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1948WB17380St. Louis: City Art Museum of St. Louis 1948. Paperback. Fair. Restrospective Exhibition by the City Art Museum of St. Louis. Unique copy - with typed transcript of lecture given by Beckmann at Stephens College "Letters to a Woman Painter" laid in. Front wrap detached. Sold as is. <br/><br/> City Art Museum of St. Louis paperback books
19944828Lisbon: Associacao Portuguesa de Estudos Judaicos 1994. 4To. Stiff printed paper covers 329 pgs incl index chronology no 225. Exhibits most with photos or illustrations many in color. Maps. Regarding Jewish diaspora with text in English and Portuguese. A big heavy work almost 5 lbs - extra mailing cost required. A lavish exhibit. A fine copy - no markings. Associacao Portuguesa de Estudos Judaicos unknown books
194668548Tokyo 1946. Paperback. Very Good. Single long sheet folded to form a narrow 12-page brochure. 20cm. Also includes as a separate item: Printed invitation to attend the March 24th Pre-View. <br/><br/> paperback books
1994WRCLIT75713Toronto: Natural Heritage / Natural History 1994. 2782pp. Quarto. Full morocco details below original front wrapper bound in. Some tanning to binding extremities but a very good copy. First edition. Inscribed and signed by the authors on the half-title. This copy is in a special binding executed by Stanley M. Sherman commissioned by the recipient and completed by Sherman in May of 1985. The binding is full gray morocco with six horizontal colored morocco onlays creating a body of water with a backdrop of land and snow-covered mountains and smaller onlays of two people with equipment in a canoe rowing from left to right and with a printed paper onlay on the rear board of a caribou. The title and authors' names are stamped in blind on the upper board and a smaller blindstamped label is affixed to the spine. The marbled endsheets incorporate two pockets on each pastedown made to accommodate various documents including three t.ls.s. 3pp and one a.l.s. 2pp. from Hoyle to the recipient leading up to publication relating to information the recipient provided for the book and to the books completion and publication. Copies of two letters from the recipient to Hoyle are present as are several related items. Also present is the itemized descriptive invoice handwritten in ink by Sherman for the preparation and binding of the book $810. Sherman whose training as a binder overlapped his distinguished career as an architect and city planner is a member of the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild and the British Guild of Book Workers. He trained with Tom Albro and began making commissioned bindings in 1986. He has had one-man shows at the Walters Art Museum 2006 and the District of Columbia Public Library 2012. Natural Heritage / Natural History unknown books
189050922NY: Radtke Lauckner & Co 1890. Single sheet 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 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 stationary and book store in Bradford Pennsylvania. <br/><br/> Radtke, Lauckner & Co unknown books
39840EXPOSITION--LONDON--1862 THE ART JOURNAL ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION 1862. London: James S. Virtue 1862. Small folio. Contemporary quarter calf all edges gilt. xii 324 pages 10 lithographic plates. First edition. A profusely illustrated catalogue for the London 1862 exhibition the much enlarged successful followup to the original inaugural 1851 exhibition published by The Art Journal featuring articles on the fine and decorative ar such as "The International Exhibition" "The Mediaeval Court" "Notes on th Raw Materials used by Artists as seen in the Exhibition" "Machinery employe in Art-Manufactures" "Art in its Influence on Art-Manufacture" "Modern Sculpture of all nations in the Exhibition" among others. Every aspect of ar and manufactures is included and well illustrated: furniture jewellery iron steel and brass work porcelain terra-cotta etc. carpets tapestries glas silver stone and wood carving wall decoration works in sculpture etc. Ve good. unknown books
28903EXHIBITION HOMMAGE A DUNOYER DE SEGONZAC. Paris: Chateau de Blois 1967. 4to. Wrappers. 151 pages. Exhibition catalogue. Wrappers rubbed else very good. unknown books
1993265945Windsor Ontario: Art Gallery of Windsor 1993. Paperback. 85p. wraps 8.75x11 inches profusly illus. very good condition. Text in English and French. Catalogue for an exhibition of works by the multimedia artist. Art Gallery of Windsor paperback books
185253659London: William Clowes & Sons 1852. First Edition. First printing. Stout octavo 26cm. Publisher's red cloth-covered boards decoratively stamped in gilt and blind; a.e.g.; cxx1-86716pp; 3 inserted leaves of chromolithographic color plates. Mild foxing to preliminary leaves with occasional spots of scattered foxing to text margins. Else a remarkably bright and well-preserved copy of this massive volume easily Near Fine. <br/><br/>Full transcript of expert jurors' verdicts on the thousands of entries of items in the Great Exhibition of 1851. Prefaced with an index to the divisions list of jurors and a complete list of the prizes awarded in subject areas ranging from raw materials first prize for "a process for washing and purifying coals" awarded to Bérard & Cie of France to decorative furnishings to the Gobelins-Beauvais Manufactory for "originality and beauty of design of the different specimens of tapestry exhibited". William Clowes & Sons unknown books
19781339290Port Chester Ny: Museum of Cartoon Art 1978. Softcover. Booklet 14x16; G/paperback; black and white pictorial newsprint covers show some age toning to exterior; other slight soiling smudges to exterior; black titles and illustrations to front and rear; minor chip to front tail edge; intact panels; text block edges have slight age toning; illustrated; unpaginated. 1339290. FP New Rockville Stock. Museum of Cartoon Art unknown books
189548150Portland: Leighton and Frey Souvenir View 1895. Hardcover. Very good. 9 by 5.75 inches 9 by 48 inches unfolded. Publisher's cloth back boards lettered in gilt. Lettering dulled with some minor spots of loss to the spine else a very good example with images in fine condition. <br/><br/>Containing nine 9 by 5 black and cards most with multiple images each labeled: "General View; Fine Arts Building; Agricultural Building Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building Machinery Hall; Transportation Building AuditoriumGovernment Building; Fire Building Women's Building Georgia State Building and Negro Building; Administration Building and Main Entrance Minerals and Forestry Building; Peachtree Street Henry W. Grady Monument Post Office & Custom House; Aragon Hotel Grand Opera House Marietta Street Kimball House; Ballard House W.H. Inman's Residence Equitable Building Residence of Major Mimms Grady Hospital. Leighton and Frey Souvenir View hardcover books
1893303812New York Home Insurance Company 1893. 1893. First edition. 8vo. Frontispiece and over 50 b/w illustrations. Original stiff color pictorial wrappers. Very good. 32 pages. Notable for the description and illustrations of the Columbian Exposition as well as for the information on Columbus American history etc. plus facsimile signatures of Columbus and all the Presidents of the United States among others. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. New York, Home Insurance Company, 1893. paperback books
1894LIST109Various Places 1894. Sammelband of thirteen reports each with original front wrapper or wrappers bound-in; in half-calf with gilt titles on spine. Very Good. Includes: <br /> <br /> Guillouard Louis. Rapport sur les travaux du comité départemental du Calvados. Caen: Ch. Valin 1893. 19 pp. printed gray wrapper; <br /> <br /> Drouet Paul. Souvenir du neuvième Congrès international des américanistes tenu en 1892 à Huelva Espagne et de l'exposition rétrospective de Madrid. Caen: Delesques 1893. 56 pp. printed pink wrapper; <br /> <br /> Bazenerye Armand. Quatrième centenaire de la découverte de l'Amérique. Comités du Cher et de l'Indre chargés d'assurer la participation. Bourges; M.H. Sire 1894. 38 pp. with illus. b/w frontispiece in printed green wrapper; <br /> <br /> Kerros Ernest de. Quatrième centenaire de la découverte de l'Amérique. Comité du Finistère. Brest: A. Dumont 1894. 35 pp. in printed gray wrapper; <br /> <br /> Sarran d'Allard Louis de. Le Quatrième centenaire de la découverte de l'Amérique dans les Cévennes. Anduze: Castagnier 1893. 35 pp. in printed wrapper; <br /> <br /> Couret Alphonse. Rapport d'ensemble sur les travaux du comité orléanais pour la célébration du quatrième centenaire de la découverte de l'Amérique. Orléans: G. Michau 1893. 15 pp. printed wrapper; <br /> <br /> Couret Alphonse. L'Exposition Hispano-Orleanaise de la rue Jeanne-d'Arc. Orleans: Michau 1892. 15 pp. printed wrapper; <br /> <br /> Couret Alfonse. Les Relations d'Orléans avec l'Espagne et les Espagnols au siège d'Orléans en 1428-1429. Orleans: Michau 1892. 13 pp. printed wrapper; <br /> <br /> Plante Adrien. Le Congrès de Huelva. Orthez: J. Goude-Dumesnil 1893. 44 pp. printed wrapper;<br /> <br /> Hospital Pierre. Quatrième centenaire de la découverte de l'Amérique . Rapport à M. le marquis de Croizier . sur les travaux du Comité en 1892-93. Clermont-Ferrand: G. Mont-Louis 1894. 16 pp. printed wrapper; <br /> <br /> Barghon de Fort-Rion François de. Le Portugal au quatrième centenaire de la découverte de l'Amérique et à l'Exposition de Madrid 1892. Paris: Chez les principaux libraires 1895. 38 pp. printed wrapper; <br /> <br /> Laville Auguste. Quatrième centenaire de la découverte de l'Amérique . Comite du Var . Toulon: Isnard 1894. 26 pp. with two albumen prints of decorative medallions tipped in printed wrappers; <br /> <br /> Terris Jules de. Quatrième centenaire de la découverte de l'Amérique. Comite de Vaucluse. Bar-le-Duc: Bertrand 1894. 16 pp. printed wrappers. <br /> <br /> An interesting collection of imprints showing the French involvement in the Columbian Exposition. All reports related to the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus given by various governmental or academic committees documenting French participation in the exposition celebrating the same in Madrid and Huelva the Spanish port from which Columbus departed. Some with manuscript signatures or dedications from the author to the Marquis de Croizier. Volume presumably from Croizier's library. One see above Laville with photographic prints tipped in.<br /> <br /> Generally very good with boards rubbed corners bent one pamphlet tearing at fore-edge. OCLC finds no or fewer than five North American holdings for most reports one unrecorded. unknown books
1892232951New York: Brentano 1892. First. hardcover. good. 12 photogravure plates. 4pp. of text. Oblong folio 1/2 blue cloth boards soiled edges of boards worn front flyleaf with several tears light foxing to plates. New York: Brentano's 1892. First Edition<br/><br/> Brentano unknown books
602914-panel cabinet-size 5 1/2" x 9" folding view book of World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago; buildings scenery: Woman's Building Gun Boat U.S. Government Building Mining TransportationFish and Fisheries Decorative Arts other buildings ilustrated; no publisher no date listed but possibly Wittemann looks like the Glaser process; some edge tips wear to red cloth gilt & black titled & decorated covers; bit of a bend to boards soiling; good condition. Hard Cover. Good. Hardcover books
1873177886Cincinnati: Cincinati Industrial Exposition 1873. Softcover. Good. front cover has tanning & dampstaining w/ elegant pen inscription; back cover scuffed. text-block detached from covers. title & closing pgs have old dampstaining shadows & foxing. interior clean. tan wrappers w/ red & black printing & black emblem. 110 pgs. Seven punched & string bound sections that are still firmly held. The majority of the pages have greyed with a few still bright & tan. Pages have occasional smudges and foxing but overall very clean. A nice collectible of Mid-Western American History. Cincinati Industrial Exposition unknown books
197122Chicago n.p. 1893. First edition. 8vo. Folding sheet folded to form 14 pages. Over 30 duotone and b/w engraved illustrations. Original red cloth pictorial upper cover stamped gilt and black slight rubbing to spine and corners. Very good. Includes a double-page bird's eye view; Gun Boat; views of variour buildings. F. Hardcover. [Chicago, n.p., 1893]. hardcover books
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 books
1876101959Small 3 1/2" x 5" oblong souvenir book embossed red cloth with gilt letters 24 accordion style panels with illustrations two double page. Some slight extremity wear internally bright and clean; very good plus. Somewhat scarce souvenir booklet with numerous illustrations of Philadelphia during the Centennial Exhibition. Illustrations include a panoramic view of Philadelphia Independence Hall the New Post Office Masonic Temple the United States Mint Girard College and the exhibition grounds for the Centennial Celebration. Geo. C. Renkauff, books
187653720Philadelphia: John R. Nagle 1876. Revised edition. Octavo 20cm. Publisher's decorated red cloth-covered boards titled in gilt on spine; 34611470102pp; illus; ads. A very nice copy straight and tight in the original binding just a trifle rubbed at extremities - Very Good. Stenciled ownership mark of an "Edward S. Whelen" to front free endpaper and title page. <br/><br/>Comprises the complete list of exhibits and exhibitors at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition arranged by subject: I. The Main Building; II: Department of Art; III: Department of Machinery; IV: Departments of Agriculture and Horticulture; the four sections together in one volume each with their own title page. An unusually well-preserved copy. John R. Nagle unknown books
18771549544th Cong. 2d Sess. Ho. of Reps. Report No. 144 1877. 25pp. disbound. Very Good. unknown books
2732CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION OF ``COMPENDIUM SPIRITUALIS DOCTRINAE.'' Tokyo: Maruzen Co. Ltd. 1952. 8vo. Wrappers. 7 12 1 pages. First edition. An early catalogue by the firm that recently purchased the Gutenberg Bible at the Doheny sale. In English and Japanese. In library pamphlet binder. unknown books
1953309101953. Catalogue of an Exhibition. EXHIBITION OF JAPANESE PAINTING AND SCULPTURE. Sponsored by The Government of Japan. 1953. 4to 24pp. text 27-207pp. of the catalogue illustrated predominantly in b&w. Fine in orange wrappers. unknown books
190559157Cambridge MA: Houghton 1905. Large 8vo pp. xii 350. Maroon cloth stamped in gilt. TEG. Illustrated. Cover worn along hinge spine and part of cover faded o/w VG. (Houghton) unknown books
KC16056Ephemera. Good. 1 Die Deutsche Theater-Ausstellung Magdeburg 1927. Eine Schilderung ihrer Entstehung und ihres Verlaufes. Mitteldeutschen Ausstellungsgesellschaft M.B.H. Magdeburg 1928 8.25 x 11.75 German text folded once with heavy tape repair some covering two lines of the text block with toning and several light folds throughout. Text related to the history of the Magdeburg theatre and more including five black and white photographs: The Theatre of Dionysus an experimental building at the Bauhaus in Dessau a set design for August Strindbergs The Great Highway designed by Ludwig Sievert and more. Printed by: A. Wohlfeld Magdeburg. 2. Allemagne Exposition du Theatre Allemand Magdebourg MaySept. 1927 4 x 8.5 French text eight pages folded brochure lacking the staples with splits and wear and a light fold throughout. Illustrated in black and red including seven black and white illustrations explaining the history of the Magdebourg theatre. Theatre Exhibition logo designed by Karl Schulpig a pioneer of early corporate design frequently cited as one of the fathers of the modern logo design. <br/><br/> unknown books
