Appears to be gravure process; tipped-on to grey paper; 6 1/2" x 8" image size approximate; with photographers' titles below; no date but circa 1890s or early 20th century; sharp and clear, good delineation; very good condition.
Isle of Man: Not Published, 1927. F. Red-on-white printed baggage label; approx. 2 3/8" x 8 7/8" size; back with gummed surface for application; some soiling, closed edge-tear at right margin and part of the corner chipped away at top right edge, no loss to text; in very good condition.....
Kansas City Missouri: Hudson-Kimberly Publishing Company, 1899. F. 239 pages + 6 pages publisher's announcements at back; detailed folding maps in text; title page notes that Espanet was Sous-Intendant Militaire De 2e Classe, article translated by Captain H. F. Kendall, 8th Cavalry and Lieut.-Col. Henry G. Sharpe. A.C.G.S. United States.....
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1895. 60 pages; interesting 4-page publishers listing of Mrs. Ewing's works at back, in that the titles advertised each have a full page plate in black and white, Jan of the Windmill, Six to Sixteen, We and the World, A Great Emergency; here with illustrations by Randolph.....
New York: Hurst & Company, 1908. F. (10) color illustrated cloth pages; including: Old Mother Hubbard, Ding Dong, Bell; Simple Simon, Sing a Song of sixpence; A Diller, A Dollar; The North Wind Doth Blow; Little Robin Redbreast; There Was an Old Woman; Hush-A-By Baby, Where Are You Going; Hurst's.....
Paris: C. Carteret, A.J. Dugour, J. A Brosson. F. Two volumes, 378 + 414 pages; 'An VI de la Republique Francasie' (1797); French text throughout; description of the Republique in the early years; contemporary marbled-paper-covered boards, vellum corners and spines, handwritten ink spine titles; all edges dyed light green; light.....
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.....
New York and Seattle: The Alice Harriman Company, 1910. F. 262 pages; this edition beingTranslated from the French by Lafcadio Hearn and with an "Argument" of the piece by him; with an introduction by Elizabeth Bisland; Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) French novelist, when barely past his student days he was afflicted.....
London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1934. F. 277 pages; black and white portrait frontispiece illustration and other illustrations in the text; Forster had access to Goldsworthy's autobiographical notes of which he made some use in this memoir; dark blue publisher's cloth binding, gilt spine titles; some edge, tips wear to.....
London: Printed for William Miller, Albemarle Street; By W. Bulmer and Co., 1808. F. xl + 293 + cli pages of the Appendix; with a frontispiece portrait of Charles James Fox; this the large wide-margined "Royal Paper" edition measuring approx. 9 3/4" x 11 1/2"; Charles James Fox (1749-1806) British.....
France. A very good photograph of this street scene, pedestrians visible below, appears to have been taken from the third or fourth story of another building; no date and circa 1880, no photographer or actual location given; 7 5/8" x 11 3/8" image size approximate, mount card adds about 2.....
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1922. 275 pages; bound in marbled-paper-covered boards + dark orange hard-grained leather, five raised spine bands gilt spine titles, top edge gilt; former owner bookplate of Bert & Jay Lesnow on front pastedown, signed design by Bank B. Gordon; light wear to binding, small darkened spot.....
Paris: Calmann-Levy, 1928. 409 pages; French language text throughout; Anatole France (Pseud. of Jacques-Anatole-Francois Thibault) 1844-1924, novelist, critic, and man of letters, born in paris, the only son of a book-dealer...The Dreyfus case aroused his strong sympathies and in later years he developed socialist leanings, at times taking part in.....
Kladno Czechoslovaki: Milos Kozisek, 1926. F. (2) pages of text; followed by 6 leaves with tissue-guarded black and white illustrations by the artist Vaclav Maly (1884-1959) Czechoslovakian artist; text in French, German, Czech, English; artworks are mostly studies of Chod peasantry in landscapes; approx. 8" x 10" size; printed paper.....
Florence Italy: Typographie Galileienne, 1861. F. 20 pages; biographical, scientific information on Galileo, text in French throughout: "...suivantes ont ete ecrites pour ceux qui desireront visiter et voir avec ordre ce nouveau sanctuaire scientifique, en suivant la pensee de celui qui l'a imageine..."; original paper wrap covers; light wear; very.....
Firenze Italy: Tipografia Cenniniana, 1876. F. xix + 92 pages; two folding plates, family trees giving the history of this prominent Italian family, with illustrations of the coats of arms; Italian text throughout; volume approx. 6 1/2" x 9" size; bound in teal-green decoratively blindstamped and gilt-titled boards; old paper.....
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1887. F. 88 pages, including 5-page chart/listing of Mrs. Ewing's works at back; Juliana Horatia Ewing (1841-1885), British writer for the young, wrote many soldier-stories. (DNB); bound in publisher's grey illustrated paper covered boards, with an (renewed) open-weave cloth spine, probably a type of.....
New York: John B. Alden, 1887. F. (5) + 224 pages; expounding and interpreting various topics, with a christian-educational aspect: Youth, Character, Companions, Success, Christianity, Reading, more; previous owner's initials and number on front endpapers; original publisher's dark blue cloth covered boards, gilt cover spine titles & decoratively black-stamped design.....
Basilae: Froben, 1552. F. (108) leaves; illustrated throughout with woodcuts by Konrad Schnitt, many large and full-page and with historiated initials. Edited by Sigismund Gelen, with preface to Andreas Vesalius. "…An official listing of offices in the Roman empire, including numerous illustrations of insignia and uniforms, illustrations of ancient scrolls.....
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.....
Large albumen photograph; 6 1/2" x 9" size approximately; of a family group; one person in a trades uniform of some sort (butcher?), all nattily dressed and with flowers in their lapels; somewhat incongruously posed in front of an old stone building with two barred windows; identified in a later.....
New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1908. F. The Turk's Head limited edition, this # 405; Including the poems, essays, miscellanies, dramatic works, biographies, and more; edited by Peter Cunningham, with a biographical and critical introduction by Horatio Sheafe Krans; with eighty photogravures from original designs by Frederick Simpson.....
Joliet, Illinois: P.F. Volland Company, 1922. (90) pages; color illustrations by John Rae; one of the "Nature Children Books" of this publisher, with a series listing at back; pictorial endpapers; original illustrated paper-covered boards binding; al little edge, tips wear to the covers, old discoloration of paper at top left.....
London & Edinburgh: William Heinemann, 1894. F. xiii + 157 pages a few at back unopened + 24-page publishers' catalog at back; poetry, sonnets and The Masque of Painters by Sir Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928) British writer, one of the most prolific and powerful writers of his time (DNB); previous.....
