Category: Victorian

Image for AMATEUR WORK ILLUSTRATED - a practical magazine of constructive and decorative art and manual labour, with supplements containing designs and working drawings to scale for various pieces of work, useful and ornamental, & several hundreds of illustrations

AMATEUR WORK ILLUSTRATED - a practical magazine of constructive and decorative art and manual labour, with supplements containing designs and working drawings to scale for various pieces of work, useful and ornamental, & several hundreds of illustrations

Price: £225.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock, Bowden & Co

Seller ID: 007306

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Volumes 1 - 7, popular re-issue. Not dated, but probably c. 1892 -5 (though the British Library lists seven volumes of this edition, and dates it 1881-88). One of the most elusive of all late Victorian journals for the keen handyman. This set is bound in a simple brown cloth which is a little marked worn and frayed, but generally still very sound, though the spine head of volume two is rather torn, and a hinge cracked in volume five. The contents are generally clean, though the folding plans and plates are ofter printed on an inferior paper which has browned, as have the adjoining pages. There...
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England in the Sixteenth century; or, a History of the Reigns of the House of Tudor

Price: £50.00

Publisher: London, The Religious Tract Society : 1841

Seller ID: 007485

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Good

Illustrated with a few engravings throughout, 12mo, pp xii, 436, all edges gilt, very slightly worn internally, a late-Victorian signature and date on the front endpaper, in an ornate black leather binding, a little worn, corners rather rubbed, joints rubbed, spine head a little pulled, upper joint splitting a little at the top. VERY SCARCE.
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Flowers From Many Lands: a Christian companion for hours of recreation

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, The Religious Tract Society

Seller ID: 016828

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Not dated - c. 1860. Illustrated with eight charming colour chromolithograph Kronheim plates, 12mo, pp iv, 252, a contemporary signature and date on the first blank, otherwise very clean and bright internally, all edges gilt, ornate blind-stamped blue cloth, with ornate gilt central decoration on both covers and the spine, signed C.B., so almost certainly designed by Charles Bayman. Slight rubbing to the cloth and very slight wear to the corners, but otherwise an exceptionally good copy.
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Photographic Views of Llandrindod Wells, Builth Wells, Llangammarch Wells, Llanwrtyd Wells, Rhayader

Price: £13.50

Publisher: Llandrindod & London, The Emporium, Llandrindod

Seller ID: 018530

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fair

Not dated - c.1895? A large folding sheet of sepia photographic reproductions, complete with the booklet - "Llandrindod Wels Guide" - 56 pages. As usual, both the book and the concertina plate have become detached from the binding, which is gilt decorated but raher rubbed and worn.
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Image for The Botany of the Malvern Hills in the Counties of Worcester, Hereford, and Gloucester; with a Succinct Account of Their Geology, Physical Geograpy, Climate &c.; The Precise Stations of the Rarer plants, and the Most Interesting Localities

The Botany of the Malvern Hills in the Counties of Worcester, Hereford, and Gloucester; with a Succinct Account of Their Geology, Physical Geograpy, Climate &c.; The Precise Stations of the Rarer plants, and the Most Interesting Localities

Price: £65.00

Publisher: Malvern, Simpkin, Marshall & Co : 1868

Seller ID: 015803

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Third edition, enlarged and corrected. Small octavo, pp viii, 166 + 2 pages of advertisements, with a hand coloured frontispiece of a transverse section through the hills, a neat signature on the front endpaper, otherwise extremely clean internally, green cloth with only very slight signs of use, a very good copy indeed.
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THE ENTOMOLOGIST - An Illustrated Journal of General Entomology. Volumes 11-12, and Volumes 22 - 30

Price: £250.00

Publisher: London, Simpkin, Marshall & Co : 1897

Seller ID: 008812

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Volumes 11-12 (in one vol, half roan, a bit worn and scuffed, contents slightly loose); Volumes 22 - 30, (in an attractive contemporary half calf and marbled boards, slightly marked, a little foxing internally, but overall very clean and tight). A few plain litho plates and four fine coloured plates - of the Bornean butterfly Ornithoptera trojana, forms of Colias edusa, aberrations in the Genus Vanessa, varieties of Triphaena comes-orbona, and one to accompany Gosse's article on Attacus atlas. [1878 - 1879; 1888 - 1897]. SCARCE. {A heavy set - extra postage will be required}
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Image for The Intellectual Observer : Review of Natural History, Microscopic Research and Recreative Science - Volumes I, II, III, V, VI, VII, IX, X, XI & XII [ 1.2.3.5.6.7.9.10.11.12.]

The Intellectual Observer : Review of Natural History, Microscopic Research and Recreative Science - Volumes I, II, III, V, VI, VII, IX, X, XI & XII [ 1.2.3.5.6.7.9.10.11.12.]

Price: £350.00

Publisher: London, Groombridge & Sons

Seller ID: 018736

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Ten volumes (of 12 published), small thick octavo, all edges gilt, original cloth, with a full complement of 64 colour printed plates and 55 tinted plates, plus many dozens of text engravings, remarkably clean internally with just the very occasional mark or small stain. The cloth bindings are original, but changed in colour and style during the course of publication and are slightly worn overall; the first five volumes are faded and bleached, the upper cover of Volume XI is stained, the spines of the last five volumes are wrinkled, and Volume VII is slightly weak at the front and rear hinges;...
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The London Catalogue of British Plants, published under the direction of the London Botanical Exchange Club

Price: £25.00

Publisher: 192, Picadilly, London, Robert Hardwicke : 1867

Seller ID: 014820

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

Sixth edition. Small octavo, pp 32, a little used throughout, a few annotations. paperback, lacking lower cover. The pages, which once were loose, have been recently stapled together. [Early editions such as this are extremely scarce. There are actually two copies here - stapled together !]
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The Manual of Rank and Nobility; or Key to the Peerage.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Saunders & Otley : 1832

Seller ID: 000159

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fair

Hand coloured frontispiece depicting crowns and coronets (offset onto title page), pp xx,598, uncut, rather weak internally, hinges weak, frontispiece detached, original polished cloth, rubbed, spine poor, joints breaking.
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The Orchid Review - an illustrated monthly journal devoted to orchidology. Volume VIII

Price: £45.00

Publisher: London, Marshall Brothers : 1900

Seller ID: 019761

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Illustrated, octavo, pp 384, a little age-toned but otherwise very good internally, purple pebble cloth a little worn and markedm the spine fraying at the head and with a little wear to the rear joint, the rear cover bruised and marked,but still a good copy. [Bound up to include the advertisement page at the end of each monthly part. From the library of the Victorian nursery firm of John Cowan & Co. Ltd, with their stamp on the front endpaper.]
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The Smoker's Garland - Part III

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Liverpool, Cope's Tobacco Plant : 1890

Seller ID: 011908

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Slim 12mo, frontispiece, vignette title page printed in red and black, pp (60), a few period advertisements, uncut, pictorial wrappers printed in red brown black and gilt, dull chipped and frayed. SCARCE. [Postage will be reduced]
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The Railways of England

By: Acworth, W.M.

Price: £6.50

Publisher: London, John Murray : 1890

Seller ID: 017164

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fair

Fourth edition. Illustrated, large octavo, pp xvi, 427, very clean internally, cloth very slightly worn, the spine slightly pulled at the head and foot. A potentially good copy but with a serious fault : I think the contents have at one time broken from the binding, and many years ago they have been glued in; this glue is now deteriorated, the book creaks and groans when opened, and with a bit of use the front and rear hinges will break again. A shame, as otherwise this would be a good clean copy.
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The Illustrated Military Hand-Book: Giving a Familiar Description of a Fortress, the Method of Besieging it, and an Explanation of All Military Terms. [By an Old Soldier]

By: An Old Soldier

Price: £275.00

Publisher: London, H.G. Collins, 22 Paternoster Row : 1855

Seller ID: 004467

12mo, pp 25, (3), + 4pp publisher's adverts. Double-page map of Sebastopol Harbour, double page map showing the Crimea relative to the seat of war, 9 engraved plates (of which three are double page), showing the exterior of a casemated battery, plan of a modern fortress with siege works, profile view of a bastion, 24 pounder siege gun, an embrasure, a 15 inch french mortar, shell case-shot grape-shot & round shot, a fascine & a gabion, Minie rifle & patent revolver. All the plates are waterstained, the contents are very slightly weak, neat stamp of a former owner (T.W. Pickard, Glynde) in thre...
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A Century of Ballads. Collected, Edited and Illustrated in Facsimile of the Originals

By: Ashton, John

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Elliott Stock : 1887

Seller ID: 001453

["Ballads Illustrative of the Life, Manners and Habits of the English Nation During the Seventeenth Century."] . Illustrated from woodcuts, small quarto, pp xx, 354, rebound in tan buckram, (the original upper cover and spine laid down, slightly rubbed and frayed). An ex College library copy, with tiny oval stamp on title page, label on front endpaper, trace of label on spine, and stamp on top edge, fore-edge and bottom edge.
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Flora Bathoniensis; or, A Catalogue of the Plants Indigenous to the Vicinity of Bath

By: Babington, Charles C.

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Bath, Bristol & London, E. Collins; G. Tremlett; Longman & Co. : 1834

Seller ID: 017337

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

12mo, pp vi, 62, (6), very clean internally, with the contemporary signature of Wm Clarke, and the later booklabel of R.P. Scase, Lower Northend Farm, Batheaston, original cloth, slightly rubbed and bubbled, a little worn at the head and tail of the spine. SCARCE.
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The Pruning Book: a monograph of the pruning and training of plants as applied to American conditions

By: Bailey, L.H.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company : 1899

Seller ID: 013566

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Second edition. Small squat octavo, pp x, 545 (+ publisher's catalogue), slightly used internally and very slightly weak, a small minor pressure-mark from the front endpaper through to page 17/18, endpapers a little creased, cloth slightly worn and rubbed, binding leaning slightly. [Philosophy of pruning. The fruit bud. The healing of wounds, Specific modes of training. American grape training.]. The early editions are extremely scarce.
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Class Book of Botany, being an introduction to the study of the vegetable kingdom.

By: Balfour, J.H.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Adam & Charles Black : 1870

Seller ID: 017076

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fair

Third edition, ("with additions and corrections in the department of organography"). Large very thick octavo, illustrated with over 1800 text illustrations, pp xxii, 1117, rather weak internally with the front hinge broken but holding, several inner hinges weak, one gathering protruding and becoming loose, original green cloth, slightly worn at the head and tail of the spine, but otherwise quite bright. [ A folding engraved plate at the rear shows Humboldt's "Distribution of Plants in Equinoctial America According to Elevation".). {A heavy book - extra postage may be needed.}
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Lourdes: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

By: Barbe, Daniel. (translated by Alice Meynell)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Burns & Oates Ltd

Seller ID: 005533

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

(c.1893) . Large 8vo, 12 colour plates, pp 106, top edge gilt, the others uncut, internally a little foxed, dusty & marked, large contemporary inscription on front endpaper, cl slightly worn and rubbed.
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On the Life History of a Remarkable Uredine on Jasminum grandiflorum (Uromyces cunninghamianus nov. sp.]

By: Barclay, A

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Linnean Society : 1891

Seller ID: 019147

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

With two plain litho plates, slender quarto, pp [11], unopened, paperback, becoming loose but otherwise a very good copy with the bookplate of the South London Botanical Institute. [Transactions Linnean Society, Botany 2nd series, Volume III part 2]
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On the Life History of Puccinia Coronata, var Himalayensis, and Puccinia jasmini-chrysopogonis

By: Barclay, A

Price: £12.50

Publisher: London, Linnean Society : 1891

Seller ID: 019146

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

One litho plate, slender quarto, pp [16], unopened, paperback, a very good copy with the bookplate of the South London Botanical Institute. [Transactions Linnean Society London, Botany 2nd series, Vol III part 6].
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Category: Victorian

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