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183869551London: Simpkin Marshall and Co 1838. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 264pp. Small octavo 19.5 cm Green decoratively embossed cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Yellow endpapers. Frontispiece illustration. Spine sunned. Cloth at spine ends chipped. Underlying boards barely just beginning to peek through at corners. Free endpapers and recto of frontispiece mildly discolored. Short tape repairs to long closed tear on p. 140 no text is obscured. Loss to fore-edge margin of p. 163/64 again text not affected. Stitching visible in inside margins however binding very sturdy.<br /> <br /> Ex-libris James Cowan Smith with his bookplate depicting his beloved dog Callum on the front pastedown. James Cowan Smith 1843-1919 was a British civil engineer director of a railway company British Wagon and philanthropist. In his will he bequeathed what would now amount to roughly $4284000 to the National Gallery of Scotland to be used to expand its collection. The one stipulation was that the portrait of his dog Callum by John Emms was to be on permanent display in the museum. The condition of the donation helped draw attention to Callum's rare terrier breed the Dandie Dinmont. Simpkin, Marshall, and Co hardcover
18848967Chicago: Breeder's Gazette Print 1884. Staplebound. Fine. 24mo 62pp. A fine fresh copy in the publisher's dark green wraps printed in gold over side-stapled binding. A few tiny nicks to extremities but a very attractive example about fine. A pocket-sized guide to the premiums or prizes awarded to the winning entrants in the livestock events of the 1885 "World Cotton Centennial" one of the earliest World's Fairs held in the southern US. Unrecorded in OCLC and apparently not held at HNOC. Breeder's Gazette, Print unknown
188061105Albany NY & Niagara Falls NY: Charles Van Benthuysen & Sons; H.F. Nielson Manufacturer of all kinds of Paper & Glass Views 1880; ca. 1880. Two pieces. 1st - Two parts in one. 8vo. 42; 96 pp. Part I with nine mounted albumen Heliotype photos 1 large folding engraved panorama small closed tear neatly repaired at fold 4 large folding maps 2 folding maps in second part in rear pocket. Green publisher’s cloth over beveled boards gilt lettering stamped on front cover & spine minor edgewear minor bumping to corners rubbing still VG- copy; 2nd - One large mammoth albumen photograph mounted sized 15.5 x 18.5 in. on 18.5 x 20 in. board photographer’s imprint on verso some foxing minor soiling edgewear toning to verso still VG- bright exemplar preserved in shrink wrapped foam core and framing cardstock. First edition of this well-illustrated report reproducing four pages in facsimile of Father Hennepin’s double-page 17th-Century woodcut engraving of Niagara Falls as well as the extended appendix by Frederick Olmstead co-designer of New York’s Central Park on the importance of retaining the beauty of the Niagara Falls for the public and stop the process of destruction. Barker 1844-1894 was a noted Canadian-American landscape painter who worked his entire career as a photographer and whose superb views of the Niagara Falls and area were reproduced in Heliotype for this significant early conservation report. His negatives were sold after his death to Underwood & Underwood. The stunning mammoth-sized albumen photo by Nielson captures the Niagara Falls plunging down onto the viewing platform below as this image is taken from below the falls rather than above. Nielson fl. 1880-early 1900’s specialized in large-scale landscape views and worked most of his life in Niagara NY specializing in majestic tourist views of the Falls. Charles Van Benthuysen & Sons; H.F. Nielson, Manufacturer of all kinds of Paper & Glass Views, hardcover
188329116Paris: Administration Imprimerie A. Lahure 1883. First edition. Folio 18 1/4 x 13 1/2 inches unpaged profusely illustrated with b&w and color lithographs including vignettes full page and some double page. Decorated cloth printed in colors. A near fine and bright copy. PARIS ILLUSTRÉ an elaborately illustrated periodical commenced publication on May 1883 and ran until 1906. This the first volume is complete in 9 parts: AU SALON DE 1883; VILLÉGIATURE ET BAINS DE MER; EXPOSITION D'AMSTERDAM; POUR LRS ENFANT; A ISCHIA; EXPOSITION NATIONALE; AU TONKIN; ÉNTRENNES; EXPOSITION DE NICE. Among the authors are: Alexandre Dumas Jules Gros Victor Hugo C. Saint-Saens et al. The illustrations are by the leading artist of France<br /> <br /> A serial devoted to fine printing and progress in the graphic arts. Administration (Imprimerie A. Lahure) unknown
18622312250289xbvkHannover, Carl Rümpler, 1862. I. 1 unbedrucktes Blatt, Vortitelblatt, Titelbl, Widmungsblatt, 262 Seiten, 2 unbedruckte Blätter. / II. 1 unbedr. Bl., 272 Seiten (Titelblatt in der Seitenzählung enthalten), 1 unbedr. Bl. / III. 1 unbedr. Bl., Vortitelbl, Titelbl., 331 Seiten, 1 unbedr. Blatt. - Überaus reich ornamental-goldgeprägte Ledereinbände der Zeit über 4 erhabene Bünde mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel und Vollgoldschnitt, die breit-randvergoldeten Innendeckel und die schmal-randvergoldeten Vor- und Nachsatzblätter mit silberner Moiréeseide bezogen; 8vo.(ca. 19 x 12,5 x 6,5 cm).
18672312220271xbvkLeipzig, Friedrich Fleischer, 1867. Fliegendes Vorsatzblatt, 1 unbedrucktes Blatt, Vortitelbl., Titelblatt, 10 Blätter Widmungen, Vorwort und Inhaltsverzeichnis, 233 (1) Seiten; 4 Seiten Verlagswerbung für Armand, 1 unbedrucktes Blatt. / Fliegendes Vorsatzblatt, 1 unbedrucktes Blatt, 4 Seiten Verlagswerbung für Armand, Vortitelbl., Titelblatt, (4) 236 (1) Seiten. - Ornamental blindgeprägte braune Original-Leineneinbände mit dezenter Rückenvergoldung, goldgeprägtem Rückentitel und marmoriertem Rundumschnitt; 8vo.(ca. 18,5 x 12 x 3 cm).
18551617<p>The Congregational Association of New York established a committee to investigate and report on<em> "The relation of the American Tract Society to the Subject of Slavery"</em>. The report of that committee was made in 1855. The conclusions drawn are not clear for it had been the policy of the Society to not take any position on slavery since they believed it was not a proper religious issue. In any event one member of The Congressional Association wrote <strong>"The Tables Turned" -- A Letter to the Congregational Association of New York reviewing the Report of their committee on "The Relation of the American Tract Society to the Subject of Slavery" By a Congregationalist Director</strong> taking issue with the procedures actions conclusions and writings of the Committee.</p><p>This letter writer did not wish to identify himself other than by the nom-de-plume of<em> A Congregationalist Director</em>. He expressed his dissatisfaction however with words such as<em> ".The facts are these: the chairman of your committee whose name alone would entitle it to general credit – never saw the report till weeks after your meting had been held and was absent from the meeting at which it was presented.And the further fact is stated without fear of contradiction that the acting chairman of your Committee whose multiform duties have required him to pass almost daily the door of the Tract house during the year of his appointment has in no instance within that period made an inquiry of any officer or Committee-man connected with the institution on any point embraced in the Report while there is indubitable internal proof in the document itself of a total lack of investigation of the public documents of the Society.".</em></p><p>The letter is contained in a 44 pages string-bound booklet with a front paper cover but no rear cover that measures approximately 5 ¾ x 9 inches. The pages are tanned and there are pencil notes in the margins of a number of pages. The text is clear and easily read. There are markings on the front cover related to the prior ownership by the Western Reserve Historical Society Cleveland Ohio. The booklet is a first edition as published in Boston by Crocker & Brewster and in New York by Edward P. Rudd. The booklet is in good condition</p><p>The illustrations accompanying this description show the booklet's front cover the first page of text and a typical 2-page spread of further text.</p> Crocker & Brewster and Edward P. Rudd paperback
189512922Mexico: Instituto Geologico De Mexico. Good. 1895-96. Hardcover. Half leather marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. Three volumes of this fine Mexican geological journal bound in one. 55 46 & 57 pages. Illustrated with twenty-four two-color plates in volume one and several large folding plates at the end of volume three. There is a dampstain to the lower 2-3" of the entire text block. Two of the folding plates have 2" tears at the attached side. There is a round embossed stamp and another stamp to the first blank. The cover corners are bumped and there is a small chip to the leather at the lower spine. Text in Spanish. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall . Instituto Geologico De Mexico hardcover
189794437Imprenta de Ricardo Rojas 1897. hardcover. Bueno. Madrid 1897. Imprenta de Ricardo Rojas. Holandesa. Lomo con nervios dorados y tejuelos. Con guarda cubiertas. 486 pp. 25x16. Año completo inicio en Abril de 1897. 9 cuadernos en 1 sólo volúmen. Imprenta de Ricardo Rojas hardcover
1891022669Boston: Appalachian Mountain Club 1891. No Binding. Near Fine. An original heliotype map published by the AMC Appalachian Mountain Club in January 1891. Folded twice each way as published. 21" x 24". Archival tape on the verso some minor loss at a few fold junctions. Good Scarce. <br/> <br/> Appalachian Mountain Club unknown
1875055260Constantinople Istanbul: Neologos Litografyasi - Votîra ve Sürekasi Matbaasi. AH 1292 1875. 1st Edition . Leather. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Contemporary 1/4 leather bdg. with marbled boards. Small 4to. 27 x 19 cm. 23 p. 11 p. in Ottoman script Old Turkish with Arabic letters; 12 p. in French with rare 4 folded maps. A very good copy. First and only edition of this extremely rare bilingual book in French and Ottoman Turkish including the first records on the formation and characteristics of storms to explain how storms and hurricanes occurred which route they followed and how they were conveyed to the regions that need to be warned by telegraph for the vessels sailing in the seas by French expert Coumbary who was founded the Rasathâne-i Âmîre i.e. Ottoman Imperial Observatory. Both the original French and Turkish translations of the work were published together in one volume. The work also included four maps which were drawn for this work only. The first map shows the movement of a storm that occurred on March 8 1865 the second one shows the occurrence between the Tropic Cancer and Capricorn whirlwinds storms in the Atlas and Indian oceans the movements in the Bay of Bengal the storms in different directions in the China Sea the Gulfstream Grönland and Azores. The second observatory in the Ottoman era was established for meteorology. Before this center was established beginning from the Reformation 1839 many meteorological observatories were built by foreigners in various cities such as Istanbul Smyrna Trebizond Tekirdag and Merzifon both as private and public establishments. The very first known temperature readings are the meteorological observations made by the Priest Dalmas at the St. Benôit monastery between 1839-1847. Later William Lane an Englishman who came to Istanbul during the Crimean War made observations at the British Cemetery at Haydarpasa. W. Noe director of the Mekteb-i Fünûn-u Sahane made observations at the house in Kalyoncukulluk where he lived until the Beyoglu Fire in 1848; and finally it is known that French engineer Ritter who was invited by the government for waterworks in Kuruçesme 1856-1860 also conducted meteorological observations. Observations on precipitation and humidity conducted between 1875-1892 by an amateur observer on the Thomson Farm in Erenköy are invaluable on the subject of Istanbul's climate. These observations have been published in Budapest in 1928. Excellent observations on heat pressure and humidity made in the summer residence of the Russian ambassador on Büyükada have also been published in Annales St. Petersburg. In 1858 the French government established the first observatory communicating data over the telegraph and in 1863 by compiling meteorological data in France the French National Meteorological Network started operations. In 1868 upon the recommendation of the French government the Rasathane-i Âmire was founded to convey meteorological forecasts to certain centers by telegraph. Instruments were purchased from leading European factories and operations started on top of a hill 74 meters high on Pera. The first director was Mr. Aristide Coumbray who came to Istanbul to renovate the telegraph network. Instruments commissioned from France were set up at Mr. Coumbary's home which stood at the garden of the Swedish Embassy. The observatory was later moved after its offices were prepared. Coumbary represented Turkey in the first international meteorology congress convened in Wien five years later in 1873. Rasathane-i Âmire worked by the same system as the National Meteorology Center in France. In the observation books of 1868 August-November names of affiliated stations are given to us Soulina Köstence Constantia Varna Burgaz Valona Elbasan Durazzo and Beirut. Later stations in Izmir Diyarbakir Baghdad and Fao were also added. The observatory founded by Aristide Coumbary in 1868 in Istanbul operated until the end of the First World War. Özege 5735.; TBTK 7688 10862.; Not in OCLC. <br/> <br/> Neologos Litografyasi - Votîra ve Sürekasi Matbaasi., [AH 1292] hardcover
1897145726N.p.: N.p. 1897. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1897 short film with the number 542 in manuscript pencil on the verso with a still image from the film corresponding to that number on the website Catalogue Lumiere showing a similar scene. <br /> <br /> While the importance of the Lumiere Brothers to the invention and popularity of the moving image is well known director Alexandre Promio who filmed over 300 shorts for the Lumieres deserves equal consideration. Of particular note are the series of films he shot while presenting the new technology at the 1897 General Art and Industrial Exposition in Stockholm Sweden of which "Arrivee a l'Exposition en bateau" is one. The films represent the first ever shot in the country and Promio would go on to train pioneering Swedish director Ernest Florman in the art of filmmaking. Other trips with the Lumieres included ones to Russia England Germany Hungary the United States and Italy where Promio shot "Panorama du Grand Canal pris d'un bateau" thought to be the first film shot with a moving camera. <br /> <br /> 9.25 x 7 inches. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Provenance available on request. N.p. unknown
1897145726N.p.: N.p. 1897. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1897 short film with the number 542 in holograph pencil on the verso with a still image from the film corresponding to that number on the website Catalogue Lumiere showing a similar scene. <br/><br/>While the importance of the Lumiere Brothers to the invention and popularity of the moving image is well known director Alexandre Promio who filmed over 300 shorts for the Lumieres deserves equal consideration. Of particular note are the series of films he shot while presenting the new technology at the 1897 General Art and Industrial Exposition in Stockholm Sweden of which "Arrivee a l'Exposition en bateau" is one. The films represent the first ever shot in the country and Promio would go on to train pioneering Swedish director Ernest Florman in the art of filmmaking. Other trips with the Lumieres included ones to Russia England Germany Hungary the United States and Italy where Promio shot "Panorama du Grand Canal pris d'un bateau" thought to be the first film shot with a moving camera. <br/><br/>9.25 x 7 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Provenance available on request. N.p. unknown books
187739488San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft & Co. Printers 721 Market St 1877. 1st printing. Program and rear advert printed in black ink to white silk cloth. Fraying to edges of cloth light yellow staining no hinderance to text to program side. Light creasing to bottom right edge. Otherwise an About VG example. Single piece of silk printed both sides. Illustration of the Baldwin Hotel to advert side. 8-9/16" x 5-1/4" <br/><br/>An early San Francisco theater program printed on silk. A. L. Bancroft was the brother of noted historian and collector Hubert Howe Bancroft who donated his library to UCLA and for which the Bancroft Library is named. H. H. Bancroft began his own publishing house which in 1868 he resigned from in favor of his brother. No institutional holdings found on OCLC. Rare. A. L. Bancroft & Co., Printers, 721 Market St hardcover books
1886029733Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1886. First edition 1886 externally fair but internally good to very good some musty odor. Series of papers concerned with Native American history and ethnology. Subject include: pictographs; pueblo pottery; Mississippi valley pottery; origins of form and ornament in ceramic art. Includes 83 full page plates including eleven color plates one of which is a double-page folding plate. Olive green cloth printed in gilt 11.5 inches tall 531 pages. Front cover badly spotted and stainedto a light olive color otherwise only light external wear good hinges sound text block some very minor foxing to endpapers pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Musty odor may eventually fade with time. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Government Printing Office Hardcover
189779029Washington 1897. Hardcover. Good. folding map index 133p. Contemporary 1/2 leather. 23cm. Backstrip faded. Cover scuffed. Contents sound. Bureau of American Republics Handbook No. 84 August 1897. 55th Congress 2d Session. Senate Doc. No. 178 Part 13. A former owner has used 13 of the blank pages bound in at the end to record the Constitution and Bylaws of the Alfred College Club a list of members and the minutes of six meetings of the association between 1925 and 1929. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1864009525New York: Medical Director's Office Department of the East 1864. Unbound. Very good. One-page Civil War letter on Department of the East Medical Director's Office stationery notifying commanders of Union General Hospitals that: <p style="margin-left:3%; margin-right:3%;">"The Surgeon General instructs me to inform all Medical officers . . . to inform their patients that the firm of Randolph and Co. Government Solicitors Post Office Box No 38 Washington D.C. are swindlers and to take such means as may be necessary to stop their thieving operations."<p>It is unspecified what the fraudulent actions of Randolph and Company fraudulent involved however contemporary records suggest that the firm may have preyed upon furloughed patients at train stations in some manner while they traveled to their homes. Certainly worthy of further research. <br /><br /> Medical Director's Office, Department of the East books
189423022San Francisco: Published exclusively by 1894. First Edition. Oblong 8vo 8 1/2" x 11 1/2". Full-page chromolithographs with titles 7 in Part One and 8 in Part Two. Original linen-backed chromolithograph stiff covers string-tied. Part One Cover has pulled out from the ties and the first two plates are partially pulled out; remnants of small labels on upper front corner of each cover; light general wear; the plates are clean; a very good and scarce set.<br /> <br /> Although the title references the two World Fairs - White City and Sunset City - the 15 stunning chromolithographic illustrations capture the architectural splendor and festive allure of the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition only. The string ties are tight; however it's possible that Sunset City plates could have been removed.<br /> <br /> Part One includes: Looking South from Wooded Island; The Yerkes Telescope; Looking East in the Grand Court; the Gilded Entrance to the Transporation Building; the Viking; Interior of Electrical Building; Moonlight on the Lagoons; <br /> <br /> Part Two includes: Art Palace at Night; The Caravels and La Rabida; Old Vienna; Along the Plaisance; The Silver Statue Montana Exhibit; Old Liberty Bell; Cairo Street; At Night in the Grand Court. <br /> <br /> The artist Charles Graham 1852-1911 was a self-taught American illustrator painter and lithographer whose vivid watercolors and sketches immortalized the grandeur of late 19th-century World's Fairs earning him acclaim as a chronicler of American progress and spectacle. The high spot in his life came with the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago where he was appointed official artist. Published exclusively by unknown
189820405Paris: Librairie J. Rouam & Cie 1898. First edition. Hardcover. Contemporary three quarter navy morocco and marbled boards. Teg. Near fine. 366 pages. 33 x 23 cm. Profusely illustrated: tinted and full color lithographic plates plus black and white text illustrations. In 1879 Champier founded this publication the official voice of the Union Centrale modeled after the London's Kensington Museum now known as the Victoria and Albert Museum to promote the decorative arts as well as critique contemporary art. This volume presents work by L.O. Merson wall panel Hotel de Ville Tiffany vase binding design by P. Ruban and full page plate by Mucha. Text in French interior contents fresh and clean raised bands spine panels decorated in gilt marbled endpapers slight extremity rubbing small owner stamp free endpaper verso. Librairie J. Rouam & Cie hardcover books
189920406Paris: Librairie J. Rouam & Cie 1899. First edition. Hardcover. Contemporary three quarter navy morocco and marbled boards. Teg. Near fine. 410 pages. 33 x 23 cm. Profusely illustrated: tinted and full color lithographic plates plus black and white text illustrations. In 1879 Champier founded this publication the official voice of the Union Centrale modeled after the London's Kensington Museum now known as the Victoria and Albert Museum to promote the decorative arts as well as critique contemporary art. This volume presents work by Gustave Moreau full-page color lithograph bindings by P.-J. Ruban pochoir plate of rug design chapter on jewelry design work by Tiffany rug designs after William Morris. Original illustrated wrappers bound-in. Text in French interior contents fresh and clean raised bands spine panels decorated in gilt marbled endpapers slight extremity rubbing small owner stamp free endpaper verso. Librairie J. Rouam & Cie hardcover books
189720404Paris: Librairie J. Rouam & Cie 1897. First edition. Hardcover. Contemporary three quarter navy morocco and marbled boards. Teg. Near fine. 420 pages. 33 x 23 cm. Profusely illustrated: tinted and full color lithographic plates plus black and white text illustrations. In 1879 Champier founded this publication the official voice of the Union Centrale modeled after the London's Kensington Museum now known as the Victoria and Albert Museum to promote the decorative arts as well as critique contemporary art. This volume presents work by J. Godart V. Lelong a full-page aquarelle by Eugene Grasset plus a chapter devoted to the latter with black and white images by him designs by Th. Guerin V. Bourgeois et al. Text in French interior contents fresh and clean raised bands spine panels decorated in gilt marbled endpapers slight extremity rubbing small owner stamp free endpaper verso. Librairie J. Rouam & Cie hardcover books
1900035903Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1900. First edition 1900. Part VII Alaska including numerous illustrations and maps including folding maps in color 5 large folding maps in a rear pocket. Externally quite worn internally good to very good maps very good. Ex college library with expected markings plus withdrawn stamps on the endpapers and stamped once on the reverse side of each folding map. Dark brown cloth printed in gilt 11.5" tall 508 pages. Covers lightly rubbed with additional wear to the extremities hinges internally reglued and secure text block sound pages slightly age-yellowed but clean. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Government Printing Office Hardcover
19005676Wellington: John Mackay Government Printer. Fair with no dust jacket. 1900. First Edition. Softcover. Spine titled roughly by hand. Extensive marginalia including scribbled out although still legible entries. ; vi 156 pages. Printed card boards with later cloth spine. Second edition substantially larger than the first edition of 1890 which had 56 pages. "This library contains books belonging to the New Zealand Institute the Geological Survey Department the Colonial Museum acquired either as donations or deposits the Patent Office and the Wellington Philosophical Society." - from the preface by James Hector. Ordered first by subject and then by alphabetical order of title. The main subject divisions are Physical Science; Natural Science; Applied Science; and General. Also included with this book are two incomplete poor defective copies of the first edition of 1890 with substantial sections of text cut away from pp. 1-6 in each copy.; 8vo . John Mackay, Government Printer paperback
1878MASTER245221IMONTREAL: GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. VG IN BLUE CLOTH LIBRARY BINDING. Pages: 192. . 1878. HARDCOVER. PARTIAL REPORT BOUND TO PG 192. 1 LARGE MAP IN REAR POCKET. PAGES TONING BUT CLEAN. BINDING TIGHT. . GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA hardcover
184855296New York: David Libidins Independent Booking Office 1848. First printing. Softcover. Near fine condition. Large Quarto. Unpaginated. Original stylized red anniversary print on yellow wraps; protected by modern mylar. Contains Denham address on the occasion of the ten year anniversary close-ups of Alexandra Danilova Frederic Franklin Nathalia Krassovska Leon Denielian Ruthana Boris and Mary Ellen Moyland. Scenery and costumes by Christian Berard in color. Repertoire printed in red and black to turquoise paper. Full-page color costume sketch by Henri Matisse. Illustrated advertisements in b/w and color. Minor wear. Serge Diaghilev 1872-1929 was the founder of the Ballets Russes a troupe that revolutionized modern design fashion and theater and is widely regarded as the most influential ballet company of the 20th Century. It performed first in Paris in 1909 at the Palls Garnier with overwhelming success. Diaghilev himself was skeptical about ballet at times referring to the dancers as "a herd of cattle." Diaghilev's success however was based on his idea to combine dance music and visual arts including set design and costumes with Leon Bakst as the artistic director of the Ballet Russes. Key to the tremendous success of the Ballets Russes was the mix of traditional ballet with show elements that way making it more appealing to the general public and influential in contemporary art at the same time.<br /> <br /> After Diaghilev's death in 1929 his property was claimed by his creditors and in 1931 Wassily de Basil a Russian émigré and René Blum ballet director at the Monte Carlo Opera founded the Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo. Its first performance was given in 1932 at the Monte Carlo Opera. David Libidins, Independent Booking Office unknown
