New York: Gessford Photography, 1910. F. A large-format mounted black and white photograph of 29 young women and their (presumed) teacher or maestro, the only male in the image; an entirely stringed instrument orchestra, with 22 violins, 2 bass viols, 3 cellos and a large standing harp; the laides all.....
New York - London: Harper & Brothers, 1902. xx + 322 pages; index; with an original artwork landscape scene in color on the front endpaper by William Hamilton Gibson (1850-1896) American illustrator, author and naturalist, done in his characteristic highly detailed style in watercolor and ink; in the background can.....
Landau Germany: Verlag Ed. Kaussler's Buchhandlung, 1925. F. 36 pages; Limited edition No. 45 of 200, signed by all three illustrators; with 14 plate pages, lithographs in black and white, the artwork accompanying the text of this folktale; approx. 10" x 13 1/2" size; bound in the original buff-gray illustrated.....
USA: Not Published, 1947. F. Typed letter signed, dated November 20, 1947 on 4, Essex Court, Temple, E.C. 4 imprinted letterhead, 1.5 pages, single-spaced; written to Cipe Pineles (1908 - 1991) award-winning Austrian-American graphic designer, the first woman director for many influential publications including Mademoiselle, Seventeen and Charm, on the.....
London, UK: Orient Steam Navigation Company, 1895. F. Photograph of this steamship at anchor; identified on the bow as the Ophir and also below the image, on the window-matte surround, written in a decorative calligraphic hand in ink as 'RMS Ophir.' The image approx. 5 1/2" x 10 1/4" (sight);.....
Delhi, India: Swadesh Prashad Singhal for Sundeep Prakashan, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover in Dustjacket. iv + 269 pages + (20) pages of diagrams at back; with a useful index. Contents with chapters on the origin and main elements of magical beliefs and superstitions, in the world & India; a general.....
Lugduni Batavorum: Hackium, Boutesteyn, Vivie, Vander AA, & Lucthmans, 1696. F. Two volumes bound in one of this first collected edition of Giraldi's works; (20) + 772 + (26) + 928 + (30) pages Index Rerum et Verborum + (1) page Catalogus Amicorum Lilii, Quorum Meminit in epistola Direptionis Urbanae...;.....
Leipzig Und Wien: Thyrsos Verlag, 1923. F. Portfolio of 25 mounted and matted facsimile reproductions of etchings by Hans Meid (1883-1957) German painter and illustrator, via his superb printmaking techniques, often able to convey the subtleties of impressionism via his work; Limited edition No. 475 of 475 printed; with etchings.....
Pencil inscribed above the art of a group of partying soldiers in part-uniforms; and titled and signed below by the artist; Black and white etching in a blocky, cubist-futurist mode; no date but circa 1950s; given to James "From Here to Eternity" Jones by the artist; image 4" x 4.....
New York, NY: Hurd and Houghton, 1867. First Edition. Hard Cover. 401 pages; tipped-in opposite the title page is an albumen photograph of the author, Friedrich Hassaurek (1831-1885) a German-American who had been Abraham Lincoln's appointed ambassador to Ecuador during the period of the American Civil War. Chapter content on.....
London: Private Circulation Only, 1876. F. xiii + 324 pages; tissue-guarded photographic portrait plate of the author tipped-on as frontispiece, other black and white illustrations in the text; old bookseller description tipped-on at front, noting this as a large paper copy; "For Private Circulation Only" noted on title page; (from.....
New York: 1953. A group of 5 artworks which are the original black and white pen and ink illustrations for the Viking Press book, "Superliner S.S. United States"; on 3 boards; each item separately mounted; on back of all three boards are the printed Viking Press paper markers, each with.....
1919. 2 original artworks by this Ash Can School Painter, block printer, illustrator, lithographer, sculptor and teacher; Hendrik (Henry) J. Glintenkamp (1887-1946) studied with Henri, member American Artists Congress, exhibited at the Armory Show in 1913, work at New York Public Library, Musuem of Modern Art, NYU, Syracuse Museum of.....
New York, NY: Ivison & Phinney, 1857. Second Edition. Hard Cover. 400 + (8) pages of publishers' announcements at back; the printed endpapers at front and back also with book advertisements. Contents with the author's presentations on the study of the mind, anthropology, empirical psychology, in four 'Divisions": of the.....
Two typed manuscripts: "Chien Shiung Wu: The Woman Who Gave Us a Left-Handed God" by Himilce Novas to which the author has added a "Note to the editor: This chapter is based on research and a personal interview with Dr. Wu on December 4, 1972. H.N."; the first page indicates.....
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office By Mackie & Co., 1904. F. viii + 439 pages; index; followed by ix pages Circular of the Commission, with a chronological list of their reports; this Vol. I only and with the index covering this volume, and concerning: the Monmouth Insurrection 1685-6; Letters of.....
A Vienne & A Strasbourg: Chez Les Freres Gay Imprimeus-Libraires et al, 1784. Premiere Edition. Leather. Four eighteenth century publications; all French texts, bound in one volume. All regarding the plague, especially in Russia & Europe, as below: De Mertens, Charles. Traite de la Peste, Contenant L'Histoire de Celle qui.....
London, England: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809. First Edition. Leather. xx + 289 pages; errata slip at back; with the half-title. Illustrated with 10 copper-engraved plates, accompanying various articles. The Preface describes the "...nature and objects of this Institution, and the claims which it possesses to professional.....
A Gand: Chez P.F. De Goesin, Imprimeur De Sa Majeste, Pour Le Comte De Flandre, 1792. First Edition. Hard Cover. (2) + (1) blank + (2) + 161 + (1) pages. With two folding charts, of temperature measurements and of the length of time of previous ice ages. Text in.....
France: L'Institut des Sciences, Lettres et Arts, 1806. Extracted from Original Volume. Soft Cover. (71 -134) pages; extracted from the Memoires de l'Institut des Sciences, Lettres et Arts; French text. Set out in six 'memoires'; with a folding plate; Rumford's researches regarding experiments in heat. Sir Benjamin, Count Rumford in.....
London, England: John Churchill, 1838. First Edition. Hard Cover. xlvii + 154 pages; title page printed in red & black. Including the Expositions: Medical Topography of London; On Scrofula; On the Preservation of the Health of Children; On the Disorders of Old Age; and On the Efficacy of Cathartic Medicines.....
Liege, Belgium: Bulletins de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 1873. Offprint Edition. Soft Cover. 33 pages; French text. The author has inscribed and signed on the title page, "A Monsieur le professeur Hirn hommage a l'autor Folie" to Gustave-Adolphe Hirn (1815 - 1890) French.....
Tubingae: Jo. Georgii Cotta, 1801. F. (4) + 146 pages; Latin text throughout; Karl Christoph Hofacker (1749-1793) Faculty of Law professor of some note at the Lutheran Tubingen Germany University; this essentially a dictionary or index of Latin legal terms; OCLC notes one copy, held at Huntington Library Ca.; previous.....
Berlin, Germany: S. Fontane & Co., 1923. F. Limited edition, Number 74 of 1000; this being one of 200 very nicely done, printed on Holland van Gelder paper with hand--colored decorations and illustrations; being the play recounting the Resurrection of Jesus Christ; with 3 tipped-on colored illustrations, artwork of Albrecht.....
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1862. F. 80 + 39 pages; "Astraea..." being published in 1850, "...Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Yale College, August 14, 1850"; Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) prolific American essayist, poet and long-time teacher, lecturer of anatomy at Harvard. (DAB), here stating in "Border Lines".....
