Printed 1879 (25 results)

No Binding. Condition: Good. M STRETCH (illustrator). An original antique engraving, from the Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News of 1879, showing Mr Charles Warner as Coupeau, in "Drink". The portrait has been folded, and has had to be strengthened at the fold, with archival quality tape. This engraving is too large to post mounted (matted) and will be sent rolled in a tube.

No Binding. Condition: Good. M STRETCH (illustrator). An original antique engraving, from the Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News of 1879, showing Mr Sothern as David Garrick. The portrait has been folded, and has had to be strengthened at the fold, with archival quality tape. This engraving is too large to post mounted (matted) and will be sent rolled in a tube.

No Binding. Condition: Good. Sturgiss (illustrator). An original antique engraving, from the Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News of 1879, showing the Grand National in progress with a couple of horses down. The portrait has been folded, and has had to be strengthened at the fold, with archival quality tape. This engraving is too large to post mounted (matted) and will be sent rolled in a tube.

No Binding. Condition: Good. Sturgiss (illustrator). An original antique engraving, from the Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News of 1879, showing Charibert ridden by Fred Archer winning by a length at Newmarket. The print has been folded, and has had to be strengthened at the fold, with archival quality tape. This engraving is too large to post mounted (matted) and will be sent rolled in a tube.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 26 pages. Efforts to evangelise the African continent are surveyed with attention to missionary strategy, cultural encounter, and the ethical aims behind Christian teaching. The article reflects on both the promise and the limitations of nineteenth-century attempts to introduce new religious and social frameworks across diverse African societies. 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: 16 x 26 cms. Category: Dublin Review; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. An original antique engraving, from the Illustrated London News of 1879, showing a cat being terrorised by a terrier . This engraving will be mounted (matted) and ready to frame.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 26 pages. Craik surveys Samuel Smilesâs popular works on self-improvement, industry, and character. His review weighs their moral earnestness against their practical value, noting how Smilesâs message of perseverance and personal discipline resonated with a broad Victorian readership seeking guidance in an age of rapid change. 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: 16 x 24 cms. Category: Quarterly Review; Special Interest. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. a splendid original antique print. Mounted - matted - and ready to frame. Excellent condition. Printed in 1879. Shows . fine scene with Otters by the River Bank in 1879.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. a splendid original antique print. Mounted - matted - and ready to frame. Excellent condition. Printed in 1879. Shows . 3 scenes - paper chase in India - women riding side saddle etc .in 1879.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. a splendid original antique print. Mounted - matted - and ready to frame. Excellent condition. Printed in 1879. Shows . fine scene with Otters by the River Bank in 1879.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. a splendid original antique print. Mounted - matted - and ready to frame. Excellent condition. Printed in 1879. Shows .Fine scene of Sarah Bernardi's Studio in 1879.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. a splendid original antique print. Mounted - matted - and ready to frame. Excellent condition. Printed in 1879. Shows .Fine scene of Bank Holiday at the Seaside in 1879.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. a splendid original antique print. Mounted - matted - and ready to frame. Excellent condition. Printed in 1879. Shows . 5 scenes of a Meeting of the Artist's Club in 1879.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. a splendid original antique print. Mounted - matted - and ready to frame. Excellent condition. Printed in 1879. Shows . 9 scenes of athletics, wrestling etc in Strrathalla in 1879.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. a splendid original antique print. Mounted - matted - and ready to frame. Excellent condition. Printed in 1879. Shows . 8 scenes - on the art of Sketching by J B Latchford.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. a splendid original antique print. Mounted - matted - and ready to frame. Excellent condition. Printed in 1879. Shows . 5 scenes - the International Boat Race at Nice .in 1879.

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A splendid original antique engraved portrait. . NOT MOUNTED BECAUSE TO LARGE TO DISPATCH MOUNTED - SO WOULD SEND ROLLED IN A LARGE THICK STRONG TUBE, SIZE 21 X 15 INCHES, 52 X 37 CMS, , scarce and unusual , IMPRESSIVE PORTRAIT AND SCENE SHOWING THE DEATH OF THE PRINCE IMPERIAL, EUGENE LOUIS IN THE ZULU CAMPAIGN OF 1879, AN ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT ENGRAVED IN 1878 .

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A splendid, original antique coloured lithograph, in excellent condition. Mounted (matted) and ready to frame, mount size 15 x 13 inches. A scarce and finely engraved coloured litho with a finely coloured background showing a Bull Trout.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A splendid, original antique coloured lithograph, in excellent condition. Mounted (matted) and ready to frame, mount size 15 x 13 inches. A scarce and finely engraved coloured litho with a finely coloured background showing a Galway Sea Trout.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A splendid, original antique coloured lithograph, in excellent condition. Mounted (matted) and ready to frame, mount size 15 x 13 inches. A scarce and finely engraved coloured litho with a finely coloured background showing a Sewen.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A splendid, original antique coloured lithograph, in excellent condition. Mounted (matted) and ready to frame, mount size 15 x 13 inches. A scarce and finely engraved coloured litho with a finely coloured background showing a Salmon Parr, a young Trout and a smelt.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A splendid, original antique coloured lithograph, in excellent condition. Mounted (matted) and ready to frame, mount size 15 x 13 inches. A scarce and finely engraved coloured litho with a finely coloured background showing a Torgoch and an Alpine Charr.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A splendid, original antique coloured lithograph, in excellent condition. Mounted (matted) and ready to frame, mount size 15 x 13 inches. A scarce and finely engraved coloured litho with a finely coloured background showing a Short-headed Salmon and a Silvery Salmon.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A splendid, original antique coloured lithograph, in excellent condition. Mounted (matted) and ready to frame, mount size 15 x 13 inches. A scarce and finely engraved coloured litho with a finely coloured background.

I. 2 blank sheets, XVII (I); 537 pages, with 78 xylographic illustrations in the text; 86 singleside-printed toned or colour-lithographic plates (incl. portraits after Daguerreotypes by Eliphalet Brown) and 3 foldout-colourplates of japanese woodblock-prints (89 plates in total) and 3 geographical maps (1 foldout) bound within; 2 blank sheets. / II. (House Edition, 1857). (8) 414, (1) 14 pages ('Treaty of Ka-na-ga-wa'[Kanagawa], the first document ever negotiated by the Empire of Japan with any western nation according to International Law), (1) XI (1) p.; some xylographic text-illustrations, 4 (3 coloured) lithographic plates 'Agriculture of China', 22 (of 23, 17 [hand-]coloured) plates of Natural History (Yack, Japanese Fox), Ornithology (Japanese Birds, 5 of 6), Ichthyology (Japanese Fishes, 10), Conchyology (Japanese Shells, 5); 3 (2 folded) maps in the text, 16 plates with meteorological diagrams; 15 of 17 very large multiple folded maps at the end. / III. XLIII, 705 pages with 365 (of 366) astronomic xylographic plates (lacking plate 66); all plates in I and II on singleside printed cardboards. - I. Thick and heavy 'night-blue' full morocco-binding of the period over 4 raised bands with gilt-ornamental frames at panels and bands and gilt title and owner's name ('P. G. Washington') at bottom-of-spine, colour-marbled endpapers; II./III. Blind-tooled (naval motive) publisher's cloth bindings; lex.-4to.(ca. 31 x 23 x 20 cm; ca. 9 kg.). *** (Sabin #30958, Cordier 'Japonica' #513, Nissen ZBI #3132) I. FIRST EDITION, BIBLIOPHILE BOUND ORIGINAL; THE SENATE-EDITION (Senate executive Documents #34 of 33rd Congress, 2nd Session), published parrallel to Nicholson's 'House-Editon'. - FIRST BLANK SHEET WITH 4-LINE INSCRIPTION ''to Baron Gerolt / with the kind regards / of P. G. Washington / Feby. 16 1857''. Peter Grayson Washington (1798-1872), son of the Nephew of a Cousin of George Washington (1732-1799, American Founding Father and first President of the United States) served as 'Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Virginia New York City'; Friedrich Karl Joseph Freiherr von Gerolt (1797-1879) was the German-Prussian 'Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in the United States' and has been the longest-ever serving ambassador of Germany in the U.S. In the quarter+ century of service, Gerolt met presidents James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson and Ulysses Grant. As a studied mining geologist (Freiberg Mining Academy) in ''1824 he travelled to Mexico as an agent of the German-American Mining Association, where significant silver mines were suspected. Together with Carl de Berghes, also an Mining Association Agent, he published the 'Carta geognostica de los principales distritos minerales del Estado de Mexico' in 1827 with Arnz & Comp., a special mineralogical map of central Mexico, which is considered the first geological map of Mexico printed in colour.''(german wikipedia). - Corners of the leather-binding partly somewhat rubbed, panels slightly rubbed and slightly scratched; some textpages opposite of lithographic plates with slight offsetting (shadow) last sheets with slim humidity-stain at top sharp-corner, last 10 sheets (incl. rear endpaper) with small hole in the blank bottom margin; A MAGNIFICIENT COPY WITH A 'WELL NAMED' ASSOCIATION OF THE PERIOD. --- II. Binding somewhat rubbed, lacks plate 6 of Ornithology and textpages 257-262 (beginning of Ichthyology); Acceptably used. / III. Binding rubbed, many pages with humiditystain at foreedge or top sharp-corner (growing towards the end), lacks zodiac-plate #66 (of 352). --- MAIN OFFER IS THE LUXOURIUS EQUIPPED AND COMPLETE HISTORIC ASSOCIATION COPY OF VOLUME I; Vols. II and III have been added from another set to create scientific completeness (more or less). . .