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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
198532079Jarrold and Sons Ltd. New. 1985. Paperback. 0861453263 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - 160 pages. 1st English edition so stated. -- with a bonus offer-- . Jarrold and Sons Ltd. paperback
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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
1967154897Peru Indiana: N.p. 1967. Vintage stringbound vernacular photograph album documenting the vehicular obsessions of one Greg Wildrick of Peru Indiana who would ultimately kill four people in a motor vehicle accident and later die himself in the same manner while speeding. Approximately 150 black-and-white photographs and 50 color photographs with manuscript ink annotations captioning most of the images. <br /> <br /> Manuscript ink annotations on the front board provide the album's title: "#1 / Our new cars etc. / Family Too." Additional annotations on the inside rear board note: "The bullshit contained in this so called albumn sic belongs to Greg E. Wildrick / 4 Holiday Drive / Peru Indiana is where I live if you don't know me. Call 472-2550 / If you don't call me forget it!!! / Book Finished March 5 1967 at 4:45 A.M."<br /> <br /> The photographs in the album span roughly 1955 to 1966 compiled by Greg at the age of 19. In addition to many images of the family's muscle cars and trucks the album also contains quite a few shots of bicycles go-karts quarter midgets and speedboats often with family members posing happily nearby. Several images also capture vehicles in use.<br /> <br /> Patently obsessed with cars and speed from a young age Wildrick would go on to work as a used car salesman in nearby Kokomo Indiana throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Wildrick's fanaticism also evidently extended to his leisure hours as the Kokomo Tribune notes Wildrick's involvement in multiple speeding violations during the same period. <br /> <br /> One of the album's more striking photographs taken on December 19 1965 is a blurry color Polaroid of the speedometer of a 1966 Oldsmobile 442 going 110 miles per hour down US Highway 31. This same stretch of 31 would see Wildrick gravely injured and four others dead in a grisly two-car accident five years later in January of 1971. Sadly this would not be Wildrick's last serious accident as a similar collision on US Highway 35 would precipitate his own demise in 1986 at the age of 39.<br /> <br /> A fascinating and thorough album capturing a young man's coming-of-age in a car-centric family and more broadly allowing a personal glimpse into the golden age of the automobile in postwar America. <br /> <br /> 12.75 x 12.25 inches. Photographs ranging from Near Fine to Very Good plus with approximately 18 photographs lightly scuffed cracked toned and edgeworn. Album Very Good plus with light edgewear and scuffing on the boards. N.p. unknown
188059310Portland OR & Seattle WA: Walter Angus MacKay Julia Rose Eder MacKay Cross & Dimmitt ca. 1880-1958. Two vols. 1st - Thick oblong 4to. 11.5 x 8.75 x 2.25 in. 128 pp unpaginated. on thick black paper. With 461 photographs sized 1.75 x 2.75 in. up to 4.5 x 5.5 in. including 2 CDV’s 1 cyanotype several albumen and range of silver gelatin snapshots on matted and glossy paper stock many w/ annotations either on verso below images or w/in the margins at lower fore-edge or in pencil some w/ white ink alongside the images. Contemporary flexible polished calf post-binder punch-sewn at gutter margin in gold silk braid RPPC of Tillamook Bay OR by Gregg mounted on front cover chipping & wear to front cover wear to corners wear & rubbing to some fore-edges occasional chipping minor closed tears still VG exemplar; 2nd vol. -- Oblong 8vo. 8 x 5.75 in. 78 pp unpaginated. on thick tan paper stock. With 101 silver gelatin photographs mounted sized from 1.75 x 2.75 in. up to 4 x 6 in. some w/ sepia effect either mounted directly on the pages or many affixed with small strips of black paper or old paper corners affixing the images to the leaves a few w/ annotations on verso or below. Contemporary flexible diced calf “Housh†photo album chipping & wear to spine wear & bumping to corners some pages reworked by compilers at some point still a G exemplar both albums’ photos with bright strong contrast. These photo albums faithfully follow the sporting and leisure activities of two gearheads from Chicago -- Walter MacKay and his brother Carrol MacKay who together with their extended families and friends drive and auto-camp across the West. The large first album opens with many photos following a trip to Yosemite National Park as well as scenes along the route and upon the return of Walter & Julia. Their follow-up automobile trip in 1928 takes them to Yellowstone National Park via Spokane Idaho and Montana with photos included of Old Faithful a photo by Haynes of the Grand Geyser as well as auto camping at “Mammoth Hot Springs.†Subsequent photos trace their travels through the Columbia River Gorge the Snake River Mount Rainier National Park Ariel Dam near Ariel WA Hoods Canal WA and Newport OR. Their speed boat launch the Carmen is featured in some photos along with several views of pumps hoisting engines giant diesel and gas engines under repair. Other trips include those to Snoqualmie Falls Trout Lake WA near Mt. Adams working a hoist at logging camp partying with friends in Renton WA and even views of Walter MacKay advertising his Automobile Repair Shop with a cover on his rear tire. Other outings include auto camping and picnicking along the Mt. Hood Loop Grant’s Park on the Clackamas River Mt. Hood the Rogue River Table Mountain and views of Grants Pass. Walter and his gearhead friends were known for their stripped-down roadster racing cars and were also early participants in the Seattle Motorcycle Club and Motorcycle races. A couple photos within the two albums show early motorcycles and even gallivanting on some stripped down chassis without engines or tires. The second album includes a series of photos featuring Walter and his car beneath a towering Cedar Stump with arch cut into the base and him holding gun as well as standing on the fenders of the car. The second also includes automobile camping photos with tent and cots folded out of the rear of the automobile driving into Vancouver B.C. as well as driving to Mount Rainier and more along the Columbia River Highway and Mount Hood. Also featured are hunting shots in Eastern Oregon construction of a summer log cabin and much more. Mackay 1883-1959 was a mechanical engineer machinist gearhead racecar builder who came West working for the railroad as a machinist before working for Paragon Co. in Seattle as parts manager. He owned and operated the MacKay Automotive Repair at 165 E. 39th in Portland OR on the SW corner of 39th Cesar Chavez and Belmont for years before working at Albina Engine & Machine Works at the end of the Great Depression. One of the photos in the 2nd album shows MacKay with his camera shooting a photo and several show Julia MacKay’s 1880-1958 sisters and family. Should be noted we unknowingly catalogued an album on Seattle Auto Racing and Motorcycle Clubs from before World War I without having had access to these unknown albums. See: The Origins and Growth of the Club Scene in Western Washington 1910-1941 Jolly Rogers Motorcycle Club Feb. 7 2009; Seattle Motorcycle Races Pantages Theater Program Early Advertising in the West 1867-1918 Univ. of Washington Spec. Collections. Walter Angus MacKay, Julia Rose Eder MacKay, Cross & Dimmitt, unknown
194554550Seattle & Tacoma WA: Leo Dobry; Del Fanning ca. 1945-1955. 4to. 29 leaves unnumbered. composed of mylar sleeves. With 122 original photos printed on glossy photo paper 5 Kodachrome colour photos sized from 2.5 x 3.5 in. up to 3.5 x 5 in. some w/ annotations in lower fore-edge of image or on verso a few dated some soiling to one image & edgewear to a few. Recent cloth 3-ring binder lettering stamped on front cover excellent exemplar. This sensational group of original photographs records open wheel midget car racing just after World War II in and around Seattle Tacoma & Puyallup WA Victoria BC Portland OR California and Nevada including photos of many of the midget racers and their drivers at the Portland Raceway Aurora Speedway in Seattle the San Mateo Fairgrounds Reno Fairgrounds and the historic Langford Speedway in Victoria British Columbia. The hunger for speed the presence of large numbers of skilled mechanics & machinists a booming midget car racing scene nurtured by Ballard’s Gasoline Alley nurtured incredibly popular midget car racing circuits on the West Coast during the 1940s and 1950s. These photos open with shots of Geer McRae Motors Mercury # 75 the AA Plating Works No. 2 Leo Dobry’s No. 64 Kurtis Kraft midget racer driven by Del Fanning a jalopy racer No. 26 sponsored by Nix Auto Wrecker owned by Edward Prestek and the center of Ballard’s old Gasoline Alley in Seattle Swede Lindskog’s No. 3 midget racer and more. There are many photos of races wrecked midget racers midget open wheel racers on trailers and many action shots of them hurtling down the tracks. A number of the photos depict iconic Seattle driver Del Fanning in front of and sitting in his midget race cars including the “Seattle Special†No. 7 for Dick’s Auto Repair on 3817 Gilman Ave. in Seattle as well as No. 63 owned by Leo Dobry which was a Kurtis Midget with Offenhauser Engine and ran a number of races in the Northwest set track records at Langford and also raced the San Jose 100. There are photos annotated for the Portland Auto Show in 1954 when No. 44 wins 1st place as well as a series of images showing a pristine Midget Racer under construction in a garage. Leo Dobry was a racing car owner out of Tacoma who was a moderately successful car owner on the AAA and ASPAR circuits in the 1940s and 1950s as well as operated a successful speed shop which built and ran Kurtis Kraft racers on the Indy circuit and the Pike’s Peak Hill Climb. See: Don Radbruch Dirt Track Auto Racing 1919-1941: A Pictorial History pp. 302-303 100-124; Golden Wheels Fraternity Auto Racing Pathfinders Del Fanning History; Racin’ Thru the Raindrops: A Virtual Motorsport Scrapbook Lanford Speedway Victoria BC 2017; Brian Pratt Big Car Racing at Lanford Speedway Canadian Racer 2018; A Look Bat at Nix Auto Wrecking & Ballard’s Gasoline Alley Vintage West Woodland August 29 2016. Leo Dobry; Del Fanning, hardcover
191252555New York: Privately Printed University Press 1912. Tall 8vo. xiii 1 333 1 pp. Numerous photo plates photo text illustrations maps. Red ribbed embossed pictorial cloth cover art illustration of Vanderbilt in his Mercedes which set the 1904 land speed record of 92.3 mph at Daytona Beach FL gilt lettering & gilt ruling t.e.g. minor rubbing bumping to corners head & foot of spine couple very small holes at upper front hinge in cloth slightly shaken still G copy w/ faint ownership and gift inscription of the book being given to Peter C. Taylor from Peter Breymeier in 1941. Breymeier 1911-1991 was the son of Fred Breymeier b. 1876 noted Montclair NJ banker and auto racing enthusiast who had received the book originally from Vanderbilt. First edition of the second of these privately printed logs documenting the travels through Europe by the famed automobile racing enthusiast -- founder of the Vanderbilt Cup the first major trophy in American auto racing and avid supporter of the America’s Cup yacht races. This motoring memoir begins with the Vanderbilt’s travels in his one of his famed 1907 35-45 HP Renaults which Willie K had talked the company into producing after their 1906 French Grand Prix race win with the 13-liter racing car driven by Ferenc Szisz. One of these won the Morris Park 24-Hour race in October 1907 and subsequently one was used by Vanderbilt to trek over Europe from Liverpool to London then onto Paris over to Germany through the Austrian Tyrols then into Switzerland over to Monte Carlo and returned to Lyons. These are followed by accounts of his travels through Spain in a 1909 55-HP Mercedes witnessing the bull fights in Madrid through the Spanish Countryside and down to Seville followed by a trip through Northern Europe which lasted until 1910. The final trip from southern France around the entire countries of Spain & Portugal in 1911 were driven in a 1911 60-HP Mercedes fitted with a tonneau body and Michelin tires and hood and extra trunk rack in the back. Willie K. Vanderbilt 1878-1944 was a Vanderbilt scion served in World War I on the USS Tarantula on patrol off New York and New Jersey and was a skilled automobile and yacht racer. About 200 copies were printed of these “Log of my Motor†for friends and fellow motoring enthusiasts during the Brass Era carefully documenting mileage road conditions places visited as well as the performance of the various cars. See: The Owls Head Transportation Museum 1907 35-45 HP Renault The Old Motor 2015; Messer-Kruse Speed Demons American History Gear July 31 2013; Art Evans History of Sports Cars -- Speed Records at Daytona Beach Sports Car Digest 2011. Privately Printed, [University Press], hardcover
165640071à Paris: Chez Augustin Courbé 1656. Fine. Chez Augustin Courbé à Paris 1656 - 1658 16.50 x 24 cm relié Fifth edition of Voiture's uvres the first of which appeared in 1648; and first edition of the Nouvelles uvres de Voiture. A frontispiece by Mellan for the first volume a headpiece and an initial in the epistle and a fine portrait of the author by Champaigne engraved by Nanteuil. Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Raised spine richly decorated. Red morocco title label. One missing headcap. Tear with loss to upper joint at foot. Rubbing. Good copy. Voiture 1597-1648 was throughout his life a gallant and a courtier brilliant in salons and playing games. His epistolary talent earned him long popularity in France for fashionable prose and his poetry excels in the mannered and precious tone even though he knew how to be trivial when necessary. He is an essential figure of the literary scene of the early 17th century a true Molière character. Voiture is first and foremost a style not only in his letters Lettres amoureuses and his poetry but also in his prose see for example the delightful Métamorphoses. His works were in the image of the man gallant teaching beautiful language and fine manners to the habitués of the hôtel de Rambouillet. His fame was very great during his century and he remains an emblem for the 17th century. Chez Augustin Courbé unknown
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1947List2905United States and Canada 1947. Eleven double-sided scrapbook pages measuring 7 x 11 inches containing forty-five 2 ½ x 3 ½ inch photographs six postcards four maps four guides and nine typed pages. Scrapbook pages fragile with significant marginal damage; scrapbook contents generally excellent. A scrapbook documenting an African-American family’s road trip during July and August of 1947 which took them from Dutchess County New York through Quebec and New Brunswick and then Maine and Cape Cod. The scrapbook contains photographs of the family and scenery on the trip starting at Norrie State Park in Dutchess County then Quebec Gaspé Moncton’s Magnetic Hill in New Brunswick down the coast of Maine and finally a friend’s house in Marstons Mills on Cape Cod. It also includes postcards from various locations; maps of New York Quebec Canada’s Maritimes and Eastern Quebec and New England; tourist guides to Quebec Gaspé Moncton and the Cape; several retyped articles from the Toronto Globe and Mail; and a list of hotels in the Gaspé.<br /> <br /> For an African-American family traveling during the Jim Crow era this trip would have taken significant planning. Canada was not exempt from anti-Black discrimination at both legal and social levels; the car had solved the problem of segregated inferior public transportation but not the problem of finding a restaurant or hotel along one’s route that would actually serve Black patrons or even a safe place to stop and use the restroom. Victor Hugo Green’s Negro Motorist Green Book—a guidebook for food lodging and services that were friendly to African-Americans—did not include Canada until its 1949 edition. The family likely used it for the US leg of their trip but would have had to rely on other tactics for the Canadian leg. unknown
195053076Oakland CA & Hollywood CA: Lee’s Speed Shop; Hot Rod Magazine; Louis Hochman 3303 Cahuenga Blvd. Photographer 1950-1955. Oblong 4to. 24 leaves w/ 24 silver gelatin photos sized 7 x 10 in. up to 8 x 10 in. 4 w/ photographer’s stamps on versos 6 w/ red grease pencil markings & a couple with whiteout preparing camera-ready copy a few w/ annotations on versos still VG photos preserved in archival mylar sleeves. Recent limp black cloth post-binder gilt lettering stamped on front cover an excellent exemplar. This historic photo album records the construction and racing of Lee Chapel’s “Tornado Special†in 1952 at the Bonneville Salt Flats. Lee’s Speed Shop was one of the original members of the Dry Lakes Racers Bonneville 200 MPH Club who held their first meeting in September 1953 at the Bonneville Nationals. The “Tornado Special†was a Class C Streamliner which driven by John “Sonny†Rogers achieved a two-way average speed of 224.144 mph at Bonneville in 1952 featuring an unsprung front end torsion bars at the rear with a novel trunnion arrangement for pivoting the engine fitted with a 295 cubic in. Mercury engine equipped with a Lee’s Speed Shop “Tornado†overhead valve conversion. The front end was built from a 36 Ford and had split radius rods mounted to a tubular frame and the rear end was a reworked 1932 Ford Model A. The Tornado Special crashed in 1953 and the body was left at Bonneville while many of the parts were salvaged. Chapel 1905-1966 opened his first speed shop while sharing space with a junkyard in 1928 at 3263 San Fernando Road in LA which he later moved to 4557 Alhambra Ave. from 1933 to 1937. In 1937 he closed the shop to tour the country racing open wheel midget cars until he reopened his Lee’s Speed Shop at 1143 East 14th St. in Oakland CA. He served during World War II as a TEC4 until discharge in 1945 whereupon he resumed his Speed Shop in Oakland. Lee’s Speed Shop was a pioneer in the southern California Hot Rod scene who along with George Wight blazed the used hot rod parts trail. See: Hot Rod of the Month Man Made Tornado Hot Rod Magazine Sept. 1953 pp. 34-38; Daniel Strohl Lost Speed Shops: Bell Chapel Orr Hemmings Daily Nov. 23 2009; David Lucsko Junkyards Gearheads and Rust: Salvaging the Automotive Past p. 37; Lee Chapel Origin of a Speed Shop In: Hot Rod Magazine June 1928 p. 13; Kinne & Warner Bonneville 200 MPH Club History -- Links in a Chain 2010. Lee’s Speed Shop; Hot Rod Magazine; Louis Hochman, 3303 Cahuenga Blvd. (Photographer), hardcover
165050197à Paris: Chez Augustin Courbé 1650. Fine. Chez Augustin Courbé à Paris 1650 - 1658 16.50 x 23 cm relié Second edition of the Oeuvres and first by Courbe who had just acquired the privilege by Voiture and first edition of the Nouvelles oeuvres. Two title vignettes by Picart. A fine portrait by Champaigne. Binding in full eighteenth-century mottled calf. Spine with raised bands handsomely decorated with fleurons and stars fillet at tail. Red morocco title-label. Triple gilt fillet frame on boards. Decorative gilt board-edges. Marbled edges. Fine restorations to corners and headcaps. Rubbing. First leaves yellowed with small marginal dampstains. Extensive yellowing on the preliminary leaves of the Nouvelles oeuvres. Voiture 1597-1648 was throughout his life a gallant and courtier brilliant in the salons and playing at games. His epistolary talent earned him the distinction of making prose fashionable in France for a long time and his poetry excels in the mannered and precious tone even though he knows how to be trivial in turn when necessary. He is an essential figure of the literary scene of the early seventeenth century a true Molière character. Voiture is above all a style not only in his letters Lettres amoureuses and his poetry but also in his prose see for example the delightful Métamorphoses. His works were in the image of the man gallant teaching fine language and beautiful manners to the regulars of the hôtel de Rambouillet. His fame was very great during his century and he remains an emblem of the seventeenth century. Chez Augustin Courbé hardcover
1966155116N.p.: N.p. 1966. Archive of photographs newspaper clippings and various ephemera belonging to a Kenny Aumont Brown 1943-2016 of Burlington North Carolina largely relating to automobiles and automobile accidents 1963-1966.<br /> <br /> The archive assembled by Brown when in his early twenties documents his preoccupation with automobiles automobile accidents and racing at a time when Brown was first employed as a tow truck driver for Cobb Motor Company and later as part of a rescue unit as seen in one of the newspaper clippings. In his later years Brown would serve as an Alamance County Deputy Sheriff for 34 years. A copious and insightful vernacular documentation of the relationship of southern culture and automobiles in the early to mid 1960s.<br /> <br /> The archive contains 37 standard size black and white photographs one 8 x 10 inch black and white photograph four color photographs 25 newspaper clippings two newspaper issues and twelve various documents all housed in a photo album. The archive contains annotations throughout in white marker on the black leaves of the photo album and frequently in pen or pencil on the margins of articles and photographs.<br /> <br /> The photographs in the archive include shots of Cobb Motor Company vehicles and shop including a circa 1930s photograph of a 1930s Cobb vehicle laid in various crashed vehicles with annotations including location and fatalities wrecked NASCAR vehicles one page including the annotations of "Petty Plymouth's 1962" and "Car witch sic almost killed Lee Perry" three of local drag races and several of friends and family vehicles including Brown's own cherished 1949 Plymouth which he identifies as "My Own True Love KAB." Many of the photographs include developer dates stamped into the margin which range from 1958 1960 1962 and 1965.<br /> <br /> The newspaper clippings in the archive date from 1963 to 1966 with the majority about local automobile accidents but also feature articles on NASCAR accidents and fatalities Joe Weatherly illegal racing a transportation shop fire a murder suicide and an Alamance plane crash which killed three which is included in two clippings as well as a full issue of the Daily Times News.<br /> <br /> As well as the photographs and newspaper clippings the archive includes various personal effects which include Brown's driver's license two car registrations belonging to his mother Cathera Garner Brown a 1962 Dion and Sam Cook concert ticket and a letter from the North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles warning Brown his license is in danger of suspension from speeding violations with an adjacent "Nasty Letter" annotation. Also included are much older family artifacts including a 1914 postcard receipt from Burlington Coffin Company a 1917 postcard receipt from Piedmont Railway and Electric and a 1919 receipt from Souther Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company all belonging to a presumed grandfather W.L. Burke of Burlington.<br /> <br /> On the first leaf of the album is Brown's name dated "Dec. 1963" and his initials in bold Gothic calligraphy in white. On the verso of the first leaf is a Sunday May 19 1963 newspaper clipping of an accident featuring a strikingly disturbing photograph of a man hanging from a telephone pole upon which his body was thrown his car burning below him with the adjacent annotation "Will They Ever Learn." The photograph in the clipping is of note as it was the image appropriated by Andy Warhol for his 1963 painting "Green Car Crash Green Burning Car I" one of the most celebrated paintings of his early "Death and Disaster" series.<br /> <br /> Photo album with string binding 12.5 x 8.75 inches. Very Good plus. Photographs Newspaper clippings and ephemera Very Good overall with a few clippings laid in and ten of the photographs loose from the original tape mounting many with faint soil tape shadows and light creasing. N.p. unknown
