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182516960New Haven CT: Yale College 1825. 1/4 leather. Very Good . The 1825 Yale College Yearbook then called "Class-book". This copy belonged to a student named Oliver Ellsworth Huntington who had this copy bound in a decorative red leather over marbled boards with his name in gilt block letters printed across the front panel. This is by far the earliest yearbook this bookseller has seen some 14 years before the advent of photography. Apparently each Yale student was given a blank book at the beginning of the school year and was expected to have his classmates fill the book in during the course of the year with handwritten tributes to the particular graduating senior. Apart from the yearbook's obvious scarcity in its own right what's also so notable is some of the classmates of Huntington who wrote tributes many of them quoted poems but many also long heartfelt digressions. Among Huntington's classmates were Samuel Augustus Maverick the legendary Texas lawyer and land baron who was an original signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. With his fiercely independent streak Maverick was also responsible for inspiring the creation of the word "Maverick". In addition to Maverick other classmates included 1 Rev. George William Perkins Abolitionist active in the Underground Railroad; 2 Elias Warner Leavenworth Mayor of Syracuse and Congressman from NY 1875-1877; 3 William Moseley Holland Co-Valedictorian; 4 Willis Hall Co-Valedictorian and NY State Attorney General 1839-1842; 5 Rev. Richard Falley Cleveland Father of President Grover Cleveland; 6 Rev. William Twining established a young ladies' seminary in Madison Indiana which became Wabash College and was a noted Abolitionist; 7 Worthington Hooker Professor of Medicine at Yale VP of the American Medical Association 1864; 8 William Bennett Fleming Georgia Congressman 1879; 9 John Simkus Butler Author of pioneering works on the study and "curability" of insanity; 10 Seabury Ford Governor of Ohio 1849-1850; 11 William Gelston Bates Massachusetts House of Representatives 1868; 12 Simeon North President of Hamilton College 1839-1857. Given its age the book has held up very nicely and remains solid firm and VG to VG with light forgivable rubbing along the panels and a bit of wear at the spine and its crown. Huntington's son has written in ink on the front free endpaper: "The Yale College Class-book of my Father Oliver Ellsworth Huntington". The book measures 7 1/2" tall x 5" wide and includes the lengthy inscriptions of 80 some classmates between the Class of 1825 AND the Class of 1824. A wonderful piece of Americana -- and of course of Yale history. <br/><br/> Yale College hardcover books
194815956JLos Angeles: Argosy Pictures 1948. Screenwriter Frank Nugent’s personal copy of his screenplay. Original 116 page mimeographed shooting script that was for the classic John Ford directed western starring John Wayne Pedro Armendariz and Harry Carey Jr. Hardbound in full gilt-stamped blue leather with Nugent’s name stamped on the front board in the lower left hand corner. With marbled endpapers. Nugent has hand-corrected a couple of typographical errors and at one point has written in dialogue that was was missing. The Three Godfathers was the first western directed by John Ford filmed in color. Frank Nugent was a New York journalist who reviewed over 1000 films for The New York Times. Director John Ford turned Nugent into one of Hollywood’s most respected screenwriters. He wrote 11 screenplays for John Ford directed films including The Searchers The Quiet Man Fort Apache She Wore a Yellow Ribbon Wagon Master Mister Roberts The Last Hurrah The Rising of the Moon Two Rode Together Donovan’s Reef. Nugent was respected by other directors as well and he wrote The Tall Men for director Raoul Walsh Angel Face for Otto Preminger Paratrooper for Terence Young and others. Nugent was elected President of the Writers Guild of America West WGAW from 1957 to 1958 and he served as the guild’s representative on the Motion Picture Industry Council from 1954 to 1959. Argosy Pictures hardcover books
1766177778London: Printed for Paul Vaillant in the Strand 1766. Leather bound. VG soiling but otherwise bright and very clean inside a superb copy. Full red leather with extensive gilt tooled border on both covers all edges gilt marbled endpapers. 5 raised bands with extensive and detailed gilt tooling in the compartments. 8 302 pages 9 unnumbered leaves of plates Tables 1-5 Plates I II III IV. The last four leaves of plates are numbered I-IV. A superb copy of a book rarely encountered either in the trade or at auction. Printed for Paul Vaillant, in the Strand unknown books
D17840Nuremberg: Peter Wagner. Hardcover. Good. 28 January 1495. 118 leaves including final blank. Gothic type. Rubricated. 4to 218x153 mm contemporary calf over wooden boards with brass catch lacking catch and cover bosses superficial scratches or incisions on covers spine worn with vertical cracks and chipped ends but binding sound later paper lettering pieces; marginal soiling conspicuous dampstain in outer margin of c5-6 with slight trace of mold and paper corrosion along fore edge scattered mostly light dampstains elsewhere early marginalia old catalogue cutting taped inside front cover; vellum fore-edge tabs. 17th-century ownership inscription of the Franciscan monastery of St. Bernardinus in Amberg Bavaria on leaf after title their stamp on top edges. <br/><br/> Peter Wagner hardcover books
7413Scroll 365 x 5560 mm. with gold endpaper at beginning on a wooden roller. Japan: at end in trans.: "this secret information was given by Shichibei Itsuki to Shingobei Saijo in 1769."<br /> The spear yari was one of the primary weapons used in the feudal period of Japan. Many variations of the head of the spear were developed some for thrusting by foot soldiers and some for slashing designed for men on horseback.<br /> This finely illustrated scroll describes the teachings of the Oshima ryu school of fighting with a spear sojutsu. The Oshima ryu traces its origins to the 16th century and the first prominent teacher was Yoshitsuna Oshima 1588-1657. He taught the fiefdom lord of Kii Wakayama Yorinobu Tokugawa 1602-71 the tenth son of Ieyasu Tokugawa. The school continued for several centuries with branches throughout Japan.<br /> The scroll is beautifully heightened with gold and silver motifs of mist throughout. It begins with a history of the school and its essential tenets and disciplines necessary to fight skillfully with a spear. The following text describes the varieties of spearheads used by the school naginata jumonji two kinds of kagi techniques of handling the spears using wonderfully poetic phrases physical positioning of the body for the most efficient use of the spear the nuances of movement in combat and additional remarks.<br /> The motto of the school given next is in rough translation "Reach high for the school's knowledge with a clear and sharp mind and focus on understanding your opponent."<br /> Following this are a series of illustrations beginning with icons of the school and five illustrations of different spears and spearheads. For each spear measurements are given. Each spearhead is painted with gold pigment.<br /> At the end there is written a certificate granting permission to transmit this secret information and then a most valuable family tree of the primary teachers of the Oshima school beginning with Yoshitsuna Oshima. Finally there is the seal of Shichibei Itsuki the provider of this secret information.<br /> In fine condition. unknown books
201415363ca. 2014. Mixed media assemblage. Spray paint on fiberglass in welded steel frame. Approximately 12.5” x 18.5”. Boastful but accurate state- ment done in flat black spray paint on the verso of a fiberglass "No Trespassing" sign above liberated by the artist from an abandoned building no doubt during his illicit activities. <br/><br/>Reminiscent of certain Jim Crow era signs a subtle and astute work. unknown books
51630London: Printed by the Grolier Society. Édition Magnifique. One of 26 Letter "R" . " This copy has been printed and specially bound for M.E. McC. Darlington." Printed on Japan Vellum by the Edinburgh Press. All Plates in three states one hand-colored. 15 vols. 8vo. Bound in full red morocco with the gilt stamped initials of M.E. McC. Darlington in the center of the upper covers elaborate red morocco dentelles with white interior doublures with Grolier coat of arms t.e.g. by the Grolier Bindery stamped on lower front pastedown. Édition Magnifique. One of 26 Letter "R" . " This copy has been printed and specially bound for M.E. McC. Darlington." Printed on Japan Vellum by the Edinburgh Press. All Plates in three states one hand-colored. 15 vols. 8vo. PLATES IN THREE STATES ONE OF 26 COPIES. Printed by the Grolier Society unknown books
177963924Boston: Printed by Thomas & John Fleet 1779. Broadside. 25 x 19 cm. Signed in type by John Pickering Speaker and read and concurred a true copy by John Avery Dep. Sec'ry. Old fold lines some tears to edges with loss at upper corners as though from being posted one closed tear along a fold line slightly affecting two words some overall toning to paper. Thomas and John Fleet inherited the printing business from their father Thomas Fleet who died in 1758. Thomas Fleet Sr. was known to employ enslaved men as printers working "at print and case" in his shop according to Isaiah Thomas in his "The History of Printing in America" Worcester: 1810 vol. 1 pp.294-301 & 352-3. Two of the men Pompey and Cesar were young when Fleet died "but they remained in the family and continued to labor regularly in the printing house with the sons of mr. Fleet. until the constitution of Massachusetts adopted in 1780 made them freemen." ESTC: Huntington MHS. We add LC. EVANS 16361 which calls for 2pp. evidently in error. FORD. Broadsides 2184. CUSHING. Mass. Laws 1060. <br/><br/> Printed by Thomas & John Fleet] unknown books
59180Virtually all of the material dates from the 1860s to the 1920s with a sampling preceding and following that period. The collection includes:<br/> I. Works by Adelaide Fries <br/>1. Three typed or autographed letters signed to 1 her grandfather 2 the "Board of Trustees of Salem Congregation" and 3 John Fries the latter two concerning historical matters. <br/>2. Three typed letters signed to "Libby" concerning a project they were working on in 1945; one of the letters is accompanied by a carbon copy 11-pp typescript with manuscript corrections by Fries of the opening chapter of a book that Fries hoped "Libby" would illustrate. <br/>3. "An Ocean Voyage" an undated 2-page typed poem by Fries signed by her. <br/>4. Approximately 200 pages of typescript with some manuscript corrections comprising carbon copies of various biographical and historical sketches of Moravian and/or North Carolina figures and issues. <br/>5. "The Salem Pottery" a 5-page autograph manuscript signed and dated 5 January 1914. <br/>6. "Moravian Customs" a 45 page typescript with many manuscript corrections and additions of "four lectures delivered before the Woman's Auxiliary of the Home Moravian Church October 1933 to February 1934." Self-wrappers with significant wear tied. <br/>7. Small group of records about 25 items pertaining to personal finances; a few receipts for books purchased from The Moravian Publication Office in London are included. <br/>8. Personal scrapbook containing mementoes from an 1894 trip to Roaring Gap N.C. including a long poem commemorating the trip by the Fries sisters Blair and other friends; accompanied by newspaper clippings four pencil drawings by Mary Fries and two photographs one of the Roaring Gap Hotel the other of the participants. Several pieces of ephemera from an 1899 trip to Europe are laid in. <br/>9. Personal scrapbook documenting Fries's 1913-1914 service as president of the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs including newspaper clippings programs and other printed ephemera photographs ribbons postcards and a few manuscript items. <br/>10. "History as Told in Salem's Memorabilia" translated from the original German by Fries: a scrapbook containing 1916 Winston-Salem Journal clippings of Fries's regular column dealing with 18th century Moravian history. <br/>11. Personal scrapbook containing clippings of Fries's column "Chips from Historic Timber" from The Wachovia Moravian 1896-1903 with many manuscript annotations and corrections.<br/>II. Correspondence to Fries: More than 40 autograph and typed letters and postcards to Fries from Stephen Weeks 6 items other North Carolina historians 6 Moravian officials and historians 11 and other professional associates 23.<br/>III. Photographs: 60 photographs of family and friends all but a few unidentified but many with Winston-Salem backmarks and views of local scenes.<br/>IV. Genealogy: About 50 pages 4to and folio of typed and manuscript genealogical notes most relating to the von Schweinitz and Adam Spach families.<br/>V. Moravian manuscript: von Schweinitz Bishop E.A. Short Account of Celebration of Oct 26/1866. 4-page autograph manuscript an autobiographical account of the Bishop's Jubilee or 50-years service for the Moravian Church. 4to. The Bishop was Adelaide Fries's grandfather.<br/>VI. Ephemera: More than 200 peices of ephemera including printed programs handbills pamphlets sheet music embroidered bookmarks and other small hand crafts and manuscript notebooks account books receipts music etc. All of this material relates either to the Fries or Blair families Winston-Salem or the Moravian Church.<br/>VII. Blair family: Collection of material produced by Adelaide Fries's sister Mary her husband William A Blair and their family including correspondence approximately 75 letters and postcards; 3 scrapbooks containing more correspondence and other manuscript material newspaper clippings and various pieces of printed ephemera; several typescripts; and a number of other miscellaneous items. For the archive of approximately 500 items:. <br/><br/> unknown books
178507931South Carolina 1785. Partly printed document signed "Thos. Hayward Junr." One page 13" x 8" dated July 5 1785 being a summons for Thomas Serven and James Fogartie executors of the last will and testament of John Garden.to be and appear before the Justices.Docketed on verso by the Sheriff that the order had been carried out. Very good small hole in one letter of the signature. Thomas Hayward 1746-1809 was planter jurist revolutionary soldier and Signer of the Declaration of Independence from South Carolina. An officer in the Revolutionary War he was captured by the British in 1780. His slaves were then sold to sugar planters in Jamaica. <br/><br/> unknown books
144688hardcover. Began the 9th Day of April 1691; and Ended the 27th of September 1743. Vol. I. Published by Order of the General Assembly. title vignette. iv 840 2pp. folio contemporay calf; expertly rebacked in modern calf with leather labels; first few and last few leaves heavily foxed in margins; some light browning to text; binding moderately rubbed edges of corners worn small rubberstamp of a former owner on margin of t.p. N.Y.: Hugh Gaine 1764.<br/><br/> "The largest issue of Gaine's press and the first piece of government printing he secured. The pp. 2 is `An Act of reversing the Attainder of Jacob Leisler and others' and is often lacking. The work was edited and the index made by Abraham Lott Junr." Ford The Journals of Hugh Gaine I p. 113 This work is complete in itself vol. II was published in 1766. Evans 9756.<br/><br/> unknown books
178307938Pennsylvania 1783. Manuscript Document Signed one page 8 1/4" x 12 1/2" - dated April 30 1783; light toning at folds very good. James Smith 1719-1806 was a Lawyer member of the Continental Congress from 1776 to 1777 and Signer of the Declaration of Independence from Pennsylvania. <br/><br/> unknown books
17617561Lyon: Chez Pierre Bruyset - Ponthus 1761. Full Leather. Very Good. President George Washington's copy with his bookplate which was restruck before 1863 from the original copper plate. "The inventory of Washington's books made at the time of his death.shows that his library then numbered about nine hundred volumes. These under his will became the property of his nephew Judge Bushrod Washington who also inherited his papers and the Mansion House of Mount Vernon. Here Judge Washington lived and added to General Washington's library a part at least of his own books. In his will in 1826 he provided as follows: 'All the papers and letter books devised to me by my uncle Gen'l Washington as well as the books in my study other than law books I give to my nephew Geo. C. Washington; the books in the cases in the dining-room I give to my nephew John A. Washington.' In the inventory of his estate are these items: In the dining-room 468 vols. miscellaneous works left to John A. Washington 658 vols. of miscellaneous works left to Geo. C. Washington 1125 N. of miscel. Pamphlets left Geo. C. Washington beside 169 vols. of State papers 22 vols. of Journals of Congress and 649 vols. of Law Books 22 law pamphlets. These latter were destined for Bushrod Washington Herbert the son of a niece in case he should be trained for the law. Mount Vernon was next occupied by John A. Washington. The books left to George C. Washington remained there for many years but in 1847 or 1848 a considerable portion of them perhaps all that remained were sold to Henry Stevens the bookseller. Mr. Stevens announced his intention of sending them over to the British Museum. To prevent this and to secure them for Boston a number of Boston and Cambridge men particularly Prof. Jared Sparks Prof. Andrews Norton Mr. George Livermore and Mr. Charles Eliot Norton.raised $3800 to purchase them from Stevens. This amount and $450 beside was collected the Athenaeum itself contributing $500; and at a meeting of the subscribers it was voted to place the books permanently in the Boston Athenaeum.The remainder of Washington's library has been scattered and no large number of his books now exists in any one place beside the Boston Athenaeum. What became of the rest of the books left to George C. Washington can only be conjectured. Those given to John A. Washington passed to his son John A. Washington and then to his son Lawrence Washington of Alexandria Va.other sales have given an opportunity to book collectors to bid for books which once belonged to Washington. The titles of the Catalogues of these sales will be found on pp. 470-475 of this volume. A sale of books claiming to be from Washington's library but having spurious book-plates took place in Washington in 1863." The present title is one of those. So the "spurious" bookplate was struck by the Washington family from the original copper plate and placed into some of the books in the collection - so to call it "spurious" is a misnomer. The collection of General Washington in the Boston Athenaeum contains 13 volumes with this bookplate - they were purchased in Washington in 1863 see page 565 of "A Catalogue of the Washington Collection in the Boston Athenaeum". 12mo 775 pages. Contemporary calf marbled end papers red leather lettering piece on spine; all edges stained red. Internally very good; binding shows considerable wear. Bookplate of George Washington on front pastedown a 19th century restrike from the original copper plate. Housed in a contemporary full leather box with a slide-off top. <br/><br/> Chez Pierre Bruyset - Ponthus hardcover books
196343008New York: Simon & Schuster 1963. First edition of this collection of songs from the 1960's folk music scene. Quarto original cloth with 112 pages with photographs. Signed by Bob Dylan in a contemporary hand on the front free endpaper. Features photos and tabulature of music by Joan Baez Bob Dylan Jack Elliott The Greenbriar Boys The New Lost City Ramblers and Peggy Seeger. Introduction by Pete Seeger. Notes by Earl Robinson. Rare and desirable signed by Dylan. Bob Dylan often performed and sometimes toured with Joan Baez starting when she was a singer of mostly traditional songs. As Baez adopted some of Dylan's songs into her repertoire and even introduced Dylan to her avid audiences a large following on the folk circuit it helped the young songwriter to gain initial recognition. By the time Dylan recorded his first LP 1962 he had developed a style reminiscent of Woody Guthrie. He began to write songs that captured the "progressive" mood on the college campuses and in the coffee houses. Simon & Schuster hardcover books
1936209211Privately Printed 1936. First. hardcover. fine. 2 volumes Thin 8vo limp brown cloth. Privately Printed b y W.E. Rudge from type set by Bertha Goudy. Limited First Editions.<br/><br/> The first volume is one of only 200 copies; the second is one of 300 and bears a "compliments slip from Bruce Rogers with a holograph note. Also included are two long autograph letters signed from Bruce Rogers to reviewer Lewis Gannett presenting the books." I will not say a `book' as it violates most of my ideas of bookmaking".He writes about T.E. and his translation of The Odyssey."I really think he likes me as much as he ever did any one." and quotes for Gannett's delectation one of the passages he had to leave out of the book for fear of a libel suit. Letter 24.xi.34 referring to a contretemps with the President of the University of Missouri. Fine.<br/><br/> Privately Printed unknown books
653611 leaves lacking the final blank but with the first leaf blank but for woodcut royal arms on verso. Small 4to early 19th-cent. half-calf & drab boards upper joint a little cracked spine lettered in gilt. London: A. Mathewes 1634. First edition of an extremely rare anonymous work on improved fertilizers. "The book deals mainly with steeping seed in mixtures of rape-seed oil and other things and with burnt lime. These mixtures are to be formed in different proportions and there are alternative constituents. The results promised are not to overstate it very advantageous."-Fussell I p. 32. Nice copy. Stamp of the Lawes Agricultural Trust on front paste-down. hardcover books
15256388Basel: Johannes Froben 1525. Very Good/Erasmus's edition of Pliny's Natural History conserving the notes from Ermolao Barbaro's edition of 1492 printed by Johannes Froben at the height of his powers. Froben's title page is effectively a billboard: "We give you the work of the Divine Pliny called History of the World more emaculate than any edition ever produced before starting with the annotations of erudite men first among them Ermolao Barbaro and then exemplary contributions by learned people which are still worth correcting with faith in the oldest codices from which we have restored many faults do difficult to find that no one no matter how learned could find them or had found them. We have nothing to envy. We have defeated all of our elders. And if someone now takes this prize from us we will not envy them but we will be grateful for the improvement of public education. Go reader and be fruitful. And by the way we added an index that lacks for nothing. Folio 37 cm; 18 leaves 671 143 pages. Woodcut printer's device the double-headed caduceus designed by Holbein on title page on verso of p. 671 on the title page of the index and on the final page. Holbein's detailed chiaroscuro woodcut initials throughout. Bound in vellum over boards titled in manuscript on spine. Old jottings in manuscript on upper board apparently an Italian and Latin vocabulary list including the names of foodstuffs. Portion of vellum near head of spine replaced. Erasmus's name on running head of dedicatory letter aggressively inked over! Occasional scattered very light foxing in a generally bright and unblemished text. References; Adams P-1560; van der Haeghen Biblioteca Erasmiana p. 45. For the initials among Holbein's largest see Schneeli and Heitz table V #II and table LXXXIII #XL. Johannes Froben hardcover books
2014143011N.p.: N.p. 2014. Photograph of the Velvet Underground and Nico shot by Billy Name circa 1967 and struck by him in 2014. SIGNED by Billy Name in silver ink on the recto and with his stamp on the verso. <br/><br/>Name who had gotten his start in theatre met Andy Warhol in the early 1960s and appeared in Warhol's 1963 films "Haircut No. 1-3." Name was also responsible for covering the Factory in silver foil and began living there documenting the day to day and artistic lives of Warhol his collaborators and superstars. <br/><br/>"The Silver Age" an exhibition of Name's Factory photographs was held at the Milk Gallery in New York from November 12 to December 7 2014 and at Serena Morton II in London from September 30 to October 23 2015. A book was published by Reel Art Press in conjunction with the exhibition in 2014. The photograph on offer here appears in the book but is not among the prints currently on offer by either gallery with prints from the exhibitions being issued in editions of various sizes between 1 and 80. <br/><br/>15 x 15 inches printed on card stock. Tiny diagonal crease to the upper left corner else Fine. In a custom museum-quality frame archivally mounted with UV glass. N.p. 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
170639295Rome 1706. 8vo 22.7 cm 9.5' 10 ff. <br><br>The parish church in the municipality of Cicognolo in the province of Cremona in the Italian region of Lombardy located about 90 kilometres 56 mi. southeast of Milan and about 14 kilometres 9 mi. northeast of Cremona has=> petitioned to establish a chapter of the archconfraternity of the Stigmata of St. Francis.<br>Â Â Â Â Approval has been granted and this is the official document establishing the archconfraternity there. It is written in roman hand in brownish-black ink with => extensive variously sized headings indited in gold and has a full-page portrait of St. Francis a medallion vignette of his hands receiving the stigmata and a large triple-bordered decorated initial "D" all accomplished => in colors and gold and incorporating or surrounded by generous flourishes of flowers painted variously in shades of rose yellow and blue. All leaves have borders in black and gold and sometimes green except one initial blank.<br>Â Â Â Â On the verso of the last leaf are the signatures of "custodians" of the archconfraternity in Rome below which are two paper and wax seals one lacking the paper with the seals' owners' names below attesting to the completion of the application process and the granting of the petition.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Contemporary crimson morocco covers lavishly gilt-tooled. The center panel is richly filled with floral motifs and small stars surrounding a center emblem of the hands of St. Francis within a circular border of flames. Surrounding the center panel are four outer frames created by variety of large and small rolls. Marbled paper pastedowns in an unusual "patchwork" style. Binding as above manuscript recased without the original ties. Some text rubbed and illegible clean cracks in fourth leaf crudely repaired hole in last leaf causing text loss. Curious green tarnishing of the gold. A most attractive binding a beautifully painted manuscript an interesting artifact of Catholic social history and => a great tool for teaching about conservation concerns. unknown books
1633156London: Robert Barker.by the Assignes of John Bill 1633. Very Early Elizabethan Printing. Tooled leather. Very Good /Custom Case. 12mo original tooled leather 17th century binding engraved frontispiece very closely cut borders all edges gilded original green silk page divider viii blank ~ 524 vi blank pages. THE NEW TES_/ TAMENT / Of our Lord and / S A V I O V R / - Jesus Christ Newly translated out of the / Originall Grrek : and / with the former transla- / tions diligently compared / and revised by his Maie- / sties special commande- / ment. ---------------------------- Imprinted at London / By Robert Barker Printer / to the Kings most Excel- / lent Majesty and by / the Assignes of John Bill 1633. Cum privilegia. A GEM! In an original tooled leather binding no less. Beautiful clear type. Minimal wear. Some pages so closely cropped by the printer that the chapter headings at the top have been partially excised though not the text. In order to ensure its proper long-term preservation we commissioned Scott Kellar distinguished Chicago bookbinder and restorer to make minor professional repairs and to construct a protective box for this already Exceptional and Rare tiny edition of the Authorized King James version of the New Testament. Finely bound in contemporary tan embossed calf over wooden boards richly gilt to spine. four hubs and boards. Marbled pastedowns & endpaper. a.e.g. and gauffered. Spine very slightly rubbed with partial loss of caps at head and foot restored and almost invisible. Edges of engraved title page reinforced; overall a fine copy. Ink inscriptions on two front free endpapers naming "Edmund James Gore" & his London addresses. The continental binding on this small format Authorized version MAY suggest that it might be a pirated edition of the English Bible pirated in Amsterdam. For example the Stam printing family were printing small format Bibles in 1673-- after our publication see Cambridge History of the Book in Britain IV p.467. Herbert 713-14 Wing B2511A. Robert Barker...by the Assignes of John Bill hardcover books
18957527New York: American Bible Society 1895. Hard Cover. First edition of this Bible volume I only; folio 14" x 13" 164 leaves embossed in the New York Point Alphabet for the Blind which is a system of tactile raised dots similar to Braille. Contemporary 3/4 calf over tan cloth covered boards spine ruled in gilt; spine label is absent. New York Point for the Blind was invented by William Bell Wait 1839-1916 educator for the Blind as an alternative to the "Line Letter" system consisting of raised letters of the standard alphabet which was in use in the late 19th Century and lasted for several decades. But Braille had been invented by Louis Braille in 1824 but fell into disuse only to be revived in the early 20th Century and Braille remains today the standard in reading and writing for the Blind throughout the world. Internally quite clean with the embossed dots in very good condition; small loss at head of spine and corners worn through; a very good copy now quite scarce on the market. <br/><br/> American Bible Society hardcover books
186837342aOblong 4to. 2 15 1 plus 66 color lithographed plates with facing page of description. A strikingly handsome illustrated survey of all the wharves piers and slips along the East and North Rivers. The purpose of this survey was to enable the repair and extension of the piers which were city property and deemed by the Commissioners to be among the City's most valuable assets. They sought to substantially increase the value of this property by repairing and maintaining it. The plates are colored in varying shades of blue and red with dimensions depths and other statistics in red and black. The facing page gives a description valuation and estimates of repair costs and final value. There is a light waterstain in the lower gutter margin visible mostly on the blank backs of the plate and text pages. A few pages show very light foxing some of the lithos are tanned and the text for Pier 20 is bound upside down. Overall an exciting visual artifact of Manhattan's waterfront history in excellent condition. Front hinge cracked. Bound in half black morocco over green boards with a leather label bearing the name William H. Graham in gilt on the front board. With a copy of the enabling legislation "An Act to Create a Harbor District and a Board of Wharves and Piers Therein. State of New York 1868" layed in.<br /><br /><br /> NY Printing Company hardcover books
177764533Boston MA: J. Gill Printer to the General Assembly 1777. The first Fourth of July anniversary oration. First edition. 8vo. 3 - 37 pp. Sewn as issued but without the half-title. A little worn some ink stains scattered foxing. With several textual correction in ink likely by the author. Later an errata sheet was printed for some copies including these same textual corrections. With a contemporary ink inscription on the verso of the last leaf: "the gift of Dr. W. Gordon/ to G. Woods march 17th 1786." <br/>Evans 15317. Rosenbach Judaica 69 with full page illustration of the title page: A sermon "read at this the first Fourth of July celebration held in America." Rev. Gordon was chaplain to the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts and wrote a four-volume history of the Revolution. Well represented in institutional libraries uncommon in the trade. <br/><br/> J. Gill, Printer to the General Assembly unknown books
1801006406London: J. Debrett for Life; Sportsmen: self-published printed by J. J. Stockdale 1801 1814. Full Decorated Morocco. Near FIne. Extra-illustrated three volumes with 96 additional plates 45 of the plates being hand-colored and beautifully bound by R. Wallis in full straight-grained red morocco. 8vo. The two works are not exactly the same size although they match very well and work well as a set. A number of folding plates as well and of these two frontises folding and hand-colored. The two volume Life is 21.5 by 13.5 cm the To All Sportsmen: 22.5 by 14.5 cm. Life: 330 474 pp. Sportsmen: 226 8 pp. Extra plates include many portraits and also architectural views of people and/or places with some nexus to the texts and as typical of Graingerized books that nexus at times might seem tenuous. Still the plates especially the color plates are a pleasing addition to the books. Hanger 1751-1824 also known as the fourth Baron Coleraine is one of the great picaressque figures of the Regency period. He commanded troops for the British during the American Revolution during which he was injured and because of his recklessness or incompetence his troops were ambushed and bested in battle. Upon return to Britain he became a close friend of the Prince Regent and was appointed his equerry. While flirting with politics Hanger racked up debts that ultimately led to his going to debtor's prison. Throughout his "career" he was a notorious womanizer as well as a holder of many unconventional views on just about everything. But he was widely regarded as an authority on sports and thus "To All Sportsmen" his final publication. In The Life it is fair to say that Hanger was more concerned about entertaining his readers than literal veracity of the events related. Binding with five raised bands gilt decoration including hunting devices on spine a fox a greyhound a horse head a horseshoe and a shooter with pointer device as centerpieces on all the boards with the spine devices repeated in each of the corners. Gilt ruled perimeters on the boards palmette-based turn ins marbled endpapers. Gilt edges to Life with Sportsmen because of uneven page edges no edge decoration to text block. Condition: all volumes with light rubbing in typical places -- joint extremities spine extremities corners. Typical offsetting of plates. Some light scattered soiling but overall volumes read as clean and bright. <br/><br/> J. Debrett for Life; Sportsmen: self-published, printed by J. J. Stockdale unknown books
