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Report from His Majesty's Commissioners for Inquiring into the Administration and Practical Operation of the Poor Laws.
1834
 

The Fashions. Expressly designed and prepared for the Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine. January 1864. [Caption title]. Oval gilt frame, 11.5" x 9.5." Gilt ringed oval mat over French fashion engraving (7.5" x 5") with two foreground figures of young women. One is dressed from the neck down in a heavy pink brocaded full gray one piece floor length dress; the other is similarly attired in a full skirted purple velvet dress with gilt rope decorative motif. The dresses are each 3.5" in length and 5" in width overall (with the purple velvet partially covering the gray dress). Highly appealing and very unusual.
1864
 

ANDERSON, CHRISTOPHE Historical Sketches of the Ancient Native Irish and Their Descendants...
1828
 

ANON. Postscript to "A Review of the Colonial Slave Registration Acts..."
1820
 

ANON. Twenty Millions Thrown Away, and Slavery Perpetuated.
1830
 

ANON. An Authentic Account of the Conversion and Experience of a Negro. [Caption title].
1790
 

ANON. Valpurgis; or, the Devil's Festival. In Two Cantos. The Ball and Drawing Room.
1831
 

ANON. The Minstrel; or, Anecdotes of Distinguished Personages in the Fifteenth Century. Three Volumes in One. First American...Edition.
1802
 

ARNOLD, MATTHEW. Essays in Criticism.
1865
 

BARTLETT, W.H Jerusalem Revisited. With Illustrations
1855
 

BELL, CHARLES. Essays on the Anatomy of Expression in Painting.
1806
 

BIRNEY, JAMES G. The American Churches, the Bulwarks of American Slavery. By an American.
1840
 

BLACKWOOD, HELEN SEL Lispings from Low Latitudes, or Extracts from the Journal of the Hon. Impulsia Gushington.
1863
 

BOSWELL, JAMES. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
1807
 

BRADLEY, FRANCIS HER Appearance and Reality. A Metaphysical Essay.
1893
 

BURNS, ROBERT. The Works of Robert Burns; with an Account of His Life, and a Criticism of His Writings. To which are prefixed, some observations on the character and condition of the Scottish peasantry. In Three Volumes.
1804
 

BUSHNAN, J. STEVENSO The Philosophy of Instinct and Reason.
1837
 

CALLENDER, JAMES. The Political Progress of Britain: or, an Impartial History of the Abuses in the Government of the British Empire, in Europe, Asia, and America...Tending to Prove the Ruinous Consequences of the Popular System of Taxation, War, and Conquest. Part First [-Second].
1795
 

CARLILE, RICHARD. The Report of the Proceedings of the Court of King's Bench...Being the Mock Trials of Richard Carlile, for Alledged Blasphemous Libels, in Publishing Thomas Paine's Theological Works and Elihu Principles of Nature...
1826
 

CARROLL, LEWIS. Advertisement. [Caption title]. 12mo. broadside.
1893
 

CASS, LEWIS. France, and Its King, Court, and Government. By an American.
1840
 

CHAMBERS, WILLIAM. American Slavery and Colour.
1857
 

CHANCE, EDWARD J. On the Nature, Causes, Variety, and Treatment of Bodily Deformities...In Two Parts. Part I (all published).
1862
 

CHANNING, WILLIAM E. Self-Culture. An Address Introductory to the Franklin Lectures. Delivered at Boston, United States, September, 1838.
1839
 

CLARKSON, THOMAS Thoughts on the Necessity of Improving the Condition of the Slaves in the British Colonies, with a View to Their Ultimate Emancipation...
1823
 

COLDWELL, WILLIAM. Hebrew Harmonies and Allusions.
1820
 

COLLINS, JOHN A. Right and Wrong Among the Abolitionists of the United States: or the Objects, Principles, and Measures of the Original American Anti-Slavery Society, Unchanged...with an Introductory Letter by Miss [Harriet] Martineau, and an Appendix...
1841
 

CROLY, DAVID G. Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races, Applied to the American White Man and Negro. Reprinted from the New York Edition.
1864
 

DAVY, HUMPHRY. Salmonia: or Days of Fly Fishing. In a Series of Conversations. With Some Account of the Habits of Fishes Belonging to the Genus Salmo. By an Angler.
1829
 

DAVY, HUMPHRY. Elements of Agricultural Chemistry, in a Course of Lectures for the Board of Agriculture...to which is added, A Treatise on Soils and Manures, as Founded on Actual Experience, and as Combined with the Leading Principles of Agriculture: in which the Theory and Doctrines of Sir Humphry Davy, and Other Agricultural Chemists, are Rendered Familiar to the Experienced Farmer. By a Practical Agriculturist.
1821
 

DAVY, SIR HUMPHRY. Elements of Agricultural Chemistry, in a Course of Lectures for the Board of Agriculture. Second Edition.
1814
 

DE COETLOGON, CHARLE Hints; To the People of England: For the Year 1793.
1792
 

DE LA MARE, WALTER. The Return.
1922
 

DE LA MARE, WALTER. Henry Brocken. His Travels and Adventures...
1904
 

DE LA MARE, WALTER. The Connoisseur and Other Stories.
1926
 

DECKER, MATTHEW. An Essay on the Causes of the Decline of the Foreign Trade, Consequently of the Value of the Lands of Britain, and on the Means to Restore Both.
1756
 

DEFOE, DANIEL. A Treatise Concerning the Use and Abuse of the Marriage Bed...The Diabolical Practice of attempting to prevent Childbearing by Physical Preparations...How married Persons may be guilty of Conjugal Lewdness...
1727
 

DEL LA MARE, WALTER. The Veil and Other Poems.
1921
 

DESPARD. The Trial of Colonel Despard and His Associates, for High Treason, and a Conspiracy...to which is added an Account of Their Execution. Published from the London Morning Chronicle.
1803
 

DICKENS, CHARLES. Dickens' Works. [Spine label]. 12 volumes.
1880
 

DODGSON, CHARLES LUD Feeding the Mind. By Lewis Carroll. With a Prefatory Note by William H. Draper.
1907
 

DOYLE, A. CONAN The Doings of Raffles Haw.
1892
 

DOYLE, A. CONAN Round the Red Lamp, Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life.
1894
 

DOYLE, A. CONAN The Stark Munro Letters...
1895
 

DOYLE, RICHARD? Illu "The Dickens Album." Ca. 1860s.
1860
 

EDGEWORTH, MARIA. Harry and Lucy Concluded; Being the Last Part of Early Lessons.
1825
 

EDREHI, M. An Historical Account of the Ten Tribes, Settled Beytond the River Sambatyon in the East; with Many Other Curious Matters Relating to the State of the Israelites...
1836
 

FAWCETT, HENRY. State Socialism and the Nationalisation of the Land.
1883
 

FIELDING, HENRY. The Author's Farce; and the Pleasures of the Town. As Acted at the Theatre in the Hay-Market. Written by Scriblerus Secundus.
1730
 

FLEMING, ALEXANDER E Penicillin: Its Practical Application.
1946
 

FRY, ROGER. The Artist and Psycho-Analysis.
1924
 

GALSWORTHY, JOHN. A Man of Devon. By John Sinjohn [pseud.]
1901
 

GIBBON, EDWARD. A Vindication of Some Passages in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Chapters of the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
1779
 

GOLLANCZ, VICTOR Ed. The Betrayal of the Left.
1941
 

GRAHAM, JOHN A. Memoirs of John Horne Tooke...Proofs Identifying Him as the Author of the Celebrated Letters of Junius.
1828
 

GREENAWAY, KATE. Almanach pour 1886.
1886
 

GREENHOW, EDWARD H. On Diptheria.
1860
 

HARE, ROBERT. On Electricity. [Drop title.]
1826
 

HAZLITT, WILLIAM. Lectures on the English Comic Writers....
1819
 

HEYWOOD, FRANCIS. An Analysis of Kant's Critick of Pure Reason by the Translator of that Work.
1844
 

HINE, EDWARD. Forty-Seven Identifications of the British Nation with the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel...
1874
 

HOLWELL, JOHN Z. An Address to the Proprietors of East-India Stock.
1764
 

HONE. The Three Trials of William Hone, for Publishing Three Parodies...
1818
 

HOOD, THOMAS. The New Comic Annual, for 1831.
1831
 

HOOPER, GEORGE. An Inquiry into the State of the Ancient Measures, the Attick, the Roman, and Especially the Jewish. With an Appendix, Concerning Our Old English Money, and Measures of Content.
1721
 

HORNE, THOMAS HARTWE An Introduction to the Study of Bibliography. To Which is Prefixed a Memoir on the Public Libraries of the Antients. Illustrated with Engravings. Vol. I-[II].
1814
 

IRELAND, W.H. Scribbleomania; or, the Printer's Devil's Polichronicon. A Sublime Poem. Edited by Anser Pen-Drag-On, Esq.
1815
 

JACKSON, HOLBROOK. The Anatomy of Bibliomania. In Two Volumes.
1930
 

JANE, FRED T. Blake of the "Rattlesnake" or the Man Who Saved England. A Story of Torpedo Warfare in 189-. Illustrated by the Author.
1895
 

JOHNSON, SAMUEL. An English and Hebrew Grammar, Being the first short Rudiments of Those two Languages, Taught Together. To which is added, a Synopsis of all the Parts of Learning. The Second Edition, Corrected and much amended.
1771
 

JOHNSON, SAMUEL. A Dictionary of the English Language...Abstracted from the Folio Edition...To which is prefixed, a Grammar of the English Language. In Two Volumes.
1760
 

KNIGHT, THOMAS IRELA An Exact Abridgment in English of all the Reports of that Learned and Reverend Judge Sir James Dyer Knight...
1651
 

LACKINGTON, JAMES. Memoirs of the First Forty-Five Years of the Life of James Lackington, the present Bookseller in Chiswell-street, Moorfields, London. Written by Himself. In a Series of Letters to a Friend.
1791
 

LAMB, CHARLES. The Letters...in Which Many Mutilated Words and Passages Have Been Restored to Their Original Form; with Letters Never Before Published and Facsimiles of Original MS Letters and Poems. With an Introduction by Henry H. Harper. [Five volumes].
1905
 

LAMBERT, JOHN. Travels Through Canada, and the United States...1806, 1807, & 1808. Biographical Notices and Anecdotes of Some of the Leading Characters in the United States. In Two Volumes. With a Map and Numerous Engravings. Third Edition, Corrected and Improved.
1816
 

LANCASTER, JOSEPH. Manual of the System of the British and Foreign School Society of London for Teaching Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Needle-Work, in the Elementary Schools.
1816
 

LANDOR, WALTER SAVAG Pericles and Aspasia.
1836
 

LANGER, SUSANNE K. An Introduction to Symbolic Logic.
1937
 

LEEDS ANTI-SLAVERY A To the Friends of Freedom [a proposal to offer a prize for an essay on "the sinfulness of slavery; the best mode of terminating it..."
1854
 

LELAND, JOHN. The Divine Authority of the Old and New Testament Asserted: With a particular Vindication of the Characters of Moses, and the Prophets, our Saviour Jesus Christ, and his Apostles, against the unjust Aspersions and false Reasoning of a Book, entitled, The Moral Philosopher. The Second Edition, Corrected.
1739
 

LONGMAN, REES, ORME, A Catalogue of Old Books, for the Year 1826; Part the Second, Containing a Valuable and Useful Collection of English Works...to be sold at the affixed prices...
1826
 

LYTTON, EDWARD GEORG Pelham Novels. Vol. I-VII. [Spine labels].
1831
 

MALKIN, BENJ. HEATH. A Father's Memoirs of His Child.
1806
 

MANN, ROBERT JAMES The Philosophy of Reproduction.
1855
 

MARTINEAU, HARRIET. The Martyr Age of the United States of America, with an Appeal on Behalf of the Oberlin Institute in Aid of the Abolition of Slavery...
1840
 

MAWE, J. Wodrach's Introduction to the Study of Conchology, Describing the Orders, Genera, and Species of Shells...Second edition, Revised and considerably Enlarged.
1832
 

MEURS, WALTER COLONI A Complete Group of Six Hand-Written & Printed Documents Relating to the British Seizure and Resale of the Brazilian Ship "Ceres" for Illegal Slave Trading in Sierra Leone, 1829, 1830 and 1832.
1829
 

MILL, JOHN STUART. Dissertations and Discussions Political, Philosophical, and Historical. In Two Volumes.
1859
 

MILLINGEN, J.G. Mind and Matter, Illustrated by Considerations on Hereditary Insanity, and the Influence of Temperament in the Development of the Passions.
1847
 

MILMAN, HENRY HART. The History of the Jews.
1829
 

MOORE, THOMAS. The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life. In Seventeen Volumes.
1832
 

MORE, HANNAH. The Works of Hannah More. First Complete American Edition. [In two volumes].
1835
 

MORE, THOMAS. Utopia: or the Happy Republic; a Philosophical Romance, in Two Books.
1743
 

MOSELEY, WALTER MICH An Essay on Archery, describing the Practice of that Art in all Ages and Nations.
1792
 

NELSON, JOHN. An Extract from the Journal of John Nelson; Being an Account of God's Dealing with Him...
1809
 

NICOLL, W. ROBERTSON Literary Anecdotes of the Nineteenth Century: Contributions Towards a Literary History of the Period.
1895
 

NORTH, ROGER. A Discourse of Fish and Fish-Ponds.
1773
 

ORWELL, GEORGE.