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18939662Detroit: The American Engraving Company Publishers & Printers 1893. First Printing. Saddle-stapled wrappers. Good-. Oblong 4to. Unpaginated. Saddle-stapled wraps with printed illustrated front cover. Both covers detached and with age-toning to edges. Interior quite sound. A remarkable exhibition-in-print of the variety of world ethnicities arrayed at the Chicago World's Fair. This aspect of the midway was an exploitative carnie-like objectification of human beings featuring a Kurd a female Turkish dancer swordsmen from Damascus a "donkey boy" from Cairo et al. Scarce: OCLC locates only two cataloged institutional copies at the University of Michigan and the Michigan State Library. Now housed in a removable clear archival sleeve with an acid-free backing. The American Engraving Company Publishers & Printers unknown
189762151Philadelphia Boston & San Francisco: American Line International Navigation Company 1897. Oblong 16mo. 7.5 x 5.75 in. 47 1 pp. With photo & text illustrations throughout. Colour-printed yellow softcovers lettering & decoration in red & blue minor dustsoiling shelfwear still VG bright copy. First edition of this exceedingly scarce excursion guide for travelers on the American Line enroute to enjoy the 1897 General Art & Industrial Exposition of Stockholm World’s Fair held in 1897 to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of King Oscar II’s reign. Visitors sailed on four different American Line twin-screw steamships including the SS New York SS Paris SS St. Paul and SS St. Louis. Featuring 3722 exhibitors from Sweden Finland Norway Denmark and Russia the exhibition was held on the island of Djurgarden and many of the structures still exist including the Djurgardsbron bridge Skansens Bergbana funicular railway now in the Skansen open-air museum and zoo and the Nordic Museum. Sadly Ferdinand Boberg’s famed 16820 square meter exposition hall with cupola and 4 minarets was demolished after the Exposition. No copies in Worldcat. American Line International Navigation Company, paperback
189347874Salt Lake City: George Q. Cannon & Sons Co 1893. First edition. Hardcover. 318pp. Octavo 22 cm Original brown cloth with gilt title to front cover and spine. Blind stamped decorative borders on front and rear covers. Decorative endsheets. Very good. Minor wear to edges surfaces corners. Large spot of fading on the top of front cover. The top edge of the rear board is subtly darkened. There is also a tiny stain on the rear board. A numerical paper label is mounted to the spine. Pages mildly age-toned. Black and white illustrations and photos. Includes: An epitome of the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints compiled by Andrew Jenson. George Q. Cannon & Sons Co hardcover
1876379A37United Stated Government Printing Office Washington DC: 1876. 1876 Three volumes of four without Vol IV - Architecture. Well illustrated including some wonderful folding plates. Original full cloth bindings loose. 8vo. 240 mm. Hardbound. Very good. The copy of Abraham Herr Smith 1815-1894 a U.S. Representative from Millersville Lancaster County Pennsylvania. He was elected as a Republican to the Forty-third and to the five succeeding Congresses March 4 1873-March 3 1885. Contents include: I. Introduction; Executive Commissioner's Report; Agriculture: The Vienna International Exhibition its Antecedents Inception Organization and Results; Abstracts of Foreign Reports on Exhibits from the United States; Report of Hon. H. Garretson; Forestry by J.A. Warder; Sheep and Wool by J.R. Dodge. II; Science; Education; Chemicals by J. Lawrence Smith; Vienna Bread by E.N. Horsford; Commercial Fertilizers by Peter Collier; Photography by C.A. Doremus; Medicine and Surgery by A. Ruppaner; Physical Apparatus by Wolcott Gibbs; Instruments of Precision 2 reports by C.F. Carpenter and R.D. Cutts; Telegraph and Administration by R.B. Lines; Telegraphs and Apparatus by D. Brooks; Education 2 reports by E. Seguin and J.W. Hoyt; Deaf-mute instruction by E.M. Gallaudet; Governmental patronage of art by E.M. Gallaudet; Art of printing; manufactures of paper by G.W. Silcox; Governmental printing institutions by A.H. Brown; III. Engineering: Manufactures and Machinery by R.H. Thurston; Sewing-machines by G.A. Fairfield; Civil Engineering and Architecture by William Watson; Hydraulic engineering by Charles Davis; Etc. W50 Language: eng. Full Cloth. Hardcover. Very Good. United Stated Government Printing Office, Washington, DC: 1876. hardcover
1862L1359London: Cassell Petter & Galpin 1862. 1st Edition . Hardback. Vg. 4to. xvi frontispiece 272pp approx 300 woodcut text illustrationss. Original black half calf with raised bands.Corners a trifle bumpbed but a nice clean copy with little wear. Containing About Three Hundred Illustrations with Letter-Press Descriptions of All the Principle Objects in The International Exhibitions of 1862 <br/> <br/> Cassell, Petter & Galpin hardcover
189360902Chicago IL & Philadelphia PA: George Barry 1893. 8vo. 383 1 pp. Map frontispiece’s. With 336 black & white plates text illustrations. Half-calf over contemporary marbled boards black & gilt spine label minor scuffing to marbled boards pastedowns & inner hinges repaired still VG copy from the libraries of Franka Johnson and Prof. Marvin Nathan w/ ownership markings on ffep. First edition stated of this relatively uncommon guidebook to the paintings and art exhibited at the 1893 Columbian Exposition. The Art Gallery featured an impressive international group of artists including Winslow Homer William Chase Walter Crane Childe Hassam Adeolphe Marais Amanda Sewell Kenyon Cox and over 100 others. Charles McMeen Kurtz 1855-1909 at the time was one of Halsey Ives’s Assistants in the Fine Arts Department of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition Art Director of the 1894 St. Louis Exposition and later Museum Director at the Buffalo Museum of Art 1905-1909. See: Dybwad & Bliss Annotated Bibliography: World’s Columbian Exposition Chicago 1893 1992 907 1st ed. George Barry, hardcover
1880192R62Oregon State Board of Immigration Eastern Offices: No. 252 Broadway New York; and 260 Washington Street Boston: . 1880 48 p. Two Large folding maps: "Western Oregon" & "Routes from Atantic Ports to Oregon". Inner wraps printed with advertisements for Oregon Central Railroad Company; Oregon and California Railroad Company; Kansas Pacific Railroad Company. 230 mm. Softcover. Original printed wraps very slightly soiled. Title continues: "The State of Oregon Was Distinguished At the Centennial Exhibition By More Awards For the Excellence and Variety Of Its Products Than Comparatively Any Other State". Near fine. Rare immigration guide to the Northwest. PRICE JUST REDUCED! W12 Bag 1 x2 Language: eng. Wraps. Near Fine. Oregon State Board of Immigration, Eastern Offices: No. 252 Broadway, New York; and 260 Washington Street, Boston: . paperback
1876303823Philadelphia Thomas Hunter 1876. 1876. Oblong small 4to 11 3/8" x 7 1/2". 6 color lithographs on 6 separate sheets. Very good few short tears. Views of Machinery Hall U.S. Government Building Horticultural Hall Agricultural Hall Judges Hall Main Building. No Binding. Very Good. Philadelphia, Thomas Hunter, 1876. unknown
187660873Philadelphia: n.p. 1876. Oblong folio. 24.75 x 20.75 in. One woodblock-engraved printed linen scarf in red & black decorative borders sewn at left fore-edge minor age toning some spotting & soiling very slight foxing old pin-holes at corners still a VG exemplar. First edition of this nicely printed woodblock-engraved souvenir linen scarf for the 1876 Centennial International Exhibition held in Philadelphia that year featuring the Art Gallery now known as Memorial Hall and the only large exhibit building still standing on the Exposition site. The Memorial Hall was designed by Herman Schwarzmann in a beaux-arts style and reopened in 1877 as the Pennsylvania Museum of Art and included originally the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art. The building now houses the “Please Touch Museum†children’s museum and through assorted funding issues managed to emerge from bankruptcy in 2016 and continue to operate. [n.p.], unknown
187660872Philadelphia: n.p. 1876. Oblong folio. 28.25 x 22.75 in. One woodblock-engraved printed linen scarf decorative borders large lozenge medallions for halls sewn at fore-edges minor age toning some spotting & soiling very slight foxing old pin-holes at corners still a VG exemplar. First edition of this wonderfully woodblock printed souvenir linen scarf for the 1876 Centennial International Exhibition held in Philadelphia that year. The large lozenge medallions feature the Main Exhibition Building which covered 21.5 acres constructed of wood & iron framework on 672 stone piers; the Horticultural Hall epitomized floral achievement in gardening and was designed in a Moorish style to be a permanent tribute to the Crystal Palace of London’s 1851 Great Exhibition -- it survived until severely damaged by Hurricane Hazel in 1954; and finally the Art Gallery now known as Memorial Hall and the only large exhibit building still standing on the Exposition site. President’s Washington & Grant anchored the upper corners with Centennial Medallions in the lower corners. [n.p.], unknown
189832124n.p.: F. A. Rinehart 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Oblong quarto. Light green cloth hardcover with gilt illustrated title on front cover. Floral decorated end sheets. Cloth binding is soiled and shelf worn with a few pin holes. Interior contents mostly in good condition with occasional light spots on the edges. Contents include title page 2 pages of text and 64 photogravure views of the Exposition. Pasted down on rear blank end paper is an unrelated news clipping showing a map of Wisconsin titled "Plan No 3 The New Congressional Apportionment." Fair to good condition. F. A. Rinehart hardcover
189533992Atlanta: Cottan States and International Exposition 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Large Octavo. 144pp ads. illustrated. A souvenir of the Cottan Exposition of 1895. Very scarce in any condition. This is a good copy in green cloth wearing at the corners of the base small tape mark on the spine lacking the frontispiece <br/><br/> Cottan States and International Exposition hardcover
1880380A37United States Government Printing Office Washington DC: 1880. 1880 Complete 5 volume set. pp. 464; 548; 595; 686; 702 Numerous plates some folding. Many of the plates are heliotypes or lithographs. 8vo. 240 mm. Original gilt-lettered full cloth binding slightly soiled. Hardbound. Very good. The copy of Abraham Herr Smith 1815-1894 a U.S. Representative from Millersville Lancaster County Pennsylvania. He was elected as a Republican to the Forty-third and to the five succeeding Congresses March 4 1873-March 3 1885. Contents include: I. Report of the Commissioner-General with Accompanying Papers including Lists of Exhibitors and of Awards. II. Fine Arts by W.W. Story; Education by J.L. Chamberlain; Political Education by A.D. White; Manual Training Schools by E.C. Jewett; Wood-Carving by J.T. Norton; Textile Fabrics by Henry Howard. III. Iron and Steel D.J. Morrell; Ceramics by W.P. Blake; Glass and Glass-ware also by Blake. Forestry F.P. Baker. Cotton Culture by P.M.B. Young. IV. Chemical Processes by T.E. Jenkins; Mining Industries J.D. Hague; Steam and Gas Engines A.J. Sweeney; Machines and Machine tools W.T. Porter; Clocks and Watches E.H. Knight; Railway Apparatus by W.A. Anderson. V. Agricultural Implements by E.H. Knight; Agricultural Products by J.J. Woodman; Live Stock by Samuel Dysart; Horticulture by G.W. Campbell; Pisciculture by T.B. Ferguson; etc. PRICE JUST REDUCED! W50. Language: eng. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. United States Government Printing Office, Washington, DC: 1880. hardcover
1884AQ24340London: Printed and Published for the Executive Council of the International Health Exhibition and for the Council of the Society of Arts by William Clowes and Sons 1884. 2 35pp 1. Bound with: SPARKES John C. L. Schools of art: their origin history work and influence. London. Printed and Published for the Executive Council of the International Health Exhibition and for the Council of the Society of Arts by William Clowes and Sons 1884. First edition. viii 152pp. And: PAGET Charles E. Healthy schools. London. Printed and Published for the Executive Council of the International Health Exhibition and for the Council of the Society of Arts by William Clowes and Sons 1884. First edition. 72pp. And: School hygiene and school construction. London. Printed and Published for the Executive Council of the International Health Exhibition and for the Council of the Society of Arts by William Clowes and Sons 1884. First edition. 4 284pp. 8vo. Modern blue cloth printed paper lettering-piece. Scattered spotting. A coherent sammelband of four didactic papers submitted as a part of the 1884 International Health Exhibition concerning the education of children with disabilities the hygiene of classrooms and the construction of schools. . First edition. Printed and Published for the Executive Council of the International Health Exhibition, and for the Council of the Society of Ar hardcover
18941116647Milwaukee WI: Milwaukee Industrial Exposition. Very rare good paper copy ex. cat. 24 pp 1 2/C illus 1 pp text lists 172 American works and 34 foreign works. . Good. Paper. 1894. Milwaukee Industrial Exposition unknown
1894003PARThe Bancroft Company Chicago and San Francisco: 1893-1894. 1894 Issued by subscription. Twenty-three of 25 original parts. Lacks parts 1 & 25. Folio. 310 x 415 mm. Forty pages in each part. Numerous photo illustrations. A very well preserved set. Books in parts are works which were published piecemeal mainly in the 19th century over a period of months or years. Each unit usually having a separate magazine-like cover. This method of publishing benefited the publisher as it was thought that the price of a weekly or monthly part at one shilling or a quarter was affordable to a wider readership than the price of pound sterling or $ 5.00 for a bound volume. Though this particular set was very costly at $ 1.00 for each part! Since they were meant to be bound by the purchaser very few have survived into our present era. This set is extremely scarce in parts format. A wonderful artifact of the World's Columbian Exposition Chicago: 1893. This edition apparently not in Arents 1957. RARE. PRICE JUST REDUCED! PARTS 2 Language: eng. Soft cover. Very Good. The Bancroft Company, Chicago and San Francisco: 1893-1894. paperback
18941116230Milwaukee Wi: Milwaukee Industrail Exposition. 24 Pages Paper Exib catalog 1 2/c illustration 1 pp text lists 172 American artist many major American Artists 34 European works . Good. Soft cover. 1894. Milwaukee Industrail Exposition paperback
1900460037Paris : A. Guérinet 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Good portfolio copy only in the original illustrated printed boards backed in modern cloth. All plates are disbound as issued and collated with No. 1-128 present. Portfolio boards somewhat foxed dust-dulled and rubbed along the edges with fastening ribbons tattered. Plates clean save for some marginal dust-dulling and with edges somewhat creased. Remains a very serviceable portfolio copy with well-preserved plates. Series; L'architecture & la sculpture : Exposition de 1900 ; 1. Physical description; 2 pages 128 plates : photographs black & white ; 41 cm. Subjects; Architecture. Sculpture. Exhibitions. Paris. France. 1900. Exposition universelle. Paris : A. Guérinet hardcover
1847101635Philadelphia T.K. and P.G. Collins printers 1847. 32 pp. Original printed green paper wrappers sl. dam. Heavy foxing throughout. Catalogue listing 543 items. Pages 28 & 29 contain an index artists and pages 30 & 32 contain a publicity and the constitution of the Art-Union of Philadelphia fro the promotion of the arts of design in the United Stated incorporated 1844. The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is a museum and art school in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. It is the first and oldest art museum and art school in the United States.
1893elala1335Chicago: Stone Kastler & Painter 1893. 1893. 4to. pp. 320. profusely illus. many full-page. original cloth top edge gilt rear cover bit puckered & stained dampstain to lower inner margin of title. First Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Chicago: Stone, Kastler & Painter, 1893. Hardcover
188136186Philadelphia: Nagle & Ryckman 1881. First Edition. Wraps. Fair. Folio sized wraps approximately 14" x 10." 24 pages. Illustrated. Two page illustration in the middle. Original illustrated covers with contents printed on the front. Fragile condition. Fair condition. Very old tape repairs to the covers and pages 1 and 2 with old tape stains upper corners first 3 pages. Front cover chipped on the edge. Pages have some creasing and small edge tears. Contents generally clean. Atlanta businessman H. I. Kimball was the Director General of the International cotton Exposition. This exposition preceded the more famous Atlanta Cotton States exposition in 1895. From the New Georgia Encyclopedia:<br /> <br /> Atlanta held its first exposition named the International Cotton Exposition in Oglethorpe Park in 1881. The city then had fewer than 40000 residents and the primary sense in which the first exposition was “international†was the display of cotton plants from around the world. Nevertheless Atlantans were eager to host the 1881 exposition to promote investment and to help the city toward its goal of becoming an industrial center which was a primary component of Grady’s “New South†concept. Although attendance was lower than expected fewer than 200000 in paid attendance during its two-and-a-half-month run city leaders demonstrated that they could work together to host a major event and that Atlanta was serious about its role in textile production at a time when the North was beginning to grow dissatisfied with the efficiency of southern cotton processing. The exposition displayed new crop planters and cotton seed cleaners along with a model of Eli Whitney’s original cotton gin and speakers addressed the crowds about agricultural technology and political reforms. Nagle & Ryckman unknown
189359216Chicago: A. Wittemann 67 & 69 Spring St. 211 & 213 Wabash Ave. The Albertype Co. 1893. Oblong 12mo. 7.25 x 4.25 in. 13 leaves unnumbered. With 12 sepia- and aqua-tinted photogravure plates. Embossed limp brown covers raised lettering w/ gilt highlights on front cover punch-sewn at gutter margin w/ blue silk ribbon yapp edges slight curving to cover very minor shelfwear still NF copy. First edition of these nicely executed photogravure images of the magnificent Columbian Exposition in 1893. The historic World’s Fair which ran almost six months with grounds and gardens laid out by Fredrick Olmsted covering 630 acres and a Midway skyline dominated by the 250-foot Ferris wheel designed by George Ferris. These photogravures depict the Machinery Hall Admin Building and Court of Honor the Lagoon The Art Palace Woman’s Building the Japanese Hooden Palace on Wooded Island The Krupp Gunworks building and even the Monastery of “La Rabida.†Adolph Wittemann and his brother Herman began working as printers in New York in 1867 and first started printing books and postcards under the Albertype name in 1887. Adolph acted not only as agent finding customers for their services but taking photographs across the country to be made into postcards. See: World’s Columbian Exposition Collection Ryerson & Burnham Archives Art Institute of Chicago 2002; Annie Schentag Photography at the World’s Fair: Construction “Official†Images Architourism Cornell University 2011. A. Wittemann, 67 & 69 Spring St., 211 & 213 Wabash Ave., The Albertype Co., unknown
189050922NY: Radtke Lauckner & Co 1890. Single sheet of thin laid paper 10 3/8 x8 inches with a copper etching of a rustic cabin on a lake with a sail boat in the background. In holograph on the lower margin is " At Brennan & Davis' Monday & Tuesday Apr 20th & 21st." Faint foxing which is less pronounced than in the scan; else very good. The firm of Radtke Lauckner & Co. were publishers and importers of etchings engravings and photographs located at 6 East 18th Street New York during the 1890's. Apparently they arranged traveling exhibitions of their wares at various locations; this elaborate invitation was for a showing at Brennan & Davis' a jewelry stationery and book store in Bradford Pennsylvania. Radtke, Lauckner & Co unknown
190032023Paris: Piublisher not identified 1900. First edition. 4to. 102 pp. portrait frontispiece with tissue guard illustrations in text 10 plates with tissue guards 1 of these in color. Printed wrappers expertly repaired with a new paper spine. Moderate wear; a very good copy. Housed in a new cloth clamshell box. A history of photography and processes which includes two chapters by Léon Vidal - one is a history of photogravure and the other on color photography. Details several other photomechanical processes and their inventors. Illustrations include those by Robert Demachy and by Puyo. <br /> <br /> There are several issues of this report three of which vary only in size; a fourth a later issue has a slightly different wording to the title and is dated 1903. Étienne-Jules Marey was the president of the committee.<br /> <br /> Roosens and Salu No. 3704. Piublisher not identified unknown
1851194442London : J. Cassell 1851 1851. First Edition. Hardback. Finely and period sympathetically bound in modern aniline calf over marble boards. An exceptional copy; of presentation quality - scans and additional bibliographic detail on request.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; Physical description 30 v in 1. xliv 556 p. 10 leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. 8vo. Frontis lacking the first section; full Crystal Palace and caption remains. Notes; Originally issued weekly in 30 parts between June 7 and December 27 1851. No more published. Subjects; Industrial arts. London : J. Cassell, [1851] hardcover
