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187449617Albany NY: Joel Munsell Printer 1874. Hardcover. Complete 2-volume set. Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. lxxxvii 423pp; viii 666pp 47pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece illustration. Near fine. Exceptionally tight and bright second edition of this 1810 classic -- published as Volume V and VI in the "Archaeologia Americana" series in the "Transactions and Collection of the American Antiquarian Society" -- founded in 1812 by colonial printer publisher and author Thomas 1749-1831 the society's first president. This superlative copy bears a choice inscription and signature on Volume I's front flyleaf: "14 vii 61 / For Frank S. Hanlin Jr. / in celebration of his first / visit to the American / Antiquarian Society. / Marcus A. McCorison." McCorison 1926-2013 was the famed long-time "Grand Acquisitor" of the AAS its librarian then director and finally president and in 1970 he edited the Imprint Society's well-received third edition of Thomas's celebrated history which he based on this 1874 second edition. Recipient Frank S. Hanlin 1924-82 was a well-known bibliographer and University of Iowa special collections director. Almost all copies of the second edition found are well-worn ex-library copies -- not so here as this fresh and unusual association copy attests. Joel Munsell, Printer hardcover
1815008469Walpole New Hampshire: Anson Whipple 1815. Book. Good. Full Calf. First Edition. Thick 8vo. Known as the "Walpole Bible" the first Holy Bible printed in the state of New Hampshire. The publisher Anson Whipple was the son-in-law of Isaiah Thomas the Revolutionary War printer publisher soldier and patriot who owned the press on which this Bible was printed. Good end papers and title page professionally restored hinge opened before final signature original calf binding well worn with label gone. pages toned. The printing took 5 years to complete with 8000 copies printed few of which still survive. A Bible that has seen much use in 200 years. Anson Whipple Hardcover
181443079Boston: Printed by John Eliot 1814. First edition. Original blue-gray paper-covered boards with paper label on spine. Spine and label well worn ends and joints chipped institutional stamp on title gift inscription on free front endpaper leaves untrimmed about good. 292 pp. 8vo. Signed with gift inscription to the American Antiquarian Society by Isaiah Thomas. "This valuable collection of important documents relating to the history of America" Sabin. Includes Schermerhorn: "Report to the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians and others in North America. Report respecting the Indians inhabiting the Western Parts of the United States. Communicated by Mr. John F. Schermerhorn to the Secretary of the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians and Others in North America." Sabin 45852. Sabin 77610. Printed by John Eliot hardcover books
187667741Ṿarsha Poland: Bi-defus ha-aḥim bene Shmuʼel Argelbrand 1876. Folio 1 p.l. 139 ff. 20 ff. 1 ff i.e. paginated 140; 1 ff. 47 ff. 1 ff.; title page in Hebrew and Cryllic text in Hebrew and German; old paneled mottled calf backed in ugly gray cloth endpapers renewed; text block looking okay but the binding is an eyesore. OCLC locates 5 copies in the U.S.: Jewish Theological Seminary and the Yivo Institute both in New York; Hebrew Union College in Ohio Brandeis and UCLA; plus 2 copies in Europe. Bi-defus ha-aḥim bene Shmuʼel Argelbrand unknown
1887364053San Francisco: I. W. Taber Pho. Photographer 1887. Fine. An unmounted imperial cabinet card-sized albumen silver print of five idols in a Chinatown temple. Most likely this is the temple at 9 Brooklyn Place off of Sacrament Street where the Lung Gong Association Longgang gongsuo; now the Lung Kong Tin Yee Association had its headquarters in the late 1880s. This image is dated 1887 in the negative an unusual feature of Taber photographs from this period. <br /> <br /> 9-3/8 by 7-1/4 inches. Captioned in the negative in a narrow strip along the bottom of the image. A fine image a bit faded around the edges but with excellent focus and contrast. Never mounted. I. W. Taber Pho. [Photographer] unknown
1880364047San Francisco: Taber Photo 1880. Near fine. A very nice ninethenth century albumen street scene photograph of San Francisco's Chinatown. <br /> <br /> This photograph shows a sunlit Clay Street looking down hill possibly from just below Stockton Street. A Chinese man in a work apron is walking in the foreground facing the camera. Other men walk away from Taber's lens or cross the street as the Clay St. Hill Railroad cable car no. 2 reaches the intersection. Signs for two businesses are clearly visible on the right hand side. The tall vertical sign in the immediate foreground advertises Yuantang's 元堂 shop with medicinal herbs from various provinces of China. A sign farther back at the corner of the next street advertises Tai Ning Tong 太寧堂 another Chinese medicine shop.<br /> <br /> This is an albumen silver prints on thin photographic paper roughly 4-7/8 by 7-9-16 inches captioned in the negative in a narrow strip along the bottom of the image. This image is included in Taber's ca. 1889 catalog of images available in his gallery. This image has very good contrast with better detail than the previous version of this print I have had. This print is not mounted but it has small surface scars on the verso leaving the already-thin paper even thinner but intact in a few places. Taber Photo unknown
1880364054San Francisco: Taber Photo 1880. Near fine. An unmounted imperial cabinet card-sized albumen silver print of a large room in a Chinese restaurant empty of people. The room is decorated with carvings and hanging scroll paintings. <br /> <br /> This view may have been taken inside the restaurant at 824-826-828 Washington Street the only restaurant on Washington Street in the 1885 map of Chinatown published in San Francisco's municipal reports. In 1892 a restaurant called Chun Sun was located at 826 based on a report of a fire that ran in the July 14 San Francisco Examiner. Restaurants appear to have occupied that address during much of the 20th century continuing to the present day.<br /> <br /> 9-7/16 by 7-7/16 inches. Captioned in the negative in a narrow strip along the bottom of the image. A near fine image a bit faded at the edges but with good focus and contrast. Never mounted. Taber Photo unknown
1801127782Boston MA: Thomas & Andrews Newbury St. 1801. Leather Bound. Very Good. 8vo 7.75 - 9.75'' tall. Leather Bound. Condition: Very Good. Thomas & Andrews Newbury St. Boston MA 1801. 452 510 403 68 pages. Contains Vols. I II and IV. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. Vol. IV 1807 is 1st Editon. 1st Printing. All volumes have Very Good bindings hinges and text pages. Vol. II Title page missing bottom tip. Size: 8vo 7.75 - 9.75'' tall. Law/True Crime::Law Law/True Crime::Creating the Constitution RBR27 RBR27 Thomas & Andrews, Newbury St. hardcover
1890364055San Francisco: Taber Photo 1890. Near fine. An unmounted imperial cabinet card-sized albumen silver print of the exterior of the Hang Fer Lo restaurant and the Colombo cigar factory on Dupont Street between Sacramento and Clay Streets in San Francisco's Chinatown.<br /> <br /> Hang Fer Lo was the leading Chinese restaurant in the city before the earthquake. It operated on two floors above the cigar factory. This image probably dates from the 1890s it is not in Taber's 1889 catalog of images. A small area of the Colombo sign has been painted over adding the words "Bong Mon Cigar Factory." At the time there was some prejudice against Chinese-made cigars. In 1887 the Oroville Weekly Mercury August 5 issue ran an article criticizing a business owner in Chico California for selling Colombo brand cigars instead of "white labor cigars."<br /> <br /> The upper floors of the building belong to the Chinese restaurant and are adorned with paper lanterns plants and carved decorations. A sign reading "restaurant" is visible at the top center of the image.<br /> <br /> 7-1/2 by 9-1/2 inches. Captioned in the negative in a narrow strip along the bottom of the image. A near fine image with a bit of creasing. Never mounted. Taber Photo unknown
180228803Worcester. Printed by Isaiah Thomas Jun. May - 1802 1802. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 17.5cm first edition thus viii13-1542p. publisher's ads. original boards rebacked in quarter brown crushed morocco blind ruled raised bands crimson morocco label gilt titles contemporary book plate a fine copy rare. cgc. Worcester. Printed by Isaiah Thomas, Jun. May - 1802 hardcover
1830839521830. ROGERS Isaiah. A Description of Tremont House with Architectural Illustrations. Boston: Gray and Bowen 1830. 36pp. Frontis. 31 plates some colored. Later three-quarter red leather and marbled boards with gilt spine titling. Frontis. torn and repaired at gutter else fine. Tremont House was a hotel in Boston designed by Isaiah Rogers 1800-1869 and built in 1829. It was the first hotel with indoor plumbing and running water. With the bookplate of William S. Reese on front pastedown. unknown
1880364056San Francisco: Taber Photo 1880. Ephemera. Fine. A terrific 19th century Chinatown albumen photograph that offers an interesting contrast to Taber's many well-known photographs of Cheong Wo & Co. a butcher shop that was located nearby. This view was just a half-block away at the corner of Washington Street and the Washington Place alley. The shops in this photo are grittier and less-well tended.<br /> <br /> Taber managed to catch a poultry butcher at the far left in a beam of light. Directly in front of him a fast-moving pedestrian is just a blur. A number of Chinese men stand on the sidewalk or walk down the alley. Instead of the elaborate displays of Cheong Wo most of the merchants on this street have only small round tables of goods in front of their stores. Piles of crates and boxes line one side of the alley. <br /> <br /> Taber's 1889 catalog of images includes four labeled "provision market." One is identified as negative 2869; that may be the same as this image with two numbers transposed.<br /> <br /> The albumen print measures 9-1/2 by 7-1/2 inches and is captioned in the image in a narrow strip along the bottom of the print. A very good print a bit over exposed in the center where sunlight falls on the alley some prints have better contrast in this portion of the image. There is a bit of discoloration on the left margin of the photograph which is otherwise near fine. Never mounted. Taber Photo unknown
1836WRCAM52182Bilbao; Castro Urdiales; Santander 1836. 36pp. Loose gatherings. Previously folded with some separations and paper loss along old folds slightly affecting text. Written in a small but legible hand. Very good. An engaging account of travels along the north coast of Spain in the Basque country during the First Carlist War the civil war fought between the conservative followers of Carlos V and the liberal defenders of the succession of the infant Isabel II between 1833 and 1840. The Basque region was a Carlist stronghold and Townsend's account includes descriptions of encounters with the forces supporting Carlos as well as being a narrative of the journey around the region from Bayonne to Santander. The diary was composed in three separate parts from different locations in the Basque region in January and February of 1836 and is addressed to his sister. <br> <br> Isaiah Townsend Jr. descended from a prestigious New York family that included Solomon Townsend industrialist and state politician after the Revolution and his father Isaiah Sr. a prominent Albany merchant. On a prior Grand Tour of Europe in 1831 and 1832 he met David Baillie Warden author of BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA with whom he would become great friends and whose library Townsend would broker to the New York State Library in 1844. <br> <br> A well-written travel diary by a notable New Yorker and close acquaintance to an important American bibliophile filled with fascinating detail about the Basque area and the events of the day. unknown books
1890223061890. Oblong 4to. 10.5" x 15.5". With 26 albumen prints mounted recto only on thick card landscape and portrait format approximately from 195 x 260 to 124 x 200 mm. or the reverse. 12 captioned in the negative by Taber's studio 3 captioned in the negative by Pollock's studio 14 photographs captioned on the mount in ink in French. The photographs are beautifully presented in a contemporary red morocco binding likely collected by a French traveller. Leather slightly mottled with a few faint marks neatly recolored in places mounts slightly foxed and cockled a few photographs with marginal silver mirroring or faint surface abrasions. Else a near fine copy. An excellent photographic record of San Francisco and Yosemite by the multitalented photographer Isiah West Taber. The album also contains evocative images of New York Washington DC and Niagara Falls with some by the Boston-based photographer Charles Pollock. The adventurous Taber 1830-1912 arrived in San Francisco at the beginning of the gold rush in 1849. Quickly deciding there was more money in trade than digging for gold Taber eventually established his photography studio in San Francisco during which time he acquired the entire archive of the landscape photographer Carleton Watkins. In 1888 he was appointed a Yosemite commissioner in appreciation of his work to spread its beauty. Sadly Taber's studio was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fired with an estimated loss of about 20 tons of view negatives and 80 tons of portrait negatives; he never reopened his gallery. <br /> <br /> The photograph album shows images of San Francisco including Market Street Cliff House and an attractive birdseye view. In Yosemite the photographs by Taber show El Capitan Table Rock and Mariposa Grove. The section of photographs of East Coast America includes the White House Capitol Brooklyn Bridge and Niagara in both summer and winter. Three images of New York are by Pollock 1828-1900 who specialized in celebrity portraiture. unknown
1876054986Viyana - Vienna Wien: Adolf Holshausen Matbaasi / Amerikan Kitab-i Mukaddes Sirketi = Adolf Holzhausen Printing House on behalf of the American Bible Society 1876. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original cloth bdg. with gilt lettering in a very calligraphic style on the front board embossed decoratively. Demy 8vo. 22 x 14 cm. In Ottoman script Old Turkish with Arabic letters. 107 p. Slightly fading on cloth and sporadically foxing on endpapers otherwise a fine copy. Extremely rare first and only edition of this early Wien imprint of the "Book of Isaiah" translated into Ottoman script. It is the earliest example of three imprints in Adolf Holzhausen Printing House of Wien in the Ottoman Turkish language according to the Özege catalogue. Adolf Holzhausen 1868-1931 was an Austrian publisher and bookseller. He was the son of Adolf Holzhausen the Elder 1827-1892 the head of the Viennese court and the university's book printing company. He was trained in the family business his father had owned the Manzsche book printing company since 1858. Holzhausen learned the typesetting of oriental scripts and also provided the company with oriental letters. He later founded the university book printing company and his own publishing house which mainly published art books and historical works. After the First World War he was promoted to the head of the Military Geography Institute. Also he suggested that Austrian educational book publishers worked together. Özege 18043.; TBTK 10281.; Only one copy in OCLC in Bogaziçi University Library of Turkey: 949512980. <br/> <br/> Adolf Holshausen Matbaasi / Amerikan Kitab-i Mukaddes Sirketi [= Adolf Holzhausen Printing House on behalf of the American Bible hardcover
185062042Wien: Carl Gerold 1850. 8vo. 226 pp. Contemporary quarter sheep over marbled boards. Ex-institutional library of Bibliothek der Musse Riga with usual markings. Rubbing to spine and board edges. Internally clean. Bookplate to the front pastedown of Manoug Parikian British concert violinist and professor at the Royal Academy of Music London. Loosely inserted are three TLS by Isaiah Berlin dated 1972-73 on 'Headington House Oxford' letterhead in which he thanks Parikian for the loan of the book and then apologises for not returning it in a timely manner as the book had become buried somewhere in his library. The author Wilhelm von Lenz was born in Riga and studied with Liszt and Chopin in Paris. He is best known for his research on Beethoven. The final chapter in this book deals with Beethoven's violin concerto as performed in St. Petersburg by Vieuxtemps. Text in German. . Good. 1/4 Sheep. 1850. Carl Gerold 1850 unknown
181036656Worcester: Isaiah Thomas 1810. library brown buckrum. small 8vo. library brown buckrum. 487; 576 pages. Two volumes. First edition. Bigmore & Wyman III 9; S-K 3602 for binding references. All five plates are present. An invaluable book to the student of American printing and certainly the cornerstone in any collection of books on U.S. printing and publishing history. Also has information on newspapers and publishing. Thomas was the right person to write this title as he was one of the most important American publishers - booksellers of this early American period. His comments on his friends in the field and the beginnings of printing in different locations in the country based on personal knowledge make this a primary source. <BR><br /> <BR><br /> Bound in a later library buckrum binding with gilt on spine. The plate facing page 70 is present but has separated from the binding and torn into three pieces along the creases. Some tears with one effecting the page numbers 495-500 of volume II. Some marks obscuring the text on pages 152-153. A torn sheet on page 221-222 page 491-492 and 493-494. Ex-library stamp from the De Mill Library. Else a lovely copy. Isaiah Thomas unknown books
1810129753Worcester MA: The Press of Isaiah Thomas Jun 1810. bound in mid-19th century calf gilt on spine. 8vo. bound in mid-19th century calf gilt on spine. vi 7-4871; 576 pages. 2 Volumes. First edition Howes T-168; Shaw and Shoemaker 21483; Bigmore and Wyman III:9. Dedication table of contents preface. Endnotes included in each volume. Appendix and index at end of second volume. Frontispiece illustration of Thomas. Five plates including two foldouts. This is the first published history of printing in the United States. The author was a noted printer newspaper publisher and a founder of the American Antiquarian Society. Rubbing to the bindings. Gutters of both volumes tender. Small waterstain to lower corner of frontispiece effecting the portrait in the bottom left corner of vol 1. Newspaper clipping glued onto page 37 of vol 2. Toning to the textblock throughout in both volumes. Beautiful exlibris bookplate of the Kennebec Natural History & Antiquarian Society in both volumes on the front pastedown. The Press of Isaiah Thomas, Jun unknown
1810794581810. THOMAS Isaiah. The History of Printing in America. With a Biography of Printers and an Account of Newspapers. To which is Prefixed a Concise View of the Discovery and Progress of the Art in Other Parts of the World. Worcester: from the press of Isaiah Thomas Jun. Isaac Sturtevant printer 1810. 2 Vols. 8vo. 487;576pp. 5 engraved plates 2 folding. Period-styled calf-backed marbled boards gilt-ruled spines red morocco spine labels. Light scattered toning else very good. Grolier One Hundred Influential American Books Printed Before 1900 #29; Howes T-168; Lowndes IVp.2666 "An interesting and now scarce work". "Thomas who began life as a printer's apprentice fought at Lexington and Concord and settled finally in Worcester Mass. in 1778 where he became the country's leading printer putting out more than 400 titles before he retired in 1802 to devote himself to scholarship and first to this book. The source materials were obtained from voluminous correspondence and from his own personal library . Although a printed work it is always considered a primary source and is today the recognized authority on printing in the United States from 1640 to 1800. Much of the material which it contains can be found nowhere else" Grolier American 100. Philadelphia jurist and the author of Hail Columbia. unknown
1810133261Worcester: Isaiah Thomas 1810. First edition of this work by the famed printer. Octavo bound in contemporary sheep morocco spine labels illustrated with five engraved plates four folding. Gift inscription of Thomas's grandson Benjamin Franklin Thomas on each of the front free endpapers as well as his signature on title page in first volume. Benjamin Franklin Thomas was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts and an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. In good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box. Grolier American 29; Howes T 168; Sabin 95495; Streeter 7:4176. Isaiah Thomas was born in Boston and apprenticed to printer Zechariah Fowle with whom he formed a partnership in 1770. They published the Massachusetts Spy but after three months Thomas continued the publication alone. The royal governor ordered the attorney general to prosecute Thomas for his Whig views but the grand jury refused to indict him. In 1774 Thomas published the Royal American Magazine for a short time. Three days before the Battle of Concord in which he participated Thomas moved his presses from Boston to Worcester. Thomas continued publication of the Massachusetts Spy there until 1802 with gaps from 1776 to 1778 and from 1786 to 1788; published and sold books; and built a paper mill and bindery. In 1802 he transferred the business to his son. From 1775 to 1803 Thomas published the New England Almanac which his son continued until 1819. In 1786 he was the first printer in the United States to use music type and in 1791 he printed a folio edition of the Bible and of Isaac Watts’ Psalms and Hymns. He began a project on the history of printing in 1808 and he published it in two volumes in 1810. His grandson published a second edition in 1874. In 1812 Thomas founded what became the American Antiquarian Society and he donated 8000 volumes from his collection and one of the most valuable files of newspapers in the country to the Society. On his death he bequeathed his entire library and collection of early American newspapers to the American Antiquarian Society. Isaiah Thomas unknown
1810140948330Worcester MA: From the press of Isaiah Thomas Jun 1810. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition. In two volumes. vi 7 - 487; iv 5 - 576 pp. Complete with eight plates including three portraits of the author and two foldout plates. Bound in contemporary mottled calf gilt floral stamping to spines and ruled borders to boards gilt dentelles top edge gilt marbled endpapers. Near Fine skillfully recased with repairs to joints and renewed morocco title labels; binding square and strong. Marbled endpapers preserved with bookplate of Senator Charles B. Farwell 1823 - 1903 to front pastedown of each volume. Contents lightly toned with scattered foxing and occasional smudges and faint stains. Professional edge repairs to three plates and at least one page. Howes T-168 Grolier American 29. <br /> <br /> <p>A very attractive first edition of an important reference work. The radical patriot Isaiah Thomas began his long printing career as a child of seven in 1756 eventually establishing himself in Worcester as the owner of a paper mill bindery and several presses. As the country's leading printer Thomas was well placed to conduct the survey of American printing presented in these volumes. They draw extensively from his own library and from his network of friends and acquaintances and contain material that can be found nowhere else. From the press of Isaiah Thomas, Jun unknown
1810WRCAM55296Worcester: From the press of Isaiah Thomas Jun. Isaac Sturtevant printer 1810. Two volumes. Five engraved plates two folding. Expertly bound to style in period calf spines gilt with red morocco labels. Very good. Provenance: Timothy Bigelow presentation inscription by the author. "Thomas who began life as a printer's apprentice fought at Lexington and Concord and settled finally in Worcester Mass. in 1778 where he became the country's leading printer putting out more than 400 titles before he retired in 1802 to devote himself to scholarship and first to this book. The source materials were obtained from voluminous correspondence and from his own personal library.Although a printed work it is always considered a primary source and is today the recognized authority on printing in the United States from 1640 to 1800. Much of the material which it contains can be found no where else" - GROLIER AMERICAN HUNDRED. "An interesting and now scarce work" - Lowndes. <br> <br> This copy bears a presentation inscription to founding American Antiquarian Society member Timothy Bigelow who apprenticed to Thomas for two years but ended up becoming a lawyer and politician. HOWES T168 "aa." SHAW & SHOEMAKER 21483. STREETER SALE 4176. GROLIER AMERICAN 100 29. PILLING PROOF-SHEETS 3850. BIGMORE & WYMAN III:9. LOWNDES IV p.2666. From the press of Isaiah Thomas, Jun., Isaac Sturtevant, printer unknown books
188032820416<p>32 albumen prints sizes vary; see list below of Yosemite and selected other scenes in the American West on light gray card mounts. All but four signed in the negative by Taber of San Francisco. Contemporary dark blue morocco measuring approx. 18 x 12 in. upper board stamped in gilt "AMERIKA" rebacked brass fittings lacking clasp. Silk patterned endpapers. Mounts foxed slight staining occasional foxing or fading to images. An outstanding album with beautiful rich prints.<br /><br />Giants of American West photography. This beautiful album contains many splendid views of the scenic wonders of Yosemite including splendid Watkins and Taber views. Subjects include the many magnificent falls the Mariposa Grove of sequoias and the great geological formations. At least two and likely many more of the views in this collection were taken by Carleton Watkins. Those for which attribution to Watkins has been confirmed are singled out below but this collection merits further investigation to identify Watkins photographs.<br /><br />Isaiah Taber was a dominant figure in Western photography after the Civil War. In 1864 he came to San Francisco founding his gallery in 1871. In the winter of 1875-76 Taber acquired Carleton Watkins's collection of Pacific Coast Views negatives and Yosemite Gallery in the aftermath of Watkins's bankruptcy. "Once he had acquired Watkins's gallery and negatives Taber began his bid for the exalted position of premier photographer of the west coast." Many of Watkins's prints were released with Taber's imprint. Over the next three decades Taber became the dominant figure in photography in the Far West. In 1906 the San Francisco earthquake ended his career destroying his premises and an estimated twenty tons of view negatives and eighty tons of portrait negatives. Please inquire for details.</p> hardcover
