The phrase "early nineteenth" refers to the time period that occurred within the first few decades (the beginning) of the 1800s, specifically from around 1800 to 1830. Full definition
From the two - time Booker Prize — winning author comes an irrepressibly funny new novel set in early nineteenth - century America. (bookbrowse.com)
Indeed, whether we look to the teachers of ancient Israel or to the Platonic academy or to Augustine at Cassiciacum or to the medieval university or to Pico's disputatious Florence or to the small colleges of early nineteenth - century America, we find learning flourishing in communities formed by the conscious practice of spiritual virtues. (firstthings.com)
The Museum's holdings now consist of more than 3,000 works ranging from early nineteenth - century landscape paintings through American Impressionism and into the twentieth - and twenty - first centuries. (parrishart.org)