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1853678L17London: Chapman and Hall 1853. First edition. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 8" by 5". None. A smartly bound first edition set of James Richardson's narrative of his mission to central Africa. An association copy owned by the author's nephew. With an inscription to the title page 'A Goodsir nephew of author from Gertie'. It is believed this book was presented to one of the sons of Susanna Richardson and her husband Joseph Goodsir probably Alexander David Goodsir. This is one of two works written by Richardson of his travels the second being 'Travels in Morocco'. Half-title to volume I present. Additional half-title from volume II misbound before the preface to volume I. Pages v-vi has been misbound after vii-viii to volume I. Volume I has been rebacked with the original spine relaid. Illustrated with a folding map to each volume. This work regards the wildlife climate people customs and politics of Central Africa during Richardson's travels. His mission under the orders and at the expense of Her Majesty's Government was to propagate Christianity and suppress the slave trade. This was Richardson's second time in Ghat whereby he was accompanied by Heinrich Barth and Adolf Overweg. Though he succumbed to fever before reaching Lake Tchad. They were the first Europeans to cross the stony elevated plain of the Hammada. This work is formed of Richardson's notes and diaries posthumously. A very smart first edition copy of this uncommon work. In uniform full calf bindings. Rebacked with the spine laid down and boards preserved. Renewed spine labels. Externally very smart with light rubbing to the extremities and to the head and tail of spine. Handling marks to boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright. Scattered spots to the first and last few pages. Otherwise pages are clean. Very Good Indeed Chapman and Hall hardcover
1844A35042London: E.W. Janson printed by Edward Newman 1844-1848. viii 139 60 lithographic plates. . HB. 4to nineteenth century half morocco rubbed and a little worn to extremities raised bands gt aeg marbled endpapers. Some scattered foxing heavier to a couple of plates. With the bookplate and gilt crest to front cover of the General Assembly Library New Zealand. No stamps. Also with decorative bookplate of a later owner. Zoology of the voyage of the H.M.S. Erebus and Terror Vol. II Part 2 Ichthyology. The complete report concerning the fish specimens collected during Ross' voyage to the Antarctic 1839-1842 including species from Australia New Zealand Cape Horn the Falklands and elsewhere.The expedition of HMS Erebus and Terror to the Antarctic was under the command of Captain James Clark Ross 1800-1862. Francis Crozier was second-in-command Captain of HMS Terror. It was the first of the major Antarctic expeditions with the mission of conducting 'magnetic research and geographical discovery'. The natural history collections collected en route proved of lasting importance many being collected by the assistant surgeon and botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker 1817-1911. Page 15 records an amusing story; �When the ships were in the high latitude of 77�10�S. and long. 178�� a fish was thrown up by the spray in a gale of wind against the bows of the Terror and frozen there. It was carefully removed for the purpose of preservation and a rough sketch was made of it by the surgeon John Robertson Esq. but before it could be put into spirits a cat carried it away from his cabin and ate it. The sketch is not sufficiently detailed so � we have introduced a copy of the design merely to preserve a memorial of what appears to be a novel form.� It would be another 60 years before another specimen of this new species would be caught again.Fine lithographic plates of fish by W. Mitchell printed by Hullmandel & Walton. Also bound at the rear are the first 24 pages and 6 plates of the report on Insects 'Insects of New Zealand' by Adam White 1846 which includes species of stick insects and dragonflies new to European science collected from New Zealand and the Auckland Islands. A further part on insects pp. 25-52 plates 7-10 was published much later in 1874 but is not present here.The present volume comprises an important part of the scientific reports resulting from the expedition. The complete Zoological reports were published in 24 parts in 2 volumes over a thirty-year period and complete sets are extremely rare.BMNH Library Catalogue Vol. IV p. 1698; Nissen ZBI 3386; Rosove 270-8. E.W. Janson, printed by Edward Newman hardcover
1919190803London: Duckworth & Co. 1919. The tide of life had swept away leaving an undisturbed stillness a space swept clear First edition signed by the author of the the fifth instalment in Richardson's semi-autobiographical Pilgrimage series the first literary work to which the phrase "stream of consciousness" was applied. The phrase "stream of consciousness" was previously only used in psychological contexts. The writer and suffragist May Sinclair in a review of the first three Pilgrimage books appropriated it in her praise of the impressionistic style: "In identifying herself with this life which is Miriam's stream of consciousness Miss Richardson produces her effect of being the first of getting closer to reality than any of our novelists who are trying so desperately to get close" p. 58. Many other contemporary authors also expressed their admiration of Pilgrimage such as Virginia Woolf who claimed that Richardson invented "the psychological sentence of the feminine gender" p. 81. The series ran to 13 books in total. Octavo. Original blue cloth spine and front cover lettered and ruled in dark blue. With dust jacket publisher's cancel price sticker to spine. Spine sunned a little wear to head; jacket unclipped spine and panels toned small puncture to front panel occasional short closed tears and shallow loss to edges rear flap folds split at ends but holding: a very good copy in like jacket. May Sinclair "The Novels of Dorothy Richardson" The Egoist vol. 5 no. 4 Apr. 1918; Virginia Woolf "The Tunnel" The Times Literary Supplement 13 Feb. 1919. hardcover
191686362New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1916. First edition. Hardcover. Mild toning to margins but overall a very good copy in very good dust-jacket benefitting from some skilful restoration mostly to spine ends and folds. Very good. First US edition first printing. 8vo. Original blue cloth with printed title label to spine. Dust-jacket. The first US edition of the first book in the author's 'Pilgrimage' series including an introduction by J.D. Beresford. The author was an important innovator in the use of "stream-of-consciousness" and is increasingly viewed now as a key figure in literary modernism. Scarce in the jacket. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1851144847London: Longman Brown Green and Longmans 1851. viii413; vii426 pp. Octavo. Two volumes. Original blindstamped brown cloth. Gilt title on spine. Joints have had a slight bit of professional restoration. This is the first issue binding. Coated yellow endpapers. 10 coloured lithograph plates including frontispiece in each volume Untrimmed. Top edges a bit dusty. Wood engraved illustrations in text and folding map partly coloured in outline opposite p.1 volume 1. The map is in very good condition and not rebacked. Occasional light foxing on the plates mainly on the margins. The text is generally very clean with a small amount of mainly marginal light foxing or browning. Overall a very attractive set with the fragile folding map in very nice condition. Both volumes with a near contemporary signature of Richard Norman on the top of the title. Arctic Bib. 14489. An account of the Franklin Search expedition led by Sir John Richardson and Dr. John Rae down the MacKenzie then eastward along the coast to the Coppermine River returning overland to Fort Confidence in 1848 and Rae's journey down the Coppermine in the summer of 1849. Includes chapters on the Eskimos Kutchin Cree and Chipewyan Indians. 1851 Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans hardcover
18316251London: John Murray 1831. First edition presentation copy from John Murray to Edward Jesse. Very Good/Sir John Richardson accompanied Sir John Franklin on both of his overland expeditions to the North 1819-1822 and 1825-1827. As naturalist to the expedition Richardson collected specimens of the flora and fauna of the Arctic. Swainson was responsible for preparing the lithographic plates classification and synonymy for Richardson's monumental Fauna Boreali-Americana which described the zoology ornithology ichthyology and entomology of the fauna of northern Canada. Swainson was entirely responsible for this volume on the birds. The illustrations mark the beginning of the use of lithography in bird book illustration. Quarto 285 mm; lxvi 2 523 1 pages. 50 hand-colored lithograph plates finished in gum arabic by Swainson. In contemporary half leather over marbled boards worn. Mild to moderate foxing present on some plates primarily in the first quarter of the text block; later plates quite clean. Provenance: presentation inscription on half-title by John Murray "The Publisher" to natural history author Edward Jesse; armorial bookplate of Irish ichthyologist and breeder of Irish Setters Harry Blake-Knox JP. References: Fine Bird Books p.135; Nissen IVB 773; Sabin 71027; Zimmer p.520 John Murray hardcover books
1760962Z5London: J. Rivington et al 1760. Leather. Fine. 7" by 4". None stated. A beautifully bound eighteenth century engraved collection of Aesop's renowned fables bound in half calf and housed in a cloth chemise and uniform slipcase. The Samuel Richardson edited edition. Bound by Eric Sweet a keen collector of private press and fables. He studied at the Brighton College of Art before moving to London to work as a lettering artist and typographer for advertising agencies later becoming the head of Birmingham School of Printing. Sweet's bindings are unique and striking reflecting the topics of the volumes in distinctive style.Illustrated with a monochrome copper engraved frontispiece and twenty-four monochrome cooper engraved plates each depicting ten engravings. Collated complete. Frontispiece incorrectly bound facing pp. xv. A charming collection of fables credited to Aesop a Greek storyteller and fabulist whose tales were characterised by the anthropomorphic animal characters. This collection includes two hundred and forty fables with an account of the life of Aesop by Samuel Richardson. Bound in modern quarter calf with marbled paper to the boards and a cloth chemise and slipcase. Endpapers and blanks renewed. Undated dated by copies held institutionally. Bound in modern quarter calf with marbled paper to the boards and with a cloth chemise and matching slipcase. Endpapers and blanks renewed. Externally lovely. Frontispiece bound before pp.xv. Bookplate of 'Eric Sweet' to the front pastedown. Internally firmly bound with washed bright pages and generally clean with only the odd spot. The slipcase has spotting. Fine J. Rivington et al hardcover
576328New York: Chinaberry Company 1971. Softcover. Near Fine. Playscript. Quarto. 5 78; 43 leaves. Mimeographed sheets printed rectos only tab bound in green leatherette wrappers with die-cut window to reveal title. A few light bumps and light stains on the wrappers very good or better internally fine. Hand written control number "34" on the title page. Eventually produced on Broadway as The Grass Harp the play ran for only seven performances. Very scarce presumably this was an early version with a working title. OCLC locates two variant copies one each at NYPL and Yale; this copy varies significantly from each of those copies with approximately 30 additional pages. Chinaberry Company unknown
1774ME1081London:: Printed and Sold at No. 76 Fleet-Street 1774. 1774. 4to. iv xv 1 68 pp. Original full calf gilt spine; neatly rebacked to style preserving original endsheets. Inscribed by an early owner "This Book belonging to Monsieur Pierre Monneron." Extremely rare. This is the first edition in English of the ghazals of Hafez translated by one of the leading Persian orientalists of his day John Richardson FAS of Wadham College Oxford and famous for his seminal work written in conjunction with Sir William Jones the work being A Dictionary Persian Arabic and English 1777. / Hafez was previously unknown to the western world until Count Karl Emerich Reviczky von Revisnye 1737-1793 the Hungarian Orientalist and bibliophile 'discovered' him and brought his poetic classic to Europe with this Vienna printing. The work features an extensive text on Hafez and a translation of selected ghazals . Reviczky von Revisnye also issued in 1784 1794 a catalogue of his Greek and Latin library using the pseudonym of "Periergus Deltophilus". In the prefatory essay for that volume he shows an interest in the printing of Nicolas Jenson Aldus Manutius and the Estiennes. / Hafez was born in Shiraz Persia and lived approximately from 1325/26–1389/1390. He is considered a mystic and poet. His life and poems are the subject of much analysis commentary and interpretation influencing post-fourteenth century Persian writing more than any other author. FULL TITLE: A Specimen of Persian Poetry; or Odes of Hafez With an English Translation and Paraphrase. Chiefly from the Specimen Poeseos Persicae of Baron Revizky Envoy from the Emperor of Germany to the Court of Poland. With Historical and Grammatical Illustrations and a complete Analysis for the assistance of those who wish to study the Persian language. Printed and Sold at No. 76, Fleet-Street, 1774. unknown books
181346621Paris: A. Belin 1813. Very good. Beautifully bound set of the works of the French playwright from the library of Frances Mary Richardson Currer who was among the most celebrated book collectors of her era. This set was once owned by Yorkshire coal heiress Frances Mary Richardson Currer 1785-1861 who built a celebrated library of some 20000 volumes. Contemporaries praised Currer's scholarship and taste as well as the rigorous organization and "choice condition" of her books. The bibliographer Thomas Frognall Dibdin called her a "book-genius" and remarked of her library: "I may fairly and honestly say that with the exception of Althorpe Chatsworth and Stowe I know of NO such collection of books situated in the country that can pretend to break a lance with it . The 'Collections' are nearly perfect." In 1820 and again in 1833 Currer issued a catalogue of her holdings widely viewed as "the model catalogue of a private library" DNB and sent copies to book collectors across England and Europe including members of the newly formed Roxburghe Club quietly asserting her place among them. This set is documented in the 1833 catalogue. Also known for her commitment to charitable causes Currer is obliquely noted as a "wealthy lady in the West Riding of Yorkshire" who paid off the debts of a new widower Patrick Brontë; scholars speculate that Charlotte Brontë's unusual pen name Currer Bell is a tribute to Frances Currer. A choice set once held by one of the great English book collectors of the Regency and early Victorian periods when the field of book collecting as practiced in the UK and US today began to cohere. 5 octavo volumes 8.25'' x 5'' each. Contemporary full blue calf raised bands elaborately gilt-stamped spines red goatskin spine labels triple-ruled gilt boards. All edges marbled marbled endpapers. Text in French. clxxii 297 1; 488; 486; 392; 310 pages. Engraved bookplate of Currer on front pastedown of each volume; ink gift inscription dated 1966 on fly leaf of each volume. Bindings with a bit of dryness and trace wear around joints; vol. I with ink stain at top joint of front board; some gatherings foxed and a few areas of marginal staining or spotting. Joints firm. Gilt bright. A. Belin unknown
184965728New York:: Pubilshed by William H. Richardson 1849. Third but actually fourth edition. publisher's illustrated wrappers. Some light use to the wrappers and a small chip to the bottom of the backstrip: a very attractive copy in original condition. 12mo. Plate 3 in this copy depicts the "Execution of Cannales A Mexican Chief" as in W-C:2 rather than "Battle of Sacramento" as in 137:3. Wagner-Camp 137:4. All editions are uncommon. With the 1849 ownership signature of Levi Ward Clarke "recognized head of the financial world" of Rochester New York who later served as Comptroller of Currency under Abraham Lincoln. Pubilshed by William H. Richardson, unknown
20172-0470659637Blackwell Pub 2017. Hardcover. New. 8217 pages. 11.50x11.00x17.75 inches. Blackwell Pub hardcover
184516281845. Mezzotint. 310mm by 235mm image 420mm by 330mm sheet. India-laid proof. After an oil dated 1825.<br /> Sir Ralph Darling 1772 - 1858 was appointed in 1824 as Governor of New South Wales. He was the Governor of NSW from 1825 - 1831.A couple of very minor marks in margins. unknown
17971002815Cambridge: J. Burges Printer to the University 1797. First editions of these historical Shakespeare studies by James Plumptre 1771-1832 a young playwright and fellow at Clare Hall Cambridge later a clergyman. Plumptre argues through an elaborate series of parallels that the character of Gertrude in Hamlet is intended as a critique of Mary Queen of Scots who like Gertrude remarried hastily under a cloud. Plumptre characterizes Hamlet as an effort by Shakespeare to secure the approval of Elizabeth I "to flatter his mistress by adding his drop to the flood of calumny poured out against her rival." The final page of the Appendix advertises Plumptre's first two plays The Coventry Act: A Comedy 1793 and Osway: A Tragedy 1795 as well as a forthcoming two-part drama entitled Mary Queen of Scots which was apparently never published. Bound in a single volume these presentation copies of Observations of Hamlet and its Appendix are both inscribed to literary scholar William Richardson 1743-1814 at the University of Glasgow. Richardson's Philosophical Analysis and Illustration of Some of Shakespeare's Remarkable Characters appeared in 1774 and featured a chapter on Hamlet. These Plumptre essays are uncommon. I have been unable to locate an extant presentation copy of either work and neither title has appeared at auction since 1973. A near-fine pair of presentation copies handsomely bound in period style by Philip Dusel. Two octavo volumes bound in one measuring 8 x 5 inches: 6 44; 2 85 1. Recent full polished calf boards tooled in blind with a floral border spine decoratively tooled in gilt red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Bound without half-title for Appendix. Inscribed by Plumptre to William Richardson on half-title of Observations and title of Appendix. Publisher's advertisement on final page of Appendix. J. Burges, Printer to the University unknown books
1919515820New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1919. Hardcover. Fair. First American edition. Introduction by May Sinclair. Octavo. 285pp. Maroon cloth with publisher's printed paper spine label. Small bookstore label front pastedown spine a bit frayed at extremities label is nicked and browned a fair copy. Grace Hegger Lewis' copy with her contemporary ink inscription on front flyleaf: "Grace Hegger Lewis. Bluemont Virginia. June 1920." Lewis was a published author and the first wife of Sinclair Lewis. The first volume of the author's 'Pilgrimage' series of thirteen novels. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1851184706London: Longman Brown Green and Longmans 1851. These 'barren grounds' are very thinly peopled First edition of this important account of Richardson's 1848-9 journey in search of Franklin. His account was also published in the United States in 1852 but without the plates and map present in this edition. Richardson's "descriptions are particularly valuable for their treatment of his personal experiences with Indians and Eskimo" Hill. With no word from the Franklin expedition the Admiralty commissioned Sir John Richardson 1787-1865 to lead a search expedition - a task that he readily accepted. On the trail of Franklin Richardson's party travelled down the Mackenzie River and proceeded east by boat following the Arctic shore to the mouth of the Coppermine River. While Richardson's voyage failed to clear up the Franklin mystery it nonetheless represented "a model of careful planning and good execution with no loss of life no injuries no shortages of food and no lack of shelter" ODNB. Following the publication of his account in 1851 Richardson devoted himself to the study of medicine and natural history eventually authoring or co-authoring over 100 publications. 2 vols octavo 215 x 134 mm. Colour frontispieces 8 colour plates folding map wood engravings in text. Bound without adverts. Late 19th-century calf rebacked to style spines lettered in gilt raised bands divided by gilt fillet compartments with gilt device wide elaborate gilt and blind frames to boards milled board edges gilt roll to turn-ins marbled endpapers free endpapers renewed edges sprinkled red and black. Marginal pen annotations to p. 89 vol. 1; contemporary bookplate of Ann Curtis. Extremities mildly rubbed with spots of wear folding map with a couple of tears and paper repairs marginal ink stains to a few pages of vol. 1. A very good copy. Arctic Bibliography 14489; Hill 1452; Sabin 71025. hardcover
183631189London: William Pickering 1836. First edition 2 volumes 4to pp. 4 1183 1; 4 1185-2222 1; contemporary and probably original full calf double gilt-ruled borders gilt-decorated spine in 5 compartments gilt-lettered in 2; rebacked original spines laid down; spines a little rubbed else very good and sound. The most substantial lexicographical undertaking in England between Johnson and the O.E.D. "Richardson was an ardent philologist of the school of Horne Tooke . His principle was to arrive at the original and proper meaning which was inherent in a word from its etymology" see DNB. Based on the "historical principle" of lexicography this work formed the most substantial link between and the O.E.D. <br/><br/> William Pickering unknown books
1852D59641852. Hardcover. Very Good. Original full red morocco ornately stamped in blind and gilt; 8vo; 31 manuscript pages including an illustrated short story landscapes in pencil Havana the Hudson River harbor of St. Thomas Martinique and 3 colored-pencil cartoons of American Indians these seemingly contributed by a child. Just a little scuffed along joints and edges of boards else fine. Likely the work of Horace Richardson the title-page and "publication information" see above states that this unique item was "copied" by him and one of the drawings most of which are clearly by the same artist is initialed "H. R." The book does indeed seem to correspond at least in part with a journey on the Winfield Scott a sidewheel steamer that transported cargo and passengers from San Francisco and Panama during the California Gold Rush -- then sank in December of 1853. The landscapes are nicely accomplished: "Yosemite Falls from Black's Hotel" signed "H.R." "Highland Park Hotel Aiken S.C." "Vineyard Haven" "View from the Window in our Parlor in the Hotel El Telegrafo Havana 1872" "View from my Window at the West Point Hotel Looking up the Hudson 1872" and "Fort de France Martinique from the Sea." Opens with a weird little short story in which the malefactor Joseph Shed spends his entire life stealing stockings even dirty ones punishment be damned. <br/><br/> hardcover
177946520London: Printed for the Author 1779. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket issued. London: Printed for the Author 1779. 2 bound as one vols. First edition. Illustrated with 424 emblematic figures on 109 engraved copper-plates. Hardcover. Folio. Recently re-backed and re-cornered in brown 3/4 calf over original marbled boards the spine stamped in blind in compartments with contrasting leather title label stamped in gilt. Title-page of volume one is uniformly soiled and stained with several old marginal repairs; the top fore-corner of the last plate has an old repair. Plates XXI & XXIII bear old Russian ownership stamps. Otherwise this is a clean tight copy of a fairly scarce emblem book. Very good/No jacket issued. Multiple volumes - extra shipping charges apply Insurance required to ship this item. Printed for the Author hardcover books
18541369650London: Richardson Brothers 1854. Twelfth Edition. Hardcover. Octavo unpaginated. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in later half brown leather with green cloth boards. Paneled spine with black label and gilt lettering. Slight cracking to upper edge of front hinge and weakening beginning. Discoloration to entirety of front cloth and part of rear cloth.<br /> <br> <br /> <br> <br /> With all six chromolithographic plates. Plates 1-4 bound before the title page with the first three as one folding page plate 5 as a double-page "Maritime Merchant Flags of all Nations" with tissue guard between them.<br /> <br> <br /> <br> <br /> Despite its popularity none of the editions of the Code are common.<br /> <br> <br /> <br> <br /> shelved case 9. The first general system of signalling for merchant vessels was Captain Frederick Marryat's A Code of Signals for the Merchant Service published in 1817. Marryat's code was an immediate success and was translated into several other languages and the 1854 edition was renamed The Universal Code of Signals for the Mercantile Marine of All Nations because of its widespread usage. The last edition was published in 1879 two decades after the publication of the code that supplanted it; there are reports that it was still being used as late as 1890. The replacement was the Commercial Code of Signals published by the British Board of Trade in 1857 which eventually became the International Code of Signals ICS. wikipedia;<br /> <br> <br /> <br> <br /> Previously published under title: A Code of Signals for the Use of Vessels Employed in the Merchant Service.<br /> <br> <br /> <br> <br /> "The copyright of this Code of Signals by which the Mercantile Marine of the whole world has so greatly benefited became from a very early period the property of the late Mr. J. M. Richardson. The Edition of 1841 was the last edited by the original inventor the late Captain Marryat but since then four large Editions has been issued each greatly extended and improved." from the Preface. 1369650. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Richardson Brothers hardcover
3031ASPEN COLORADO -- LAND PROMOTION. Aspen in all seasons. Real estate development promotional photo album filled with inviting images of vacationers enjoying the historic Hotel Jerome the Four Seasons Club the Aspens Rodeo Grounds mountain climbing playing tennis and historic Victorian homes. Aspen CO: Walter Paepcke Aspen Skiing Company ca. 1950. 4to. 20 pp unpaginated thick card stock mylar-covered leaves title and typed list of images mounted on front pastedown w/ 20 original silver gelatin images tipped-in sized 7.75 x 9.4 in. and nearly all w/ photographer's stamps and pencil annotations verso. Original padded simulated brown calf comb-bound album spine rebacked minor bumping to corners very minor toning to fore-edges of title leaf on front pastedown still a VG exemplar. This splendid land promotion photo album offers an invaluable visual record of Walter Paepcke's post-World War II effort to remake Aspen Colorado into a kind of American Athens which united art ideas architecture music and outdoor leisure activities into a popular destination. At the urging of his wife Paepcke came to Aspen Colorado just after World War II and immediately saw the tremendous development possibilities and began buying prime Aspen CO Victorian homes secured a 25-year lease on the historic Jerome Hotel and the Wheeler Opera House and organized the Aspen Skiing Company to build and operate the hotels restaurants and develop the ski industry. In 1949 he founded the Aspen Institute and by 1949 made Aspen the site for the 200th anniversary of the birth of Johann Wolfgang Goethe. The celebration featured such attendees as Albert Schweitzer Jose Ortega y Gasset Thornton Wilder and Arthur Rubinstein. These images include a birds-eye view of Aspen and Red Mountain the Hotel Jerome Lobby Dining Room mountain climbing horseback riding swimming in the Four Seasons Club an informal rodeo at the Aspen Rodeo Grounds and even restored Victorian homes. Most of these promotional images were taken by several famed Western photographers. These include Ferenc Berko 1916-2000 who while teaching film & photography at the Chicago Institute of Design was invited by Paepcke to photograph the Goethe Bicentennial and enamored with the stunning vistas relocated to Aspen where he began promoting and documenting Aspen's growth as a cultural and leisure community; Fritz Kaeser 1910-1990 world-renowned Aspen CO ski photographer trained with Ansel Adams served with the 10th Mountain Division during World War II and later operated the Aspen Photo Gallery/Studio that became the Mother Lode on Hyman Ave. ; and Loey Ringquist 1919-2006 who first came to Aspen in 1949 and began her career with Patrick Henry at the Aspen Tintype Studio and whose beautiful images included the mountain passes ghost towns abandoned mines wildflower meadows and other areas around Aspen. See: Mark Seal For Love of Aspen Vanity Fair Jan. 23 2014; Ferenc Berko The Ferenc Berko Collection Biography Aspen Colorado 2017 ; Tim Willoughby Fritz Kaeser -- Roch and rocks The Aspen Times July 28 2010; Loey Ringquist Obituary The Aspen Times Nov. 22 2006. unknown books
170200N.p.: Sovereign Pictures 1990. Vintage international one-sheet poster for the 1990 film designed by Bob Peak. Rare.<br /> <br /> Based on Ian McEwan's 1981 novel adapted for the screen by acclaimed playwright Harold Pinter and directed by Paul Schrader. A dark thriller about a husband and wife vacationing in Venice who are gradually pulled into the clutches of a strange wealthy local couple. <br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in London and Venice. <br /> <br /> 27 x 41 inches in an archival frame with UV plexiglass. Fine.<br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 1041. Sovereign Pictures unknown
193941578San Francisco Shanghai / Macao / Hong Kong: The Trans-Pacific Chinese Junk Expedition Inc 1939. Letters are dated: Nov 20 1938; Jan 18th 1939; Jan 27th 1939; and Feb 16th 1939. Though typewritten and mimeographed all four are personally signed by Halliburton. Letters typewritten to buff paper envelopes with blue seal of the "Sea Dragon" with illustration printed to front. Modest wear to paper some light age-toning and rubbing to papers. Envelopes rubbed and worn. Withal a VG lot. Pages within the letters: 5 3 4 3 Total of 16 typewritten pages. Two black and white Kodak photographs are included printed in 1957 presumably from a negative of Robert Pullen's famous shots of the "Sea Dragon" taken just before its doomed maiden voyage. Letters: 14" x 8-1/2". Photographs:. <br/><br/>Who took the first aerial picture of Mount Everest after receiving express permission by stunning the Majarajah of Nepal with bi-plane aerobatics Richard Halliburton was a legendary American travel writer and adventurer. Reading stories of his feats and antics seem surreal - after all who flies an airplane upside down over the Taj Mahal Halliburton was born in January of 1900 in Brownsville Tennessee. Deciding at an early age not to settle down and grow old with a wife and family as the rest of his family and friends seemed to be doing. After graduating from Princeton Halliburton traveled on as many adventures as possible and published his first novel The Royal Road to Romance in 1925 at the tender age of 25. His first novel became a bestseller and was followed by more published adventures in 1927 and 1929. He enjoyed fame and adventures for a little over a decade before deciding in 1938 that his next grand feat would be to cross the Pacific ocean from Hong Kong to the San Francisco International Exposition in a Chinese Junk ship made expressly for his purposes. It is on this voyage that Halliburton and the entire crew of the Junk the "Sea Dragon" were lost at sea having gotten caught in a typhoon. In 1945 a 150-foot ship outline with Chinese lettering washed ashore in California this thought to possibly be some of the wreckage of the "Sea Dragon." Letter I: Halliburton describes the arrival in China and purpose of the expedition as well as his interest in junks stemming from a 1 ft. scale model he sailed as a child. He explains that he chose to use a junk for his journey because of their stability and notes that it is possible it will not be the smoothest ride. He quips: "If the junk should be small the storms violent and the voyage long - all the better. For if there is no hazard no battle where is the sport" He introduces the "friends" of the expedition to his crew of Captain John Welch Henry von Fehren "Bru" Potter among others. Halliburton also spends a significant amount of time discussing the war with China and Japan and the Japanese belief systems. Letter 2: The second letter discusses the search for an appropriate junk and the ultimate decision to build their own that could be modified for the journey. Working with the man said to be the best ship-builder in Hong Kong Mr. Fat Kau and the appropriation of a few more crew members a chef and a radio operator. Letter 3: The third letter posted from Canton desribes their taking the Sea Dragon out for a "shake down" cruise with Mr. Fat Kau as his guest who though a builder of ships had never sailed on one and with high seas nearly everyone aboard became seasick. Halliburton notes the dry deck despite the high waves and believes he was right about the Sea Dragon's sea-worthiness. Much of the rest of the letter is spent discussing Canton the disputes between the Chinese and Japanese the destruction the looters and other conditions in the city. Letter 4: After setting out on their voyage the Sea Dragon needed to return after only 2 days due to sickness on the boat. Though Halliburton seems only a trifle annoyed at the delay of their voyage he is excited enough to try again and leaves his readers with this: "In about another week we plan to leave again to slip away as quietly as possible and head east once more around the southern tip of Formosa - and straight on to Midway. If all goes well the next letter the fifth will carry an American stamp for Midway Island is American. When this the fourth letter reaches you we'll be a thousand miles along the way - I hope. Many thanks again for your interest and good will. Faithfully Richard Halliburton" The Trans-Pacific Chinese Junk Expedition, Inc unknown books
1843008069London: Colnaghi and Puckle. Printed by Cook & Co. Lithography by Day & Haghe 1843. First Edition. Half Morocco. Pebbled cloth on boards. Very Good. A magnificent souvenir of a Romantic era joust basically a re-enactment of the Medieval combat sport in keeping with the resurgent interest in the Middle Ages at the time. This tournament was sponsored by Lord Eglinton at his Scottish castle in 1839. That this massive book took four years to put together attests to its grandeur as well as the ardor of Medievalism among the aristocratic elite. Elephantine Folio 61 by 43 cm. Blank title leaf dedication leaf six paginated pages then 21 hand-colored plates each with a tissue guard and a one or two page Description of the particular plate on a single leaf until the last or 21st numbered plate which has a four page or two leaf Description after which there are two unpaginated pages of "Concluding Remarks". The lettering of text on these pages is done mostly with blue type with occasional red. The title and the plate leaves are of a card stock. The other leaves are of a more standard but not light paper weight and the tissue guards are of a similar minimally less paper weight but a glossier stock. The plates capture and probably improve upon the spirit of the event as they idealize the whole proceeding with nary a misstep all the costuming just right not a speck of dust or dirt to mar the beauty of the sport. However true these "reenactors' -- for that was what they were -- are faithful to the Medieval sport our image of jousting tournaments is probably more influenced by the prettified imitation than the original since books like this directly influenced Hollywood and the historic fiction genre more than the more esoteric surviving documents from the Middle Ages. The tournament reportedly drew an estimated 100000 spectators but it also was mocked and satirized in its day especially by members of the Whig Party. Notwithstanding that this pageant inspired others in its wake. In addition to the 21 numbered plates the title page has a large hand-colored illustrated oval centerpiece 26 cm tall surrounded by monotone decoration comprised of figures of men in armor and seraphs. All the descriptions begin with a decorated letter that is in itself an esquisite vignette. And not to be slighted each of the color plates has surrounding its primary richly colored illustration a highly decorative frame that is populated with seraphs human figures foliate ornaments escutcheons weaponry etc. etc. These frames in contrast to the central illustration are mostly black line drawings with a tinted background but there are occasional bits of fuller color -- the coat-of-arms are generally rendered so -- and in a few of the frames these full color pieces are quite numerous. Regarding the Dedication leaf the dedication is to Archibald William Montgomerie who was the Earl of Eglinton as well as the holder of other titles and was made by Edward Puckle. The gallery he headed at the time goes back to 1760 and remains to this day now known simply as Colnaghi with headquarters in Mayfair but branches in New York and other cities. Nixon 1802 - 1857 illustrated the novels of Sir Walter Scott and not coincidentally "Ivanhoe" apparently was the inspiration to stage this particular pageant. He is best known though as a designer of stained glass and his work in this medium done through a partnership of Ward and Nixon can be seen most famously in Lincoln Cathedral. As to Eglinton himself the tournament cost him dearly as he depleted his coffers of almost everything to cover the massive losses incurred by the event. All edges gilt. Gilt lettering and decoration on cover bright. Two decorative bookplates mounted onto FEP. The book besides being extra-large is also extra-heavy -- 13 lbs. 8 ou. -- and thus expect a substantial amount of extra postage will be required to ship especially internationally. Condition: Binding shows some wear with bumped edge a moderate level of spotting and other soiling most pronounced on the pebbled cloth of front board and small areas with rubbing. Hinge crack by title page. Other than occasional light stains the book is clean tight and we would say a highly attractive copy of the work. Colnaghi and Puckle. Printed by Cook & Co. Lithography by Day & Haghe unknown
1811141429London: William Miller 1811. hardcover. very good. With a sketch of his Life & Writings by Edward Mangin. Engraved frontispieces. 19 volumes. Small 8vo full polished calf marbled edges. London: William Miller 1811. Covers a bit bowed still a very good set.<br/> <br/> William Miller unknown
