Browse by Date—1850–1899

1874, a rare first edition with 109 hand-coloured plates by W H Fitch

Chapman & Hall, London, 1874

With handwritten entries of all residents

Knight & Co, London, 1877

The first woman to qualify as a doctor in Britain in 1865

Not Published, 1899

An report from the Australian Government into land acquisition in Victoria

John Ferres, Melbourne, 1885

Signed by Mathieu Auguste Geffroy, with a handwritten letter

Librairie Hatchette et Cie, Paris, 1887

c1875, by Silly Billy, 28 short sketches, and with ownership signature of Horace Pym

"Vanity Fair" Office, London, 1875

The myths, legends and poems of the North African Berbers

Ernest Leroux, Paris, 1887

1881, with the bookplate of Blackburn confectioner James Boyle

Chapman & Hall, London, 1881

1897, an early crime novel set in Paris

Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, Edinburgh, 1897

1898, with the bookplate of The Burlington Fine Arts Club

George Bell & Sons, London, 1898

Professionally rebound, complete with folding map

Kelly & Co, London, 1894

Professionally rebound, with three maps

Kelly & Co, London, 1895

Signed by Henry William Wolff, founder of the International Co-operative Alliance

Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1894

1855, early English printings

Lambert & Co, London, 1855

Alphonse de Lamartine's editing of his mother's diary in a half-vellum binding

Libraire Hachette, Paris, 1886

1869, the first edition

Sampson, Low, Son & Marston, London, 1869

Eleanor Frances Poynter's first novel

Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig, 1871

Signed by Dr Fordyce Barker to American soprano Clara Louise Kellogg

Harper & Brothers, New York, 1865

Signed by James Flitton, with the original Stationer's Hall receipt of 1890

Thomas Laurie, London, 1890

Two volumes, 1896, 2nd edition. The design, management and construction of rivers and canals.

Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1896

Yokel and Detective at Musselburgh Races in Days Gone Bye (c1890)

Thomas Adams and Sons, Edinburgh, 1890

1883, Les Trente-deux Recits du Trone (Batris-Sinhasan / Singhasan Battisi)

Ernest Leroux, Paris, 1883

1881, a collection of Greek folk tales

Ernest Leroux, Paris, 1881

The 1892 first edition, published by Bradley & Woodruff.

Bradley & Woodruff, Boston, 1892