Displayed below are some selected recent viaLibri matches for books published in 1897

[Spenser] J. Wise, Walter Crane
        Spenser's Faerie Queene, a Poem in Six Books with the Fragment Mutabilitie
      London; 1897, [i.e. 1894-1897]: George Allen & Unwin, 1897. Limited to 1000 copies for America and England, In six volumes edited by Thomas J. Wise and beautifully illustrated by Walter Crane, with full page and double page illustrations and wonderful illustrated head and tail pieces. Bound from the original 19 parts with the original pictorial salmon wraps bound in white pictorial gilt cloth lettered in red, spine lettering red. top edges gilt all others uncut, finger soiling to covers, spine darkened. A marvelous production of the first appearance of Crane's famed woodcut illustrations.. Quarto.

      [Bookseller: Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB]

MANDRES (colonel de)
        Hstoire Du 4e Régiment De Cuirassiers - 1643-1897
      LAhure Imprimeur, Paris 1897 - MANDRES (colonel de) Histoire Du 4e Régiment De Cuirassiers - 1643-1897 - préface du colonel L. Moulins Rochefort-Paris Lahure imprimeur -1897 - 2 volumes grand in 4° de 439 et 269 pages - ouvrage orné de 2 frontispices, de nombreux documents dans le texte en noir, de 17 planches à pleine-page ou hors-texte en noir, de 57 planches en couleurs : dont 40 de cavaliers et 17 d'étendarts - 6 cartes en couleurs sur double -page en fin d'ouvrage - Reliure signée de STERN, demi-chagrin maroqu complet - bon état -FRAIS de PORT DONNES à TITIRE INDICATIF par le site) ETABLIS, AJUSTES en fonction du POIDS, VALEUR et DESTINATION (variable selon PAYS) DE L'OUVRAGE, envoi en RECOMMANDE dès 40€---- ici poids 7 kgr 100 [Attributes: Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: librairie remy]

DULAC, Edmond [Edmund] (decorations); CLAVEL, Elie; MAGRE, Maurice; TALLET, Gabriel; PRADEL, Fernand; NERVAT, Marie et Jacques; MARIVAL, Raymond; VIOLLIS, Jean; DELBOUSQUET, Emmanuel; GUÉRIN, Charles; LAFARGUE, Marc; BIDACHE, Georges; MAGRE, André
        Poèmes des Mois: Almanach pour 1898 par les Poètes de "l'Effort." Avec treize grandes lettres ornées, dessinées par Elie Clavel et Edmond [Edmund] Dulac, gravées par Vincenot.
      [Toulouse: Bibliothèque de "l'Effort", 1897] - Scarce. First Edition. According to Hughey 1, ".contains probably the first published art work of Edmund Dulac." Oblong octavo - about 6 x 7" (15.5 x 18cm). Bound in the publisher's original cream paper wrappers (watermarked with a repeating daisy design) with a decorative letter printed in purple and red and purple lettering to the front (repeating the black and white title page) and with red lettering to the spine. 61pp. Printed at l'Imprimerie Vialelle et Perry, rue de May, 1, Toulouse. A small almanac published by the Toulouse Symbolist magazine "l'Effort" with a short poem for each month and decorated with 13 pictorial initials in blank and white (each with an attractive Art Nouveau design of a woman) - one for each month (6 by Dulac and 6 by Clavel) and one to the title page by Clavel (repeated on the cover in purple), engraved by Vincenot. Includes the poems: La Pauvreté by Maurice Magre, Crépuscule de Février by Gabriel Tallet, L'Invite by Elie Clavel, La Nuit (Fragments) by Fernand Pradel, Aube and Crépuscule by Marie et Jacques Nervat [pseudonyms of Marie (née Causeé) and Dr. Antoine-Paul Chabaneix], Néére by Raymond Marival, Fiançailles d'Été by Jean Viollis [pseudonym of Henri d'Ardenne de Tizac], Églogue d'Août by Emmanuel Delbousquet, Septembre by Charles Guérin, Despèloucade by Marc Lafargue, Toussaint by Georges Bidache, and Enfance by André Magre. Fair+ Condition - Wrappers browned and somewhat soiled with chips, denting, and short tears along edges, spine quite worn with a tear down the center and many smaller tears (but with lettering still legible), pages browned with corners rounded/chipped, page edges chipped with occasional short tears, text block is holding together but cracking in places, two leaves almost completely detached, an occasional light smudge or small mark. A delicate and browned but complete copy of a scarce item. Reference: Hughey 1. [Attributes: First Edition; Soft Cover]

      [Bookseller: Under the Willow Books]

NEW YORK - BROOKLYN) Welch, George (illus)
        Bird's-Eye View of the Borough of Brooklyn
      Brooklyn.: Brooklyn Daily Eagle.. 1897.. Bird's eye view map / poster, sheet 23 3/4 x 36 1/2 inches. Professionally mounted on linen: map was folded with fold splits and one tear at upper edge, all now visible only on close examination. A panoramic view looking from the northwest with the Navy Yard and downtown Brooklyn in the foreground, reaching as far as Seagate and Coney Island at the right horizon. The Post Office and Eagle Building are named, along with various parks and cemeteries. The smoke stacks and church steeples together with the masted ships at the docks contrast with the extensive unpopulated areas to paint a picture of a vibrant and growing community. Signed by the artist George Welch in lower image. .

      [Bookseller: oldimprints.com]

Wells, H[erbert] G[eorge]
        "WAR OF THE WORLDS, THE" In: THE COSMOPOLITAN: A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE
      Irvington-on-the-Hudson, NY: The Cosmopolitan,. April-December 1897 (volume 22, number 6-volume 24, number 2). original tan wrappers printed in red and back.. Wrappers (printed in pulpy paper) are worn and/or lightly chipped at. spine ends and worn, frayed and/or lightly chipped along overlapping. fore and bottom edges, a few issues have soiling and/or mild stains. to covers, still, this is a very good set overall (some issues closer. to fine, several closer to good), the interiors, printed on high-. quality coated stock which renders the artwork and type in high. detail, are mostly fine, a couple of minor soil marks noted in one. issue. The serial in either COSMOPOLITAN or PEARSON magazine is. usually found in bound up volumes, neither is common as separate. numbers in their original paper wrappers. (#118677). These nine issues of THE COSMOPOLITAN contain the complete American serial publication of "The War of the Worlds," a classic scientific romance, desirable for the many illustrations by Warwick Goble embedded in elaborate wraparound text layouts that were possible in this larger (6 3/4" x 9 1/2") physical format -- vis a vis a smaller octavo book format. This serialized version features a total of fifty-seven unique illustrations by Goble (several are used more than once) -- far more than the fifteen selected for the first U.S. edition (New York: Harper, 1898). (The first edition [London: Heinemann, 1898] had no illustrations.) A must for the serious collector of Wells, interplanetary fiction, future war fiction, the early scientific romance, early visualizations of sf motifs -- a classic such as this marks the intersection of many important categories, not to mention some that are less often connected with it, such as the vampire motif (the aliens use long mechanical tentacles to suck the blood out of human bodies). THE COSMOPOLITAN serial ran simultaneously with its British counterpart in PEARSON'S MAGAZINE.

      [Bookseller: L. W. Currey, Inc.]

VERDI, Giuseppe (1813 - 1901)
        Clipped Signature
      1897. unbound. A late-in-life, dark, bold signature "G. Verdi" on a 2" x 1" slip of paper, without exotic flourish, circa 1895 - 1900 with outstanding contrast. Mounting traces on verso; otherwise fine condition. One of the greatest Italian opera composers of the Romantic era whose works include "Rigoletto," "Aida," and "Falstaff.

      [Bookseller: Argosy Book Store]

AD. WURTZ
        DICTIONNAIRE DE CHIMIE PURE ET APPLIQUEE, 9 VOLUMES (INCOMPLET)
      HACHETTE 1897 - R260167856: Environ 700 à 800 pages par volumes. Dos de cuir rouge, titres et filets dorés. Papier bordeaux et blanc sur les plats frottés. Nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc dans le texte sur 2 colonnes. Etiquettes et tampons de bibliothèque. Manque le Tome I, 2e partie. C-G et manque les 4 autres volumes du deuxième supplément. Brûlures au dos de 3 des volumes. Epidermures. Coiffes frottées. Tome I, 1re partie: A-B. Tome II, 1re partie: H-P. Tome II, 2e partie: P-St. Tome III: S-Z. / Supplément 1: A-F. Supplément, 2 : G-Z. / Deuxième supplément 1 : A-B, Deuxième supplément 2 : C, Deuxième supplément 3 : D-E. In-8 Relié demi-cuir. Etat d'usage. Coins frottés. Dos abîmé. Quelques rousseurs Classification Dewey : 540-Chimie et sciences connexes [Attributes: Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: le-livre]

DIGUET (Charles).
        LA CHASSE EN FRANCE.
      1897 - Paris, Librairie Furne, Jouvet et Cie, sans date [1897]. Grand in-8 (208 X 293) percaline rouge de l'éditeur illustrée sur le premier plat d'une grande plaque polychrome et dorée de Paul SOUZE d'après un dessin de Paul de Sémant, plats bisautés, dos lisse orné du titre en grandes lettres dorées et d'un décor spécial à motif de cor de chasse et tête de cervidé, rosace à froid au second plat, tranches dorées (ENGEL REL.) ; (1) f. blanc, (3) ff. de faux-titre, frontispice et titre, 443 pages, (1) f. Infimes traces de frottements et taches claires au cartonnage, sans gravité. ÉDITION ORIGINALE de cet ouvrage illustré de 122 gravures en noir dans le texte d'après les dessins de Jules Didier, Gélibert, Gridel, Ch. Jacques, Malher, Oudart, etc., etc. (Thiébaud, 277, qui ne signale pas l'existence de la reliure éditeur). BEL EXEMPLAIRE, au corps d'ouvrage en parfait état, conservé dans son magnifique cartonnage éditeur orné d'une grande plaque polychrome et dorée de Paul SOUZE, condition peu commune. NICE COPY. PICTURES AND MORE DETAILS ON REQUEST. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: LIBRAIRIE ERIC CASTERAN]

SPENSER, Edmund
        The Faerie Queen
      Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co,, 1897-00. Edited from the Original Editions of 1590 and 1596 with an Introduction and Glossary by Kate M. Warren. 6 volumes, octavo (172 × 105 mm). Finely bound in near-contemporary red quarter morocco with pink cloth sides and a gilt rules, spines gilt-tooled with an art nouveau floral design and titles direct, attractive green and gilt florally patterned endpapers and top edges gilt. Frontispiece to each volume: three portrait frontispieces of Spenser and three photographic frontispieces of Spenser-related places in Ireland. Spines a little sunned, corners nicked; an entirely sound set in excellent condition. A lovely set of Spenser's Faerie Queene; the first edition to be edited by literary scholar and anthologist Kate M. Warren, using the original editions of 1590 and 1596, with an introduction and glossary to each book. Volume one bears the presentation bookplate for the Birmingham Oratory school prize (for which this set was likely bound) to "T. Fitzherbert-Brockholes, Fifth Form Prize, Midsummer 1913, [Father] John Norris". Thomas Fitzherbert-Brockholes, born 1887, died, less than two years after receiving this school prize book, from wounds after the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, on Sunday 14th March 1915, which was Mothering Sunday, if Spenser's own lines, "and whenas death shall all the world subdue, / our love shall live, and later life renew" (Amoretti #75), do not make this poignant enough. A very attractive and affecting copy.

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

Gortschakov, Andre de. Vladimir Herzenstein et Louis Weissenbruch (Redacteurs)
        Apercu des Chemins de fer Russes depuis L'Origine Jusqu'en 1892. Atlas et Texte
      Paul Weissenbruch., Bruxelles. 1897 - Good-. Ex-library; usual stamps and markings. Dark red half morocco leather and cloth binding. Edges of covers rubbed. Gilt lettering to spine. Endpapers toned. French language text. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Ryan O'Horne Books]

Suffolk and Berkshire, The Earl of, Headley Peek & F.G. Aflalo, Editors
        EncyclopEdia of Sport
      London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1897 & 1898 London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1897 & 1898. First edition. 2 vols., 4to. 38 full-page plates and many in text. x, 632;v, [ii], 655, [1] pp. Bound in three quarter red morocco, gilt spines with emblematic tooling of a horses head, leaping trout, board's head and hunting horns at the corners, t.e.g., by Bickers & Sons, Leicester Square. Bookplate of St. Paul's School and Winthrop Cowdin, small blindstamp on title page. Very good attractive set, some foxing

      [Bookseller: James Cummins Bookseller ]

NOGARET
        L'Aristenete français. 2 volumes.
      Paris, L. Conquet 1897 - Edition illustrée de cinquante compositions de Durand, gravées par Champollion. Tirage limité à 150 exemplaires numérotés. Celui-ci (N°93) sur vélin du Marais. Paris, L. Conquet - 1897 - 210 et 230 pages. Très belle reliure demi chagrin prune à coins signée Carayon. Dos à nerfs richement orné et doré. Tête dorée sur témoins. Non rogné. Couvertures conservées. Filet doré bordant les plats. Petit frottement sur un bord. Pas de rousseur. Très bon état. Format in-12°(16x11). [Attributes: Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: livres et collections]

Rev. H.W. Webb-Peploe
        The Victorious Life - dedication by author
      London: James Nisbet & Co, 1897.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 208 pages, contents are tight and clean, aged with a tanning to page borders, some spotting to end papers with a few further random spots but nothing excessive. Inscription / dedication to ffep from the author to his friend, further inscription from recipient detailing Rev. Peploe's death ( please see pictures ). Dark green cloth boards show some stains and rubbing but still in pretty good condition, binding is good and tight.

      [Bookseller: bee4books]

TWAIN, Mark
        How to Tell a Story and Other Essays
      New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers. 1897. First. First edition, first printing with page 187 uncorrected. Two pages of advertisements in the rear including George Du Maurier's Peter Ibbetson and Trilby. Brick red cloth decorated in gilt. Top edge gilt. Contemporary owner's gift inscription in pencil on the front fly, a stain on the top corners of cloth and pages (not affecting text), spine ends lightly worn, else very good minus. Contains "How to Tell a Story," "In Defence of Harriet Shelley," "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences," "Travelling With a Reformer," "Private History of the 'Jumping Frog' Story," "Mental Telegraphy Again," "What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us," and "A Little Note to M. Paul Bourget." .

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

KIPLING, Rudyard
        CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS": A STORY OF THE GRAND BANKS
      New York: Century, 1897. First American Edition. Hardcover. One of the plates has a jagged closed tear just entering the image; name of previous owner on front free endpaper. Bright, tight, just about Fine copy. W. Taber. In original decorated green cloth ornamented in red, gold, and green with gilt lettering. Livingston 138. Kipling's first American novel and one of the greatest novels of adventures on the sea, with some variations in text from the English edition published earlier the same year. Illustrated with 21 full-page black-and-white plates by W. Taber. Laid in is a 4-page flyer advertising the book and reproducing one of the illustrations, a scarce piece of Kipling ephemera.

      [Bookseller: Charles Agvent, ABAA ]

CASTAIGNE, Andre
        Original Art: Veiled King on Throne Surrounded by Nymphs and Soldiers
      1897. Original art. Watercolor. Image matted to approximately 13.25" x 17.5". Framed. Signed lower right: "A.C. 97." Matted in tan suede (preserving the worn, yellow silk matte below). A couple of light scratches on the image, still fine. A wonderful and haunting image of a veiled king on his thrown, surrounded by diaphanously clad (or altogether unclad) serving women. Born and trained in France, Castaigne came to America where he was active in San Francisco until the earthquake, then moved to New York where he was a prolific illustrator for both magazines and books, particularly those published by the Century Company. Perhaps his best known illustrations are the striking two-page illustrations in the American edition of Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera. .

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

ALTROCK, PAUL VON:
        Illustriertes 'Tagebuch des Kadetten Paul v. Altrock' (Deckeltitel), geführt auf den Karibik-Reisen mit der S.M.S. Charlotte in den Jahren 1897/98 und der S.M.S. Moltke in den Jahren 1898/99. Eingetragen in das vorgedruckte 'Tagebuch', das in Kiel von Paul Toeche, 'Hofbuchhändler Seiner Königl. Hoheit des Prinzen Heinrich von Preussen', verlegt wurde. Enthält auf den ersten 46 S. Eintragungen in die vorgedruckten Tabellen, 28 S. sind unbeschrieben, dem folgt der eigentliche Textteil auf 101 S., mit zahlreichen farbigen Illustrationen im Text und 2 ganzseitigen Karten, 45 S. sind unbeschrieben und am Ende noch einmal 15 S. nur mit Illustrationen versehen. Saubere, gleichmäßige Schrift in brauner Tinte auf liniertem Papier, Blattgröße 27 x 22
      - Halbleder-Band der Zeit mit handschriftlichem Titelschild (Rücken und Kanten berieben), Folio. Die tabellarischen Eintragungen beginnen im April 1897, nachdem die S.M.S. Charlotte nach einer Grundüberholung wieder aktiviert worden war, im Hafen von Kiel und an der Marineakademie und -schule und betreffen 'Cours und Distance', die Position, das Wetter sowie die wichtigsten Tätigkeiten und Vorkommnisse ("Kadetten an Bord", "Anker gelichtet", "Schießübungen", "Jacht Hella abgeschleppt", "ihre Majestäten die Kaiserinnen trafen ein" - nach den Übungen in der Ostsee begleitete das Schiff das Kaiserpaar nach Kronstadt und nahm im August an den Herbstmanövern teil, "Beginn der Manöver", "Geburtstag Ihrer Majestät der Kaiserin", "Kommandant und Offiziere zur Audienz beim Präsidenten", "Key West verlassen", "kriegerische Aktion gegen Haiti"(November 1897) etc. und schließlich "Examen in der Marineakademie" und "Heimatbeurlaubung nach Berlin"). Die Reise mit der S.M.S. Charlotte, die 1886 als letztes Segelkriegsschiff mit Maschinenhilfsantrieb der Kaiserlichen Marine in Betrieb genommen worden war, führte vom Heimathafen Kiel zunächst in die Flensburger Föhrde und zurück, dann nach Karlskrona, Libau, Baltischport, Petersburg und zurück zu den Herbstmanövern in der Ostsee und am Ende über die Nordsee und den Atlantik nach Madeira, Las Palmas, Porto Grande, St. Thomas, Port au Prince, wo wegen eines diplomatischen Zwischenfalls das Schiff schon in Gefechtsbereitschaft versetzt wurde, nach Havanna, Key West und über den Nordatlantik zurück nach Kiel. Die Reise mit der Kreuzerfregatte S.M.S. Moltke begann ebenfalls im Kieler Hafen, führte nach Bergen und wieder zurück, um dann durch den Kaiser Wilhelm Kanal, über die Nordsee nach Plymouth, Lisabon, Las Palmas, Barbados, Trinidad, St. Lucia, St. Thomas, Puerto Rico, Port au Prince, Jamaika, die Azoren, Cienfuegos, Venezuela, Fayal und Vlissingen zu führen. Der ausführliche Textteil enthält zunächst 'Allgemeines über Logbuchführung', 'Eintritt in die Kaiserliche Marine am 7. April 1897', und die Besatzungsliste, und dann die ausführlichen, nahezu täglichen Eintragungen. Aufschlussreich und interessant ist dabei die Mischung aus detaillierten technischen, militärischen und nautischen Informationen, wie etwa über die Ausrüstung des Schiffes, die Abläufe von Schießübungen oder komplizierten nautischen Manövern, die Aufgaben der Besatzung etc. und persönlichen Betrachtungen ("Als wir am nächsten Morgen erwachten, schien die Sonne freundlich durch unsere Luken", "Heute strürzte ein Schiffsjunge aus der Takelage ins Wasser ohne indessen schwere Verletzungen zu erhalten", "Der Kommandant hielt über Westindien einen Vortrag, dem ich mit großem Interesse folgte", "Der Kommandant sagte einige Worte über den desertierten Matrosen Neumann", Landausflüge ("den heutigen Urlaub benutzten wir dazu die Tabaksfabrik von Bock (in Havanna) zu besichtigen, fanden sie aber leider geschlossen"), Versuche einen Hai zu fangen ("Sein Fleisch wird nur von Negern gegessen"), den Besuch des Kaisers an Bord etc.). Die Illustrationen zeigen Schiffe, denen man unterwegs und in Häfen begegnete, Schemata von nautischen Manövern, Flaggen, Seekarten, Küstenlinien, Geschützteile, Ankerbefestigungen, eine hydraulische Bremse, Hafeneinfahrten etc. In regelmäßigen Abständen finden sich Noten und Bemerkungen der Vorgesetzten, die die ausführlichen Aufzeichnungen offensichtlich genauestens und kritisch lasen. Auf der Reise mit der S.M.S. Charlotte häufig gezeichnet 'vR' (d.i. wohl der Kadettenoffizier Freiherr von Rössing) und vielfach auch 'Th' (wohl der Kommandant August Carl Thiele selbst), mit Kommentaren wie "Gut", "Sehr rege Phantasie", "Mühe auch in den Zeichnungen ist nicht zu erkennen", "Bei den Zeichnungen ein Fortschritt". In seinen Aufzeichnungen zu der "kriegerischen Aktion gegen Haiti" schreibt von Altrock am 2. Dezember 1897, nachdem aus Berlin der Befehl eingetroffen war, dass sich Schiffe "unverzüglich nach Haiti zu b [Attributes: Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat Elvira Tasbach]

GANIVET, Angel
        Idearium español. La conquista del reino de maya por el último conquistador español Pío Cid
      Est. Tip. "Sucesores de Rivadeneyra", Madrid 1897 - Holandesa de época con tejuelo 163-379 pags. 1ª Ediciones. 2 obras encuadernadas en un volumen [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: LIBRERÍA GULLIVER]

MAUGHAM, William Somerset.
        Liza of Lambeth.
      London: T. Fisher Unwin 1897 - First edition, second impression (with "Second Edition" on the title page), 8vo, (vi), 242, (6 advertisement) pp, new endpapers neatly inserted, original light green cloth, gilt title and decoration to upper cover, some marking, else a well preserved copy of a scarce book. Stott A1a.

      [Bookseller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB)]

Maxim, Hudson
        Maxim aerial Torpedo. A new system of throwing high exposives from ordnance, and some recent improvements in smokeless powders
      Lon., 1897.. b/w photographic frontispiece, b/w plates. Hudson Maxim was the brother of Hiram (Maxim machine gun) and a developer of modern smokeless powder and other high explosives, the rights to which he eventually sold to Dupont. In this work, apparently published privately, his “aerial torpedoes” are essentially giant naval guns charged with his new smokeless powder, designed to shoot massive shells (up to 1000 pounds) loaded with gun cotton. The photographic frontispiece shows partially burned particles of smokeless powder. The pages are printed on recto only. Text and illustrations are precise, technical, yet still understandable - as Hudson, with rigorous logic, frames his airtight argument for smokeless powder and aerial torpedoes. With the bookplate of Wican Library on the front pastedown, their blindstamp in the lower corner of the title page, small ink stamp on the verso, and no other markings. Bound in blue cloth with gold cover and spine lettering. Light wear to spine ends. Most unusual.

      [Bookseller: Ten Pound Island Book Co.]

VERDI, Giuseppe (1813 - 1901)
        Clipped Signature
      1897 - One of the greatest Italian opera composers of the Romantic era whose works include "Rigoletto," "Aida," and "Falstaff." A late-in-life, dark, bold signature "G. Verdi" on a 2" x 1" slip of paper, without exotic flourish, circa 1895 - 1900 with outstanding contrast. Mounting traces on verso; otherwise fine condition.

      [Bookseller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB]

Andre, R.
        Colonel Bogey's Sketch Book etc
      longmans Green & Co., London 1897 - Oblong 4to. Pp 44. Illustrations. Original cloth spined, glazed, pictorial boards. Worn, scratched and marked, front and back. One gathering loose and creased. Internally fingered. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd.]

Mahan, Captain A. T.
        The Life of Nelson The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain
      First Edition Recently rebound in 1/2 light brown leather over marbled paper covered boards with matching marbled endsheets. The spines have five raised bands each with dark brown leather titles in two compartments with gilt text . The text blocks for both volumes are in near fine condition with the top edges of the text blocks gilt. Volume I has a early prior owner's name and inscription on the second free end paper. Volume I contains 454 pages and volume II contains 427 pages including an index. Illustrated with 19 portraits in both volumes, 10 maps in volume I and 10 maps in volume II, two of which fold-out. An extremely handsome set by one of the most revered American naval historians.Our code number = TB20126

      [Bookseller: Town's End Books, ABAA, ILAB]

KOCH, ROBERT. (1843-1910) German physician and biologist considered the founder of the field of bacteriology; awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1905 for his work on tuberculosis and recognized for isolating the anthrax bacillus in 1877 as well as
        Autograph Letter Signed, in German on a government postcard, Kimberly, South Africa, March 22, 1897
      Koch writes to the Director of the Royal Health Authority Councilor Kohler in Berlin. In full, "I was lucky to get last minute tickets for passage on the German East Africa line's "Admiral," and I will depart from Durban on March 28. I will take the liberty to send you cards along the way from each of the countries we have to pass, in accordance with your request. Unfortunately, they do not have picture postcards yet, culture has not reached them yet...." Signed, "R. Koch." Slight water staining on right margin text but words remain easily readable.

      [Bookseller: David Schulson Autographs ]

        Karl Lueger - Josef Strobach - Josef Neumayer. Gruppenbild der Wiener Bürgermeister mit eigenh. Signaturen.
      (Wien 1897 - Originalfotografie auf Fotografenkarton. (Wien um 1897). 16 x 24 (Passepartoutausschnitt). 32 x 40 cm. Sehr seltenes Dokument der Wiener Politik um 1900. 1897 war Lueger (1844-1910) endgültig zum Bürgermeister gewählt worden. Hier mit seinem Vorgänger Strobach (1852-1905, der auch als Buchhändler tätig gewesen ist) und seinem Nachfolger (1844-1923). Brustbild eines anonymen Fotografen der christlich-sozialen Kommunalpolitiker, die auf dem Passeparoutkarton in Tinte eigenh. voll signieren. Bild tadellos, zwei Kartonecken mit Knickspuren

      [Bookseller: Georg Fritsch Antiquariat]

Hedley Peek
        The Chariot of the Flesh
      Lawrence and Bullen, UK 1897 - London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1897. Hardback first edition and first impression. The book is near fine with an owner's name to title page, an embossed rectory stamp to FFEP. Boards very nice, with light edge wear. A nice copy. Page block in excellent condition. Signed by the author without inscription. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Hyraxia Books. ABA, PBFA]

GRANT ALLEN
        The African Millionaire. Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay
      Grant Richards, London, 1897. First Edition, first printing of this elusive Queen's Quorum title. 317pp + ii publisher's catalogue at rear. Ribbed green cloth gilt lettered and handsomely decorated. With sixty-six drawings in the text. Top edge gilt, others rough-trimmed. Half-title and rear endpaper lightly browned and with a tiny dealer plate to front pastedown. Cloth lightly chafed at head and base of spine and several other extremities and with the occasional light blemish to leaf margins. A very good copy. Twelve stories featuring Colonel Clay "the first important rogue in short crime fiction who is the hero, not a subsidiary character, villain or anti-hero" - Encyclopaedia of Mystery and Detection.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

      [Bookseller: Clearwater Books]

        Nouvelle Imitation de la Très Sainte Vierge
      (Dijon: Marchet & Roux, 1897). 191pp. This elegant book of prayers to the Virgin Mary is illustrated with an engraved frontispiece of the nativity. Printed by Firmin-Didot in black and red with red rules. Gilt floral decoration on the interior with blue and gold pastedowns. Some minor creasing to several leaves along fore-edge; one page has a 1/2-inch tear to outer margin. Nearly fine overall, bound in contemporary blue morocco with elaborate gilt border decorations on covers and turn-ins. A.e.g. A rare miniature, unrecorded in all reference sources, and in a handsome binding. (3 1/16 by 2 1/4; 78x57mm).

      [Bookseller: Bromer Booksellers]

STOKER, Bram
        Dracula
      London, Westminster, Archibald Constable and Company. 1897., 1897. First edition. No ads. Octavo. [i-vii], viii-ix, [1], 2-390, [blank]. Bookplate. Occasional marking, recased and repaired to spine. Very good. Original publisher's yellow cloth, blocked and lettered in red. New endpapers. Soiling to boards as usually seen. Spine neatly repaired to extremities. Internally clean with a repair to page 9 as the result of careless edge opening. Spotting to page edges. Overall a presentable copy of a first edition of the most famous of all vampire novels. Housed in clamshell box.

      [Bookseller: Adrian Harrington Rare Books]

Hildebrand, Heinrich:
        Der Tempel Ta-chüeh-sy (Tempel des grossen Erkennens) bei Peking
      Berlin, Asher, 1897.. Mit 87 Textabb. und 12 Tafeln (davon 8 in Photolithographie und 4 in Photogravure). 4 Bll., 34 S., 1 Bl. Flexible illustr. OHLwd. 31,5 x 24,5 cm. Heinrich Hildebrand (1855-1925) lebte von 1891 bis 1908 in China und war für die Schantung-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft in Tsingtau tätig. An früher Architektur interessiert gelang Hildebrand wohl mit vorliegendem Werk die erste detaillierte Vermessung eines historischen Gebäudes in China. - Vorderdeckel angestaubt. Mit interessantem Exlibris Max Schittke und kl. Besitzstempel Dr. Rühle.

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat Turszynski]

Hallard, James Henry
        Gold and Silver : an Elementary Treatise on Bimetallism / by James Henry Hallard
      London : Rivington, Percival 1897 - Physical desc. : x, [2], 122 p ; 22 cm. Subject: Bimetallism. Fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. 1 Kg. 122 pp. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: MW Books Ltd]

[ROOSEVELT, Franklin D.] MALTBY, Albert Elias
        OLD GLORY" ... THE FLAG OF OUR COUNTRY. A SUPPLEMENTARY READER CONTAINING PRACTICAL LESSONS IN PATRIOTISM FOR USE IN PUBLIC OR PRIVATE SCHOOLS. From the Library of Franklin D. Roosevelt with His Inscription
      Slippery Rock, PA: Printed by the Author, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Decorated white cloth with a full-color American flag and gilt title on the front cover. Illustrated with plates and drawings. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front endpaper completely in the hand of Franklin Roosevelt: "Given me by James J. Maltby/at Fayetteville N.Y. July 17 1930./Mr. Maltby is the Brother/of the Author of this book./Franklin D. Roosevelt.

      [Bookseller: Charles Agvent, ABAA ]

Gagarin, G. G. (Prince Gregoire Gagarine)
        SOBRANIYE VIZANTIYSKIKH, GRUZINSKIKH I DREVNERUSSKIKH ORNAMENTOV ... ("The Collection of Byzantine, Georgian and Old Russian Ornaments...") [RECUEIL D'ORNEMENTS ET D'ARCHITECTURE BYZANTINS, GEORGIENS ET RUSSES]
      St. Petersburg: Ekspeditsiya Zagotovleniya Gosudarstvennykh Bumag, 1897 [St. Petersbourg: Expedition pour la confection des papiers d'etat, 1897] Author: Prince Grigory Grigorievich Gagarin. Text in Russian. Folio size (14-1/2" x 10-1/2") original cloth portfolio, embossed in gilt with loosely inserted text and illustrations. VIII, 22, (2) pp. + 45 hors-texte lithographs. Complete set. Ex-US public library with some usual marking (no pockets); else very nice copy indeed. Library loss, your gain. Very Rare complete set, especially in such condition. Please see the picture. For more images please visit our website..

      [Bookseller: Books You Want]

de Balzac, Honore (Sedgwick, Ellery; Furey, Francis; Artois, Mary; Sedgwick, Jane Minot, ; Walton, William; Ives, George
        La Comedie Humaine. Scenes of Parisian Life. Scenes of Private Life. Etchings by Gery-Bichard, Eugene Gaujean and R de Los Rios, after paintings by Georges Cain and Louis-Edouard Fournier (amongst others). 22 volume set
      London Leonard Smithers 1897. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Slight rubbing to covers. Some light browning to edges of pages. Spines lightly sunned. Pages uncut. Teg. Rare Limited Edition [of 250] Red/gilt hardback cover 220mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). [7500pp.]. Illustrations. The titles covered in this set are: The Splendours and Miseries of Courtesans (Vol 1 & 2 - The Way That Girls Love, How Much Love Cost Old Men, The End Of Bad Roads & The Last Incarnation of Vautrin) The Poor Relations (Cousin Bette, Pierre Grassou, The Girl with the Golden Eyes), The Poor Relations (Cousin Pons), History of the Thirteen: Ferragus Chief of the Devorants, La Duchesse de Langeais, History of the Grandeur and Downfall of Cesar Birotteau, The Civil Services, Gaudissart II, A Prince of Bohemia, The house of Nucingen, The Secrets of La Princesse de Cadignan, Sarrasine Facino Cane, A Man of Business, The Involuntary Comedians, The Petty Bourgeois (Vol I), The House of the Cat and Racket, The Danse at Sceaux, The Purse, The Vendetta, Memoirs of Two Young Wives, Modeste Mignon, A Start in Life, Madame Firiani, The Message, The Atheist's Mass, Albert Savarus, A Daughter of Eve, The Marriage Contract, La Grenadiere, Gobseck, A Woman of Thirty, The Deserted Mistress, Old Goriot, Honorine, Colonel Chabert, The Interdiction, Beatrix, A Double family, The Peace of the Household, A Study of Woman, Another Study of a Woman, The Pretended Mistress. Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French journalist and writer, regarded as one of the creators of realism in literature. Balzac's huge production of novels and short stories are collected under the name La Comedie Humaine. A key figure in the 1890's the publisher Leonard Smithers was known best for publishing authors other publishers wouldn't touch 'with a barge pole' from writers and artists like Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley to outright pornography.

      [Bookseller: Barter Books]

Theal, George McCall
        RECORDS OF THE CAPE COLONY 1797-1831 36 volumes. Copied For The Cape Government, From The Manuscript Documents In The Public Record Office, London.
      Printed for the Government of the Cape Colony 1897-1905.. Ex-library set with stamps. boards faded, spotted, ink volume number to spine, spine accession label removed showing band of original red colour board, pages tanned and general signs of age. A sound set, contents excellent. sold w.a.f.. Red cloth boards. 36 volume set. Theal painstakingly copied all the Cape Colony records by hand during visits to London, there being no mechanical way of doing so at the time. This work records all letters, reports, debates, plans, etc. A major opus of considerable historical interest covering, amongst much else, the 1820 Settlers.

      [Bookseller: Fables Bookshop]

James Rendel Harris
        Letters from the Scenes of the recent Massacres in Armenia
      James Nisbet 1897 - 1897. 254 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth hardcover, with gilt titling on front and spine. Lightly tanned pages and firm binding, with fair tanning on fore-edge and end papers. Tissue guard on frontispiece is loose yet still attached. Boards are good to fair, slight rub markings on front, rear and spine. Light leaning to boards, with light bumping on corners and spine ends. Scarce. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: World of Rare Books]

MATTEI Graf CAESAR
        Vademekum der Elektro-Homoeopathie. Teil I - Unito : Teil II. HEWSER Paul H.A. - Elektro-homoeopathisces Rezeptbuch.
      Subject: (Elettromeopatia). Regensburg, Verlag J. Habbel, 1897 circa, due vol. in uno, 16mo tutta tela, pp. 109 con due tav. f.t. Unito : Ibid. id. pp. 90 con 6 pp. di pubblicit? editoriale in fine.

      [Bookseller: LIBRERIA PIANI]

de Balzac, Honoré(Sedgwick, Ellery; Furey, Francis; Artois, Mary; Sedgwick, Jane Minot,; Walton, William; Ives, George Burnham; Tomlinson, May; Fosdick, Gertrude; Christian, Furey; Francis T.; Ives, George B. [trans.])
        La Comedie Humaine. Scenes of Parisian Life. Scenes of Private Life. Etchings by Gery-Bichard, Eugene Gaujean and R de Los Rios, after paintings by Georges Cain and Louis-Edouard Fournier (amongst others). 22 volume set
      London: Leonard Smithers. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Slight rubbing to covers. Some light browning to edges of pages. Spines lightly sunned. Pages uncut. Teg. Rare. 1897. Limited Edition [of 250]. Red/gilt hardback cover. 220mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). [7500pp.]. Illustrations. The titles covered in this set are: The Splendours and Miseries of Courtesans (Vol 1 & 2 - The Way That Girls Love, How Much Love Cost Old Men, The End Of Bad Roads & The Last Incarnation of Vautrin) The Poor Relations (Cousin Bette, Pierre Grassou, The Girl with the Golden Eyes), The Poor Relations (Cousin Pons), History of the Thirteen: Ferragus Chief of the Devorants, La Duchesse de Langeais, History of the Grandeur and Downfall of Cesar Birotteau, The Civil Services, Gaudissart II, A Prince of Bohemia, The house of Nucingen, The Secrets of La Princesse de Cadignan, Sarrasine Facino Cane, A Man of Business, The Involuntary Comedians, The Petty Bourgeois (Vol I&II), The House of the Cat and Racket, The Danse at Sceaux, The Purse, The Vendetta, Memoirs of Two Young Wives, Modeste Mignon, A Start in Life, Madame Firiani, The Message, The Atheist's Mass, Albert Savarus, A Daughter of Eve, The Marriage Contract, La Grenadiere, Gobseck, A Woman of Thirty, The Deserted Mistress, Old Goriot, Honorine, Colonel Chabert, The Interdiction, Beatrix, A Double family, The Peace of the Household, A Study of Woman, Another Study of a Woman, The Pretended Mistress. Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French journalist and writer, regarded as one of the creators of realism in literature. Balzac's huge production of novels and short stories are collected under the name La Comédie Humaine. A key figure in the 1890's the publisher Leonard Smithers was known best for publishing authors other publishers wouldn't touch 'with a barge pole' from writers and artists like Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley to outright pornography. .

      [Bookseller: Barter Books Ltd]

Nansen, Dr. Fridtjof
        Farthest North
      Archibald Constable and Company, Westminster 1897 - Hardcover. Two Volumes. Green cloth with gilt lettering and design. Lean to spine. Boards rubbed and stained. Extremities rubbed, corners bumped. Head and tail of spine creased and frayed. Hinges cracked, foxing throughout. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Booked Up, Inc.]

CONWAY, E. H.:
        12 Originale skisser og akvareller fra - Original Scetches and Watercolors from: W. M. Conway: The First Crossing of Spitsbergen (1897).
      Skissene måler ca. 36 x 26 cm. The scetches are about 36 x 26 cm (14,5 x 10 in.) High quality photos on request.Det finnes svært få opplysninger om W.M. Conways fetter H. E. Conway, men han er nevnt gjentatte ganger i Conways bok fra ekspedisjonen, The First Crossing of Spitsbergen (1897).Alle de tolv skissene og akvarellene som presenteres her, er gjengitt i boken.There is not much information about W.M. Conways cousin H.E. Conway,but in the book from the expedition, The First Crossing of Spitsbergen (1897), he is mentioned several times. All scetches and water colours presented here, are printed in the book."My cousin, H. E. Conway, came as the artist of the expedition. He worked industriously and with no little skill in most uncomfortable surroundings and ungenial weather. The present volume contains many of his notes, whilst his sketches in water-colour and oil have already been exhibited to the public." (From "The First Crossing of Spitsbergen" 1897 -pg. 10)"I asked Conway's leave to visit this [Dickson] bay while he was occupied with others of his party in crossing to Agardh Bay. This leave he most kindly gave. His cousin, H. E. Conway, the artist to the expedition, was also to come; at least until we found a place for an artist's studies. (...) Conway with admirable perseverance managed to make a sketch in oils despite of the wet." (pg. 239-40)"Not a little of the memory of a very happy time I owe to the unfailing cheeriness and good fellowship, under often dull conditions, of our artist H. E. Conway, my friend and companion at the Flower-Garden." (p. 251). Følg denne lenken for å se alle de originale skissene og akvarellene - Follow this link to see all original scetches and watercolors: http://issuu.com/norlisantikvariat/docs/conway

      [Bookseller: Norlis Antikvariat]

        Ehren Gedenkbuch des Männer-Chores Donaustadt (Deckelbeschriftung). 1897 VIII. Vereinsjahr Männerchor Donaustadt (Titelblatt).
      (Wien 1897 - (Wien 1897-1941). 4°. 100 Blatt, davon 19 beschrieben. Rotes OLn mit Goldprägung, Goldschnitt. Unikat. Kalligraphisches Titelblatt 1897 mit den Vereinsband in Farbe und eigenh. Eintragungen, an erster Stelle "Dr. Karl Lueger / Bürgermeister der Stadt Wien / 16. März 1898", weiters die (Vize-) Bürgermeister Josef Strobach, Josef Neumayer (also Luegers Vorgänger sowie sein Nachfolger), Stadt- und Gemeinderäte, mit Eintragungen bis 1941. Mit der Ehrenliste von Damen, die 1898 ein Fahnenband hergestellt haben. Eintragung 1941 mit Aquarell der Reichsbrücke als Hintergrund zur 50jährigen Bestandfeier ("Mit dem Lied zum Sieg"), auf dem letzten Blatt Etikett von Trentsensky. Schönes Exemplar. Sprache: deu Rotes OLn mit Goldprägung, Goldschnitt. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Georg Fritsch Antiquariat]

Wright (John), Burbridge (F. W., diagrams)
        THE FLOWER GROWER'S GUIDE.
      - With coloured illustrations by Miss Gertrude Hamilton and Miss Marie Low, and numerous illustrative diagrams by F. W. Burbridge, George Shayler, and Miss May Iggulden. Three volumes in six divisions, complete, totalling over 1100 pages (the pagination and text continuous within each of the three volumes), 46 chromolithographic plates (most with tissue guards), numerous black & white text figures (a few full page), the title pages printed in red & black, floral patterned endpapers, index; demy 4to; light blue/grey cloth over bevelled boards, spines lettered in gilt, the upper boards decorated in red & black, the cloth slightly flecked or soiled, edges lightly worn, a couple of small surface grazes or scars; a.e.g.; endpapers slightly offset, hinges starting at a couple of points, some of the tissue guards creased or lightly worn, a little light foxing and soiling; Virtue, London, n.d.[1897]. *Bound in at the end of the final volume are spare title pages for each volume, plus a preface (dated 1897), contents pages, and lists of illustrations for each volume. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller]