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188313616London Paris & New York: Cassell & Co 1883. First and only edition oblong 8vo pp. 52 4 ads; 16 mounted chromolithographs showing various painted designs on assorted ceramic ware 4 wood-engraved illustrations in the text; a very good copy in original maroon cloth gilt lettering on upper cover. Cassell & Co unknown
1895008986London: Longman's Green & Co. 1895. Hardcover. Good. First edition of Florence Upton's first children's story to feature the Golliwog. A character based on an old minstrel toy she had owned who is one of a number of toys who come to life one night for obligatory hi-jinx. The Golliwog was well received becoming the main character for further stories as well as becoming a popular toy and figure in society and used in other works. Despite the baggage there are no racial overtones here and Upton was distressed to see the character become a racist stereotype in other hands. With 32 colour illustrations by Florence and verse by her sister Bertha. Oblong 4to. Quarter cloth decorated end-papers. Toning and marking to covers. Rubbing to edges. Instance of japanese paper repair to a small tear to edge of page. Tanning to page edges but otherwise clean and binding sound. Good. A nice example. <br/> <br/> Longman's, Green & Co. hardcover
1870h45578Pittsburgh 1870. Hardcover. Very good. 9 x 7 inches leather backed cloth boards very good light wear neat restoration along outer joints. Approximately 80-100 sheets of various colored paper filled in on both sides flyers with mounted newspaper articles drawings theatre programs invitations etc. kept by Florence Howe 1849-1929 daughter of Thomas Marshall Howe a businessman banker industrialist politician etc. considered Pittsburgh's "leading citizen" of the generation before Carnegie & Frick. Florence Howe would eventually marry George Wilkins Guthrie a respected well known attorney in Pittsburgh the Guthrie name comes up in this scrapbook fairly often; the two families were part of the same social set. Florence signed and dated the flyleaf 1870 at the family residence Greystone. There is a 7x5" photo of Florence and members of her family at Cape May in 1872 clippings that report marriages deaths and other local news as well as those articles that mention her father Thomas Howe. There are two pages of designs for a stylized "H" for Howe possibly to be used for family stationary or for a bookplate. Of specific interest in the news to Florence was the opening of Mrs. Jarley's Wax Works there is reportage about this as well as ephemera and programs from the venue itself. Of interest to Pittsburgh historians are the many programs of the amateur theatrical group "Crusaders" that would perform comedies burlesques and dramatic plays in the residences of wealthy Pittsburghers through the 1870s; we note that Florence Howe appeared in at least two of these and the dozens of programs attest to the central place these at-home theatricals had in Florence's life and at least one Crusaders event took place at the Howe residence. Also of interest are seven comedic pencil sketches or cartoons likely by Florence herself or one of her relatives/friends. She was also partial to newspaper verse and there are several pages of clippings of poetry. A very interesting and amusing scrapbook with great Pittsburgh chops coming from one of the most prominent families of the period. The Howe residence was called "Greystone" and sat near the Fifth Ave. entrance of Chatham College part of Millionaires' Row back then. There was a gate house still extant facing Fifth Ave. The main Greystone mansion stood on the hill above this gate house. The property also had a notable natural spring; following the devastating Johnstown Flood of 1889 the Howe family was inspired to make the spring's water accessible and free to the public and the first structure around Howe Springs was built by the architectural firm Alden & Harlow in 1896 as a posthumous memorial to Thomas Howe by his wife Mary A. Howe. Oil tycoon Michael Late Benedum razed Howe's original Greystone and replaced it with a much-praised 23-room mansion also called Greystone built by A. W. Vantine. This replacement mansion was built in 1911 in the grand Edwardian Classical style. This new Greystone was gifted to Chatham College on April 26 1960 and renamed Benedum Hall. It was sold in 1985 to Greystone Associates which turned the estate into six high-end condos. hardcover
1897008985London: Longman's Green & Co. 1897. Hardcover. Good. Astonishing tale of a young girl dragged into a world of anthropomorphised vegetables who endeavour to teach her a lesson. With Beautifully coloured chromolithographic plates done by Florence with text by her sister Bertha. This peculiar adventure appeared just as their Golliwog stories were becoming popular. oblong 4to. Toning and marking to covers. Rubbing to edges and spine. Tanning to page edges but contents clean and binding sound. Good. <br/> <br/> Longman's, Green & Co. hardcover
189233366El Dorado KS: Advocate Steam Print. 1892. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Good only fragile with a tear with tape residue and chips along the spine and edges. This was the second songbook released by Holcomb-Olmstead during her time in office as Butler County school superintendent first woman to hold this office. This booklet is "Endorsed by the National Alliance and Industrial Union at Ocala Florida." She died in 1892 at the age of 33. Scarce.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 30 pp . Advocate Steam Print paperback
18604447264<p>20cm by 13cm 1402pp covers worn slight spine lean light pencil marks on flyleaf blank page beside title page missing rear flyleaf missing smudge on title page one page loosefrom binding no missing pages otherwise unmarked very good condition.</p> D. Appleton and Company hardcover
1860300430New York: D. Appleton and Company 1860. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Good binding. Small Octavo; in the publisher's pebbled brown cloth; with titling on the upperboard in gilt; 3 4-140 pages with 4 pages of advertisements in the rear; professionally rebacked with a blank japanese tissue spine; with a few red stains and some soiling to the boards; toning from a laid in paper on pages 122-123; scattered foxing throughout. ~~The First American Edition of the foundational book on modern Nursing. Written by Florence Nightingale renowned for her lifesaving work during the Crimean War. Ms. Nightingale was instrumental in implementing sanitary measures which greatly increased survival rates for patients. She created the Nightingale school at St.Thomas's Hospital in London in June of 1860. This school accompanied by Notes on Nursing encouraged many women to pursue nursing as a career and undoubtedly saved countless lives. The Grolier 100 Books Famous in Medicine. Good binding. D. Appleton and Company unknown
1900219926no publisher undated ca. 1900 1900. First Edition. Paperback. The letters are in a very good condition with some dulling and dust-toning as with age. One of the letters is slightly stained on the first page. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 2 pages; Two typed letters SIGNED by Florence Fenwick Miller. Undated presumed late 19th / early 20th century. Florence Fenwick Miller was a British woman who became a prominent leader in the trans-century struggle for womens suffrage and the general emancipation of women through her roles as a medical pioneer lecturer journalist editor and activist in both England and the United States. Subjects: Letters and correspondence -- Suffragettes -- Signatures -- Signed letters. no publisher, undated, ca. 1900? paperback
1862158301862. Boston: Crosby and Nichols 1862. Original blind-stamped dark green cloth illustrated on the spine in gilt.<br/> <br/> First Edition of this novel set in and written during the American Civil War. It is the best-known if not only novel by "Florence Erwin" -- about whom virtually nothing is known. In fact both the title page and the binding are intentionally ambiguous: since the central characters of the book are the journeying Florence Erwin and her husband is FLORENCE ERWIN'S THREE HOMES the title only or the author plus the title The headline atop each page is "The Three Homes." The story follows the lives of three women each from a different background who are affected by the war in different ways. The first woman Mary is a wealthy plantation owner from the South who is forced to flee her home when the Union Army invades. The second woman Alice is a Northern abolitionist who moves to the South to help slaves escape to freedom. The third woman Kate is a young girl who is sent to live with her aunt in the North after her father dies in battle. As the war progresses the lives of these three women become increasingly intertwined. Amz. It is interesting that since this book was "deposited" in 1861 and first published in 1862 the three women's tales involve a lot of imagined outcomes on the part of the author. Included are numerous illustrative plates. This is a remarkably close-to-fine copy of this uncommon wartime novel spine gilt a little oxidized front endpaper very slightly cracked but scarcely any wear. unknown
1900004631London: William Heinemann 1900. 500 text illustrations and 12 coloured plates from drawings by the author. xvi 423 p. illus. 12 col. pl. incl. front. History of Pompei. Rebound. Minimal markings. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library. William Heinemann hardcover
1870List36105N.p. 1870. Carte After the original photograph by William Edward Kilburn 1818–1891 taken circa 1854 with later CDV issue probably circa 1870s. Albumen print mounted on card; sitter identified in print beneath image. Standard carte-de-visite format approximately 2½ x 4 inches. Excellent contrast with light surface wear. Seated three-quarter portrait of Nightingale in dark silk dress with white collar hands folded over a paper posed beside an upholstered Victorian chair. The image derives from a sitting arranged in London with William Edward Kilburn one of Britain’s early professional photographers and a former daguerreotypist who gained fame by exhibiting at the Great Exhibition of 1851. By the early 1850s Kilburn had established a reputation for photographing members of the aristocracy and prominent public figures.<br /> <br /> The Nightingale sitting happened shortly before her departure for the Crimea in October 1854 at a moment when her name was just entering the public press. The portrait predates her full transformation into the national icon later known as the “Lady with the Lamp.†Unlike later more romanticized images Kilburn’s photograph presents a composed unsentimental likeness more consistent with standard portraiture practices than her later photographs. Following Nightingale’s wartime service at Scutari 1854–1856 and the subsequent surge of public acclaim Kilburn’s image became the primary photographic source from which engravings lithographs and later carte-de-visite reproductions were made.1<br /> <br /> 1 Denis Pellerin “Florence Nightingale: The Mystery Behind Her Iconic Photographs†The Classic November 15 2020 https://theclassicphotomag.com/florence-nightingale-the-mysteries-behind-her-iconic-photographs/ accessed February 27 2026. unknown
186096102New York: D. Appleton and Company 1860. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Good. 140p. plus 4p. publisher's advertisements. Original green cloth. 20 cm. Rebacked in black with new backstrip tight against spinespine glued down. Original front and back covers preserved with some loss of cloth at cover corners. New yellow front free endpaper added closely matching the color of the otherwise original yellow endpapers. Visible evidence of neat removal of bookplates or labels from front pastedown. "17802" inked on title-page. Scattered mostly light to moderate foxing. Covers slightly worn. Tape remnants inside front cover. New front free endpaper. Moderate foxing on some pages. Modest page rippling. First American edition of a cornerstone book on nursing. Among the other books listed in Appleton's advertisements is the recently published first American edition of Darwin's "On the Origin of Species. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
1895461496Boston: De Wolfe Fiske & Co 1895. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition American issue. Oblong quarto. Quarter cloth and illustrated paper over boards. Slight soiling on the boards a very nice near fine copy. The black Golliwogg doll entertains two new dolls that are sent to the U.S. from abroad. De Wolfe, Fiske & Co hardcover
1860DR6BRWN1302London: Harrison 1860. Original limp cloth covered covers gilt title to spine. 21.5cm x 14cm. 2 ads to front end-papers 79pp 2 ads to rear end-papers. 1st edition later issue 1860. Adverts on front end-papers for 1860 edition of Barker's peerage. Slight fraying to spine edges. Small water staining to lower edges of end-papers. A decent copy. dr6. Soft Cover. Good. Harrison Paperback
186019423New York: D. Appleton and Company. Very Good-. 1860. First American Edition. Hardcover. Full dark green pebbled cloth. Lettered in gilt to the front. Four pages of publisher's ads to the rear. Bumps and wear to the corners and spine ends. The boards are showing at the corners. Chips to the upper spine end. A 5/8" split to the lower front spine end. To pages 31-76 there are tears and creases to the fore edge margins. Foxing in varying degrees is found throughout. The upper 3/4" is clipped off the title page. No lettering is affected. Good-very good-. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 140 pages . D. Appleton and Company hardcover
189723703<p>Longman's Green & Co 1897. Hardcover. Near Fine. Illustrations by Florence K. Upton and verses by Bertha Upton; A touch of soiling to the rear boards otherwise all appears very near to new; complete and interior hinges are intact; has a protective wrapper</p> Longman's, Green & Co hardcover
18975930London: Longmans Green & Co. Poor with no dust jacket. 1897. First Edition. Hard Cover. Cover is soiled and rubbed on the edges. Outer edge of first page is chipped & worn. There are no fep's but it appears not to have had any. It's not like I see multiple copies of this book to compare with. The illustrations are wonderful. It may have been a dream but she sure had fun before making her stew. One or two pages have tears but no pieces are missing.; 11x8 1/2" . Longmans, Green & Co. hardcover
1888896F4London: F. V. White & Co; Ward and Downey 1888-1890 . First edition. Leather. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". None. Three very scarce late nineteenth century first editions bound together. Featuring the novels 'A Strange Enchantment' 'The Voyage of the Ark' and 'City and Suburban'. Three very scarce first editions bound in one. Each with an individual title page and pagination.The first work is the 1889 first edition of novel 'A Strange Enchantment' by B. L. Farjeon an English novelist playwright printer and journalist known for his prolific output publishing nearly sixty novels.The second work is the 1888 first edition of 'The Voyage of the Ark as Related by Dan Banim' by F. M. Allen a pseudonym of Irish novelist Edmund Downey.The third and final work is the 1890 first edition of novel 'City and Suburban' by English actress and writer Florence Alice Price who wrote under her stage name 'Florence Warden'. She published many works between the 1870s and 1920s.With the inscription Harry Kearsley Please Return to the head of a front blank and pasted to the head of the contents leaf of the second work.Three very scarce first editions. In a half calf binding with marbled paper covered boards. Light rubbing to back strip and head of joints. Externally very smart. Internally firmly bound. Inscription to a front blank with former owner's signature pasted to the head of the contents leaf of the second work. Pages otherwise clean and bright. Very Good F. V. White & Co; Ward and Downey hardcover
1900500046602London: Wells Gardner Darton 1900. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Fair. shaken hinges cracked green pictorial cloth <br/> <br/> Wells Gardner, Darton hardcover
186142364NY: D. Appleton & Company. Fair with no dust jacket. 1861. Hardcover. Original brown pebbled cloth gilt titles. Spine perished tape strips hold spine. Bottom edge of book 2" dampstained. Bookplate. First signature nearly detached. Pages lightly browned. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 140 4 ads pages . D. Appleton & Company hardcover
1884625083 uniform volumes 300 315 & 316 pages Published by Richard Bentley & Son hardcover
18843298<p>Seventeen-year-old Florence Nightingale Soden began this diary to mark her society debut and to document the expanded social and travel engagements available to her. The first entry on Sept 3 1883 marks her seventeenth birthday and details Soden's extensive journey around Italy and France far away from her home in Clapham England.</p><p>Soden clearly reflects upon some of her entries after they are written and edits herself. She cut out three pages another four have been completely removed from the diary and one page is painted over black. Botanical specimens are tipped in as momentos. Her student days are remembered with a Class I exam paper on the history of Rome laid in at the back. It may be that a Class I mark was the parental prerequisite for the reward of her travel abroad.</p><p>Born in 1866 and named after the illustrious nurse Florence visited her namesake city several times in her journeys. Soden documents everyday vexations and unusual events including singing lessons from Dr Emil Behnke and her experience viewing a tonsillectomy operated by Dr Lennox Manuscript Diary of Florence Nightingale Soden of Larkbere Thornton Road Clapham Park.</p><p>Half bound morocco remains of 3 wax seals on covers. 240pp. 20 x 17cm. Label on cover "F.N.S. 1883. 1884".</p> hardcover
18184414Florence: presso Niccolò Carli 1818. 8vo 193 x 125 mm. 45 3 bl.; 37 1 bl. pp. Letterpress tables. The second part is an Appendix separately paginated with half-title and approbation at end dated 1818. A few small spots to title and last few pages. Modern half linen and marbled boards original rear wrapper bound in.<br /> <br /> Only Edition of the rules for the main Florentine workhouse for the destitute mainly children established by Napoleon in 1812 to honor the birth of his son the King of Rome on the site of two former monasteries in the Florentine suburb of Montedomini. The architect Giuseppe del Rosso combined the two monastic edifices creating one main building in a neoclassical style and a complex of six smaller buildings for workshops etc. <br /> <br /> The Pia Casa di Montedomini as it came to be known was not only a poorhouse but was a center for poor relief generally. The various categories of candidates for aid are set forth in the introduction: children or adults who were taken in by Montedomini or by other “pious establishments†in the city as permanent residents known as Reclusi; those who were given work during the day and who returned to their families at the end of the day; those who were given work to carry out at home; and those few who were granted financial help. The Reclusi were divided by age: children under 3 went to the Spedale degli Innocenti those aged 3 to 10 and 10 to 15 to two different orphanages and those who were disabled or too old to work to another hospice Spedale di Bonifazio. Thus families were broken up: this is acknowledged in the text. Blank sample forms are provided for the admission of each category.<br /> <br /> Most of the rules are devoted to the main Reclusi aged 15 and up. The first chapter outlines admissions procedures; chapters 2 and 3 describe their general living conditions and daily routines and the following chapters address details of work food clothing and bedding all paid for through the inhabitants’ labor. Not surprisingly given the Napoleonic inspiration the Reclusi were organized in quasi-military “brigades†divided by sex and type of work. The brigades were led by the most compliant and hard-working individuals male “Caporali†and female “Maestre†who wore differently colored uniforms from the others. Every moment of the day was strictly regimented and other than eating and sleeping there was no time for anything other than work except for two hours of recreation on the occasional special feast day when only selected individuals were allowed to leave the Casa in strictly controlled groups.<br /> <br /> The daily life of these children and young adults who were imprisoned “for their own good†is hard to fathom for a modern reader: they rose at 6 or 6:30 prayed worked until noon finally were allowed to eat and then went back to work until 11 or 11:30 pm. Most of the work seems to have involved sewing or needlework; some worked for tailors or other textile workers. Dinner was followed by prayers and bedtime silence was imposed at 1 am. Meals were spartan: the rations of each ingredient are prescribed down to the ounce. Lunch was 2 ounces of soup 10 ounces of bread and 6 ounces of meat or a comparable quantity of vegetables. Dinner was bread and vegetables. One suspects that many barely survived in these conditions. <br /> <br /> Other chapters and the Appendix are devoted to the administration of the Casa accounting and record-keeping work assignments and payment and relations with extra-institutional employers.<br /> <br /> I locate no copies in American libraries. R. Uccelli Contributo alla Bibliografia della ToscanaC 1922 2575. presso Niccolò Carli unknown
18605434London: Harrison Bookseller to The Queen 1860. FIRST EDITION early issue 8vo pp. 79 1. Original dark brown limp pebbled cloth boards boards bordered with triple blind rules front board lettered direct in gilt. Spine rather nibbled front joint correspondingly weakened boards somewhat mottled. An early printing of Nightingale’s enormously influential nursing book first published in 1860 and reprinted frequently over the following decades. This copy has ‘the right of translation is reserved’ on the title-page ads to the endpapers dated 1860 and 5 of the 6 issue points identified by Bishop & Goldie as denoting an earlier printing. The sixth issue point the corrected heading on p.73 is noted as potentially later being found in both states in copies with all other corrections made. But in this copy that ‘later’ correction is accompanied by the other five in the earlier uncorrected state - perhaps disproving the assumed priority. Bishop & Goldie 4. Harrison, Bookseller to The Queen hardcover
189729161London: George Routledge & Sons Limited 1897. Very good plus. First edition of this beautifully illustrated collection of simply rhyming verses about the everyday life of little children at the turn of the century - quite scarce in this condition. 9.25'' x 8''. Original cloth spine paper pictorial boards. Illustrated throughout cw: depiction of golliwog doll. 62 2 pages. A bit of rubbing and light soil to boards hinges starting to crack but still firm. George Routledge & Sons, Limited unknown
