Search Results: Titles starting with S from John Nichols Gallery

Set of three matted portraits from Men of Mark (1876). Photograph #1 (8 1/4" x 10 3/4"): Portrait of Henry Edward Manning, English Roman Catholic Archbishop and Cardinal. Photograph #2 (8 1/4" x 10 3/4"): Portrait of Sir John Lubbock, Liberal politician, scientist, and philanthropist. Photograph #3 (8 1/4" x 10 3/4"): Portrait of The Right Honorary Spencer Horatio Walpole, Home Secretary and politician of the British Conservative Party.

The slave power: its character, career, and probable designs: being an attempt to explain the real issues involved in the American contest. 2nd edition.CAIRNES, J(ohn) E(lliot).
New York, Carleton, 1862. Original embossed cloth
New York, Carleton, 1862.Original embossed cloth and clean and tight. 171 pp.First edition was published the same year in New York. - Thorough analysis of socio-economic backgrounds of slavery in North America. 'The slave society concept was adumbrated in the late nineteenth century, particularly in The slave power (1862) written by John E. Cairnes, and became common currency among popularization of the Marxist slave mode of production' (Macmillan, Encyclopedia of world slavery, p.826). 'Confederates probably intend to revive the African slave trade, which continued until 1860' (Hogg p.233). - (Library stamp on title-page).Sabin 9856; Work p.365; Hogg 2857; Afro-Americana 1929.

Stagecoaching on El Camino Real. Los Angeles to San Francisco, 1861-1901.Outland, CharlesPublished by The Arthur H. Clark Co., Glendale, 1973
First edition. One of 1,493 copies published. 339 pp. Numerous photographs, 2 maps (one folding); notes, bibliography, index. Red cloth. A very fine copy . No Dust Jacket. Scarce, especially in this condition. A thoroughly researched, scholarly and well-written history of stagecoach transportation along the coast of California from its inception in 1861 to its termination in 1901. [Clark and Brunet I: 173; Clark and Brunet II: 199].

First edition. One of 1,493 copies published. 339 pp. Numerous photographs, 2 maps (one folding); notes, bibliography, index. Red cloth. A very fine copy with printed dust jacket. Scarce, especially in this condition. A thoroughly researched, scholarly and well-written history of stagecoach transportation along the coast of California from its inception in 1861 to its termination in 1901. [Clark and Brunet I: 173; Clark and Brunet II: 199].

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.