Displayed below are some selected recent viaLibri matches for books published in 1863

THACKERAY, William Makepeace
        ROUNDABOUT PAPERS. REPRINTED FROM "THE CORNHILL MAGAZINE
      London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. Just about Fine. Original purple cloth. With four full-page illustrations, including two not mentioned in the List of Illustrations (per Van Duzer). Thackeray's daughter, Lady Ritchie, said that this volume "might serve as a diary of the last years of my father's life." Uncommon in the original cloth and in this condition. Heraldic bookplate of Arthur Edmund Stearns on the front pastedown along with the smaller bookplate of Helen and Carleton R. Richmond.

      [Bookseller: Charles Agvent]

N/a
        The Works of James Fenimore Cooper
      1863 - London - Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1854 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. A finely bound, bright and clean set ofEighteen Works of James Fenimore Cooper, in Nine Volumes. Bound in half leather with gilt lettering and spine decoration. This set includes the novels, The Sea Lions andThe Water Witch, The Deerslayer and The Bravo, Satanstoe and The Hutted Knoll, The Pilot and Afloat & Ashore, The Headsman and Precaution, The Spy and The Red Rover, Homeward Bound and Eve Effingham, Miles Wallingford and Lionel Lincoln, The Oak Openings and The Heidenmauer. James Fenimore Cooper, 1789 1851, was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. He is best remembered as a novelist who wrote numerous sea-stories and the historical novels. Among his most famous works is the Romantic novel The Last of the Mohicans, often regarded as his masterpiece. In 1826 Cooper moved his family to Europe, having accepted a position with the United States government. While overseas he continued to write. For the rest of his life he continued skirmishing in print, sometimes for the national interest, sometimes for that of the individual, and not infrequently for both at once. This opportunity to make a political confession of faith appears not only to have fortified him in his own convictions, but to have inspired him with the idea of elucidating them for the public through the medium of his art. Condition: The bindings are generally tight and firm. theinner hingesof Sea Lions are slightly strained. Pages67-70 are detached in Heidenmauer. There is some mild wear to the extremities, including some mild bumping and rubbing, with discolouration to the spine. Internally the pages are generally clean and bright, with very occasional spotsand handling marks. Overall the condition is very good..

      [Bookseller: Rooke Books]

NORRIS, CAPTAIN WILLIAM:
        MANUSCRIPT TRAVEL JOURNALS: Five journals bound in one volume, inscribed at front, "Captain Norris, Rifle Brigade, Winchester". Captain William Norris married Frederica Burrard (b. 1837), the daughter of Sir Charles Burrard, in 1863.
      Not published, 1863.. The first of these journals presumably recording their honeymoon. The five journals, all unread apart from a few entries, comprise: a) A tour from Oxford to Scotland - July 23rd to August 28th 1863. 84-pages. b) Paris & Brussels - November 16th to 5th December 1863. 42-pages. c) The West Country - May 16th to 30th 1864. 52-pages d) Ireland - September 1st to 15th n.y. 47-pages. e) Murray Bay & Montreal - July & August n.y. (1867?). 34-pages. 8vo (6¼ x 4 inches), 259-pages, circa 24,000 words, in all. Contemporary calf, rubbed and chipped, with brass lock but lacking strap and clasp.1863 to circa 1867.From the first journal; the honeymoon journal: July 28th 1863: "Breakfasted in a great hurry, and drove off to Warwick Castle, which we could not get into after 10. We arrived a few minutes previous to that hour and were received by a portly butler who informed us that 'an attendant' was in readiness to shew us round the rooms of the castle; in a few minutes a very matronly sort of housekeeper appeared, who took us over the rooms, pointed out the views...." etc. July 30th 1863 at Windemere: "Embarked on board a steamer for a cruise round the lake, which was crowded due to an Excursion party, it was comfortable going up to Ambleside, as none of them had had time to 'disgrace' themselves either from the effects of 'wet' within or without...." etc. The journal unread, but from the itinerary and list of hotels at which they stayed at front, we can see that they visited Oxford, Leamington, Bowness, Derwentwater, Ullswater, Edinburgh (7 days), Glasgow, Tarbet, Oban (3 days), Banavie, Inverness, Blair Athol, Dunkeld (3 days), Stirling, Edinburgh (again), & York, before returning home to London. The second journal, the trip to Paris, commences: "Having made up our minds again to travel and see more of the world, we started on a short trip to Paris - taking Maria with us - a very jolly and cheery trio...." The third journal, to the West Country, commences: "We started from Winchester by the early train in the morning, having made up our minds to go by Exeter the first day, and there gain more information about the north coast of Devonshire....". From the preceding list of hotels at which they stayed we see that they visited Exeter, Bideford, Barnstable, Ilfracombe, Lynton, Dunster, Taunton, & Wells. The fourth journal, the trip to Ireland, they stay firstly at Bristol at the White Lion, before crossing to Ireland where they stay at The Imperial at Cork, the Royal at Glegariff, The Railway Hotel at Killarney, The Royal at Limerick, & Morrisons at Dublin. The fifth journal, recounts their visit to Murray Bay and their return to Montreal, before undertaking a visit to Niagara Falls; this most likely in 1867.

      [Bookseller: Bristow & Garland]

White, Richard Grant
        Book of the Prophet Stephen, Son of Douglas, Wherein Marvellous Things are Foretold of the Reign of Abraham
      NY: Feeks and Bancker, 1863. First edition. Original wrappers. Published NY: Feeks and Bancker, 1863. 12mo., 4 7/8" x 7 1/4", printed glazed orange wrappers, 48pp. Only two copies of the 1863 first edition in world Cat. "A satirical history of the administration of Lincoln told in biblical language." Some chips/creasing to the covers, loss along the spine, stain to lower corner first few sheets. Good. . 1st. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 12mo.

      [Bookseller: The Wild Muse]

Coleman, E. T
        Original Landscape Painting Showing Horse and Rider upon a Mountainside Pass in British Columbia, Canada
      London [circa 1863]. () Near fine. Original sepia tone watercolour painting with pen and ink. On 10.5" X 7.25" (26.75 X 18.5 CM) sheet of paper. A small chip to bottom center. A small amount of staining near edges. With slight rippling to paper. Housed in thin 1.5 CM wooden frame (14" X 17" / 35.5 X 43 cm). Beige matting. Clear image with crisp details. Signed by Coleman to the bottom left. Comes with copy of 'From Desolation to Splendor; Changing Perceptions of the British Columbia Landscape' by Tippett and Cole in which Coleman is mentioned. A beautiful painting with fine, subtle details. A mountainside pass is depicted, built upon a collection of sharp and jagged rocks. The water swirls softly below. The hillside visible beyond the pass is blanketed softly with elegant trees. A lone horse and rider make their way along the pass. Edmund T. Coleman was a Londoner, member of the Alpine Club of London and exhibitor of landscape and historical pictures at the Royal Academy. Coleman arrived in Victoria in 1863 as a gold seeker (although it appears he never made it to the fields). Coleman was most impressed by the mountain scenery he encountered in British Columbia. "Coleman's reaction tot he mountains reflected the conventional sublime, but the exaltation with which he invested them conveyed a moralistic view of landscape and nature that charactorized port-Wordsworth Victorian views" (from Tippett and Cole, from Desolation to Splendor, 1977, PG 36). In 1868 Coleman and three others were the first to summit British Columbia's Mt. Baker..

      [Bookseller: Aquila Books]

Curmer, [Henri] Léon.
        Dresde - Paris - Rome - Florence - Montpellier. Troisième edition.
      Paris, Auguste Aubry (durch Louis Perrin in Lyon), 1863. - (8), 111, (1) SS. Titel in rot, schwarz und gold, die Widmung in rot und gold gedruckt. Mit montiertem gest. Frontispiz und 25 Tafeln (sämtlich photographische Reproduktionen, Albuminabzüge auf Leerblättern aufgezogen) sowie zahlr. Illustrationen in Holzstich. Grüner Halblederband der Zeit mit goldgepr. Rückentitel; die bedr. graue Originalbroschur mitgebunden. Marmorvorsätze; Kopfgoldschnitt. Gr.-8vo. Nr. 1 von 109 numerierten Exemplaren mit eigenh. Verfasserwidmung in Bleistift am Vortitel: "à Mr. Albert Geoffroy | L. Curmer". Das schön ausgestattete Werk vereinigt lyrische Betrachtungen bedeutender Gemälde und Graphiken von Correggio, del Sarto, Raffael, Holbein, Rubens etc., die jeweils auf einer Tafel abgebildet sind. Bemerkenswert ist die frühe Verwendung der Photographie als Reproduktionstechnik, war doch das Problem der Vervielfältigung von Abzügen erst seit wenigen Jahren einigermaßen befriedigend gelöst, das hier zur Anwendung gelangte Verfahren gerade erst 1856 überhaupt erfunden worden. Die sepiafarbenen Abbildungen zumeist in frischen, nur teils zum Rand hin etwas verblichenen bzw abflauenden Abzügen im Kohlephotographieverfahren: "Die Lichthärtung des Reliefs erfolgt ja ganz fein abgestuft [.], so daß Helligkeit und Dunkelheit in aller Feinheit der Vorlage entsprechen. [.] Als man auf den Gedanken kam, daß der Staub gar nicht unbedingt von Kohle, also nur schwarz sein müsse, sondern vielmehr in der Zusammenstellung so gewählt oder gemischt werden könne, daß er etwa einer einfärbigen Zeichnung perfekt entspreche, war auch die Methode gefunden, Kreidezeichnungen oder Farbstiftzeichnungen in optimaler Weise wiederzugeben" (Koschatzky, Die Kunst der Photographie, 104). Papierbedingt etwas gebräunt (Titel stärker); der Einband an Ecken und Kanten etwas berieben und bestoßen; die Bünde beschabt. [Attributes: Soft Cover]

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH]

Anna Brownell Jameson (Mrs.)
        THE COMPLETE WORKS OF MRS. JAMESON - LEGENDS OF THE MADONNA, HISTORY OF OUR LORD (VOL 1 - 2, COMPLETE) LEGENDS OF THE MONASTIC ORDERS, SACRED AND LEGENDARY ART (VOL 1 - 2, COMPLETE) Uniformly bound by Matthews of Oxford.
      London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1863 . second, third and fourth editions. Hardcover. Very Good +. 6 volumes. Legends of the Madonna – lxxv, 344 pgs. History of our Lord Vol 1 – xvi, 398 pgs. Vol 2 – xv, 462 pgs. Legends of the Monastic Order – xlvii, 462 pgs. Sacred and Legendary Art Vol 1 – xix, 394 pgs. Vol 2 – xv, 396 – 818 pgs. 5 x 8 1/4 in.& Brown pebbled morocco, bindings signed by Matthews, of Oxford. Gilt dentelle border inside covers. Gilt decoration on spine. 5 raised bands. Extremely bright gilt edges to text block. B&W and sepia illustrations, tissue protected frontis’. Marble endpapers. Condition of books is VERY GOOD+; & Spines very lightly worn, darkened, top of Legends of the Madonna worn. Gilt extremely bright, some very slight wear to covers, but very clean overall. Bindings very tight, text very clean. Small David B. Ogden bookplate on front pastedown. Upper text block slightly darkened. Very tight, clean, uniform copies. Matthews name on inside front dentelle. &

      [Bookseller: Andre Strong Bookseller]

Wells, William V[incent]
        A VISIT To The QUICKSILVER MINES Of NEW ALMADEN. Belonging to the Quicksilver Mining Company. Reprinted from Harper's New Monthly Magazine of June, 1863. [Wrapper title]
      [New York]:. [1863].. 8vo. 9-1/2" x 6-1/4". 1st separate appearance (Cowan I, p. 245; Cowan II, p. 675; Rocq 13952; Streeter V, 2881). 25 - 40 [= 16] pp.. Printed buff paper wrappers, sewn. Inside front wrapper reprints mine statistics from the ALTA CALIFORNIAN, Sept. 3, 1863.. Age toning to wrappers. Paper beginning to split along upper half of. spine fold. Faint pencil signature to top of front wrapper. Snag to. rear wrapper. Withal, a VG copy.. Per Howell, "One of the best descriptions of the famous New Almaden mines. The author toured the mines in 1857 and gives a full account of the journey through San Jose to New Almaden, the exploration of the mine, the appearance of the miners, and mining procedures." & & No copies at auction these past 30+ years. OCLC shows 8 institutional holdings. . Illustrated with cuts.

      [Bookseller: Tavistock Books, ABAA]

LINCOLN, Abraham
        Proclamation of Thanksgiving
      [n.p.], Mounted on cloth, folded in quarters, minor splitting a center fold; light soiling and edgewear with minor chips (without loss of text), very light annotations in ink on verso (visible to recto right margin). Overall an excellent example of this rare and important broadside. First printing of the first proclamation of Thanksgiving as a national holiday. This original broadside produced in Massachusetts is formatted in two halves, the top being Governor John A. Andrew's announcement of Lincoln's Proclamation dated July 27, 1863, and the bottom being Lincoln's actual proclamation dated July 15, 1863, announcing that August 6 shall be set aside as a National Day of Thanksgiving. Though the exact printing date is unknown, it can be assumed that it was printed within the week following July 27.& & Thanksgiving was observed as a holiday since colonial times and each state would set aside its own day for celebration. This proclamation was the first time that the holiday would be celebrated on a set day nationwide, making it the first observed Thanksgiving as a national holiday.& & Later the same year, on October 3, 1863, Lincoln made a second proclamation again announcing Thanksgiving as a holiday, but this time in November, a date closer to the time most states had been celebrating it in the past. This earlier proclamation is actually the first time Thanksgiving was given national status, but because the second proclamation was widely accepted, the knowledge of this earlier one has been somewhat forgotten, making this piece a rare and important document in the annals of American history.& & Though this broadside is for the State of Massachusetts, no other broadsides from any other states announcing this date are known to exist, and only three other copies of this rare document are located through OCLC.&

      [Bookseller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscript]

Kiner, F.F
        One Year's Soldiering, Embracing the Battles of Fort Donelson and Shiloh, and the Capture of Two Hundred Officers and Men of the Fourteenth Iowa Infantry, and Their Confinement Six Months and a Half in Rebel Prisons
      E.H. Thomas, Printer, 1863. Hard cover bound in brown cloth with both panels having decorative stamped cloth, gilt title on spine, 219 pages followed by errata. First edition. Firsthand account by the chaplain of the 14th Iowa Infantry. Binding is worn with loss at head and heel of spine and tip of lower front corner, fabric is unevenly faded, page edges age toned and a little soiled, previous owner's name and date on front free end paper, variable scattered foxing is heavier on the preliminary pages and final pages, darkened imprint of a rubber band on front end papers, a couple of pages have had corners folded. Text has had the two corrections noted in the errata on pages 21 and 32 - the rest of the text is unmarked. A solid copy of this rare volume. Images available. USPS confirmation used on all U.S. shipments.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket as Published.

      [Bookseller: The Bookbums at Ish Kabibble Books]

Coleman, E. T.
        Original Landscape Painting Showing Horse and Rider upon a Mountainside Pass in British Columbia, Canada.
      London - [circa 1863]. () Near fine. Original sepia tone watercolour painting with pen and ink. On 10.5" X 7.25" (26.75 X 18.5 CM) sheet of paper. A small chip to bottom center. A small amount of staining near edges. With slight rippling to paper. Housed in thin 1.5 CM wooden frame (14" X 17" / 35.5 X 43 cm). Beige matting. Clear image with crisp details. Signed by Coleman to the bottom left. Comes with copy of 'From Desolation to Splendor; Changing Perceptions of the British Columbia Landscape' by Tippett and Cole in which Coleman is mentioned. A beautiful painting with fine, subtle details. A mountainside pass is depicted, built upon a collection of sharp and jagged rocks. The water swirls softly below. The hillside visible beyond the pass is blanketed softly with elegant trees. A lone horse and rider make their way along the pass. Edmund T. Coleman was a Londoner, member of the Alpine Club of London and exhibitor of landscape and historical pictures at the Royal Academy. Coleman arrived in Victoria in 1863 as a gold seeker (although it appears he never made it to the fields). Coleman was most impressed by the mountain scenery he encountered in British Columbia. "Coleman's reaction tot he mountains reflected the conventional sublime, but the exaltation with which he invested them conveyed a moralistic view of landscape and nature that charactorized port-Wordsworth Victorian views" (from Tippett and Cole, from Desolation to Splendor, 1977, PG 36). In 1868 Coleman and three others were the first to summit British Columbia's Mt. Baker. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC]

VALENTINE, D.T
        Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York, 1863
      New York: Edmond Jones & Co.. 1863. First. First edition. Thick octavo. Publisher's green cloth gilt. 852pp. Illustrated with maps and plates, several of them folding. Illustrated with duotones, colorplates, and engravings. Frontispiece map torn and partially detached but complete, light stain on front board, a very good or a little better copy. Inscribed by New York Councilman Thomas Brady to Mr. Cogswell, "Master machinest, Brooklyn, New York." .

      [Bookseller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABA]

Shakespeare, William
        The Works of William Shakespeare
      Cambridge and London: Macmillan and Co., 1863-1866 Edited by William George Clark and William Aldis Wright. Complete in 9 volumes. Bound in quarter green morocco with gilt lettering and decorations to spines, 5 raised bands, top edge gilt. Some light wear and rubbing to the extremities, some mild stains to covers, some light foxing to endpapers, text clean. A very good, sound and completely unrestored set.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

      [Bookseller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA]

Arif Pacha, Muchir.
        Les Anciens Costumes de l'Empire Ottoman, depuis l'origine de la monarchie jusqu'a la reforme du Sultan Mahmoud.
      Paris, Lemercier, 1863]. - Folio (548 x 400 mm). Vol. I (all published). Lithographic portrait of Arif Pasha, on India paper mounted, drawn on stone by M. Julien, 16 tinted lithographic plates after Arif. (Lacking lithographic title, toning to text). Contemp. black half morocco over black cloth-covered boards with gilt title to spine. First edition of the valuable and beautifully illustrated survey of the costume worn at the court of the Ottoman Empire, published with the text in both French and Turkish. Ministers, state officials and military officers (including intelligence service) are shown in full costume with their functions captioned in Arabic and French below. Although the lithographic title states 'Tome 1er', no further volume was published in either language. - Arif Pasha fought against the Greeks at Athens and at Euboea (1826-28), and in Syria against Mehmet Ali. His career included a number of missions for the Sultan and his appointment in 1861 as governor of the province of Silistria. Atabey 30. Blackmer 43. Colas I,148. Lipperheide 1440m. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH]

RAVENSCROFT, Edward James (1816-1890)
        The Pinetum Britannicum, A Descriptive Account of Hardy Coniferous Trees cultivated in Great Britain
      - Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood & Sons . and Edward Ravenscroft, [1863 -] 1884. Three volumes, folio. (21 7/8 x 16 3/4 inches). Subscriber's list, errata slip. 53 lithographed plates (50 hand coloured, 2 black and white and 1 tinted), 4 mounted albumen photographs of cedars on Mount Lebanon by F. Mason Good, 1 engraved plate depicting three maps, 643 wood-engraved illustrations in text. Contemporary half dark green morocco over green pebbled cloth covered boards, spine with raised bands in six compartments, brown morocco lettering pieces in the second and fourth, the others with an overall repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. First edition on one of the greatest illustrated folio works on the majestic pine tree, with the very rare 5 cancelled plates. Together with the works of Bedford and Lambert, Ravenscroft's Pinetum Britannicum is one of the great coniferous iconographies of the nineteenth century. The text, which was edited by Charles Lawson, was compiled by Ravenscroft with descriptions by J. Lindley, Andrew Murray, and Maxwell T. Masters. The plates, of which 37 are botanical depictions and the remaining 16 delightful landscape views, were based on designs by W. Richardson, J.Black, R.K. Greville, and J. Wallace. The Pinetum Britannicum is regarded as a landmark publication on conifers, and both Napoleon III and Queen Victoria subscribed to its first edition. This copy includes 5 plates present as both cancels and cancellanda (the cancels are bound at the back of volume 3). The imprints of the cancellanda are as follows: vol. one pl.11 by W. Richardson; vol. 2 pl.29 by James Black; pl.31 by Robert Black for James Black; pl.32 by W.H. McFarlane; vol. 3 pl.37 by F. Schenk from a photograph. All hand-colored. The corresponding cancels are: pl.11 Robert Black for James Black (hand- colored); pl.29 by James Black (black and white); pl.31 by J.D. Carmichael for R.K. Greville (hand-colored); pl.32 by James Black (black and white); pl.37 by W.H. McFarlane from a photograph (tinted lithographed plate). These plates illustrate: Pinus Sabiniana, Picea Nobilis, Cupressus Lawsoniana, Cupressus Macrocarpa, and Sequoia Wellingtonia. Nissen BBI 1588; Great Flower Books, p. 71;Stafleu-Cowan TL2 8685 [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Donald A. Heald Rare Books (ABAA)]

Hilton, John
        On the Influence of Mechanical and Physiological Rest in the Treatment of Accidents and Surgical Diseases, and the Diagnostic Value of Pain
      London: Bell and Daldy. 1863. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. F First Edition. H Hard Cover. Good. First edition [1863]. Externally worn but sound copy of this highly influential medical text. Includes engraved bookplate signed by Henry Kirke Cushing (1827-1910), prominent Cleveland physician who served as Surgeon Major in the 7th Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. Original green textured cloth with gilt spine lettering, 499 pages plus publisher's 24 page June 1862 catalogue at rear. Spine ends chipped, some splits to fabric around the joints, hinges internally cracked but secure, text block generally sound but not firm with some sections loosened but not detached, pages clean and unmarked.

      [Bookseller: Resource Books, LLC]

Thoreau, Henry D[avid. 1817 - 1862]. Emerson, R. W. - Editor
        Excursions
      Ticknor & Fields,, 1863-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. Boston : Ticknor and Fields, 1863 (Riverside, Cambridge : stereotyped and printed by H. O. Houghton) 8vo. Fully bound in green textured cloth. Embossed boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Tight binding and solid boards. Minor shelf wear. Light rubbing to boards. Scuffing to head and tail of spine. Chocolate brown endpapers. Clean, unmarked pages with minor toning to edges. Frontispiece illustration of Henry David Thoreau.Contents: Biographical sketch [by R. W. Emerson]--Natural history of Massachusetts.--A walk to Wachusett.--The landlord.--A winter walk.--The succession of forest trees.--Walking.--Autumnal tints.--Wild apples.--Night and moonlight.A bright and clean copy of Thoreau's final, posthumously published book.

      [Bookseller: SequiturBooks]

HIND, Henry Youle [1823-1908]
        Explorations In The Interior Of The Labrador Peninsula The Country Of The Montagnais And Nasquapee Indians
      London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1863., 1863. 2 Volumes in 1. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., [v]-xv, [1], 351; xiii, [1 leaf], 304. with half-title in Vol. II only. 2 engraved maps (1 folding), 12 chromolithographed plates, & 23 wood-engraved text illus. (1 full-page). modern half calf, top edge gilt (extremities bit rubbed, occasional light foxing & marginal soiling, short repaired marginal tear in folding map). First Edition. Hind, a professor of chemistry at the University of Toronto, had previously been engaged as a geologist by the Canadian government on the Red River and Assiniboine and Saskatchewan surveying expeditions of 1857-58. In 1861, in company with his brother, artist William George Richardson Hind, he explored Labrador along the Montagnais route, from the Bay of Seven Islands on the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, overland through the interior by the Moisie River to Hamilton Inlet on the Labrador coast. In addition to providing a detailed report on the topography and natural history of the country, Hind’s narrative also contains much interesting detail regarding the Esquimaux, Montagnais, Nasquapee and Abenakis Indians, their customs and way of life. Historical accounts are given of the various Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Moravian missions established there, as well as of the political and commercial importance of the Labrador peninsula and Newfoundland fisheries. The chromolithographed plates, after original watercolours by W.G.R.Hind, are particularly striking, and vividly portray the Labrador landscape, the events of the journey, and various aspects of local aboriginal life. Dionne II 1465. Field 700. Lande 442. Morgan p. 189. O’Dea 675. Sabin 31933. TPL 4069. Watters p. 966. Story pp. 358 & 418.. 1st Edition. Hardcover.

      [Bookseller: D & E Lake Ltd. (ABAC, ILAB)]

CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE
        A Discovery Concerning Ghosts; with a Rap at the :Spirit-Rappers"
      London: Frederick Arnold, 1863. Chapbook rebound with original covers into blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Decorated endpages. Cloth darkened at outer extremities of boards and spine; small stain to rear board. Some light wear to head and heel of spine. Usual age darkening to pages, with stain to original front cover and through to page 11. Ex libris plate to the front pastedown.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

      [Bookseller: Contact Editions]

[Civil War]:
        DAILY GAZETTE EXTRA! BY TELEGRAPH OVER THE ERIE RAILWAY TELEGRAPH LINE...SUMTER OURS! IT IS TAKEN BY STORM AFTER THREE DAYS OF FURIOUS BOMBARDMENT!... [caption title]
      [N.p., but possibly Williamsport, Pa. Nov. 8, 1863].. Broadside, 10 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches. Minor wear and soiling. One small tear in left margin. Very good plus. A vivid Civil War broadside showing the immediacy of the news from the front, and how garbled or false information was disseminated, as well. The headlines further trumpet: "It is occupied by the 144th Pa. Vols. - The 'Old Flag' that Anderson was compelled to lower, floating on the ruins! - Glorious news from Gens. Meade and Butler! - Contemplated movement on Richmond." Despite resumption of a terrific bombardment of Fort Sumter on Oct. 26th, the fort did not fall to Federal forces. Thousands of rounds were dropped on the fort, but it stayed in Confederate hands another sixteen months until evacuated on Feb. 13, 1865. It certainly was not occupied by the 144th Pennsylvania Volunteers, and Major Anderson's "Old Flag" did not fly over the fort until two hours before the death of Abraham Lincoln on April 15, 1865. The whole second column of text concerns events in the Western Theater (Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama), and the progress of the Army of the Potomac in Virginia. "...General Meade was on the march for the city of Richmond, under circumstances which rendered it almost certain that he would capture it. The report of the evacuation of Richmond...is of course all bosh... The details of the great movement now being executed, I am not allowed to telegraph you...the objective point of the combined command is the city of Richmond."

      [Bookseller: William Reese Company - Americana]

MCARTHUR, A. D
        H. M. S. "Encounter" at Ningpo. 1862
      London: Paul Jerrard & Son, 170 Fleet Street, circa 1863. Hand-coloured lithograph. In excellent condition with the exception of three small tears in bottom margin. Two yellow stains in upper edge of sheet. Image size: 9 15/16 x 14 ¼ inches. 12 7/8 x 17 inches. A beautiful lithograph of the H. M. S. "Encounter" in Ningpo harbor, during the Tiaping Rebellion. This bold print depicts the battleship H. M. S. "Encounter" at port in Ningpo harbor. From 1850 to 1864 China was engulfed in a bloody civil war known as the Taiping Rebellion. The rebellion was led by Hung Hsiu-ch'üan, a visionary from Guangdong who evolved a political creed influenced by elements of Christianity. His object was to replace the existing Qing Dynasty with a new dynasty, the Taiping. Widespread discontent brought Hsiu-ch'üan many adherents, especially among the poorer classes, and the movement spread with great violence through the eastern valley of the Chang River. The rebels captured Nanjing in 1853 and made it their capital. Britain at first sympathized with the rebellion, but upon realizing that the Qing dynasty might collapse, an event that would effectively eliminate the possibility of foreign trade with China, (i.e. the huge opium trade) lent troops in support of the royal army. The British navy was deployed off the Chinese coast, and the military led the army against the Taiping rebels. Weakened by strategic blunders and internal dissension, the Taiping rebels were finally defeated in 1864. More than 20 million people died in the Rebellion. The "Encounter" was built in 1846, a "screw sloop". It was used in the 2nd Opium War, participating in the attack on Canton, "breaching its walls", according to a newspaper account. The "Encounter" was broken up soon after the action depicted in this print, in 1863.

      [Bookseller: Donald Heald Rare Books]

Edward Gibbon, ESQ
        The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire,
      james S. Virtue. Hardcover. 1/4 leather bound Vol I & II. Light wear to boards although in both volumes there is a bit of separation at the hinges but still intact, content clean and sharp with all the fold out maps and illustrations present, solidly bound, no DJ . Good. 1863.

      [Bookseller: Infinitebooks]

Stieler, Adolf
        Auswahl von 31 Karten aus Stieler's Hand-Atlas ... Schul-Ausgabe
      Gotha, Perthes 1863. 38 cm. 6 Seiten Text und 31 doppelseitige Stahlstichkarten mit Grenzkolorit. Festeinband, Leineneinband der Zeit mit Blindprägung und goldgeprägtem Umschlagtitel "Stieler's Hand-Atlas. 31 Karten - Espenhorst, ASM 2.4 A 4.1 - Die "große Schulausgabe". Mit Globenkarten (2). Europa, Europäische Staaten, Eisenbahnkarte Deutschlands, Deutsche Staaten, Asien, Afrika, Amerika (2), Australien, Gebirgsprofile. Neben den Karten kleine Pläne von Paris, London, Kopenhagen, Stockholm, Berlin, Wien, St. Petersburg, Athen. - Rücken restauriert, Karten rückseitig leicht stockfleckig -

      [Bookseller: Wenner Antiquariat]

FORTUNE, Robert
        Yedo and Peking
      London,, 1863.. Octavo, folding map, folding frontispiece and illustrations; a very good copy bound in contemporary half blue calf. Robert Fortune (1813-1880) was sent to China in 1842 to collect botanical specimens for the Royal Horticultural Society's garden at Chiswick. He spent four years abroad and experienced many adventures such as pirate attack, shipwreck, and entering the city of Loo-chow, then closed to Europeans, in Chinese disguise. He was responsible for the introduction to England of the cumquat, the double yellow rose, many varieties of tree peonies, azaleas and chrysanthemums. He visited China again in 1847 to collect tea plants on behalf of the East India Company, successfully introducing tea into the northwest provinces in India.Fortune was a prolific writer, not only on his botanical work but also about his fascinating travels to exotic eastern locations. This, Fortune's last work, was completed after his retirement and describes his commission to travel to China and Japan on behalf of the United States government to collect tea shrubs and other plants.

      [Bookseller: Hordern House Rare Books]

LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth
        Tales of a Wayside Inn
      Boston: Ticknor and Fields,, 1863. Octavo. Original green cloth patterned in blind, titles gilt to spine, brown coated endpapers, top edge gilt. Illustrated title page. 22 pages of publisher's advertisements at the rear. Titles bronzed, corners lightly rubbed, otherwise an excellent copy. First edition, first printing; first issue with Tales of a Wayside Inn advertised on p.11 of the advertisements as "Nearly Ready". This copy has, tipped in, a slip bearing the author's signed inscription, "yours truly, Henry W. Longfellow, 1877", and bears the ownership inscription (and armorial bookplate) of a "Mrs W. D. Hatch" dated Christmas 1863, in Willowbrook. The previous owner has marked out as a favourite the popular poem "Paul Revere's Ride" on the contents page.

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

Von Heyden, Friedrich.
        Das Wort der Frau. Eine Festgabe von Friedrich von Heyden. Zwolste Auflage. Mit 7 Illustrationen von W. Georgy.
      Leipzig: Friedrich Brandstetter. Druck von C. Grumbach in Leipzig. In a special binding with tortoise-shell and silver details, with bookbinder's label: J. R. Herzog Buchbinderei in Leipzig, present. 1863 - Size of the binding: 6 1/8 inches x 8 in., half-title; frontispiece scene printed in pastel tints, with paper guard; design title-page printed on a light blue background; title-page; six other illustrations printed on light blue backgrounds with details in tan (some with the name: F. P. Eusche, Sc. Dresden), with paper guards. A specially made binding featuring violet silk cloth over embossed boards; the central panel of the front cover features an oval form of tortoise shell with inlaid details in silver that include flower forms, and the engraved initials: A W in shields, various sized cut steel "stones" are mounted on the front and back covers. The book edges show a painted geometric and leaf form design in red and green and yellow, with stamped gilt dots and lines, on all edges; tan silk bookmarker ribbon bound in, textured cream endpapers. Bookbinder's label present on the lower margin of the inner back cover: J. R. Herzog, Leipzig. The spine has been restored, and the worn silk cloth laid down; cover corners, edges show some wear, with the silk worn off. German script inscription in ink on the half-title, small inked name at the top of the design title-page: M. Schiller. German text. Sold as a bookbinding. Vorwort; Die Frau; Die Konigin; Die Bauern; Die Fursten; Die Braut; Das Wort. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc.]

Davillier, J.-C.
        Histoire Des Faiences et Porcelaines De Moustiers, Marseille et Autres Fabriques meridionales.
      Paris, S. Castel, 1863 - 8°, 138 S., einige Textsabb., Späterer OLwd-Bd., Exlibris a. vors., tadell. Mit Widmung des Autors a. Schmutztitel. Jean Charles Davillier, (1823-1883) grosser Sammler. Verschneket seine Sammlung an das Musée du Louvre, à la Bibliothèque nationale de France et au Musée de Sèvres. War aussedem sehr am stierkampf interessiert. 1200 gr.

      [Bookseller: antiquariat peter petrej]

LEAR, Edward
        Views in the Seven Ionian Islands
      London: Edward Lear, 1 December, 1863. Folio. Original green pebble-grained cloth, rebacked, title gilt to the upper board and the spine, blind panelling to both boards. Lithographic title page with vignette and 20 similar plates, all with later (as often) colouring, here of the highest quality. Cloth slightly rubbed, creases to both boards, minor marginal soiling, one or two short splits to the plate margins, text leaves browned as usual and one or two a touch brittle, subscriber's leaf torn without loss and repaired, a very good copy. First edition. In 1854 Lear's close friend Franklin Lushington had been appointed judge at the supreme court of justice on Corfu, "and so Lear decided to join him and make a winter home in Corfu" (ODNB). He would become extremely familiar with the island and its environs over the next 10 years. The Ionian islands were ceded to Greece in 1863, and Lear decided to try to exploit this topicality with a view book, touring the islands before his return home. There are nine views of Corfu, including the title-vignette, three each of Santa Maura, Lefkas, Cephalonia and Zante, and one each of Paxos, Ithaca, and Cerigo. The subscription list of over 300 names is headed by the Royal Library and the prince of Wales. Lear made a net profit of £300, but had to chase up payment from no less than 50 of the subscribers (Noakes, Edward Lear, the Life of a Wanderer pp. 159-161). Peter Levi considers this "The finest of Lear's productions as a traveller, because its lithographs are of such beauty and done with such care … the most desirable of all of his books" (Levi, Edward Lear: A Biography, pp. xix & 185).

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

Kingsley, Charles (1819-1875)
        The water-babies : a fairy tale for a land-baby / by the Rev. Charles Kingsley ; with two illustrations by J. Noel Paton, R.S.A
      London ; Cambridge : Macmillan and Co., 1863. 1st Edition. Physical description: 350p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm. Summary: The Water-Babies was inspired by Kingsley's thoughts on evolution. He was one of the few clergymen to accept wholeheartedly Darwin's theories of evolution and natural selection and to devote himself to the spread of the new knowledge of nature. Subjects: Children -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction -- Chimney sweeps -- Fairies -- Evolution. Physical description: 350p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm. Summary: The Water-Babies was inspired by Kingsley's thoughts on evolution. He was one of the few clergymen to accept wholeheartedly Darwin's theories of evolution and natural selection and to devote himself to the spread of the new knowledge of nature. Subjects: Children -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction -- Chimney sweeps -- Fairies -- Evolution.

      [Bookseller: MW Books Ltd.]

Narcisse Berchere
        Le Desert de Suez: Cinq Mois dans L'Isthme
      Paris - Hetzel Collection, 1863 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. An account of the time that landscape artist Narcisse Berchere spent in Suez. Features a fold-out colour map of Isthmus to the rear. With armorial bookplate dated Paris 1834 to front pastedown. Narcisse Berchre was commissioned by Ferdinand de Lesseps to make a visual record of the first phase of the construction of the Suez Canal. To this end, he spent five months in the Isthmus, from November 1861 to March 1862. He is said, by his first biographer, Bernard Prost to have completed an 'album', containing 68 plans, drawings and watercolours. This 'album' was given by Berchre to Ferdinand de Lesseps, who then presented it to Emperor Napoleon III, via the Duc de Bassano. It was held at the Palais des Tuileries in Paris, where it is believed to have perished, when the Palace was burned down in 1871, at the time of the Commune. Fortunately, Narcisse Berchre also gave a verbal account of his experiences in a book, published by Jules Hetzel in 1863, Le Dsert de Suez: cinq mois dans l'Isthme. Condition: In a quarter crushed morocco binding with marbled boards. Externally, very good with just a little shelfwear. Internally, firmly bound. Generally bright and clean, with just occasional light spottingand occasional dusting to the top edge, not affecting the text. Ink inscription to half-title. Overall: VERY GOOD..

      [Bookseller: Rooke Books]

BILLROTH, Theodor
        Die allgemeine chirurgische Pathologie und Therapie in fünfzig Vorlesungen. Ein Handbuch für Studierende und Aerzte
      Berlin: Georg Reimer, 1863 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xx, 712 pp. 77 woodcut-engravings in text. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt (corners bumped), inner front hinge broken but firm, minor browning to text. ---- Garrison-Morton 5608; Heirs of Hippocrates 1952; Norman 235. - FIRST EDITION. "Billroth, the founder of the Vienna School of Surgery, may also be called the founder of abdominal surgery" (Norman). Two operations for cancer of the stomach were named Billroth I and II, after his work. He was one of the first to introduce the discipline of antisepsis into the Continental operating room. This important work was translated into 10 languages. -- Erste Ausgabe von Billroths bahnbrechendem Werk, das ihm den Ruf eines der besten Chirurgen seiner Epoche einbrachte. Das Werk erlebte zahlreiche Auflagen und wurde in zehn Fremdsprachen übersetzt..

      [Bookseller: Milestones of Science Books]

Lister, Joseph
        On the Coagulation of the Blood in The Proceedings of the Royal Society, Volume 12, 1863
      FIRST EDITION of the Croonian Lecture in which Joseph Lister demonstrated the cause of blood coagulation. "Lister exploded the theory that blood coagulation is due to ammonia and showed that, in the blood vessels, it depends upon their injury. He further showed that by carrying out the strictest precautions he could keep blood free from putrefaction indefinitely, thus supporting his theory that bacteria were the cause of wound suppuration." (Garrison-Morton 871). “In 1863, Lister embarked upon experiments that were designed to examine the idea that clotting was due to the liberation of ammonia. Almost incidentally, he made the important discovery that blood remained partially fluid for several hours in a vulcanized India-rubber tube but clotted promptly in an ordinary cup” (Wintrobe, Blood, Pure and Eloquent, 619). Lister concluded that the real cause of coagulation of the blood is "the influence exerted upon it by ordinary matter, the contact of which for a very brief period effects a change in the blood, inducing a mutual reaction between its solid and fluid constituents, in which the corpuscles impart to the liquor sanguinis a disposition to coagulate” (Lister).& & CONDITION & DETAILS: London: Harrison & Sons, 1863. Entire volume. 8vo. 8.5 by 5.5 inches (213 x 138mm). 731pp. Lister paper: Pages 580-611. Ex-libris. As a whole, the volume is inclusive of Proceedings papers from 6 March 1862 to 18 June 1863. ILLUSTRATIONS: Lister: six in-text illustrations. EXTERIOR: Handsomely bound in half calf over marbled paper boards. Five raised bands at the spine. Chipped red morocco, gilt-lettered spine label; another label appears to be missing; very slight ghosting remains where a library label apparently was. Scuffing and rubbing at the edges, a bit more so at the head and foot of the spine. Professionally rendered Japanese paper repair at the spine. Tightly and very solidly bound. INTERIOR: Complete. Ex-libris stamps to title and contents page; Springfield Library plate on rear pastedown. Marbled endpapers and pages. Bright and clean throughout. The Lister paper is pristine.&

      [Bookseller: Atticus Rare Books]

FRITH, Francis
        Sinai and Palestine
      London: William MacKenzie & Co.,, [1863]. Folio. Original half tan morocco, red cloth sides, titles to spine gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Mount albumen print to half title and 36 larger albumen prints. Some typical spotting throughout, guards renewed, hinges repaired, binding rubbed. Some marks to the margins of several plates not affecting the photographs. A very good copy however the photographs excellent. Volume I of the second, enlarged edition of the work originally published in two volumes in 1859. "The prints in this edition are of a much stronger quality than those in the first edition having been gold-toned" (Gernsheim). The complete set of this publication comprises four volumes each with 37 mounted photographs. However the parts were available separately and each is compete in itself.

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

the Church Congress Society
        Official Reports on the Church Congress Meetings, 1863-1912
      12 12, 1863 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. The official reports on the meetings of the Church Congress through the years 1863 to 1912, held at various locations across England. Includes the years 1863 Manchester, 1864 Bristol, 1865 Norwich, 1866 York, 1867 Wolverhampton, 1868 Dublin, 1869 Liverpool, 1870 Southampton, 1871 Nottingham, 1872 Leeds, 1873 Bath, 1874 Brighton, 1875 Stoke-Upon-Trent, 1876 Plymouth, 1877 Croydon, 1878 Sheffield, 1879 Swansea, 1880 Leicester, 1881 Newcastle-On-Tyne, 1882 Derby, 1883 Reading, 1884 Carlisle, 1885 Portsmouth, 1886 Wakefield, 1887Wolverhampton, 1888 Manchester, 1890 Hull, 1891 Rhyl, 1892 Folkestone, 1893 Birmingham, 1894 Exeter, 1895 Norwich, 1896 Shrewsbury, 1897 Nottingham, 1899 London, 1901 Brighton, 1902 Northampton, 1903 Bristol, 1904 Liverpool, 1905 Weymouth, 1906 Barrow-In-Furness, 1907 Great Yarmouth, 1908 Manchester, 1909 Swansea, 1910 Cambridge, 1911 Stoke-On-Trent, and 1912 Middlesbrough. One folding table of 'subjects discussed at Church Congress during ten years, viz. , 1896 to 1905' to the 1905 volume. Ink binder's stamps of Bemrose, Derby, to several volumes. With Church Congress advertisement catalogues and pages in many volumes. One gilt crested frontboard for the year 1880. Forty seven volumes complete in themselves, running from 1863 to 1912 butmissing the years 1889, 1898 and 1900. Church Congress is an annual meeting of members of the Church of England, lay and clerical, to discuss matters religious, moral or social, in which the church is interested. It has no legislative authority, and there is no voting on the questions discussed. The first congress was held in 1861 in the hall of Kings College, Cambridge, and was the outcome of the revival of convocation in 1852. From 1879 the congress included an Ecclesiastical and Educational Art Exhibition. The congress is under the presidency of the bishop in whose diocese it happens to be held. The meetings of the congress have been mainly remarkable as illustrating the wide divergences of opinion and practice in the Church of England, no less than the broad spirit of tolerance which has made this possible and honorably differentiates these meetings from so many ecclesiastical assemblies of the past. The congress of 1908 was especially distinguished, not only for the expression of diametrically opposed views on such questions as the sacrifice of the mass or the higher criticism, but for the very large proportion of time given to the discussion of the attitude of the Church towards socialism and kindred subjects. Condition: In half calf bindings. Externally generally sound although rubbed, with occasional loss to the leather, including a few spine labels. Three joints are starting, four are cracked, and one board is held by the cords only. Internally, firmly bound. Very bright and generally very clean, with some instances of light scattered spotting, usually largely confined to the first and last few pages of those volumes. St Michael and all Angels Theological College Aberdarelabels and ink stamps throughout. Two copperplate ink signatures of W. S. Dewinton, one dated 1891. Overall: VERY GOOD..

      [Bookseller: Rooke Books]

Rev. John Fleetwood, D.D.; prefatory essay by the Rev. John Eadie D.D., LL.D
        The Life of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: Together With the Lives of the Apostles
      nbsp;Glasgow and London - W. R. M'Phun and Son, 1863 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. A lovely illustrated edition of The Life of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Christ together with The Lives of the Apostles by Rev. John Fleetwood. With numerous engraved plates throughout including to frontispiece, an illuminated, illustrated second title. With a prefatory essayDr Chalmers' Evidences of Christianity by John Eadie (1810- 1876), a Scottish theologian and biblical critic. His publications were connected with biblical criticism and interpretation, some of them being for popular use and others more strictly scientific. To the former class belong the Biblical Cyclopaedia, his edition of Alexander Cruden's Concordance, his Early Oriental History, and his discourses on the Divine Love and on Paul the Preacher; to the latter his commentaries on the Greek text of St Paul's epistles to the Ephesians, Colossians, Philippians and Galatians, published at intervals in four volumes. The Life of Christ as a narrative cycle in Christian art comprises a number of different subjects, which were often grouped in series or cycles of works in a variety of media, narrating the life of Jesus on earth, as distinguished from the many other subjects in art showing the eternal life of Christ, such as Christ in Majesty, and also many types of portrait or devotional subjects without a narrative element. Most of the subjects forming the narrative cycles have also been the subjects of individual works, though with greatly varying frequency. The most common subjects were grouped around the birth and childhood of Jesus, and the Passion of Christ, leading to his Crucifixion and Resurrection. Many cycles covered only one of these groups, and others combined the Life of the Virgin with that of Jesus. Subjects showing the life of Jesus during his active life as a teacher, before the days of the Passion, were relatively few in medieval art, for a number of reasons. From the Renaissance, and in Protestant art, the number of subjects increased considerably, but cycles in painting became rarer, though they remained common in prints and especially book illustrations. Condition: In a decorative morocco binding. Externally, generally smart but with slight wear to extremities and slight rubbing to boards, with slight marks to edges of boards and text block edge. Internally, firmly bound. Bright but with some scattered foxing and handling marks. Overall: VERY GOOD.

      [Bookseller: Rooke Books]

        MANUSCRITO - ARMORIAL. SÉC. XIX - PINHO LEAL, Augusto Soares de Azevedo Barbosa.
      - BRASÕES DAS PRINCIPAIS FAMILIAS DE PORTUGAL. 1863. In 8º (de 21x15 cm) com 51 fólios inumerados. Encadernação (meia-amador) com lombada e cantos em pele. Preserva as capas de brochura do caderno de desenho com rótulo caligrafado: "Brasões". Caderno manuscrito, datado de 1863 na folha de rosto, e intitulado Brasões das Principais Famílias de Portugal, composto de 51 folhas de papel vergé (inclindo o rosto). Ilustrado com 41 desenhos de brasões primorosamente executados, uns a lápis e outros tracejados a tinta-da-china (nanquim), e mais 9 brasões com as suas cores, todos com a indicação dos respectivos metais. Contém vários títulos de posse e ex-libris que atestam da origem deste manuscrito, nomeadamente: - Ex-libris de A. V. Rebello Valente. - Assinatura de posse Marcello Rebello Valente, datada 1902 (no anterrosto). - Ex-libris oleográfico (carimbo no 4º fólio manuscrito) de Pedro A. Ferreira, Abade de Miragaya, Porto. - Nota manuscrita no anterrosto: "Adnotandum - Este Nobiliário foi escrito, desenhado, e colorido por Augusto Soares de Azevedo Barbosa de Pinho Leal, autor do Portugal antigo e moderno. É autographo authentico. [assinado] Pedro A. Ferreira". Constata-se que o autor deste manuscrito é Pinho Leal (Lisboa ou Penamacor, 1816- Porto 1884) e que o seguinte possuidor foi o Dr. Pedro Augusto Ferreira (Penajóia, Lamego, 1833 - Porto, 1913), Abade de Miragaia desde 1864 (e durante 35 anos), sendo ele co-autor com Pinho Leal do Portugal Antigo e Moderno; obra fundamental da bibliografia portuguesa. Inocêncio XVII, 187: 'Pinho Leal, benemerito auctor d'este importante diccionario (1873-1890), falleceu em 1884, quando a obra ía approximadamente em meio do tomo X e do artigo Vianna do Castello. Ficando interrompida a publicação, os editores convidaram o rev. abbade de Miragaya para a continuar e concluir, por haver sido o «primeiro cyrenéo» do auctor, como este o citou repetidas vezes no texto da obra'.'As relações de ambos eram antigas e constantes'. Refere Azevedo Soares (Eduardo de Campos de Castro) in Bibliografia Nobiliarquica Portuguesa, Braga, 1916-47; a existência deste manuscrito na página 82 (Entrada 330): "Brasões das principais familias de Portugal. – Ms. In 8º s. n. , com brasões d’armas desenhados pelo auctor. Pertence á livrª. do Dr. António Vasco Rebello Valente." Folha de rosto com belo exercício caligráfico e restante armorial com heráldica minuciosamente desenhada; respectivas descrições dos "campos de honra" dos brasões, das cores e dos esmaltes; das origens e da colocação dos "móveis" heráldicos de cada familia; e da sua pertença genealógica à data do manuscrito. O manuscrito contém um armorial inacabado, com brasões em vários estados de projecto e de acabamento, que enumeramos e comentamos na respectivamente na sequência em que se apresentam: Fólio nº2: brasão inexistente e já com descrição das Armas de Portugal [o autor, sendo combatente miguelista, poderia ter hesitado no novo grafismo liberal, da mesma forma que não figurarão seguidamente neste armorial os brasões da aristocracia liberal]. Fólio nº3: brasão a tinta-da-china com coronel e com título delineado a lápis de Sousas-Braganças do Duque de Lafões, Marquês de Arronches e Conde de Miranda do Corvo. Fólio 3 verso: brasão delineado a lápis de Alencastres-Ponce de Leão-Mascarenhas do Duque de Aveiro e Conde de Vila Nova de Portimão. Fólio 4: brasão a tinta-da-china de Álvares Pereira de Mello-Portugais-Braganças-Faros do Duque de Bragança, Duque do Cadaval, Marquês de Valença, Conde de Vimioso e Conde de Ourém. Fólio nº5: brasão a tinta-da-china de Sás e Almeidas do Marquês de Abrantes. Fólio nº 5 verso: brasão a tinta-da-china de Silvas-Telles do Marquês d’Alegrete. Fólio nº6 brasão a tinta-da-china de Castros e Noronhas do Marquês de Cascais e Conde de Monsanto. Fólio nº6 verso: brasão a tinta-da-china de Mascaranhas-Silvas do Marquês da Fronteira, Marquês de Gouveia, Conde d’Alva, Conde de Coculim (Índia), Conde de Sandomil, Conde da Torre e Co

      [Bookseller: Livraria Castro e Silva]

Sauvageot, Claude (1832-1885)
        Monographie De La Chapelle De Notre-Dame De La Roche. / Texte, Dessins Et Gravure, Par Cl. Et L. Sauvageot
      Paris, A. Morel, 1863. 1st Edition. Physical desc. : 18 p. 27 plates. 36 cm. Subject: Chapelle de Notre-Dame de la Roche) . Language: French. Original marble boards. Professionally and period sympathetically re-backed in gilt-blocked calf; very impressively finished. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Scans and additional detail on request.

      [Bookseller: MW Books Ltd.]

John Sowerby; John T Boswell Syme [editor]
        English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants
      London : Robert Hardwicke, 1863 '3rd edition enlarged, re-arranged according to the natural orders, and entirely revised. With descriptions of all the species by the editor.' 12 volume set complete dating from 1863- 1886. With 1922 partly hand coloured listed plates and 16 additional 'bis' plates. This copy was bound for Brentford and Chiswick Public Libraries and is in an extremely robust half leather and buckram binding. All the plates have been secured iindividually so there has been no risk of loss, and minimal damage. The bindings have gilt titles and the library number in gilt on the spine. Overall the library marking consists of a bookplate on the front pastedown; a withdrawn stamp usually on a preliminary; 2-3 small circular stamps in a margin of the text pages; and a small circular stamp in the bottom right hand corner of each plate. The bindings are all in very good condition. Internally there tends to be some slight creasing and spotting to the preliminaries and end leaves. Text pages are in very good condition. Plates are generally very clean but there is some occasional spotting - as noted below. Vol I - 1863; Vol II - 1865 - plate CXCV is double and its number has been pasted on; some plates have light spotting; Vol III - 1864 - occasional spotting; Vol IV - 1865, some light spotting, 2 plates have slight vertical crease; Vol V - 1878; Vol VI - 1880 - plates numbers change to arabic numerals, catalogue of George Bell & Sons August 1884 at rear; Vol VII - 1880, catalogue of George Bell & Sons December 1885 at rear; Vol VIII - 1883, plate MCCLXVII has plate number hand written on and tape to reinforce side margin; Vol IX - 1883; Vol X - 1883, library label removed leaving glue marks on front paste-down; Vol XI - 1886, catalogue of George Bell & Sons December 1885 at rear; Vol XII - 1886, library label removed leaving glue marks on front pastedown.

      [Bookseller: E C Books]

ALCOCK, SIR RUTHERFORD
        The Capital of the Tycoon. A Narrative of a Three Years' Residence in Japan. Complete in 2 volumes
      London:: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green,, 1863.. First edition.. Hardcover. Large 8vo. (8.75 x 5.75 inches). 2 volumes: pp.xxxi, 469; x, 539, 24 (publisher's adverts). 16 chromolithographic plates, hors-texte, with tissue guards. Numerous woodcuts in text. 2 fold-out colour maps, trifle creased. Original green pictorial cloth, blocked in gilt, stamped in blind. Cloth rubbed, scuffed, marked. Brown coated endpapers. Inner hinges a trifle pulled. Some very light spotting, mainly to blank sides of plates, and a trifle to margins. O/w contents clean and bright. A Very Good set. Many pages unopened. Very heavy books, requiring much extra postage overseas.

      [Bookseller: John Taylor Books P.B.F.A.]

DAKOTA - SMITH, B. M.; and A. J. HILL
        Map of the ceded part of Dakota Territory: showing also portions of Minnesota, Iowa & Nebraska ... Second edition, July 1863
      St. Paul, Minnesota: B.M. Smith and A. J. Hill, 1863. Pocket map, lithographed by Louis Buechner, St. Paul. Inset map titled "Outline Map of Dakota Territory." Folds into publisher's green cloth covers, covers decoratively blocked in blind, titled in gilt on the upper cover, publisher's printed prospectus on the front pastedown. In fine condition. 17 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches. One of the earliest maps of Dakota Territory and a Sioux Uprising rarity. The map clearly shows all of the roads, railroads, forts, towns, rivers and Indian lands in the region, as well as the exploration routes of Nicollet and others in the new Dakota Territory. The prospectus mounted on the inside cover reveals the intention of the compiler: "This map is issued in the hope that it may be found a valuable travelling companion for immigrants, U.S. deputy surveyors, military officers, and others. It is compiled from the U.S. Land and other official surveys, and where those have not yet extended, from information derivable from the reports and maps of Mons. Nicollet, Lieut Warren, and other explorers..." "This [second] edition gives several new counties along the eastern boundary of the Territory, both in the inset and on the main map, and there are various new counties in the southern part of the Territory. The inset in this issue shows the creation of Idaho Territory to the west of Dakota" (Streeter). Perhaps more importantly, however, this edition of the map is important for the additions relating to the Sioux War. These include the locations of the Battles of Birch Coulee and Wood Lake (each marked with small red x's), as well as the location of Camp Release (dated on the map October 1862) and the spot near Kampeska Lake where Colonel William R. Marshall of the 7th Minnesota captured a force of Sioux warriors. We find no copy of this map on the market since the Thomas W. Streeter copy. Streeter sale 2034; Graff 3835; Phillips, A List of Maps of America, p. 257

      [Bookseller: Donald Heald Rare Books]

Castro, C.; Campillo, J.; Auda, L.; Rodriguez, Y. G
        MEXICO Y Sus ALREDEDORES. Coleccion de Vistas Trajes y Monumentos Por C. Castro, J. Campillo, L. Auda, Y. G. Rodriguez
      Portal del Coliseo Viejo, Mexico:: Publicacion de Decaen Editor, Ejecutado en el Establecimiento Litog. de Decaen.. 1863 - 1864.. Folio. 15-5/8" x 11-7/8". Later issue, ca 1869. Cf. Abbey TRAVEL, 672; Sabin 48590.. Modern tan quarter leather binding, with marbled paper boards.. Binding - Fine. Plates: x-lib, with the occasional marginal stamp.. Paper repair to some plate versos [title leaf most notably]. Some. foxing & browning, but not excessively so. Withal, a respectable VG. copy of this important work on Mexico.. "... one of the most significant lithographic productions in the history of the art ... This is the most important work illustrating Mexico City in the nineteenth century." [Mathes. MEXICO ON STONE, pp. 29 - 30]. . Lithographed title leaf. 45 lithographed images on 42 plates. 11 full color; remainder tinted. Plate captions in English, Spanish & French.

      [Bookseller: Tavistock Books, ABAA]

        Biblia graeca 1863 - Novum Testamentum Sinaiticum. Sive Novum Testamentum cum epistola Barnabae et fragmentis pastoris. Ex Codice Sinaitico ... descripsit Aenotheus (Lobegott) Fridericus Constantinus Tischendorf
      Leipzig, Brockhaus 1863. 33 cm. 81, (1) S., 148 Blatt mit 2 gefalteten lithographierten Tafeln (Faksimiles). Festeinband, Ledereinband der Zeit mit Blindprägung und Vergoldung - ADB 38, 372 - BBKL 12, 167ff - Brockhaus 1905-2005 I, 245 - Darlow / Moule 4877 (vgl.) - Diese Ausgabe des Neuen Testaments ist ein Ergebnis von Tischendorfs dritter Nahostreise im Jahr 1859. Diese Expedition erbrachte unter anderem den Handschriftenfund des "Codex Sinaiticus" mit dem vollständigen Text der neutestamentlichen Bücher und des bis dahin nur aus acht Handschriften fragmentarisch bekannten Barnabasbriefes (BBKL). Rücken und Ecken restauriert, Tafeln in der Ecke Wasserrand - Sprache / Language: Griechisch / Greek -

      [Bookseller: Wenner Antiquariat]

CIVIL WAR / RAILROADS) Weir, Harrison; et al (illus)
        The Illustrated London News. 1863 - (07 - 12). July to December. ONE VOLUME
      London.: Illustrated London News.. 1863.. BOUND VOLUME. A half-year (July-December) plus issues from May through June DATES: May 23, 1863 (no May 30) - December 26, 1863 of The Illustrated London News (October 31 issue is ABSENT, NOT BOUND IN). Black and white illustrations, tipped in black and white centerfold illustrations, 549-708pp and 1-668pp, 16 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches, leather spine and corners with marbled paper-covered boards (hardbound). BOARDS DETACHED, cover extremities rubbed with leather loss to lower right corner, spine loose with chips and tears. Dampstaining to lower edge of endpapers, but not affecting interior pages at all; text block is tight and in good condition with scattered light foxing throughout. FEATURED ITEMS: Extensive coverage of The War In America (Civil War), and articles on the American South, including: Planters' Residence on the Cumbee River, South Carolina 552; Scene at Fort Moultrie During the Bombardment of Charleston (front page 605); Repairing Damages in the Casements of Fort Sumter (649); Full Page Map of the Seat of War in Virginia (689); Siege of Vicksburg with large map (27-28); Draft Resistance (Riots) in New York City and Lynching of a Negro and Burning of the Coloured Orphan Asylum (125, 129, 132, 168); Reoccupation of Jackson, MS (128); Map Illustrating Lee's Advance into Pennsylvania (156); Vicksburg Refugees (218); Assault on Fort Wagner (301); Macon, Georgia (341); Scenes on Board the Confederate Warship Alabama (361); Confederate Sharpshooters on the Tennessee River (557); Shelling of Charleston (561); Fort Sumter (564); the Battle of Chicamauga (661); View of Chattanooga and Federal Positions (664). Considerable coverage of the opening of new railroads across Great Britain and elsewhere. 632, 113, 288-289, 325; 388; 456; 493; 653 and numerous others, for example: Opening of the Buxton and Matlock Railway (632). Discovery of the Source of the Nile: Captains Speke and Grant (5, 8, 9, 17; 20-21-22). Japanese Material includes: Views of Yokohama (double page 260-261); Sketches in Japan (253, 256, 304, 364, 408) and more; Map of Simonoseki Bay, Japan (375). FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS INCLUDE: International Dog Show Winners: Harrison Weir (553); Epsom Downs on a Derby Morning (558); International Dog Show Islington Prize Winners: Harrison Weir (625); International Horse Races at Longchamps (640); Sketches of Herat (645); Memorial of the Great Exhibition and its Founder the Late Prince Consort (696); Scene from the New Opera of Faust (4); Iron-Clad Steam Frigate Royal Oak (33); The Quays of Paris (double 148, 149); View of Plymouth (240); The Royal Palace at Athens (537); Prize Birds at the Birmingham Poultry Show: Harrison Weir (601); Henry VII’s Christmas Revels at Greenwich: Double Page by John Gilbert (628-629); Lily’s Ball by J. A. Fitzgerald (632). ILLUSTRATED ARTICLES INCLUDE: Landing Pier and Landing Stairs vicinity Waterloo Bridge (636-7); Sketches of Herat (645); State Visit to the City: View of the Guildhall (double page 668-9); Inauguration of the Cavour Canal, Italy (688); the War in Mexico (692); Design for the National Memorial to the Prince Consort (double-page 48-49); Views in Melbourne, Australia (61, 112); The National Rifle Association Prize Meeting (77); Balloon Reconnaissance at the Royal Review (101); Prize Animals at the Meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society; Bush Life in Queensland (144, 145); The Herring Fishery (197); Travelling in Madagascar (233); Tour of the Lieutenant-Governor through Punjab and Cashmere (240); A Fishing Excursion in New Brunswick (249); The Telegraph to India (280-281); Modes of Travelling in India (284); Construction of Blackfriars Bridge (328); Sketches in Australia, Emu Hunt and Kangaroo Hunt, Bee-Hunters, Snake Hunters (348-349, 352-353); Nadar’s Giant Balloon at Paris holding 13 Persons (377, 584); Sydney and Port Jackson NSW (380); Road-Making on the Murree Hills, India (401); The Dwellings of the Poor in Bethnal-Green (424); Views in New Zealand (472, 473, 476, 477); Sketches from the New Zealand Gold Fields (504-505); Lady Daly, and Australian River Steamer (573); Prize Cattle, Pigs and Sheep at Smithfield Club Show: Harrison Weir (640-641). .

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Davis, Nathan:
        Inscriptions in the Phoenician Character. Now Deposited in the British Museum, Discovered on the Site of Carthage, During Researches, at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government, in the Years 1856, 1857, and 1858
      [London] Printed by the Order of the Trustees,, 1863. Book. Large oblong folio, pp. [iv] + 32 lithographed plates (detailing 90 separate inscriptions) and 32 accompanying text leaves (transcription, transliteration into roman characters and and commentary). Modern blue half morocco over grey paper boards, lettered direct. Dr. Nathan Davis (1812 - 1882) was an American traveller and archaeologist who lived in a Moorish Palace outside Tunis and was engaged in excavations at Carthage and Utica on behalf of the British Museum in the 1850s. Most of the 200 or so Punic and neo-Punic stelae from Carthage in the British Museum’s collections derive from his activities. His other published works include “Carthage and her Remains”.

      [Bookseller: Tim Bryars Ltd]

ROBERT-HOUDIN, Jean Eugene.:
        THE SHARPER DETECTED AND EXPOSED
      London, Chapman and Hall, 1863.. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, 1863. 8vo, approximately 195 x 130 mm, 7½ x 5 inches, illustrated with line drawings in the text, pages: [i-iii], iv-xii, [1], 2-268, original publisher's dark green pebble cloth, gilt lettering to spine, blind decoration to covers, original pale yellow endpapers, small binder's ticket on last pastedown (Bone and Son). Binding slightly rubbed, pale patches to covers, first inner paper hinge cracked, pale foxing mostly to margins, occasional small pale brown spot, 1 page has a small pale stain, neat ink inscription at top of title page "J. W. Hinchcliffe from his friend the translator", otherwise a very good copy in the original cloth binding. Robert-Houdin possessed the ability of creative genius. His originality was aided by his vast knowledge in the technology of clockmaking. It was his knowledge of complex mechanisms which led to his development of "Automata," of which one of his most famous automatons was "The Orange Tree." Escape artist icon Harry Houdini (born Ehrich Weiss) was so impressed by Robert-Houdin that after reading his autobiography in 1890, Ehrich adopted the stage name of "Houdini" in honor of Robert-Houdin. See: Raymond Toole Stott, A Bibliography of English Conjuring 1581-1876, page 201, no, 607; Clarke and Blind, Bibliography of Conjuring, page, 65; Harry Price, Short-title catalogue of works on psychical research, page 327; Sotheby's J. B. Findlay Collection, Part II, no 562. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING. POSTAGE AT COST.

      [Bookseller: Roger Middleton]