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190926971Paris France: Compagnie Des Eaux Minerales Economiques 1909. A photograph album composed of 29 heavy cardstock leaves each titled with a French hospital with a mounted photograph of the interns of 1908-09. On the mounts printed below the images are the surname-identification of the new doctors along with a quote from a famous medical personage. Photographic studio not identified aside from the printed notice in the surround of "Cliche Femina." Our research indicates that these albums were produced by the Compagnie des Eaux Minerales. as promotional devices; the cover titles are further personalized and include the name of one of the graduates A Monsieur Corylles actually Coryllos from the Hopital Cochin Paris. Dr. Coryllos 1880-1938 was an eminent thoracic surgeon and pioneer in the use of the mobile field hospital saving lives during military conflicts Every photograph black and white silver gelatin process; approx. 4 ¾" x 6" size is characterized by extraordinary clarity and very professionally taken; several of them presenting the graduating physician's candid expressions of humor - one posing with a monkey on his back another lugging a huge travel-box by a rope over his shoulders many with pet dogs & cats one with what appears to be a monstrous lizard; in another three men sit astride sheep and a goat; other portraits promoting expressions of extreme gravitas. The Hopital Des Enfants Malades with two women identified Mlle. Bouteil and Mme. Debre; the Hopital de la Pitie with Mme. Long; Mlle. Dechaux at Hopital Claude-Bernard Aubervilliers; two of the images from the Hopital Bichat & Hopital Beaujon with unidentified women posed with the groups. The images appear to have been taken on the grounds and building forecourts of these medical establishments including: Hopital Andral & Bastion 27 et 29; Beaujon; Berck Sur-Mer; Hospice de Bicetre; Bichat; Boucicaut; Bretonneau; Broca; Broussais; de la Charite; Claude-Bernard Aubervilliers; Cochin; Cochin Annexe; Maison Dubois; des Infantes Assistes; des Infantes Malades; Herold; Hotel-Dieu; Hospice D'Ivry; Laennec; Lariboisiere; La Maternite; Necker; de la Pitie; Saint-Antoine; Saint-Louis; Hospice de la Salpetriere; Tenon; and Hopital Trousseau. Heavy oblong format covers about 8 pounds shipping weight. Approx. 11" x 14" size; gilt titled green pebbled cloth & leather corners; binding damaged worn spine covering gone; all photographs in very good condition. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Compagnie Des Eaux Minerales Economiques hardcover books
D2004Very Good. N.p. but France: c. 19th Century. Manuscript on paper in French. 118pp. 18 ruled blanks 8vo 165 x 110mm. Written in red and brown ink in a clear script between ruled borders. 5 engraved plates. Contemporary calf rebacked with modern morocco label. Ex Libris of Jose M. Rodriguez rubbed and corners bumped. Exceedingly interesting early 19th-century geographical manuscript containing analytical statistics on the four major continents of the world. Divided into four main parts each preceded by a fine engraved portrait of a personification representing the continent. Europe Asia Africa and America with caption in French a poem to epitomize their part of the world. The countries appear in sub-headings organized by region where names of important cities exports for the area and religious demographics are highlighted. The names of several important cities and capitals are given usually with a demographic of the region and there is an especially comprehensive section for statistics on French regions and rivers. Including: Ile de france Picardie Normandie Bretagne Champagne Orleannois Bourgogne Lionnois Dauphine & Savoye Provence Languedoc Alsace Lorreine Pais bas. The countries represented for Europe: France Germany Poland Russia Scandinavia : Sweden Finland and Norway mentioned Great Britain Scotland Ireland Spain Portugal Italy Turkey Greece and Bulgaria. For Asia: Persia Mongolian Empire China Siberia Philippines Maldives. For Africa: Egypt Ethiopia Congo and Madagascar and America: Peru Paraguay Chile Brazil Mexico Florida & Canada California Cuba. An interesting treatise on geographical names and places with instruction to the disposition of the globe. <br/><br/> unknown books
WALTER-FILM004067No binding. Fine. Photo Group of fourteen 14 8 x 10"" 20 x 25 cm. photos USA. Ethel Waters Jeanne Crain dir: Elia Kazan; Twentieth Century Fox. One photo trimmed for publication one with printed text on verso JUST ABOUT FINE. This is one of a few post-WWII Hollywood films which attempted to come to grips with racism. It was compromised in various ways including the use of a white actress as Pinky a light-skinned African American. But it also contained distinguished performances from various Black actors including an Oscar-nominated turn by Ethel Waters as the protagonist's mother. Waters is in eight of these photos; five feature other African American actors including two of the legendary Nina Mae McKinney in her first major studio film in twenty years since the 1929 HALLELUJAH. unknown books
WALTER-FILM000699No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 57 x 20"" 145 x 51 cm. poster Japan. Barbara Parkins Patty Duke Sharon Tate Susan Hayward dir: Mark Robson; Fox. There is no way around it -- this film is one of the ultimate classics of incredibly memorable trash with one quotable line after another. And who can resist this scarce Japanese poster with portraits of the four female principals against a snow-laden background of heroine Parkins' New England home On linen poster was virtually immaculate prior to backing JUST ABOUT FINE. unknown books
196523139New York - London: City Investing Company 1965. Two large loose portfolios approx. 14" x 18" size sheets; both are illustrated with actual tipped-on professionally-taken photographs in black and white and color; for several of the projects very dramatic before-and-after views of the developments are shown; text printed in dark teal-blue on good quality heavy light putty - color paper- stock; the 'Major Projects' sheets 15 including title page cover sheet include Parkchester New York 'the largest planned residential community in the country'; Stuyvesant Town Peter Cooper Village - NYC 'innovations in large scale metropolitan residential communities'; Penn Center Philadelphia 'a vital center of commercial business and transportation'; Penn Park Pittsburgh 'occupies six million square feet of land along the Allegheny River'; Gateway Center Pittsburgh; Calgary Central City Canada; Sterling Forest NY; with The Omnia Building study 14 sheets giving the background for this concept in the 30th street area in Philadelphia photo of the concept artwork site location along the Schuylkill River details of the building ".accommodating a minimum of 50000 persons with a potential to increase to 100000.a vertical street composed of the many varied facilities and services of a major downtown avenue.offices exposition and sales shopping transportation communications manufacturing and distribution." with details of each of these conveyed via text and composites of imagery on photographs an impressive site development proposal; Robert W. Dowling 1895 - 1973 American real estate investor developer and philanthropist; Dowling College on Long Island is named for him - among his many diverse achievements we wish to note here that due to his involvement in the performing arts ". In 1959 President Dwight Eisenhower tapped Dowling to head the Arts Advisory Committee of the National Cultural Center in Washington. Dowling proposed the design of the center which later became the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts." from the Dowling College site biography - see it for extensive references to Dowling and his creative and wide-ranging career; not dated and circa 1965 from internal evidence; light edge tips wear to sheets; occasionally some old mounting-spots are found on the backs not intrusive or detracting; the black and white photographs especially are very sharp and well-delineated the color photos more muted reflecting the technology of the time and their age; both portfolios in very good condition and an interesting group of material documenting some of the largest real estate development projects in the United States & Canada by one of the business' largest investment firms in mid-20th century; with 11 extra plates being doubles of some of the pages noted above. Manuscript. Portfolio. Very Good. City Investing Company Hardcover books
195426720New York N.Y.: Tiber Press Publishers 1954. Done in a portfolio style with the work of each contributor on separate loose single or folded sheets which are all laid-in to a color-printed paper cover; contents collated complete per the list. With an abstract serigraph printed in four vivid colors "Seated Figure" signed in the plate by Alfred Leslie b. 1927 American artist and filmmaker. Also part of the contents are two photographs on paper by Walter Silver with an extra of one of these. Literary contributions by Frank O'Hara John Ashberry James Schuyler Daisy Aldan Kenneth Koch Anne Ryan V.R. Lang Donald Windham Ruth L. Yorck Mary Caroline Richards Philipe Thoby-Marcelin Jorge Cuesta and others. Daisy Aldan & Richard Miller were the editors Floriano Vecchio did the production; included is a list of the contributors' biographies in short form. Approx. 8" x 10 3/4" size; original screen-printed textured paper covers; some edge tips wear & soiling to covers edges darkened; artwork bright and contents clean; in very good condition. First Edition. Portfolio. Very Good. Tiber Press Publishers hardcover books
1709JC14459Amsterdam: Ex officina Wetsteniana 1709. Hardcover. Very Good. Small 4to 200 x 155mm. 32 index 728pp. Signatures: 1star-4star4 A-Z4 Aa-Zz4 Aaa-Zzz4 Aaaa-Yyyy4. Full-page engraved half-title of scene of busy hospital room with patients reclining in beds in background and ailing patient treated by group of physicians with herbs and bottled medicines. Title printed in red and black. Preface by Swiss editor and physician Johann Conrad Amman 1669-1724. Period half vellum blind stamped with arabesque to covers backed in calf of gilt-stamped spine with red morocco lettering label: AURELIANI DE MORBIS; binding slightly rubbed with few spots internally clean and complete. <br/><br/>Though Caelius Aurelius was a Latin translator of ancient Greek medical manuscripts philologists often discuss his work as if he was the original author. He was born in Sicca Numidia now in Algeria with a dubious start but almost certainly flourished as a Greco-Roman physician in the mid-fifth century. Caelius Aurelius is known by his Latin medical writings especially this translation of a now lost Greek medical textbook on diseases written by Soran of Ephesos and titled De Morbis Acutis & Chronicis or On Acute and Chronic Diseases. Both authors are considered to be the primary representatives of the secta methodici or Methodist school a Greek school of medicine whose texts gave access to and crucially reconstructed the rich medical teachings of the ancient world. The work De Morbis Acutis & Chronicis consists of two parts. The first part deals with fourteen acute diseases in three books and the second consists of five books and covers forty-four chronic diseases. This is widely regarded as the best edition of the Caelius Aureliuss work edited by Johann Conrad Amman and published in Amsterdam by Jacob de Wetstein in 1709; it was reprinted in 1722 1755 and 1759. This edition contains valuable annotations and a Lexicon Caelianum by the Dutch physician Theodorus Janssonius van Almeloveen 1657-1712. Aldus first published it in 1547 in a collection titled Medici Antiqui Omnes. This text is one of the most valuable in the field of pathology not only for describing a grant range of diseases including sections on psychiatry and neurology and their treatments famously prescribing sun-baths for chronic affections but that it also contains the foundation of contemporary Latin medical terminology rooted in the Greek language. Rare first edition far more common is the Amsterdam edition of 1722. Ex officina Wetsteniana hardcover books
10539Glass "Pitcher" with Vivid Iridescence. Persia Iran c. 8th to 12th century AD. Height: 4-1/4". Most glass pitchers from this very early period have not survived intact. This beautiful antique glass pitcher was recomposed may have been from pieces of several glass pitchers from that era. The pitcher exquisite in colors of aqua azure and deep emerald green is crafted in very thick glass with areas of exceptionally fine and intense iridescence. An unique and beautiful piece of antiquity. unknown books
4496Each of the five mounted photographs is preceded by a protective sheet of tissue paper in tact though wrinkled. The five photographs show a group of luminaries in the following fields: "Politicians Conservative" "Politicians Liberal" "Authors and Novelists" including Charles Dickens Wilkie Collins Thomas Carlyle "Science" including Charles Wheatstone Michael Faraday "Artists" including J. M. W. Turner John Everett Millais and Edwin Landseer. The page preceding the last group photograph of English Artists indicated that a second volume was anticipated "early in 1877." The artists' page has separated from the spine as has the first copyright page which is chipped along margins creased and missing upper left corner. The pages are securely held together at the spine even though they have lost their cover. The albumen plates are somewhat light as might be expected. Various degrees of foxing throughout chipped corners of the photographic boards. Overall condition is fair to good. A fascinating assemblage of 19th century English culture. unknown books
4626An unusual compelling albumen photograph painted to highlight the youthful face hands and neck of a 19th century woman. Light ruffles around the neck and wrists also highlight her jewelry as well as her rather severe long sleeved high neck dark dress. Something about the image evokes Nathaniel Hawthorne. The 6.5 by 8 inch albumen print is attached to a 7 by 8.5 hard board that has darkened and dried with age. The photograph may have been heavily painted with oils. Condition: since the paint is of uneven thickness it creates both a shimmery effect in good light as well as a sheen in a scan that creates the effect of fading. The board does show chipping along the edges slightly affecting the upper and lower corners of the photograph; tape residue on verso. unknown books
84456PHOTOGRAPHY - 19TH CENTURY. TONKIN TYPES. Small 8.7 x 13.2 cm red pebbeld cloth album stamped in gilt and blind fine condition. Twelve early silver gelatin print photographs 5.5 x 8 cm mounted to line-framed stiff pages. Captions in French at bottom of photographs Pecheurs Femme du Delta En Famille Fabricant de gongs etc describing location or "type" of subject. Photographs in excellent condition. French Indochina period probably late 19th century. Not in OCLC or BNF. unknown books
19392221730<p>"FDR" 1 page on mint green The White House letterhead Washington D.C. January 9 1939 1 page with integral leaf. 9" x 7". The paper watermarked "Whiting Woven Linen." To Frederick B. Adams. Very good.</p><p>Adams 1878-1961 was married to Ellen Walters Delano a first cousin of FDR.</p><p>Roosevelt thanks Adams for the gift of a fishing rod.</p> unknown books
1780SAV109Paris: Imprimerie de Didot l'aîné collection d'auteurs français pour Monseigneur le Comte d'Artois 1780. Hardcover. Good. 1780-1781. Sixteen volumes pocket 18mo 133 x 74mm. Printed on fine laid paper. Uniformly bound in contemporary mottled French calf ruled in gilt with olive morocco lettering labels marbled endpapers gilt edges. This beautiful miniature set was executed at the solitary expense of the Count d'Artois 1757-1830 later Charles X of France and numbered in full 64 volumes; the aim of which collected various sets of French works in verse and prose. Influential Enlightenment writers were thus compiled here many of them French female authors and limited to an overall printing of 100 copies by the famed printer Didot of Paris. Consisting: 1 DE LA FAYETTE Madame 1634-1693. "Zayde." 1780. 3 vols. 156 135 and 166pp. A classic novel with stories on the political social and cultural communities of early modern Spain. 2 DAUCORT Claude Godard d'Aucour 1768-1826. "Le Berceau de la France." 1780. 2 vols. 175 and 152pp. Rare first published in 1744 as a history of French civilization. 3 RICCOBONI Marie-Jeanne 1714-1792. "l'Histoire d'Aloïse de Livarot." 1780. 77pp. 4RICCOBONI Marie-Jeanne 1714-1792. "Les Amours de Roger et de Gertrude." 1780. 79pp. 5 DUCLOS Charles Pinot 1704-1772. “Ismene and Ismenias. Roman Grec." 1780. 115pp. 6 TRESSAN Comte de 1705-1783. "Le Prince Gerard Comte de Nevers et la Belle Euriant sa mie." 1780. 171pp. 7 TRESSAN Comte de 1705-1783. "Histoire du petit Jehan de Saint." 1780. 182pp. 8TRESSAN Comte de 1705-1783. "Histoire de Tristan de Léonois." 1781. 212pp.9 DUCLOS Charles Pinot 1704-1772. "Confessions du comte de ." 1781. 2 vols. 129 and 128pp. First published in 1742 a popular "portrait gallery" of the illustrious French. 10 TENCIN Claudine Guérin de 1682-1749. "Le Siege de Calais.” 1781. 2 vols. 122 and 126pp. First published anonymously in 1739. 11ARNAUD François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d' 1718-1805. “Sargines.” 1781. 130pp. Good. Only light edgewear and some bumped corners slightest spots otherwise crisp and clean interior. The Count d'Artois friend to Marie Antoinette and lover of the arts sought to stimulate a renewal in fiction with the printing of this collection of novels in 35 titles. The overall collection of 64 volumes was printed from 1781 to 1784 and edited by the order of Louis XVI. Just two years later the French monarchy would be in crisis; bankrupt and facing various political upheavals in the years leading up to the Revolution. This surviving set dates from the time of relative peace before upheaval and before the Count later reigned as Charles X in the post-Revolution era in 1824. These survive as early relics of the French monarch's cultural interests and endeavors. François-Ambroise Didot printed no more than 100 copies as a whole impression; 60 with the arms of the prince and at least 40 were on common paper without the Count’s heraldry as in these while others were produced on vellum See Ebert 4938. These works are extremely neatly printed on laid paper and stand as a precursor to Didot’s prolific typographic and printing career. Complete copies of the Count d’Artois’s collection are of utmost rarity; these portative sixteen make up an excellent union. Brunet 19413. <br/><br/>The Count d'Artois friend to Marie Antoinette and lover of the arts sought to stimulate a renewal in fiction with the printing of this collection of novels in 35 titles. The overall collection of 64 volumes was printed from 1781 to 1784 and edited by the order of Louis XVI. Just two years later the French monarchy would be in crisis; bankrupt and facing various political upheavals in the years leading up to the Revolution. This surviving set dates from the time of relative peace before upheaval and before the Count later reigned as Charles X in the post-Revolution era in 1824. These survive as early relics of the French monarch's cultural interests and endeavors. François-Ambroise Didot printed no more than 100 copies as a whole impression; 60 with the arms of the prince and at least 40 were on common paper without the Count’s heraldry as in these while others were produced on vellum See Ebert 4938. These works are extremely neatly printed on laid paper and stand as a precursor to Didot’s prolific typographic and printing career. Complete copies of the Count d’Artois’s collection are of utmost rarity; these portative sixteen make up an excellent union. Brunet 19413. Imprimerie de Didot l'aîné (collection d'auteurs français pour Monseigneur le Comte d'Artois) hardcover books
240PARIS VARIOUS 1900-1915. 1900-1922. 1 woodcut 1 lithograph and 6 etchings. unknown books
184729827Paris: Aubert & Cie 1847. 267 x 225 mm. good margins sheet size 324 x 250 mm. Printed on wove paper. Signed by the artist in the stone. A very good impression. <br/><br/>This humourous print depicts a young lady playing a piano duet with a somewhat Liszt-like gentleman. <br/><br/>Remants of mounting tape to right edge and upper corners of verso. Bibliothèque Nationale Inventaire du Fonds Français après 1800 no. 70. No. 4 in the series Les Bonnes Têtes Musicales. Aubert & Cie unknown books
1695D6964Venice: apud Ioannem Hertz 1695. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio 330 x 220mm. 4 616pp. 30; 1 92pp. i. e. 90. Copper-plate engraved printers device of Hertz to tiltle. Title printed in red and black. Double column. Contemporary vellum. Ex Libris Prosperi Selli Medicinae et Chirurgiae above pictorial wood-engraved ex-libris by Leo Wyatt for Lord Norwich on pastedown. <br/><br/>Dolaeus surgical encyclopedia his opus magnus which was widely popular. Reissued several times as in this copy of 1695 the scarce first edition was printed in 1605. Dolaeus belonged to the iatrochemical school of Paracelsus and van Helmont a branch of both chemistry and medicine. His opus magnus was this surgical encyclopedia and as indicated on the title is based on the principles of Galen Paracelsus van Helmont Willis Sylvius and Descartes. The encyclopedic entries deal with all manner of surgical diseases including hernia cancer abscesses ulcers gangrene and afflictions of the sense organs teeth and genitalia. A physician to the German nobility Dolaeus became rich and famous through his secret liquor antivariolosus presumably a remedy for smallpox; he also anticipated Cheyne in his dietary treatment of gout. Part 2 has special title page: Johannis Dolaei . Tractatus varii. Page 31 part 2 has half title: Joh. Jacobi Waldschmidt . et Johannis Dolaei . Dissertationes epistolicae de rebus medicis et philosophicis. NLM/Krivatsy 3315 apud Ioannem Hertz hardcover books
1870822261870. 19TH CENTURY. TUDOR WHARVES ICE: THE SHIPS ANAHUAC LUCY S. WILLS AND ANNA DECATUR. Photographer unknown. ca. 1870. Matted framed original photograph matted to 11 x 17 inches. Diagonal vista: The ships Anahuac Lucy S. Wills and Anna Decatur load ice at the Tudor Wharves Charlestown Massachusetts. The first two ships were East Boston-built and Boston-registered; the latter was built and registered in Portsmouth New Hampshire. Charlestown Bridge is in the foreground with one lone spectator observing the shipyard docks. Frederick Tudor known as "The Ice King" combined two trades without much apparent connection ice and sawdust and by using the sawdust for insulation was able to create a shipping industry in New England that reached the far East and South America. Some vertical bands of toning faintly apparent from original wood backing. 338-9 Bunting "Portrait of a Port: Boston 1852-1914." a. unknown books
1598D6965Venice: apud haeredes Melchioris Sessae 1598. First Venice Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio 310 x 210mm. 2175pp. 1 301pp. 2 12pp. 175pp. 1. Contemporary dark brown goatskin title and preliminaries lacking and supplied in early manuscript with illustrated printers device some browning and staining least severe after page 9. 17th-century inscriptions on rear endpaper for Index Capitum a medical students description of the various parts. Pictorial wood-engraved ex-libris by Leo Wyatt for Lord Norwich on front endpaper. <br/><br/>First Venice Edition of Capivaccios philosophical practica in Galenic teachings a pillar for medical students of the Renaissance. First edition printed in Frankfurt in 1594 under the title Practica Medicina. Capivaccios lectures were posthumously edited by Johann Hartmann Beyer. This is the first Venice edition of these lectures on the healing sciences by one of the leading Italian medical practitioners of his time is edited by Giovanni Bernardo Sessa. Capivaccio died at Padua in 1589 where he had taught at the university for 27 years. He was a specialist in venereal diseases for which he had developed certain successful cures guarding his secrets jealously from colleagues. Capivaccio applied a philosophical approach to his practica so much so that it is doubtful if it was ever much used as a vade mecum. By writing at such great lengths it is clear Capivaccio wished to educate students rather than give them a handbook. Apart from the wish to restore Galenic teachings and to educate students one motive for Capivaccios practica may have been to bolster the claims of university doctors over the central providers of medical expertise in the Renaissance namely priests wise-women magicians herbalists and travelling empirics. This work important to the reform of the practice of medicine and to the wider concept of dogmatism or rationalism in medicine the Renaissance physician could use Capivaccios work to locate the causes of diseases as well as its signs. NLM/Durling 816. apud haeredes Melchioris Sessae hardcover books
87802ADVERTISING - 20TH CENTURY MATCHBOX COVERS. A COLLECTION OF APPROXIMATELY 1300 MATCHBOX COVERS LABELS AND ADVERTISING CARDS DEPICTING A VARIETY OF PRODUCTS BUSINESSES AND PASTIMES. A collection of carefully preserved matchbox covers labels and advertising cards tipped-in to 2 commercially manufactured scrapbook albums. The albums are bound in heavy card stock. They are roughly 30 x 22 cm. each but are not uniform in appearance. The labels vary in size from 3.5 x 5.5cm to 7.5 x 11cm. Most are of the smaller size. The images on them include advertisements for restaurants and cafes as well as brands of clothing alcohol cars bicycles and motorcycles. unknown books
WALTER-FILM004261No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Stockholm: 20th Century Fox 1954. Vintage original 39 x 27"" 99 x 69 cm. one sheet poster Sweden. Conserved on archival linen with routine touch-ups to address minor tears and chipping NEAR FINE. Dorothy Dandridge Harry Belafonte dir: Otto Preminger; 20th Century Fox. Dorothy Dandridge's greatest and most iconic role. This Swedish poster with a design entirely different from its U.S. equivalent has a large image of her hands on hips and broadly smiling alongside designer Saul Bass' image of the flaming red rose which occurs in the film's credits. unknown books
1870List1032Jefferson City: S. Winans Photographer 1870. Carte-de-visite photographs measuring 3 ¾ x 2 ¼ on slightly larger mounts versos with the decorative stamp of S. Winans photographer 126 High St. Jefferson City. Some fading to images else about fine quite well preserved near fine overall. Near Fine. The Lincoln Institute of Jefferson City Missouri had its roots in the educational programs set up for soldiers of the 62nd Colored Regiment during the Civil War most of whom were from Missouri. After the war with $6000 raised from donations a group led by the white abolitionist officer Richard Foster set up the Lincoln Institute in Jefferson City. The student body was entirely African-american with the faculty a mix of African-American and white. The state of Missouri provided additional funding. <br /> <br /> Collected here are four portraits of students of the institute likely taken in the founding decade before the carte-de-visite format was replaced by the cabinet card. The photographer S. Winans took the photographs likely in his Jefferson City gallery as they are all staged in a formal portrait gallery. Winans also took a well known portrait of David W. Wallace the father of Bess Wallace Truman. Quite uncommon - we find no other record of these images elsewhere. S. Winans, Photographer unknown books
1915List1003Chicago: National Half Century Anniversary Exposition and Lincoln Jubilee 1915. Felt pennant measuring 38 x 15 inches. Lettering slightly faded very good condition overall. In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Lincoln's death the city of Chicago hosted the National Half Century Anniversary Exposition and Lincoln Jubilee to celebrate emancipation and the cultural achievements of African-Americans. The event was held at the Coliseum on August 23 - September 22 1915. The Illinois legislature appropriated $75000 for the month-long celebration. Seventeen states appointed African American delegates to attend the event as representatives. Delegates from other countries participated as well. Bishop Samuel Fallows the English-born clergyman and Union Army Colonel spent a decade promoting and organizing the event urging states such as New York to appoint representatives and encouraging Chicago's religious leaders to attend. Several hundred pastors from African-American churches did attend along with members of their congregations and most contemporary accounts of the jubilee advertise speeches by African-American religious leaders. Charles F. Gunther a local candy manufacturer and collector of Lincoln memorabilia lent his collection to the event it was later purchased by the Chicago Historical Society. The event's organizers anticipated close to half a million attendees. Though we find no record of actual attendance contemporary reports show crowds of tens of thousands attending at a time. <br /> The Colored Women's Civic League closed the exposition with a ceremony involving children. <br /> <br /> Despite the large undertaking and historical significance of the event few relics of the exhibition have survived. OCLC lists two copies of the official program for the event. The official report of the event History and Report of the Exhibition and Celebration to Commemorate the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Emancipation of the Negro has around 20 holdings. We find no other record of this commemorative pennant an unusual survival. Condition is very good with some light wear. National Half Century Anniversary Exposition and Lincoln Jubilee unknown books
1861605660<p>"W.A. Buckingham" in black ink on bifold pictorial leaf State of Connecticut Executive Department Norwich letterhead February 5 1861. 5 1/4" x 8" 2 pages. Very good. To Gideon Welles: In part: ". . .I have been solicited to appoint commissioners to the convention which is to be held in Washington on the 4th inst but have not done so. . .I have received no intimation from Virginia that a representation from Conn. is desired except what I have seen in the newspapers. I telegraphed you this noon inquiring your views but as I have received no reply. . ." Welles 1802-1878 born July 1 1802; died February 11 1878; was the United States Secretary of the Navy from 1861 to 1869 under Lincoln and Johnson. A proposed convention of all states to try and adjust differences between the north and the south. Seven states had declared their secession from the Union and established the Confederated States of America on February 4 1861 the day before this letter was written.</p> unknown books
39081HORSE HARNESS-SIXTEENTH CENTURY Three Sixteenth Century Drawings of Leathe Straps and Metalwork for the Harnessing of Horses. N.P.: circa early 1500s. Three sheets 16 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches. Reddish-br crayon on very fine paper with unicorn watermarks. Rare original fifteenth century drawings of horse harnessing straps and metalwork possibly from Germany. The drawings are utilitarian in function a not artistic in intent for they include important details necessary for the harness maker or blacksmith to make the pieces. One of the drawings bears th number 64 in the same crayon and the others numbered 63 and 66. The first i bold full-page drawing; the second a smaller sketch on a trimmed sheet of a curious metal stirrups-and-spurs device. The watermark on the paper is of a unicorn. These drawings have a great provenance being one of only three ite which Paul Breman offered in his Catalogue One. Small wormholes on the right hand side of the sheets affect only one drawing; apart from that the sheets remarkably clean and well preserved. unknown books
192226368France: Artist Published 1922. Signed by the artist in pencil below the image at bottom right; at left is the artist's tear-drop shaped red 'seal' and the pencil '40.' Our research indicates this piece was accomplished circa 1922 the catalog raisonne giving it the title 'Dreaming'. There is a pencil title written at bottom left "The Evening" as well. Reverse with a small "Made in France" oval sticker. The art approx 210 x 155 mm approx. 8 1/4" x 6 1/4" size; the overall sheet size is approx. 390 x 270 mm 10 1/2" x 15 1/4" bottom edge deckle. Some darkening to the paper; faint old crease line top right corner; in very good condition; a lovely moody image evocative of the 'dream' state of the title. Art. Not Bound. Very Good. Artist Published paperback books
