Search Results: 18th and 19th Century Books from Tapsell's Books and Music

London: Swan, Sonnenschein and Co, 1891. x, 236 pages. Appendix. Original decorated red cloth with gilt titling on the spine and black titling on the upper board. Includes chapters on the statistics of crime; crime and climate, the seasons, destitution, poverty, sex and age; the criminal in body and mind; and the punishment of crime. *An unusually bright, crisp and attractive copy of this scarce work.. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1896. xvii, 400 pages.Frontispiece with tissue guard. Many b/w text illustrations (woodcuts) and b/w plates. Appendix and index. Bookplate verso of front free endpaper. Original brown pictorial cloth with titling on spine and upper board. Gilt faded on spine. Boards worn at extremities.. 5th Edition. Hard Cover. Good.

London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1899. 253 pages. Original green cloth with gilt titling on the spine. Edges uncut. Corners a little bumped. Scarce. *Includes criticism of the poetry of Tennyson, Swinburne, Shelly and Kipling.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1860. 12.9cm x 19.5cm (oblong). xvi + 223 + xlix pages. Original maroon cloth (worn) with gilt titling on spine and upper board. Corners bumped. Rare. . Hard Cover. Good.

Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co, 1826. Volume I: Voyage to Loo-Choo and Other Places in the Eastern Seas, in the Year 1816. Including an Account of Captain Maxwell's Attack on the Batteries at Canton; and Notes of an Interview with Buonaparte at St Helena, in August 1817. iv, ii, 322 pages. Volume II and III: Extracts from a Journal Written on the Coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico, in the Years 1820, 1821, 1822. xii, 313 and x, 311 pages. Each volume is 14.6cm x 9.7cm. Engraved half-title pages. Blind-stamped original three-quarter calf with gitl titling and rules on the spine. Marbled boards. Corners a little bumped. A lovely old set. Scarce.. Three-Quarter Leather. Very Good.

London: John Mason, 1849. iv, 326 pages plus publisher's catalogue. Frontispiece engraving. Engraved vignette on title page. A letter from a Mrs Edwards is tipped in at the rear. Original blind-stamped cloth (rubbed at extremities) with gilt titling on the spine. Front free endpaper excised, else good. Rare.. 3rd Edition. Cloth. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Seeley and Co, 1887. xvi, 228 pages plus 16-page publisher's catalogue. Frontispiece and many other full-page b/w illustrations by Joseph Pennell. Original burgundy cloth (spine a little sunned) with gilt titling on spine and upper board. Very slight foxing on frontispiece, title page and fore-edge. Corners bumped. Rare.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: Frederick Westley and A.H. Davis, 1831. Set of two volumes. xxiv, 566 and viii, 568 pages. Fourteen b/w engraved plates, including the frontispieces. About half the plates have varying degrees of tanning with offsetting on the facing page. Pale foxing on the title page and frontispiece of Volume One. Rebound at some time in three-quarter calf with raised bands, gilt titling and rules on the spine. Original marbled boards (slightly rubbed). New endpapers. A lovely old set.. First Edition. Three-Quarter Leather. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1881. 18cm x 11.5cm. 100 pages. B/w frontispiece with tissue guard. Top edge gilt. Gilt titling and gilt decorations on upper board and spine. Very slight spotting on prelims. Head and tail of spine a little rubbed.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good.

Melbourne: Ellis and Lake Not dated (circa 1890s). xii, 387 pages. Original red cloth with gilt titling on the spine; gilt and black decorations on the spine and upper board. All edges gilt. First few and last few pages foxed.. New Edition. Hard Cover. Good.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1874. vi, 136 pages. 16.5cm x 11.5cm. Previous owner's details on front endpapers. Original brown decorated cloth (rubbed at extremities) with gilt titling on upper board and spine. . Hard Cover. Good.

London: Jacob Tonson, 1723. Set of four volumes. 443, 418, 356 and 308 pages plus unpaginated sections and errata. Translated from the French by P. Davall and dedicated to William Congreve. Rebound at some time in full leather with gilt titling on the spines. Edges speckled red. Engraved portrait frontispiece in Volume 2. Some minor dampstaining in Volume 4. A previous owner's very old and attractive bookplate in Volume 1. A lovely old set of this famous work which was first published in French in 1717.. First Edition in English. Full Leather. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

London: Methuen, 1899. xii, 312 pages. B/w frontispiece and 50 other b/w photos. Half leather with gilt titling and decorations on the spine; raised bands. Endpapers and all edges marbled. Some pale foxing, but not on the b/w plates. Previous owner's signature on flyleaf. Rare. *A beautifully bound book. The photos are exceptionally clear, detailed and interesting.. First Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good.

Sydney: George Robertson, 1877. xvi, 328 pages. B/w frontispiece. Original blindstamped cloth with gilt titling on the spine. Spine a little faded and flecked. Unopened. Front hinge a little tender. Edges a little spotted. Rare.. 2nd Edition. Hard Cover. Good.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1888. xvi, 268 pages. Many vignettes and full-page illustrations by Joseph Pennell. One fold-out map. Original pale blue pictorial cloth with titling on the upper board and spine. Remnants of bookplate on front pastedown.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

London: Virtue and Co, 1872. 87 pages, plus 32-page publisher's catalogue at rear. Original brown cloth with gilt rules on upper and lower boards and gilt titling (faded) on the spine. Rubbed at extremities. Previous owner's printed details on front pastedown. Rare.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good.

Wellesley: Denton Publishing Company 332 pages. Not dated (about 1872). Original dark brown cloth (rubbed at extremities) with gilt titling and rules on the spine. Previous owner's small name stamp on title page, else good. A rare work on Spiritualism. *All but one of these discourses were delivered on Sunday afternoons between 1868 to 1872 to the Spiritual Society meetings in Boston Music Hall.. 2nd Edition. Cloth. Good.

London: Macmillan, 1884. Duodecimo. x, 124 pages. Black endpapers. 3 maps printed in black and red. Original fawn cloth ruled in red and black on spine and upper and lower boards; titled in black on spine and upper board. A very good (very slight wear), crisp copy of this extremely scarce title.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: Methuen, 1896. 345pages plus 4-page index. B/w portrait frontispiece with tissue guard (a little foxed). Slight tanning of endpapers. Original maroon cloth with slight signs of wear. *Includes a memoir of the author by H.A Strong, who edited the book.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: Methuen, 1899. xii, 532 pages plus 38-page publisher's catalogue. B/w frontispiece and about 99 other b/w photos, some of which are full page. Previous owner's signature on upper board, front pastedown, first page of text and page 173. Original pictorial cloth (lightly worn and marked) with titling in black on upper board and the spine (rubbed). Corners bumped and a little worn. A touch of pale foxing on a few pages. Short tears to the cloth at head and tail of spine. A beautiful old book. *A lively and humorous account of a very long and adventure-packed cycling journey which began in mid-1896. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good.