Author: Pisistratus Caxton

Publisher: George Routledge and Sons

Year: 1875

Description: Subtitle: (2 Volumes). Original two volume set in half leather with marbled covers and endpapers, and raised spine. First printing of the Routledge edition of 1875. Frontispiece by Hablot K Browne to both volumes. Internally clean.

Author: John Greenleaf Whittier

Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin

Year: 1891

Description: Full title: The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier. A beautiful volume of the complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier, the influential American Quaker poet. Half leather with marbled boards and endpapers, top gilt, and red spine label and 5 raised bands.

Author: Harriett Martineau

Publisher: James R. Osgood

Year: 1877

Description: Full title: Harriett Martineau's Autobiography. Two volume set. Marbled paper-covered boards and endpapers in half leather. Harriet Martineau was an English social theorist and Whig writer, often cited as the first female sociologist.

Author: Horace, Henry Thomas Smith

Publisher: Wallis & Newell

Year: 1835

Description: Full title: Brambletye House and Anne Grey. 2 volumes bound in one -- "Franklin Library", likely privately bound near time of publication. Marbled paper covered boards with half leather. Significant foxing and wear.

Author: George B. Wood

Publisher: J.B. Lippincott

Year: 1868

Description: Full title: Treatise on Therapeutics and Pharmacology or Materia Medica, in 2 Volumes (complete). 2 volume original leather-bound medical / pharmaceutical set in very good condition. An important reference on the state of medicine 150 years ago.

Author: William Shakespeare

Publisher: University Society

Year: 1901

Description: Full title: Booklover's Edition of Shakepseare (39 volumes). Lovely set in fine condition, bound in 1/4 red leather with red cloth boards. Gilt lettering on spines and edges. 38 volumes plus topical index referencing geographical names, historical incidents, characters,etc. and providing explanation of allusions and obscure/ obsolete words/ phrases.

Author: John S. C. Abbott

Publisher: Gurdon Bill

Year: 1863-66

Description: Full title: The History of the Civil War in America (2 volumes, complete). Original hand tooled full leather boardswith marbled endpapers. Stunning steel engravings of battle scenes and portaits including a frontis of a very young Lincoln in Volume 1. Volume I was published mid-Civil War (1863); Volume 2 was cpmpleted post-war (1866). Foxing throughout but a magnificant set.