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1885WRCLIT66997New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1885. Quarto. Publisher's mauve cloth heavily decorated in gilt and blind untrimmed. Plates and illustrations. Minor speckling to the cloth sizing at the extreme foretips some foxing early and late and occasionally to a few margins of plates institutional bookplate on pastedown otherwise about fine and bright in faintly hand-smudged printed dust jacket with some offsetting to the lower panel from the rather battered publisher's box. The "Zuyder-Zee Edition" limited to 600 numbered copies of which this is one of 250 copies on untrimmed Linen paper. However this copy is at variance with the colophon in that it is accompanied by the extra suite of ten mounted etchings specially printed on satin that was to accompany the first 25 copies rather than the two sets of ordinary impressions associated with this middle issue. The corners of the mats are a bit bumped and worn and one of the etchings is a bit foxed otherwise the suite is in very good order in the chipped remnants of the original printed paper wrapper also bearing a bookplate. This deluxe edition features original etchings some in Japon proof state by and photogravures after the likes of Pennell Gifford Vanderhoof Colman et al. The jacket is not among those selected examples of 19th century jackets cited by Tanselle. G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
179138981791. 13 x 9 inches. Dark brown body colour on prepared paper. Inscribed "N.2.Stück" and "am 9ten Aprill 1791--nach der Natur gezeichnet von JEW" ink collector's stamp "Linel-Smlg. No." followed by pencilled number "1046" all on verso. Provenance: Linel ink collector's stamp on verso.<br/> <br/>A high quality image that clearly is drawn from life as the inscription claims. The artist's use of a dark prepared ground recalls the work of Barbara Regina Dietsch and her family. A search of Nissen's index of artists reveals one possible name: the Swiss artist Johann Emmanuel Wyss 1782-1837. However the maturity and assurance shown in the present drawing would seem to rule him out: he could have been no older than nine in April 1791. unknown books
1870690701870. 30" x 24. 30" x 24" A Philadelphia Lawyer Who Served as Pennsylvania's Deputy Attorney General American School 19th Century. Smith Lewis Waln 1846-1881. Portrait of Lewis Waln Smith. Philadelphia c.1870. 24" x 30" image size. Oil on canvas in ornate nineteenth-century gilded wood frame. Some minor nicks and chips to frame gilding slightly dulled otherwise fine. $1800. Lewis Waln Smith was a lawyer who served as Deputy Attorney General for the State of Pennsylvania. This portrait belonged to the Philadelphia Bar Association. Founded in 1802 it is the oldest association of lawyers in the United States. Its library where this portrait was last displayed was renamed the Theodore F. Jenkins Memorial Law Library in 1967. unknown books
1676D6961Lyons: Sumptibus Joannis Antonii Huguetan 1676. Hardcover. Very Good. 6 vols. in 3 folio 350 x 220mm. Vol. 1: 38 306pp. 6 309-808pp. 32; Vol. 2: 16 363pp. 5 363-786pp. 18; Vol. 3: 12 696pp. 12. Titles in red and black. Woodcut printers device of Huguetan showing Ptolemy left and Euclid right either side of an astronomical device known as an armillary sphere. The text is in Latin with the central motto translating as the universality of things is like dust in the hand of God. The IAH monogram at bottom is for the 17th century French printer Jean-Antoine Huguetan. Complete with the portrait and half-title Vol. 1 and numerous woodcut initials head- and tail- pieces. Contemporary vellum rebacked some browning throughout marginal worming lightly worn. Contemporary ownership inscription by doctor above pictorial wood-engraved ex-libris by Leo Wyatt for Lord Norwich on front endpaper in all volumes. Two contemporary Latin manuscripts laid in after p. 408 one two pages signed by joannes cont on hypochondriacs the other concerning a cure. <br/><br/>Sennerts complete works three volumes in six parts printed by Huguetan. Sennert was an influential German professor notable for his contributions to medicine and atomic theory. Daniel Sennert born in Breslau was a student and the professor of medicine at the University of Wittenberg the intellectual center of Lutheranism. He was a renowned physician and an extremely prolific and influential writer whose popularity in his time is clear from the many editions of his works many of which were translated into English. These are Sennerts complete works in six parts each with a separate dated title page printed in red and black. His Opera was first published in Paris in 1641 and this edition expanded . with the omission of Tabulae institutionum and the addition of Vita Danielis Sennerti Judicia virorum clarissimorum Methodus discendi medicinam De curatione infantium De arthritide Tragopodagra Luciani in Greek and Latin Exoterica Epitome librorum de febribus Epistolarum medicinalium una cum responsorii D. Michaelis Doringei centuriae duae. The Epitome is reprinted from the Epitome edited by Claude Bonnet-- Krivatsy. This edition is regarded as the best. Among Sennerts many achievements he was the first to introduce chemistry as a subject of the medical curriculum and to make a serious effort to harmonize the Galenic doctrines of medicine with those of Paracelsus. Besides giving early accounts of scarlatina and rubella Sennert added to the knowledge of scurvy dysentery and alcoholism. He was an able clinician but a believer in witchcraft.-- Garrison-Morton 61. Scarcely found on the market these volumes are a complete set of Sennerts studies and 17th century medicine. Sennert was known to apply astrology to medicine and the supernatural origins of disease. NLM/Krivatsy 109 Sumptibus Joannis Antonii Huguetan hardcover books
1932848541932. EPHEMERA - 20TH CENTURY FOUR ORIGINAL LINDBERGH BABY ABDUCTION REWARD POSTERS. US Government Printing Office 1932/New Jersey State Police Trenton NJ 1932. Various sizes printed on one side only. 1. "$25000 REWARD! For information resulting in the apprehension and conviction of the kidnapers of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. The following is a list of currency paid as ransom. The list is arranged according to the LAST FOUR DIGITS of the serial number." Folded newsprint toned and brittle several closed tears to joints and creases with no loss except for a few small chips to edges. 27 x 17 inches unfolded. Fair to good condition. 2. "$25000 REWARD for information resulting in the apprehension and conviction of the kidnapers of CHARLES A. LINDBERGH JR." Handwriting samples from the ransom notes reproduced in facsimile. 11 x 8 1/2 inches b/w on white paper. Very good condition no creasing. 3. "To All Law Enforcement Officials Wardens of Penal Institutions Etc." Handwriting samples from the ransom notes reproduced in facsimile. B/w on white paper. 9 1/2 x 12 inches. Very good condition no creasing. 4. "WANTED INFORMATION AS TO THE WHEREABOUTS OF CHAS. A. LINDBERGH JR. OF HOPEWELL N.J."With two b/w photo reproductions of pictures of the child with a written physical description. New Jersey State POlice Trenton. B/w on white paper. Good one three inch closed tear to "WANTED" repaired on reverse with acetate tape. unknown books
24635MISHKIN Herman 1870-1948. - Alda Frances 1883-1952. Bust-length portrait of the New Zealand soprano most likely in the title role of Puccini's Manon Lescaut. Ca. 204 x 152 mm. With the handstamp of Bain News Service in New York to verso. <br/><br/>- Alda. Full-length portrait as Ginevra in Giordano's La Cena delle Beffe. Ca. 203 x 153 mm. <br/><br/>- Alda. Bust-length portrait. Ca. 203 x 152 mm. Ca. 1909<br/><br/>- Bori Lucrezia 1887-1960. Bust-length portrait of the Spanish soprano. Ca. 203 x 151 mm. With handstamps of Miskell & Sutton in Cleveland and the Lakewood Public Library to verso.<br/><br/>- Bori. Full-length portrait as the Duchess of Towers in Deems Taylor's Peter Ibbettson. Ca. 224 x 167 mm. <br/><br/>- Bori. Full-length portrait in the title role of Thomas's Mignon. Ca. 203 x 152 mm. With handstamps of Donald C. Dougherty Management in Cleveland and the Lakewood Public Library to verso. <br/><br/>- Bori. Waist-length portrait as Manon. Ca. 203 x 152 mm. <br/><br/>- Bori. Bust-length portrait as Norina in Donizetti's Don Pasquale. Ca. 202 x 152 mm.<br/><br/>- Branzell Karin 1891-1974. Bust-length portrait of the Swedish contralto as Brangaene in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. Ca. 198 x 153 mm. <br/><br/>- Case Anna 1889-1984. Bust-length portrait in profile. Ca. 178 x 121. Trimmed. Laid down to black backing paper. With another photograph ca. 141 x 108 being a full-length informal portrait with a dog and four other women one of whom is dressed in a Native American costume to verso.<br/><br/>- Case. Bust-length portrait. Ca. 202 x 152 mm. <br/><br/>- Caruso Enrico 1873-1921. Full-length portrait of the Italian tenor as Canio in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci. Ca. 214 x 126 mm. Trimmed at lower margin.<br/><br/>- Caruso. Full-length portrait as Don José in Bizet's Carmen. Ca. 205 x 125 mm. Trimmed at upper and lower edges.<br/><br/>- Caruso. Waist-length portrait as Samson in Saint-Saëns's Samson et Dalila. Ca. 243 x 133 mm. <br/><br/>- Caruso. Full-length portrait as Samson in Act III blind and with shorn hair next to a young boy. Ca. 248 x 133 mm. <br/><br/>- Claussen Julia 1879-1941. Bust-length portrait of the Swedish mezzo-soprano. Ca. 203 x 152 mm. <br/><br/>- Chamlee Mario 1892-1966. Full-length portrait of the American tenor as the Duke of Mantua in Verdi's Rigoletto. Ca. 202 x 152 mm. <br/><br/>- Danise Giuseppe 1882-1963. Bust-length portrait of the Italian baritone. With handstamp of the Miskell and Sutton in Cleveland to verso. Ca. 203 x 153 mm. <br/><br/>- De Luca Giuseppe 1876-1950. Waist-length portrait of the Italian baritone as Figaro in Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Ca. 204 x 153 mm. With handstamps of Roger de Bruyn Exclusive Management in New York and the Metropolitan Musical Bureau<br/><br/>- Destinn Emmy 1878-1930. Three-quarter-length portrait of the Czech soprano as Santuzza in Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana. Ca. 224 x 160 mm. Laid down to cream cardstock; trimmed. With the photographer's information embossed to lower left portion.<br/><br/>- Easton Florence 1884-1955. Three-quarter-length portrait of the English soprano. With "Florence Easton Prima Donna Soprano Metropolitan Opera Company" typed to verso. Ca. 176 x 126 mm. <br/><br/>- Farrar Geraldine 1882-1967. Three-quarter-length portrait of the American soprano in the title role of Bizet's Carmen. Ca. 200 x 149 mm. Laid down to ivory cardstock. <br/><br/>- Fleischer Edytha born 1898. Full-length portrait kneeling of the German soprano as Hänsel in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel. Ca. 203 x 152 mm. <br/><br/>- Fleischer. Head and shoulders portrait. Ca. 203 x 151 mm. With handstamp of Miskell and Sutton to verso. <br/><br/>- Gatti-Casazza Giulio 1869-1940. Bust-length portrait of the Italian impresario and general manager of the Metropolitan Opera. Ca. 203 x 152 mm. With date "Mar 23 1959" handstamped to verso.<br/><br/>- Gigli Beniamino 1890-1957. Bust-length portrait of the Italian tenor as Faust in Boito's Mefistofele. Ca. 191 x 139 mm.<br/><br/>- Jeritza Maria 1887-1982. Waist-length portrait of the Moravian soprano in the title role of Bizet's Carmen Act III. Ca. 238 x 189 mm. Laid down to mount ca. 246 x 198 mm. <br/><br/>- Jeritza. Three-quarter-length portrait in church as Eva in Wagner's Die Meistersinger. Reproduction by Mishkin of an older photograph by Setzer in Vienna. Ca. 221 x 169 mm. With date "Feb 18 1961" handstamped to verso. <br/><br/>- Johnson Edward 1878-1959. Bust-length portrait of the Canadian tenor impresario and general manager of the Metropolitan Opera. Ca. 202 x 152 mm. <br/><br/>- Manski Dorothee 1891 or 1895-1967. Three-quarter-length portrait of the German-American soprano as the witch in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel. Ca. 203 x 152 mm. <br/><br/>- Martinelli Giovanni 1885-1969. Bust-length portrait of the young Italian tenor. Ca. 202 x 152 mm. <br/><br/>- Martinelli. Waist-length portrait as Eléazar in Halévy's La Juive. Ca. 256 x 203 mm. <br/><br/>- Matzenauer Margaret 1881-1963. Bust-length portrait of the American contralto as Kundry in Wagner's Parsifal. Ca. 190 x 117 mm.<br/><br/>- Melchior Lauritz 1890-1973. Full-length portrait of the Danish tenor with a lyre in the title role of Wagner's Tannhäuser. Ca. 253 x 203 mm. <br/><br/>- Merli Francesco 1887-1976. Bust-length portrait of the Italian tenor. Ca. 203 x 150 mm. With handstamp of the Metropolitan Opera Press Bureau to verso. <br/><br/>- Pinza Ezio 1892-1957. Bust-length portrait of the Italian bass as Oroveso in Bellini's Norma. Ca. 203 x 152 mm. <br/><br/>- Renaud Maurice 1860-1933. Bust-length portrait of the French baritone as Mephistopheles in Berlioz's Le damnation de Faust. Ca. 197 x 124 mm. <br/><br/>- Rothier Léon 1874-1951. Bust-length portrait of the French bass as Count des Grieux in Massenet's Manon. Ca. 203 x 151 mm. <br/><br/>- Rothier. Full-length portrait as Dr. Miracle in Les Contes d'Hoffmann. Ca. 203 x 152 mm. <br/><br/>- Ruffo Titta 1877-1953. Bust-length portrait of the Italian baritone. Ca. 203 x 151 mm. With handstamp of the Bain News Service in New York to verso.<br/><br/>- Scotti Antonio 1866-1936. Full-length portrait of the Italian baritone as Chim-Fang in Franco Leoni's L'Oracolo. Ca. 203 x 132 mm.<br/><br/>- Scotti. Bust-length portrait as Barnaba in Ponchielli's La Gioconda. Ca. 192 x 148 mm. <br/><br/>- Sundelius Marie 1884-1958. Bust-length portrait of the Swedish-American soprano. Ca. 203 x 152 mm.<br/><br/>- Taucher Kurt 1885-1954. Bust-length portrait of the German tenor in profile. Ca. 203 x 152 mm. <br/><br/>- Tibbett Lawrence 1896-1960. Bust-length portrait of the American baritone as Ford in Verdi's Falstaff. Ca. 255 x 202 mm. With handstamp of the Evans and Salter Management in New York to verso. <br/><br/>Later reprints ca. 8 x 11":<br/><br/>Singer's name and role in pencil and ink to verso; otherwise in fine condition overall.<br/><br/>- Bori Lucrezia. Full-length portrait as Juliette in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette.<br/><br/>- Bori and Beniamino Gigli. Full-length portrait as Madga and Ruggero in Puccini's La rondine.<br/><br/>- Muzio Claudia 1889-1936. Full-length portrait of the Italian soprano as Violetta in the second act of Verdi's La Traviata. <br/><br/>- Ponselle Rosa 1897-1981. Full-length portrait of the American soprano in the tile role of Bellini's Norma. <br/><br/>- Ponselle. Full-length portrait in the title role of Ponchielli's La Gioconda. <br/><br/>- Ponselle. Full-length portrait as Maddalena in Giordano's Andrea Chénier.<br/><br/>Later reprint ca. 7 x 9":<br/><br/>- Amato Pasquale 1878-1942. Waist-length portrait of the Italian baritone as Scarpia in Puccini's Tosca.<br/><br/>In very good condition overall. Common minor defects include occasional signs of wear such as creasing cracking rippling foxing staining bumping pinholes trimming and remnants of former mounts. Some also carry annotations most often directly related to the singers and/or roles portrayed. Some laid down to mount. Born in Minsk Russia Mishkin emigrated to the United States in 1885. As the official portraitist of the Metropolitan Opera from 1908 until 1932 he became the foremost portrayer of Golden Age opera singers. While photographing opera stars for the Metropolitan he maintained a portrait studio frequented by many of the most significant performing artists of the day.<br/><br/>"In certain respects he had the most difficult task of any theatrical photographer of the early 20th century for he was constantly having to temper the hyperbolically dramatic poses that opera singers employed on the vast stages of Europe and America so that they didn't appear ludicrous shot from a twelve-foot distance. His subjects were among the least tractable persons to instruction in the performing arts and were generally infected with decorative sensibilities. That Mishkin was able to satisfy his sitters and adjust to the increasingly less ornamental aesthetic of modern photography was a testament to his tact and flexibility." Broadway Photographs online. unknown books
1795312011Philadelphia: by and for Colerick & Hunter 1795. First American Edition. a2 B-Z6 Aa-Kk6 Ll4. 399pp. 12mo 6 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches. original sheep both boards detached ex libris George Vaux with his signature on pastedown and first leaf of preface. First American Edition. a2 B-Z6 Aa-Kk6 Ll4. 399pp. 12mo 6 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches. by and for Colerick & Hunter unknown books
39899TRADE SAMPLES EIGHTEENTH CENTURY FRENCH TEXTILES. A pair of manuscript broadsides or pattern cards of Londrine Seconds swatches. Languedoc France: mid to late 18th century. 24 mounted textile samples on t cards. Important documentation for the historian of textiles all in excellent condition. These two broadsides come from a French manufacturer of Londrine fulled woolen cloth manufactured specially in Languedoc in imitation of West England broadcloths and used in the Levant trade.the Moors always entertai a favorable opinion of English manufactures and the French to humor them g their cloth the name of Londras wishing to make the Moors believe it was manufactured in London." Montgomery Textiles in America 1984. The first is 19 x 13 3/4 inches and titled "Londrine Seconde" and on which ar mounted 12 large colorful swatches 2 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches each with a stock number written in ink. The second is titled "Fabrique Royale de la Bastide Rouge Peyre Londrine Second" same measurements as above with 12 different swatches and stock numbers. Government regulations for premieres Londres and secondes Londres are given i both Savary des Brusions and Diderot. Finer Spanish wool and a greater numbe of threads per inch in the warp accounted for the superior quality of the premiers. Montgomery states that there are letters in the Metropolitan Museu of Art with swatches of Londrina Seconde in bright colors from Carcassone and pattern card with eleven swatches of Londrine Secondes dating from the mid-eighteenth century at Colonial Williamsburg. Montgomery concludes by quoting Arthur Young traveling in France in the late 1780s observed that th "Londrins of which at all these towns I took patterns are a very bright beautiful well-dyed bright cloth that have had deservedly from quality and price the greatest success in the Levant; I saw the wool they are made of a should not have known it from a good specimen from the South Downs of Sussex. The present examples are particularly appealing as the colors are bright and they both have handsome calligraphic titles. Very rare. unknown books
191222619New York: Not Published 1912. Collection includes: A large souvenir program "Julia Marlowe's Benefit in Behalf of The Hopelessly Crippled French Soldiers" held at the Shubert Theatre May 26th 1916 with an inscription on the front cover signed by E.H. Sothern "Dear Harry Kauffman - The great thing is to perceive that most people are asses & that nearly everybody is wrong most of the time - "a soft answer turneth away wrath" But I declare that accidents are inevitable & excite the soul - what we must do is to rehearse everybody & everything all the time & keep our hair on - with love.sincerely E.H. Sothern" approx. 10" x 13" size one large sheet of heavy 'Normandy' watermark paper stock folded to make a cover over the smaller inner program for the event - according to the dedicatory text various artists gave their services - which included Miss Marlowe & E.H. Sothern & Company performing as well as Sir Herbert Tree Mrs. Lillie Langtry and others; the back of the inner program notes a E.H. Sothern appearance in "If I Were King" at the Shubert on the following evening; the cover with printed titles in dark blue simply side-tied with the remains of a red white and blue silk ribbon; with wear and soiling and old paper rub-hole at front margin about good overall; the inner program printed at the Arrow Press Inc. New York and very good; the team of and later husband & wife Edward Hugh Sothern 1859 - 1933 & Julia Marlowe 1866 - 1950 very well-known and popular as the premier Shakespearean interpreters in America at the time making Shakespeare accessible especially for a larger public; with an undated circa 1900 signed photograph of E.H. Sothern taken with two other handsomely dressed unidentified gentlemen strolling down a railroad station platform - Sothern signed in ink below his image; no studio or photographer noted photo approx. 6" x 8 1/4" mounted to an old gray card mount which has been trimmed away at bottom margin; photo with a tiny edge-tear at top otherwise very good as is the bold signature; with A large sepia-toned photograph inscribed and signed by E.H. Sothern taken while costumed in his role as MacBeth inscribed at top right "For Wm Kauffman with the regards of E.H. Sothern"; the photo signed in white ink bottom right 'Notman Boston' and is 10 1/4" x 13 1/4" approx. size; corners chipped closed tears with one through a letter of the inscription with old repairs on back; a few spots showing in the lighter area otherwise a good strong image of the actor in one of his most famous roles; with a very beautifully-taken head-and-shoulders portrait of Julia Marlowe Sothern in elaborate brocaded costume wearing headscarf inscribed below in black ink "To Mrs. Kauffman in remembrance of "Viola" and Julia Marlowe Sothern 1912"; image approx. 9 3/4" x 13" size; with the studio stamp of White N.Y. at right margin; some corner wear the 'Sothern' and a few other letters dimming in the inscription about very good overall and a striking image of the actress; with another White N.Y. large photograph this of both Julia & Edward Sothern in their costumed roles of Romeo & Juliet inscribed at the bottom margin "To Mr. Kauffman in remembrance of both of us! Julia Marlowe Sothern 1912" approx. 10" x 13"; top right corner chipped away little edgewear at bottom otherwise very good and sharply - taken; with a 6" x 9" approx. size photograph a copy of a famous earlier image by Arnold Genthe of Julia Marlowe Sothern as Juliet inscribed at lower margin "To Erwin Carl Kauffman son of our friend & coworker. Julia Marlowe Sothern May 1920." unevenly trimmed some wear and the inscription still very bold good condition; with an inscribed photograph "To my darlingest Mr. Kaufman & Mrs. Kaufman - May we meet again Katherine Alexander" Katherine Alexander 1898 - 1981 part-Cherokee American actress; the photograph pencil signed by the photographer illegible on the margin below dated 1923; approx. 8 3/4" x 13 3/4" including mount - image 6" x 10 1/4" approx. matte photo-paper; closed tears at edges soiling some crinkling into the top of the image about good condition; with an 8" x 10" portrait of Maude Adams Maude Ewing Kiskadden 1872 - 1953 American actress best known for her great success as the character Peter Pan with the studio stamp of Fernand de Gueldre Chicago on back; inscribed at lower margin "To Mr. and Mrs. Kaufman - with all good wishes from Maude Adams 1932" light wear & soil corner crease; in very good condition; with an inscribed portrait photo off Otis Skinner 1858 - 1942 American stage actor inscribed "To Fred Kaufman cordially yours Otis Skinner 1932" approx. 3 1/4" x 4 1/2" with the photographer's stamp on back of Irving - Allen - Fox Studio Denver; light wear and soil very good; with 3 additional 8" x 10" photographs of theatre stars of the past inscribed to the Kaufmanms as well names indecipherable; photographed by Standiford Studio Louisville Bachrach and Florence Vandamm; these all in good condition; an interesting group of signed early 20th century signed theatre material in overall good condition especially so for the personal inscriptions by these stars all to one family for good provenance. Photography. Not Bound. Good. Not Published Paperback books
195318800Boston 1953. Tempera on paper. Initialled "R.S.W." Mounted circular label lower right. Handsome 1950s sports car design.<br/> <br/>All of our present information about this drawing comes from a label on the back of the piece which indicates that it comes from the archives of the A.J. White Motor Vehicle Research Company - designers of exotic cars in the Boston MA area. We have not discovered any further information about the A. J. White Research Company thus far nor about the artist R.S.W. of this particular drawing. There does not appear to be any connection to the great White truck manufacturer. The drawing itself is especially nice its cool red sportscar positioned diagonally between two details in blue in a way that makes it appear anxious to move. unknown books
18306526London 1830. Aquatints coloured by hand. A fine complete series of four anonymous prints of hunting scenes possibly after the Alkens.<br/> <br/>The style and naming of these prints suggests an Alken origin for the series. Siltzer records a number of series by the Alken family in which the first plate is titled "Unkennelling." This title appears to be unique to them and supports the supposition that the present series are after the Alkens. Henry Thomas Alken was born into what became an artistic dynasty. He studied under the miniature painter J. T. Barber and exhibited his first picture a miniature portrait at the Royal Academy when he was sixteen. From about 1816 onwards he "produced an unending stream of paintings drawings and engravings of every type of field and other sporting activity. He is best remembered for his hunting prints many of which he engraved himself until the late 1830s.To many sporting art is "Alken" and to describe his work or ability is quite unnecessary." Charles Lane British Racing Prints pp. 75-76<br/> <br/>Cf. Siltzer pp.57-76. unknown books
185528465Susquehanna Depot 1855. Pencil pen and ink. Signed in ink: "Theodore Krausch. Susquehana sic Depot. N.Y. and Erie Railroad. October 13 1855." A very handsome drawing of a locomotive by a prominent inventor and engineer.<br/> <br/>Theodore Krausch dates unknown was employed by what was then known as the New York and Erie Railroad at Susquehanna Depot where railway cars and locomotives were designed built and repaired. The town in northeastern Pennsylvania just below the New York border and Binghamton came into existence with the coming of the railroad. Krausch who obtained several patents during his life one for innovations in railway chair design also received a Silver Medal from the American Institute of the City of New York for a drawing of a locomotive no doubt similar to this one. During the 1850s when railway lines and companies were spreading out across the country each railroad customized its engines and cars to its specific needs. There was a large degree of standardization and this Krausch drawing is a perfect rendition of the 4-4-0 wheel arrangement and overall design that was used almost universally in 19th century America. unknown books
1815690611815. 25 inches x 20 inches. 25 inches x 20 inches. A Great Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania Jurist American School 19th Century. Read John Meredith 1797-1874. Portrait of John Meredith Read. Philadelphia c.1815. 25" x 20" image size. Oil on canvas in ornate nineteenth-century gilded wood frame. Some minor nicks and chips to frame gilding slightly dulled otherwise fine. $3000. Read was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1822 and 1823 and served as City Solicitor of Philadelphia from 1830 to 1833. He was appointed District Attorney of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in 1837 and held the office until 1845. Read became Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in 1858 and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in 1872. Read gained an international reputation for the depth of his knowledge eloquence and masterly arguments in the courtroom. Active in politics Read was an early supporter and organizer of the Republican Party. This portrait belonged to the Philadelphia Bar Association. Founded in 1802 it is the oldest association of lawyers in the United States. Its library where this portrait was last displayed was renamed the Theodore F. Jenkins Memorial Law Library in 1967. unknown books
1907403892Cincinnati: Johnson & Hardin for the Author 1907. 8vo. 252 pp. Frontispiece portrait of the author 57 plates. Original grey cloth blocked in red on front cover lettered on spine. A very good copy hinges cracked light wear at extremities. As-issued without jacket. SCARCE FIRST EDITION one of 500 copies of the "Subscriber's Edition" this copy out-of-series. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To my friend Henry Taylor Birch Captain of Antioch College Base Ball Team 1867-8 from Alfred K. Nippert Cincinnati O Oct 17th 1937." Birch was the pitcher in the historic first game between the Cincinnati Red Stockings and Antioch College. He later became a prominent Chicago attorney and philanthropist. A public park in Ft. Lauderdale FL bears his name and he donated paintings to the Art Institute of Chicago. Nippert was one of the most prominent judges in Cincinnati his wife was Maud Bamble Nippert heir to the Proctor & Gamble Company. Nippert traveled to Germany in 1916 with an unofficial message from President Wilson: he met with Kaiser Wilhelm stating that while Wilson did not doubt the sincerity of the German leaders he felt he had the support of the American people in his controversy with the Germans over submarine warfare. "In 1869 when the Cincinnati Red Stockings began their inaugural season as history's first professional baseball team they played a preseason game at the site of what is now the Grand Union Terminal in Cincinnati against the Antiochs who were regarded as one of the finest amateur clubs in Ohio. The game was played on May 15 1869 and Cincinnati defeated Antioch 41-7. Antioch had been scheduled to host the first game of this professional tour on May 31 1869 but pouring rain and an unplayable field kept the teams off the diamond. So while Antioch was not a part of the first professional baseball game the college does hold claim to hosting the first ever rainout in professional baseball" Guschov Stephen D. The Red Stockings of Cincinnati: Base Ball's First All-Professional Team and its Historic 1869 and 1870 Seasons Jefferson NC.: McFarland & Co. 1998 p. 45. Ellard writes of the game with Antioch on page 154 though he gets the details wrong see Dan Hotaling "The Antioch Connection The First Professional Game". Ellard's father had been a founding member of the Red Stockings often cited as the first professional club. Most of the book is dedicated to the Red Stockings of 1866-1870 which went undefeated for 1869 and much of 1870. The author had unique access to the original records of the club. . <br/><br/> Johnson & Hardin for the Author hardcover books
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
183426035Italy 1834. Pen-and-ink watercolour and gouache painted black border titled and dated in white gouache in the lower margin within the border. Lovely 19th-century watercolour of Palermo.<br/> <br/>Catering to the foreigners flocking to the region on the Grand Tour this lovely watercolour shows the town of Palermo with its beautiful hills and mountains in the background with a large fort in the harbour with a British and French ship beside it. The sky is awash in pinks and blues displaying the incredible light of the region. unknown books
192121397El Paso Texas: Not Published 1921. The collection includes over 150 dated and signed letters written to and a few items from Dr. Lucinda DeLeftwich Templin 1888-1969 author historian & collector ".one of El Paso's best-loved and most distinguished educators - in 1916 she took her undergraduate and Master's at U. of Missouri and became Dean of Lindenwood College in St. Charles MO. did doctoral work at Harvard and Columbia and took over as principal at the Radford School in 1927 at the time called El Paso School for Girls; Dr. Templin interested Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Radford of Webster Grove Mo. in the school and the Radfords paid off the mortgage provided an endowment fund that insured the institution's stability and the name of the school was changed in honor of these benefactors. During Dr. Templin's administration Radford School grew to a nationally accredited school for girls in the Southwest and when she retired in 1967 the 22-acre campus had more than $1000000 in physical improvements and was debt-free. Dr. Templin had also completed plans for construction of a $400000 library and museum on property owned by the school; she was a member of the nation's leading educational organizations and honorary societies named consistently to Who's Who in America and Who's Who in American Education; author of numerous publications most of which were concerned with the field of education. The above material from her obituary; This wide-ranging diverse collection has three intertwining themes - letters concerning Dr. Templin's ongoing interest in education and educational materials for her school letters which relate to the business and academic part of Radford and letters of reference for applicants and correspondence which relates to the creation of her War Museum where she collected military autographs uniforms photographs paraphernalia weapons from around the world. A sampling of what is found here chronological order: 1921 Dr. James G. Kiernan writing about some autographs he was sending to Templin - he was famous for the earliest-known use of the word heterosexual in the United States; 1921 Ellen Shaw Barlow writing in relation to the national Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor requesting Templin's presence for a meeting of the Committee on the Care and Training of Delinquent Women and Girls; 1926 Roy Franklin Nichols 1896-1973 American historian and a Pulitzer Prize winner writing regarding one of Templins' publications; 1928 Breckinridge Long 1881 - 1958 diplomat and politician served in the administrations of Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt on Democratic National Committee letterhead - regarding a portrait of Rev. John Breckinridge his great-grandfather Templin was sending in appreciation of his " defense of Religious Freedom "; Federico de Onis Sánchez 1885 - 1966 Spanish writer and literary critic taught Spanish literature at Columbia University in New York concerning a recommendation of one of his students for a position at Radford ; educator John L. Bergstresser; Jessie H. Humphries Associate Dean Texas Womens University; Butler Ames 1871-1954 American politician engineer soldier and businessman; Richard Fenner Burges 1873-1945 Texas legislator and conservationist; Alice Mildred Burgess; William Blair Roberts 1881-1964 Episcopal Suffragan Bishop South Dakota; Katharine Denworth president of Bradford Academy regarding an article on sororities in colleges; N. Floyd Templin of the Ohio House of Representatives writing on Templin family genealogical matters; John G. Barry consulting mining geologist and engineer of El Paso regarding an educational alliance between the Radford School and the Texas College of Mines; Arthur L Burroughs publisher writing about the subject of grammar in education; Harriet M. Chase of the National Education Assoc.; Jack Braveheart regarding a talk on the American Indian; Ivan Lee Holt Methodist bishop of St. Louis; Cornelia McKinne Stanwood of the Sarah Dix Hamlin School San Francisco; Joseph Dorfman economic historian at Columbia Univ. asking Templin about her studies with Thorstein Veblen; an interesting 2-page letter from Dr. J. Travis Bennett of El Paso regarding the setting-out of a chart for the physical examination and reportage on condition of applicants to Radford with suggestions; Bertha Baur 1858-1940 directed the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music; A.F. Kuhlman Assoc. Dir. University of Chicago regarding research work on childrens' reading habits information; Dr. William S. Gray 1885-1960 American educator and literacy advocate also of U. of Chicago on the same subject; Sallie Caldwell Teachers College Columbia University regarding early learning & English curriculum materials; Mrs. Florence F. Osgood of the Neshobe camp for girls in Vermont requesting an alliance with Radford School; U.S. Army major later colonel Livingston Watrous; Colonel D.C. Pearson New Mexico Military Institute; Ruth Elliott of Wellesley College; Chris P. Fox sheriff El Paso regarding falling down on the job for police protection near the school; Brent N. Rickard American Smelting & Refining Works; Louise Traxell Greeley Dean of Women at U. of Wisconsin Madison; Lieutenant Colonel Joseph P. Aleshire Fort Bliss Texas; Mrs. L.J. Calvocoressi Chairman of the Women's Auxiliary of the Greek War Relief Assoc.; Lt. Col. later major-general Ray. T. Maddocks; Robert E. McKee Sr. 1889-1964 major U.S. contractor engineer builder; Columbia Broadcasting System program press information director George Crandall; Colonel later Brig. General Charles G. Sage; Elmer Davis 1890 1958 news reporter author the Director of the United States Office of War Information during World War II and a Peabody Award recipient; William McChesney Martin Jr. 1906-1998 ninth and longest-serving Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve serving from April 2 1951 to January 31 1970 under five Presidents; Bernard Hoffman 1913 - 1979 American LIFE magazine photographer and documentary photographer first American photographer on the ground at Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945; Alfred E. Stearns Chairman Overseas Schools Committee; Colonel Hugh J. Deeney Chief of the Adjutant General Division; Col Harold R. Turner first commander of White Sands Missile Proving Ground; Guy Sylvestre Jean-Guy Sylvestre OC FRSC 1918 -2010 Canadian literary critic librarian and civil servant; Rear Admiral Barry Kennedy Atkins 1911 -2005 officer of the United States Navy best known for his achievements as a destroyer captain in World War II; R. Burdell Bixby prominent Republican of NY State; Robert W. Hamilton justice of the Texas Supreme Court regarding a Radford school girl reference; Colombian world federalist Santiago Gutiérrez; M.S. Sundaram Head of Education Indian embassy; Raymond L. Telles Jr. b. 1915 was the first Mexican-American Mayor of a major American city El Paso Texas 3 letters; Ángela Acuña de Chacón Chilean who served as commissioner 1960-1972 on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights; William G. Stark Consul General of Canada; Rene Mascarenas Miranda Municipal President mayor of Juarez; Gordon Llewellyn Allott 1907-1989 Republican politician; Mrs. William Barclay Parsons president of the National Council of Women of the United States; John Koehler Gerhart 1907 - 1981 United States Air Force four star general; J. T. Rutherford 1921 - 2006 United States Representative from Texas; R. G. Follis Chairman of Board. Standard Oil Company of California; Robert John Morris 1914-1996 President of the University of Dallas American anti-Communist activist 2 notes; Karl Robin Bendetsen 1907 -1989 remembered primarily for his role as architect of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II; Elmer Ellis 1901 - 1989 American educator and fourteenth president of the University of Missouri; historian C.L. Sonnichsen; Marshall S. Carter Deputy Director of Central Intelligence CIA; Millicent C. McIntosh 1898-2001 fourth dean of Barnard College 1947-1952 and the College's first president - this is the last letter dated 1962 and in it Dr. Templin is asking for McIntosh to help with providing a successor to the headship at Radford - Templin was soon to retire and died relatively soon afterwards. Some of the letters and notes are very short with limited content; others more voluminous.Additional materials include: letters to another Templin family member from Scott Wike Lucas 1892 - 1968 two-term Democratic United States Senator 1939-1951 from Illinois and Joel Bennett Clark 1890 -1954 better known as Bennett Champ Clark Democratic United States Senator from Missouri from 1933 until 1945 later a United States federal judge; and a few other letters; an undated letter to Templin from pianist Ola Gulledge; a two -page undated letter on The American School Foundation Mexico letterhead; a few letters from Frank S. Ross Major Gen. U.S. Army regarding the Templin War Museum project; a clipped signature of Alvan Tufts Fuller 1878 -1958 and one of John Kieran; and a unidentified sepia-tone matte-finish photograph circa 1920s that may be Dr. Templin or perhaps a friend; a few of the items with the original mailing envelopes; many letters with old adhesive residue from being mounted at some time some with old tape marks in the corners some of the items trimmed as if to accommodate in a smaller frame or album not here; old fold lines ageing; some with corner-attrition due to being removed; in overall good to very good condition and an interesting group of material encompassing the rich educational business and personal life of this well-known Texas woman educator whose contacts spanned the United States and the world. . Unique. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published Paperback books
161037309Etonae: In Collegio Regali excudebat M. Bradwood for Ioannes Norton in Graecis &c. regius typographus 1610. 4to 22.8 cm; 9". 4 ff. 73 1 pp. 4 ff. <br><br>One of the first two books printed at Eton both in Greek and both printed in 1610. The Byzantine poetry here is from the pen of John Mauropus an 11th-century teacher hymnographer orator Byzantine Greek poet and correspondent of scholars.<br>Â Â Â Â This the editio princeps was edited by and has the notes of Matthew Bust 1543 or 15441613 Fellow of Eton College and father of his namesake who was Master of Eton 161130. The prefatory matter and notes are printed in Latin in italics and the main text is in a large greek face; the actual printer's name is from STC.<br>Â Â Â Â Searches of STC WorldCat and ESTC locate many copies in Britain and even Europe but only five in U.S. libraries.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: 18th-century ownership inscription at top of title-page: "Petri Bonifantii." Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard small booklabel "AHA" at rear.<br>Â Â Â Â => An amazing early English schoolbook! <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â STC rev. 14622; ESTC S103427. 20th-century quarter red morocco with red cloth sides. Light age-toning and some stray ink spots. In fact very good. In Collegio Regali, excudebat [M. Bradwood for] Ioannes Norton, in Gr[a]ecis, &c. regius typographus hardcover books
1744D4448France 1744. Hardcover. Very Good. Manuscript book on paper in French. c.1744. 8vo 166 x 106mm. 8 355pp. written in brown ink in a clear humanist script with some calligraphic aspects between framed pages in a single column of approximately 28 lines headings in Roman majuscules. With 89 full-page diagrams and technical illustrations of sundial construction and usage and other supporting images three are on plates and two of which are folding at rear. Contemporary mottled calf spine gilt in compartments labeled Gnomonique on gilt red morocco lettering piece marbled endpapers & edges; edges uniformly toned occasional stains; expertly rebacked preserving the original spine somewhat worn. Full contents listed on first 6 pages for this expertly executed and comprehensive compendium on the sundial. The objective of this manual is to enable the 18th century audience to understand the operating principle of sundials by describing the construction and manipulation of different forms of sundials including the planet-sundial moon-clock celestial houses-clock polar-clock ancient Babylonian and Jewish clocks as well as the construction of quadrants and astronomical tables. The suns position in the sky has always been an obvious means to keep track of time. The use of shadows of sticks cast by the sun were a natural means of indicating the time of day by the direction of the shadow and the time of year by its length. Although town squares began constructing clocks beginning somewhere in the 14th century sundials remained in the picture well into the 18th century. Mechanical clocks were expensive and could be found only in the most noble of homes. They were also more of a curiosity at first; most people still used their sundials or just estimated the time of day by the height of the sun in the sky. In 1777 when the French General Lafayette wanted to express his admiration for his ally and friend General George Washington during the American Revolution he chose a silver Explorer sundial as his gift. But by the close of the 18th century clocks and watches began to supersede sundials. They had one huge advantage- they worked all day long and were not dependent on weather. However they were also notoriously unreliable- telling time only approximately within an hour and needing to be reset frequently of course with the help of a sundial. Although the work of this study is anonymous an ownership entry at the foot of the title helps to date the work: Hic est Thorridon Rectoris Laurentii Moussault 1744. This wide-ranging study of the sundial appears at a time when the mechanical clock was on its way into popular fashion. A unique scholarly work that may well be one of the last close studies of such an ancient and important time-telling tool. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1876690691876. 39-1/2" x 31-1/4. 39-1/2" x 31-1/4" A Notable Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia Lawyer and Democratic Politician American School 19th Century. Hirst William L. 1804-1876. Portrait of William L. Hirst. 31-1/4" x 39-1/2" image size. Oil on canvas in ornate nineteenth-century gilded wood frame. Some minor nicks and chips to frame gilding slightly dulled otherwise fine. $3750. Hirst had a thriving private law practice and was active in Democratic politics. In 1853 Hirst was elected President of the Democratic State Convention. He was an early proponent of the City of Philadelphia consolidation. This portrait belonged to the Philadelphia Bar Association. Founded in 1802 it is the oldest association of lawyers in the United States. Its library where this portrait was last displayed was renamed the Theodore F. Jenkins Memorial Law Library in 1967. unknown books
59115Photograph albums. Oblong folio. 2 volumes: 401 mounted photographs 4 3/8 x 2 to 3 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches; 102 mounted photographs 2 3/4 x 1 7/8 to 3 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches predominantly of the larger size in both volumes and with nearly all of the images captioned in white. Included are sections dedicated to Pinehurst North Carolina 75 images Lake Placid New York 37 Detroit Michigan 68 and several other eastern United States locales where Bigelow and his family lived and vacationed and depictions of the Sound Beach Golf Club of Old Greenwich Connecticut in its inaugural year of 1905 6 the Detroit Country Club in 1905 4 the Pinehurst Golf Club in 1905 16 identifying golfers George Low Sr. Alex Findlay Andrew Kirkaldy Alan Lard and Donald and Alec Ross photo-essays on the 1906 and 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Automobile Races at Westbury Long Island 13 Dyker Meadow Golf Club in 1907 Brooklyn New York 6 the White Mountain Express train wreck of 1908 4 Salisbury Golf Links & Club in 1911 Garden City New York 6 a 1911 Lake Placid fire department drill 7 and the Ann Arbor and Detroit Golf Clubs in 1915 and 1925 8. Scattered through the text are images of other golf courses and country club buildings a baseball game and cricket match horseback riding and other outdoor sporting activities making a total of about 130 in the album 25 per cent of the total. Covers very worn but images for the most part are bright and sharp. Original gilt-stamped suede rear cover detached spine eroded yapped edges chipped and gilt-stamped brown fabrikoid tied original ties replaced. #6114. Of particular interest is the 75-image section documenting the early days of the Pinehurst development a photo-essay examining the relatively new golf resort which had opened its first course in 1899 and saw Donald Ross appointed golf pro there in 1900 a position he would hold until his death in 1948 productive decades that would find him designing over 400 courses in the United States; this section of the first album includes in addition to the 16 images of the golf course and golfers photographs of the train depot a "Negro cabin" 'possum hunting elaborate cottages the town hall an African-American with his wagon pulled by the "oldest mule in the state" sand hills pine stands and other scenery quail hunting the deer park owl cage and hennery the golf club house and an old turpentine mill. Other sections of the albums picture Bigelow and his family living vacationing and participating in various outdoor activities as they moved from Brooklyn to Greenwich and Farmington Connecticut Long Island Grosse Point Michigan and Philadelphia and visited a wide range of cities and outdoor destinations in the south middle Atlantic and upper midwest states. The Vanderbilt cup race was the first major trophy in American auto racing; the inaugural race in 1904 and the next two were held on winding dirt roads in Nassau County Long Island suspended for a year and then held 1908-1910 on the Long Island Motor Parkway the first specially built racetrack in America. We have not found much information on Bigelow; apparently he studied at Cornell in the 1880s playing on the baseball team competed in tennis and golf tournaments around New York in the 1890s and 1900s and was a member of the Brooklyn Boat Club in the 1910s. Nevertheless his photograph albums offered here provide an expansive look at the leisure activities of the well-to-do in the early decades of the 20th century especially revealing for the views of American golf courses clubs and play just at the time when the wave of professionals from Scotland began to make their presence felt with improved course design and instruction. <br/><br/> unknown books
1837690621837. 29 inches x 24 1/4 inches. 29 inches x 24 1/4 inches. An Important Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania Jurist American School 19th Century. Troubat Francis Joseph 1802-1868. Portrait of Francis Joseph Troubat. Philadelphia c.1837. 29" x 24-1/4" image size. Oil on canvas in ornate nineteenth-century gilded wood frame small plaque reading "Francis J. Troubat/ Born 1802-Died 1868" to head of frame. Some minor nicks and chips to frame gilding slightly dulled otherwise fine. $5000. A prolific writer of legal texts Troubat is best known as the co-author with William W. Haly of The Practice in Civil Actions and Proceedings in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in the District Court and Court of Common Pleas for the City and County of Philadelphia and in the Courts of the United States 1837. This portrait belonged to the Philadelphia Bar Association. Founded in 1802 it is the oldest association of lawyers in the United States. Its library where this portrait was last displayed was renamed the Theodore F. Jenkins Memorial Law Library in 1967. unknown books
WALTER-FILM000093No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 41 x 81"" 102 x 202 cm. three sheet poster style A USA. Ronald Colman Joan Bennett Colin Clive Nigel Bruce Montagu Love dir: Stephen Roberts; Twentieth Century Fox. The title for the film originated in the popular 1892 song of the same name. This is the story of Paul Gallard Colmen a once artistocratic Russian prince called White Russian displaced during World War I who is living in Paris and earns his living driving a taxi. Traveling to Monte Carlo he gambles with money supplied to him by his compatriots. Fortunately he wins breaking the bank. The casino loves the publicity it could bring them particularly should he return to the tables but instead he warns the public of the hazards of gambling. The film was highlighted by Colin Clive's villainous performance. Film was made at the time of the merger between Twentieth Century and Fox Pictures. Stunning portraiture of Coleman and Bennett with scenario of Coleman at the gambling table. On linen NEAR FINE. unknown books
1495SAV133Venice: Lazarus de Suardis 1495. Paperback. Very Good . Venice: Lazarus de Suardis 21 March 1495. 8vo 173 x 116 mm. 284 leaves. Collation: 1-84 a-H in 34 gatherings of 4. Woodblock monogram printers device on colophon leaf. 48 lines double column Gothic type with printed guide letters. Stamp of the St. Charles Borromeo Seminary Library deaccessioned and two library shelfmarks pasted in Q83 and K30. Contemporary limp vellum; lightly soiled with some dampstains backstrip partly perished with partial ms. title and light edgewear; lower outer corner of l5 and D2 torn affecting a few words but in remarkable shape given its extensive use; cloth folding case. Title extensively inscribed in Latin with two columns of a subject index for sermons. The annotator was interested in indexing themes like heaven paradisus and hell infernus or Virgin Mary and Evangelists and easily being able to locate sermons for certain medieval virtues and vices or sins like luxury patience love anger and justice. Early biographical inscriptions on rear blank date to probably to the mid-sixteenth century and venetis gives this book a probable Venice home at one point. There are further scattered annotations notes and references to the index which reflect on sermons of interest. This book likely once belonged to preaching Franciscan monk from northern Italy. This monastic association is further evident with an ownership inscription in the lower margin of a1 Iste Liber est fratus dominici. Preaching was most closely associated with the Franciscans who also traveled extensively to reach audiences. The compact octavo format and lightweight wrappers of this volume would have made transportability much easier. Incunable edition of Johannes Gritschs register of medieval sermons called the Quadragesimale with an interesting period index of subjects probably added by a Franciscan scribe. Johannes Gritsch of Basel himself a Franciscan monk delivered his sermons in German and translated them in simple Latin ready for translation and adaptation to the vernacular. He used scriptural passages supporting texts from classics and fables and exemplary stories to prove moral grounds. Two main themes have been recognized to dominate the medieval sermon: the awareness of death and the need for contrition. Preachers would have relentlessly implored their audience to come to repentance. Brother Dominic the early modern friar who heavily used this book was no exception. He leaves evidence of his moral preaching interests throughout the book. The preliminary subject index is an invaluable glimpse into a composing preachers mindset at the dawn of the sixteenth century. This is the twenty-first edition of Gritschs Quadrigesimale which included fifty numbered sermons and additional sermons for specific church feasts; the first appeared in 1468 and a succession of printings appeared well into the sixteenth century. In fact a Lyons edition of the "Quadragesimale" was produced just one month later after this one in 1495 by Joannes Treschel. Printed sermon compilations were especially popular in monastic communities where volumes of model sermons would have enjoyed wide circulation. ISTC ig00506000. <br/><br/>Incunable edition of Johannes Gritschs register of medieval sermons called the Quadragesimale with an interesting period index of subjects probably added by a Franciscan scribe. Johannes Gritsch of Basel himself a Franciscan monk delivered his sermons in German and translated them in simple Latin ready for translation and adaptation to the vernacular. He used scriptural passages supporting texts from classics and fables and exemplary stories to prove moral grounds. Two main themes have been recognized to dominate the medieval sermon: the awareness of death and the need for contrition. Preachers would have relentlessly implored their audience to come to repentance. Brother Dominic the early modern friar who heavily used this book was no exception. He leaves evidence of his moral preaching interests throughout the book. The preliminary subject index is an invaluable glimpse into a composing preachers mindset at the dawn of the sixteenth century. This is the twenty-first edition of Gritschs Quadrigesimale which included fifty numbered sermons and additional sermons for specific church feasts; the first appeared in 1468 and a succession of printings appeared well into the sixteenth century. In fact a Lyons edition of the "Quadragesimale" was produced just one month later after this one in 1495 by Joannes Treschel. Printed sermon compilations were especially popular in monastic communities where volumes of model sermons would have enjoyed wide circulation. ISTC ig00506000. Lazarus de Suardis paperback books
1535SAV123Venice: Nicolo de Aristotele detto Zoppino 1535. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio 295 x 190mm. 12 I-CX 110ff. Signatures: AA6-BB6; A8-N8; O6. Title printed in red and black with woodcut block border depicting strewn armor and dueling knights with wreathed portrait of Cicero at top and plaques with monogram initials of Roman Emperors Fabius Maximus Julius Caesar and Alexander Magnus. 136 woodcut in-text illustrations depicting lives of primitive humans the famous Vitruvian Man on p. XXII constellations rules for perspective and other mathematical figures and diagrams of architecture. Woodcut historiated chapter initials throughout of repeating portraits. Translated by Benedetto Giovio 1471-1545. Edited by Francesco Lutio Durantino. 19th-century calf with decorative stamps spine stamped in gilt TRAT DE ARCH endpapers renewed; loose in binding some margins trimmed close some light worming at least six early cancelled inscriptions on title leaf CX with significant excision otherwise an crisp and clean text block with wonderful woodcut impressions. 19th-century inscription on fly-leaf Famoza Archi-tectura. Another 19th-century inscription on front flyleaf Presented to the Mercantile Library Association of New York by Philip A Reach .Consul/ Lisbon Jan. 7 1848. Sold in 1958 on removal of Architecture Books from the Library pencil note. Rare illustrated Durantino edition of Vitruvius printed in Venice by Zoppino in 1535. This Vitruvius work was first printed in 1521 for Como. As it gained notoriety another edition in the vernacular Italian was prepared by Giovanni Antonio and Pietro de Nicolino da Sabbio in 1524. It incorporated woodcuts from a 1511 Latin edition produced by Giovanni Giocondo in Venice Tacuino. This Zoppino printing had a newly redesigned title-leaf with an elaborate woodcut border of chivalric battle scenes between Augustus Caesar Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great. The 136 in-text woodcuts are an all too interesting miscellany of late-medieval life nature and architecture and are characteristic of Vitruvian ideals in regards to proportion ornament language space place and beauty. The famous figure of Symmetria Vitruvian Man is present on p. XXII. Both the 1524 and 1535 editions were widely read by an Italian public. Vitruvian principles deeply influenced early Renaissance artists thinkers and architects who believed they were rediscovering an ancient discipline which would be the foundation of their culture. <br/><br/>Rare illustrated Durantino edition of Vitruvius printed in Venice by Zoppino in 1535. This Vitruvius work was first printed in 1521 for Como. As it gained notoriety another edition in the vernacular Italian was prepared by Giovanni Antonio and Pietro de Nicolino da Sabbio in 1524. It incorporated woodcuts from a 1511 Latin edition produced by Giovanni Giocondo in Venice Tacuino. This Zoppino printing had a newly redesigned title-leaf with an elaborate woodcut border of chivalric battle scenes between Augustus Caesar Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great. The 136 in-text woodcuts are an all too interesting miscellany of late-medieval life nature and architecture and are characteristic of Vitruvian ideals in regards to proportion ornament language space place and beauty. The famous figure of Symmetria Vitruvian Man is present on p. XXII. Both the 1524 and 1535 editions were widely read by an Italian public. Vitruvian principles deeply influenced early Renaissance artists thinkers and architects who believed they were rediscovering an ancient discipline which would be the foundation of their culture. Nicolo de Aristotele detto Zoppino hardcover books
