Next time you check a book on ABE try using just author and title to begin with, perhaps going for 'highest price first' then check the list for something like what you have.
I've noticed that using the dates part can often show no result when there is a copy in there somewhere. For the search to find every detail input into it the seller has to have listed all those things in his description. They get lazy and miss things. So start simple and tighten up the search as you go by increments.
If a seller is saying the 1847 is the first edition he may mean it is the first 'Bentley' edition.
And the odd page sizes - well, the manufacturing technology is a little better these days. It isn't a fault in your book, just victorian technology. Pages often had uncut edges (you had to cut them if you wanted to read them) and some American books are still published with that 'uncut' effect, though the pages are usually seperated these days.
Sounds like you've got a treasure mine there. Keep digging.
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