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1853.. Cloth soiled, ffep lower portion cut away, scattered foxing throughout, a fair copy.. 8vo,. Auburn and Buffalo: Derby and Miller, and Derby, Orton and Mulligan, original embossed cloth with gilt spine lettering McLean p. 131 Parton or Fanny Fern, wrote about women’s issues of the time particularly about economic independence. She was one of the first women authors in America at the time to negotiate her own terms of payment by means of royalties, a move made through necessity when her father cut her off from all financial aid after she left her abusive husband. Fern Leaves went on to become a huge success. Women’s Literature

London: : Hodder & Stoughton, , 1895. . Third edition revised. 8vo, . Illustrated with frontis, plates and a map. green cloth with gilt vignette of a palm tree on front cover. Upper portion of front cover mottled, dampstaining to lower margin of frontis portrait and to blank margins of last 50 pages and endpapers. A fair to good copy. Maggie Paton was the second wife of missionary John G. Paton who settled with him in Aniwa in the New Hebrides. "Her account of life on Aniwa is by turns high spirited and despairing-the latter particularly when one by one her children are sent for their own safety to live with relatives in Australia; it is less saccharine than many a missionary's tale and one of the most often reprinted of them all". (Robinson).

1748.. Light browning but overall very good.. 4-3/4" x 6-3/4"- 12 x 17.1 cm. . London: Gentleman’s Magazine, A hand coloured copper engraved map. Jolly GENT-56 A good 18th century map of London showing the streets and buildings between Corn Hill, Lombard Street and Birchin Lane affected by the fire. Accompanied by a single leaf text legend naming tenants burnt out of their dwellings. The fire started in an Exchange Alley at a peruke (wig) maker’s shop on March 25, 1748 and quickly spread to surrounding buildings and streets. It devastated between 90-100 structures including coffee and ale houses, dwellings, and the house in which the poet Gray was born. Map, London, Road Map, City Map, Fire, London Magazine

London, [c. 1920's]. . Diam. 12"-30.4 cm. Printed blue and white spherical device with printed leather sliding onlay, Light rubbing, gilt lettering worn, o/w very good. An interesting chart of the constellations.

4 Albumen prints including:1) Photographer unknown
N. Nogawa "Manufacturer of Bronze Ware No. 22 Shijo Otabichio, Kyoto Japan
Hand-tinted Albumen print. 8" x 10" . Very good condition.Titled in the negative. Depicts 5 seated craftsmen engaging in metalwork. The Noboru Nogawa manufacturer was founded in 1825 and created and distributed fine metalwork objects from their shop as well as showrooms in the Kyoto and Miyako Hotels.

2) Possibly Ogawa, Kazumasa
"No. 102. Tame Deers in Kasuga Temple"

Hand-tinted Albumen print. 8" x 10" . Ink marks to left side of photograph affecting trees but not central image. Titled in the negative.Depicts woman in traditional dress in a forest setting feeding wild deer. Kasuga Temple at Nara was (and still is) famous for its tame deer.

3) Photographer unknown
"Kamakura Daibutsu"

Hand-tinted Albumen print. 8" x 10" . Slightly faded with light overall wrinkling else in very good condition.Titled in the negative.


Depicts the seated Great Buddha of Kamakura

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19-3/4" x 27-3/4"-50.1 x 70.4 cm.
Hand coloured copperplate engraving. Some staining and short tears to blank margins, otherwise very good.
A detailed map covering central and southern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador and part of Honduras. Shows towns, cities, ports, mines, topographical features and "intendacies"-a political division before Mexico adopted "states". On first glance, this map is very similar to John Thomson's map of the same area, however Pinkterton's map is more detailed and contains more up to date information (based on Humboldt's map of a year prior). A scarce map published in what is considered one of the finest English atlases of the 19th century.Kapp, Central America early maps up to 1860, 89

Published in Blaeu's "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Sive Atlas Novus. Pars Quinta" 1654. 15-1/2” x 20-1/2”- 39.3 x 52 cm. Cartouche and outline colour. A little toned o/w ver good. A detailed map showing Renfrew, with the cities of Glasgow and Pasley.

Published in Blaeu's "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Sive Atlas Novus. Pars Quinta" 1654. 15″ x 19-1/4″-38.1 x 48.8 cm. Copper plate engraving with hand colouring. Map condition: Centrefold a little brown with one or two spots, on the whole, fresh and bright. Skelton. County Atlases of the British Isles 1579-1703. p. 107 Map #24.
Shows the Island of Shows the Isle of Bute of the south western coast of Scotland in the Firth of Clyde. The island is divided into two by the Highland Boundary Fault.

xxviii, 216 pp. 8vo, original embossed cloth, rubbed, corners bumped, first & last c.20 pp. spotted otherwise very good. Rev. Pycroft wrote several books on education and in this work discusses the different types of schooling (private and public), home education and the study of languages, religion, mathematics and Classics.