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15393Vintage Albumen photograph on heavy backing. C. 1890. A young female teacher stands outdoors with approximately 20 students of all ages. An American flag hangs on the schoolhouse wall. A rural scene with a large load of firewood visible at the back of the school building and some fog on he trees in the background. The school seems to be in an opening in a forested area. The teacher's outfit is late 19th century. Some age staining to mat Image in very good condition. 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
2221848<p>"Ike" 3 pages to wife Mamie no date but ca. 1944. 9" x 6". Fine.</p><p>Eisenhower pens a heartfelt letter to Mamie while in the depths of war: "The Russian fight continues to stir me to the depths of my soul. They're hitting so hard that no one can fail to admire them. I hope they kill a million Huns -- even more! And I wish we could be hammering at the d--- Germans this instant just as hard and on as big a scale as the Russians."</p><p>Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890-1969 was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United State Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe.</p> unknown books
200428283Oakland: Independent Institute. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. 0945999984 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Independent Institute hardcover 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
179542915Louth 1795. White rag paper bottom and fore-edge deckled. Black printed text. Two fold lines; occasional loss to fold lines minimally affecting text; light general wear and toning. VG. Bifolium. 2 unnumbered pages of printed text; title printed to verso of second leaf else second leaf blank. 9-3/4" x 7-5/8" <br/><br/>Auction catalogue from the 1795 sale of 38 lots of the freehold estate owned by the late Charles Chaplin Esq. with manuscript prices and related notes in pencil and ink in a contemporary hand throughout. Occasional pencil notations and markings correct the printed acreage estimates of some lots. The Chaplins were members of the upper gentry and influential landowners in Lincolnshire. When the Louth Navigation -- a canal running from Louth in Lincolnshire to Tetney Haven at the mouth of the Humber -- was completed in 1770 Charles Chaplin managed to secure a 99 year lease of the tolls despite the terms of the canal's Act of Parliament limiting such leases to just seven years. The Louth Navigation Trust per the Louth Canal website notes that control and management of the tolls became "virtually hereditary" and led to considerable commercial opposition to the Chaplins and their political influence by the 1820s. The catalog includes columns for "Names of Plots &c."; "Acres by Estimation"; "State of Land"; and "Occupiers." Anyone wishing to view the premises is encouraged to apply to one Mr. J. Curtis of Saltfleetry. 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
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
193526569Not Place Noted: No Publisher Noted 1935. 8 pages; cover in red and black; printed one side chiefly black and white illustrations with the explicit sexual conversation & antics of Flash Gordon and Queen Undina. No publisher or date noted; circa 1935. Approx. 3" x 4 1/2" size; stapled softcover; some edge tips wear rubbing; little bit of tips dog-earing within; in good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. No Publisher Noted paperback books
188025607European Origin: No Publisher Noted 1880. Large-format albumen process photographic images of a monastery; a cultivated inner courtyard & colonnaded hallway bell-towered church in background; and white-robed monks at a well with ornate wrought-iron pulley-surround. Both laid down to cardstock. Images approx. 7 1/2" x 9 1/2" size; the cardstock mounts make them approx. 13" x 15" overall. No place photographer studio or date noted; circa 1880; courtyard image with the studio number in the print of '831.' Cardstock with light edge tips wear; images clear and detailed; in very good condition. Photographs. Not Bound. Very Good. No Publisher Noted paperback books
189025534Europe: No Publisher Noted 1890. A large-format albumen process photographic image of this site; laid down to cardstock. Image approx. 10" x 14 1/2" size; the cardstock makes it approx. 18" x 22" overall. No place photographer studio or date noted; circa 1890. Cardstock with old discoloration at right margin; closed tear; does not affect image. Some fading in the town and river area; in good condition. . Photograph. Not Bound. Good. No Publisher Noted paperback books
188525535Edinburgh Scotland: No Publisher Noted 1885. A large-format albumen process photographic image of this site; laid down to cardstock. Image approx. 8" x 11" size; the cardstock makes it approx. 18" x 22" overall. No photographer studio or date noted; circa 1885. Cardstock with old discoloration at right margin; does not affect image. In good condition. . Photograph. Not Bound. Good. No Publisher Noted paperback books
185327146Paris France.: Garnier Freres Libraires-Editeurs 1853. 480 pages. A 19th century French translation of the Niccolo Machiavelli classic of political philosophy and a discussion of the content. Previous owner small book-number ticket on front endpaper. Volume approx. 4 3/4" x 7" size; Bound in marbled paper covered boards dark green morocco leather spine gilt decorated & titled marbled endpapers. Some edge tips wear to the binding; title page with some spotting; in very good condition. Later Edition. Leather. Very Good. Garnier Freres, Libraires-Editeurs books
199724237Amsterdam Holland: Fund for Central and East European Book Projects 1997. 125 pages; laid-in is a postcard inscribed and signed from the editor Vera Ebels-Dolonova; preface by Timothy Garton Ash; the 'portraits' include: Jelenkor Kiado- Gabor Csordas - Pecs Hungary by Renee Postma; Zeszyty Lierackie - Barbara Torunczyk - Warsaw Poland by Michel Maas; Savremennik - Vladimir Zarev - Sofia Bulgaria by Olaf Tempelman; Baltos Lankos - Saulius Zukas -Vilnius Lithuania by Felix Kaplan; Odjek - Nermina Kurspahic -Sarajevo Bosnia by Postma; Apostrof - Marta Petreu - Cluj Romania by Tempelman; Erasmus Guild - Vesna Pusic - Zagreb Croatia by Postma; Kritica & Kontext - Samuel Abraham - Bratislava Slovakia by Maas; Mlada Fronta - Vladimir Pistorius - Prague Czech Republic by Vera Ebels-Dolonova; also with an report on publishing in Central and Eastern Europe 'State of Affairs' by Ebels-Dolonova; also "The Book Continent" Reflections on the Trias Libraria" by Laurens van Krevelen and list of activities of the Fund list of supported publications funding contributors; approx. 6 1/2" x 8 3/4" size; bound in illustrated stiff cardstock softcovers; light wear; in very good condition interesting intimate details on the lives and struggles of these Central and Eastern European publishers to continue their literary and productive work. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Fund for Central and East European Book Projects Paperback books
1682EPL65London: Printed for Walter Kettilby 1682. Paperback. Good. Evans sermon on religious moderation. Some lower marginal wear and chipping. Comprising printers notice title dedication and pages 1-52. 4to Size: 190 x 145mm. <br/><br/> Printed for Walter Kettilby paperback books
2104St. Louis MO: F. J. Schleicher Paper Box Co. Staplebound. Color illustrated embossed wraps. . 12 pages. No date circa late 1920's. Profusely illustrated candy box trade catalog. Two page spread of color illustrations. Frank J. Schleicher 1859-1951 established his Paper Box Company in 1904. Prices in pencil marked throughout. Cover colored and embossed. <br/><br/> F. J. Schleicher Paper Box Co. paperback books
2085Hardcover. Tan smooth calf morocco boards. Good in custom matching slipcase good. 37 x 17 cm. 119 linen-backed leaves of manuscript notations and paste down documents. Peter Fahrney 1840-1905 president and founder of Fahrney & Sons Co. was born in Maryland to a family of herbal practitioners. His grandfather known as Ole Dr. Peter Fahrney was well known in the Boonsboro area of Maryland and his office has been preserved to this day. Peter Fahrney grew up in Pennsylvania and attended Jefferson Medical College and the Philadelphia School of Pharmacy. He began practicing medicine in Pennsylvania in 1861 at the age of twenty-one. During the Civil War Fahrney left Pennsylvania and moved to Chicago. His practice grew from general practice to the manufacturing of natural remedies which were sold nationwide. His factory burned down in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 but he was back in business within days. The Fahrney & Sons Company and his uncle Daniel manufactured similar products under Dr. Daniel Fahrney & Son. The ledger is most likely Fahrney's first: it begins in his first year of practice and in addition to patient accounting records includes costs of building his office digging the foundation laboratory supplies etc. An original order form for Dr. Fahrney's blood vitalizer is included. Many patients are listed. Included in the front of the ledger and stapled to the frond endpaper are three notarized statements authenticating the ledger. The first is by Edward J. Ryan of Cook County Illinois a former employee of Dr. Fahrney swearing to the authenticity of the ledger and confirming the handwriting found within is that of the doctor. A statement of John E. Burget confirms the validity of 21 of the persons named in the ledger with notes added: John W. Brumbaugh - My Grandfather; George W. Brumbaugh - My Mother's Uncle; John Dilling - Farmer; Dr. John Wengert - Drugs; Samuel Grabill - Merchant; David Wineland - Black smith; J.C. Sanders - Druggist; Daniel M. Holsinger - Minister; and several more. An affidavit of Christie Meyers a former patient and friend of the doctor confirms that Fahrney had a practice in Fredericksburg PA. Bound in custom later smooth calf morrocco boards gilt-lettered spine with raised spine bands with a custom matching slipcase lightly rubbed. Pages are tanned with dampstaining and spotting throughout. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1959501050<p>"James A. Farley" in green ink on letterhead New York January 16 1959; to Los Angeles resident Joan O'Brien in response to a request for a favorite prayer: "My favorite prayer is and always has been THE LORD'S PRAYER Of course I say it daily." 4to 1 page.</p> unknown books
501047<p>"James A. Farley" in brown fountain pen ink on 1/2 length pose wearing dark suit long polk-a-dot tie and white shirt. Photograph in on heavy stock; 7 3/4" x 9 3/4"; very good; ca. 1935-40. Signed and inscribed to Postmaster Adda Bell Ruth: "To Mrs. Adda Bell Ruth Postmaster with every good wish. James A. Farley." Farley 1888-1976 born May 30 1888 Grassy Point New York; died June 29 1976 New York City; American politician and businessman; Coca-Cola board chairman 1940-1973; U.S. Postmaster General 1933-1940; Democratic National Committee chairman 1932-1940 with major role in electing Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932 & 1936.</p> unknown books
1933501048<p>"James A. Farley" penned below a portrait on the upper cover of a menu for a testimonial dinner given him by the Democratic Executive Committee of Asbury Park New Jersey August 21 1933 Eddie Duchin and his orchestra provided music for the event. 11 1/4" x 8 1/2" light soiling. Farley 1888-1976 American politician/businessman; Coca-Cola board chairman 1940-73; U.S. Postmaster General 1933-40; Democratic National Committee chairman 1932-40 with major role in electing FDR in 1932/36.</p> unknown books
186525145Various Places Listed: Various Publishers 1865. 28 individual pages; with some having two images or more on each side of the sheet and several with images on both sides. 4 of the sheets with hand-colored illustrations. Most of the pages have been excised from various 19th century fashionable publications: Godey's; The Young Ladies Journal; Frank Leslie's Lady's Magazine and Gazette of Fashion; Demorest's Monthly Magazine; La Mode with an 1865 - a large prospectus sheet top corner torn away as well as a color plate and others from publications not identified. Of various sizes many folding plates with specific themes - hair millinery children's fashions. Dated circa 1850s- 1880s. Some edge-wear darkening; splitting along fold lines; a few with sections torn away. In good condition overall; an interesting selection of 19th century fashion plates. First Edition. Not Bound. Good. Various Publishers paperback books
1957TB26878Norman: University of Okalhoma 1957. First Edition. Fine in tan cloth covered boards with green outlined text and decorations on the spine. An octavo measuring 9" by 6" with minor foxing to the end sheets. In a very good price clipped dust jacket with light wear and rubbing to the ends of the spine area and to the corners of the front panel at the fold to the front flap. The twenty-third volume in the American Exploration & Travel Series. Edited by Kate L. Gregg and John Francis McDermott. 239 pages including a list of the other volumes in the series an index appendix and text. Illustrated with reproductions of early works of art. University of Okalhoma hardcover books
3892Watercolour and gouache on vellum signed 'Gablle Fontaine'. An exceptionally large scale work by this talented but apparently unrecorded artist probably executed in the 1830s or early 1840s. The composition includes roses bi-colour pinks/carnations morning glory dahlias auriculas flowering quince or prunus hollyhock plums and peaches. In addition a clouded yellow and two red admiral butterflies are shown. unknown books
18562222067<p>First edition. Octavo. Frontispiece of pointer and quail. Vignette title page and over fifty b/w illustrations. Original red cloth stamped in gilt and blind; gilt pictorial spine yellow endpapers plain edges. No dust jacket. Tight clean fine copy minor wear and rubbing. 480 pages.</p><p>Sporting bookplate of Walter Rutherford Peterson on front paste down.</p><p>BAL 8153.</p><p>Printed by John F. Trow.</p> Stringer & Townsend hardcover books
188531995Paris: Henry Lemoine fils 1885. 345 x 473 mm margins. On laid paper with crown watermark. <br/><br/>The print depicts a chamber concert from the time of King Louis XV featuring performers on the harpsichord violin cello double bass flute harp etc. before a group of well-dressed ladies and gentleman assembled in an elegant room in the home of the Countess de Saint Brisson. One of a pair of engravings the other titled "Le Bal Paré." <br/><br/>Browning to margins from earlier matting. Quite a strong impression. A re-issue of the second state.<br/><br/>Beck & Roth: Music in Prints 34. Kinsky: A History of Music in Pictures 247:1. Komma: Musik Geschichte in Bildern 402. Boucher: Catalogue de l'oeuvre de A. de Saint-Aubin 403. <br/><br/>"An afternoon of chamber music is being given in the palatial music room of a princely home for a gathering which may well include the king of France and his courtiers. Duclos's engraving Le Concert made after a drawing by Augustin de St Aubin in 1773 is full of musical detail even to the decoration on the walls. Numerous instruments are to be discoveredd about the room some of them in use others lying about presumably awaiting another group of performers to take over. A high-ranking personage the king Louis XV can be seen in the center attentively listening to the music while the other guests are enjoying the concert with him or are busily engaged in conversation. Can it be a trio sonata they are hearing played by flute violin and harpsichord with the violoncello duplicating the bass line in traditoinal fashion - or possibly a solo cantata with the same instruments the soprano soloist standing to the right of the violinist Both are typical "intimate" musical forms of the day which were especially cultivated in such aristocratic surroundings. The gentleman standing close to the keyboard is the inevitable page turner and there appear to be two conscientious score readers one in the foreground and the other before the window directly behind. A close look at the idle instruments will reveal besides the harp a violin and oboe on the long music stand behind the honored guest and a violoncello and a bassoon placed against the chair on which he is leaning. A bass viol double bass with long neck and beautifully carved scroll is clearly visible to the left of the music stand the bow tucked in under its strings. <br/><br/>This engraving dedicated to the Countess of Brisson is interesting not only as a costume piece and vivid picture of elegant society under Louis XV but also as an important record of the musical life of the day." Beck & Roth. Henry Lemoine fils unknown books
