Antique book, lovely condition, Please view photos and read description. A Very Rare 1897 Book ~ The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam translated by Richard Le Gallienne and signed by Le Gallienne in a limited edition of 1250 of which this one is #367. Extremely Rare to find this Book anywhere! Still has its "Brentano's Booksellers Union Square New York" Label in the back of the Book. Richard Le Gallienne was a very famous Author / Poet / Translator and was in fact a friend of Oscar Wilde. A Wonderful Edition of this classic literary work! Book is in very nice condition for its age. Tightly Bound, no loose or missing pages, in fact a couple of the pages still remain uncut, as shown in photo. Cover has sight amount of slitting but is not loose, is tightly bound. Pages are amazingly fresh and white looking. A Fabulous Antique Treasure!. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; In Dust Jacket]

Constable, 1897. [Attributes: First Edition]

Dracula by Bram Stoker. Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897. First edition, later issue. Octavo. [x], 390, 1, blank, 1, Shoulder of Shasta ad, 16, ad pages. Original vivid yellow cloth, front and spine ruled and lettered in red, text block detached from casing and laid into boards. Boards rubbed and soiled, red lettering faded on spine, corners bumped, spine sun-darkened, chipping with loss on spine ends. Text block edges lightly toned with a bit of chipping, front free endpaper and half-title detached, endpapers faintly foxed, ink ownership signature on front free endpaper, ink mark on front free endpaper, several places over-opened. A good copy of the gothic horror classic that has defined pop culture's modern vampire. Priced according to condition. Lowest current price this printing $7,500.00. [Attributes: First Edition]

Bram Stoker - Dracula - First Edition London, Archibald Constable and Company, 1897. The RARE first edition, second state. Text block measuring over 1'' thickness and with Shoulder of Shasta advertisement. No publishers catalog. Early printings of Dracula come in various states. Copies with a blank final text leaf and no pages of adverts are considered the earliest as all copies inscribed by Stoker on the day of publication are in this state. Issued slightly later (this copy) is a printing with the final integral leaf now containing an advert for 'The Shoulder of Shasta', and then in subsequent years issued with a further sixteen page catalog and later still on thinner paper. See my other listings for a copy on thinner paper. Original yellow cloth, lettered and bordered in red. Spine darkened, head of spine restored, with no other restorations. Internally near fine, hinges intact. Endpapers clean and without inscriptions. Some light soiling to the boards. Still, an unusually nice example as most early editions come worn and battered. The worlds most famous vampire story, never out of print since first publication. In has been the basis for unnumbered stage and film adaptations and continues to be hugely inspirational in contemporary popular culture. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. Please see the other first editions I have listed. [Attributes: First Edition]

1897. PLEASE ADD ME TO YOUR SELLERS YOU FOLLOW LIST - POSTING MORE GREAT RARE BOOKS WHEN I GET THE CHANCE".

The Hanami (Flower-Picnic) described by S. Takashima. Reproduced and Published by K. Ogawa. Yokohama, Hongkong, Shanghai & Singapore, Kelly & Walsh 1897. Oblong folio measures approx. 14-1/2" x 11-1/2". With 25 colored collotypes, all with tissue guards, of which 24 are made from photographs with captions in English. Including title and introduction in English by Suteta Takashima, and at rear a Japanese colophon. Original silk covered boards, with paper title label on front cover. Small piece of title label is missing, and there is some general fading and wear to covers and edges. Original silk ties missing, replaced now with two brass clips. Inside contents are clean and fine and are stunning! Scarce work will lovely color illustrations of sakura or cherry blossom in Tokyo including pictures from three well known flower resorts: Ueno Park, Mukojima and Koganei. Kazumasa Ogawa (1860-1929), renowned Japanese photographer, opened the first photographic studio in Tokyo in 1882. He published this type of collotype album to promote Japanese culture in the West at the end of the 19th century. This is the original, and first, of the particular edition. Well wrapped for secure delivery. Please email should you have any questions.

J.B. Millet. Captain F. Brinkley, Japan, Described and Illustrated by the Japanese, Written by Eminent Japanese Authorities and Scholars. Boston: Millet, c. 1897-1898. 15 volumes, complete, with a total of 382 pp., many illustrations. Each folio volume bound in cloth spine and paper stiff covers, with illustrated text containing one colored floral photograph, two original mounted color photographs measuring approximately 8 x 10 inches, mounted on thick tinted paper, and one bound-in decorative arts pattern also on tinted or colored paper. There are a total 30 hand watercolored silver print photographs hand made in these volumes. Volumes measure 15.5 x 12.5 inches. Photographs are fine though faded with age. Some small stains to covers. Otherwise volumes are very good, clean texts, great photographs. Thus, we have a total of 20 volumes with 44 photographs. All volumes are in very good condition.

Mint condition, unused copy, may have some spots due to age factor. Comes in its original box. The most prestigious Art book produced in Pakistan, Amal-e-Chughtai is an amalgam of thoughts and poetry of Dr. Allama Iqbal, National poet of Pakistan , and the art works of M.A Rahman Chughtai (1897-1975). Inaugurated by President Muhammed Ayub Khan on 31st December 1968, at Alhamra Arts Council, Lahore. The original edition was numbered to 275 copies and sold for Rs. 1500 at that time. A second popular edition was introduced in 1970 for Rs. 500. As a large number of original edition was stolen by a corrupt dealer, an off shoot edition was created later to make up for the theft. It is called a SPECIAL EDITION and made in the same period. The edition was unsigned and unnumbered, but the rarity is the same as it was also a very limited edition. Very few copies of the 1968 edition (same as special edition) are there and the 1970 edition is seen more in the market. The book printed by Nisar Art Press, Lahore and the 37 Colour plates (pasted on page) printed by City Engraving Company, Hull. The many black and white gravure plates printed in England too. Qitas in calligraphy printed in letter-press. Custom binding by Haji Basheer of Ambala Binders, Lahore. Gold stamped. Pages around 476 on Japanese Vellum hand made paper. Pristine copy in original board box, authenticated by Arif Rahman Chughtai, son of the artist. A detailed history is given free with the book, entitled "THE LEGENDARY BOOK", PRINTED IN 2017.

Town House & Law Courts at Cardiff , Wales - 19th century Architect Drawings Important architectural collection related with the public competition for the proposed design of the Town House and Law Courts at Cardiff, won in 1897 by the firm Lanchaster, Stewart and Rickards. The archive is composed of 7 original monumental fine architectural drawings. The drawings show: Design For Law Courts and Town Hall Cardiff. Executed with black ink & watercolour on high quality paper pasted on cardboard; dimensions of drawing 500 x 930 mm (cardboard measuring 630 x 960 mm; mounted on fabric). Cardboard marked with the number 7. Good condition, despite drawing marked by ancient centre fold, minor stains, and creasing. Card board creased with minor loss of paper at the right edge. Reverse back lined. Design For Town Hall: Cardiff, Section A-B & Section C-D & Section E-F & Block Plan & N.E. Elevation. Executed with black ink & watercolour on high quality paper pasted on cardboard; dimensions of drawing 940 x 605 mm (cardboard measuring 960 x 630 mm; mounted on fabric). Drawing marked with the number 7. Very good condition, despite creasing and minor soiling. Design For Town Hall: Cardiff, First Floor & Ground Plan. Executed with black ink & watercolour on high quality paper pasted on cardboard; dimensions of drawing 950 x 595 mm (cardboard measuring 960 x 630 mm; mounted on fabric). Drawing marked with the number 7. Good condition, despite drawing marked by ancient centre fold, creasing, and minor soiling. Design For Town Hall: Cardiff, Second Floor & Basement Plan. Plans of Tower. Third … [Click Below for Full Description]

1897. Original archive. Softcover. The 26 thick, octavo notebooks are written in a neat European hand, dated consecutively from 1897 through 1914. The first 11 volumes are written in the Czech language. From the middle of Vol. XII on, Schwarz, who is by then living in New York, writes in English. Each notebook has a title-page stating the inclusive dates of the contents and where they were written, with the earlier volumes penned in Focsani (Romania), Paris, Zurich, Berlin, Lausanne, Charlottenburg, and Sniatyn (now Ukraine, then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire). Starting with Vol. VII (April 1902-Oct. 1903), he does his writing in the U.S. His first "American" volume was partially written in NY and St. Louis, the next in St. Louis and "Pittsburg", and from Vol. IX on, he writes solely in NY and Pittsburgh. ~~ Schwarz's first "American" volume was partially written in New York and St. Louis; the next in St. Louis and "Pittsburg"; and from Vol. IX on, he writes solely in NY and Pittsburgh. ~~ With one exception, the volumes contain his "Cugetari" (translated in later volumes as "Reflections"), and these "reflections" are consecutively numbered. They vary in length from a few lines to several pages. The "cugetari" in these notebooks start at #177, and by the end of volume XXVI, Schwarz has reached #2,326. The pages in the volumes are also consecutively numbered, from pp.1- 3,524. The "Cugetari" are scholarly thoughts on a variety of topics in philosophy and ethics, e.g. Reflection #1037: "We always try to explain the unusual in terms of the usual and this is--I think--the … [Click Below for Full Description]

Chicago: Way and Williams, 1897. Kindly view description. [Attributes: First Edition]

NEW YORK, 1897 Published by GROSSET & DUNLAP Binding: HARD BACK ORANGE Size: 7 1/2 X 5 1/4 354 Pages Overall Condition is: GOOD General wear and rubbed cover. No other markings except Previous owner info on fep. Tight binding. No bookplate. Black gilt on covers/spine.

1897. Very nice condition. Book is amazing condition. Dust jacket is very good but has a few issues please see photos. Thanks for looking - All items are represented in the pictures. Thanks for looking. [Attributes: In Dust Jacket]

This auction is for a first edition book, The Decoration of Houses, by Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman, Jr. Published in 1897 by Charles Scribner's Sons in New York. 204 pages, 56 illustrations. This is Edith Wharton's first published book. Marbled Paper-Covered Boards. Good Condition. Marble paper color has faded, red color on front cover is much duller than the rear cover. Spine color has faded. Two small cracks at the base of the spine. Binding is good. Corners are bumped, more pronounced at the bottom of the covers. Small ink stain on the front cover. A sheet of silver leaf was left in the book and stained one of the pages as seen in the last photo. The authors stress simplicity, harmony, and classical symmetry in contrast to the overdone Victorian interiors of their youth. The Decoration of Houses is considered a seminal work and its success led to the emergence of professional decorators working in the manner advocated by its authors. Shipping is $9.50 to U.S. addresses. [Attributes: First Edition]

Laurens Maynard, 1897.

1897. antique book with leather binding has some wear, rubbing along spine edges, spine top front edge has about 2" split..first few pages are pulling away at the spine. pages are in excellent clean condition, not quite as white as the photos came out.printed on rag? type paper that has little fibers in it.. slipcase has lot of wear. please read description and look at photographs to help determine condition. Rare old antique leather book. decorative spine with flowers, raised bands,gold lettering. Book would look great on your bookshelf !! spine is a dark brown, covers black with floral pattern endpapers are a silvery/gray floral pattern , soft fuzzy like wallpaper. then a marbleized paper. book measures about 9 7/8" tall. signed by a Monsieur P Ruban L Conquet. from the publisher ? 340 pages. illustrated with lots of nice drawings by A Robida. Imprime par Chamerot et Renouard, 19 rue des Saints-Peres, 19 Paris Please look at photos to determine condition François Villon (in modern French, pronounced [fʁɑ̃swa vijɔ̃]; in fifteenth-century French, [frɑnswɛ viˈlɔn]) born in Paris in 1431 and disappeared from view in 1463, is the best known French poet of the late Middle Ages. A ne'er-do-well who was involved in criminal behavior and got into numerous scrapes with authorities,[1] Villon wrote about some of these experiences in his poems.Villon was born in Paris in 1431 (the year that Joan of Arc was burned at the stake).[2] One source gives the date as April 19, 1432 [O.S. April 1, 1431]. Villon's real name may have been François de Montcorbier or François des Loges:[3] both … [Click Below for Full Description]

H.S.Nichols, 1897. Very good. Octavo, 255mm x 155mm. 12 volumes illustrated with 71 b/w plates with tissue guards. Separate box of 71 artist's proofs. Original black cloth, elaborate gilt decorated covers with Arabic calligraphy, gilt lettered spine, top edges gilt, deckled edges. H.S. Nichols produced two editions of Burton's classic translation. The first, in 1894, 'omits given passages in dreadful taste, whose elimination will be mourned by no one'. This, the second, unexpurgated edition, includes 71 illustrations by Burton's close friend Albert Letchford. Light rubbing and wear to covers and spines; some foxing and browning to pages. Some damage to front board of box of artist's proofs which are clean internally. A good copy of possibly the finest illustrated edition of The Arabian Nights. £100 off - previously on sale at £750. Free postage within UK. [Attributes: First Edition]

MAME Alfred et FILS, 1897. 272 pages pour le tome I et 279 pages pour le tome II. Gravures en noir et blanc en pages de titre. Illustrés de nombreux dessins, gravures et lithographies en noir et blanc dans et hors texte. Nombreuses illustrations en couleur dans et hors texte, avec serpentes. Edition Nationale. La Sainte Enfance. La Prédication. La Semaine Sainte. La Passion. La Résurrection. Illustrations: lithographies en couleur, et fac-similés sur cuivre et sur bois, dessins explicatifs. In-Folio Cartonnage d'éditeurs. Très bon état. Couv. remarquable. Dos impeccable. Intérieur acceptable Classification Dewey : 232-Jésus Christ. .

1897. Coimbra, 1897-1898. Sole edition. With Sections Devoted to Portugal's Colonies Delgado de Carvalho, J.I. Manual do Processo Criminal Moderno. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade, 1897-1898. Two volumes. 351, [1]; 382 pp. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5"). Contemporary speckled calf, lettering pieces and gilt fillets and ornaments to spine. Some rubbing with light wear to extremities, corners lightly bumped, a few minor scuffs to boards, which are slightly bowed, hinges starting, partial crack in text block between front endleaf and title page, upper corner from pp. 515-16 of Volume I lacking with minor loss (to page numbers). Light browning to text, faint dampstaining in a few places. Author dedication inscriptions to half-titles, early owner signatures to title pages, later owner bookplates to front endleaves. Annotations and underlining in pencil in places, texts otherwise clean. $950. * Only edition. This treatise on criminal law and procedure has sections devoted to Portugal's colonies. OCLC locates 1 copy in North America (at Harvard Law School).

Karl Baedeker, 1897. Half-title page and last blank page browned (as usual). Edges a bit tanned. ; 16mo; XLVIII, 447 pages

STOKER, Bram. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897. FIRST EDITION FIRST ISSUE. 1 vol., text bulking to 27mm, blank final leaf (391/392), it does not contain the 16 page publisher's catalog but has the 8 page terminal catalogue mentioned below. Bound in the publisher's original red stamped yellow cloth, housed in a red cloth clamshell slipcase, inner hinges starting, outer hinges fine, head and foot of spine rubbed with some minor loss, general overall handling but not as offensive as most copies, minor offsetting to endpapers, some spotting to upper edges of last few leaves otherwise internally clean and bright, small neat ownership signature on half-title, a GOOD completely unsophisticated copy of a notoriously difficult book to find that hasn't been mucked with. Rebound, restored, rebacked, relined, recased, and cleaned copies are the norm but this copy has survived, thankfully, eluding the re-storer. The first edition points for Dracula are complex but most experts agree that the earliest printing of Dracula was issued on thick paper, bulking 27mm, contained a blank final leaf (391/392), and no terminal publisher's advertisements. Later issues of the first edition were printed on thinner paper, contain an advertisement for "Shoulder of Shasta" on the rear flyleaf, and included a 16 page publisher's catalog. Richard Dalby, in his 1983 bibliography of Stoker, states that "later issues of the first edition carry an advertisement for The Shoulder of Shasta on the rear flyleaf [392]" and that the "publishers cannot confirm any other points regarding sta … [Click Below for Full Description]

London: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897. London: Archibald Constable and Company,, 1897. Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in full mustard-yellow morocco in imitation of the original cloth binding, titles to spine in red and front board in red, single rule to boards in red, twin rule to turn-ins in red, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in a matching leather entry slipcase. Some occasional light foxing otherwise an excellent copy in a fine binding. First edition, first issue, with the relevant issue points: printed on thicker paper stock, without the advert for The Shoulder of Shasta which appears in later impressions on the verso of the final integral leaf [392], and without the eight pages of adverts inserted. This is the combination of states found in early authorial presentation copies and review copies sent out by Constable.

Manuscript, 1897. Hardcover. Acceptable. [Spanish-American War Era Journal] Manuscript Diary of Henry James Stevens of Brooklyn NY and Edgewater NJ. 45.5 x 36 cm. Folio diary written on a contemporary "Sales Book". The outer cover of the book is heavily worn, with loss to the leather back and the paste boards. The front board is loose. Internally the book contains manuscript pages and ephemera, as well as a number of original drawings and a few paintings. The book was written by Henry James Stevens of 165 South 2nd St. Brooklyn, NY and primarily composed between 1897-1905. (A later section in a different hand writes about events in in 1941 and comments on the Second World War.) Interesting Spanish American War content. Stevens documents events of the day, including local railroad disasters and fires, as well as people who visited him and where he worked in New York. Much of the early pages show an interest in history, notably a long essay on the dedication of Grant's Monument in New York in 1897 as well as various essays on the relations Great Britain to America. Interestingly, Stevens' first Cousin, George Brosnan visits him in 1897. A year later George, then a Marine Corps private serving on the USS Maine, is blown up when the ship explodes under suspicious circumstances (George is listed under the list of casualties for the U.S.S. Maine). Stevens records George's death and the family's notification by the War Department. Another cousin, also named George W. Brosnan served with Company G, 9th Massachusetts in a number of battles. Stevens records George W … [Click Below for Full Description]

London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1897. Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt, large pictorial gilt block on front board, top edges gilt, patterned endpapers, Spine rolled and lightly sunned, prize label on front free endpaper (dated 1898), scattered pale foxing. A very good copy, with the publisher's 16pp. catalogue at the end dated "6G-10.97". Colour frontispiece and 3 colour plates, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. First edition. The first book with colour illustrations by Rackham. It was issued in three bindings: blue, red or green cloth. Latimore & Haskell pp. 9-10; Riall p. 21. [Attributes: First Edition]

I. N. Kushnereff & Ko, St. Petersburg, 1897. First edition of this seminal work on biology and neurology, containing the first expression of what Pavlov would later term the 'conditioned reflex'. "Mouth-watering is a familiar experience and may be induced without the sight or smell of food. The sounds of a table being laid for lunch in another room may induce salivation in man, and the rattle of a dish in which its food is usually served will cause similar reaction in a dog. By detailed analysis of such facts as these Pavlov (1849-1936) made great contributions to our knowledge of the physiology of digestion in a series of lectures delivered in St Petersburg and published in the following year [i.e., the offered work]. In the course of these lectures he described the artificial stomach for dogs used by him to produce for the first time gastric juices uncontaminated by food. Further experiments led him to the conclusion that salivation and the flow of gastric juice ensuing upon the sight or smell of food was due to a reflex process. This simple form of reaction he called first a 'psychic', later an 'unconditioned', reflex. Reflex action was familiar to physiologists, but it had never been invoked to explain such a complicated process. Pavlov now set himself to discover the far more complicated process involved in the evocation of gastric responses to stimuli other than food, for example the rattle of a familiar platter. This was in the nature of an acquired stimulus and as reflex action was induced by a particular condition or set of conditions he called it a 'conditioned' r … [Click Below for Full Description]

Berlin, Dresden, Bayreuth, etc. [Germany] and Wien (Vienna) and Salzburg [Austria], 1897-1901. 72 items in all: 9 program brochures, 52 program broadsides or handbills, 6 theatrical newspapers, and 5 miscellaneous items comprising a menu, two musical publishing prospectuses, and two tickets. Ranging in size from 2½ x 3¾ inches to 18 x 11½ inches. Folds; some closed tears and minor losses; overall, very good. Housed in an archival box. Classical music and opera concerts and popular musical and singing performances were favorite leisure pursuits in Belle Époque Germany and Austria. These 61 almost all German-language concert programs plus related periodicals and ephemera were printed throughout Germany and Austria for a number of different concert venues. Their designs, illustrations, and advertisements incorporate Art Nouveau motifs and employ a number of different printing techniques including letterpress, chromolithography, wood engraving, and half-tone. Over a dozen German, Austrian, or German-speaking cities are represented here: Berlin, Dresden, Elberfeld, Barmen, Stuttgart, Wiesbaden, Frankfurt am Main, Mannheim, Heidelberg, and Bayreuth, Germany; Stettin (now Szczecin, Poland); and Salzburg and Wien (Vienna), Austria. Included in the program count are three programs in other languages, for concert venues in Rotterdam, Stockholm, and Rome. Over a dozen German and Austrian theaters or concert venues are represented including Kurhaus [Spa] des 1. Salzburger Gebirgs-Vereines, K. K. [Imperial] Hof-Operntheater (Vienna), Konigl. [Royal] Musikalischen Kapelle (Dresden), Kgl. … [Click Below for Full Description]

-1908, 1897. Large oblong photograph album measuring 14 x 10.5 inches, the upper cover which contains the intials E.W.T., detached, the spine backstrip missing. Containing 228 photographs, including the Messina Earthquake. The photographs are generally smaller than postcard size but offer good images of Amiralty House Sydney and its surroundings, the Commonwealth Procession Sydney in 1901, Auckland and Picton New Zealand, Kalgoorlie Queensland, Longford Tasmania, Port Arthur, Hedelberg in Europe, and including 32 photographs of the 1908 Messina earthquake in Sicily. The remaining views are of Venice and other European cities. A well put together album of photographs, probably by a naval officer.

London: Smith, Elder, and Company, 1897. Book. Illus. by Edmund Morison Wimperis. Near Fine. Three-Quarter Leather. Seven-volume complete set, with title pages dated 1893 to 1897. Original dark-red three-quarter leather bindings with reddish marbled boards and gilt lettering and decorations on the spines with five raised bands. Gilt-covered top edges. Marbled endpapers matching the marbled boards. Each volume has a frontispiece engraved illustration and an engraved illustrated dated title page followed by a printed dated title page and three full-page illustrations on engraved plates interspersed with the text, except Volume 7, which has six. Illustrations are by E. M. Wimperis. Each volume in the set is in NEAR FINE condition. Just slight sun-fading to the spines and slight wear to the edges, particularly at the top spine ends, and otherwise Fine. Very bright and clean, tightly bound, straight and square volumes. A couple of the volumes have some light wear to the leather joints but all are strong and firm. No cracking to any of the inner hinges. No surface wear to the paper covered boards at all and just a few minor touches of wear to the leather. Slight bump and slight rubbing to the top rear corner of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and otherwise no bumping to the edges or corners. Practically flawless interiors with pages that possibly could be unread. No previous owner signature or bookplate but there is a small previous owner symbol rubber-stamped at the top corner of the front flyleaf in each volume..

London: J. M. Dent & Co, 1897. Coloured illustrations by Kate Greenaway with full-page frontispiece, pictorial title and illustrations throughout. [36] pages. Original mustard-coloured faux morocco with gilt title and image of a girl carrying sticks; white endpapers; top edge gilt. 10.5 x 7.8 cm. Few light spots; slight rubbing to head of spine; else a fine copy. Schuster and Engen 16(14a).

1897. I am limited to 12 photos on eBay, but I can provide a link to many more photos. Just ask! 1897 1st ed Pink Fairy Book Andrew Lang Illustrated Snow Queen DISNEY Frozen "Once upon a time..." Andrew Lang's Fairy Books are a series of children stories that were published in a collection of "colors." The collection includes nearly 800 stories both true and fiction. The Pink Fairy Book includes 41 stories that tell of goblins, trolls, mermaids, and witches from the folklore of Japanese, Scandinavian, and Sicilian tales! However, the most famous story from this book is "The Snow Queen" which is based on Hans Christian Andersen's original story - the basis for Disney's animated feature "Frozen!" This rare first edition includes over 29 fine engravings. Item number: #929 Price: $550 LANG, Andrew The Pink Fairy Book. Edited by Andrew Lang. With numerous illustrations by H.J. Ford. London ; New York : Longmans, Green, and Co., 1897. First edition. Details: · Collation complete with all pages: [xii], 388 o 31 engraved plates and many in-text illustrations · Binding: Embossed and decorative hardcover; tight & secure · Language: English · Provenance: Bookplate - Frederick H. Evans o Frederick H. Evans (26 June 1853, London - 24 June 1943, London) was a British photographer, primarily of architectural subjects. He is best known for his images of English and French cathedrals. · Size: ~7in X 5in (18cm x 13cm) Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without … [Click Below for Full Description]

J.B. Millet, 1897. This is a large folio 10 volume set. It is the Tokyo edition number 211 of 250 sets and is in very good to near fine condition. Some spine and corner rubbing else clean and fresh. It even has original inserts telling you not to cut the Japanese style leaves. End papers have real metallic foil on the paper. Illustrated with prints and hand colored photos.A really nice set Set of these books. weighs 45 lbs. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

London: Tinsley Brothers; Smith, Elder & Co.; Macmillan and Co.; Osgood, McIlvaine & Co, 1897. London: Tinsley Brothers; Smith, Elder & Co.; Macmillan and Co.; Osgood, McIlvaine & Co, 1897. First editions, with all half-titles present. 8vo. Uniformly bound in early 20th-century three quarter red morocco and marbled boards, spines divided into six compartments with raised bands, lettered in two, the rest richly gilt with drawer-handle and other small tools, t.e.g., by Tout. Light rubbing to covers, occasional spotting or toning to text, 1906 gift inscription on binder's blank of Desperate Remedies vol. I, in all an attractive, finely bound set. First editions, with all half-titles present. 8vo. A complete set of finely bound first editions of the novels and short story collections of Thomas Hardy published 1871-1897. Includes first editions of his scarce first novel, Desperate Remedies, and the classic works Far from the Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and Jude the Obscure. After Hardy's turn to poetry following the publication of The Well-Beloved in 1897, he would publish only one more collection of fiction, A Changed Man and Other Tales (1913), which postdates the binding of this collection and is not included here. The entire collection, with all half-titles and illustrations present as called for, comprises the following: Desperate Remedies, 1871 (3 vols.); Under the Greenwood Tree, 1872 (2 vols.); A Pair of Blue Eyes, 1873 (3 vols.); Far From the Madding Crowd, 1874 (2 vols.); The Hand of Ethelberta, 1876 … [Click Below for Full Description]

England: Classic Kelmscott: heavy handmade paper, red and black inks. Printed by the famed Kelmscott Press of William Morris, this has all the "bells and whistles". Printed in a run of 350 copies only, this is printed in red and black in Chaucer type with woodcut illustration by Edward Bourne-Jones. Bound in hard board with blue paper printed with title across top front. this has been re-bound "in the style of" William Morris. Small smudge on front. Hand made paper showing signs of age with some smudging. Red ink shows through pages. Otherwise, no writing or any other problem or issue. Lovely example of the bookmaker's art. Very Good Condition: 8vo (8 1/2" X 5 7/8"), hard cloth board cover with blue paper with black title, hand made paper for body of book with heavy weight paper as spares and endpapers. Woodcut, Decorative capitals, and page decorations by Edward Bourne-Jones. Age appropriate page discoloration. "Syr Ysambrace". "Edited by F.S. Ellis after the edition printed by J. O. Halliwell from the MS. In Lincoln Cathedral, with a few corrections. Printed at the Kelmscott Press, Upper Mall, Hammersmith, in the Country of Middlesex, and finished on the 14th day of July, 1897." RAREB1897NTUA. [Attributes: First Edition]

London, England: Macmillan, 1897. Fine. 2nd impression of the 1896 edition. Slight fading to spine. Unmarked, internally clean. Square. Very nice copy.

London: J.S. Virtue & Co, 1897. A very solid copy of this wonderful late 19th century survey of British golf links, richly illustrated thruout with hundreds of crisp black-and-white photos. Tasteful former owner bookplate at the front pastedown and, above it, the official bookplate of "The Golf Museum and Library of the United States Golf Association", which had been given this copy by The Country Club, Brookline, MA. On the first blank endpaper, there appears the stamp of "The Country Club, Brookline, Mass" and, at the foot of the same page, the same former owner's neat, small signature. Beyond these signs of provenance, this is a surprisingly bright, well-preserved copy. Crisp gilt-titling at the front panel and spine and, save for a couple of tiny spots toward the front panel's top-edge, almost no wear to speak of to the panels. Internally, very clean as well, with no writing or markings of any kind apart from the aforementioned bookplates and stamps. Rear inner hinge tender but still perfectly sturdy. Tall quarto, 331 pgs. of text plus charming period ads at the rear. Very Good +. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Paris: G. Boudet & Talandier, 1897. LIMITED EDITION 217/1050. Folio (32 x 24 cm.). pp.[iii]+206+[1]. Contemporary calf over tan cloth boards with original pictorial wrappers pasted onto them; green floral patterned endpapers, tope edge gilt others uncut. With a later yellow cloth slip-case 67 colour plates including 2 double page.* * Curiously the title page calls for 62 colour plates but there are in fact 67. The index lists 68 colour plates inadvertently since one of those listed is in black and white. All as usual. **Arthur Layard was an English water-colourist and illustrator, flourishing between 1894 and 1911, with contributions to, inter alia,The Pall Mall Magazine, Rider Haggards "People of the Mist" (1894), Charles Dixon's "Fifteen Hundred Miles an Hour" (1895) an edition of Mandeville's Voyages (1899) etc. etc. [Attributes: Soft Cover]

ABC. (MILITARY) ARMY & NAVY A.B.C. Chicago: George M.Hill, no date, circa 1897. 4to (7 1/4 x 9 7/8"), cloth backed pictorial boards. Corners rubbed and some minor edge wear else near Fine. Each letter is on a separate page with text in verse, almost all of which deal with battles and people in the Spanish - American War. Text pages have half-page illustrations, opposite which is a fine full page pen and ink drawing in black and white. There is also a great chromolithographed frontispiece. Of course "R" is for Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders and "J Stands for Joy / That the Cubans now feel / To be free, and from under / The proud Spaniard's heel." A beautiful copy of a rare military ABC. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1897. Leather_bound. Very good. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1897. Leather_bound. Forty volumes. Octavo. "Holly Edition" The Works of Washington Irving. Portraits and other illustrations through-out setwith title tissue guard, title include Oliver Goldsmith, Knickerbockers History of New York, Columbus, Life of George Washington, Astoria, Salmagundi, Tales of a Traveller, Spanish Papers, etc. Bound in three quarter green morocco, and marbled boards, top edge gilt, each volumes to spine tooled with holly motif decorations, and small red morocco inlaid, one raised bands, the initial "L," on upper left-corner to covers, spine evenly faded to brown.

London, John Murray, 1849. 8vo. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, gilt-stamped vignette of a pilgrim on front cover ornamented in blind; pp. [2], xxxi, 390, title with wood-engraved vignette, frontispiece of Meteora Monastery, folding plan (supplied from another copy, see below) and 14 plates after Preziosi; a near-fine copy; provenance: name, dated 1851 inside front cover. The very rare first edition, US issue with additional title-page. Robert Curzon (1810-1873) travelled to 'Egypt and the Holy Land in 1833-4, on a tour of research among the monastery libraries, gathering many valuable manuscripts. He returned to England in 1834, before setting out on a second tour in 1837-8, when he visited Mount Athos and bought five manuscripts from several monasteries there, before making further purchases in Egypt. His experiences are recorded in his Visit to the Monasteries in the Levant (1849). It immediately gained popularity, running to six editions by 1881. From a scientific point of view, also, these revelations of monastic treasures were of great importance, and it was Curzon's experience that set others on the track which led to the acquisition of the magnificent collection of Nitrian manuscripts by the British Museum. Curzon has subsequently been criticized for removing the manuscripts to Britain, but it seems certain that many owe their preservation to the removal' (ODNB). - This copy in perfect preservation never had the folding plan bound in. We actually found out that the US version of this book seems to have been issued without the folding plan; however it i … [Click Below for Full Description]

Boston: J.B. Millet Company, 1897.

Budapest: Kiadja Kokai Lajos, 1897. [Attributes: First Edition]

Wood-engraved frontispiece after Edward Burne-Jones, wood-engraved borders and initials, shoulder notes printed in red. First edition. 8vo., 14.5 x 21cm. Original linen-backed blue boards, upper board lettered in black, fore and bottom edges uncut. Hammersmith, The Kelmscott Press.

Kelmscott Press, 1897. ONE OF 300 COPIES on paper (and 10 on vellum.). 210 x 146 mm. (8 1/4 x 5 3/4"). 2 p.l. (including woodcut map at front), 507, [1] pp. ONE OF 300 COPIES on paper (and 10 on vellum.). Original holland-backed blue paper boards, front cover with titling, flat spine with paper label at head, edges untrimmed. Front pastedown with line block map drawn by H. Cribb, elaborate woodcut border and initial on first page of text, and woodcut borders and initials at the beginning of each chapter, small woodcut initials throughout, Kelmscott device at end. Front free endpaper with book label of Laurence W. Hodson, printed for him at the Kelmscott Press. Peterson A-51; Sparling 51; Walsdorf "William Morris" 51; Tomkinson, p. 121. Tiny rust spot to lower board, upper board with faint brownish stain, but ALOVELY COPY INTERNALLY, clean, fresh, and bright, in a solid binding. Dated 1897, but issued in February of 1898, this was the last romance written by William Morris and the final book but two to be produced at the Kelmscott Press. Because of the failing health of Morris, the last few pages were written down from his dictation by Sydney Cockerell, and the work appeared posthumously, being printed from an uncorrected manuscript and seen through the press by Morris' wife, Jane. Because of the thickness of the book and the insubstantial materials it is made of, fine copies of this title are especially difficult to find. The present copy owes its superb condition to Laurence Hodson, the original owner and one of the first connoisseurs to appreciate the works of the pri … [Click Below for Full Description]

Cambridge: University Press, 1897. Octavo. Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine, boards ruled in blind, all edges untrimmed. Spine ends and corners lightly rubbed, title page browned from loose insertion of a flyer advertising the French translation of the work, endpapers and leaf edges lightly spotted; a very good copy. First edition of Russell's first published book of philosophy. Based on Russell's Trinity College fellowship dissertation, An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry "provides a partial defence of Kant's theory that the truth of geometry is a necessary condition of all possible experience Russell later dismissed the book as a foolish and immature work, and its central claims have not been accepted by either mathematicians or philosophers. None the less, principally through being reviewed at length and with great respect by the eminent French mathematician Henri Poincaré, it served to establish Russell's professional reputation and led to his being invited to deliver a paper at the prestigious International Congress of Philosophy held in Paris in 1900, an event that profoundly affected his career" (ODNB). Blackwell & Ruja A3.1a, first binding variant. [Attributes: First Edition]

RUDYARD KIPLING 1st UK CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS Macmillan London 1897.

Bram Stoker - Dracula - Rare First Edition - 1897 The 'Hutchinson Colonial Library' first edition printed on the earliest sheets. I can trace no other copies ever coming to auction, according to the records of ABPC and RareBookHub. Octavo, pp, x, 190 [2] (integral terminal blank) on uncoated paper, entirely uncut in rubbed original dark red rib-grain cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and front board. Melbourne lending library label on front board. London, Hutchinson and Co. 1897. The extremely scarce "Hutchinson Colonial Library" issue of the first edition, differing from the London edition in the tipped in title leaf, the plain binding, the blank integral leaf following the last page of text, and the absence of inserted advertisements. This issue appears to compromise a set of the earliest sheets, printed on uncoated paper, and with the terminal leaf blank. It was not unusual at this date for the Colonial issues to be dispatched early and made of the earliest sheets so as to compensate for the journey to India and Australasia in order that books might be available there near to the London publication date. The worlds most famous vampire story, never out of print since first publication. In has been the basis for unnumbered stage and film adaptations and continues to be hugely inspirational in contemporary popular culture. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. Please see the other first editions I have listed. More info on this rare book can be found here: http://www.transylvania.com/vbib.html. [Attributes: First Edition]

Hartford: The American Publishing Company, 1897. An original salesman's dummy for the first edition of this popular work by Mark Twain With the title-page and frontispiece of the first edition, along with a nice selection of the many illustrations to be included in the book as well as a selection of the text and table of contents. There is also a prospectus and order form printed in red and black, these are followed by several lined pages for noting subscriber's names, addresses and binding choice. 8vo, the dummy is bound as the available cloth binding in the same blue material and with the upper cover central pictorial decoration of an elephant in India in gilt and four colours, the rear cover is an example of the cloth binding's gilt spine tooling. Attached to the inside front cover are spine examples for the two deluxe bindings; the Library Style and Half Turkey Morocco bindings. These are made of the leather's used for the deluxe bindings with the gilt spine tooling and lettering. A flyleaf printed in red explains the binding options. 50 ff. of text or plates; 4 pp. prospectus; 16 ff. customer order sheets. Quite well preserved, the blue cloth sturdy and unfaded, minor edge wear and some typical age, hinges a bit tender. Some offsetting to the leaf explaining the bindings from the leather samples which remain in excellent condition, the text leaves all fine. Eleven lines of the first order sheet are filled in, the rest of the sheets unused. PRECEDING THE FIRST EDITION OF THIS POPULAR MARK TWAIN WORK, THIS IS THE SCARCE SALESMAN'S DUMMY USED TO TAKE ORDER … [Click Below for Full Description]

England: Classic Kelmscott: heavy handmade paper, red and black inks. Printed by the famed Kelmscott Press of William Morris, this has all the "bells and whistles". Printed in a run of 350 copies only, this is printed in red and black in Chaucer type with woodcut illustration by Edward Bourne-Jones. Bound in hard board with blue paper printed with title across top front. this has been re-bound "in the style of" William Morris. Small smudge on front. Hand made paper showing signs of age with some smudging. Red ink shows through pages. Otherwise, no writing or any other problem or issue. Lovely example of the bookmaker's art. Very Good Condition: 8vo (8 1/2" X 5 7/8"), hard cloth board cover with blue paper with black title, hand made paper for body of book with heavy weight paper as spares and endpapers. Woodcut, Decorative capitals, and page decorations by Edward Bourne-Jones. Age appropriate page discoloration. "Syr Ysambrace". "Edited by F.S. Ellis after the edition printed by J. O. Halliwell from the MS. In Lincoln Cathedral, with a few corrections. Printed at the Kelmscott Press, Upper Mall, Hammersmith, in the Country of Middlesex, and finished on the 14th day of July, 1897." RAREB1897NTUA. [Attributes: First Edition]

Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897. FIRST EDITION FIRST ISSUE. 1 vol., text bulking to 27mm, blank final leaf (391/392), it does not contain the 16 page publisher's catalog but has the 8 page terminal catalogue mentioned below. Bound in the publisher's original red stamped yellow cloth, inner hinges starting, outer hinges fine, head and foot of spine rubbed with some minor loss, general overall handling but not as offensive as most copies, minor offsetting to endpapers, some spotting to upper edges of last few leaves otherwise internally clean and bright, small neat ownership signature on half-title, a GOOD completely unsophisticated copy of a notoriously difficult book to find that hasn't been mucked with. Rebound, restored, rebacked, relined, recased, and cleaned copies are the norm but this copy has survived, thankfully, eluding the re-storer. The first edition points for Dracula are complex but most experts agree that the earliest printing of Dracula was issued on thick paper, bulking 27mm, contained a blank final leaf (391/392), and no terminal publisher's advertisements. Later issues of the first edition were printed on thinner paper, contain an advertisement for "Shoulder of Shasta" on the rear flyleaf, and included a 16 page publisher's catalog. Richard Dalby, in his 1983 bibliography of Stoker, states that "later issues of the first edition carry an advertisement for The Shoulder of Shasta on the rear flyleaf [392]" and that the "publishers cannot confirm any other points regarding status of the first issue, nor the exact publishing date." In the re … [Click Below for Full Description]

Taylor and Francis, London. FIRST EDITION, FULL VOLUME, OF J. J. THOMSON'S 1897 DISCOVERY OF THE ELECTRON (which he called corpuscles). Thomson studied the properties of cathode rays and found that they seemed to be negatively charged particles in motion, that they weighed much less than the lightest atom, and were in fact constituents of atoms. In 1906 Thomson was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics. Thomson's discovery "revolutionized physics. There was no longer an 'indestructible' atom, and it became increasingly probable that the general building material of all matter was a form of energy. Thomson's discovery set new tasks for almost every branch of physics and opened entirely new research fields" (PMM). "Electrons are responsible for the transport of electricity in solids. Scientists and engineers have learnt to influence and steer this transport in the most subtle ways thus creating the technical field of electronics and those wonderful machines, the electronic computers. The discovery of the electron therefore was not only important for fundamental physics but also laid the basis of an enormous industrial and social revolution" (Brandt, Harvest of the Century, 16). By the late 1890s, "cathode rays were known for nearly three decades. They were produced in a gas discharge and gave rise to X-rays when they fell on matter, e.g., the glass wall of a discharge tube. But their nature was unknown [and] there was contradictory experimental evidence" as well (ibid). Working independently but in the same year, 1897, three physicists, Wiechert, Kaufmann, and Thomson found "tha … [Click Below for Full Description]