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19094440<p>Heinemann London 1909. First Edition. Single Sheet. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Signed by persons connected with book. In 1909 The Heart of The Antarctic was produced as a Deluxe Special Vellum Binding Issue and limited to 300 copies. The edition contained 2 sheets of signatures 1 from the British participants 14 men of the shore party and 1 from the Australian participants of the shore party 2 men. The sheets would have been signed prior to binding with some spares in case of accidents. This is one of the spares a single unbound sheet of signatures of the British participants of the shore party there is a crease where the sheet has been folded at some time. The signatures are all original. The signatures are of Shackleton Priestley Wild Joyce Day Marston Murray Brocklehurst Adams MacKay ArmytageMarshall Mackintosh & Roberts. The watermarks on the unbound sheet are similar to those found in the bound copy of The Antarctic Book. The watermark on the page of signatures shows part of SCRIVIA FINE and shield with a capital letter T. A rare opportunity to purchase a unique piece on Antarctic history from the Heroic Era Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Signed by persons connected with book. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 4440. .</p> Heinemann
1911400<p>William Heinemann London 1911. Early Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. 1911 One Volume Edition abridged edition of "The Heart of the Antarctic" 1st edition thus: SIGNED by Ernest Shackleton x 255 pages illustrated b/w photos map diagrams. Original covers no dust jacket. Signed "To Miss A.F. Silborn With the author's Compliments E H Shackleton on front end paper in ink. Shelf wear contents clean. Initially published as a Juvenille younger readers edition it was considerd by the publisher "a great success". Rosove A305. Originally published in two volumes in 1909 this 1911 issue presents the expedition narrative in a more accessible single-volume format retaining the core account of one of the great heroic-age polar ventures. A nice copy of a edition being signed by Ernest Shackleton adds considerably to the rarity and the value. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Signed by Author. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 400. .</p> William Heinemann, hardcover
1934131905Paris, Jules Meynial, sous la direction de Lucien Vogel 1934 In-folio 38 x 27, 8 cm, un volume de texte orné de dessins de l’artiste relié à la japonaise & 50 compositions en couleurs hors-texte, sous portefeuille original cartonné à rabats avec premier plat imprimé, lacets. Portefeuille bruni, décharge des lacets du volume de texte sur le premier plat du cahier de la première planche. Deux ff. repliés déliés planches 19 & 32, la seconde avec de légères brunissures. Exemplaire de Lucien Vogel N250 avec le texte sur papier Madagascar-Lafuma et les planches sur papier vélin pur chiffon-Lafuma. Ouvrant la Route de la Soie à l'automobile, la 3e mission de Georges-Marie Haardt et Louis Audouin-Dubreuil également connue sous le nom de 'Mission Centre-Asie' ou plus communément de 'Croisière Jaune', parcourut, entre le 4 avril 1931 et le 12 février 1932, 13 000 km de Beyrouth à Pékin en passant par le Turkestan, le Xinjiang et le désert de Gobi puis au retour par Hanoï, Saïgon, Bangkok, Calcutta, Delhi, Quetta, Ispahan, Bagdad et Damas. Nouvel exploit du groupe Citroën et de la France, l'expédition contribuera également à faire éclater le talent de son peintre officiel Alexandre Iacovleff à travers ses portraits, dessins et peintures d'une grande beauté.
193314334VOGEL MEYNIAL 1933 1 Croquis de route et notes de voyage. Paris, Vogel - Meynial, s.d. (1934), in-folio sous chemise à rabats.
1913141950Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie 1913 54 volumes in-4, divers reliures demi-chagrin ou basane cerise, vert ou brun, dos lisses & à nerfs, filets et fleurons, toutes tranches dorées. Accroc de cuir au dos en tête pour les années 1913 & 1911, menus frottement, sinon très bon état général.
200030664ABBarcelona, Moleiro, 2000?2002. Folio und quart. 331 S. Mit (20) Bl. mit faks. Karten. Leinen- und Lederband in Lederbox. + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden +, A|B 2 Bände.
190280854San Francisco dimanche 28 et lundi 29 décembre 1902 | 13 x 20 cm | 8 pages sur 2 feuillets doubles
200030664AB2 Bände. Barcelona, Moleiro, 2000–2002. Folio und quart. 331 S. Mit (20) Bl. mit faks. Karten. Leinen- und Lederband in Lederbox.
1990217131990 Aquarelle, signée et datée en bas à gauche, titrée Corsica, 1990, 13 x 19 cm., encadrée.
190380856San Francisco jeudi 8 et samedi 11 janvier 1903 | 13 x 20 cm | 6 pages sur 3 feuillets
190280848San Francisco dimanche 22 novembre 1902 | 13.70 x 18 cm | 4 pages sur un feuillet double
19235280Various locations in the American Southwest and West 1923. About very good. Two oblong folio photograph albums bound in brown pebbled leather each titled in gilt on front cover "WANDERLUST" containing a total of 266 full-page vernacular and professional photographs. First albums: 146 leaves illustrated with 128 full-page landscape photographs each around 6 x 8 inches or slightly larger and occasional manuscript or hand-fashioned sectional title pages and maps. Second volume: 148 leaves illustrated with 138 photographs and occasional manuscript or hand-fashioned sectional title pages. All contents mounted one per page to recto of each leaf. Spines perished but holding strong boards worn scuffed and soiled. Contents noticeably curled with minor to moderate dust-soiling throughout. A studio photograph of a young man is laid-in to the first album likely the compiler of the albums but sadly unidentified. An elaborately-produced pair of vernacular photograph albums documenting an epic cross-country train excursion in 1923 by a well-to-do but anonymous traveler from New York comprised of over 260 full-page photographs. The photographs are a mixture of silver gelatin images printing out paper prints handcolored photographs and a handful of cyanotypes. Most of the images appear to be taken by the traveler en route but some images may have been bought along the way. The images largely picture the landscape or architecture seen along the way with a healthy number of images showing the railroad and the railcars themselves with many images taken at train depots. The occasional manuscript sectional title pages denote the regions of travel as the compiler moved west to California and then eventually back east towards home.<br /> <br /> The first album begins with a manuscript title leaf quoting the text of Gerald Gould's poem "Wanderlust" supplemented by two small drawings and two thumbnail photographs. A map on the second leaf traces the voyage from New York down through the American South and Southwest to California and back to New York through Arizona Colorado and the Midwest. Thereafter the album is comprised mostly of full-page photographs grouped together by location with anywhere from a few to several images per section. The first section in the first album shows the first major stop on the trip -- Washington D.C. and Mount Vernon; this section contains photographs of the Capitol the Lincoln Monument other D.C. buildings and several on the grounds of George Washington's home at Mount Vernon. The album then includes sections featuring New Orleans six photographs; the route between New Orleans and El Paso five images including the train depot at Langtry Texas; El Paso five shots featuring the city and street views; Juarez Mexico eight shots mostly either street scenes or a bullfight; "Thru New Mexico and Arizona" four images; The Apache Trail in Arizona nineteen shots mostly desert landscapes but with some buildings along the trail; and onward through the Carriso Gorge seven photos to California beginning at Coronado Beach eight photographs. The remainder of the first album features California locations namely San Diego sixteen images mostly missions; Pasadena ten photos mostly featuring gardens; Catalina Island eight shots of the island scenery or the bay; Los Angeles eight views in Santa Monica Venice and Ocean Park; and ending with fourteen images featuring missions and other notable structures in Santa Barbara.<br /> <br /> The second volume picks up the excursion in Del Monte California featuring fifteen scenes in Carmel by the Sea and Monterey. The photographic journey of California then continues to Santa Cruz and the Big Trees five shots; San Francisco eleven views around the city and in the Japanese gardens; Mt. Tamalpais a dozen shots of elevated vistas big trees and forests; Yosemite National Park twenty park views; Mariposa Big Trees seven shots; and ends with the Glenwood Mission Inn in Riverside twenty-two images of the hotel grounds and other local scenery and missions around Riverside. The remainder of the album features photographs from the Grand Canyon in Arizona twenty-six images mostly landscapes but with a few featuring Native American ceremonies and Colorado Springs twenty landscapes and other views of the city surrounding desert Pikes Peak and so forth. Concerned mostly with scenery of the American South Southwest and West Coast the compiler did not see fit to record photographs of the remainder of his trip back home to New York. In addition to the information contained in the photographs here the elaborate materiality custom matching albums with matching gilt titles to the front board handcrafted sectional title pages the hand-drawn and traced map and the nature of the organization of the albums arranged in the order of travel from east to west and back east again speaks volumes about the importance the compiler placed on the trip.<br /> <br /> Substantially documented western travel albums are growing rare in the market and the present example is one of the most carefully-assembled examples we have ever seen. unknown
190278611San Francisco jeudi 10 décembre 1902 | 11.20 x 17 cm | 2 pages sur un feuillet
1938WRCAM55556Various locations in Latin America 1938. 100pp. containing 230 photographs as well as postcards maps dozens of menus greeting cards and other travel ephemera. Thick folio. Contemporary brown paper-covered cloth string-tied. Boards lightly scuffed and worn. Some leaves loose moderate edge wear and chipping. Photographs clean and nice annotations highly legible. Good plus. An illuminating and entertaining illustrated scrapbook documenting the travels of six friends on a trip to Mexico Panama and various points in South America including Colombia Peru Chile Argentina and Brazil in 1938. One of the opening leaves has four photographs of the travellers comprised of two elderly couples and two single women captioned "Rogues to the Pampas!" Throughout the album there are numerous photographs both vernacular and professional a great many capturing locals in native dress as well as images of scenery and the city streets. The photographs are accompanied by colorful descriptive annotations. <br> <br> The voyage began January 20 1938 aboard the Japanese NYK Liner S.S. Bokuyo Maru. There are numerous menus and other ephemera from the ship as well as a photograph of the Japanese crew signed by the ship's officers. The first photographs depict Manzanillo Mexico a week later with captions such as "Worst city we ever saw says the man from Capetown South Africa who has been around the world" and "Sid Thompson says 'I bet if these Mexicans had a good hot bath they'd find a suit of underwear they didn't know they had!" They picture a "peddler of hats and drink" and a "man carrying load on his head" in the streets of Manzanillo. They then take a train to Colima Mexico on which a passenger is noted to say "Jesus Christ you'd think they never saw an American before" and where they eat papaya for the first time. In Panama on February 3 they see "a native with an iguana in each hand - we also saw our first sloth and a land crab" and they witnessed "a negro funeral." <br> <br> On February 5 the travellers stop at Buenaventura Colombia where they experienced an earthquake and their first sight of the Andes along with a "strong acrid wet odor that pervades atmosphere everywhere." There are several photographs of the city and the locals including one of "natives" fishing accompanied by significant commentary on the locals: <br> <br> "The natives have plenty of fish which they catch in nets thrown by hand - plenty of bananas and fruits and cocoanuts and will not work enough to buy anything but a little clothing rice and coffee. There are no public schools in Colombia - a few religious schools inland. All education for boys and girls of better class is in U.S. or Europe. U.S. buys 85% of Colombia's coffee. Population 80% negroes on coast. Government is unstable foreign capital will not make very much of an investment here but Standard Oil Co. has a $52000000 pipeline in Colombia. Malaria is the greatest plague here though typhoid is also guarded against in fruits and vegetables. Buenaventura is wholly tropical." <br> <br> The group then proceeds to Lime Peru where they arrive "in a dense fog - worst in 10 years." They take numerous snapshots of various cultural sights around the city images of "guano birds" along the shoreline and a "Typical Peruvian Indian of the High Andean Plateaus." They stayed three nights at the Hotel Bolivar before proceeding to Cuzco Tacua and Mollendo which they describe as "a dirty town." Still they took several photographs here including "Descendants of the Incas at Cuzco" an "Indian woman riding Burro - typical scene" in Tacua and other street scenes. <br> <br> Chile was next for the group. They were in Santiago by February 23 and shot several images at a street market such as a soap dealer the flower market a corn stand and other scenes. Shortly thereafter they traveled to Valparaiso Puerto Varas Puerto Montt and other Chilean locations. They captured the port of Valparaiso the Three Brothers at Chilean Lakes scenes in the Chilean mountains Lake Llanquihue and include in the album a professional real photo postcard captioned "Typical Araucanian Indian Hut" among other images. <br> <br> The travellers then moved on to Argentina. They describe Buenos Aires as "the most beautiful city in South America so far as the city itself is concerned." Their time in the city is illustrated exclusively with postcards but they include a plethora of descriptive text for numerous monuments landmarks harbor scenes gardens and other sites. <br> <br> During their time in Brazil the travellers document coffee production cattle and other agricultural settings as well as cities and architectural features. These include numerous images of Rio de Janeiro which "no picture however beautiful can portray with any accuracy the beauty of Rio." On March 30 the group heads "from Buenos Aires down the muddy Rio de la Plata" towards the Amazon River. Here they include real photo postcards of "Typical Indians of the Amazon" an "Amazon Indian Hut" and "More Indians - These are some of the most primitive people living." Among the images taken on the streets of Brazil is one showing a black woman walking with a bundle on her head which is captioned "N asterisks ours mammy in pink dress and head load - and was she furious when I took her picture! If looks could kill I'd be buried in Brazil." <br> <br> The group rejoined their cruise in Brazil boarding the Rio de Janeiro Maru and finished their journey at the end of April. A detailed revealing and lengthy travel account extensively illustrated and annotated by a group of judgmental American tourists. hardcover books
1934158433Peiping.: Peiyang Press. circa1934. Coloured folding plan of Peking with original envelope. 60 x 50cm. A few neat repairs at folds two panels evenly browned on reverse. A very good copy of a scarce pictorial plan with its envelope. This delightful and scarce pictorial map of Peking with landmarks and streets in romanised Chinese with occasional Chinese characters is surprisingly scarce. Although apparently issued in several editions in the 1920s and 30s it appears relatively infrequently on the market. The divisions of the Legation District are indicated by their flags - this edition shows the German Legation by use of the black white and red bands of the German flag. This flag which was no longer used after 1935 helps date this edition. Other landmarks and attractions shown included theatres foreign shopping area adjacent to the legations quarter Liu Li Chang Curio District the racecourse the many city gates etc. . Peiyang Press. unknown
1925100676<p>New York and London 1925-1926. 1925-1926. Very good. - 1 An autograph letter 1 & 1/4 pages signed "Rosita Forbes". Writing from 28 Wilton Place London on May 23 1924 Rosita Forbes is concerned with her tax liabilities in England as a result of her just completed first American lecture tour. She addresses a Miss Smith of the Pond Bureau asking that should "British Income Tax people" inquire about her tour and her contracts with the Pond Bureau "please give no information of any sort but refer the questioners to us. Next time I come to U.S.A. I shall have to have a financial secretary to keep accounts!". She suggests she could return in October "but I don't want to arrive in America more than one day before my first lecture. Your country is too expensive."</p><p>2 A cablegram from Forbes dated May 9 1925: "AVAILABLE AMERICAN LECTURES FROM NOVEMBER FIRST OR EARLIER TILL MARCH CABLE CONFIRMATION."</p><p>3 A 3-page autograph letter 7 inches high by 4-1/2 inches wide "Rosita Forbes". Writing from 28 Wilton Place London on May 9 1925 Forbes addresses Pond stating that she has "always been ready to come out to U.S.A. by Oct. 30th. I cabled you to this effect yesterday.I sent you a quantity of press cuttings & a good Abyssinian dress picture a week ago. Now I send you some snapshots & a map with our complete route on it.I don't see how Weigall & I can clash because our subjects are so different.I hope this time you will save on railway fares!!!! Please try & arrange lectures in groups if possible! Macaulay is going to publish my Abyssinian book 'From Red Sea to Blue Nile' & also a novel 'Wings Aflame' in the autumn. Best of luck to us both!!!!" The title "Wings Aflame" may be a reference to her novel "If the Gods Laugh" published in 1925.</p><p>4 A retained carbon of Pond's cable dated May 13 1925: "NOVEMBER ONE TO MARCH SATISFACTORY CAN YOU REMAIN TO MARCH THIRTEEN HAVE ENGAGEMENT BOOK FOR NINTH"</p><p>5 A return cable from Forbes dated May 14 1925: "YES FORBES"</p><p>6 A retained carbon of Pond's letter dated June 11 1925 addressed to "My Dear Lady Rosita". In his letter Pond complains "I note that Macaulay has the books. I'm sorry one of the better publishers was not selected for they do publish rather sensational stuff". He goes on to comment about Abyssinian controversies. "Marian C. Cooper asks me to ask you not to judge his ideas of Abyssinia by his articles in ASIA which were edited without his consent nor the film The Golden Prince which was made up without his aid from some pictures he and Schoedsack made. .Powell in his book on Abyssinia criticized Cooper for things he had done and he does not wish you too to join in the hue and cry."</p><p>7 Retained carbon of Pond's June 16 1925 cable: "CAN I USE ABYSSINIAN PHOTOS FOR NEWSPAPER PUBLICITY ARTICLES.".</p><p>8 A cablegram from Forbes dated June 18 1925: "FORBES ANXIOUS SELL ARTICLES AND PHOTOGRAPHS ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION CONSULT KENNADAY 215 WEST 33RD STREET AND DO WHAT BOTH CONSIDER BEST.".</p><p>9 Retained carbon of Pond's reply to Forbes cablegram now addressing her as "My dear Mrs. McGrath". "Paul Kennaday tells me that he has not been able to place your articles about Abyssinia. I am awfully sorry that this has not been done for we need publicity in this country to secure business and so far no one knows that you have been in Abyssinia or made a new journey.Things so far have not been going as good as I like but this does not mean that there will be no tour and a fairly good one. If you find that English bookings are going exceedingly well I suggest that you give Mr. Christy more time in November."</p><p>10 A 2-page autograph letter 5-3/4 inches high by 4-3/4 inches wide on "28 Wilton Place" letterhead signed "Rosita Forbes". The letter dated September 15 1925 overlaps with Pond's later letter of September 18th. "I am so sorry you are having trouble over my American tour - what bad luck. I think under the circumstances it would probably be better if I arrived on January 1st & stayed till early April.Would you mind on receipt of this letter cabling me the date you consider most suitable for me to come over as I have to arrange the letting of my house which is a matter needing time. I don't mind what date I come but as living is very expensive in U.S.A. I don't want to come until there is contract business in view!!".</p><p>11 A retained carbon of Pond's September 18 1925 letter to Forbes suggesting that the tour be moved forward to January "to commence your tour with your booking in Haverhill Massachusetts on January 5th."</p><p>12 A retained carbon of Pond's letter responding to Forbes letter of September 15. Dated September 25 1925 Pond writes "I think we are both agreed that it is better for you to arrive in early January. I am not cabling you about this as I wrote you on September 18th and you know my point of view. Your first engagement at present is January 5th."</p><p>13 A cablegram from Forbes dated September 29 1925: "DELIGHTED ARRIVE JANUARY FIRST / ROSITA".</p><p>14 A retained carbon of a letter from Pond dated October 8 1925 concerning a booking. "The Chicago Geographic Society is very anxious to have you this year but they are unable to pay more than one hundred $100.00 dollars. Are you willing to allow me to book you with them I giving you the minimum rate of seventy-five $75.00 dollars which was in force last year and retaining twenty-five $25.00 dollars to cover my own expense"</p><p>15 A 2-page autograph letter 7 inches high by 5-1/4 inches wide on "Broadlands Romsey Hampshire" letterhead signed "Rosita Forbes". Forbes sends the first sheet of her contract not here present and pictures for her lectures. "I shall probably have to come over on the 'Paris' of the Compagnie Transatlantique leaving Plymouth on the 16th Dec. as I can probably get better accommodation on her as I have done a good deal of writing for the Company.I am so sorry you are having so much trouble over my tour for I've always told everyone that of all the business men all over the world I've come in contact with you are the best to work with.".</p><p>16 A retained carbon of a letter from Pond dated October 30 1925 encouraging Forbes to come later than the December date she suggested. "There will really be nothing doing here until your first lecture on January 5th."</p><p>17 A 2-page autograph letter 5-3/4 inches high by 4-3/4 inches wide on "28 Wilton Place" letterhead signed "Rosita Forbes". The letter dated October 30 ok's the arrangements with the Chicago Geographical Society but questions "Won't the National or American Geographical Socs. have me this time" She confirms her early arrival in New York and makes a request "Please secure an inexpensive room with bath somewhere in N.Y. Consult Miss Smith because you are not very good my friend at cheap hotels!!!!"</p><p>18 A 2-page autograph letter 5-3/4 inches high by 4-3/4 inches wide on "28 Wilton Place" letterhead signed "Rosita Forbes". Addressing "Mr. Pond or Miss Smith" Forbes reaffirms her December arrival in New York. "Don't you think you cd. induce some of the newspapers to interview me on 'Curious Xmases' or 'My most extraordinary Xmas'. It wd. make publicity. I spent one Xmas in camp in the African desert on my way to Kafara. Another in an Arabian harem one in Persia & in Abyssinia they have a special ceremonial."</p><p>19 In a retained carbon of a Pond letter dated November 13 1925 he expresses his pleasure that Forbes has accepted the terms for the Chicago Geographical Society lecture. "The National Geographic which wanted you so eagerly before has now passed you by and so has the American. They are strange people."</p><p>20 A 2-page autograph letter 7 inches high by 4-3/8 inches wide on "The Nook Sunningdale" letterhead signed "Rosita Forbes". In the letter dated November 21 Forbes reassures Pond that despite her early arrival he doesn't ".have to bother at all about me till you want me to lecture.Mr. Wingate of the Dorland Agency is going to communicate with you re publicity on arrival as I've just written the feature article for the February issue of the Monitor on 'Morocco'".</p><p>21 In a retained carbon of a letter dated November 30 1925 Pond regrets that it is too late to place an article on various Christmases with any of the syndicates or magazine sections of newspapers. However he has an idea: "Iola Plaxton spent some time in Fleet Street as the special correspondent for the Daily and Sunday Express is now back in New York and keen to meet you. .she concocted a scheme provided you approved of your giving her an exclusive interview on this particular theme the minute you arrive. Meantime she is going to get an editor lined up to take it."</p><p>22 Retained copy of a cablegram dated December 22 1925: "ROSITA FORBES STEAMER 'PARIS' NY. RESERVED ROOM AT WALDORF ASTORIA. POND."</p><p>23 An undated promotional letter from The Pond Bureau signed in blue ink by James B. Pond and titled "Rosita Forbes Returns". In the letter he solicits future lecture possibilities. "Although Rosita Forbes has been announced before you are again reminded of her return tour. If you can still find a place for her do so for you will like her and she will please you. Send for open dates and terms."</p><p>24 An autograph letter 9-3/8 inches high by 6 inches wide on "Hotel Webster New York" letterhead. Dated January 7 1926 Forbes writes to the Pond office manager "Miss Smith" after her first lectures in Haverhill Mass. "I enclose two endorsed cheques value 200 $ & 230 $ - a long bill for steamer fare 2 lectures & expenses.Please send me here - I've left the Shelton too noisy - the 2 photos I gave to Mr. Pond the first day I saw him & ask him to send me a cheque soon as I have 10 dollars 1 cent a French franc & a half crown left in the world." Signed "Yrs. R.F."</p><p>25 On a "Hotel Webster New York" envelope Forbes notes her expenses: "They only gave me enclosed 150 dollars at Passaic last night instead of 200 as per contract". She then lists her expenses including a taxi fare totalling $2.52. Pond notes that he has paid the $2.50 and dates the envelope !/12/26 with the note "Remainder due tomorrow $50.00".</p><p>26 An autograph letter 9-3/8 inches high by 6 inches wide on "Hotel Webster New York" letterhead. Dated Jan. 13 -1926 and addressed to "Miss Smith" Forbes sends further financial accounts regarding the Passaic NJ lecture. "If you get a cable for me tomorrow or Friday will you let me know at once as I'm expecting a very important business wire from England. Yrs. wearily - just how you feel too!" Signed "Rosita Forbes".</p><p>27 A January 18 1926 carbon of a receipt addressed to George Byron Gordon of the Philadelphia Museum for payment of $150.00 for a lecture by Forbes. The receipt is marked "PAID".</p><p>28 A January 19 1926 carbon of a receipt addressed to Forbes detailing payments totaling $213.30 paid to her for expenses and lectures in Passaic NJ and Philadelphia.</p><p>29 A retained carbon of a letter from Pond dated January 19 1926: "When you arrive in Toledo on Thursday A Mrs. Rippon will meet you at th station and will take you to the Hotel Secour."</p><p>30 An autograph letter on 8-3/8 inch high by 5-1/2 inch wide letterhead signed "Rosita Forbes". Writing from the "Fortnightly Club 120 Bellevue Rd Chicago" Forbes informes Pond "I shall not be in U.S.A. on April 7th. I sail on the 'France' on April 3rd. If the Philadelphia Geographical Society want me they'll have to change their lectures round a bit & let me have an earlier date. Yrs. dirtily - is it possible to keep clean in Chicago!" The letter is humorously dated "Jan. 24th. I have reason to believe".</p><p>31 A lengthy 2-page autograph memo on 8 inch high by 6 inch wide notepaper signed "R. F." "Due to Rosita Forbes" Forbes outlines $489.28 in expenses and fees due her for Steamer fare and and Haverhill/Brockton lecture fees & expenses during the early part of January 1926. "Note A. You forgot to tell me that Mrs. Fuller wrote you about Dec. 1 offering me hospitality at Brockton. They were all very angry about it !!!! I cd. only say I had never been told of such an offer." The memo is accompanied by a calculator receipt from Pond's office confirming Forbes' math.</p><p>32 An autograph letter 9-3/8 inches high by 6 inches wide on "Hotel Webster New York" letterhead. Dated "Sunday Jan. 31". Addressing Miss Smith of the Pond Bureau Forbes writes: "I arrived here this morning by the 'Big Four' which only takes 1 night & 1 day instead of yr. nice -sweet - train which takes 2 nights & 1 day!! No letters!!! Please send me .the copy of Raisuli book i.e. "The Sultan of the Mountains: The Life Story of Raisuli" as I must look up some stories in it for an article.Please also let me know how many of Mr. Crane's lectures Vassar Smith Providence Bryn Maur. are arranged & what date" Signed in full "Rosita Forbes".</p><p>33 A 2-page financial memo dated Feb. 1st 1926 handwritten by Rosita Forbes on a folded 7 inch high by 5-1/2 inch wide sheet of "The Fortnightly / Chicago" letterhead. On the first page Forbes notes the amounts due to the Pond Bureau for lectures in Toledo Chicago and St. Louis. On the 2nd page she lists her expenses. The memo is unsigned.</p><p>34 In an autograph letter on 3 sides of a folded sheet of 5 inch high by 4-1/2 inch wide notepaper Forbes complains to Miss Smith of the Pond Bureau "When I asked the Buffalo Athletic Club for cheque they said by contract it was to be mailed to you but they presented me with 25 dollars as they hadn't time to look up the one way fare." She then outlines her expanses and asks that "Mr. Pond .send me a cheque for this before I go to Cambridge on Weds. & wd. you send a p.c. to Toledo & the March lectures asking them to pay me cheques at the end of lecture - otherwise I shall be in a recurrent state of bankruptcy!!" The letter is signed in full "Rosita Forbes" and is stamped "Ans'd Feb 16 1926".</p><p>35 A retained carbon of a letter from Pond to Forbes dated February 16 1926 in which Pond indicates his irritation with her. "I shall greatly appreciate it if when you have a contract calling for payment with me you do not request that a committee make payment with you.Apparently you asked Dr. Gordon in Philadelphia for your fee for he wrote me a rather long letter asking me why I had financial troubles with my lecturers. This give a very bad impression.I have not yet had any word from Brooklyn. The new chairman is apparently disgruntled.It certainly was most unfortunate that you missed Brooklyn and I do hope you will examine your contracts carefully in advance."</p><p>36 A February 13 1926 carbon of a receipt addressed to F. A. Coupal of the Buffalo Athletic Club for payment of $250.00 and $19.57 expenses for a lecture by Forbes. The receipt is marked "PAID".</p><p>37 A February 18 1926 carbon of a receipt addressed to Charles R. Crane of the Radcliffe College for payment of $200.00 for a lecture by Forbes. The receipt is marked "PAID".</p><p>38 A February 25 1926 carbon of a receipt addressed to Isaiah Bowman of the American Geographical Society for payment of $75.00 for a lecture by Forbes. The receipt is marked by Pond "Paid Mrs Forbes". Together with: a Typed Letter Signed dated February 5 1924 from Isaiah Bowman Director of the American Geographical Society praising Forbes lecture given during her first American tour. "She has a most entertaining story to tell and it could hardly be told with greater art."</p><p>39 A February 25 1926 carbon of a receipt addressed to Marion Miller of the Toledo Club Toledo Ohio for payment of $200.00 for a lecture by Forbes. The receipt is marked by Pond "did not fill date".</p><p>40 An autograph letter 9-3/8 inches high by 6 inches wide on "Hotel Webster New York" letterhead dated Sat. Feb. 27. "Dear Lady / Here is my bill.I think perhaps you'd better send it me on Monday or I might be penniless!! but most of all I want that poster about my films - 'Red Sea to Blue Nile' which I gave Mr. Pond at the Waldorf.So awfully sorry to bother you." Signed in full on the verso "Rosita Forbes". The bottom edge of the letter has some damage resulting in the loss of a very few letters.</p><p>41 A March 1 1926 carbon of a memo addressed to Rosita Forbes for payments due her of $100.00 and $16.51 expenses for a lecture by Forbes in Cambridge Mass.</p><p>42 A March 3 1926 carbon of a receipt addressed to Charles R. Crane of the Mary Wheeler School for payment of $200.00 for a lecture by Forbes. The receipt is marked "PAID".</p><p>43 A 2-page autograph letter 9-3/8 inches high by 6 inches wide on "Hotel Webster New York" letterhead dated March 4. "Dear Miss Smith / I had a letter from the man at Toledo insisting that Mr. Pond had agreed to let him know whether I was coming or not & that the Pond Bureau having failed to write he was justified in believing I was not coming. I think therefore that it is only fair to call Brooklyn & this quits as far as finance is concerned. I lost 100 dollars over Toledo owing to some slight forgetfulness!!!! & you lost 50 dollars over Brooklyn owing to some large forgetfulness!!!! .It was rather awful about Toledo because as i told you I was to be the guest at a big newspaper lunch. So much for this sad business!!".She goes on to outline her plans for lectures up until March 14. Chicago Minneapolis and Decatur Illinois. Signed "Yrs. R. F."</p><p>44 A March 25 1926 carbon of a receipt addressed to R.V. Nevins of the Algonquin Club Bridgeport Conn. e for payment of $200.00 plus $5.52 expenses for a lecture by Forbes. The receipt is marked "PAID".</p><p>45 A March 26 1926 retained carbon of a Pond letter. He expresses his disappointment as to the result of Forbes' tour. "I find that you only delivered nineteen professional talks receiving a gross amount for them of $1992.50. Considering your heavy expenses here in the way of living and moving about I am afraid you must have had a considerable loss."</p><p>46 A 2-page autograph memo 9-3/8 inches high by 6 inches wide on "Hotel Webster New York" letterhead dated March 27 1926. The memo outlines Forbes' expenses for her Bridgeport and Montclair lectures and the amounts owed her from the Pond Bureau. The memo is signed "R. Forbes".</p><p>47 An April 14 1926 retained carbon of a Pond letter. He hopes that she had "a pleasant and peaceful" journey home to England. He goes on to mention that she has a brief mention in Gilbert Frankau's newest book "Masterson".</p><p>48 A 2-page autograph letter signed "Rosita Forbes". The letter dated July 2 1931 on 9 inch high by 7 inch wide "Harefield House Harefield Middlesex" letterhead is a response to Pond concerning the lecture possibilities of the English explorer Bertram Thomas. ".before I got your letter I had warmly recommended you to him. I spent most of our lunch with him telling him to go to you but remember he'll be a serious speaker! I've told him he must make his book a bit light & he promised to try". She goes on to recommend the Turkish-Albanian soldier and statesman Izzet Pasha. "Use my name for all its worth with Bertram.</p><p>49 A July 10 1931 retained carbon of Pond's response to Forbes' letter of July 2. "I finally met Bertram Thomas. I found him a very disagreeable individual. I wrote him a letter telling him what I thought of him and he came and apologized to me. From what I know my call down was needed."</p><p>Though Rosita Forbes started travelling at an early age following her marriage to Major Ronald Forbes it wasn't until after a nervous breakdown following her husbands death in World War I that her travels started in earnest. At first she served as an ambulance driver in France during the war and subsequently traveled around the world "by way of American Hawaii Papua Sumatra Java Cochin China Siam." and again back to China where she was taken prisoner during the revolution and ended up doing Red Cross work for the Chinese army. In 1919 she resumed her travels through Africa and the middle-east and was in Jerusalem for the riots of 1920. "From here her journeys are chronicled in her lectures.After her return from Kufra she met and married Col. Arthur McGrath of the British War Office." Astonishingly all this had been accomplished by the time she was thirty years old.</p><p>Rosita Forbes described her journey around the world in her first book "Unconducted Wanderers" 1919. Disguised as a Moslem she travelled across the Libyan desert to the oasis of Kufara from 1920-21. This journey is described by her in "The Secrets of the Sahara: Kufara" 1924.</p> New York and London, 1925-1926.
196512821Hachette 1965 316 pages in8. 1965. Cartonné. 316 pages. Un tigre s'échappe de sa cage après qu'un fou a ouvert celle-ci semant la terreur dans un village puis une petite ville. Le fauve ayant déjà tué un homme entame un long voyage à travers les rues
196777938Cuba revista | La Habana Noviembre 1967 | 26.50 x 35 cm | broché
19195848Various locations in the United States 1919. Very good. 50 leaves illustrated with 198 tipped-in sepia-toned photographs almost all around 5 x 3 inches a handful somewhat smaller all with white ink manuscript captions in English. Oblong quarto. Contemporary black cloth photograph album with "Places and Faces" in gilt on front cover string tied. Moderate wear soiling and minor scuffing to boards. Occasional creasing and minor wear to images. A unique and informative photographic record of an extensive cross-country journey by a young Japanese man from San Francisco to New York in 1918 and 1919. The trip took place between December 1918 and September 1919 beginning in Yokohama. Though the traveler is unnamed he was most likely Fujisawa Tomonosuke the son of the founder of Fujisawa Yakuhin once one of the major pharmaceutical companies in Japan. The company is now called Astellas Pharma Inc. According to a company history Fujisawa Tomonosuke travelled to the United States in 1919 as the company opened a branch in New York. The last page of the present album shows a Buddhist-style memorial with an explanatory caption on the verso which states that Fujisawa Tomokichi Tomonosuke's father built it in 1918 to console thousands of deaths during World War I. The monument still sits in Domyoji Temple near Osaka. Another clue that the album was compiled by Tomonosuke is the practice by the compiler to identify all the subjects in the album by a prefix and their last name except for one who is constantly referred to as "Tom."<br /> <br /> Tomonosuke's journey begins in Yokohama where he boarded the Tenyo Maru which delivered him via Honolulu to San Francisco on December 26 1918. He stayed in San Francisco for about six months and visited numerous locations around the Bay Area including Stanford University the University of California at Berkeley Ocean Beach Seal Rock Golden Gate Park Oakland Lincoln Park and more. In late-May he makes his way to Los Angeles and Pasadena where he visits vast oil fields where one image is captioned "Hundreds of oil wells in Los Angeles" a Southern Pacific Railroad station the zoo Bush Garden and other sites.<br /> <br /> After a few days in southern California Tom sets off across the continent to his presumed ultimate destination of New York briefly visiting Salt Lake City Denver and Chicago before arriving at Niagara Falls by June 3. He includes numerous shots of the falls before arriving in New York City. His stay in New York was extensive and included many sightseeing tours to locations in New York but also New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He includes shots of Bronx Park the Poughkeepsie Bridge the Victory Arch the Statue of Liberty and other sights around Manhattan along withe scenes in Montclair Atlantic Highland and Culver's Lake New Jersey and a few locations in Pennsylvania such as Sawkill Falls on the Delaware River. He also witnessed the commemoration parades for both the American Army's 2nd Division and General Pershing's "Grand Parade Day" in New York City each of which he preserved in a handful of photographs.<br /> <br /> In addition to the variety of the settings the photographs reveal real skill and technique by the photographer. The images are mostly well composed and informative in nature. Despite the fact that the compiler was Japanese all of the captions are written in confident English lending further credence to the notion that the compiler was highly educated and confident as would be the son of the founder of one of Japan's most successful companies. An exceptional annotated vernacular photograph album preserving the adventures of a precocious Japanese business traveller in the United States just after the First World War. unknown
19243357Kentucky Wisconsin Illinois Kansas Minnesota Ohio Wyoming Michigan South Dakota Colorado 1924. Red leather sheep over card ornately stamped in gilt. Album measures 8 x 9.75 inches and is comprised of 108 manuscript pages in a variety of hands with multiple entries per page. Also includes two pasted-in newspaper clippings and a series of loosely inserted ephemera two obituary clippings for the book's owner five calling cards a church bulletin a gown ad an envelope with a death notice of a friend and a car rental flyer from Oklahoma. Tracing the life of Laura Nethers nee Earl from her girlhood and marriage to her old age. Obituaries and census records show that Laura was a resident of Colorado Springs for 56 years following her family's move from the South through the Western US.<br/><br/>The inscription to the first page of the album reveals it to be a gift: "1860. A Christmas gift from father. Covington KY." Above this is the ownership stamp of Laura L. Earl. Little did Laura know the album would follow her across 64 years and to a variety of states documenting her relationships and major moments in her life. For researchers it is an opportunity to trace a woman's development from one century to the next across multiple states in the South and West as she grew into a teacher wife and woman's club activist. Growing up in Kentucky Laura's family moved West. Entries show that she and her father lived awhile in Minnesota and she became a teacher in Wisconsin before marrying and settling in Colorado Springs. Entries come from family pastors students neighbors and friends. Many entries show women's bonds across large stretches of space and together they show what a mobile lifestyle women were increasingly living. No longer confined so a small radius or single homestead they were maintaining relationships and making friends across the miles. <br/><br/>Some early entries like that of Celia E. Hay Illinois 1878 are traditional in nature: "Over our hearts and into our lives shadows may sometimes fall But the sunshine is never wholly dead And heaven is shadowless overhead And God is over all." Students politely thank her for her work and hope they made an impact too: "I ever remain your true friend James U. Cobb. To Miss Laura Earl much Respected Teacher Ellensboro Wisconsin Feb 25 1872." People write poetic verses on friendship or her new marriage throughout.<br/><br/>Yet more often entries are personal. In 1879 Laura's father leaves her a humorous message that "It is ten o'clock and your sixty-one year old father expects a long trip to the Injun Reservation two hundred miles north in the morning.So you see I cannot write any tonight." Elva Walker writes from Colorado in 1885 "We will ever remember our camping trip.and going in a cave" and John Dietrich writes of the same trip "Did it rain while we were camping! I hope we will meet again soon." In August 1919 a friend Emma Eggleston writes an original piece about their recent travel titled Pike's Peak by Auto which begins "19 and 19 was a year to remember from the last of July to the last of September" and which documents in 36 verses the landscapes they passed and the friendship they strengthened while driving. Moments like these are a reminder of changing times -- of early attitudes toward indigenous tribes or of women's freedom as suffrage approached. <br/><br/>A charter member of the Colorado Women's Club and a participant in Frances Willard's Women's Christian Temperance Union according to her obituary Laura's friendship album is a rich space for researchers to trace her movements through communities in the West for genealogists to study the families and lives of contributors and for historians to track which entries come from other educated women and activists. The present is one of the best we've seen. unknown books
199675231C. O. R. V. I. N. A 1996 In-4 relié sous jaquette illustrée en couleurs ; 132 pages. illustrations et photographies en couleurs et noir in et hors-texte. Bon exemplaire en anglais.
1971231PARIS. FRANCONY. 1971. GRAND IN-PLANO A L’ITALIENNE EN FEUILLES (56 X 77,5 X 3 CENTIMETRES ENVIRON) DE (10 + 4) PAGES ET 12 LITHOGRAPHIES ORIGINALES SUR VELIN D’ARCHES, DONT 9 EN COULEURS (42 X 55 CENTIMETRES ENVIRON), SOUS EMBOITAGE TOILE BLEUE DE L'EDITEUR, TITRE DORE SUR LE PLAT SUPERIEUR. CHAQUE LITHOGRAPHIE SIGNEE ET JUSTIFIEE «EA» PAR YVES BRAYER. TEXTE DE ROMAN GHIRSCHMAN. PREMIER TIRAGE LIMITE A 200 EXEMPLAIRES NUMEROTES, DONT 165 SUR VELIN D’ARCHES, CELUI-CI «HC» (HORS COMMERCE), AVEC LA SIGNATURE AUTOGRAPHE DE L’ARTISTE ET DE L’EDITEUR SOUS LA JUSTIFICATION. PETITS DEFAUTS SANS GRAVITE SUR L’ETUI, SINON BEL ETAT POUR CET ENSEMBLE DEVENU RARE, DE NOMBREUX EXEMPLAIRES AYANT ETE VENDUS A LA PLANCHE.
193622802Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1936-1937. 15 volumes, petit in-4°, demi-chagrin rouge à coins, titre doré entre deux nerfs pincés, filet doré à épaisseur croissante et décroissante, auteur en pied du dos, tête dorée, couverture en couleur et dos conservés, non rogné (reliure de l'éditeur).Aziyadé (ill. de Auguste Leroux) 18 H.T.Les désenchantées (ill. de A. Calbet) 18 H.T.Madame Chrysanthème (ill. de Sylvain Sauvage) 12 H.T.Le Mariage de Loti (ill. J.G. Domergue) 13 H.T.Matelot (ill. Charles Fouqueray) 13 H.T.Mon frère Yves (ill. Emilien Dufour) 12 H.T.Pêcheur d'Islande (ill. Mathurin Méheut) 19 H.T.Ramuntcho (ill. Pierre Brissaud) 12 H.T.Le Roman d'un spahi (ill. Charles Fouqueray) 12 H.T.La troisième jeunesse de Madame Prune (ill. Sylvain Sauvage) 13 H.T.La mort de Philae (ill. Deluermoz) 6 H.T.Un pèlerin d'Angkor (ill. Maurice Lalau) 7 H.T. suivi de : Le livre de la pitié et de la mort (ill. idem) 6 H.T.Prime jeunesse. Suivi de : Un jeune officier pauvre (ill. Marty) 14 H.T.Le roman d'un enfant (ill. Marty) 12 H.T.Vers Ispahan (ill. Deluermoz) 15 H.T.Soit en tout 202 illustrations hors-texte en couleurs plus de nombreuses illustrations dans le texte.
19601562PARIS. SE TROUVE CHEZ LACOURIERE. 1960. IN-FOLIO EN FEUILLES (34,5 X 43,5 X 3 CENTIMETRES ENVIRON) NON PAGINE DE (39) PAGES, SOUS PORTEFEUILLE EN 1/2 VELIN IVOIRE A RABATS, FERMETURE A LACETS, TITRE SUR ETIQUEETE PAPIER SUR LE PLAT SUPERIEUR. ILLUSTRE DE 15 EAUX-FORTES EN COULEURS DONT LE FRONTISPICE, SOUS SERPENTES LEGENDEES, D’UNE VIGNETTE DE TITRE ET DE 24 DESSINS REPRODUITS EN NOIR ET BLANC DANS LE TEXTE. TIRAGE LIMITE A 230 EXEMPLAIRES NUMEROTES, DONT 10 EXEMPLAIRES DE COLLABORATEURS. UN DES 200 SUR GRAND VELIN D’ARCHES, CELUI-CI PORTANT LE NUMERO 47. EDITION ORIGINALE ET PREMIER TIRAGE, RARE. TRES BEL EXEMPLAIRE.
190688333Imprimerie française B. Borrel | Tunis 1906 | 15.50 x 23 cm | broché
