881. Greenwood, James [Harry McCalmont / Hugh McCausland].

Fair Phyllis of Lavender Wharf – A Realistic Romance in Ten Thrills.

Bristol / London, J.W. Arrowsmith / Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Limited, No Date (c.1890) 10cm x 16.5 cm. 184 pages. Original Hardcover. Very Rare Book ! Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Discoloration and minor foxing to endpapers and pastedowns. Previous owners name in pencil on endpaper and bookplate of Harry McCalmont with his family crest on pastedown. Speckled decorative edges. Bottom of spine entirely detached and top of spine partially detached. [Number 39 in Arrowsmith’s Bristol Library Series].

882. Griffin, Gerald.

The Collegians or The Colleen Bawn – A Tale of Garryowen.

London and Felling-on-Tyne, The Walter Scott Publishing Co., no year (c.1890). Octavo. Frontispiece, VII, 369 pages. Original publisher’s cloth / Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Late 19th century edition of this irish classic. [The Evergreen Library]

883. [Himalaya / Darjeeling].

Collection of two (2) 19th century photographs of traditional tourist locations in Darjeeling / India. Included are: 1. View of the Himalaya from Plateau in Darjeeling / 2. The Loop at Agony Point Darjeeling-Himalayan Railway.

Darjeeling, c.1890. 20 cm x 15.7 cm. 2 Photographs, possibly produced by british photographers Samuel Bourne & Charles Shepherd. Original Prints on paper. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interestingly: People in India can see the Himalayas for the first time in ‘decades,’ as the lockdown during the Covid-19-Pandemic eases air pollution. The view in this historical 19th-century-photograph is a reminder of Nature’s need to breath.

884. [Japan / Attributed to Tamamura Kozaburo].

Collection of 45 (fortyfive) original hand-coloured Glass Plate Collotypes of the Meiji Era, attributed to famous photographer Tamamura Kozaburo. The stunning Images are showing everyday-life, merchants, people in streets, Warehouses in Nikko, Hakone Road, Bamboo Grove Near Kyoto, Temples, etc. etc. etc. as well as some stunning images of Hairdressing and Children playing a Cardgame wearing their Kimono.

Japan [Kyoto / Nikko and other locations], c. 1890-1900. Each slide 8.3 cm x 8.3 cm. One Plate in Black-and-White, all other 44 Plates in colour. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. All Plates with their original, uncleaned Patina. Only one slide with a slightly broken off corner, held by a strip of paper.

885. Kearton, R.

Birds’ Nests, Eggs, and Egg-Collecting. Illustrated with 16 coloured Plates [colour-chromolithographs of eggs in nests].

London / Paris / Melbourne, Cassell & Company, 1890. 13 cm x 19.5 cm. 71 pages plus several pages of historical advertising. Hardcover / Original, illustrated publisher’s cloth in protective collector’s mylar. Binding a little shaky but overall in very good condition with minor signs of external wear. Contains an inscription by Professor J.H. Pollen from the year 1892.

886. [Kings Bromley Manor].

Collection of two very rare original Albumen Print Photoalbums wih original photographs of Kings Bromley Manor, Kings Bromley Farm, Lichfield, parts of the Lane Family, places the Lane – Family visited etc. etc.

Lichfield (Staffordshire, England), no year (ca.1890-1910). Folio / Quarto. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

887. Lever, Charles.

Charles O’Malley, The Irish Dragoon.

London, Cassell & Company, No Date (c.1890). 13 cm x 19 cm. 446 Pages. Original hardcover with gilt embossed leather edge and marble paper. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Signs of cracks in the leather binding.

888. Mitchel, John.

The History of Ireland – From the Treaty of Limerick to the Present Time: Being a Continuation of the History of the Abbe MacGeoghegan. Compiled by John Mitchel.

(Cameron & Ferguson’s Edition). Two Volumes in one volume (complete). London, R & T Washbourne, no year (c.1890). Octavo. XII, 304, 265 pages including Appendix No. I: “The Articles of Union” and Appendix No.II: “An Act for the Union of Great Britain and Ireland”. Original Hardcover (Cloth with gilt lettering on spine). Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

889. Sawyer, A.R. / [G.F.Gresley / W.S.Gresley].

Coal-Mining in South Africa.

Newcastle, G.T. Bagguley, no year (c.1890). 15.5 cm x 24.5 cm. 44 pages. Excellent, larger fold-out-map (coloured) at rear of the publication, showing the South African coalfields. Several fold-out tables and diagrams at rear related to the coalfields. Softcover / Publisher’s original, printed wrappers. Poor condition of this very scarce pamphlet with strong signs of external wear and chipping to boards. Occasional annotations within the publication. Interior bright and clean. Private gift-inscription in ink on the frontcover: “To W.S.Gresley from his brother G.F.G. [G.F.Gresley]– Capetwon – May – 1890”. [G.F.Gresley was author of e.g.: “The Early History of Robben Island”].

890. Vierge, Daniel.

The Tavern of the Three Virtues. Translated from the Original of Saint-Juirs. Illustrated with sixty drawings by Daniel Verge together with a critical essay on the art of Vierge by Edmund Gosse.

London, T. Fisher Unwin, (ca. 1890). 22 cm x 33 cm. 155, (1) pages. Hardcover. Original cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. One of only 650 copies of a limited edition. Exlibris of Gordon Sloane (Lamh Dhearg). Blindstamped “Oaklands, St.Peters, Isle of Thanet”.