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: 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).....
Rue D'Orfeuil, 3. Chalons-Sur-: F. Thouille, 1882. 28 page pamphlet; French text; containing: "Reconnue d'Utilite Publique par Decret du 31 Aout 1863"; giving the history of this society, with dates and names of various persons who had written or been involved with the proceedings of the group at back, including.....
France: Mercier. An eight page pamphlet; French text; containing: Moyen de preserver le froment de la carie ou du noir: Premier Operation, Seconde Operation, Troisieme Operation Pour preparer six setiers de notre mesure, faisant en poids douze quintaux., 'A Chalons, el 4.e jour complementaire, an 6.e Allaire, president; Moignon, secretaire.....
London: Longman Green Longman and Roberts, 1849. Referred to as a miscellany or common-place book for this author and primarily remembered for the appearance at page 327 of the children's classic, "The Story of the Three Bears."; xl + 694 pages + 1 unnumbered-page engraving of Southey on back page;.....
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1895. F. Special, Limited edition No. 2. of 25 copies printed, signed by the artist George Wharton Edwards (1859-1950) American impressionist painter and illustrator and author of several books of travel and historical subjects, a member of the Cos Cob Art Colony in Connecticut; pages; title.....
Albany New York: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., 1897. F. 1282 pages; "...relating to the work of inspection and the enforcement of laws applying to all manufactories, bakeshops and mines which have been visited by the deputy inspectors...inspections aggregate 27,428..."; with much detailed information from each county of New York State.....
Rochester New York: Eastman Kodak Company, 1934. (22) pages; black and white cover portrait illustration; other illustrations of photographic portraiture inside, with article on Harry B. Wills, Paris & Berlin "The Pictures and the man Who Made Them With diagrams showing position of subject and arrangement of lights for each.....
Rochester New York: Eastman Kodak Company, 1934. (22) pages; black and white cover portrait illustration of industrial worker; other illustrations of photographic portraiture inside, with article on "Today's Portraiture Expresses Personality" by Robert Edwards & other photographic process pieces; with photographs by J.F. Collins, F.R.P.S.; with advertisments for Eastman photographic.....
Rochester New York: Eastman Kodak Company, 1920. 32 pages; black and white cover portrait illustration; other illustrations of photographic portraiture inside, with the emphasis on the stylish portrait film negatives, Artura prints; with advertisments from photographic equipment & process suppliers at back; photos from the Eastman School of Professional Photography.....
Rochester New York: Eastman Kodak Company, 1921. 32 pages; black and white cover portrait illustration; other illustrations of photographic portraiture inside, with the emphasis on the portrait film negative, Artura prints; with advertisments from photographic equipment & process suppliers at back; photos by Marcia Stein, New York; also section of.....
Geneva: Charnaux Freres & Cie. 'No 475. - Chillon. Prison De Bonivard ' in image; appears to be albumen process or later; 7 3/4" x 10" size approximate; image with photographers' title below; photographer identifier in the image; no date but circa 1890s; historically significant for the association with Byron's.....
New York: T.E.M.& G.F. White, 1886. Interesting image; reminiscent of lower Catskills, Hudson scenery, mountain stream with castle-like building just glimpsed in background; image 6 " x 8 1/2" approximate size; cardstock mount adds about 2 1/2" - 3" border surrounding; photo mounted on original tan cardstock mount, with the.....
Paris: Librairie De Firmin Didot Freres, 1854. 558 pages; Italian text; full red leather binding, gilt titles and gilt decorations in compartments on spine, elaborate decorative gilt panels on front and back covers; gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt; some corner, tips wear and rubbing, darkening to spine leather; previous owner.....
New York, N.Y. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1898. F. 713 pages; tissue-guarded black and white frontispiece portrait illustration of Tennyson. Previous owner name of Esther Wickwire on the front endpaper. Approx. 5" x 7 1/4" size; full brown ooze suede leather hardcover binding, with gilt cover & spine titles.....
