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188768676San Francisco: The History Company Publicadores 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Scarce Spanish language schoolbook with lessons modeled after those in early American primers. Bancroft 1832-1918 is best known for his monumental 39-volume history of the Pacific Coast region from Central America to Alaska. Numerous textual illustrations. Small octavo. Original printed brown paper-covered boards. Pencil marginalia to a few pages. Period previous owner's ink signature to the front flyleaf with a pencil inscription to the front pastedown. The corners are showing with some general shelfwer and minor spotting to the boards. The History Company, Publicadores hardcover books
188541347Genève: Au Siège Comité International de la Croix-Rouge 1885. 1st edition. PRESENTATION copy INSCRIBED from Barton "To my friend / Dr. Joseph Gardner / with sentiments of esteem and cordial regard. / Which words cannot express. / Clara Barton. / Washington D. C March 15 1889." Further a 2 line quote by Barton underneath "As the best of all fortune has come squiggly underline in the past / My heart only prays that the present may last." concluded with her "C. B.". Original publisher's blue cloth binding with silver stamped lettering to spine & front board accompanied by an impressed silver & red Red Cross logo. Housed in a custom chemise & 1/4 leather slipcase with marbled paper boards. Volume shows wear & evidence of dampstaining. Rear hinge paper starting at bottom. An About VG copy. Chemise & slipcase - Fine. xix 1 blank 444 pp. Text in French. 4to. <br/><br/>Scarce Red-Cross volume of which OCLC records 5 institutional holdings none in the US inscribed to Dr Joseph Gardner a prominent Indiana citizen and early friend/benefactor of Clara Barton as well as patron of the recently-formed American Red Cross founded in 1881 and of which Barton was president when this volume was inscribed. <br /> <br />Barton had a long-standing friendship with the Gardners with her one-time sectetary Enola Lee becoming the 3rd Mrs. Joseph Gardner. <br /> <br />In 1893 Dr. Gardner donated a large plot of his land in Indiana to the American Red Cross which Barton envisioned becoming a central-states headquarters/warehouse for the organization. All was to come to naught however as the plot was never developed & ulitmately sold to settle back taxes et al. Such was to later cause Barton problems however as she was accused of financial malfeasance which ultimately contributed to her 1904 retirement from the Red Cross. Cf. Cavinder MORE AMAZING TALES OF INDIANA pp. 79 - 80. <br /> <br />Early inscribed Barton material is somewhat uncommon in the trade. We are pleased to be able to offer this volume documenting the friendship between these two civic-oriented individuals. Au Siège Comité International de la Croix-Rouge hardcover books
1885272611Paris 1885. unbound. 1 page 10.5 x 8 inches Paris September 7 1885 in English to journalist Henry Meltzer who was in the United States waiting to be called to London for the purpose of establishing a British edition of the New York Herald in part: ".It will hardly be possible for me to tell you definitely about your stay in London until about three weeks later. If you are to remain in London and would like to bring your family over in that case I shall be happy to pay the expenses of the journey." Evenly toned with four small tape repairs on the folds on the back. Very good- condition.<br/><br/> Son of the founder of the New York Herald. He is best remembered for sponsoring Henry Morton Stanley's trip to Africa to find David Livingston financing the whole endeavor for exclusive dispatches from the Congo. As a sportsman Bennett is credited with organizing the first tennis match in the United States. As a businessman he partnered with Jay Gould and co-founded the Commercial Cable Company.<br/><br/> unknown books
189113733.1San Francisco: E. L. G. Steele 208 California Street 1891. 1st edition BAL 1109; Baird & Greenwood 252; Wright III 525. Original publisher's brown cloth with gilt stamped lettering to spine & front board variant with leaf 19-8 excised. Modest wear & soiling. Glit a bit dull. Unobtrusive bit of bubbling to rear board. Withal Very Good. 300 2 blank pp. 8vo. 7-3/8" x 4-13/16" <br/><br/> E. L. G. Steele, 208 California Street hardcover books
1864WRCLIT81569Paris: Cadart & Luquet 1864. Original etching plate 16 x 22 cm with full margins 33.5 x 44.5 cm. Short tear in top blank margin some vestiges of mounting tape in extreme corners of blank verso otherwise near fine. An etching by Bracquemond illustrating a scene from Gautier's CAPITAINE FRACASSE printed by Auguste Delâtre. Published as an element in Cadart & Luquet's portfolio for the Sociéte des Aquafortistes. With the publisher's blindstamped paraph in the lower margin. Signed in the plate. Cadart & Luquet unknown books
189029191Chicago 1890. Oblong folio. 10 3/4 x 13 inches. 152 albumen photographs most 7 x 9 inches mounted recto and verso of each leaf within the album. Images captioned in manuscript on the mount below the image many signed in white ink or in the negative by Taylor. Expertly bound to style in half dark purple morocco over period cloth covered boards spine lettered in gilt marbled endpapers<br/> <br/>A remarkable album of early Chicago photography by John W. Taylor: a significant photographic record of Chicago in the late 19th century.<br/> <br/>A major photographic record of the city of Chicago and its architecture in the late 19th century almost entirely the work of the significant photographer John W. Taylor with his imprint in the negative. Taylor was a bookseller and stationer before advertising himself as a commercial photographer in the late 1880s. He concentrated his work on Chicago-area architecture and city infrastructure. Today he is recognized as a pioneering photographer of architecture working in Chicago at the very beginning of the skyscraper era. This superb photograph album presents a fairly comprehensive view of Chicago's architecture and life during one of the city's most interesting and vibrant periods from the highest of the skyscrapers to the interiors of pig pens in the stockyards with numerous residences parks lush interiors the 1893 World's Fair and more in-between. Taylor's importance as one of the earliest significant architectural photographers is addressed in Peter Bacon Hales' Silver Cities: Photographing American Urbanization 1839-1939: "Photographers of the older generation managed to retain their identities even as they adjusted to their more prosaic role as visual adjuncts to the architects who designed the buildings they photographed. J.W. Taylor of Chicago for example made an extensive survey of the "modern" buildings of Chicago and its environs many of which traveled throughout the globe as architects and engineers converged on the city in the later 1800s and beyond to see the miracle of the Chicago style of building. Taylor's pictures went as far as Melbourne Australia in the collection of Australian architect E.G. Kilburn who made his pilgrimage to the architects' mecca in 1889. Kilburn stared sketched and took notes; then he brought back photographs by Taylor of everything from the Pullman company town to the Palmer House." Chicago has been an especially important architectural center since the period represented in this collection. After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 destroyed most of the buildings in the downtown area a special class of architects and engineers flocked to the city resulting in an architectural boom unequaled in the history of 19th century urban development. Hallowed names such as Louis Sullivan Dankmar Adler John M. Van Osdel Daniel Burnham William W. Boyington William LeBaron Jenney John Wellborn Root William Holabird Martin Roche Edward Baumann Harris W. Huel Solon Spencer Beman and Clinton J. Warren stamped their unique architectural character on the Chicago landscape. Each of these architects is amply represented in the photographs contained herein. There is even one photograph of the magnificent lobby of the Rookery Building considered the grandest lobby in Chicago at the time. This view is especially interesting to architectural historians because this interior was remodeled a short time later in 1905 by Adler & Sullivan's former head draftsman Frank Lloyd Wright. The late 19th century was also a transitional time in building construction when architects were beginning to leave behind cast iron frames and experiment with steel-frame construction and large areas of plate glass especially in the "Commercial Style" made famous by Sullivan and others in the Chicago School. As a result some of the earliest modern skyscrapers are found in Chicago. A general summary of the photographs in the album is as follows: forty-two buildings including the Masonic Temple the tallest skyscraper in the world at the time the Woman's Temple the Rookery Building the Chamber of Commerce the Monadnock Building the Northern Hotel the Home Insurance Building the Tacoma Building the Caxton Building the Pullman Building the Oakland Hotel the Grand Pacific Hotel Palmer House the Auditorium Building Marshall Field's the Lester Building the Hotel Metropole Libby Prison the New Regiment Armory depots and churches; seven downtown street scenes; seventeen residential streets including Lake Shore Dr. and Michigan Ave. and residences of prominent citizens including Potter Palmer and Lambert Tree; twenty parks pavilions and recreation scenes; three of Grant Monument and its unveiling; ten Lincoln Park scenes some with animals; three of Garfield Park; ten featuring World's Fair building construction; nine views of the October 1892 World's Fair dedication showing ceremonies and a large parade; two scenes of boating; twelve views of stockyards and meat processing six exterior and interior views of an auditorium; eight interiors including Palmer House and a bank; and three scenes of horse racing at Washington Park. Taylor's photographs reside in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago fifty-six images and the Chicago History Museum 150 images. The subject matter of those collections and the present work overlap significantly testament to the prodigious nature of Taylor's output. For example this collection has a significant number of images related to the World's Columbian Exposition a.k.a. the Chicago World's Fair of 1893; the Chicago History Museum collection contains no images from this monumental event in Chicago's history. A truly remarkable record of Chicago architecture by a significant photographer. unknown books
189448829London: MacMillan and Co 1894. 2nd Printing. Inscribed to Mary Macleod from L. T. Meade. Blue cloth binding with gilt stamping. Slight cock with spine a bit sunned. General wear. Meade's inscription at top of t.p. Age-toning to paper. Very Good. 208 4 adverts pp. Image of Clough to t.p. 6-1/4" x 4-1/4" <br/><br/>"L. T. Meade was the pseudonym of Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith a prolific writer of girls' stories. She began writing at 17 and produced over 300 books in her lifetime being so prolific that no fewer than eleven new titles under her byline appeared in the first few years after her death. She was primarily known for her books for young people of which the most famous was A World of Girls published in 1886. However she also wrote 'sentimental' and 'sensational' stories religious stories historical novels adventure romances and mysteries including several with male co-authors." Wiki MacMillan and Co hardcover books
189328279Paris: Au Ménestrel Heugel PN H & Cie 7870 1893. Large octavo. Quarter dark red cloth with marbled boards black leather title label gilt to spine. 1f. dedication 1f. title i premiere information and named cast list ii contents i blank 321 i blank pp. Lithographed.<br/><br/>Named cast includes Fugère Taskin Clément Landouzy and Tarquini d'Or.<br/><br/>Small rectangular publisher's label to title; tear to outer margin of p. 53. First Edition. <br/><br/>Le flibustier to a libretto by Richepin after his play 1888-1889 was first performed in Paris at the Opéra Comique Favart on January 22 1894. Au Ménestrel, Heugel [PN H & Cie 7870] unknown books
1899025963Austin Texas: Von Boeckmann-Jones 1899. First Edition. Octavo. 264 pages 4pp. ads at rear printed on rectos only errata sheet tipped in owned by Dr. Henry C. Cooke Galveston Texas 1900. He was a member of the Texas Academy of Science. An unusually bright copy of an important first hand account with illustrations. Nevins I p.78. In George Worthington Adams article on Confederate Medicine he quotes this work on the use still of bleeding and the price of the various opiates which were becoming scarce. His descriptions of the poor diet of the doctors still better than for most of the men was horrifying though when it was available they did occasionally get milk and vegetables. The author edited the Texas Medical Journal from 1885 to 1910 and was listed in Types of Successful Men of Texas as well as Who's Who in America. Bound in red cloth lettered and decorated in black and gilt spine lettering gilt floral endpapers. Von Boeckmann-Jones unknown books
1892028183Mobile AL: The Gossip Printing Company 1892. Octavo. Author's autograph edition with portrait frontispiece signed. In addition he has written a long note: "It is not the deeds men do as much as their manner of doing that makes impression on an era." J.C. DeLeon Mobile January 1896. 1-23--12 1 pp. dedication 5-6 i-vii 11-376 pages. The author was from a prominent Jewish family his brother became the first Surgeon-General of the Confederacy. De Leon saw the sad failures of the Confederate government from the financial mismanagement to his description of the horrendous prices that led the women of Richmond to start the "bread riots" meat butter pork $35 a pound; common shoes $200-800 a pair; a barrel of flower $1400. He writes that the Richmond papers were often seen more editorials of emotion while the Northern papers were often considered more reliable. Ralph Jeffrey Newman lists this as one of the essential books for a serious Civil War Library. Bound in brown decorative cloth lettered and decorated in black and gilt spine lettering gilt floral endpapers p. 375 shows a bit of separation at the gutter a spot of rubbing to upper board mild bumping to corners. previous owner's name stamped on endpapers. A very good copy. Howes D-241: Nevins II 218. The Gossip Printing Company unknown books
18943187New York: Theodore Low de Vinne for The Grolier Club 1894. Printed on vellum. Folio 285 x 185 mm. 6 leaves clxiii 1; 4 84 4 4 6 11 pp. 1 leaf. 2 blank leaves at front and 4 at back. Title with Grolier Club device three engraved vignettes by Max Rosenthal in the first part Fowler's introduction unsigned lithograph on a separate leaf at the end of the introduction included in the pagination showing William Bradford's tombstone woodcut or linocut ornamental initials final leaf with De Vinne press device. Bound in black morocco t.e.g. others untrimmed by Denis Gouey blind-stamped signature on lower pastedown. Provenance: personal copy of the printer Theodor Low De Vinne bookplate; Bernard Breslauer inserted collation notes on The Ritz London stationery and carbon copy of a letter sent by him to Decherd Turner July 19 1997 plus a clipping from the bookseller's catalogue from which he purchased the book; sale Christie's New York part 3 27-28 June 2005 lot 1134. A fine association copy: the exemplaire de tête printed on vellum retained by the printer for his private collection from a total edition of 315 copies of which 312 copies on hand-made paper and three copies on vellum of a facsimile of the founding laws of the colony of New York. The first part consists of a long historical introduction by Robert Ludlow Fowler. The Facsimile was made from the Lenox Library copy as explained in a two-page note from the Publication Committee pp. 172-173. The book was published by the Grolier Club on the occasion of its tenth anniversary and the other two vellum copies were auctioned off at the tenth annual members' meeting on 21 February 1894. A copy of the Grolier Club invitation to that meeting as well as the 4-page illustrated prospectus for the book both of which were printed by de Vinne are loosely inserted along with the aforementioned documents from Bernard Breslauer. Mr. Breslauer collected books on vellum and in the inserted 1997 letter to Decherd Turner he announced his acquisition of this his fifth Americanum on vellum.Theodore Low de Vinne was one of the nine founding members of the Grolier Club and he printed most of its publications until his death. "His encyclopedic understanding of the craft his advancement of its technology and design his appreciation of its history his business leadership and his many writings earned him among his contemporaries the designation `Dean of American Printers'" APHA website The De Vinne Centennial Feb. 16. 2014. (Theodore Low de Vinne for) The Grolier Club hardcover books
1890184Lithograph. c. 1890. As published for L'Estampe et L'Affiche. Printed on very thin tissue. Image: 5 x 7. Margins: 9 x 11¼. L'Estampe et L'Affiche. books
1892S6289Offprint from:: Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Forhanlingar No. 7 1892. 1892. 8vo. 325-342 pp. Tables. Original plain wrappers. PRESENTATION SLIP LAID IN. Ex library rubber stamp. Ms. notation on top cover. Very good. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. "At Uppsala Duner found the solution of the special problems of the eclipsing binary Y upsalon Cygni pointing out that this system consists of two similar suns moving around their common center of gravity in elliptic orbits the common line of apsides of which simultaneously rotates in the plane of the orbits. After summing up these results in a few lines Duner added modestly: 'These investigations may well claim some interest.'" DSB IV p. 251. Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Forhanlingar, No. 7, 1892. unknown books
1891S6288Uppsala:: Edv. Berling 1891. 1891. 4to. ii 78 pp. Tables 1 lithographic plate. Original printed wrappers removed from a larger collection of papers roughing the spine. PRESENTATION COPY: "A l'Academie des Sciences de Philadelphia; hommage de l'observatoire d'Upsala." Ex library rubber stamp. Very good. FIRST EDITION. Nils Duner became professor of astronomy at Uppsala University and director of the observatory in 1888. His measurements of solar rotation obtained evidence for the decrease in the velocity of rotation from the equator to the latitudes ±75 degrees. DSB IV pp. 250-251. Edv. Berling, 1891. unknown books
1892M11221Leipzig:: F.C.W. Vogel 1892. 1892. Third revised edition. 8vo. viii 196 pp. 139 illustrations index. Black cloth gilt-stamped spine title; extremities a bit rubbed and soiled. Ex-library bookplate with embossed stamp on title-page call number painted on front cover. Professor of neurology at Frankfurt Edinger founded modern comparative neuroanatomy. He first described thalamic pain with postmortem verification and identified the nucleus for pupillary constriction in the fetal midbrain. F.C.W. Vogel, 1892. hardcover books
1898253689Indianapolis 1898. unbound. 1 page 10.5 x 8 inches Indianapolis November 5 1898. Written while campaigning for the Vice Presidency in part: ".I have just returned from a campaigning tour of the State and find myself submerged with a vast quantity of correspondence awaiting answer. I expect to return to Washington possibly Tuesday night." Natural folds with tape reinforcements on the back. Very good- condition.<br/><br/> American politician and Vice President under Theodore Roosevelt.<br/><br/> unknown books
1891237481891. No binding. Very Good. Three-quarter-length portrait in costume unknown role signed "Richard Franz" in black ink. From the studio of A. Adler Dresden with decorative gilt studio imprint to lower margin and studio details printed to verso. 165 x 107 mm.<br/><br/>Slightly worn. Richard Franz was an Austrian actor. In his early years he was considered highly promising; he gave his Dresden debut in 1889 Ernst Roeder Dresdner Hoftheater der Gegenwart: Neue Folge Dresden and Leipzig 1896 pp. 142-61. In 1914 the "former actor of heroic roles in Dresden now in Mainz" became director of the court theater in Braunschweig Die Musik 13 part 2 Berlin 1914 p. 366. unknown books
18952836671895. unbound. very good. Signed postal panel "Lucretia Garfield" with the addition of the recipients address completely in hand. Technically this is not a free-frank as Lucretia Garfield had been afforded the franking privilege on all mail since the death of her husband. Postal marking bear a Cleveland OH cancellation dated April 11 1895. Fine condition.<br/><br/> Wife of assassinated President James A. Garfield and First Lady of the United States from March 4 1881 to September 19 1881.<br/><br/> unknown books
1885251281np 1885. 1 page. 1 vols. 8vo. Tipped to larger sheet. 1 page. 1 vols. 8vo. President Garfield's wife:<br/>"This I have first received from Mr. Browne as the result of his search. It is not very satisfactory If you still desire that I see the original of the Chase letter I do not object to it. I am now at the farm and shall be glad to see you here should it be your pleasure to come. unknown books
188261972Cleveland Ohio 1882. Four pages approximately 350 words in part: "Advance sheets of Mr. Blaine's address reached her yesterday morning. Thronging emotions and memories made my heart stand still. It was the anniversary of the last day the Gen'l passed in our Mentor Ohio home . hopes ambitions aspirations pure & high and almost assured all swept away -- nothing left but tears." Garfield took office in March 1881 was shot in July and died a lingering death in September. Mrs. Garfield thanks Mr. Blaine for his wonderful words and his tribute to her husband's life and character. A beautiful poignant letter. Still very good. Folded for mailing some browning at folds. 9782. <br/><br/> unknown books
187046279New York: Dodd & Mead Publishers 1870. Early Printing. Brown cloth decorative border stamped in black ink to head and tail of upper board and back strip blind stamp vignette to lower board title stamped in gilt to back strip light yellow end papers. A VG copy some soiling to boards corners rubbed and lightly frayed gilt bright some foxing to text block some foxing and age toning to end papers and leaves publishers label to front past-down ink inscription to ffep internally clean and bright. viii 472 pp. Twelve black and white illustrations including frontis. 7-1/2" x 5" <br/><br/>Inscription reads: "Mrs. Wm. F. Herrick - Oct. 25 1875 - from her son Willie". Dodd & Mead, Publishers hardcover books
1870RW1089Paris:: Librairie de L. Hachette 1870. 1870. 4to. iv 612 pp. 117 engravings 6 chromolithographic plates. Original quarter crimson and gilt-stamped leather red blind-stamped cloth all edges gilt; extremities worn joints cracked. Very good. An interesting collection of writings by 4 very different men joined by their fascination with aeronautics. Flammarion was a French astronomer and prolific author of works on popular science Glasiher was an English meteorologist and aeronaut Fonvielle was a dedicated balloonist while Tissandier was a chemist meteorologist and aviator. This work describes many of their experience and experiments relating to air travel principally in balloons. Includes some very nice illustrations. Librairie de L. Hachette, 1870. hardcover books
18992847111899. unbound. very good. Excellent war-date signed card signed on the day he organized the 29th Inf. Regiment 3.5" x 2" "Fort McPherson Georgia - July 20th 1899 - Yours Truly - E.E. Hardin - Colonel 29th Regiment - U.S.V." Evenly toned and in very good condition.<br/><br/> American army officer who distinguished himself during the Indian Wars - engaged against Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce at the Battle of Big Hole Montana August 9th 1877. During the Spanish-American War he personally organized the 29th Infantry Regiment at Fort McPherson and on July 20 1899 led them throughout the Philippine Insurrection including the Battles of Manila Masbate Boac Palanes etc.<br/><br/> unknown books
1884Z1356Madison:: Democrat Printing 1884. 1884. 8vo. v 347 appendix 53 pp. Woodcut frontis. of Washburn Observatory plates tables; some pages marginally water-stained very faint. Brown cloth gilt-stamped spine title; lightly faded corners a little bumped. Very good. The appendix is a catalog of the holdings within the Observatory's library. Democrat Printing, 1884. hardcover books
1883283636Paris 1883. unbound. very good. Very scarce A.Q.S. during his self-exile in Europe 5 x 8" removed from a book in full: "Yours for a better knowledge of the World - Wm. Lee Howard- Paris 3-29-83." Very good condition with light toning and an uneven left margin.<br/><br/> American physician and surgeon called a pervert and degenerate by the medical community because he dared to author books on human sexuality.<br/><br/> unknown books
