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1657EXP2-B-11London: T Dring and J Starkey 1657. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 6.5" by 4.5". None. The First English edition of Vincent Voiture's letters. With a portrait frontispiece of Voiture. A very scarce work last seen at auction in 1970. Vincent Voiture was a French poet and writer of prose. During his lifetime he did not publish any works in book form. After his death that his verses and prose letters were the delight of courtiers and were copied and admired. Irregular pagination as called for. First 192 pages are paginated as normal where the pagination then goes to 189-236pp. On page 236 Letter CXVII the pagination ends and the catch word does not match the letter on the following page Letter CXVIII. This appears to be the norm as the copy on EEBO also has this. This was the first and only edition of this work translated from the original French into English by J D John Davies. From the antiquarian library of Christopher Rowe. Christopher Rowe was a schoolmaster in Norwich and then in Bristol. Throughout his career he inspired many to love literature history and music. He was a specialist on 17th century printer and bookseller Humphrey Moseley and began his unfortunately unfinished PhD dissertation on him. In a marbled calf binding with gilt stamping to board edges. Has been rebacked with original boards preserved. Externally smart with patches of slight rubbing to boards. Prior owner's bookplate to front pastedown Christopher Rowe. Internally firmly bound. Pages are age toned with heavy patches of spotting throughout not affecting readability of text. Very Good T Dring and J Starkey hardcover
190062411Los Angeles Costa Mesa Huntington Beach Fullerton San Jose Hollywood CA: Gene Sherman Leigh Peffer Briggs Cunningham Briggs Cunningham Museum Ted Wilson et al ca. 1900-1990. Five Vols. & 1 scale model. First four vols. are 4to. 82; 76; 64; 88 leaves all unnumbered. archival mylar sleeves holding 266 photographs sized from 4 x 5 in. up to 8.5 x 11 in. with over 90% sized 8 x 10 in. most are black & white silver gelatin nearly all w/ photographer’s imprint either within the negative or stamped on verso many w/ pencil & ink manuscript annotations on versos most in the bold hand of Leigh Peffer but also many w/ markings by Gene Sherman and a couple possibly Briggs Cunningham several colour negatives many colour photographs some studio others snapshot a couple 1944 Kodacolor shops of young Peffer in US Army uniform during World War II together with over 100 pieces of ephemera including racing forms postcards art brochures promotional materials Midget Car racing rules Auto and racing promotional packets ALS & TLS many on letterhead and more. Three of these 4 vols. with archival mylar sleeves held in 3-ring binders in gray and black cloth 4th vol. a flexible plastic portfolio archival mylar sleeves printed label at spine; Together with: Peffer’s “A Scrap Book of Motor Sports History. . . Peffer Collection†a Oblong folio. 13.5 x 10.5 scrapbook/photo album. 80 pp unpaginated. on thick tan paper with 150 original photographs tipped-in with corners and mounted including 12 original colour negatives many identfied additional ephemera either mounted or laid-in two colour slides several clippings laid-in at rear and mimeographed sales list. Contemporary blue board post-binder nickel-plated screw posts at gutter margin printed metallic gold label mounted front cover neat manuscript hand of Peffer on label front cover occasional edgewear toning to clippings still VG exemplar; Scale model 12 x 4 x 2.5 in. of the So-Cal Streamline racer by Gene Sherman rubber tires leather fittings for cock-pit painted as the original preserved in chamois bag NF exemplar all from the libraries of Leigh Peffer and Gene Sherman. This noteworthy and expansive archive captures the glories of automobile sporting culture in California during the first several decades of the 20th-Century assembled through the effort and passion by several significant figures in the auto-racing and sports car scene of Southern California. These include Gene Sherman 1944-2007 famed auto designer and builder Leigh Peffer 1918-2000 auto racing enthusiast sports car racer and collector and photographer Briggs Cunningham 1907-2003 famed American sportsman whose Cunningham Motors fielded race teams and built race cars for the 24 Hours of Le Mans and later the Briggs Cunningham Automotive Museum in Coasta Mesa CA which operated from 1966-1987 and finally the racing photographs of Ted Wilson famed photographer of California auto racing and race tracks during the 1920’s and 1930’s. Amidst the hundreds of photographs many pieces of ephemera race programs original letters and postcards the joy and energy of the West Coast automobile culture trace the development of automobile manufacturing and racing from the Hodge Brothers electric car manufacturing in Pasadena CA in 1900-1902 through the design and model building and car museums in the 1980’s. Peffer & Sherman sorted the photo collection into race car drivers action shots and miscellaneous which includes photographs from Ted Wilson Doinseau-Rapho Briggs Cunningham Museum Strother MacMinn Thomas Milana Studebaker Ford D.M. Woodhouse of San Diego as well as Peffer and Sherman themselves. The photographs include those of Carroll Shelby driving one of his early Cobra prototypes Rex Mays Dan DePaolao Stubby Stubelfield Bill Schuffler Johnny Parsons Bill Stepp Earl Mansell and Louis Meyer Jr. “Sonny†one of the most successful and accomplished engine builders in Indianapolis 500 history. Still others include veterans of the vaunted Legion Ascot race track in Los Angeles known as the “Killer Track†with such drivers as Howard Wilcox II Jimmie Miller Lon Webb the Robson Bros. Spider Webb Bud Rose Harris Insinger in the Miller Special Gus Schrader Roland Frost Babe Stapp in his Cragar Special April 2 1933 Tony Radeitch Woestman McDowell & Pintorelli. After the Legion Ascot became too dangerous and closed down and AAA racing moved out of the West Coast the dirt track and gritty midget cars moved elsewhere.The Southern Ascot Speedway was a racetrack located at Atlantic and Tweedy Blvd. and ran from 1937 to 1942 now site of the Legacy High School Complex. Other race tracks represented in these photos include the Gilmore Stadium Speedway including photos of the open wheel Krause Offy Offenhauser or Jimmy Miller in the pits in the Scheffler Offenhauser special at Oakland Speedway or Bill Reed and Spud Hinkley at the San Jose Speedway. The Oakland Speedway was in San Leandro CA and was a banked dirt oval built in 1931 operated through the Great Depression and featured roadster motorcycle Big Car Stock Car Midget Car races and was the “fastest dirt track in the Nation.†Another historic race track capturing racers and races was the Mines Field race track including Stubby Stubblefield in 1934 today the site lies under LAX airport. Amidst the hundreds of photos are images of the concept car U.S. Discovery speed model designed by Marshall Space Flight Center Boeing Rockwell Lockheed and Cobalt Boats engines such as the Miller-Ford Motor Ford Motor & Front End Bentleys along with a myriad of photos of famed race cars and spots cars. These automobiles include the Studebaker No. 34 driven by Tony Gulotta fitted with Stromberg carburetors mechanic Carl Rischingo placing 7th in the Indy 500 in 1934; Miller cars powered with 220 cubic in. motors; Allard Race Cars MG race cars Lester MG in 1994; 1948 MG TC 1937 Jaguar SS Bugatti 57C L.P. Breen’s 1926 Bentley the 1925 Lamda Roadster inscribed by Mark Shuttle to Briggs Cunningham the Spike Jones Special and even Peffer’s own Peerless GT at the start of a Southern California vintage sports car rally. Others capture Bill White’s Red Lion Special No. 1 Al Gordon in the Sparks-Weirick Gilmore Special No. 1 the 1934 Pacific Coast champion in Eddie Winfield’s Winfield Special 1949 Ferrari and Ralph De Palma in his Miler Special after winning the Italian Helmet Dash at the Legion Ascot Speedway in the 1920’s. Peffer’s “Scrap Book of Motor Sports History†opens with photos tickets and ephemera for the Brands Hatch Boxing Day Races Dec. 26 1959 which opened with the 10-lap Yuletide Trophy for sports cars up to 1100 C.C. and for all the races that day featured Threlfall Chapman Hill and Crab in Lotus Eleven’s and Seven’s Baillie in 3.4 Jaguar and others. He’s also included photos of his Little Riley restored in Dehham Engladnd with Cecil Cutton’s famed Bugatti next to him along with photos of the rare and famous MG Tigresse. Of particular interest amidst the many different ALS & TLS sent to both Peffer and Sherman is the lengthy and detailed 3 p. letter ALS sent to Gene Sherman at the Briggs Cunningham Automotive Museum June 26 1968 in which Sara J. Hodge of Solana Beach CA describes and explains the founding of the first and largest automobile garage West of the Mississippi by her father Nathaniel Hodge and uncle Arthur Hodge listed in the 1902 Pasadena City Directory. Later named the Hodge Brothers Co. they produced and sold electric automobiles and she has included four historic copy photographs capturing the Hodge Brothers machine shop & garage factory and even a whole bank of 1902 Hodge Bros. EV cars charging. Another letter to Sherman documents the life of Briggs Cunningham after he had sold his collection and museum contents to his friends the Colliers they moved to Naples FL and explaining how their “house is not finished as yet so I don’t believe we can move in until next year. . . I am busy with packing up the mags etc. ready to move. My new library will be larger tha the present one.†The scale model by Gene Sherman painstakingly recreates the famed So-Cal Speed Shop Streamliner. The car was built after Dean Batchelor a So-Cal Speed Shop customer sold his 1932 roadster to raise the capital and built by famed speed shop builder Alex Xydias who would take the body off the tank and subsequently build the Streamliner. Batchelor felt a small streamliner like the MG EX-135 was the best way to move forward on the design. The completed chassis was taken to Valley Custom in Burbank CA where Neil Emory one of the finest early custom craftsmen began working with aluminum to shape the Streamliner designed as a flattened oval with no compound curves. Early test runs at El Mirage ranged from 135 to 142 mph with a 156ci Flathead Ford and at the first Bonneville Nationals held in 1949 on the salt flats the So-Cal Speed Shop Special in iconic white and gold was the star of the show. In the midst of the runs they switched engines to an Edelbrock-built Mercury Engine and 190 mph. The car also achieved a 210.892 mph average a Class C Record and bagged the Hot Rod Magazine “Top Time†trophy. The next year after rolling in high winds Batchelor escaped serious injury and never raced again. Special note should be made of the Ted Wilson photographs although very little personal biographical information is known of him. He was inducted into the Sprint Car Hall of Fame shot historic racing photos during the 1920’s through 1950’s on California race tracks including Oakland Speedway Alviso Speedway San Jose Speedway at King Road mostly in a 4 x 5 format and was a pioneer in marketing his photos often running ads in racing and motoring periodicals at the time. He began purchasing other negative collections from other photographers and amateurs expanding his collection including Carroll Studio Roy Richer’s the Crest Collection and the Douthat Speed Photo collection. Eventually the entire collection was sold to Bruce Craig and Vincente Alvarez and subsequently to Jeannie Hinnershitz and Dale Snyder partner to the Florida-based Collier family which took the collection private. He maintained ongoing relationships with Leigh Peffer often writing and selling him photos Gene Sherman at the Briggs Cunningham Museum and Briggs himself. See: Lawrence Berman Kane Rogers The Cunningham Museum Briggs Cunningham 2023; Norm Bogan Ted Wilson National Spring Car Hall of Fame & Musuem 2023; Cunningham The American Dream at Le Mans Roarington Nov. 1 2023; Greg Sharp Racing History: Alex Sydias the Man Behind the Famous So-Cal Speed Shop In the Garage Media Oct. 3 2021. Gene Sherman, Leigh Peffer, Briggs Cunningham, Briggs Cunningham Museum, Ted Wilson, et al, hardcover
1964151477San Diego: San Diego Timing Association 1964. Archive of vintage programs bulletins flyers and newspaper clippings published by and relating to the San Diego Timing Association a foundational sanctioning organization in US drag racing.<br/><br/>In postwar America the return of risk-loving unmarried ex-GIs with advanced mechanical skills and extra money to spend led to the rise in popularity of illegal street racing. Southern California racers took advantage of the growing number of abandoned military strips in the state colloquially known as "drags" such as the Santa Ana Drags and Sweetwater Dam Navy Outlying Field. Local car clubs pressured law enforcement to allow racing on the strips efforts which would precipitate the formation of the San Diego Timing Association.<br/><br/>The SDTA held their first sanctioned meet at the Sweetwater Dam drag which the members renamed Paradise Mesa on March 11 1951. The events drew spectators and racers from across southern California catching the attention of the newly formed National Hot Rod Association which became a co-sanctioning body for the Paradise Mesa meets in 1953. Importantly the Paradise Mesa races were the first to present drag races in their now standard modern form two cars competing on a quarter-mile closed strip.<br/><br/>Paradise Mesa faced local backlash after a gory racing accident in June 1956 which injured 12 spectators leading to the prompt closure of the facility for racing purposes. Tensions between police and racers heightened in the ensuing years culminating in a two-day clash in August of 1960 after racers shut down three blocks off El Cajon Boulevard in San Diego to stage their own unauthorized drags. The El Cajon Boulevard Riot is now considered one of the first of the youth riots which would come to characterize the 1960s. <br/><br/>The materials contained in the archive provide an extensive register of the early years of the Paradise Mesa races compiled by foundational SDTA member Andrew Smith including 16 original programs for events at the strip and 9 mimeographed broadsheet flyers advertising races. The archive also includes several documents authored by members of the SDTA such as a constitution document signed by the members of a car club called The Kingpins and a typescript press release statement created in response to the El Cajon Boulevard riots.<br/><br/>Of particular note is a nine-page circa-1952 mimeographically duplicated issue of the SDTA News subtitled "Competition Rules" which contains the first known use in print of the word "dragster" defining the word as a class of race car formerly known as a "lakester."<br/><br/>A vibrant fascinating collection allowing a rare glimpse into a seminal period in the histories of both auto racing and youth culture sparsely documented up to this point as a result of the scarcity of available information and surviving material. <br/><br/>Housed in a three-ring binder. Binder and contents generally Near Fine. San Diego Timing Association unknown books
158941Detroit MI: General Motors 1980. Substantial archive of over 750 General Motors GM design assembly and advertising photographs 23 contact sheets of vehicles and parts photographs and 100 print advertising proofs and mockups from the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors dating from 1973 through 1980. Nearly all the materials in the archive are overlaid with Campbell Ewald Advertising Agency watermarks or bear GM Photographic stamps on the bottom margins or versos. Materials also frequently note catalog numbers and dates in manuscript pencil and ink.<br /> <br /> Detailed inventory and additional images available upon request. Please contact us directly.<br /> <br /> A vast and insightful archive of distinctly 1970s GM automotive design and marketing. The photographic prints in the archive include approximately 550 photographs and design renderings of vehicles parts and accessories as well as emblems and logos with material relating to the Bel Air Camaro Caprice Chevelle Chevette Citation Impala Malibu Monte Carlo Monza Nova and Vega models. Of particular note are 100 proofs and mockups for print advertisements for various Chevrolet vehicles markedly reflecting the era's fuel crisis and imposing international compact car market.<br /> <br /> Photographs largely 11 x 8.5 inches with some photographs 10 x 8 inches. Advertising proofs and mockups are all on standard letter-size paper. Near Fine overall with some light edgewear and light creasing at the corners. General Motors unknown
MAR6Année 1896: Du N° 17 (1er Novembre) au N° 23 (31 Décembre). Années complètes: 1897, 1898, 1900, 1901. Année 1899: Du N° 2 (12 Janvier) au N° 52 (28 Décembre). Année 1902: Du N° 1 (2 Janvier) au N° 52 (25 Décembre). Manque N° 42 (16 Octobre). Année 1903: Du N° 1 (1er Janvier) au N° 44 (29 Octobre). Manque N° 11 (12 Mars). Ensemble de 14 volumes reliés demi-basane.
193734949Bradford PA: Kendall Refining Company 1937. 1 of 8 cc total. Bound in a manilla folder. A VG item. 7 ll typewritten text recto only carbon copy. Illustrated with 1 folded leaf a facsimile log-sheet for Jenkins' 48 hour run Sept 21 - 23 1936 showing 7 parameters MPH Oil Pressure H2O out engine oil temp axle oil temp transmission oil temp & atmospheric temp as recorded over a 52 hour period. 16 captioned b/w snapshots ~ 2-3/4" x 4-1/2" 15 of the car et al & 1 of Jenkins tipped-in to 4 leaves following the log-sheet. 11-1/8" x 8-1/4" <br/><br/>1 of 7 carbon copies of Robinson's typewritten report to H. C. Bougey Chief Chemist General Motors wherein Robinson details the results of sponsored speed runs in 1936 "to establish Worlds' speed records with a view to utilizing results for advertising and sales promotion." The car built was anchored by Duesenberg chassis and powered with a Curtiss Conqueror Model V-1570 engine producing 445 HP. Tires were Firestone. All lubricants from engine to chassis were Robinson. The driver was David Abbott "Ab" Jenkins who just the year prior had established a 24 hour land speed record of 135 mph. For these sponsored attempts as sanctioned by the American Automobile Association there were 4 testing periods: Sept. 7th 21st - 23rd & the 28th. And resulting were the establishment of 19 speed records from 169.57 mph for 100 mile distance to the 48 hour endurance at 148.62 mph. And oh yeah Jenkins upped his 24-hour record to 153.76 mph. Since the letter notes 7 other copies of this report were prepared we can't in good conscious term it "unique" but certainly a rare item documenting the constant quest for more speed in this case a successful one at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats a place made famous by Jenkins and others in these feats of automotive 'chest-thumping'. Kendall Refining Company unknown books
192960666Park Ridge NJ & Pearl River NY: Dexter Press ca. 1929-1939. 4to. 27 leaves unnumbered. 2-pocket mylar sleeves holding 55 silver gelatin photo postcard proofs many w/ collaged text and elements mounted on stiff board some w/ extensive notes indicating addresses photographers and/or suppliers on versos sized from 2.25 x 4 in. up to 4 x 6.5 in. w/ 1 pair of images showing the proof copy alongside the finished printed standard sized photo postcard sized 3.5 x 5.5 in. w/ photographer’s info & publisher on verso many w/ some colour-tinting as well as ink editorial overpainting and airbrushes of clouds or other elements to enhance the original photographs. Recent beige-coloured cloth 3-ring binder excellent group of images. This small archive of photo postcard proofs impressively evoke the period of the vast expansion and development of the American highway system following World War I. With the number of miles doubling from 1920-1930 and then again from 1930 to 1940 Americans gook to the road to migrate and vacation while others located their roadside attraction tourist traps filling stations restaurants & diners motor courts and more within easy view of passing motorists. These original photographs encompass iconic locations across the United States from the Camp Moultrie famed Steakhouse in Blytheville AR to “Fun in the Sun Home-Made Candies†in Palm Springs CA; or 101 Motel Auto Court featugin DeLuxe Hotel Apartments along Sepulveda Blvd. in El Segundo CA on Highway 101 to Anderson Acres on the shore of Lake Erie in Huron OH. Many of the images show the proliferation of petroleum filling stations restaurants and rest stops for weary travelers including the “Trailer City†in Hot Springs AR which sold Gulf Oil; “Shady Grove Cabins†selling Benzoline Gas and Coca-Cola on Route 6 near Farmington CT; or even Shield’s Service Station at Main & Grand in McAlester OK. Roadside attractions intended to entertain and draw in the highway expeditioners included the “World’s Smallest†violin made by Otto Ridlisbacher at “The Friendly Buckhorn†in Rice Lake WI; fine textiles weaving pottery baskets and wood novelties in the Roaring Fork Shop at Gatlinburg TN; the Waverly TN home of notorious badman Jesse James; the giant “Big Red Apple†in Cornelia GA; the “Possum Kingdom†furrier & zoo attraction at Lake Graford TX; or even the Indian Spring in Upper Sandusky OH where author Charles Dickens drank in 1843.Interiors and exteriors of cafeterias hotels fishing camps theatre’s creameries log cabins and even the service staff such as at the Capitol Restaurant in Williamsburg VA are depicted. Dexter 1899-1993 launched his Dexter Press in Park Ridge NJ in 1920 following World War I where he also founded several newspapers simultaneously but by 1938 had sold off the newspapers and would focus on postcards and colour souvenir postcards. Often referred to as “The Postcard King of America†Dexter Press grew rapidly secured the exclusive contract for the 1964 New York World’s Fair and others. Dexter Press, hardcover
1910WRCAM55051Chicago 1910. 116 photographs plus advertising leaf removed from HARPER'S MAGAZINE issue. Includes album of modern reproductions of the photographs. Oblong pebbled morocco album gilt title on front board. Boards rubbed and worn corners bumped spine perished. Photographs mounted on original linen which is slightly curled. A few small chips to edges no loss to images occasional toning and spots to images. The photographs overall in near fine condition. A handsome trade album of vehicles available from the White Motor Company Cleveland Ohio which grew out of the White Sewing Machine Company into one of the largest truck military and heavy equipment manufacturers of the 20th century. <br> <br> This album was created especially for W.J. Urquhart the general manager of the Western sales department headquartered in Chicago as reported in "The Horseless Age: The Automobile Trade Magazine" vol. 24 1909 p.420. The album opens with a photograph of a Pabst beer truck and continues with a wide variety of passenger and commercial vehicles most with the names of the companies painted on the sides. Among the commercial vehicles depicted are trucks operated by Marshall Field Red Rock beverages the Birmingham Coca-Cola Bottling Company Pocahontas Coal and B.F. Goodrich and there are also images of an ambulance and a police car. A few of the images are detailed views of engines transmissions or other mechanical parts of the vehicles. Most of the photographs have a label on the reverse describing the vehicle or part its price and in some cases also including information on the purchaser. Several of the owners are local but most are scattered across the country Canada and even Russia. A few photos depict the full fleet of a company's trucks lined up proudly in front of factories warehouses and storefronts. Despite the company's reputation decades of mismanagement at higher levels forced the company to declare bankruptcy in 1980; White was bought by Volvo the following year. <br> <br> Such early automobile trade albums are rare. "White Motor Corp." in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CLEVELAND HISTORY online Case Western Reserve University. hardcover books
191259779Horsham West Sussex & Haymarket London UK: H.W.C. James A. Sinclair & Co. Ltd. 1912. Two vols. Oblong 8vo. 8.5 x 5 in. 64; 69 leaves unnumbered. including 2 calligraphic titles 63 & 68 platinum print matte finish photographs w/ images sized from 2 x 3 in. up to 3.25 x 3.75 in. on 4.75 x 7 in. prints all expertly hinged at gutter margin a few w/ pencil annotations on versos occasional light toning from the platinum salt emulsions coating the papers. Uniformly bound in striking full green morocco bindings by Zaehnsdorf gilt ruling on covers gilt inner dentelles 5 raised bands on spines title lettering ownership & dating in gilt a.e.g. marbled endpapers very slight shelfwear incremental rubbing at corners still a NF set. An exceptional pair of automobile travel albums composed of platinum print photographs by Dr. E. Stevens apparently presented to fellow Royal Photographic Society member and platinum photograph enthusiast H.W. Child. The motor car was a grey 1912 35 CWT Delaunay-Belleville depicted in 15 of the images bore the GB License Plate of BP1945 registered in 1912 to Charles Stevens c/o Dr. Stevens of Sarcelles Horsham West Sussex July 4 1912. The Delaunay-Belleville in the Brass Era was one of the most expensive and prestigious touring cars for travelers and enthusiasts whose owners at the time included Evalyn Walsh McLean original owner of the Hope Diamond as well as Mann who traveled “Round the World†in 1912 in a similar model. The intrepid travelers clearly intended to photograph and put their new motor through its paces traveling about 3000 miles. The album opens with photos of the auto loaded at Portsmouth and by ferry to Le Havre and then driving down through Normandy Alencon Le Mans Tours Bordeaux and onto Biarritz. The tour extended across the Pyrenees into Spain visiting San Sebastian followed by drives to Pau Lourdes Toulouse Narbonne and then along the South of France into Italy. The drive was not without pitfalls as they suffered punctured tires with two different images showing repairs one with a crowd as well as the photo waiting for a massive rock slide of giant boulders fallen onto the roadway and being removed by wooden wheelbarrows. They continued their tour across the Alps into Switzerland with views of the travelers at a Swiss border station and then capturing scenic vistas and driving onto Salzburg & Linz. One of the images captures advertising and awning of a “Buchdruckerei†specializing in photographic books supplies and photo albums. At that point the motorists had reached the most Eastern point and drove along the Danube route crossing overland to the river Necker Heidelberg and finally into the Netherlands with visits of Amsterdam Haarlem often with picturesque images capturing the Dutch in their iconic wooden shoes windmills canals and even electric railways. One particular image documents the “Art Store†selling Volendam silver & brass and antiques. The final image shows the car being loaded back on the steamship to England from Rotterdam. The platinum photographs were processed by James A. Sinclair & Co. Ltd. at 34 Haymarket in London specializing in photographic prints & equipment and at the time the Platinum prints were Alfred Stieglitz’s process of choice celebrating the images for their aesthetic qualities and permanence. As the Platinum prints were printed direction on coated paper with platinum salts the image was absorbed directly into the paper creating a softer and less-detailed image which was quite durable. Dr. Stevens fl. 1910-1918 who during World War I served as surgeon with the Royal Army Medical Corps joined the Royal Photographic Society in 1915 and exhibited three of his photographs presumably from this excursion including “In the Paese†“Making Port Concarneu†and “Santa Maria della Pace Lago di Como.†Child b. 1859 was a very successful merchant who by 1897 was also an active member of the Royal Photographic Society Platinum print enthusiast and automobile traveler as well. He exhibited several times with the RPS often appearing in their exhibitions from 1898-1915 the last being “Citadel and Church Dinant†shot in 1914 and displayed as an Autochrome. See: Ordinary Members The Photographic Journal Vol. 41 January 1917 pp. 32 41; Exhibition Catalogue of 1898 43rd Annual Exhibition of the Royal Photographic Society 1898; 44th 1899; 45th 1900; 47th 1902; 60th 1915. H.W.C., James A. Sinclair & Co., Ltd., hardcover
1963151483Tooele County UT: N.p. 1963. Archive of 163 vernacular photographs including 145 in color and 18 in black-and-white capturing the 1960-1963 National Speed Trials commonly known as Speed Week at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. Housed in 17 yellow envelopes with dates and names of racers written in holograph ink annotation to the rectos. <br/><br/>Offered with the archive is a brand new set of the two-volume Bonneville National Speed Trials references covering 1949-1958 and 1959-1968 respectively. The set is new and still in shrinkwrap.<br/><br/>In the early 1960s wealthy California car owners began to experiment with surplus jet engines to boost the horsepower of their cars creating distinctive bootlegged hotrods referred to as jet cars or jets designed specifically for the compacted salt surface of the flats. <br/><br/>The photographs in the archive document many early iterations of these unusual and profoundly dangerous vehicles with a particular focus on racers from southern California including Art Arfons' 8000-horsepower Cyclops which set a record for an open-cockpit vehicle 342 mph which still stands today and Mickey Thompson's Challenger I the first car to record a top speed of 400 mph. Also notable are several photographs of the streamliner entries of the Summers brothers in 1961 1962 and 1963 whose streamliner Goldenrod would go on to hold the land speed record from 1965 to 1991. <br/><br/>As a whole the photographs are bright and well-executed clearly shot with a racing insider's eye for detail. Photographs from the perspective of Speed Week attendees are scarce owing to the relatively remote locale and complete absence of accommodations for spectators making the images in the archive an uncommon intimate record of several pivotal years in the history of hotrod racing.<br/><br/>Photographs 5.75 x 3.5 inches envelopes 7.5 x 4. Some photographs with faint adhesive residue to the versos else envelopes and photographs generally Near Fine.<br/><br/>Full provenance available. N.p. unknown books
N179Cinq volumes reliés. DUNOD éditeur pour 1903, 1904, 1905. DUNOD & PINAT éditeur pour 1906 et 1910.
CCA1Album de 160 photos 22x16 cm de vehicules de commerce, utiltaires, camions, d'incendie, de transport en commun.
1956151379Indianapolis: O'Dell and Shields Studios 1956. Two vintage photo albums documenting Dean Van Lines Indy car team before during and after the Indianapolis 500 in 1955 and 1956 with legendary driver Jimmy Bryan at the helm. Several photographs stamped on the verso by the O'Dell and Shields Studios of Indianapolis longtime contract photographers for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. <br /> <br /> Dean a California moving company magnate and noted championship car owner began his association with Bryan in 1954 when the driver would score his first significant win the AAA National Championship. The pair would win an astonishing 17 national championship races over the course of the next four years.<br /> <br /> The 1955 album contains 12 photographs capturing the moments before the 500 with several views of the team performing last-minute modifications to the Kuzma-Offenhauser better known as the Dean Van Lines #2 Special custom-built by Eddie Kuzma for the 1955 race. Also included in the album are several action shots of the race itself along with a single photograph of Bryan posing behind the wheel of Dean's #7 Champ car. <br /> <br /> The second album containing 20 photographs documents the Dean Van Lines team at the 500 the following year with Bryan again behind the wheel. A blown tire around lap 100 would spin the Special into the south infield effectively ending the team's shot at winning the race a moment evocatively captured in the album. Dean and Bryan would take the roadster pictured in both albums to the short-lived Race of Two Worlds in Italy in 1957 an event featuring Indy drivers racing against European Formula One drivers. <br /> <br /> Bryan would go on to win the 500 in 1958 for George Salih only a few years before Bryan's death at 34 in a crash on the Langhorne Speedway in 1960. <br /> <br /> A fascinating collection of photographs providing an unusually intimate look behind the scenes at two pivotal figures in US motorsport history. <br /> <br /> Albums 11.25 x 8.5 inches photographs 8 x 11 inches. Albums and contents generally Very Good plus. O'Dell and Shields Studios unknown
1938155078N.p.: N.p. 1938. Archive of 63 vintage vernacular and professional photographs along with a number of newspaper and program clippings all relating to midget auto racing in Southern California circa 1937-1938. All materials housed in a string-bound scrapbook with captions in manuscript ink adjacent to most photographs. <br /> <br /> Of particular note in the archive are five photographs of African American "outlaw" racer Rajo Jack the first driver to integrate into the all-white sport-nearly two decades before Jackie Robinson broke the "color barrier" in Major League baseball in 1947. <br /> <br /> Born Dewey Gatson in 1905 Jack would never have been able to compete on a national level in the American Automobile Association AAA due to his race so he instead competed in the American Racing Association ARA the largest racing body to allow him to compete-making him an "outlaw" racer in the eyes of the AAA and largely restricting him to West Coast racing. A continual target of discrimination Jack would frequently claim to be of Native American or Portuguese heritage in order to race although he was largely welcomed by his fellow drivers out of respect for his talent. These supporters would frequently band together to insist on Jack receiving equal service at segregated restaurants and motels. Jack won races up and down the West Coast in stock cars midgets big cars and motorcycles and in 2003 was inducted into the West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame and the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame in 2007.<br /> <br /> Archive also includes content relating to drivers Fred Frame and the Robson brothers as well as the Oakland Speedway and the Southern Ascot Speedway. Other noted drivers in the collection include Travis 'Spider' Webb Tex Petersen including one photograph signed by Petersen Einer 'Swede' Lindskog Harry Lester Morris 'Slim' Mathis Hal Robson and Harry Secrest.<br /> <br /> An impressive and extensive archive of photographs of the South California midget auto racing scene of the 1930s with a rare substantial grouping of photographs of Rajo Jack at the height of his career.<br /> <br /> Scrapbook measuring 12.25 x 13.5 inches. Very Good with most leaves brittle and separated from binding. Photographs generally 5 x 3.25 inches with one as small as 1.25 x 1.5 inches and several as large as 5 x 3.25 inches. Very Good plus to Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1956151379Indianapolis: O'Dell and Shields Studios 1956. Two vintage photo albums documenting Dean Van Lines Indy car team before during and after the Indianapolis 500 in 1955 and 1956 with legendary driver Jimmy Bryan at the helm. Several photographs stamped on the verso by the O'Dell and Shields Studios of Indianapolis longtime contract photographers for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. <br/><br/>Dean a California moving company magnate and noted championship car owner began his association with Bryan in 1954 when the driver would score his first significant win the AAA National Championship. The pair would win an astonishing 17 national championship races over the course of the next four years.<br/><br/>The 1955 album contains 12 photographs capturing the moments before the 500 with several views of the team performing last-minute modifications to the Kuzma-Offenhauser better known as the Dean Van Lines #2 Special custom-built by Eddie Kuzma for the 1955 race. Also included in the album are several action shots of the race itself along with a single photograph of Bryan posing behind the wheel of Dean's #7 Champ car. <br/><br/>The second album containing 20 photographs documents the Dean Van Lines team at the 500 the following year with Bryan again behind the wheel. A blown tire around lap 100 would spin the Special into the south infield effectively ending the team's shot at winning the race a moment evocatively captured in the album. Dean and Bryan would take the roadster pictured in both albums to the short-lived Race of Two Worlds in Italy in 1957 an event which featured Indy drivers racing against European Formula One drivers. <br/><br/>Bryan would go on to win the 500 in 1958 for George Salih only a few years before his death at 34 in a crash on the Langhorne Speedway in 1960. <br/><br/>A fascinating collection of photographs providing an unusually intimate look behind the scenes at two pivotal figures in US motorsport history. <br/><br/>Albums 11.25 x 8.5 inches photographs 8 x 11 inches. Albums and contents generally Very Good plus. O'Dell and Shields Studios unknown books
191153910n.p.: Kate Harris 1911. Oblong 4to. 12.75 x 10 in. 204 pp unpaginated. on gray paper stock w/ 416 original silver gelatin black & white photos tipped-in sized 2.75 x 3.5 up to 3.75 x 6 in. including as well over 100 panoramic photos sized mostly 2.8 x 7.5 in. all w/ extensive manuscript notes in neat printed hand following manuscript presentation preface preliminary and end leaves with chipping & fraying to fore-edges some creasing soiling minor tears affecting a few notes 9 photos removed at some point. Recent gray cloth gilt lettering to spine gray paper endpapers presented by Mrs. Harris to Joseph F. Pickett b. 1887 a professional New York driver and chauffeur who drove the group through Europe on Dec. 25 1911. This exceptional photo travelogue details the motoring adventures by Kate Harris her husband Arthur their friend Mrs. Wadsworth and chauffeur Joseph Pickett through Europe just three short years before the devastation of World War I. This album not only demonstrates the level of interest in the burgeoning automobile tourism fad of the Edwardian era but also offers an excellent snapshot of scenic areas throughout Europe. The Harris’s not only brought their luggage and chauffeur via ocean liner in July 1911 but also their 1910 Pierce-Arrow 48-SS Seven-Passenger Touring Sedan fitted with special luggage racks on the rear to haul the many trunks bags picnic & camping equipment as well as a special spare tire bracket on the side which held three spares at any one time often needed. Mrs. Harris appears to have been an enthusiastic amateur photographer and writes that when they drove through an Austro-Hungarian military road she had to lock up their Kodaks. Carefully documenting punctured tires pubs & hotels for lunches and stays and even the mileage covered the group begins their travels in England view the Roman Walls stop in Durham Cathedral Raby Castle onto York Cathedral stop over in Oakham and then down to Cambridge. They stop over in Lofts Hall travel the 51 miles to the London Ritz Hotel and the next day drive the 72.3 miles to Folkestone where the auto was loaded on the 5 PM Boat. They begin their drive in Boulogne with views of the docks the hotel and street scenes included sheep herders moving their flocks out of the way in Hucqueliers young girls hauling bundles of straw and then onto Sedan to visit Franco-Prussian battlefields including the Chateau of Bellevue where Napoleon III surrendered to William I during the Franco-Prussian War. They motor onto Luxembourg Trier view the Porta Nigra Roman gate drive along the Moselle River to the Rhine with stops in Mainz Wurzberg Rothenberg often taking photos of peasants harvesting in the fields children playing under the fountain or in the village streets and even giving locals the remains of their lunch which were gratefully accepted. The drive through the Austro-Hungarian Empire includes stopovers in Prague Iglau Moravia Jihlava including a wonderful image of a young couple with wall of contemporary exhibition and advertising posters plastered behind them; followed by a hair-raising drive up the Styrian Seeberg Pass pilgrims traveling down to Mariazell Leoben Eisnerz Mauterndorf and photos of Tyrolean hunters in local dress. They experience a number of punctured tires as they ascend the Tyrolean and Italian Alps include splendid panoramic photos of the Pasterze Glacier withing the Glockner Group in Carinthia the perilous switchback highway down to Cortina Italy numerous views of the treacherous roads tunnels and scenery along the roads and Alpine villages of the Dolomites including two excellent photos of hemp workers bundling the plants in Storo Italy. The tour continues to Lake Como then the Gondo Gorge and finally along the Simplon Road into La Brique in the southern French Alps and then St. Claude France. The last part of the album concludes with the troupe leaving Bolougne Sept. 14 1911 loading the automobile onto the steamship waiting for Sarah Bernhardt at Folkestone; and then a winding drive through Cornwall including the Dartmoor National Park forest The Lizard St. Michael’s Mount Penzance Lands End St. Ives Tintagel a traffic jam in Stratton viewing Glastonbury and finally panoramic views to roads leading to Chester. The couple and their chauffeur departed from Liverpool on Sept. 23 1911 sailing on the RMS Mauretania later arriving in New York. Kate Harris, hardcover
19601497Éditions de la Passerelle, Paris 1960. 1 volume grand in-folio (440 X 350 cm), en feuilles sous couverture illustrée rempliée, chemise et étui peints décorés de l'éditeur. Édition originale illustrée de 3 EAUX-FORTES dorées pour la couverture et 16 GRAVURES ET AQUATINTES ORIGINALES EN COULEURS EN HORS-TEXTE D'ANDRÉ MASSON. Tirage : 160 exemplaires numérotés et nominatifs. Celui-ci tiré sur grand vélin d'Arches. Tous les exemplaires sont signés au colophon par l'auteur, l'artiste et l'éditeur. Les gravures ont été tirées chez Lacourière.
188973061Paris: Eug. Unsworth & Cie. 1889. First edition. Oversize trade or display card 7 1/8 x 4 7/8 inches. French. Recto printed in red and black; verso in black. Four illustrations. A beautiful survivor.The front of the card bears woodcut illustrations of the four applications for Serpollet’s new steam engine; boat generator tricycle and car Phaeton a Vapeur The rear bears contact information capitalization list of applications and general information. One of the addresses has been professionally redacted Pagasins; 5 Avenue de l’Opera. Serpollet called his company the "Societe des generateurs a vaporisation Instantee"This appears to be the sole surviving item of ephemera from Leon Serpollet’s early career. Nothing remotely akin to this can be found in OCLC or in the Bibliotheque National. One of the very first advertisements for an automobile and as such very rare and very important.Leon Serpollet and his brother Henri early French steam car pioneers worked together to perfect the flash tube boiler that introduced an efficient and new way to produce steam. The exact date that their innovative system was first built appears to be unknown but after further development it went on to make steam power in an automobile more practical because of its advanced design and quick steam output. “In 1887 Serpollet had caught Armand Peugot’s attention when he had built a single-cylinder steam engine almost entirely of scrap parts and fitted it to a pedal tricycle. Armand subsequently provided financing to Serpollet to create the world’s first steam-powered tricylce. In 1889 at the World’s Fair in Paris Serpollet introduced his invention as presented in this card making Peugot one of the pioneers of the proto-automobile†S. E. Ante Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital. At that Fair Leon Serpollet saw Karl Benz’s Motorwagon 3 now acknowledged to be the first automobile. Realizing the importance of the car Serpollet changed direction. In 1898 the brothers met a wealthy investor named Frank Gardner and together they formed the Gardener-Serpollet Company. Shortly afterwards they introduced one of the best-engineered early steam cars to be found in the automotive marketplace.Serpollet's flash-tube or mono tube boiler as it is also known turns a small quantity of water into steam quickly and it also has the ability to provide a continual supply to the engine when correctly designed. The new boiler also reduced the long period of time it took to get a conventional unit up to a useable pressure. Linking it to the advanced four cylinder engine Serpollet designed resulted in a fast and powerful performer. The Gardener-Serpollet success story soon resulted in Leon Serpollet setting a new World Land Speed Record at 75.06 mph on April 13 1902 driving the “Easter Egg†in Nice France. By this time the road near Paris had become too rough and too short for the speeds being reached so Serpollet used the now famous Promenade des Anglais at Nice. He had already been successful in racing and took several of his best cars to Nice in 1902. A contemporary report said the car looked like a boat turned upside down. However odd it looked he covered the kilometre in 29.8 seconds and was credited with 75.06 miles an hour. He then turned his attention to producing the Gardner-Serpollet and the Serpollet Steam Tram until his death in 1907. Eug. Unsworth & Cie. unknown
1952155462N.p.: N.p. 1952. Vintage string bound photograph album belonging to William Arthur Slaughter an ambulance driver in Southern California circa 1951 and 1952. Included with the album are a pay stub dated June 1948 and noting Slaughter's previous employment by Southern Pacific Company as a railway lineman two driver's identification cards dated 1951 and 1952 a promotional matchbook bearing the name and number of Schaefer Ambulance Service in California and approximately 24 newspaper clippings covering accidents in Los Angeles several showing photographs of Slaughter. Stamp of photographer Lew Nichols on the versos of nearly all of the photographs. <br /> <br /> The album contains 36 black-and-white photographs with six additional loose photographs also included with the collection. Manuscript ink annotations by Slaughter provide captions for many of the photographs identifying subjects and locations and noting details about the various incidents captured in the album. One particularly striking caption for a photograph of a woman being carried out on a stretcher reads: "Honeymoon Cottage / Her Husband Died during the night / she was found next morning unconsius / Suficated Gas Heater / in coma for 30 days then Died / Maried only Two weeks" sic. <br /> <br /> As the above caption implies the incidents captured in the album span from asphyxiation to heart attacks although the majority of photographs document automobile accidents-almost certainly one of the main causes of death in California in the 1950s. The album also includes several photographs of Slaughter and the other ambulance drivers "off duty" as well as one photograph of a new Cadillac apparently used as an ambulance. A grisly and fascinating collection of accident photography capturing the dark side of the golden age of the automobile in postwar America. <br /> <br /> Album 12 x 9 inches. Photographs range from 10 x 8 inches to 5 x 4 inches. Photographs Very Good plus album Very Good with front board detached from the binding. N.p. unknown
1750002392PDeux volumes in-12 (169 x 104 mm), veau havane moucheté, dos à cinq nerfs orné, pièce de maroquin rouge, alérions entre les nerfs, triple filet entourant les plats, armes au centre, dentelle sur les coupes, tranches mouchetées rouges (reliure d'époque). Edition originale. Exemplaire aux armes de Anne-Léon II de Montmorency, marquis de Fosseux (ou Fosseuse), puis duc de Montmorency, fils unique d'Anne-Léon Ier, baron de Montmorency, lieutenant général, et d'Anne-Marie-Barbe de Ville, sa première femme, appelé d'abord le marquis de Fosseuse, naquit le 11 août 1731 ; d'abord menin du Dauphin et capitaine-lieutenant des gendarmes de la reine, en mai 1745, il fut fait chevalier de Saint-Louis, le 3 avril 1758, et promu brigadier de cavalerie en décembre 1761, et maréchal de camp en juin 1753. Il émigra à Munster lors de la Révolution et mourut dans cette ville le 1er septembre 1799. Il avait épousé en premières noces, le 27 janvier 1761, Marie-Judith de Champagne et en secondes noces Anne-Françoise-Charlotte de Montmorency-Luxembourg, qui lui apporta en dot le duché de Montmorency. (OLIVIER, planche 810, 2). Ex-libris La Rochefoucauld duc de Bisaccia. (bel exemplaire, malgré de petits défauts aux coins, deux minimes trous sur la charnière supérieure tome 1, tome 2 page de titre réparée dans le bas, quelques pages brunies). // Two 12o volumes (169 x 104 mm), havana speckled calf, spine tooled raised on five bands, red morocco label, piece of arms between the bands ("alérions"), triple fillet border on covers, central coat of arms, dentelle on turns-in, red sprinkled edges (contemporary binding). First edition. Copy bearing the arms of Anne-Léon II de Montmorency, marquis de Fosseux (or Fosseuse), "puis duc de Montmorency, fils unique d'Anne-Léon Ier, baron de Montmorency, lieutenant général, et d'Anne-Marie-Barbe de Ville, sa première femme, appelé d'abord le marquis de Fosseuse, naquit le 11 août 1731 ; d'abord menin du Dauphin et capitaine-lieutenant des gendarmes de la reine, en mai 1745, il fut fait chevalier de Saint-Louis, le 3 avril 1758, et promu brigadier de cavalerie en décembre 1761, et maréchal de camp en juin 1753. Il émigra à Munster lors de la Révolution et mourut dans cette ville le 1er septembre 1799. Il avait épousé en premières noces, le 27 janvier 1761, Marie-Judith de Champagne et en secondes noces Anne-Françoise-Charlotte de Montmorency-Luxembourg, qui lui apporta en dot le duché de Montmorency". (OLIVIER, plate 810, 2). Bookplate La Rochefoucauld duc de Bisaccia. (fine copy, despite some little defects on corners, vol. 1 two minor holes on first hinge, vol. 2 title page restored on bottom, some pages uniformly foxed). Auteurs cités : Tome I Budé, Rabelais, Jodelle, Pibrac, Cujas, Montaigne, Amyot, Régnier, de Thou, de Viaud, Malherbe, Agrippa d'Aubigné, Maynard, Voiture, Vaugelas, Saumaise, Guez de Balzac, Cyrano de Bergerac, du Ryer, Scarron, Pascal, Honorat de Beuil, Molière, Chapelain, de Mézerai. Tome II : Pierre et Thomas Corneille, Ménage, Rabutin, Cte de Bussi, La Fontaine, Nicola, Marquise de Sévigné, Racine, de Scudéry, Perrault, Saint-Evremont, Bourdaloue, Bossuet, Bayle, Mabillon, Régnard, Fléchier, Boileau, Boileau, Malebranche, Madame Dacier, de Campistron, de Malezieu, Houdart de La Motte, Melchior de Polignac, Guyot Desfontaines., etc.aris Durand, Pissot 1750
1949191021949 Gouache, et encre de Chine, signée en bas à droite, (1949), 36 x 24 cm., encadrée.
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1962103090Automobile Quarterly Inc. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1962. Hardcover. Hardcover. Full set of Automobile Quarterly from Volume 1 No. 1 Spring 1962 thru the Fourth Quarter 2009. 4 volumes per year. 196 IssuesVolume 44 No. 1 has damaged corner to spine. Rest of set is in varying degrees of condition from Very Good to FINE condition. Due to size and weight of set extra postage required. Please inquire as to actual shipping costs. ; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall . Automobile Quarterly, Inc. hardcover
