Black and white map of this historic military maneuver; extracted from Rollin's History (c. 1730-38) at some early date; approx. 12 3/4" x 8 1/4" size + margins; spottiness, foxing, wrinkling to paper, old fold lines; old repairs via thread on bottom edge; fair to good condition.
Rome Italy. Interesting view of this Rome, Italy fountain & the surrounding architectural features, with about 30 men and boys loosely grouped in front of the fountain on the pavement, facing the camera, do not appear to be any women present; no date or photographer and circa 1880; title caption.....
New York: New York Times, 1918. 16 pages; black and white illustrated; "...Why did the Germans, at vast risk to their boats and crews, decide to deliver an attack on American shipping along the Atlantic Coast? What did they hope to accomplish? What is their strategy?...(Roosevelt replies)...it is safe to.....
Hertfordshire England: Five Owls Press Ltd, 1973. F. xxxi + 460 pages; with a signed typed note tipped-on to the front endpaper: "The author sends his best wishes and greetings to a trans-Atlantic Newbery Enthusiast. (Signed) S. Roscoe 8th December 1975"; black and white illustrations of title pages of Newbery.....
Paris: Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1926. 244 pages; French text; original wraps, bound in a 1/2 bright red morocco leather, marbled paper covered boards, spine with three small black geometric tools, outlined in gilt and four small rosette tools; gilt titles, top edge gilt; light wear; pages browning; very good.....
New York & Tokyo: John Wiley & Son, 1873. F. 246 pages; illustrated in black and white; Ruskin evidently wrote these pieces for the London Architectural Magazine in the 1830s, writing as Kata Phusin; chapter information on the Lowland cottage in England & France, Italy; Mountain Cottage in Switzerland &.....
London & Edinburgh: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876. A sharp and clear oval Woodburytype portrait of Samuel Plimsoll; approx. 3 1/2" x 4 1/2" size, on the original heavy paper 8 1/2" x 10 1/2" sheet; Samuel Plimsoll (1824-1898) British politician and shipping reformer, promoter of greater safety.....
Los Angeles California: M. Rieder Publ. 1906. Undivided back postcard; used; cancellation 1906; some edge, tips wear; one corner cracked; good condition.
Paris: Calman-Levy, 1905. 205 pages; with frontispiece and other illustrations in the text; George Sand, pseud. of Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin (1804-1876) French novelist and memoirist; French text; with the illustrated bookplate of M & D. McBurney on the front endpaper, signed and dated in the plate by ex-libris designer W.F. Hopson.....
Los Angeles California: M. Rieder Publ. 1906. Undivided back postcard; used; cancellation 1906; some edge, tips wear; short closed edge-tear; good condition.
Innsbruck: Negozio Wagner, 1823. F. 32 pages of text; printed in German & Italian language, side-by-side columns; followed by 28 llustrated plates of statues of royalty, preceded by one un-numbered small circular portrait of Gregory Loeffler; the plates in black and white and engraved by Eichler after Schedler; Clodwig; Philip.....
Schenectady, N.Y. Charles Baum, 1909. divided back postcard; used, with 1909 cancellation; light edge, tips wear, very good condition.
Wien: Kunstverlag Anton Schroll & Co., 1920. F. 143 pages of text + 3 pgs musical piece 'Stucke des Bidermann'schen Automaten-Spinetts + section of gravure plate pages, with hundreds of well-illustrated ancient musical instruments of all types illustrated, cataloged, explained and identified as to makers and use; text in German.....
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1822. F. 3 Volumes; xlviii + 313 + 334 + 349 pages; with the half-title pages present in all; publisher's six-page catalogue at back of Vol. III; imprint leaf of Ballantyne on separate page at back of Vol. II; with the small lavender pink bookseller's ticket of.....
Edinburgh: James Ballantyne and Co., 1811. F. 122 pages + (2) pages of publisher's announcements at back; nicely printed by James Ballantyne in Edinburgh; half-title page present, with the old former owner stamp of F.W. Challoner Newcastle; bound in the original publisher's decoratively patterned green cloth, black leather spine label.....
Philadelphia: Seeing Philadelphia Automobiles. Folding brochure for this touring company in Philadelphia; they also went to Valley Forge; tours left at Keith's Chestnut Street Theatre; couple of small illustrations; 4" x 8" format folded; light wear; very good condition.
London: Seeley and Co., 1891. 336 pages + 4 pages publisher's announcements at back; black and white illustrations after Hogarth, Reynolds, Zuffany & others inlcuding a tissue-guarded frontispiece of Mrs. Thrale; much on the lady's background and social life, travels, involvement with Samuel Johnson, more; revious owner bookplate on front.....
New York, N.Y. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1898. F. 271 pages; tissue-guarded black and white frontispiece illustration. Previous owner name of Esther Wickwire on the front endpaper. Approx. 5 7/8" x 7 1/2" size; full brown suede leather soft cover binding, with pyrographic title, edge design, and illustration of.....
Boston: Henry Tolman, 1863. 5 pages; black and white title in a few type-faces with calligraphic flourishes; music & lyrics; inside title is "I Wait For Thee" or the War is Nearly Over; 'To be Sung in a Plaintive Style'; good Civil War era item, the war not being nearly.....
New York: H. Bailliere, 1855. Original hand-colored plate from Prichard and Norris' Natural History of Man; approx. 5 1/2" x 9" size; slight toning, old discoloration at bottom right corner, unobtrusive; very good condition.
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1901. F. 289 pages; illustrated throughout in black and white; the author "...endeavoured to include as great a variety as possible of mood and expression in love...the moods of love being innumerable..."; contributions from Theocritus, Malory, de Reimes, Lyly, Peele, Spenser, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Fielding, Dickens.....
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876. A sharp and clear oval Woodburytype portrait of Sir Charles Hall; approx. 3 1/2" x 4 1/2" size, on the original heavy paper 8 1/2" x 10 1/2" sheet; the Hon. Sir Charles Hall, Judge of the High Court of Justice (1814-1883).....
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876. A sharp and clear oval Woodburytype portrait of Sir James MacNaghten Hogg; approx. 3 1/2" x 4 1/2" size, on the original heavy paper 8 1/2" x 10 1/2" sheet; James Macnaghten McGarel Hogg, first Baron Magheramorne of Ireland (1823-1890) British civic.....
London & Edinburgh: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876. A sharp and clear oval Woodburytype portrait of 1876 Woodburytype of Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Chief Secretary for Ireland; approx. 3 1/2" x 4 1/2" size, on the original heavy paper 8 1/2" x 10 1/2" sheet; Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, first.....
London & Edinburgh: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876. A sharp and clear oval Woodburytype portrait of Sir Richard Baggallay Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal; approx. 3 1/2" x 4 1/2" size, on the original heavy paper 8 1/2" x 10 1/2" sheet; Sir Richard Baggallay (1816-1888).....
