Browse by Date—1850–1899

A signed & handwritten postcard dated 1899. The first woman to qualify as a doctor in 1865

Not Published, London, 1899

1885, signed by Scottish educationalist Sophie Weisse

Perrin et Cie, Paris, 1885

and Euphues and his England (1580), two volumes bound as one, published 1868 in Arber's English Reprint series

Alex Murray & Son, London, 1868

1881, hardback, first edition of this study of the Birmingham artist David Cox

Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co, London, 1881

1898, first edition of S O Addy's illustrated history of domestic architecture

Swan Sonnenschein, London, 1898

1851, the first edition of this seminal botanical book, complete in two volumes

SPCK, London, 1851

With handwritten entries of all residents

Knight & Co, London, 1877

A first edition of Wells's short story, printed in Phil May's Winter Annual 1895, bound with Hood's Comic Annual for 1877

The Office, London, 1895

42 albumen prints by V Florianello, Giacomo Brogi and Fratelli Alinari

Not stated, 1880

1884, first edition. A whimsical fantasy novel in the original decorative binding

Chapman & Hall, London, 1884

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

Ernest Leroux, Paris, 1883

The 1892 first US edition, published by Bradley & Woodruff.

Bradley & Woodruff, Boston, 1892

c1860, beautifully bound leather set in a leather box with handle

George E Eyre & William Spottiswoode, London, 1860

Partially used but vast majority of pages clean and unused

G J Goodwin, Macclesfield, 1880

1884, a rare single sheet printing of Lewis Carroll's Christmas poem

Macmillan, London, 1884

1893, first edition of T Bland Strange's entertaining military autobiography

Remington & Co Ltd, London, 1893

1000+ pages, profusely illustrated, including an early photo-lithograph of the Statue of Liberty

E J Kibblewhite for the Building News, London, 1884

1000+ pages, profusely illustrated, a remarkable sourcebook of Victorian architecture

E J Kibblewhite for the Building News, London, 1883

1885, ex-library but in strong readable condition

John Murray, London, 1885

1891, a late Victorian tour of London sights

Cassell, London, 1891

1876, A Practical Treatise on the Examination of Potable Water

Trubner & Co, London, 1876

1866, A Series of Lectures Delivered at Ipswich

Macmillan, London, 1866

1876, in an impressive fine black velvet and engraved white metal binding

W Stewart & Co, London, 1876

and two cabinet card portraits of Ponsonby, Private Secretary to Queen Victoria

Not Published, Windsor, 1870

Am 1893 edition of William Allingham's verse

Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1893