Blumenfreunde und Gärtner. Inhalt u.a.:Ueber Begonia. Ueber Clianthus. Ueber Ananastreiberei für angehende Gärtner. Linum grandiflorum. Lupinus Menziesii. Der Gartenbau-Verein in Schleswig, Holstein und Lauenburg. Für Rosenfreunde. Die Trauben-Treiberei in Nord-Amerika.Üeber Kultur und Ertrag der Himbeeren. Schling- und Kletterrosen. Bemerkungen über einige vorzügliche Kartoffelsorten. Hoffmann sche Vlg.-Buchh. Stgt. 1859. IV. 378 S. gr8. m. 13 colorierten (zum Teil handcoloriert), 13 schwarzweißen Tafeln (Lithos) und farb. Tafeln (Chromolithos) (und 1 Prämienblatt. (div. St., teilweise auch auf Tafeln)(Tafel Azalea Indica zur Hälfte eingerissen). Hld. -3)Bibl. Bild einer Tafel. [Attributes: Hard Cover]