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Central Asian Buddhist Art

[ANGAS, George Fife] WESTERN, Thomas GeorgeBiblio.com

Commentaries on the Constitution and Laws of England incorporated with the Political Text of the late J.L. De Lolme .

1841104249London: John Richards & Co 1841. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London John Richards & Co. 1841 'Third edition revised and corrected to the present time'. Octavo ii title leaf xviii 476 civ appendix and index pages. Early half tan calf and marbled papered boards with a contrasting leather title-label on the spine; covers a little rubbed and scuffed with the head of both joints slightly cracked but firm; endpapers and adjacent leaves offset mainly from the leather turn-ins; minimal scattered light foxing; early marginal emphases in pencil and rarely in ink in particular to the later sections relating to the institutions and processes of government; related annotations on several pages; overall an excellent copy. Western's apparent aim was to demonstrate the superiority of the English constitution over all other forms of government. In that context the parochial provenance of this copy is hard to beat. The ownership signature of 'J.F. Burton Adelaide 1850' appears at the head of the title page and on the front free endpaper without the place-name. The latter is also signed in pencil 'J.H. Fisher' James Hurtle Fisher around which George Fife Angas has written 'Sept 21 1853. Presented by JHF to G.F. Angas'. The full name of George Fife Angas is also written there in pencil in what we recognize as a later secretarial hand indicating in our experience that the book came originally from Angas's library. Sir James Hurtle Fisher 1790-1875 'was one of the most important pioneers of South Australia': a lawyer he was appointed first Resident Commissioner of South Australia and arrived in the colony on the 'Buffalo' with the Governor's party. He eventually became a leader of the South Australian Bar 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. Angas needs no introduction; suffice to say the provenance takes some beating. We know little about Burton other than that he was an Adelaide solicitor; he is mentioned as such occasionally in the local newspapers of the day. John Richards & Co hardcover

Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers · Australie1 100,00 $AU≈ 725,01 €

[Western and Southern Australia]Biblio.com

Western and Southern Australia. Return to an Address of the Honourable The House of Commons dated 29 May 1838; for No. 1 Return of all the Expenses defrayed by this Country in the Colony of Western Australia during the Last Three Years ending 5 April 1838 in each Year respectively .

1838131290London: 'Ordered by the House of Commons to be Printed' 1838. Very Good. London 'Ordered by the House of Commons to be Printed' 1838. Foolscap folio 21 1 docket pages with numerous tables. Uncut and sewn as issued; outer pages slightly dusty; light foxing throughout; an excellent copy. Great Britain and Ireland Parliamentary Paper Number 685 of 1838. The bulk of this important paper pages 4-19 is given over to 'Nos. 5 6 7. Copy of a Despatch from Governor Sir James Stirling bearing Date 15 October 1835 forwarding a Memorial from the Inhabitants of Western Australia; together with a Copy of the Answer which has been returned thereto'. It is somewhat more than that. Stirling's covering letter explains that 'The signatures attached to this memorial . belong to about one-third of the adult male population of the settlement and represent also about one third of its property in land and capital. The grievances under which the memorialists consider themselves and their fellow colonists to labour are five in number'. The five grievances are well-aired; all signatories are identified; there are five pages of lists of lands reserved for public purposes individuals or 'Assigned to or Reserved for Civil Naval and Military Officers from commencement of the Colony in June 1829 to 6 October 1835'. The second and third lists provide name rank or situation where applicable number of acres district assigned or reserved - and when and remarks. A sample record for an individual is that pertaining to Robert Ramsay for whom an 'uncertain' number of acres was reserved at Plantagenet on 12 April 1831: 'Master of brig "Britannia". On south shore of Princes Royal Harbour reserved 18 months to form a whaling establishment and then resumed on failure of conditions'. The last four pages in this section contain Lord Glenelg's thoughts on the matter as of 7 March 1837. The limited information relating to the fledgling colony of South Australia occupies only pages 20 and 21. Ferguson 2511. <p>Provenance: the signature 'C.A.S. Hawker' is written in pencil at the head of the first page. Charles Allan Seymour Hawker 1894-1938 politician and pastoralist: his grandfather George Charles Hawker arrived in Adelaide with his brother Charles in September 1840. They settled on land at Bungaree near Clare in December 1841; C.A.S. Hawker he was born there. He was seriously wounded on several occasions at the Western Front losing one eye and 'his legs were in surgical irons to the end of his life'. He was a minister in the Lyons Government from 1932 until he 'was killed on 25 October 1938 when the aircraft "Kyeema" crashed into Mount Dandenong in Victoria. His untimely death was sharply felt. He had been an outstanding and respected figure in the Federal parliament whom some of his own party would have supported as prime minister. John Curtin the Opposition leader believed he had been on the threshold of great achievements' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. 'Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed' unknown

Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers · Australie1 100,00 $AU≈ 725,01 €

[Nebraska]. [Western Photographica]Biblio.com

Folding Panoramic Paneled Photo of a Corn Farm and Feed Lot Owned by B.F. Trosper of Cambridge Nebraska

19263973Cambridge Ne: F.M. Steele 1926. Very good. Four photographs in five segments 7 x 46 inches in length folding to 7 x 9 inches on a card mount 10 x 12 inches. Images joined with linen. Light wear to card photo generally clean and crisp. An interesting documentary panoramic photograph depicting the livelihood and agricultural success of one B.F. Trosper of Cambridge Nebraska. Each panel is captioned in the negative with the third photo occupying two segments of the panorama. The first shows Trosper a woman we presume to be his wife and two other men who may be hired hands; the woman sits at the wheel of a Model T which is parked parallel to the photographer while Trosper stand with one foot on the running board. The two men stand behind the car and a stacked pen of corn is used as a background. The caption reads "The finest background for pictures in Nebraska is corn. This is B.F. Trosper of Cambridge Neb." The second panel shows a worker and a dog standing to the right edge of the image which proudly displays seven pens of corn piled high: "12000 bushels of corn. One half of the amount that was raised in 1924-25 by B.F. Trosper of Cambridge Neb." The third image again shows the car parked in front of the corn pens on the left with a tractor and plow parked on the right side of the image the farmhouse and windmill in the background. Each panel of this photo has a caption: "B.F. Trosper one of south west Nebraska's successful farmers and stock growers" and "B.F. Trosper owns 1840 acres of land he has bought since 1884 commenced without a dollar Cambridge Neb." The final panel depicts Trosper's cows in the feed lot. Francis Marion Steele 1866-1936 was a noted itinerant Western photographer who captured cowboys and cattle drives roaming the West to document ranch life and farming operations. F.M. Steele unknown

McBride Rare Books · États-Unis850,00 $US≈ 719,19 €

[Western Photographica]. [Arizona]. Wells, Margaret EBiblio.com

Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Featuring the Exploits of an Arizona Woman in the American West and Chicago Over a Long Period of Time

19423662Various locations mainly Arizona Montana and Illinois 1942. Very good. 77 leaves illustrated with 617 original photographs from about 1.5 x 1 to 4 x 3 inches almost every page profusely annotated in white ink. Oblong folio. Contemporary faux-alligator brown leather string-tied. Edges and joints worn minor rubbing to covers. Compiler's ownership inscription on inside front cover reading "Property of Margaret E. Wells" with her address in Douglas Arizona. Occasional empty mounts minor wear to some photos but overall a very well-preserved collection. A densely-packed collection of annotated vernacular photographs documenting about a decade-and-a-half of an Arizona woman's life in the West and during various travels around the country in the early-20th century. Margaret E. Wells grew up on a ranch near Douglas Arizona which is well-represented in the photographs picturing various family members scenes around the exterior of the ranch house a shot of their school teacher Mrs. Wodham taking care of the livestock and more including Margaret as a younger child. There are also a healthy number of images around Douglas as well as other Arizona locations such as Cave Creek Ajo Grand Canyon National Park and Tombstone.<br /> <br /> As Margaret grows older the album records her travels taking her to numerous locations around the United States such as Yellowstone Park; Virginia City Montana; Bozeman Montana; campus views of Montana State College where she may have been a student for some time; desert scenes near Reno Nevada; the Chicago World's Fair in 1934; Long Beach California; San Francisco; Bryce National Park and Zion National Park in Utah; Washington; and Oregon. Some of the later photos show Margaret working at Spiegel Inc. and some of the last photographs document Margaret and her husband John with presumably their young child. Some of the more interesting images include Margaret and some of her companions dressed in "Mexican Sombreros" in Bozeman in 1927; two elevated shots of the town of Virginia City; a handful of shots of Wells' friend Buster "working on the railroad" in Arizona; and numerous shots of the various characters in a Spring 1939 rodeo in Douglas. A wide-ranging collection of annotated vernacular images recording about fifteen years in the life of a young Arizona woman in her home state as well as several other states before throughout and after the Great Depression. unknown

McBride Rare Books · États-Unis850,00 $US≈ 719,19 €

[Western Photographica]. Alexander, DS D SBiblio.com

Kodak As You Go." My Kodak Book of Colorado Utah and California 1922 manuscript cover title

19223405Various locations in the American West 1922. Very good. Seventeen leaves illustrated with ninety-one photographs and four souvenir postcards extensively annotated in white ink on the album pages throughout. Contemporary tan two-ring cardboard wrappers front wrapper with black sheet laid down titles handwritten in white ink. Minor soiling rubbing and edge wear to boards. Minor fraying to some album leaves. A delightful homemade annotated vernacular photograph album compiled by D.S. Alexander memorializing his journey by automobile train and steamship through the American West and down the Pacific coast in August 1922. The album opens with a manuscript title page indicating the locations Alexander visited which included Manitou Peak Denver and Estes Park in Colorado; Salt Lake City and the Great Salt Desert in Utah; and several locations in California namely San Francisco Long Beach Hanford San Joaquin Valley and Sacramento. Manitou is the first location pictured followed by an elevated view and a few others of Denver and the surrounding landscape. He then travels west on the highway stopping in Loveland to visit a large dam and past Big Thompson Canyon on the way to Estes Park. In Utah he visits "Eagle Gate and Beehive House - Brigham Young's official residence" the Utah state house Pioneer Park and includes a couple of "Scenes from the Great Salt Desert in western Utah" on the train to California. In San Francisco he photographs Golden Gate Park and Alcatraz Island from a ferry boat before heading south on the steamship Yale. He includes several images on the shore at Long Beach as well as scenes at Sequoia Lake in Grant Park a vineyard in Kings County the Parker Ranch large trees in Grant Park and on the capitol grounds at Sacramento. Somewhat incongruously the final leaf of the album and the last three photographs pictures Alexander onboard a steamship on the Mississippi River in May 1923 on which he took an "excursion from Davenport to Muscatine Iowa." Ultimately the album is a wonderful and unique photographic snapshot of one young man's journey through Colorado Utah and California in the late summer of 1922. unknown

McBride Rare Books · États-Unis850,00 $US≈ 719,19 €

Multiple ContributorsBiblio.com

British Columbia Telephone Company B.C. Tel./Telus Telephone Talk: Bound Issues January 1912 Through December 1912 INCLUDES JUNE SOUVENIR ISSUE - FEATURES VICTORIA

191273aa1986British Columbia: British Columbia Telephone Company 1912. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant traffic commercial operating accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company industry and technological news traffic levels expansion plans personnel announcements publicity and social events deaths weddings lists of exchanges and more. As such these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Photo of new office in Victoria; Advances in rates; Increased Rates in Manitoba; Telephoning across the Atlantic; Exchanges ranked in order of per cent good toll calls November 1911; Statement of development - number of phones operating in each exchange as of 1 December 1911; Cover photo of Grand Forks Switchboard; Photo montage of underground work at Victoria; Birth of the Telephone - 3 page article; Mr. F.J. MacGougan; Photo of types of protected terminals; Vancouver Switchboard photos from 1908 and 1898; Great 2-page photo of the huge 'A' switchboard at Seymour; Load Curve Graph of Seymour Office; Cut-over of Victoria Plant - new epoch in phone history of B.C.'s capital; Vancouver Island Toll Rates; Special Victoria Issue - photo montage of city and district officials; Photo of New B.C. Office; Table showing # of phones in Victoria since 1880; Photos of underground work in Victoria; May 1880 list of Victoria subscribers; 1890 list of subscribers; cable-laying scenes from last September; Nanaimo and Sidny facilities; New Gulf Cable Ordered by William Farrell in England; Miss Mina Kerr; Record work at Highland; New Plant Department Building; How a Directory is Produced; Jolly moonlight excursion to Nanaimo aboard the steamer Princess Patricia; Great photo of 5 new auto wagons of the construction department in front of the Seymour Office horses having been recently displaced; Some Victoria cable troubles; Photo montage of the Royal visitors the Duke of Connaught the Duchess of Connaught and Princess Patricia; Training school for operators; interior and exterior views of the Royal trolley coach; 3-page Kamloops feature with photos; Functionalization of Plant - reorganization of the department; laying North Vancouver Cable; Photos of large buildings under construction in the Fairmont exchange - the Lee Building the hospital buildintgs Steel plant in G.N.R. yards; Fairmont feature - 4 pages with photos; Instructions for Operators; North Vancouver Cable Ready; Importance of Transmission; and more. Half-leather binding. Hinges tender but intact. Backstrip very rough. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon top edge. Mr. LaBelle's signature upon front free endpaper and his initials are penned to top edge. He is mentioned on page 8 of the July issue as being the new Plant Engineer. Binding intact. Please note: small article clipped from page 18 of the December issue. British Columbia Telephone Company Hardcover

RareNonFiction.com · Canada850,00 $US≈ 719,19 €

[WESTERN AMERICANA -- PERIODICALS]. [GREENLY, AH, BOTKIN, Benjamin A, DECKER, Peter, SANDOZ, Mari, DRAGO, Harry Sinclair, CROY,Biblio.com

The Westerners Brand Book New York Posse. Vol. I No. 1 - XII No. 4.

195458591New York: The Westerners 45 West 57th St. 1954-1964. 48 issues in 6 volumes. Approx. 1150 pp issues & vol. runs separately paginated. including biennial indexes for each volume. With colour plates illustrated ads inserted ads photo illustrations maps issues were printed on varying grades and types of paper over this 10 year run so some are a little toned and there are a few colour-tinted publisher’s inserts. Uniformly bound in burgundy-coloured simulated calf gilt lettering & ruling on spines a couple issues w/ minor tears and wear to corners still an excellent set bound and from the library of William Henry Bishop b. 1922 w/ TLS laid-in from Peter Decker on letterhead addressed to Bishop Shelburne Hotel New York dated March 16 1954 including New York Posse Membership No. 117 on the laid-in card as well as 4 ff. mimeographed copy of The Westerners by-laws. First editions of this complete run of the first 10 years of The Westerners Brand Book quarterly which included articles and memoirs by some of the most significant Western historians of the 19th & 20th Centuries. Articles ranged in topics from the Hudson’s Bay Company fur traders to Western Knives along with outlaws gunfighters pioneering families and Western artists. A number of articles detail the lives mistreatment and condition of American Indians including those of the Umpqua Cheyenne Sioux Pawnee as well as Indian Health Service military campaigns and more. At the time of Bishop’s acceptance as a Westerners New York Posse member he was managing the Alaska Livestock & Trading Co. sheep & cattle ranch at Chernofski Harbor on Unalaska Island which encompassed 120000 acres as well as executive with Oregon Worsted Co. The Westerners were originally founded in Chicago by Leland Case Don Russell Ray Allen Billington Elmo Scott Watson and others but quickly grew to include Corrals in Denver Los Angeles Washington D.C. London and others with the groups publishing articles and reviews. The Westerners, 45 West 57th St., unknown

Zephyr Used & Rare Books · États-Unis750,00 $US≈ 634,57 €

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