Paris & Pise: Antonin L. Neurdein and Étienne Neurdein, 1900. F. A good, large-sized image of some of the buildings of this expo along the river, with tour boats in the foreground and crowds of visitors along the opposite avenue; albumen process photograph mounted on pale ivory gilt-edged cardstock; with.....
Paris: Editions De Documents d'Histoire Paul Catin, Adminstrateur, 1912. F. Three related volumes, bound in one, all Publie par Eugene Griselle (1861 - 1923) French ecclesiastic & author; 'Docteur es Lettres, Laureat de l'Academie francais (Prix Juteau-Duvigneau, 1902; Prix Saintour, 1911)'; 1) Etat de la Maison: viii + 408 +.....
Original artwork by this New Yorker cartoon artist, pen & ink humorous cartoon of a fussy Queen Cleopatra, servant walking offstage complaining "What a day! Now she wants and asp!"; signed at bottom right F. Modell and "For Jean" circled; no date, circa 1950s; 9" x 11 1/2" framed size;.....
Long Island New York: Frederick Cowan & Co., 1950. 5 three-ring binders worth of materials from this Long Island industrial engineering firm; they had been located at several places on the Island, including Plainview, Bohemia, Riverhead and Syosset; evidently the company had much work with heating sensory equipment, including hand-drawn.....
Le Pecq, France: J. Charvet, Charvet Du Donjon, 1879. F. vii + 139 pages, 34 leaves of plates & a preliminary plate showing the Sepulture Gallo-Romaine Decouverte a Beauvais. All of the plates are colored or tinted lithographs by Lemercier et Cie & Hangard-Mauge, Paris. The catalog of this magnificent.....
Connecticut: Acorn Club, 1901. xxix + 33 pages, many unopened, unread; finely printed edition, limited number 75 of 102 copies only, the fourth publication of the Acorn Club, a membership organization of Connecticut historians; bibliograhical notes; and biographical, historical introductory material by W.N. Chattin Carlton; one page a facscimile of.....
O.D. Case Hartford & John W. Fuller Utica, 1857. 178 pages; containing eight hand-colored maps, three double-page; including: The World or Hemispheres (dbl); North America; United States and Mexico (dbl); South America; Europe (dbl); Asia; Africa; Oceanica; double-page map size approximately 6 1/2" x 8", single maps half the width;.....
London & Edinburgh: W. Strahan; T. Cadell in the Strand; and W. Creech at Edinburgh, 1774. vii + 434 + 1) page errata at back; Alexander Gerard (1728-1795) philosophical writer and professor of natural history and divinity in Scotland and of some reputation for this book as well as his.....
Berlin, Germany: Wertheim, Zeidler, Roloff, Strom & Walter, Conrad, Wilhelm Stein, Globus, Jandorf, Gulzer, Wenzel, Bohme, Appel, Fuchs et al, 1880. F. Group includes (7) cabinet cards and (60) cartes-de-visite. Portraits are mostly of young men and young women, with a few older adults & children; one cdv of a......
Steglitz Berlin Germany: Neue Photographische Gesellschaft NPG, 1906. F. A group of 42 images of this ancient town in southern Germany, in the Franconia region of Bavaria, known for its medieval old town. Photographs of exterior, interior views of town buildings, including: Portal im Rathaushof; Portal I am Kgl. Gymnasium;.....
Stuttgart Germany: Wilhelm Nitzschke, 1866. F. (16) pages; the 'pages' are a heavy cardstock, with numerous identified hand-colored illustrations on each. Nature, historical events, war, the seasons, modern transportation and other subjects are depicted. German text throughout; the final leaves offer the alphabet in both the German Gothic and more.....
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.....
Cold Spring Harbor Long Island New York: Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, 1993. First Edition. Soft Cover. 86 pages; illustrated throughout in black and white. The author, a textile historian and weaving instructor "...documents a significant aspect of Long Island's material culture heritage, the double-woven coverlets made.....
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...;.....
London, England: E. Churton, 1851. F. 96 pages; heraldic frontispiece plate; title printed in red & black; topics include content on the right to arms, inheritance, quarterings, distinctions of honour, courtesy, the shield, crest, motto, field, charges, blazoning, differences, pride of lineage, colleges of arms, heralds, hieroglyphical heraldry, religious symbolism.....
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.....
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.....
