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189043641San Francisco: Taber 1890. White card mount. Very good very faint fading mainly to the sky. 9 x 7.5 inch image on x 10 x 8 inch card. Albumen photograph. "6359 State Capitol Sacramento Cal." in negative at lower edge. Isaiah West Taber 1830-1912 bounced between the east and west coasts as a youth. After opening his first studio in Syracuse New York he returned to California where he eventually established the "Taber Gallery" at No. 12 Montgomery Street in 1871. His business was quite successful with a stock of over 30000 Western views though many were the unacknowledged works of others. When the San Francisco earthquake led to the destruction of his vast collection his business folded. This image is not at Berkeley nor on Calisphere but is similar to "The Capitol Sacramento Cal. B 2369" at Berkeleyexcept this image is taken closer to the entrance with people in the distance at the steps and provides a more powerful view. Taber unknown books
45097San Francisco: Taber 8 Montgomery Street n. d. Ca 1880s. Card with slightly rounded corners edge gilded. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. A bright Nr Fine example. Card with gilt stamped Taber imprint under photograph; verso with elaborate Taber advertisement printed in lavender ink. Albumen photograph of a young lad in a casual pose. Photograph: 5-3/8" x 3-15/16". Card: 6-1/2" x 4-3/16" <br/><br/>A very nice Taber cabinet card photograph which with the verso's advertisement essentially doubles as a trade card. Taber, 8 Montgomery Street unknown books
45100San Francisco: Taber 8 Montgomery Street n. d. Ca 1880s. Card with slightly rounded corners edge gilded. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. A bright Nr Fine example. Card with gilt stamped Taber imprint under photograph; verso with elaborate Taber advertisement printed in lavender ink. Albumen photograph portrait of a young lad from the shoulders up. Photograph: 5-3/8" x 3-15/16". Card: 6-1/2" x 4-3/16" <br/><br/>A very nice Taber cabinet card photograph which with the verso's advertisement essentially doubles as a trade card. Taber, 8 Montgomery Street unknown books
18012272655Isaiah Thomas 1801. Soft Cover. Fair. Large chip from corner of rear wrapper lightly foxed and toned minimal loss and minor tears and creases along edges. 1801 Soft Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 48 pp. Sewn binding self An almanac by an important early American printer. Evans 38628. Isaiah Thomas paperback books
19721826New York: The Macmillan Company 1972. First Edition First Printing. Cloth. Fine/very good. First edition of Judenrat by Isaiah Trunk. Thick octavo xxxv 664pp. Brown cloth title in gilt on spine. Stated "first printing" on copyright page. In publishers first edition dust jacket $14.95 on front flap with no mention of the national book award light shelf wear and wear from handling along top edge. Clean text appears unread. Isaiah Trunk won the National Book Award for this work on the Jewish Ghetto Councils. His other notable works included Jewish Responses To Nazi Persecution and Religious Educational and Cultural Problems in the Eastern European Ghettos under German Occupation. The Macmillan Company unknown books
197055093Barre MA: Imprint Society 1970. Second edn. 8vo pp. xxi 650. Index. Edited by Marcus A. McCorison. Signed by the editor on the colophon. Original leaf from the first edition Worcester 1810 tipped in. Blue cloth stamped in gilt in a box with facsimile of first edition title. Fine. Colophon reads: "Nineteen hundred and fifty copies of this book have been printed from type by The Stinehour Press in Lunenburg Vermont. Roderick D. Stinehour designed the book using Monotpe Bembo and Centaur types. The frontispiece portrait of Isaiah Thomas a copperplate stipple engraved for the "Freemason's Magazine" of Novermber 1811 by W. R. Jones of Philadelphia was pulled from the original plate ow in the American Antiquarian Society. The title page eagle was drawn specially for this book and is based on elements of two type ornaments from the Binny & Ronaldson type foundry in Philadelphia whose types Thomas used in printing this work in 1810. An original leaf from that edition printed by Thomas in Worcester is included in this Imprint edition. The text paper is Imprint made by Monadnock Paper Company. The book was bund by New Hampshire Bindery in Concord New Hampshire. This is copy number 903 Numbered and signed by McCorison. Imprint Society unknown books
46452San Francisco: Taber Photo n. d. Ca late 1880s. Card mount with slightly rounded corners. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Sligh yellowing to image and a slight bow to the card. Faint vertical crinkle to the left side. Very Good. Taber imprint in photograph bottom band; verso with large Taber imprint including woodcut of his building 8 Montgomery Street. Photograph: 4-7/8" x 8". Card: 5-5/16" x 8-3/8" <br/><br/>This an image of the original Palace Hotel which "was built by San Francisco banker and entrepreneur William Chapman Ralston who heavily depended on his shaky banking empire to help finance the $5 million project. Although Ralston's Bank of California collapsed in late August 1875 and Ralston himself drowned in San Francisco Bay on the same day that he lost control of the institution it did not interfere with the opening of the Palace Hotel two months later on October 2 1875. Ralston's business partner in the project was U.S. Senator William Sharon who had helped cause the collapse of the bank when he dumped his stock in the Comstock Lode. Sharon ended up in control of the hotel as well as both the bank and Ralston's debts both of which he paid off at just pennies on the dollar. With 755 guest rooms the original Palace Hotel also known colloquially as the "Bonanza Inn" was at the time of its construction the largest hotel in the Western United States. At 120 feet in height the hotel was San Francisco's tallest building for over a decade. The skylighted open center of the building featured a Grand Court overlooked by seven stories of white columned balconies which served as an elegant carriage entrance. Shortly after 1900 this area was converted into a lounge called the "Palm Court". The bartender William "Cocktail" Boothby was a fixture at the hotel for some years. The hotel featured large redwood-paneled hydraulic elevators which were known as "rising rooms". Each guest room or suite was equipped with a private bathroom as well as an electric call button to summon a member of the hotel's staff. All guest rooms could be joined together to create suites or to make up large apartments for long-term residents and the parlor of each guest room featured a large bay window overlooking the street below." Wiki This grand dame of San Francisco would not survive the 1906 quake succumbing to the fires that ravaged so much of the city. Taber, Photo unknown books
18851678San Francisco: Taber Photo 1885. Boudoir cabinet card 20 cm x 12.5 albumen print on a gray mount 29 cm x 20 cm with the title at the foot of the image. Nice image of Cascade Falls The Cascades in Yosemite. I.W. Taber 1830-1912 who primarily photographed the West Coast and Northern California in particular. After assisting in a photographic studio in San Francisco from the mid-1860s until 1871 Taber opened his own business which quickly became one of the premier studios in the city. In addition to his own photographs Taber printed published and distributed the work of other photographers including Carleton Watkins. Taber acquired Watkins's negatives in 1881 as a result of Watkins's bankruptcy. He also sold photographic supplies and manufactured dry plates. Taber Photo unknown books
1795JC17706Worcester: Isaiah Thomas 1795. Paperback. Good. Stitched wraps. 24 leaves. Title torn with loss to lower 60% of leaf otherwise complete. Tape repair to final leaf. Sold as is. <br/><br/> Isaiah Thomas paperback books
1970m3067Barre MA: Imprint Society 1970. Of an Edition of 1950 Copies Printed at The Stinehour Press this is No. 806. It is signed by the editor and includes an original leaf from the 1810 first edition of Thomas’s work. Octavo cloth xxi 650 pp. Near-Fine in slip case. Imprint Society, 1970. hardcover books
46968San Francisco: Taber Photo n. d. Ca late 1880s. Mount now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. A bit of waviness to mount. Slight yellowing at left edge of Mission image. Very Good. Taber imprint in Mission photograph bottom band; verso with Adobe image uncaptioned and top of a cropped second photograph tops of palm trees showing. Mission Photograph: 5" x 8". Mount: 5-11/16" x 8-1/4" <br/><br/>The San Jaun Capistrano mission "was founded in 1776 by Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order. Named for Giovanni de Capistrano a 15th-century theologian and 'warrior priest' who resided in the Abruzzo region of Italy San Juan Capistrano has the distinction of being home to the oldest building in California still in use a chapel built in 1782. Known alternately as 'Serra's Chapel' and 'Father Serra's Church' it is the only extant structure where it has been documented that Junipero Serra celebrated Mass. One of the best known missions in Alta California and one of the few missions to have actually been founded twice—others being Mission San Gabriel Arcángel and Mission La Purísima Concepción." Wiki A curious gathering of these 3 images obviously not a commercial mount with the 3rd image Palm Trees having been cropped with loss. The first time we've ever seen such a format. Taber, Photo unknown books
108162San Francisco: I. W. Taber & Co. n.d. circa 1880-1890. Original photograph 7 5/8 x 9 5/8†b&w albumen print mounted on board. Original board is delicate and chipping along the edges; good. § Original photo from San Francisco I. W. Taber & Co. at 26 Montgomery Street marked B 2598. Taber is known for his commercial photographs and albums of California though many of his photos of Yosemite were reproduced from the photos of Carleton Watkins whose studio he took over after it was lost to creditors. He lost his own studio gallery and negative collection in the 1906 earthquake thus ending his career. I. W. Taber & Co unknown books
022242Worcester MA; 1801: Isaiah Thomas. Octavo. No pagination. 42pp. pictorial head pieces for each month contains historical sketches of earthquakes information for farmers and agriculture recipes for making blackberry jelly how to remove ink from linen poetry Officers of the Federal Government a large listing of roads to the principal towns on the continent from Boston with the names of innkeepers and more. all bound in 3/4 red morocco over marbled paper covered boards slightly raised bands spine lettering gilt previous owner's bookplate and contemporary owner's name on title page. A very nice clean copy. Isaiah Thomas unknown books
179832532Worcester Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas 1798. 12mo stitched. 48 pp. Untrimmed scattered spotting. Good. <br/><br/> This Almanac lists vacation schedules at Dartmouth Harvard Rhode Island and Williams Colleges; currency and interest tables stagecoaches from Boston to various points tables of distances with inns and innkeepers; an abstract of the Act laying a tax on slaves and houses; an advertisement for Thomas's Worcester bookstore; cures for cancer and other health nostrums. <br/>FIRST EDITION. Evans 34652. Drake 3599. Isaiah Thomas unknown books
180021479Worcester Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas 1800. 12mo side-stitched 48 pp. Uniformly tanned moderately worn. Last leaf with a few marginal tears into text but not costing any lettering. Title page woodcut text cuts. Near Good. This Almanac contains a three-page biographical sketch of the just-deceased George Washington some poetry interest tables a French Calendar postal rates a list of stagecoaches from Boston to various points stamp duties tables of distances. FIRST EDITION. Evans 38628. Drake 3625. Isaiah Thomas unknown books
1814797Worcester Mass.: Printed by William Manning 1814. 8vo. 210 x 125 mm. 8 ¼ x 5 inches. 12 8 pp. Removed from pamphlet volume. Remnants of leather spine final leaf partially loose to text block; title-page discolored some foxing and light staining throughout. Established October 24 1812 by Isaiah Thomas this is the second annual report which includes  revised by-laws that governed the Society. The first twelve pages written by Thomas outline in five sections the mission and goals of AAS. He begins by discussion what should be collected. He views the product of the printing press to include books pamphlets newspapers broadsides and discuss how different an American library will be when compared to the great institutions of England and Europe. He suggests that membership should be from all the principal towns and cities in the United States. These representatives should collect local history with the goals of presenting collections from all over the country to the Society. Be more organized as an institution and have regular meetings so new collections and ideas can be reported to all the members. Finally to include into membership "gentlemen who reside in various parts of Europe the Eastindies and China." He concludes with reiteration of the goals of the society: "Our principal objects are to COLLECT and PRESERVE - that which commands our attention . . ." The final eight pages record changes to the governing body and the by-laws. Printed by William Manning unknown books
179917835Worcester Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas 1799. 12mo side-stitched 48 pp. Uniformly tanned lightly worn with a bit of light text fading. title page woodcut text cuts. Good. <br/><br/> This Almanac contains some poetry interest tables a French Calendar tariffs for carriages cures for the putrid fever postal rates a list of stagecoaches from Boston to various points stamp duties how to turn salt water into fresh water a list of Masonic Lodges tables of distances with inns and innkeepers. <br/>FIRST EDITION. Evans 36413. Drake 3615. Isaiah Thomas unknown books
179728788Worcester Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas 1797. 12mo side-stitched 48 pp. Contemporary plain wrappers. Untrimmed with some wear at blank corners and edges. Title page woodcut text cuts. Good to Very Good. <br/><br/> With an essay on the origin of almanacs tables of money values and interest a cure for dysentery postal rates a list of stagecoaches from Boston to various points stamp duties tables of distances inns and innkeepers.<br/> The North American Imprints Project identifies this as the first edition of this Almanac the second being entitled 'Isaiah Thomas's Massachusetts.' <br/>Evans 32919. Drake 3590. NAIP w029845. Isaiah Thomas unknown books
179532658Worcester Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas 1795. 12mo. 48 pp. Stitched cut of an angel on the title page woodcuts corresponding to calendar months. Lightly toned lightly foxed untrimmed margin wear a couple of closed tears without text loss. Good. <br/><br/> With a "Lawyer and Justices' Calendar" an essay on Slander court schedules "Clean Cellars Necessary to Health" tables of interest and currencies Friends' Meetings the New French Calendar and material on the French Revolution and tables of distance.<br/>Evans 29624. Drake 3557. Isaiah Thomas unknown books
011923Worcester MA: Isaiah Thomas. Good. Pamphlet. An early American almanac with engravings. The front illustration is several angels with a globe and scythe. Old inked marginalia throughout including front wrap. Chipped and worn edges foxing and toning of pages. OCLC records note 48 unnumbered pages with this copy seemingly missing three leaves at the rear. The almanac calendars are followed by government information such as the federal court days and locations in each state and current list of United States representatives and senators from the states listed in the title. Publisher author and bookseller Isaiah Thomas and his son published these popular New England almanacs for over 40 years starting in 1775. ; 7 1/2" x 4 1/2" . Isaiah Thomas unknown books
1875273943Philadelphia: Published by the Author for the Subscribers 1875. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Signed. Signed by General Guss. Civil War historian James I. "Bud" Robertson in the Nevins bibiliography considers this "a useful reservoir of personal narratives for the campaigns along the Atlantic coast" Nevins I 149. The Regiment was commanded by Gen. Henry R. Guss and this copy is Signed by Gen. Guss "with his compliments". In publisher's brown gilt decorated cloth with portrait frontispiece of Henry R. Guss illustrated with portraits plates and maps. Quite an attractive bright copy from the personal library of Bud Robertson with his bookplate on the front endpaper. Nevins I 149. Very Good binding. Published by the Author for the Subscribers unknown books
180234027Worcester: Isaiah Thomas Jun 1802. 48 pages including self-wrappers. vignette on title head-pieces on page 2 is illustration of "Anatomy of Man's Body as governed by the 12 constellations." At the foot of this same page are notations of Medical Lectures at Harvard and Dartmouth. 1 vols. 12mo. Self wrappers stitched. Spotting some light offsetting and browning else near fine. 48 pages including self-wrappers. vignette on title head-pieces on page 2 is illustration of "Anatomy of Man's Body as governed by the 12 constellations." At the foot of this same page are notations of Medical Lectures at Harvard and Dartmouth. 1 vols. 12mo. With Roads to the Principal Towns and Inns with innkeeper's names on the last three pages. On the back page is a short advertisement from Isaiah Thomas for books. S & S 2457 Isaiah Thomas Jun unknown books
179739386Worcester: Isaiah Thomas 1797. Second edition. 48 pages including self-wrappers woodcut decorations. 1 vols. 12mo. Self wrappers stitched. Spotting some stitching lacking stitch marks short marginal tears or chipping a few repairs to first page else very good. Second edition. 48 pages including self-wrappers woodcut decorations. 1 vols. 12mo. With Roads to the Principal Towns and Inns with innkeeper's names on the last three pages. On the back page is a short advertisement from Isaiah Thomas for a "Very large Collection of Books in the various Branches of Polite Literature" Evans 32920; Drake. "Almanacs" 3586 Isaiah Thomas unknown books
179529179Worcester Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas 1795. 12mo. 48 pp. Stitched cut of an angel on the title page woodcuts corresponding to calendar months. Lightly toned lightly foxed untrimmed. Very Good. Ownership inscription in foremargin of title page: "The Property of Amos Pope 1795." Pope 1772-1837 issued his own almanacs in Boston during the 1790s. See e.g. Drake 3507. Occasional contemporary margin notes.<br/><br/> With a 'Lawyer and Justices' Calendar' an essay on Slander court schedules "Clean Cellars Necessary to Health" tables of interest and currencies Friends' Meetings the New French Calendar and material on the French Revolution and tables of distance.<br/>Evans 29624. Drake 3557. Isaiah Thomas unknown books
179433545Worcester: Isaiah Thomas Sold by him in Worcester.and at the Boston Bookstore; and by other Booksellers in Boston 1794. 48 pp. Stitched. Blank outer margins wormed light foxing. Woodcuts. Good. <br/><br/> "Nichols. says that the Thomas almanacs from 1791 to 1794 were calculated by Daniel George" NAIP. In addition to the usual this Almanac prints an excerpt from Franklin's 'Way to Wealth' an article on 'The Symptoms and Cure of the Vapours' a 'Table of Rates at which Dollars pass in the American States' tables of interest "A Table for Buying or Selling any Commodity by the Great Hundred which is 112 Pounds' and a table of roads and distances. <br/>Evans 22537. Drake 3458. NAIP w029838. Isaiah Thomas, Sold by him in Worcester...and at the Boston Bookstore; and by other Booksellers in Boston unknown books
