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BUSH, George with GOLD, VictorBiblio.com

LOOKING FORWARD

California Gold RushABAA

GOLD SCALE In ORIGINAL MANUFACTURER'S WOODEN CASE Circa 1850. E. Fabreguettes Fils & Morra. William Street 73. New York

42777New York: E. Fabreguettes Fils & Morra n. d. Circa 1850. Wooden case with a hinged lid and hook clasps seller's label to inside of lid. Interior has carved compartments for the brass scale and weights including a small compartment for grain weights with a hinged lid. Light general wear to case and weights brass balances a bit tarnished. Only contains the three grain weights so perhaps others missing VG overall. Suspension gold scale made of brass with troy and grain weights. Troy weights nested ranging from 1/16 to 4 oz; grain weights include 2 6 and 10. Case: 1-11/16" x 6-11/16" x 3-1/8". Scale when hanging: ~8-1/4" x 7-1/8" brass balances 2-1/2" in diameter. In 1850 the New York firm of E. Fabreguettes Fils & Morra importers of French fancy goods attempted to capitalize on the California Gold Rush by adding gold scales to their wares. Notices in several of the city's papers in late October and early November of that year including the Monday November 4th edition of The Evening Post advertised the following: "GOLD SCALES. The subscribers offer for sale the best and most approved pattern of French Standard Gold Scales adjusted exactly to the United States Mint Standard of every size and weight. These scales are so made that they take but very little compass when packed and are much more neatly and conveniently finished than either the English German or American article. As we have all that are made of this pattern parties having orders for shipment to California are solicited to examine them before purchasing elsewhere. Also for sale a variety of French fancy goods accordeons sic &c. E. Fabreguettes Fils & Morra 73 William Street up stairs." E. Fabreguettes Fils & Morra was located at 61 Maiden Lane until at least 1847 moving to their William Street address in 1848 or 1849. No later advertisements for these scales appear to have been issued in New York newspapers leading us to conjecture that the firm's venture into the gold mining market was perhaps not particularly successful. It is of course impossible to say with any certainty if this particular scale was originally used during the Gold Rush though this one here offered was purchased in California giving rise to possibility it may very well have been. In either case a nice artifact from the California Gold Rush era. E. Fabreguettes Fils & Morra unknown books

Tavistock Books, ABAA · États-Unis750,00 $US≈ 634,57 €

Debra or Delia SeavensBiblio.com

1910 - A missionary letter from Peking on impressive illustrated stationery that was sent home to family in New Jersey inside a vibrant 'red-band envelope' that normally was only used for auspicious domestic Chinese mail

1910010179Peking Beijing China 1910. Envelope or Cover. Very good. This three-page letter is written on illustrated Chinese stationery each leaf has a different illustration measuring 5" x 9". It was sent on 29 May 1910 by a young woman in Peking Debra or Delia Seavens to her Uncle Wilson Smith in Montclair New Jersey. It is enclosed in a "red-band" envelope that is franked with a 10-cent dragon stamp Scott #129 and bears two Peking postmarks. A Peking transit mark is on the reverse along with an indistinct U.S. receiving mark. The letter was routed "Via Siberia" as indicated on the front of the envelope. A typed onion-skin enclosure is included. In nice shape. Transcript will be included. Ms. Seavens was serving within Peking as she references travelling out of the city with a female associate. Although the letter doesn't indicate the mission's name it was likely associated with the Anglican Society to Propagate the Gospel as at the time it had the most prominent presence in the city. Red-band envelopes which were prized by the Chinese for their attractiveness and as a symbol of good luck were usually reserved for sending auspicious personal or commercial messages. They were seldom used by foreigners. As explained by Ms. Seavens "Please do not be shocked by the envelope. It is truly Chinese. The proper form of address would be on the red line 'Uncle Wilson Great Man' and at one side 'Please give to Mr. Smith' with the address." She also thanks him and her aunt for a thermos bottle which she used while visiting Chinese families to provide them with untainted cold water and hot milk. As well she enclosed a most interesting note from her Board Secretary regarding a visit from a Chinese woman . It reads in part: "The caller was a serving woman from one of the more well-to-do- families in the village. She came on an errand when Miss Andrews and Miss Browne were both out. Following her errand she said coyly 'Would you have time to take me up stairs' It was quite evident that she was not used to stairs for she mounts it with great caution feeling of the carpet at every step. Stair carpets are interesting . . . but they can't compete with beds to one who has never dreamed of anything . . . but a k'ang. 'Oh how white and how soft' she said 'how many of you sleep here' This question was answered several times till she really took it in that we had a bed apiece. . . She was dumb founded and crawled half way under the bed to see what could be making it behave so strangely as to regain its shape when vacated. She perched gingerly on the side of a rocking chair so that I expected to see her tip over any minute. . . She picked up a book and proudly showed me that she could read a few characters and fairly swelled with pride . . . as she recited a little hymn running her fingers along the lines pretending that she was reading it. . . Then we sang. . . I hit the tune once in a while and she never by any chance did. . ." An original source historic philatelic and visual treasure. . unknown

Kurt A. Sanftleben · États-Unis750,00 $US≈ 634,57 €

Gillett , Frank (1874 - 1927); aka Edward Frank Gillett ; PT Yourig or Yourg P TBiblio.com

The Queen's Victoria last Homecoming: the Funeral Procession entering the Castle grounds at Windsor. Original ink drawing. Signed.

16-6204Windsor: Feb. 7 1901. Ink on board. Signed annotated and dated. 20 x 28.2cm.Intended as an illustration for The Daily Graphic. Caption for the illustration as published is attached.Edward Frank Gillett was born at Worlingham Suffolk on 23 July 1874 and baptised on 19 August 1874 son of Revd Jesse Gillett 1833-3 December 1893 curate of Worlingham and his wife Eliza Marten née Duplock 1842-19 September 1908 who married at Crewe Cheshire on 8 June 1864. In September 1875 his father Jesse was licensed to the vicarage or perpetual curacy of Aldeby near Loddon Norfolk and in 1881 young Edward was a 6-year-old living at The Vicarage Beccles Road Aldeby with his parents 47-year-old Jesse and 38-year-old Eliza and his three siblings Charles William 5 who was born at Worlingham with Emily Harriett 3 and newly born Maud Elizabeth who were both born at Aldeby. After schooling at Gresham School Holt Norfolk Frank became a clerk at Lloyd’s moving to London and together with his older brother Frederick who was also a Lloyd’s clerk both lodging with Frederick Daniels a law writer at 56 Thornton Street Stockwell London. In 1891 an 18-year-old ‘clerk at Lloyds’ lodging at 56 Thornton Street a position he retained until 1896 when he became a full-time illustrator on the staff of the 'Daily Graphic' 1898-1908 moving to 'The Black & White' 1908-1911 and 'The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News' 1910-1923. A painter black and white artist and illustrator elected to the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours in 1909 and in the same year he became a founder member of the Pencil Society and was also a member of London's Langham Sketching Club. He specialised in foxhunting and hare-coursing scenes including his painting 'Beccles–Coursing' exhibited at Wingfield Sporting Gallery London also exhibiting at Fine Art Society; Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts; Walker Art Gallery; the Royal Academy and Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours from St Alban’s Hertfordshire in 1909 London in 1911 and Beccles Suffolk 1918. He illustrated 'St George for England' by G.A. Henty and many other Henty books. In 1901 an artist painter living at 23 Gayton Road Hampstead with his widowed mother and six siblings. He married firstly at St Augustine’s Church Highbury London on 22 April 1903 Elsie Joanna Bastard 1870-4 January 1912 and secondly at Aldeby Norfolk in 1914 Margaret Helen Mickelburgh 12 February 1891-1974 and they had one son David born in 1915. After spending some time in London he returned to Aldeby in 1916. Edward Frank Gillett was of Red Tiles Northgate Street Beccles when he died at the London Hospital on 1 May 1927 aged 52 and after his death his widow remarried in 1948 William Morris. Sometimes known as Frank Edward Gillett. Windsor: Feb. 7, 1901 unknown

Alan Wofsy Fine Arts · États-Unis750,00 $US≈ 634,57 €

Gold, MBiblio.com

RUSSIAN TRANSLATION OF A PROTOTYPE FOR THE AMERICAN PROLETARIAN NOVEL Yevreyskaya bednota i.e. Jews without Money

2660Moscow: Gos. izd-vo khud. lit-ry 1931. 214 1 p. 175 × 11 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Good condition. Spine is chipped and two small fragments are missing from the edges. Minor soiling of the covers. Scarce. 1 of 5000 copies. First edition. Second edition followed the next year. Original English version published in 1930. Translated from English by the Soviet translator Mark Volosov 1895-. The book design by Leonid Zusman 1906—1984. At different times Zusman attended private art studios of F. Rerberg and A. Miganadzhian in Moscow the workshop of I. Mashkov etc. In 1924—1926 he studied at the Higher Art and Technical Institute in Leningrad under K. Petrov-Vodkin and in 1927—1929 at the Higher Art and Technical Institute in Moscow under D. Shterenberg. Zusman’s work was closely connected to the illustration of children’s books design of various newspapers and magazines. Some of his most famous works in book design include: Thousand and One Nights 1958—1960Oleshi’s Zavist’ i.e. Envy 1979 etc. The Russian translation of a semi-autobiographical novel by the Jewish American writer and lifelong Communist Mike Gold 1894- 1967. The only novel written by the author Yevreyskaya bednota i.e. Jews without Money became a manifestation of the American proletarian spirit of the 1930s. The novel is set in a slum populated mainly by Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. The father of the hero is a painter who suffers from lead poisoning. When he falls from a scaffold he is disabled and can no longer work. His business fails and the family is pushed into poverty. Although he is a bright boy young Michael decides he must leave school. On the final page of the book the poor Jewish boy prays for the arrival of a Marxist worker’s revolution that will emancipate the working class. Born in New York to Romanian Jewish immigrant parents American writer Mike Gold was an ardent supporter of the Bolshevik Revolution. In 1921—1922 Gold became Executive Editor of the magazine The Liberator on the pages of which the journalist wrote: The Russian Bolsheviks will leave the world a better place than Jesus left it. They will leave it on the threshold of the final victory - the poor will have bread and peace and culture in another generation not churches and a swarm of lying parasite minister dogs the legacy of Jesus. Three years later Mike visited Moscow where his fascination with Communism reached its peak. Throughout the 1920s Gold worked on his only novel Jews Without Money. Published in 1930 it was an immediate success and was translated into over 14 languages. The popularity of Jews Without Money made Gold a national figure and cultural commissar of the Communist Party. The Russian society got acquainted with the writings of Mike Gold in the mid-1920s. In the period from 1925 to 1931 Mark Volosov who was the classic translator of the American writer issued 3 Russian translations of Mike’s works: Proklyatyy agitator i.e. The Damned Agitator 1925 120 millionov i.e. 120 Million 1930 and this title 1931; 1932. With the gradual introduction of the anti- semitic campaign in the Soviet Union works by Mike Gold and other Jewish authors vanished from the print. At the age of 19 Volosov was drafted into WWI and taken prisoner by the Nazis. After escaping from captivity Volosov fled to Norway and then to the United States returning to the USSR only in 1923. Knowledge of English allowed him to start translating fiction. With his help Soviet readers got acquainted with such authors as Theodore Dreiser Michael Gold Grace Lampkin etc. Volosov was reported missing during WWII. Worldcat shows only one copy in NYPL. unknown

Bookvica · Géorgie750,00 $US≈ 634,57 €

Gold, MBiblio.com

RUSSIAN TRANSLATION OF A PROTOTYPE FOR THE AMERICAN PROLETARIAN NOVEL Yevreyskaya bednota i.e. Jews without Money

2685Moscow: Gos. izd-vo khud. lit-ry 1931. 214 1 p. 175 × 11 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Good condition. Spine is chipped and two small fragments are missing from the edges. Minor soiling of the covers. Scarce. 1 of 5000 copies. First edition. Second edition followed the next year. Original English version published in 1930. Translated from English by the Soviet translator Mark Volosov 1895-. The book design by Leonid Zusman 1906—1984. At different times Zusman attended private art studios of F. Rerberg and A. Miganadzhian in Moscow the workshop of I. Mashkov etc. In 1924—1926 he studied at the Higher Art and Technical Institute in Leningrad under K. Petrov-Vodkin and in 1927—1929 at the Higher Art and Technical Institute in Moscow under D. Shterenberg. Zusman’s work was closely connected to the illustration of children’s books design of various newspapers and magazines. Some of his most famous works in book design include: Thousand and One Nights 1958—1960Oleshi’s Zavist’ i.e. Envy 1979 etc. The Russian translation of a semi-autobiographical novel by the Jewish American writer and lifelong Communist Mike Gold 1894- 1967. The only novel written by the author Yevreyskaya bednota i.e. Jews without Money became a manifestation of the American proletarian spirit of the 1930s. The novel is set in a slum populated mainly by Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. The father of the hero is a painter who suffers from lead poisoning. When he falls from a scaffold he is disabled and can no longer work. His business fails and the family is pushed into poverty. Although he is a bright boy young Michael decides he must leave school. On the final page of the book the poor Jewish boy prays for the arrival of a Marxist worker’s revolution that will emancipate the working class. Born in New York to Romanian Jewish immigrant parents American writer Mike Gold was an ardent supporter of the Bolshevik Revolution. In 1921—1922 Gold became Executive Editor of the magazine The Liberator on the pages of which the journalist wrote: The Russian Bolsheviks will leave the world a better place than Jesus left it. They will leave it on the threshold of the final victory - the poor will have bread and peace and culture in another generation not churches and a swarm of lying parasite minister dogs the legacy of Jesus. Three years later Mike visited Moscow where his fascination with Communism reached its peak. Throughout the 1920s Gold worked on his only novel Jews Without Money. Published in 1930 it was an immediate success and was translated into over 14 languages. The popularity of Jews Without Money made Gold a national figure and cultural commissar of the Communist Party. The Russian society got acquainted with the writings of Mike Gold in the mid-1920s. In the period from 1925 to 1931 Mark Volosov who was the classic translator of the American writer issued 3 Russian translations of Mike’s works: Proklyatyy agitator i.e. The Damned Agitator 1925 120 millionov i.e. 120 Million 1930 and this title 1931; 1932. With the gradual introduction of the anti- semitic campaign in the Soviet Union works by Mike Gold and other Jewish authors vanished from the print. At the age of 19 Volosov was drafted into WWI and taken prisoner by the Nazis. After escaping from captivity Volosov fled to Norway and then to the United States returning to the USSR only in 1923. Knowledge of English allowed him to start translating fiction. With his help Soviet readers got acquainted with such authors as Theodore Dreiser Michael Gold Grace Lampkin etc. Volosov was reported missing during WWII. Worldcat shows only one copy in NYPL. unknown

Bookvica · Géorgie750,00 $US≈ 634,57 €

LANGLE or LANGLOIS Joseph Adolphe Ferdinand 1798 1867 ed. BONINGTON Richard Parkes 1802 1828ABAA

Les Contes du Gay-Sçavoir. Ballades Fabliaux et Traditions du Moyen Age

1828D2439Paris: Firmin Didot pour Lami Denozan 1828. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 210 x 132mm. viii cxlvi 48pp. notes and glossary. Illustrated with hand-colored engraved title with marginal vignettes of female personifications and muses by Richard Parkes Bonington. Illustrated throughout with 10 half-page lithographs printed on chine-collé carefully hand-colored heightened in gilt and mounted; six are by Richard Parkes Bonington and four are by Henry Monnier and 15 decorative initials highlighted with colors inspired by ornaments found on the Books of Hours printed in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. 19th-century full red morocco decoratively tooled in gilt five raised bands gilt doublures marbled endpapers all edges gilt; lightly foxed throughout miniatures remain bright and fresh; spine slightly scuffed. Armorial bookplate of J. Austin Stevens Junior to front pastedown. First Edition of this rare and unusual book OCLC locates only four copies all in German libraries. Férdinand Langlé littérateur dramatist and occasional necromancer focused his literary interests on the nostalgic and the romantic. In 1828 he edited Les Contes du Gay-Sçavoir a witty collection of medieval ballads and fables. The text is printed in Gothic characters and illustrated to imitate the style of medieval manuscript illumination; it is followed by endnotes and a glossary printed in Roman type. The major illustrator of the work Richard Parkes Bonington was an English Romantic landscape painter who also worked in lithography. He was a close and admired friend of painters Eugene Delacroix and Antoine-Jean Gros. Gordon Ray speaking of Bonington says his importance in the development of lithography can hardly be overstated.His designs for Vues pittoresques de lEcosse and Contes des Gay-Sçavoir are by no means negligible. Boningtons career as a lithographer was short but splendid. - Art of the French illus. book pp. 173 & 176. Fine fresh and bright rare colored copy of this nostalgic work on the medieval period. Brunet III 819; Carteret III p. 172 livre tres rare; Curtis 54-60; Ray 114 Firmin Didot pour Lami Denozan hardcover books

Sanctuary Books · États-Unis750,00 $US≈ 634,57 €

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