Browse by Date—1850–1899

Both bound in black leather and slipcase

University Press, Oxford, 1885

The trial and execution of the Count of Egmont in 1568

Librairie de C. Muquardt, Bruxelles, 1854

1892, J R Henderson's study of Indian crustacea

The Linnaean Society, London, 1892

Quarter leather binding, a collection of writings from William Blades, printer and bibliographer

Elliot Stock, London, 1892

With bookplate, siganture and damning comment by Frances Pierrepont Barnard

T Fisher Unwin, London, 1890

1300+ pages of this popular Victorian reference work

Ward, Lock, Bowden & Co, London, 1892

A rare signed first edition of Stead's automatic writing communications from the deceased Julia A Ames

Grant Richards, London, 1897

Professionally rebound, complete with folding map

Kelly & Co, London, 1894

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

Chapman & Hall, London, 1884

a bound collection of booklets, from the Chief Clerk's Office. including police, messengers, pay, regulations etc

Port of London, London, 1889

Addressed to British journalist Cyrus Redding

Not Published, 1860

Sent to British journalist Cyrus Redding

Not Published, 1862

Louisa M Alcott's sequel to Little Women, published in Warne's Star Series

Frederick Warne & Co, London, 1890

A reading copy only, with nine engraved plates

Adam and Charles Black, London, 1866

Quarter vellum, published in Florence

G Barbera, Florence, 1867

Paul de Regla expose of the underworld of Constantinople

Tresse & Stock, Paris, 1892

The second of J-K Huysmans' Durtal novels

Tresse & Stock, Paris, 1895

Fourth edition of Caraciollo's convent scandal memoir Mysteries of the Neapolitan Cloister / Misteri del Chiostro Napoletano. In the Register of Erotic Books (Entry No 2950).

Richard Bentley, London, 1865

Benjamin Samuel Williams's first book, 'containing a Brief Description of Upwards of Two Hundred and Sixty Orchidaceous Plants'

Chapman & Hall, London, 1852

An attractive silk-bound copy of D G Rossetti's sonnet sequence

Ellis and Elvey, London, 1898

1875, second edition, Henry Havard's travels to the Dead Cities of the Zuiderzee

E Plon & Cie, Paris, 1875

A Record of Mountain Adventure and Scientific Observation, with two maps and colour plates

Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, London, 1867

Inscribed by William Haig Miller in 1867, illustrated by John Tenniel

Religious Tract Society, London, 1867

Signed by Mathieu Auguste Geffroy, with a handwritten letter to Charles Schefer, a prominent orientalist and bibliophile

Librairie Hatchette et Cie, Paris, 1887

The myths, legends and poems of the North African Berbers

Ernest Leroux, Paris, 1887