Original work for this piece, drawn n black and white ink with grey coloring details; 3 1/4" x 22" approximate size, done on heavy white cardstock; title in pencil on back, perhaps in the artists' hand; not signed; some light wear to paper edges; old tape on back which is.....
Original work for these pieces, drawn n black and white ink and pencil corrections & titled below each, for instance, on "Manhattan Silhouette", the artist has instructed "...Round off Moon make it nice and round (underlined)..."; evidently, the artist asking his printers and collaborators for help on the piece; all.....
Original work for this piece, suitably emphasizing Godzilla; drawn n black and white ink with grey coloring details; 2 3/4" x 21 3/4" approximate size, done on heavy white cardstock; title in pencil on back, perhaps in the artists' hand; not signed; some light wear to paper edges; very good.....
Brooklyn, New York: Privately Printed, 1868. First Edition. Hard Cover. A presentation copy, the front free endpaper having the handwritten inscription, "Mr. Daniel Tredwell with regards of T.W.F." The author Thomas W. Field to his fellow Long Island historian Tredwell, author of "Personal Reminiscences of Men and Things on Long.....
An interesting collection of tiny flags, each measuring 1" x 1 1/4" approx.; many with written identifiers; flag with three vertical bars, dark blue, yellow & red with black & white portrait of a Woman in blouse and tie, back with 'Edith Cavell Memorial Fund' (Edith Cavell 1866 - 1915.....
No Place Listed: Not Published, 1890. F. Collection of approximately 150 loose images; various sizes and formats, black and white or sepia tone; from snapshot to 7" x 9" size; not many identified; mostly of American locations, a few of a European trip and about 1/2 dozen of an India.....
Apparently a scrap or memory album put together by the participants in this international program for the benefit and memory, a heart-felt tribute for the efforts of their teacher Martha Leighton, who was the guiding force for these people in the IFYE program, which was the pioneering international 4-H effort-she.....
Paris, France: Au Pont Des Arts, 1952. F. 55 text pages + xxviii + 40 plates, fifteen in color, others black & white; each with its own titled and numbered tissue-guard and depicting the innovative ceramic work of the Huguenot craftsman potter Bernard Palissy (c. 1510 - 1589). Beautifully printed.....
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.....
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.....
