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1891184702Washington DC.: Government Printing Office. 1891. hardcover. vg/0. cover shelf wear scuffing bumped corners. 4to. folding pocket map included. Government Printing Office. hardcover books
1897139206N.p.: Veriscope 1897. Two vintage fragments from a 63mm film print of the 1897 boxing match between "Gentleman" Jim Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons. The first fragment consists of six frames depicting the fighters in a clinch while the second consists of four frames depicting the fighters in the center of the ring about to trade punches. <br/><br/>At over 100 minutes the film is the first feature length release anywhere and with an aspect ratio of 1.65:1 the first widescreen film ever produced. Though fragments such as this survive the film in its entirety is considered lost. <br/><br/>A five frame fragment is held the National Media Museum in the UK and approximately 19 minutes are available for viewing but OCLC locates no fragments in institutions. <br/><br/>The heavy weight title bout took place on March 17 1897 in Carson City Nevada which legalized boxing specifically to host this fight beginning the long and storied relationship between the Silver State and the sweet science. Boxing was already a popular subject for filmmakers however these were short films generally of single rounds. Using the new Latham loop technology which he claimed to have invented director Rector shot the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight continuously using three adjacent ringside cameras with each camera capable of shooting six minutes of footage before reloading. In total approximately 11000 feet of film was shot over all 14 rounds of the contest. In addition to length the film distinguished itself from the boxing films of the time by presenting an introduction to the fight by former champion John L. Sullivan and his manager the fighters entering the ring in their robes the fighters resting between rounds and in later releases the immediate aftermath of the fight all of which are standards of boxing broadcasts to this day. <br/><br/>On release the film became a sensation and gained wide and lasting popularity proving the financial viability of feature length films as well increasing the public's interest in both motion pictures and boxing becoming a landmark in the history of film and sports. <br/><br/>Also included is a flyer for a showing of the film on September 21 1897 at the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster PA including a brief synopsis of the action. <br/><br/>First film print 2.5 x 7.25 inches. Very Good with chips to some of the sprocket holes on the right edge and to the upper right corner of one frame a 3/4 inch closed horizontal tear to the bottom frame and a bit of accompanying loss to the image and a vertical scratch running through the left edge of each frame. <br/><br/>Second film print 2.5 x 4.75 inches. Very Good plus with vertical scratches running through each frame. <br/><br/>Flyer 4.25 x 7.25. Near Fine. Light horizontal and vertical creasing from being folded light edgewear. <br/><br/>Film strips encapsulated in mylar. Housed in a custom quarter leather clamshell box. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. Veriscope unknown books
1883RIRVCOP00MWGovernment Printing Office 1883. Fair. Irving Roland Duer. The Copper Bearing Rocks of Lake Superior. Department of the Interior: Monographs of the United States Geological Survey Volume V five 5. King Clarence Director. Washington: Government Printing Office 1883. 464pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 4to. Dark brown cloth with gilt lettering. Book condition: Fair. An ex-library copy with library marks on backstrip bottom edge and endsheets. Tattered edges and rubbing to extremities. Soft hinges and fragile sewing in some instances with detached illustration between pages 52 and 53 and partially detached illustration between pages 127 and 128. Condition noted. Contains several nice color plates. Government Printing Office hardcover books
189043000Philadelphia 1890. 1st Printing. Printed self-wrappers. Age-toning. Evidence of being previously bound. Very Good. Unpaginated though 4 pages. Ornamental cuts to p. 1. 6" x 4-5/8" <br/><br/> unknown books
1892402156Washington D. C.: Government Printing Office 1892. First edition. Cloth somewhat soiled hinges tender some pale toning to text and plates. Thick 8vo. 1000 pp. 96 lithographic plates some tinted by Avil Company Philadelphia. Original cloth. The text is divided by the Mississippi River with Ezra A. Carman providing the descriptions of the industry to the East and H. A. Heath and John Minto those to the West. This extensively-illustrated work fully documents the history of breeds in the United States the woolen industry from 1600 to 1800 the dissemination of Spanish Merino wool throughout New England and its eventual decline husbandry of the Middle and South Atlantic states Western Pennsylvania West Virginia Ohio Indiana Illinois Michigan Wisconsin Kentucky Tennessee Mississippi Alabama and Florida. Western states detailed are Montana the Dakotas Wyoming Colorado Utah Minnesota Iowa Nebraska Missouri Kansas Arkansas Texas New Mexico Arizona California Oregon and Washington. The work was prepared under the direction of D. E. Salmon Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry. He writes in his letter of transmittal: "Taken as a whole this report can not fail to be interesting and valuable to every owner of sheep. It will give a broader view of the industry its magnitude and the methods which are most likely to bring success in conducting its various branches." The lithographs include breeds of sheep views of ranches and work scenes. Included are scenes of western and Texan sheep ranches. Not in Adams Herd. <br/><br/> Government Printing Office hardcover books
1880163884Albany: Charles Van Benthuysen & Sons 1880. pp. 1-2 1-7 8-96 six folded maps including two in rear pocket eleven inserted plates each with tissue guard one of which is a folded "ideal view" of the American Rapids after the planned restoration and nine of which are heliotype prints from photographic negatives made by George Barker four leaves one folded with facsimiles of title page of Hennepin's A NEW DISCOVERY OF A VAST COUNTRY IN AMERICA . 1698 the first description of the Niagara Falls and the first picture of the falls double page original bevel-edged brown cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold brown coated endpapers. First edition. "Beautifully illustrated." - Dow Niagara Falls II p. 1113. The nine mounted heliotype prints of photographs of the Niagara River rapids and eroded shorelines were taken by landscape photographer George Barker 1844-1894. "Barker supplied the photographs that accompanied a state survey report on the terrible effects of industrial and commercial development along the Niagara River; the survey led to the establishment of park lands along either side of the river." - Martha A. Sandweiss ed. Photography in Nineteenth-Century America 1991 p. 318. The report includes four pages of notes by noted landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. Compliments slip of commissioner Rob. S. Hale laid in. A fine copy. Uncommon in this condition. #163884 Charles Van Benthuysen & Sons unknown books
185841639Boston: Boston Museum 1858. Buff printed paper. Moderate wear to edges some age-toning. Withal a VG example. Single broadsheet printed recto only. Decoratively engraved border. 18-1/2" x 6-3/8" <br/><br/>Not found on OCLC rare. (Boston Museum] unknown books
1888WN22307Washingtion D.C.: Government Printing Office 1888. Original olive green cloth gilt with Native American gilt vignette on upper cover. Wear at spine ends and corners with some loss of cloth. Joints and edges also worn. Hinges are starting and book is shaken. Plates II and III in pocket at end of volume as called for. First Edition. Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Trade. Government Printing Office 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
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
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
186859519NY: Wynkoop & Hallenbeck Printers 1868. Broadside 12 1/4 x 4 inches employing several sizes and styles of type. Gen. Tom Thumb and his colleagues had just returned to the United States following a three year tour of Europe "where they appeared before nearly all the Kings Queens Emperors and Nobility of the Old World!" Sylvester Bleecker Tom Thumb's publicity manager and a writer of vaudeville sketches used this general format for other broadsides advertising the troupe's return tour adapting the printing to the respective performances city to city. This broadside for Bath New York apparently unrecorded on OCLC which does locate a similar broadside at the State Library of Pennsylvania for a Harrisburg Pennsylvania performance and another at the Clements Library for a performance in Ann Arbor Michigan. Very good. Old fold lines some creasing at the edges. 7161. <br/><br/> Wynkoop & Hallenbeck, Printers unknown books
1886228584Troy NY: Round Lake Summer Schools 1886. 24p. self-wraps 6.5x5 inch sewn pamphlet a sound copy with some cover-stains or foxing and dust-soil within find two pencillings: a dash next a lecturer in clay modelling and brackets around the clay class details. Find one page devoted to "An ideal day" at the school 6:45 "Rising Bells" closing with an 8pm Lecture and Social Gatherings at 9pm. Lecturers are listed and faculty vitaes recorded. Also find ads for hotels book and art suppliers clothiers purveyors of surveyors' instruments. A good good-only copy. Round Lake Summer Schools 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
1892011446Washington: Government Printing Office 1892. Cover rubbed spine ends frayed. 2" split in cloth a bottom of rear cover at the hinge. Front cover vignette bright. Previous owner's name in neat ink on front free endpaper dated 1894. This report contains two lengthy papers the first "Ethnological results of the Point Barrow expedition" by John Murdock; the second "The medicine-man of the Apaches" by Capt. John G. Bourke. The first paper is illustrated with 8 plates and 448 text figures as well as two double-page maps. The second paper is a fascinating study of the Apache Medicine-man illustrated with 6 color plates and 20 text figures. Among the color plates are three showing Apache medicine shirts and one showing a necklace of human fingers. 617pp. First Edition. Green Cloth. General Moderate Wear. Quarto. Government Printing Office Hardcover books
189239199Washington: Government Printing Office 1892. Green cloth binding gilt stamped lettering and design to spine and front board. Average wear to binding edges rubbed. Sticker to front pastedown and previous owner's signature to ffep. Ex-library with the usual marking to the title leaf. xlvi 617 3 blank pp. Many b/w intratextual illustrations. 11-5/8" x 8" <br/><br/> Government Printing Office hardcover books
1898133168Washington DC.: Government Printing Office. 1898. 1st edition. hardcover. very good with no dust jackets none issued; front hinge loose on volume one bumped corners shelf wear covers scuffed. 4to. Government Printing Office. hardcover books
19007770Washington: Government Printing Office 1900 Fist edition. PART 2 ONLY of 2 parts of the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. Thick quarto. Index. Green cloth gilt. Numerous illustraions and photographs throughout. Light rubbing else a fine copy. Part 2 only yet includes numerous complete articles. Including "Tusayan Migration Traditions" by Jesse Walter Fewkes "Localization of Tusayan Clans" by Cosmos Mindeleff "Mounds in Northern Honduras" by Thomas Gann "Mayan Caendar Systems" by Cyrus Thomas "Primitive Numbers" by W.J. Magee "Numerical Systems of Mexico and Central America" by Cyrus Thomas "Tusayan Flute and Snake Ceremonies" by Jesse Walter Fewkes and "The Wild Rice Gatherers of the Upper Lakes" by Albert Ernest Jenks. . Government Printing Office hardcover books
1895RPOWMAR00TWU.S. Geological Survey 1895. Very Good. Powell J. W. Director. Marysville Folio California. Geologic Atlas of the United States. Folio 17. Washington D.C.: U.S. Geological Survey 1895. Library edition. Elephant folio. Printed paper wraps with cloth spine. Book condition: Very good. U.S. Geological Survey 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
189415040Washington D. C.: Department of the Interior United States Geological Survey 1894. First Edition. Stiff Wrappers. Good. First Edition. Complete title: Geologic Atlas of the United States Sewanee Folio Tennessee Library Edition Folio 8. 4 colored plates plus one black plate. Inside front and rear wrappers are explanatory notes. 4 pages of text of "The Description of the Sewanee Sheet". 55 x 47 cm. Ex-library with a few markings - plates are clean. Previous library owner put a bookplate on inside front wrapper obscuring some explanatory text. Stiff paper wraps with soiling front and rear wrappers though brighter paper than we've seen on many of these. Clean internally colored plates are bright and clean. Several corner creases. Stiff Wrappers. Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey unknown books
1895LV1693Washington D.C.:: U.S. Geological Survey 1895. 1895. Department of the Interior United States Geological Survey J. W. Powell director. Folio 15. Folio. Unpaginated 8 ff. 3 color maps 9 figs. text illus. Self-wraps; folded crease across width of folio. Good to very good. J3456LV U.S. Geological Survey, 1895. paperback books
189415042Washington D. C.: Department of the Interior United States Geological Survey 1894. First Edition. Stiff Wrappers. Good. First Edition. Complete title: Geologic Atlas of the United States Knoxville Folio Tennessee - North Carolina Folio 16 Library Edition. 4 colored plates plus one black plate. Inside front and rear wrappers are explanatory notes. 6 pages of text of "The Description of the Knoxville Sheet". 55 x 47 cm. Ex-library with a few markings - plates are clean noting some foxing and edge tears not affecting text and associated creases. Previous library owner put a bookplate on inside front wrapper obscuring some explanatory text. Stiff paper wraps with soiling front and rear wrappers. Stiff Wrappers. Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey unknown books
189415036Washington D. C.: Department of the Interior United States Geological Survey 1894. First Edition. Wraps. Good. First Edition. Complete title: Geologic Atlas of the United States Chattanooga Folio Tennessee Library Edition Folio 6. 4 colored plates plus one black and white plus 5 pages text. 55 x 47 cm. Ex-library with a few markings - plates are clean. Previous library owner put a bookplate on inside front wrapper obscuring some explanatory text. Stiff paper wraps with soiling front and rear wrappers. Clean internally colored plates are bright and clean. Wraps. Original not a reissue. Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey unknown books
188572872Washington: Government Printing Office. Very Good. 1885. Hardcover. This book is hard-bound in gilt stamped brown cloth. There is some light edge-wear and rubbing to the corners and spine-ends. There is a "ding" to the outer edge of the upper board. There are a few scuffs to the lower board. The binding is solid and tight. The contents are bright and clean with very nice illustrations throughout and a folding map in a pocket at the rear light foxing to the end-pages. Topographic Features of Lake Shores The Requisite and Qualifying Conditions of Artesian Wells The Gigantic Mammals of the Order Dinocerata Glaciers of Sierra Nevada Etc. Etc. Overall Very Good condition. . Government Printing Office hardcover books
