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187025410Sedan France: Hector Husson 1870. Large format albumen process photographic image of this view of the town hall and square in Sedan with the statue of the Viscount of Turenne By Hector Husson. Laid down to thin cardstock with the studio stamp in ink of Husson below the photo at bottom left; the title Sedan is imprinted below on the card mount. On the back of the mount is the small stationer's ticket of G. Tellier 5 rue Napoleon Sedan. Image approx. 6 3/4" x 9 1/4" size; the cardstock makes it approx. 13" x 15 3/4" overall. No date noted; circa 1870. Cardstock with a little spotting; image clear and well-taken a good detailed view of the front facade of the town hall with several men in military or gendarmerie uniforms in front; other workers men in front of the statue of Turenne; in very good condition. Photograph. Not Bound. Very Good. Hector Husson paperback books
194926970Paris France: Ballets De Paris 1949. 24 pages; illustrated in color and black and white by Leonor Fini & Antoni Clavie also with photos of performers; French text. Laid-in is a two-sided printed Programme des 19 20 et 22 Aout performances. Guide is approx. 9 1/4" x 12 1/4" size; illustrated glassine overwrap over softcover with titles in blue & white spine with decorative white silk cord; white & blue cover titles. Closed edge-tear to glassine; old fold-crease to back cover & a few inner leaves; in good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. Illus. by Leonor Fini. Ballets De Paris paperback books
192223552South Shields England: Frank & Sons 1922. Photograph depicts this cable maintenance steamship underway; identified in the plate at lower left margin; Built in 1922 by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd. for the Commercial Cable Company and based at Halifax Nova Scotia on Atlantic repair duties see History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications online source; image approx. 10" x 13 1/2" size; studio stamp of Frank & Sons Marine Photographers South Shields on back; edge tips wear chipping including some small chips in the image creases at corners; in about good condition. Photograph. Not Bound. Good. Frank & Sons Paperback books
193623642Hull England: Hull Little Theatre 1936. 4 album sheets with tipped-on souvenirs from this theater company; with identifications neatly written-in and decorated in white ink; shows including Promise After October Love from a Stranger The Unguarded Hour Astonished Heart Fumed Oak; including 6 black and white photographs of sets and shows snapshots approx. 2 1/4" x 3 1/4" format; players mentioned include Jean Moncrieff Peter Robinson Enid Hewit Patrick Parsons Barbara Williams Margaret MacDonald Brown Colin Morris Ambrosine Phillpotts Edna Hazell William Mervyn John Roderick others; album sheets approx. 9 1/4" x 13" size; some edge-wear and a bit of darkening to paper items; in very good condition; interesting British provincial theater ephemera from before WWII. First Edition. Not Bound. Very Good. Hull Little Theatre paperback books
195122671Tokyo Japan: Kaizosha 1951. 264 pages; with a black and white photo-illustrated section at front "Franco's Spain"; small illustrations throughout via line drawings some caricatures accompanying articles; text in Japanese; fold-out advertisement section printed in orange; approx. 5 7/8" x 8" size; paper browned not brittle; covers soiled darkened; closed tear to last few leaves; still about good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. Kaizosha Paperback books
187427153Barcelona Spain: Empresa Editorial La Ilustracion 1874. lxi 266 pages 1 page plate list 1 publisher's announcements. With 10 black and white plates illustrating the cantos of the poem collated complete. Luis de Camoes c. 1525 - 1580 Portugal's greatest poet the Lusiads his most enduring work; here in Spanish translation. Title page with the small very faint ownership stamp of previous owner George R. Brush M.D. U.S. Navy surgeon & medical inspector 1861-1894. Volume approx. 6 1/8" x 8 7/8" size; bound in the full polished leather gilt spine titles on contrasting label. Some edge tips wear to the boards; some foxing spotting text & plates; in very good condition. First Edition. Leather. Very Good. Empresa Editorial La Ilustracion books
188225034Philadelphia PA: O.W. Gray & Son 1882. One sheet printed with 2 maps from the 1882 O.W. Gray National Atlas New York Edition: Gray's New Map of Australia by Frank A. Gray 1878 engraved by W.H. Holmes and Palestine. With hand-coloring in pastel tones; Approx. 14 3/8" x 17 1/4" overall size; a little even toning to the paper; in very good condition. . Map. Not Bound. Very Good. O.W. Gray & Son paperback books
188225035Philadelphia PA: O.W. Gray & Son 1882. One sheet printed with 1 map from the 1882 O.W. Gray National Atlas New York Edition: North America. Copyright noted at bottom edge Colton 1855. With hand-coloring in pastel tones; Approx. 14" x 17 1/4" overall size; a little even toning to the paper right margin with a few little edge-nicks; in very good condition. Map. Not Bound. Very Good. O.W. Gray & Son paperback books
188225037Philadelphia PA: O.W. Gray & Son 1882. One sheet from the 1882 O.W. Gray National Atlas New York Edition: Double-page map of the United States with inset of the Territorial District of Alaska formerly Russian America and a smaller inset at top "Sketch Exhibiting the Westward Movement of the Centre of Population from 1790 to 1870."; text on back regarding U.S. population changes; at bottom margin of map copyright dated as 1879 O.W. Gray & Son. With hand-coloring in pastel tones; approx. 28 1/2" x 17 1/4" overall size; a little even toning to the paper with a few little edge-nicks; in very good condition. . Map. Not Bound. Very Good. O.W. Gray & Son paperback books
197326171Kathmandu Nepal: United Nations 1973. 2 43 pages; printed one side only. Contents include information on previous developments and the Valley Project; planning implementation preservation; proposals for administration and organization; consultancies: Lumbini Project & UNHCR; proposed future assistance and co-operation of associate experts. Includes information on basic premises of traditional Nepalese architecture as a foundation for contemporary design development of building materials components systems for economic structures demonstration and pilot projects. Previous owner name on front cover. Approx. 8 1/2" x 11" size; side-stapled printed titled cover. Paper darkened dog-eared; in good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. United Nations paperback books
195823895Naha Okinawa: Not Published 1958. 15 color slides; of various scenes mostly in town and a few in villages street and canal scenes market business temples people bathing all are Anscochrome Transparency with the American Photo Service stamps processed by them in Okinawa with the duplicate stamp and with the original box; well-taken good colorful Asian imagery from the 1950s; in very good condition. Photography. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published Paperback books
193524520New York N.Y.: McLaughlin Aerial Surveys 1935. Aerial photographic image in dark sepia. Approx. 10" x 14" with the stamp of McLaughlin Aerial Surveys 20 West 57th St. New York on back. This image is hand-numbered # 3584 no place or date is noted circa 1935. see MOMA 1937 exhibition catalog for further information on the subject which includes images from this company's work. In very good condition. . Photograph. Not Bound. Very Good. McLaughlin Aerial Surveys Paperback books
1880WRCLIT82868New York London and Paris: Cassell & Company 1880. 312pp. Small quarto 26.5 x 19 cm. Chocolate brown pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black. Frontis and 100 illustrations. Inner hinges cracked due to heavy textblock closed tear in fore-edge of front free endsheet some rubbing at extremities text block tanned; still the binding bright with inset pictorial vignettes devoted to "Air" "Art" and "Architecture." Unspecified undated printing of this popular homage to the virtues of work published at the dawn of the Machine Age. Cassell & Company hardcover books
18812222083<p>Early edition. Thick octavo. Illustrated. Lithographed frontispiece of 11 people seven adults and four children in a boat by Thos. Sinclair & Son.; color plate at page 460. Original gilt and black stamped decorative cloth a.e.g. brown coated endpapers inner joints cracked. No dust jacket. Good edges rubbed. 584 pages.</p><p>Engraved full page presentation leaf for L. D. Grid from N. E. Grid Bates Co. Mo Oct. 1887.</p> J. C. McCurdy & Co. hardcover books
18881363Boston: John A. Lowell & Co. 1888. Cards. Illustrated folding cards. Very good. 17 x 11 cm. Cover engraved by John A. Lowell & Co. portrays a Civil War Soldier rear cover portrays an ad for the Central Hotel No. 6 Canal Street Providence R.I. Interior: Field and Staff listed Bill of Fare including Breakfast Dinner And Supper. <br/><br/> John A. Lowell & Co. unknown books
18912287Providence RI 1891. Cards. Cream illustrated cards paper illustrated menu. Very good. 16.5 x 11. 5 cm. Lunch & Dinner menu. Lunch featured Lobster Salad & Stewed Calf's Liver with Wine Sauce. Dinner featured Chowder Baked Mackerel with Tomato Sauce Fried Eels - Jewish style Saratoga Chips Clam Fritters Soft Shell Crabs Quahogs Indian Pudding Ice Cream Watermelon & Peaches and Ponham Spring Water. Also noted the 1891 Executive Committee and the Providence Warren & Bristol Train schedules. <br /> <br />A private club with a membership of 200 shareholders opened in 1867 as a place for gentlemen to network over shore dinners of lobster steamed clams corn and potatoes. The club grounds included a ball field miniature clock and obstacle golf courses bowling alleys and it's own wharf. This area in Providence known as "Riverside" hosted the Crescent Park Amusement Park known as the "Coney Island of the East". Along the Providence River west of the club is the Ponham Lighthouse which is still standing today. The club closed in 1954 and the property was redeveloped for condominiums in the 1980's. Menu cards expertly repaired. Some light toning and foxing. <br/><br/> unknown books
1785EPL107London 1785. Paperback. Near Fine. Printed scripts of Syriac Armenian Arabic Samaritan Gothic Coptic Ethiopic Etruscan Saxon etc. Variations of English Greek and Hebrew and a leaf of floral devices with music and ship imprints on verso. Interesting specimen for those interested in typographic history. Size: 401 x 255mm. <br/><br/> paperback books
1810WRCLIT76048Philadelphia: Gedrucht bey Jacob Meyer. Für Johnson und Warner Bro. 1810. 36pp. 12mo. Early plain stiff salmon wrappers. Typical scattered foxing and slight offsetting but a very good copy. First edition in this format. The woodcut title-vignette is ascribed to A. Anderson. Seven edifying tales for the young. ROSENBACH 418. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 20192. WELCH 431. BÖTTE & TANNHOF 1770. OCLC 207258103. Gedrucht bey Jacob Meyer. Für Johnson und Warner Bro. unknown books
189227097New York N.Y.: Friedr. Bayer & Co. - W.H. Schieffelin & Co. U.S. Agents 1892. Three informational pamphlets for these Bayer pharmaceutical products all three 24 pages in length; with descriptive notes on the products usage dose information testimonials case reports physical chemical properties modes of action various preparations and more. Approx. 5 3/4" x 9" uniform size original polished stapled printed paper covers Some edge tips wear soiling and dustiness to the bindings; contents clean and in very good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Friedr. Bayer & Co. - W.H. Schieffelin & Co. U.S. Agents paperback books
193025542Cleveland and Sandusky Ohio: Hinde & Dauch Paper Co. 1930. An advertising promotional item consisting of a checkerboard and sheet of checkers manufactured from heavy cardstock complete; making commercial customers aware of H & D's line of heavy products boxing. ".Made in the H & D shops of H & D fibre boxboard it is strong and durable as you see.special board used in the construction of boxes for heavy products." The checkerboard's squares with pictures showing various uses of the H & D heavy products boxing: for furniture radios chinaware knit goods leather goods electrical appliances drugs flowers glassware canned goods paints beverages proprietary preparations. The 'checkers' are die-cut disks of cardstock stamped in black or red with the H & D logo; they are still in their heavy cardstock sheet-holder and are all present. One reverse panel of the board with a color-printed pastedown giving information regarding the company and this product made by the "World's largest producer of Corrugated Fibre Shipping Boxes." Not dated and circa 1930. The board opens to approx. 15 1/4" square. Some edgewear soiling and rubbing to the board and checkers; in good condition. Advertising Premium. Not Bound. Good. Hinde & Dauch Paper Co. paperback books
193026773Sao Paulo Brasil: Theodor Preising 1930. Group of thirty-six 36 small-format photographs three "series" of 12 each all of Rio de Janeiro and environs by the photographer Theodor Preising. With the original paper packet-covers having the studio imprint of Photo Rotativo TP Sao Paulo on each. The images are titled in the plate with blank backs. Views include street scenes of various areas of Rio: Placio Monroe Av. Rio Branco several Hotel Gloria Hotel Central Theatro Municipal Praia de Botafogo Vista de Pao de Assucar Entrada de Barra Praia de Copacabana Avenue Niemeyer e Gavea Rua Paysandu Jardim Botanico Dedo de Deus Palace Hotel and others. In the Serie 1 packet and included in the count are 2 panoramas made of 2 individual images of the vast Rio de Janeiro shoreline taken from height. The images are approx. 2 1/8" x 3 3/8" size. The packet over-covers with a little wear; photos with only occasional silvering and are in very good condition. There is a very informative interview in the online publication Newcity Brazil 2018 by writer Cynthia Garcia "Brazilian History From a German View: An interview with curator Rubens Fernandes Junior about the long-overlooked work of Theodore Preising German-born naturalized Brazilian photographer" which gives much further information about his career and work. . Photographs. Not Bound. Very Good. Theodor Preising paperback books
19111598Brooklyn 1911. Sewn binding. Tan illustrated sewn wraps gold thread. Very good. Unpaginated 8 pages. Program for the Brooklyn Heights Seminary Club performed at The Brooklyn Academy of Music April 28 1911. Featured in the program are the daughters of the social elite including: Eunice Beecher granddaughter of Henry Ward Beecher and members of the Van Brunt Cropsey Ditmas Loomis Peabody Pratt and Scudder families. The Club was located at 18 Pierrepont Street and members were made up of the Senior Department of Brooklyn Heights Seminary with the expiration of their membership two years after leaving the Seminary. The Club was organized in 1885. Some light stains to wraps otherwise crisp and clean. <br/><br/> paperback books
2104St. Louis MO: F. J. Schleicher Paper Box Co. Staplebound. Color illustrated embossed wraps. . 12 pages. No date circa late 1920's. Profusely illustrated candy box trade catalog. Two page spread of color illustrations. Frank J. Schleicher 1859-1951 established his Paper Box Company in 1904. Prices in pencil marked throughout. Cover colored and embossed. <br/><br/> F. J. Schleicher Paper Box Co. paperback books
501047<p>"James A. Farley" in brown fountain pen ink on 1/2 length pose wearing dark suit long polk-a-dot tie and white shirt. Photograph in on heavy stock; 7 3/4" x 9 3/4"; very good; ca. 1935-40. Signed and inscribed to Postmaster Adda Bell Ruth: "To Mrs. Adda Bell Ruth Postmaster with every good wish. James A. Farley." Farley 1888-1976 born May 30 1888 Grassy Point New York; died June 29 1976 New York City; American politician and businessman; Coca-Cola board chairman 1940-1973; U.S. Postmaster General 1933-1940; Democratic National Committee chairman 1932-1940 with major role in electing Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932 & 1936.</p> unknown books
18861742York England 1886. Loose_leaf. Folded folio. Very good. 32 x 20 cm. This menuwritten by Halliwell a local master of ceremonies and freemason was made to accommodate and service the 3rd and 4th battalions' officers of the West Riding Regiment formerly known as the Duke of Wellington's Regiment. The officers were lodged in the De Grey Rooms neo-classically designed and constructed by architect George Townsend Andrews in the 1840's. The building was originally built to house the Yorkshire Hussar Regiment. The menu describes breakfast luncheon and dinner with served dishes that include tea coffee bacon and eggs kidneys cakes salad soups sweets ices and more. Menu also informs the officers of prices to pay per diem for services and the charges the guests and live-in servants must pay for board and food. The second page lists the sums for individual drinks. Delightful acquisition for a connoisseur of English military history. Light fold marks with some toning. <br/><br/> unknown books
