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DUNER Nils Christofer 1839 1914.ABAA

"Sur les elements de l'etoile variable Y upsalon Cigni."

CHICAGO John W. TAYLOR photographer 1846 1918ABAA

Album containing 154 albumen photographs of Chicago by a noted photographer including important architectural images as well as images relating to the preparations for the 1893 World's fair the stockyards as described by Upton Sinclair and more

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 A remarkable album of early Chicago photography by John W. Taylor: a significant photographic record of Chicago in the late 19th century. 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

Donald Heald Rare Books · États-Unis27 500,00 $US≈ 23 267,75 €

DE VINNE Theodore Low 1828 1914 printerABAA

Facsimile of the Laws and Acts of the General Assembly for their Majesties Province of New York. At New York printed and sold by William Bradford printer to their Majesties King William & Queen Mary 1694. Edited and annotated by Robert Ludlow Fowler

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

Musinsky Rare Books, Inc. · États-Unis7 500,00 $US≈ 6 345,75 €

Theatre Playbill. Mitchell Margaret Julie "Maggie" 1832 1918 Lead ActressABAA

FANCHON! The CRICKET. Boston Theatre. May 26 1864.; The PUBLIC DEMAND. This Thursday evening May 26th '64 Miss Maggie Mitchell The Renowned and Fascinating Comedienne will repeat her Unequalled Impersonation of the Merry Little Cricket! In the great original Domestic Drama of Fanchon! The Cricket

186441942Boston: F. A. Searle Printer 118 Washington Street 1864. Some age toning light crease here & there with the occasional spot or two. Horizontal fold-line. Still a VG example of this fragile item. One broadside sheet printed recto only. 18-1/8" x 6-1/4" Margaret Julia Mitchell popularly known as Maggie Mitchell was an American actress born in New York. She made her first regular appearance as Julia in The Soldier's Daughter at the Chambers Street Theatre in 1851. The parts in which she was best liked were Jane Eyre Mignon Little Barefoot and Fanchon the Cricket. Wiki In January 1861 At at De Bar’s St. Charles Theatre in New Orleans Mitchell first appeared in Fanchon the Cricket a new secondhand adaptation by August Waldauer from George Sand’s story “La Petite Fadette.” Her characterization of the sprite of a heroine which included a graceful and entrancing shadow dance was an immediate sensation. Her Southern tour was cut short by the Civil War and Mitchell took Fanchon to Boston and New York where it was equally successful. Fanchon remained her mainstay for 30 years. Audiences never tired of it—her admirers included the likes of Abraham Lincoln and Ralph Waldo Emerson—and even in her 50s Mitchell retained the winsome elfin appeal that made her so successful. She also early obtained the rights to Fanchon which enabled her to amass a considerable estate. EB. We find one institutional holding of this playbill at the MHS. A rare survivor of this play's northern run. F. A. Searle, Printer, 118 Washington Street unknown books

Tavistock Books, ABAA · États-Unis350,00 $US≈ 296,14 €