1830s (34 results)

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Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 24 pages. Egyptian antiquities appear here at a moment of rapid scholarly acceleration, with Champollionâs decipherment of hieroglyphs reshaping every branch of inquiry. The contributor reviews major works by Rossellini, Champollion, and Wilkinson, using them to chart the expanding understanding of Egyptian civilisation - its architecture, dynasties, religious systems, and artistic conventions. The article contrasts Egyptâs monumental achievements with those of other ancient cultures, and reflects on how new inscriptions and temple reliefs were overturning long-held assumptions about chronology and cultural influence. There is a particular fascination with the precision of Egyptian workmanship and the sheer scale of their monuments, which the reviewer treats as evidence of a civilisation both technically advanced and intellectually coherent. The tone captures the optimism of 1836, when Egyptology felt like a field on the brink of revealing its entire buried world. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 18 x 26 cms. Category: Foreign Quarterly Review; Special Interest. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Loose Leaf. Condition: New. Reproduction. Original title: Mr. Brooke's Bungalow at Sarawak German: Mr. Brookes Bungalow bei Sarawak French: Bungalow de M. Brooke à Sarawak Spanish: Bungalow del Sr. Brooke en Sarawak High-quality fine-art reproduction based on an original work from the Ycba. Creation period: 19th century (1848). Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper (Photo Matt Fibre) in size A5. The motif is printed with a white border (museum-style presentation). No.

Loose Leaf. Condition: New. Reproduction. Original title: Hurdwar, A Place of Hindoo Pilgrimage German: Hurdwar, ein Ort der Hindoo Pilgerfahrt French: Hurdwar, un lieu de pèlerinage Hindoo Spanish: Hurdwar, un lugar de peregrinación Hindoo High-quality fine-art reproduction based on an original work from the Ycba. Creation period: 19th century (1831). Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper (Photo Matt Fibre) in size A5. The motif is printed with a white border (museum-style presentation). No.

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Loose Leaf. Condition: New. Reproduction. Original title: York House: Plan of the Ground Floor German: York House: Plan des Erdgeschosses French: York House : Plan du rez-de-chaussée Spanish: York House: Plano de la Planta Baja High-quality fine-art reproduction based on an original work from the Ycba. Creation period: 19th century (1827). Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper (Photo Matt Fibre) in size A5. The motif is printed with a white border (museum-style presentation). No.

Loose Leaf. Condition: New. Reproduction. Original title: York House: Longitudinal Section from North to South German: York House: Längsschnitt von Norden nach Süden French: York House: Section longitudinale du Nord au Sud Spanish: York House: Sección longitudinal de norte a sur High-quality fine-art reproduction based on an original work from the Ycba. Creation period: 19th century (1827). Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper (Photo Matt Fibre) in size A5. The motif is printed with a white border (museum-style presentation). No.

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Loose Leaf. Condition: New. Reproduction. Original title: Sessions House, Clerkenwell Green German: Sitzungssaal, Clerkenwell Green French: Sessions House, Clerkenwell Green Spanish: Casa de Sesiones, Clerkenwell Green High-quality fine-art reproduction based on an original work from the Ycba. Creation period: 19th century (1831). Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper (Photo Matt Fibre) in size A5. The motif is printed with a white border (museum-style presentation). No.

Loose Leaf. Condition: New. Reproduction. Original title: A Bacchanalian Vase German: Eine baschanale Vase French: Un vase bacchanalien Spanish: Un jarrón bacanaliano High-quality fine-art reproduction based on an original work from the Ycba. Creation period: 19th century (1830). Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper (Photo Matt Fibre) in size A5. The motif is printed with a white border (museum-style presentation). No.

Loose Leaf. Condition: New. Reproduction. Original title: Funeral of a Doge in St. Mark's Place German: Bestattung eines Dogen in St. Mark's Place French: Funérailles d'un doge à St. Mark's Place Spanish: Funeral de un Dux en St. Mark's Place High-quality fine-art reproduction based on an original work from the Ycba. Creation period: 19th century (1830). Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper (Photo Matt Fibre) in size A5. The motif is printed with a white border (museum-style presentation). No.

Loose Leaf. Condition: New. Reproduction. Original title: The Borghese Vase German: Die Borghese Vase French: Le Vase Borghese Spanish: El Jarrón Borghese High-quality fine-art reproduction based on an original work from the Ycba. Creation period: 19th century (1830). Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper (Photo Matt Fibre) in size A5. The motif is printed with a white border (museum-style presentation). No.

Loose Leaf. Condition: New. Reproduction. Original title: Travelling Monks German: reisende Mönche French: Monks itinérants Spanish: Monjes itinerantes High-quality fine-art reproduction based on an original work from the Ycba. Creation period: 19th century (1830). Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper (Photo Matt Fibre) in size A5. The motif is printed with a white border (museum-style presentation). No.

Loose Leaf. Condition: New. Reproduction. Original title: A Grecian Drinking Cup German: Ein griechischer Trinkbecher French: Une tasse à boire grecque Spanish: Una copa griega de beber High-quality fine-art reproduction based on an original work from the Ycba. Creation period: 19th century (1830). Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper (Photo Matt Fibre) in size A5. The motif is printed with a white border (museum-style presentation). No.

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Loose Leaf. Condition: New. Reproduction. Original title: The Medici Vase German: Die Medici Vase French: Le Vase Médicis Spanish: El Jarrón Medici High-quality fine-art reproduction based on an original work from the Ycba. Creation period: 19th century (1830). Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper (Photo Matt Fibre) in size A5. The motif is printed with a white border (museum-style presentation). No.

Loose Leaf. Condition: New. Reproduction. Original title: An Etruscan Vase German: Eine etruskische Vase French: Un vase étrusque Spanish: Un jarrón etrusco High-quality fine-art reproduction based on an original work from the Ycba. Creation period: 19th century (1830). Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper (Photo Matt Fibre) in size A5. The motif is printed with a white border (museum-style presentation). No.

Loose Leaf. Condition: New. Reproduction. Original title: A Rural Entertainment German: Eine ländliche Unterhaltung French: Un divertissement rural Spanish: Un entretenimiento rural High-quality fine-art reproduction based on an original work from the Ycba. Creation period: 19th century (1830). Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper (Photo Matt Fibre) in size A5. The motif is printed with a white border (museum-style presentation). No.

Loose Leaf. Condition: New. Reproduction. Original title: Buondelmonte German: Buondelmonte French: Buondelmonte Spanish: Buondelmonte High-quality fine-art reproduction based on an original work from the Ycba. Creation period: 19th century (1830). Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper (Photo Matt Fibre) in size A5. The motif is printed with a white border (museum-style presentation). No.

Loose Leaf. Condition: New. Reproduction. Original title: Cristina German: Cristina French: Cristina Spanish: Cristina High-quality fine-art reproduction based on an original work from the Ycba. Creation period: 19th century (1830). Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper (Photo Matt Fibre) in size A5. The motif is printed with a white border (museum-style presentation). No.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 4to. 8 x 6 inches. 78 leaves (156 pages), 41 leaves in manuscript, final 37 leaves blank. The first leaf includes the index for the first part (library) which is partially covered by medical clippings dated 1861. Leaves toned and foxed. In the original newsprint covered boards, leather spine. Binding shaken with burn marks on covers. Top edge of rear board burnt and gnawed, with loss of board and top blank margins of final 6-8 leaves. Deaccessioned institutional copy with bookplate on front pastedown. Housed in a clamshell box with ties, gilt lettered spine. Good. According to the 'American Libraries before 1876' database at Princeton University Library, the earliest known library in Killingly was established in 1745, as the 'United English Library for the Propagation of Christian and Useful Knowledge'. This was followed by 4 other social libraries beginning in 1801. There is, however, no other information regarding these libraries and the first and last references to them are recorded in the same year, suggesting perhaps a very brief existence or accounts that did not survive. This ledger contains the minutes of a meeting, held at School House District No. 1. In October 1830, for the establishment of a library in the North Parish of Killingly. It includes the resolves, constitution, list of members, (officers) librarians, committees of selection and inspection, amendments to the constitution, list of books purchased, prices, book numbers, names of members who borrowed books and dates and an account of damages and fines (Dec. 9, 1830, to Sept. 5, 1837). A Feb. 28, 1839, entry records the dissolution of the library, naming Calvin Warren as the auctioneer tasked with selling the library for cash (96 cents per book). The money was then returned to the subscribers by H.W. Hough. Some of the subscribers and officers include, Leonard Ballou, Jabez Amsbury, George Weatherhead, Mowry Amsbury, Dr. Robert Grosvenor, Dr. William Grosvenor, Waldo Eddy, Calvin Warren, Silas Tucker, Delight Moffit, Chandler Spaulding, and others. Nearly all were connected to Providence, Rhode Island, either by birth or trade. Killingly, CT is 25 miles west of Providence and was settled by a number of families from that city who were involved in the wool/cotton trade, establishing woolen and cotton mills on the banks of Quinebaug River, Whetstone brook and the Five Mile River. One such mill was established by Comfort Tiffany, the father of Charles Lewis Tiffany, the founder of Tiffany & Co. Leonard Ballou's daughter, Lydia, married Charles Lewis Tiffany's partner, John B. Young, whose sister, Olivia, married Charles Lewis Tiffany. They were the parents of Louis Comfort Tiffany. This modest library contained 40 titles which included several sets, bringing the total book count to 86. The most expensive purchase by far was a 6-volume set, The works of Franklin which cost the subscribers $12, Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, MacKenzie's 5000 receipts, Wilkins' Astronomy, Life of Washington by Bancroft, Silliman's Travels in Europe, etc. The second part includes a large number of curative recipes including cough mixtures, gastric remedies, laxatives, for habitual constipation, absorbent mixtures for children, for those with worms, Emplastrum Camphoratum, tinctures, pills, ointments, balsam for chapped nipples, smallpox, several for gonorrhea, etc. Few have the names of the authors while others were prescriptions for named individuals "Prescription for Mrs. Leavin". A U.S. Army Hospital paper prescription receipt (Rx), dated 7/4/1865, for a wounded soldier by name of Hughes, signed by the physician is pasted in. It is not clear how this travelled to Exeter, New Hampshire for Captain Nathaniel Gilman to sign, but it is possible that the prescriptions were the work of Dr. William Grosvenor (named above), who was a partner in the Grosvenor & Chace, a wholesale drug company in Providence, Rhode Island. [Killingly, Conn. - History] [Early American Libraries - History].

12mo. (7 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). [4], 3-60, [2]pp. Lithographed plate. Explanation to the plate bound in the rear. Later green cloth Provenance: bookplate on the front pastedown First edition of a noted 19th century work on the cultivation of the cucumber. A well-recommended work on the subject, written by the long-time gardener to Dykes Alexander of Ipswich. The lithographed plate depicts the construction of a cucumber bed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. _____Small full leather commercial volume, 7.75 x 4.75", titled "Album" in gilt on the spine._____ Ornate gilt and blind stamped borders on both covers and the spine. _____ Evidently assembled by a young woman beginning in 1829._____Includes a few full page manuscript sentiments, copied by friends, some identified: Elizabeth M. Mott (NY, 1828) and Levi Hart Goddard of Norwich, Connecticut (1831)._____Below Mr Goddard's initialed._____contribution is written in a different hand in pencil the writer's name in full._____ Below that is written "Mary W. Perkins" who would in 1835 marry Mr Goddard. _____ Most of the pages have mounted prints, some colored, removed from what appear to be a mix of books and periodicals._____ They include famous persons of the day and classic and contemporary architectural views._____ One is a newspaper banner, headline and views from the September 1839 fire which destroyed the French Episcopal Church in New York City. _____ Slipped in behind one we found a neat example of micro-writing._____On a 1.5" disc of card stock is mounted a 3/4" disc of paper on which the entire Lord's Prayer has been written._____ Signed at the bottom "Written with the Toes / M.A._____Honeywell." . _____ Martha Ann Honeywell of Lempster, New Hampshire, was born in 1787 without hands and forearms, and with only one foot and that with just three toes._____ With her toes and mouth, using pens and scissors, she created paper cutouts and specialized in writing._____the Lord's Prayer on dime-sized circles of paper which she placed in elaborate cutout paper frames._____ From 1798 to 1848, Miss Honeywell traveled around the United States making public appearances during which she demonstrated her talents and sold her creations._____ In August 1828 she began a long run at the Peale Museum in New York, lasting until 1830._____ This example almost certainly dates from that New York City period._____ (God Bless Google). _____.

4pp., 4to. Bifolium. In good condition, on lightly aged and worn paper, and wrapped in a leaf carrying the name 'Miss Sandham' (possible recipient?). Neatly and closely written out over the whole four pages. Beneath the heading: 'May be easily made out in three weeks'. Almost all of the first three pages are given over to a description of the eighteen stages of the tour, with the number of miles and observations, beginning and ending at Edinburgh and taking in Stirling, Crieff, Aberfeldy, Killin, Inverary, Dalmally, Oban, Ballachulish, Fort William, Inverness, Blair Atholl, Perth and a few other places. As an example: 'Ballahulish to Fort William | 14 miles | Cross the Ferry - follow the side of Loch Linnhe & Loch Eil to Ft. William where is a good Inn. They say there is a better Inn at Corpach where the Steamer starts through the Caledonian Canal. - Shld. be more convenient at least - see if possible part of Glen Nevis.' The second part of the document, beginning at the end of the third page, begins: 'There is a mail coach from Inverness to Edinburgh in which I wd advise you to travel between Aviemore & Blair Atholl. The rest of this route you had better travel slowly & deliberately in an open Droskey [ i.e. Droshky ]. You cannot take too many cloaks & shawls - the waiters are generally slow & the Landlords for the most part greedy. The Beds as a general rule are clean tho' the sheets are often damp if the chambermaids be not well looked after - you may be always sure of good eggs & good milk. & the tea is better than the coffee -'. The text continues with more information concerning inns and food, before turning to the weather, the 'simple rule' regarding which is 'that if during breakfast the mists rise on the mountain side it will be a fair day, if they fall, a wet one. Put no confidence in Lowland prognostics, even in the landlord respecting the weather [.] In short always suspect the sincerity of a highland Landlord in an inferior Inn in a well frequented road'. The document ends: 'Andersons is the best guide Book - it has a capital map & much curious information - legends &cc.'.

No Binding. Condition: Good. J.H. (or H.J, I.H. or H.I.) Unidentified , but very much in the style of John Doyle [1797-1868], the leading English caricaturist of the 1830s to 1850s. (illustrator). 14-3/4" x 10-1/2" hand-colored lithograph in vivid colors. The print is too large to scan in its entirely on the scanner's glass platen, so several partial scans appear here. Ejection & Symptoms of Rejection is commentary on the work of the 1832 Royal Commission into the Operation of the Poor Laws, which drafted the Poor Law Amendment Act. Passed in 1834, it created the system of laws and workhouses described by Dickens. Not in the published catalogs of the British Museum," compiled in 1968 (NC 1470.M4. Vol.1). Not found in British Museum Catalogue (BMC). Not in the British Museum. The print is protected in an acid free mylar envelope.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First. AN 1830'S ALBUM OF PACIFIC SKETCHES, WITH THE EARLIEST DETAILED VIEW OF HONOLULU. Ca. 1837-1840. Oblong quarto (9 3/16" x 11 5/8", 234mm x 295mm). 28 leaves, of which 6 are blank. With a pen-and-ink sketch torn and mounted to the front paste-down and one to the rear paste-down, a pen-and-ink drawing laid in at the rear paste-down, a watercolor on paper laid in, a pen-and-ink drawing mounted to a leaf with "remarks" to the leaf itself, and 20 drawings or paintings to the leaves, of which one is double-page (the view of Honolulu is continuous but in two ruled panels facing, counted here as two drawings). Bound by Ackermann in contemporary half red sheep (re-backed) over grey boards. Conserved in 2025 by Brockman (full report available), including re-backing. A persistent ink-stain to the lower edge of the boards and text-block, not affecting the images. Scattered soiling. Binder's ticket of "Ackermann & Co. Repository of Arts. 96, Strand." to the front paste-down. Ink ownership signature of "Jane Ross/ H M. S. President/ Valparaiso May 7th/1838" to the front paste-down. As the Royal Navy followed in the tracks of Cook and Vancouver in the Pacific, it became more and more common for sailors to spend extended periods either on vessels or else stationed around the Pacific. The west coast of South America, the islands of the Pacific and southeast Asia nevertheless retained a powerful allure not only for servicemen but for their families and those who never left the shores of Albion. There arose, therefore, the particularly British phenomenon of the gifted amateur military artist, who recorded his time pictorially as well as in diaries and letters. These artists ranged in rank from midshipman to admiral. The present album was doubtless brought aboard -- explaining, perhaps, the inkspill across its face and edges -- from 1837 till about 1840. The album has at least two quite distinct British artists, suggesting that it was passed from one artist to another -- and not necessarily filled chronologically (it's also possible that the sheets were dis- and re-bound, or perhaps even loose within the boards before being bound). Thus the album can be split according to artist, and then further subdivided by locale. Putting aside, for the moment, the sketch affixed to the front, the first five pictures (nos. 2-6 below), all watercolor over graphite, come from Peru (the first, uncaptioned, is identifiable by dress). All but the last are signed (in ink) either "F.C." or "F. Carmichael" at lower right. The second block of nine sketches (nos. 7-15) are all executed in a black ink (nos. 12-14 with watercolor washes) and within single-, double- or triple-ruled panels; they are altogether more professional -- more in line with the engraved or lithographed style common in printed books of voyages in this period. Nos. 9-11 (no. 9 in two parts) depict Hawaii. The two-part "View of the Town Harbor of Honolulu, Woahoo, Sandwich Islands" is the earliest detailed view of the growing metropolis of O'ahu; an earlier panorama (dated 1834) is in the Bishop Museum, but is taken from far further out to sea, with far less detail. No. 10, showing Karakakoa Bay -- site of the death of Captain Cook in 1779 -- is the earliest recorded drawing from the perspective of Ka'awaloa in the north of the bay, looking south. David W. Forbes, scholar of early Hawaii, connects the sketchbook closely with H.M.S. Imogene, which sailed among Hawaii, the Marquesas, Pitcairn, Valparaiso and Callo 1837-1838. The final section brings, at last, an identifiable artist: Charles Chatworthy Wood (Taylor, 1792-1856). Wood was born in Liverpool and emigrated to the United States, working as a painter in Boston. His picture Naufragio del 'Arethusa' is a highlight of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes; he eventually designed the arms of Chile. What remains is the ownership signature of Jane Ross on H.M.S. President in Valparaiso 7 May 1838. A FULL DESCRIPTION CAN BE FOUND ON OUR WEB SITE.

4to (192 x 235 mm). 26 written pp. and 21 pp. of drawings on 36 ff. Paper watermarked "R Tassell 1831". Handwritten text in ink, with 31 drawings in various inks and pencil. Contemporary half dark green morocco with marbled sides. Marbled endpapers. Finely illustrated manuscript notebook of an 1834 voyage to India with over twenty pages of beautifully drawn Indian boats, carefully sketched from life along the rivers of Bengal. Altogether, 14 large and 4 smaller drawings illustrate indigenous boats and ships of all kinds. Other sketches cover landscapes, and one is signed "Cornelius Sawyer", who remains unidentified. - Sawyer's sketchbook in fact begins as a ship's log, setting out from Portsmouth, England in March of 1834 towards India, and passing the Cape of Good Hope on May 15th. The log, with similar exactitude as the following drawings, mentions the names and destinations of ships encountered along the journey; for example, one is informed of a meeting with the Minerva, which had set out from Liverpool and was bound for Bombay. The log ends rather abruptly prior to arrival on Thursday, June 26th, and two pages of handwritten notes on Russian currencies and measures follow. Alongside this is a transcription from the biography of Reginald Herber (published in London, 1830; the transcript is from volume 1, p. 118), the Lord Bishop of Calcutta (today Kolkata), the capital of Bengal. Between Herber and the notes on Russian currency, one might wonder if the author was planning to do business with Russians in Bengal. - Regardless of his business aims, the true interest of Cornelius Sawyer clearly lay in ships, and his skilled sketches complete the rest of the notebook, of which they are the highlight. These comprise 14 brown ink drawings of Indian boats, some identified as a kutwa panswai; a Calcutta panswai; a budgerow; a jumlook salt boat; a Deccan pulwa; a small meeg boat of the Sundarbans; a nudder panswai for grain. Then pencil drawings: a mix of boats and views from the water drawn in pencil: a Western sail ship; view of Sultangunge (Sultanganj on the Ganges); a view "not far from Mongfui (?) Sunday August 24, 1834"; two boats; "bridge over the Sunna" (Sone River). This is followed by various seemingly unrelated sketches and doodles including several of Heidelberg, one signed. Lastly follow smaller sketches of various Indian boats with their names and studies in pencil of antelope horns. Altogether, a fantastic nautical collection. - Light rubbing to covers; some offsetting in logbook, but not among sketches, which are bright and clean; overall quite well preserved.