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2008265363Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press 2008. Hardcover. xxiii 255p. 7.25x9.5 inches prologue biography epilogue notes index illustrated with in-text photos and b&w plates near-fine first edition mongraph in cloth boards and unclipped dj with minor crease to inner flap. The photographer was best known as publisher and mentor to Oscar Wilde and Stephen Crane. University of Massachusetts Press hardcover books
19959003359Santa Fe: Twin Palms 1995. 1st. Hardcover. Fine condition / Fine condition dust jacket. With an essay by James Crump. Fine condition in fine clear mylar dust jacket. <br/><br/> Twin Palms hardcover books
199546310Santa Fe:: Twin Palms Publishers. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. 0944092330 . With an essay by James Crump. Duotone photographs throughout. First edition 5000 copies. Fine in a near fine acetate dust jacket. . Twin Palms Publishers, hardcover books
1998WRCLIT59108North Eaton MA: Stonehill College 1998. Quarto. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Photographs. Faint rubbing and bumping to wrappers otherwise about fine. First edition. The proceedings of a 1997 symposium on Day as photographer and publisher and his context in time and place. Signed by contributor Thomas Boss. Stonehill College unknown books
2000WRCLIT59109Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum 2000. Quarto. Cloth pictorial label. Frontis photographs and 95 plates. Fine without dust jacket as issued. First edition of this elaborate catalogue published to coincide with the international traveling exhibition of Day's photographs: "Art and the Camera: The Photographs of F. Holland Day" hosted at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston the Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam and at the Museum Villa Stuck Munich. Notes bibliography catalogue. Van Gogh Museum hardcover books
1995175410Santa Fe N.M.: Twin Palms Publishers 1995. Hardcover. VG. Yellow cloth boards with black lettering and illustrations 141 pp richly illustrated in color and bw. "This first edition . is limited to five thousand casebound copies--Colophon Includes bibliographical references pages 140-141. Includes an essay by James Crump. Twin Palms Publishers hardcover books
19211331585Madrid: Jaime Ratés 1921. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo 297 pages; VG; quarter bound in brown leather paneled spine has gilt lettering and tooling; binding has minimal shelf wear with a small bump on the top edge; pages have moderate age toning.<br /> <br /> <p>NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office in bookcase next to Ephemera section. 1331585. FP New Rockville Stock. Jaime Ratés hardcover books
19305842Paris: Masson & Cie. 1930. First edition. Good/Hard-to-find study of the use of plant alkaoids to induce catatonia. 24 cm; 135 pages. Half-tone photographic illustrations tables and graphs. Bound in original printed wraps. Wraps splitting at joints text block somewhat loose yet entire. Owner's blindstamp on front blank. Few instances of ink underlining and ink bibliographical notes. Masson & Cie., paperback books
177517671London: Published by J.F.W. Des Barres in 'The Atlantic Neptune' 1775. Copper-engraved and etched map with aquatint on two joined sheets. Printed on laid paper with `J Bates' watermark and `JB' countermark in excellent condition. Sheet size: 30 1/4 x 42 5/8 inches. With: The explanatory text leaf titled as above. 1p. folio 25 1/2 x 19 inches. The finest and most celebrated sea chart of Boston Harbor ever produced and a highly important Revolutionary War map depicting details relating to the Siege of Boston: with the very rare explanatory text leaf.<br/> <br/>This is one the most important maps contained in Des Barres' The Atlantic Neptune and one of the most significant large-scale maps of the Revolutionary War. It provides an invaluable record of Boston at the beginning of the war covering the area from the environs of the city out into the open waters of Massachusetts Bay. A particularly striking feature is the use of boldly etched and subtly aquatinted details to capture the diverse topography of the region including the numerous hills islands and river estuaries. It is important to remember that this was issued as a working sea-chart and as such the cartographer has naturally concentrated on features such as depth soundings indicated by detailed lines and based on surveys by Samuel Holland and George Callendar and the navigable channels between the harbor's numerous shoals which are delicately outlined in stipple-engraving. Holland's original manuscript map is today preserved in the British Hydrographic Library at Taunton Somerset. The present map shows the city of Boston with its streets carefully outlined occupying a pear-shaped peninsula a position that would soon prove precarious to its British defenders in the escalating conflict. This is the second state of five of Des Barres' chart and is identical to the Henry Stevens Collection variant 96D in the National Maritime Museum Greenwich. This state shows a number of notable changes when compared with the original and was evidently altered to take particular account of the Siege of Boston April 19 1775 to March 17 1776. Henry Stevens noted that this state depicted the addition of "Numerous Forts Batteries Redoubts &c. which have been inserted in many places notably on the Charles Town peninsula and on the mainland between 'Willis Creek' and 'Mystic River' also on the east and north side of 'Charles River' below 'Cambridge'.also to the south of 'Boston Neck' and 'Dorchester Neck'.This state is almost as rare as the first state. It is found in some copies of the earliest edition of the Neptune." The accuracy scope and artistic virtue of Des Barres's Chart of the Harbour of Boston was apparent to his contemporaries and it became the main source map of the area for decades to come. Joseph Frederick Wallet Des Barres was born in Switzerland where his Huguenot ancestors had fled following the repeal of the Edict of Nantes. He studied under the great mathematician Daniel Bernoulli at the University of Basel before immigrating to Britain where he trained at the Royal Military College Woolwich. Upon the outbreak of hostilities with France in 1756 he joined the British Royal American Regiment as a military engineer. He came to the attention of General James Wolfe who appointed him to join his personal detail. During this period he also worked with the legendary future explorer James Cook on a monumental chart of the St. Lawrence River. Upon the conclusion of the Seven Years War Britain's empire in North America was greatly expanded and this required the creation of a master atlas featuring new and accurate sea charts for use by the Royal Navy. Des Barres was enlisted to survey the coastlines of Nova Scotia Newfoundland and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. With these extremely accurate surveys in hand Des Barres returned to London in 1774 where the Royal Navy charged him with the Herculean task of producing the atlas. He was gradually forwarded the manuscripts of numerous advanced surveys conducted by British cartographers in the American Colonies Jamaica and Cuba of which the present map is based on the work of Samuel Holland conducted in the 1760s. The result was The Atlantic Neptune which became the most celebrated sea atlas of its era containing the first systematic survey of the east coast of North America. Des Barres's synergy of great empirical accuracy with the peerless artistic virtue of his aquatint views created a work that "has been described as the most splendid collection of charts plates and views ever published" National Maritime Museum Catalogue. The Neptune eventually consisted of four volumes and Des Barres's dedication to the project was so strong that often at his own expense he continually updated and added new charts and views to various editions up until 1784 producing over 250 charts and views many appearing in several variations. All of these charts were immensely detailed featuring both hydrographical and topographical information such that in many cases they remained the most authoritative maps of the regions covered for several decades. Following the completion of The Neptune Des Barres returned to Canada where he remained for a further forty years becoming a senior political figure and a wealthy land owner living to the advanced age of 103.<br/> <br/>Cf. GuthornBritish Maps of the American Revolution referring to Holland's original manuscript 59/3; Krieger & Cobb p.107 1781 issue; Lingel Atlantic Neptune N91.2; National Maritime Museum Henry Stevens Collection K0713 HNS 96D; National Maritime Museum Catalogue 78-83; Nebenzahl Bibliography 3; Stevens Bibliography of the Atlantic Neptune unpublished pp.211-216; Sellers & Van Ee 945. Published by J.F.W. Des Barres in 'The Atlantic Neptune' unknown books
177933200London 1779. Engraved and aquatint map period hand colouring. 14 lettered references large inset with title as above. Rare revolutionary chart of the Hudson River showing the American defenses on the eve of the Battle of Fort Montgomery.<br/> <br/>On October 6 1777 a British force led by Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton attacked Forts Montgomery and Clinton from the landward side where the American defenses were only partially completed. Support from cannon fire from British ships on the Hudson River that had passed through the chevaux de frise on the lower river. By the end of the day both forts had fallen to the British who burned the forts and tore down the stonework buildings. However the battle was a pyrrhic victory for the British. The campaign against the forts caused delays in reinforcing General John Burgoyne at Saratoga where Americans forced the British surrender ten days later at the Battle of Saratoga before Clinton's forces could arrive. The present map which depicts the Forts and the River defenses prior to the battle is from The Atlantic Neptune the finest large scale sea atlas of the United States and Canadian Atlantic coastline ever produced. The maps in the atlas were produced over a seven-year period 1775-82 and are well known for their accurate portrayal of various sounds bays bars harbors as well as navigational hazards. This atlas was used extensively by the Royal Navy during the American Revolution. Des Barres studied under the great mathematician Daniel Bernoulli at the University of Basel before continuing on to the Royal Military College at Woolwich. On the outbreak of the Seven Years war in 1756 he joined the British Royal American Regiment as a military engineer. He came to the attention of General James Wolfe who appointed him to be his aide-de-camp. From 1762 Des Barres was enlisted to survey the coastlines of Nova Scotia Newfoundland and the Gulf of St.Lawrence while his colleague Samuel Holland charted the New England coast and further south. In 1774 Des Barres returned to England where he began work on the Neptune. His dedication to the project was so strong that often at his own expense he continually updated and added new charts and views up until 1784. That year he returned to Canada where he remained for a further forty years becoming a senior political figure and a wealthy land owner and living to the advanced age of 103. The Atlantic Neptune was the first British sea atlas of her North American colonies and one of the most important achievements of eighteenth century cartography. With an official commission from the Royal Navy Des Barres published the first volume in London in 1775 which was soon followed by further volumes. Des Barres' monumental endeavor eventually featured over two-hundred charts and aquatint views many being found in several states. All of the charts were immensely detailed featuring both hydrographical and topographical information. The Neptune met with the highest acclaim from the beginning and is today widely regarded as superior to all other atlases produced during its time. Henry Stevens identified only a single state of this chart issued coloured or uncoloured which appeared in some examples volume four part two of the Atlantic Nepture; the map however is not listed in the engraved list of maps for that section and given the rarity was likely not issued in all copies.<br/> <br/>National Maritime Museum: Henry Stevens Collection: HNS156; Cf. Phillips Atlases 1198; Hornsby Surveyors of Empire: Samuel Holland J.F.W. Des Barres and the Making of the Atlantic Neptune 2011. unknown books
177634405London: J. F. W. Des Barres 1776. Engraved with color wash and outline color. Sheet: 31 x 42 1/4 inches. Expert restoration primarily at the upper margin. Two sheets joined both watermarked "J.Bates" and countermarked "JB". Fourth state of five. Among the earliest charts published by Des Barres were those relevant to the crisis in New England as the War of Independence broke out.<br/> <br/>This chart depicts the coast of Massachusetts from Salem to Scituate Harbor and includes the complicated hydrography of Boston Harbor and the confluent rivers. A considerable amount of coastal topography is included obviously relevant to warships. Fundamentally a chart for navigators it includes soundings and shoals with particularly strong detail along the Charles and Mystic Rivers as well as in Salem and Marblehead. Samuel Holland was the lead surveyor. In 1764 he was named Surveyor General of both the Province of Quebec and the Northern District of North America. He had a considerable staff and the British Navy assisted in providing soundings. From 1770 to 1774 his squad worked exclusively on northeastern colonies that soon became part of the United States. The surveys that derived from the industry of their work were the most accurate ever made to that time. They were sent to London where Des Barres supervised the engraving and publication. The charts were very soon put to use. Des Barres of Swiss-Huguenot extraction studied under the great mathematician Daniel Bernoulli at the University of Basel before continuing on to the Royal Military College at Woolwich. Upon the outbreak of hostilities with France in 1756 he joined the British Royal American Regiment as a military engineer. He came to the attention of General James Wolfe who appointed him to join his personal detail. During this period he also worked with the future legendary explorer James Cook on a monumental chart of the St. Lawrence River. From 1762 Des Barres was enlisted to survey the coastlines of Nova Scotia Newfoundland and the Gulf of St. Lawrence while his colleague Samuel Holland charted the New England coast. He also managed to gain access to some surveys of the American South Cuba and Jamaica. In 1774 Des Barres returned to England where he began work on The Neptune. His dedication to the project was so strong that often at his own expense he continually updated and added new charts and views up until 1784. That year he returned to Canada where he remained for a further forty years becoming a senior political figure and a wealthy land owner and living to the advanced age of 103.<br/> <br/>Stevens Collection 94d ; cf. Hornsby Surveyors of Empire: Samuel Holland J.F.W. Des Barres and the Making of the Atlantic Neptune. 2011. J. F. W. Des Barres unknown books
177633412London: J. F. W. Des Barres for The Atlantic Neptune 1776. Large engraved chart from Des Barres' Atlantic Neptune on two sheets of laid paper joined each bearing "J Bates" watermark. 43x31 inches sheet size nice margins; contemporary hand-color in outline; slightest offsetting a superior copy. State 4 of 7. Fine chart depicting the waters between New Bedford and Martha's Vineyard.<br/> <br/>Buzzards Bay and the Vineyard Sound including the Elizabeth Islands and the western half of Martha's Vineyard. Showing much more on-shore information than is typical for a Des Barres chart there are details of property boundaries structures even a road from Menemshaw Pond to Tisbury. Native names throughout remain largely unchanged today. Joseph Des Barres was born in Switzerland in 1721 and educated in Basel before emigrating to England and entering the Royal Military College where he learned engineering and the art of surveying. In 1756 Des Barres was commissioned a Lieutenant in the Royal American Regiment and dispatched to North America. He served in America during the Seven Years War under Colonel Bouquet Lord Howe and General Amherst and participated in the Quebec campaign as General Wolfe's engineer. Though Des Barres was responsible for the surveys done of Nova Scotia and the Isle of Sable the surveying of the coastline of what became the United States was undertaken by Major Samuel Holland a Dutchman who joined the British army during the French and Indian War as an engineer and became ultimately Surveyor General for North America. Holland was in charge of a rather large staff that included Charles Blaskowitz and George Gauld. They ultimately provided greatly improved charts for the entire coastline and the Gulf of Mexico. All this work was done prior to the Revolution which necessarily brought the surveys to an end. The publishing supervised by Des Barres continued throughout the war years. Des Barres compiled and edited the atlas maintaining a high standard throughout. His primary motive seems to have been the navigational usefulness of the charts. He clearly envisioned a navigator's needs in approaching a shoreline. The Atlantic Neptune was the first new survey of American coastlines in a century and the need was very great. The charts were plagiarized for the next thirty or forty years. Des Barres also had a flare for making charts aesthetically appealing so that they are invariably handsome as well as unfailingly interesting.<br/> <br/>Stevens 88D; John Carter Brown Library Charting the East Coast of North America The Atlantic Neptune Providence: 1972; Robert Lingel 'The Atlantic Neptune' in the Bulletin of the New York Public Library July 1936 pp.571-603; Augustus P. Loring 'The Atlantic Neptune' in American Maritime Prints New Bedford: 1985. J. F. W. Des Barres for The Atlantic Neptune unknown books
199838084University of California 1998. First printing. 4to pp. 148. Notes bibliography index. Published to accompany an 1998-99 exhibition. Paper wraps. Illustrated iin full color and black and white. Fine. University of California unknown books
19982291704University of California Press 1998. 1st Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. 1st printing. Faint edge wear. 1998 Soft Cover. The California Gold Rush captured the get-rich dreams of people around the world more completely than almost any event in American history. This catalog published in celebration of the sesquicentennial of the 1848 discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill shows the vitality of the arts in the Golden State during the latter nineteenth century and documents the dramatic impact of the Gold Rush on the American imagination. University of California Press paperback books
196011765Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press 1960. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Facsimile reprint of the 1867 edition with a new introduction and notes. xvii 9-595 pp indexed. Clean and tight with no markings and minimal external wear. Dust jacket is sunned at the spine and somewhat rumpled. An account of Morgan's raid by his brother-in-law and second-in-command who was a lawyer and writer as well as a soldier. Indiana University Press hardcover books
1910286277London New York Bombay Calcutta: Longmans Green and Co 1910. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. The Spanish Journal of Elizabeth Lady Holland edited by the Earl of Ilchester. The two journeys in Spain one in 1802-05 and the second in 1808-09 were not included in the two volume set of her journals published previously by Longmans. The Spanish journals contain anecdotes concerning the Spanish court and reports from the front during the Peninsular War. Some foxing to the half title and recto of the frontispiece. Gray cloth with gilt lettering and red decoration. Very Good binding. Longmans, Green, and Co unknown books
1909286267London New York Bombay and Calcutta: Longmans Green and Co 1909. Second Impression. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Volume I only of The Journal of Elizabeth Lady Holland 1791-1811 covering her journal from 1791 to 1799. Elizabeth Fox Baroness Holland was the wife of Sir Godfrey Webster and later Henry Fox English politicians. She spent these years traveling Europe and hosting political parties for the Whig elite offering a unique view of the inner political circles of the time. Portrait frontispiece and two additional plates. Slight foxing throughout; toning to the endpapers; some toning to the plates. Green cloth with gilt lettering and red decoration. Very Good binding. Longmans, Green, and Co unknown books
19441314103Athens: The University of Georgia Press 1944. Hardcover. Octavo; VG; hardcover without dust jacket; green spine with gold text; boards have minor spots and bumps to the head and tail of spine; text block has foxing stains and is tanned otherwise legible; 289p. 1314103. FP New Rockville Stock. The University of Georgia Press hardcover books
200148896Aldershot:: Ashgate. Fine. 2001. Hardcover. 0754622177 . First edition. Fine in printed boards. No dust jacket as issued. . Ashgate, hardcover books
1945WRCLIT77807New York: E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company / Batten Barton Durstine & Osborne Inc. 1945. 137 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Formerly stapled in left corner. A couple of ink drops and marginal annotations on title leaf otherwise very good. An "as broadcast" radio script for this biographical vignette starring Fonda as Field. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company / Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne, Inc. unknown books
190224798New York: Forbes & Co. Ltd. and sold exclusively in the United States by Jas. E. O'Neill 1902. Edition limited to 750 sets this being set no. 62 3 pictorial green cloth portfolios approx 17" x 13" containing a total of 196 gravure plates; 1 portfolio rebacked the other 2 with short tears at spine ends; plates are generally fine throughout. Forbes 1863-1927 was a wealthy balloonist who organized the Aero Club of Connecticut and wrote the basic draft for the first aeronautical law in the United States passed by the Connecticut Legislature and signed into law by Governor Simeon Baldwin on June 8 1911 and was appointed ConnecticutÃÂs first Commissioner of Aeronautics. <br/><br/> Forbes & Co., Ltd. [and] sold exclusively in the United States by Jas. E. O'Neill hardcover books
1745253456London 1745. unbound. 1 page 4.75 x 7.25 inches London February 6 1745 -- the lower half of an Exchequer receipt but complete in itself in part: ".the like sum.lent upon Credit of the said act and paid of his Majesty's Exchequer the said Sixth Day of February 1745 as by a Tally bearing Date the same Day appears: And these together with his or his Assigns Acquittance shall be your Discharge herein." Boldly signed by Henry Fox George Lyttelton and Richard Arundell as the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury. All three of these men would eventually be knighted. Very good condition.<br/><br/> British politician and Secretary of War best remembered for dispatching a large military force under the command of General Braddock to America with the intention of driving the French out of Ohio. Better known as the French and Indian War the expedition culminated into the annihilation of the General and most of his forces July 1755. This event would have everlasting consequences for both Britain and the American Colonies as it would cost Fox the office of Prime Minister and also launch the military career of Braddock%u2019s youngest officer George Washington.<br/><br/> unknown books
192976956London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd. Very Good. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. This book is hard-bound in blue cloth with gilt stamping on the upper cover and spine. The covers show edge-wear and light rubbing to the corners and spine-ends. There are a few small spots of discoloration on the spine. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean with illustrations. . Thornton Butterworth, Ltd. hardcover books
1929RGREDAR00DPEHarper & Brothers 1929. Fine. Green Julian. The Dark Journey. Translated from the French by Vyvyan Holland. New York: Harper & Brothers 1929. 1st edition. 376pp. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Book condition: Near fine with gently bumped and rubbed edges. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Rubbed and chipped extremities with small losses from edges; 1"" closed tear at top edge of front panel. In dust jacket protector. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1851276231New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1851. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. A presentable and sturdy copy of the First American Edition in the publisher's green embossed cloth binding. Very Good binding. Harper & Brothers, Publishers unknown books
