681. [Olney, Peter Butler] McMillan, D.C.

The Elective Franchise in the United States.

New York, P. Putnam’s Sons, 1878. 18.7cm x 12.7cm. 181 pages. Original Hardcover in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Inscribed / Signed by the author to american lawyer and politician Peter Butler Olney.

682. Redgrave, Samuel.

A Dictionary of Artists of the English School. Painters, sculptors, architects, engravers and ornamentists: with notices of their lives and work.

Second edition. London, George Bell and Sons, 1878. 22 x 14 cm. XIV, 497 pages. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition with foxing and minor signs of external wear. Exlibris / Bookplate of John Henry H.V. Lane on pastedown with the family motto: “Garde le Roy”.

683. Vallarta, El C. Ignacio L. / Avila, Eleuterio /

Memoria que en cumplimiento del Precepto Constitucional Presentó al Congreso de la Union en el primer periodo de sus Sesiones el C. Ignacio L. Vallarta (Secretario de Estado y del Despacho de Relaciones Exteriores) / Bound with Appendix I (Anexo I): Anexo al Informe del Agente de Mexico ante la Comision de Reclamaciones (Reclamaciones de D. Jorge L. Hammeken) / Bound with Appendix II (Anexo II): Comision Mixta de Reclamaciones de Mexico y Los Estados-Unidos. Thaddeus Amat, Obispo de Monterey, y Joseph S. Alemany, Arzobispo de San Francisco, Con Mexico //

Mexico, Imprenta de Gonzalo A . Esteva, 1878. Folio. XXVI, 197 pages / Indice I: 17 pages / Indice II: 35 pages / Indice III: 17 pages / Indice IV: 2 pages / Appendix / Anexi: 291 pages. Original Hardcover (half leather). Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Cancelled from the University of London Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, this rare publication was bequeathed to the University from the library of Charles Henry Huberich.

684. Viollet Le-Duc, Eugène.

Histoire d’un Hôtel de Ville et d’une Cathédrale. Texte et dessins par Viollet-le-Duc.

Paris, J. Hetzel et Cie, Editeurs, 1878. 25 cm x 16 cm. 284 pages. With several black-and-white illustrations. On the frontispiece the weapon of Clusy in colour. Original Hardcover [blindstamped red boards with gilt lettering] In protective Mylar. Only minor signs of external wear (really only slightly rubbed and bumped). The tight binding in excellent condition. With gilt lettering on spine. In protective mylar.

685. Webb, Alfred.

A Compendium of Irish Biography. Comprising Sketches of Distinguished Irishmen, and of Eminent Persons Connected with Ireland by Office or Their Writings.

Dublin, M.H. Gill & Son, 1878. 23cm x 14.6cm. xix, 597 (1) pages. Original Hardcover. One page detached / Otherwise in good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare!

686. Day, Samuel Phillips.

Tea – Its Mystery and History – With a Preface in Chinese and English by Lo Fong Loh. Illustrated [by J.F.Weldon].

Vintage First Edition / Original 19th century Edition. London, Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1878. Small Octavo. Pagination: Vintage Portrait-Frontispiece, Fac-simile of Mr. Lo Fong Loh’s Prefatory Notes in the chinese Hing Shoo, or running hand, [II], 92 pages with six full-page illustrations and several vignettes. Hardcover / Original publisher’s decorative cloth with gilt lettering and ornament to spine and front board. Tiny stamp of preowner on endpaper and verso frontispiece: “Agnes Jeffery Cox”. Unusually excellent and firm, overall very good+ or even better condition of one of the rarest and most sought after books on tea. In this condition scarce !

687. [Barter, Charlotte/Catherine] A Plain Woman.

Alone Among the Zulus – By a Plain Woman, the Narrative of a Journey Through the Zulu Country, South Africa.

Second Edition. London / New York, Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge / E & J. B. Young & Co., no year [c. 1879]. 12.5 cm x 18.5 cm. Frontispiece, II, 184 pages. With four illustrations (including Frontispiece) plus two examples of melodies transcribed in musical notes. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering and pictorial design on spine and front board. Beautifully illustrated pastedowns and endpapers. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Tissue-guard in good condition. Interior very bright and clean with sharp corners.

688. Marius, Emanuel.

Die Persönlichkeit Jesu Christi mit besonderer Rücksicht auf die Mythologien und Mysterien der alten Völker. [The personality of Jesus Christ in special respect of the mythologies and mysteries of the old people (cultures)]

Leipzig, Verlag von Louis Senf, 1879. 8°. VI, 395 Seiten. Hardcover / Mit handbeschriftetem Titel-Etikett versehener Pappband der Zeit. Bibliotheks-Stempel (Ausgeschieden) auf vorderem Vorsatz. Textseiten im vorderen Teil des Bandes leicht stockfleckig. Ansonsten innen sauberes, gutes Exemplar. Keine Anstreichungen im Text! Kein Besitzervermerk! Unterer Teil des Buchrückens durch das Entfernen eines ehemals vorhandenen Bibliotheks-Etikettes leicht beschädigt. Der Band ist leicht berieben und leicht bestoßen.

689. [Shakespeare, William] Bagehot, Walter.

Literary Studies. [Including a very interesting essay on the authorship question of Shakespeare]. With a prefatory Memoir by Richard Holt Hutton.

First Edition. Volume I (of II). London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1879. Octavo. LXVII, 406 pages. With a vintage photograph of Walter Bagehot mounted as frontispiece. Hardcover / Excellent full calf with gilt lettering on spinelabels and rich gilted decoration on spine and boards. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Some minor signs of foxing only.

690. The Religious Tract Society.

The Money in the Milk and other Stories. [Together with Ephemera: Broadside: “A Song”].

London, The Religious Tract Society, no year [c.1879]. Duodecimo. Frontispiece (Chromolithograph), 63 pages with text-vignettes. Original Hardcover with gilt lettering and ornament to cover. Binding a little shaky and stronger rubbed. Pastedown with Exlibris from the First Presbyterian Church in Carrickfergus – Albert Hall Sabbath School: “Presented to Jane McFerran for regular attendance for six months ending June 1884 – Signed J.M.N.Stevenson”.