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19266406London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd 1926. Fine. A very fine and unique copy. Specially bound with two superb original watercolor paintings on both of the calf doublures by Helen R. Haywood. Octavo 7 1/8 x 4 1/2 in; 181 x 113 mm. lxxxix 4 454 14 as Anglers' Calendar pp. Black and white illustrations throughout some full-page. Initials and vignettes. Inserted limitation leaf "With Water/Colour Drawings/on/Calf Doublures/by/signed Helen R. Haywood." Bound by Rivière & Son c. 1926 stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in. Full forest green crushed morocco covers with gilt double-rule border spine with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments. Double gilt-ruled board edges decorative gilt ruled turn-ins enclosing calf doublures with full angling-themed original watercolor paintings. Green moire silk free endpapers all edges gilt. Housed in a felt-lined green cloth clamshell case spine with leather label lettered in gilt. <br /> <br /> Izaak Walton's The Compleate Angeler 1653 is perhaps the quintessential pastoral work on fishing. Structured as a dialogue between a fisherman huntsman and fowler the book is a celebration of the natural world and the thrills of fishing as a pastime. The two exquisite original watercolors on calf elegantly reproduce at the front "Come now bait your hook again and lay it into the water for it rains again" Compleat Angler Fourth Day and at the rear "Marry God requite you sir and we'll eat it cheerfully" Compleat Angler Third Day. Helen Riviere Haywood 1908-1995 was an English painter children's book illustrator and writer best known for her foredge paintings. She came from a book-binding family: Haywood was the granddaughter Robert Riviere founder of the great bindery which executed this lovely binding and her uncle who also worked for the firm introduced her to foredge and double foredge painting. Between the 1930s-1970s she completed multiple commissions for Inman's Books a New York City based antiquarian book dealer. From her intertest in science anthropology and naturalism Haywood developed a keen attention to the world's natural elements; this talent for observation and specificity found its way into her artwork.<br /> <br /> Provenance: Purchased by David Brass Rare Books from John & Judith Head May 2012; sold to Randal Moscovitz December 2012. Fine. John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd unknown
19347010New Rochelle: The Peter Pauper Press 1934. First thus. First Peter Pauper Press edition one of 950 copies produced at the Walpole Printing Office in New Rochelle New York. Finely bound by Riviere & Son stamp-signed on upper flyleaf in full dark blue polished calf with elaborate gilt spine lavish gilt turn-ins and blue marbled endpapers. 43 pp. Text in black with red rule red page numbers and decorations designed by Ervin Metzl in blue. A bright Fine copy in a Riviere & Son blue cloth slipcase.<br /> <br /> The Peter Pauper Press has been producing fine books in New York since 1928. They published this edition of the Constitution in the midst of the Depression and followed it up with a wartime edition of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence bound together in 1943. The Peter Pauper Press unknown
19126402Oxford: Clarendon Press 1912. Small octavo 6 9/16 x 4 3/16 inches; 167 x 106 mm. x 1-1084 pp. Printed on thin india paper. Bound by Rivière & Son ca. 1912 in full midnight blue morocco covers elaborately stamped in gilt pointille in a wonderful floral design. Red morocco doublures with an elaborate gilt design cream watered silk end leaves all edges gilt. Spine with five raised bands elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments double gilt ruled board edges. Joints very slightly cracked - almost invisible.<br /> <br /> How does one honor the expansive history poetic output in the English language That appears to be the motivating question behind the famous poetry anthology The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900. Compiled and edited by the novelist Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1863-1944 also called Q this epic collection would go on to be a turn-of-the-century best-seller almost 500000 copies of the first edition. A temple of poetry this volume includes all of the greats and some hidden lyrical treasures. <br /> <br /> A spectacular binding from the house of Rivière & Son during the best years. The elaborate pointille design is almost breathtaking and the inner red morocco doublures equally pleasing. "The Riviere Bindery was one of the most notable and prolific shops in London's West End from about 1840 through 1939" Princeton. Bath-based Bayntun Bindery acquired the firm in 1939 transforming into the "Bayntun-Riviere bindery" which is still in existence and family owned. Clarendon Press unknown
19286418London: Robt. Riviere & Son 1928. Special edition. Octavo 8 x 5 3/8 inches; 204 x 137 mm. ii blank iii-viii 75 1 imprint pp. With twelve illustrations by Gilbert James hand-colored and heightened with gold and printed with blue initials for each stanza. Caslon Old Face type on Studio hand-made paper some light marginal foxing to plates otherwise fine. Bound ca. 1928 by Rivière & Son stamp-signed on front turn-in in full blue crushed levant morocco. Front cover with a central oval panel with an onlaid brown-spotted serpent twining around a large gilt chalice. This central panel is surrounded by a floral border of inlaid green flowers on orange stems with bunches of grapes in purple. Inside a double-ruled gilt border on each cover is stanza number fifty-eight "Oh Thou who Man of baser Earth didst make And who with Eden didst devise the Snake: For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blacken'd Man's Forgiveness give - and take." Rear cover with a similar oval panel also surrounded by a floral border of inlaid green flowers on orange stems with bunches of grapes in purple and with a single onlaid green flower and a central inlaid bunch of purple grapes. Spine with five raised bands decoratively bordered in gilt with inlaid purple morocco bunches of grapes in five of the panels and gilt lettered in the other double gilt ruled board edges elaborate gilt turn-ins featuring a vine motif marbled paper doublures and endleaves all edges gilt. Upper joint expertly and almost invisibly repaired otherwise a near fine example of a late twenties Rivière 'Inlaid' binding. Engraved bookplate of Willsherr Lodge the home of Samuel Clay Williams 1884-1949 lawyer and tobacco magnate on front pastedown. <br /> <br /> "The Riviere Bindery was one of the most notable and prolific shops in London's West End from about 1840 through 1939" Princeton. Bath-based Bayntun Bindery acquired the firm in 1939 transforming into the "Bayntun-Riviere bindery" which is still in existence and family owned. A similar binding but without the quotations on the borders of both covers was sold in the Chevalier sale at Christie's New York Friday November 9th 1990 lot 63; it had been previously sold to Paul Chevalier by David Brass and then later to another private collector. Loosely inserted in the Chevalier copy was a pencilled note identified by a second description as being in the hand of George Napier an Edinburgh collector who commissioned a number of bindings. Napier explains his purchase of the book from Rivière in 1932 and that he commissioned the special border now decorating the book. He adds that "George" at Rivière's explained that the chalice and serpent motif was designed by Alberto Sangorski brother of George Sangorski the binder and concludes with the mention of the "Great Omar" which sank with the Titanic.<br /> <br /> Fitzgerald attributed the original work to the famed astronomer and mathematician Omar Khayyum and this collection of quatrains rapidly became a favored text of the Pre-Raphaelites. "Like the Odyssey or the Vita Nuova it was once the most widely known and quoted work of Victorian poetry in the world" and its place in Western culture at the time was secured by Fitzgerald's "epigrammatic sophisticated often mordant verses that display Fitzgerald's adroitness in handling this stanza form" Warner. Yet with rise of Modernism the Rubaiyat fell out of style for a time its lush and romantic orientalism considered out of step with the concerns of those who were living through a devastating World War. But the beautiful surviving copies in exceptional vellum silk and leather alongside recently released critical editions have helped draw attention back to the Rubaiyat's beauty and its role in inspiring so many monumental pieces of Victorian art and literature. Here illustrations by Gilbert James 1865-1941 illustrate the dramatic and sensorial prose. Robt. Riviere & Son unknown
19106404London: Robt. Riviere & Son 1910. A fine example. Square sixteenmo 5 1/16 x 3 15/16 inches; 129 x 100 mm. 46 2 blank pp. Title-page and initial letters printed in red and black. Handsomely bound ca. 1910 by Rivière & Son stamp-signed in gilt on lower turn-in. Full dark blue crushed levant morocco covers bordered in gilt surrounding an ornate floral design stamped in gilt each with twelve inlaid red morocco flowers spine with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments gilt board edges and turn-ins cream paper liners and end-leaves top edge gilt. Neat ink inscription on front free end-paper and a small gold bookplate. <br /> <br /> Shelley's poem The Sensitive Plant is a beautiful and tragic poem commemorating the brevity of life and immortality of cyclical nature. Written after death of his son while Percy and Mary Shelley struggled with their grief in Pisa the poem consists of four stanzas with three sections charting the change of seasons. It is set in a garden bursting with blooms but highlights the sensitive plant-a mimosa-with its humble leafy foliage. Human will is nothing in the face of the impartial power of nature and time. First published in Prometheus Unbound and Other Poems 1820 here it has been reproduced with a delicate binding to match its subject. <br /> <br /> "For the Sensitive Plant has no bright flower;<br /> Radiance and odour are not its dower;<br /> It loves even like Love its deep heart is full<br /> It desires what it has not the Beautiful!"<br /> <br /> "The Riviere Bindery was one of the most notable and prolific shops in London's West End from about 1840 through 1939" Princeton. Bath-based Bayntun Bindery acquired the firm in 1939 transforming into the "Bayntun-Riviere bindery" which is still in existence and family owned. Robt. Riviere & Son unknown
19866154Sacramento: Art 38 Historic Press Class American River College 1986. 26x18cm 15ff. printed recto only. Illustrations. Floral corded fabric over boards with purple illustrated endpapers. Some rubbing to cloth at extremities nearly fine. <br /> <br /> A beautiful compilation of fine printing from students in American River College's Historic Press class 1986. Printers include Dianna Woods E. R. Callison Vince Lozito Fred Gunsky John White and instructor Jean Pratt. The projects were all printed on a Filcher-Brannan Adams Acorn Press Ca. 1843 and vary from a diagram of the press to an alphabet to a quote from Douglas C. McMurtrie to a printed tuit by Professor Pratt. Perhaps a unique specimen and certainly remarkable as a completely handmade object. Art 38 Historic Press Class, American River College unknown
191254150n.p.: John W. Bowman 1912. Oblong 4to. 11.5 x 9 in. 64 pp unpaginated. thick brittle paper stock mounted on white linen hinges neatly written title page in bold clear manuscript w/ 191 tipped-in photographs sized from 2 x 4 in. up to 6 x 8 in. many albumen most silver gelatin all annotated in manuscript below images and carefully drawn manuscript borders in ink on each page nearly all with bright strong contrast some sepia-tinted. Burgundy-coloured simulated half-calf over beige cloth beveled boards minor soiling rubbing to covers some minor chipping to corners & fore-edges of pages some darkening 1 leaf loose still a VG exemplar. This splendid Edwardian photo album documents the salmon fishing adventures and scenic excursions by the photographer through the pastoral Wye Valley just a few years before the outbreak of World War I. At the beginning of the 20th century the Wye River was considered to be one of the best rivers for salmon fishing in the United Kingdom outside of Scotland and this fishermen definitely enjoyed the beauty and catch to be found. These images capture a largely undeveloped and pastoral Symonds Yat and Wye Valley as it winds along the borders of Herfordshire Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire. Bowman has included images of side-trips along the River Monnow views of mills Llandogo the Hutsham Bridge Grosmont Castle Tintern Abbey the Devil’s Chimney at the Yat Wye Valley ruin of the Llancault Church the oldest house in Monmouth winter floods at the junction of the Monnow and the Wye Rivers winter rapids and more. Also included are scenes of salmon from the Wye the rod and reels used photos of fisherman casting into the Monnow River landing a salmon and even image of fisherman holding two large salmon while braced against a roadside hedge. The salmon fishery on the Wye held up through much of the 20th century before a precipitous decline in the 1980s and 1990s however due to extensive habitat improvement work carried out by the Wye & Usk Foundation to restore spring salmon runs the run has once again climbed but not to the levels of the early 20th century. John W. Bowman, hardcover
61775Roanne, Horvath, 1987, in 8° broché, LXIV-95 pages ; couverture illustrée.
102832Paris, Imp. Nationale, s.d. (c. 1794) in-8, 7 pp., broché, sous couv. d'attente.
1892165841892. Very good condition with some cancellation holes. An early Junk bond with an attractive bank-note engraving of the Hudson Highlands - a fictitious Garrison's Landing looking west across the Hudson towards the plains of West Point; with an eagle on the verso. Issued at 4 percent dated 13 Oct. 1892. It is signed by Chauncey Depew 1834 - 1928 whose ancestors settled in 1685 at the present location of Peekskill NY. Among many other positions Depew was president of the New York Central Railroad System and president of the West Shore Railroad Company. This line extended from Weehawken NJ north along the west shore of the Hudson River to Albany NY and then west to Buffalo; it is no longer a passenger line & now serves as CSX Transportation's main freight route from the west to the New York City area. Approx. 13 5/8 x 9 1/4" unknown
1885168991885. Very good condition with a small closed tear into right margin. An early Junk bond with an attractive bank-note engraving of the Hudson Highlands - a fictitious Garrison's Landing looking west across the Hudson towards the plains of West Point; with a train on the verso. Printed in green & black 9 1/2 x 15" with most of the coupons attached and an orange Tax stamp in the top right corner. Issued at 4 percent principal due in 2361. Signed by Chauncey Depew 1834 - 1928 whose ancestors settled in 1685 at the present location of Peekskill NY was president of the New York Central Railroad System and president of the West Shore Railroad Company. This line extended from Weehawken NJ north along the west shore of the Hudson River to Albany NY and then west to Buffalo; it is no longer a passenger line & now serves as CSX Transportation's main freight route from the west to the New York City area. unknown
185235900Lexington Ga: Southern Baptist Messenger" Print 1852. First Edition. Wraps. Fair. Wraps approx. 9.5" X 5.5". 8 pages. Original stitching is gone. Paper is chipped on the corners and starting to detach. Toning and foxing to the contents. Scarce Lexington Georgia imprint. Southern Baptist Messenger" Print unknown
2002LFA-126741113UUne revue de 14 pages, format 220 x 285 mm, illustrée, brochée couverture couleurs, Editions Atlas, bon état
190962142New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons 1909. Tall 8vo. xxxvii 1 401 1 pp. plus 6 pp. publisher’s catalogue. Title in red & black colour frontisp. over 200 text illustrations plates photo illustrations drawings maps 5 large folding. Pictorial tan-coloured publisher’s cloth cover art of Powell Expedition in the Grand Canyon brown & black ruling & lettering t.e.g. slightly shaken still a VG bright copy from the library of former California State Librarian Gary Kurutz. Fifth printing of this excellent first-hand account by Dellenbaugh who explored with Powell’s second United States River Expedition of 1871 & 1872 down the Grand Canyon and were accompanied by noted landscape photographer E.O. Beaman. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, hardcover
3725149<p>Likely Jersey City Hudson County New Jersey c. 1880s–1890s. Indenture. 12½ x 8 inches. 17 pages i.e. Five loose bifoliums; watermarked “Platner & Porter Superfine†WITH: Plat Map. Approx. 21 x 11½ inches. Cloth with ink manuscript and watercolor highlights. All near fine.</p> <p>In 1854 parts of Jersey City New Jersey were under water. In the city’s Hudson River front district called Harsimus Bay or Cove three land owners wanted to reclaim some of these submerged lands.</p> <p>In order to do so however the bounds of their properties needed to be properly set forth and clarified. They did so by means of a new indenture and the creation of a plat map “to illustrate the boundary and partition†of their respective tracts.</p> <p>This indenture and accompanying plat map were originally prepared and surveyed in 1854. Watermarks in the paper upon which the present indenture is written suggest it was copied in the late nineteenth century. Thus we date these two items to c. 1880s–1890s.</p> <p>It is not clear who caused the copy to be made. The arduous work of reclaiming submerged lands may have led to ongoing difficulties and the need to clarify potentially conflicting claims between neighbors:</p> <p>And whereas the said Dudley S. Gregory party of the first part under the authority contained in the said Deeds has commenced to fill in and reclaim lands under water in the waters of Hudsons sic River or her Harsimus Cove and put down and caused to be placed in and upon said lands under water certain cribs Bulkheads and Structures — And whereas the said Parties of the first second and third part hereto are desirous of filling in and reclaiming lands under water in front of or near to their respective lands bounded upon the water as aforesaid —</p> <p>A map was needed too:</p> <p>And whereas the Parties hereto are desirous of fixing settleing sic and establishing a boundary and partition of the lands under water and water rights between them…and to this end have caused a map showing such partition to be made — which is hereunto attached… pp.7–8</p> <p>The indenture aggregates together the various deeds held by the three land owners and their wives to make each land owners’ property claims clear. This information is rendered graphically on a plat map copied here from the original 1854 survey drawn by Clerk & Bacst City Surveyors of Jersey City.</p> <p>Each tract is shown on the grid of the city’s streets or what may have been proposed streets. Each is outlined in red yellow or green watercolor and infilled with a wash of the respective color.</p> <p>The area shown is bounded by Hudson Street on the east Steuben Street on the south Prospect Street on the west and South Seventh Street on the north.</p> unknown
Fine English Paperback. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In English. 32 p. Complex of the Karaite Kenasa in Yevpatoria. Prepared for the 200th anniversary of the Big Kenasa Foundation. Translated by Valentin I. Kefeli. History and architecture of the Qirim-Tatar synagogue
2007201607539Paris, Éditions du Chêne, 2007 ; in-4, 176 pp., cartonnage d'éditeur avec jaquette imprimée. Ouvrage sur tous les héros de la bande dessinée.
19822081982 Paris Albin Michel 1982 coll Spiritualités Vivante. Un volume in°8 broché 236 pp
1930C3426Paris, Lavauzelle, 1930 ; in-8, 389 pp., broché. État moyen.
187520995London: Illustrated London News 1875. Very good overall. Striking full page wood engraving with later hand color of the abundant Hudson River shad harvest from the Illustrated London News. In 1870 New York began a program of seed the Hudson with over 2 million shad fry. The program was very successful with the river yielding astonishing quantities of shad in subsequent years. In the foreground fishermen unload baskets of shad while in the middle ground shad boats work the river. In the distance are a cottage at the water's edge a winding mountain road and the towering cliffs of the Hudson River with a dramatic sky. With handsome later hand coloring. Approximately 10 3/4 x 16" Illustrated London News unknown
1895163631895. Painting. Very good overall. Shute was a well known illustrator from Brookline Mass. who worked for Stratemeyer until his death in 1906. <br /> This is a gouache on stiff board illustration in shades of black and white depicting Native Americans in canoes approaching Henry Hudson's Half Moon. Signed at the left A. B. S. and with two spaces at the lower left and upper right and marked mortise in pencil. <br /> Image size 10 1/4 x 16". Paperboard size: 15 x 20 unknown
16181Paperback. Very good overall. Attractive color lithographic views highlighted in gold & text related to the Hudson River & Adirondacks including 'North West from Peekskill'; 'West Point'; 'Old Dutch Church Sleepy Hollow'; Sunnyside Home of Washington Irving'; 'Mount Taurus and Breakneck' Cold Spring NY; and 'Headwaters of the Hudson'. Attractive cream card covers with title in gilt relief tied with silk cord. The title on the front cover reads "Lessons From Nature" and is accompanied with text of poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley. With "Merry Xmas 1890 G. C. Meckham" in pencil inside cover. Nicely mounted to display board suitable for framing. paperback
184728447New York 1847. A certificate complete with seal signed by R. E. Fenton and Chauncey DePew.<br /> <br /> Hell Gate is a narrow part of the East River in New York City the phrase taken from the Dutch 'Hellegat.' The name refers to the whirlpool that results from the currents rocks and narrow channel and dangers to merchant travel through the area. Hell Gate Pilots were experienced and authorized by the state to navigate vessels through the channel. <br /> <br /> Reuben E. Fenton was a merchant and politician and governor of New York from 1865-1868. Chauncey Depew was an attorney businessman and politician as well as US Senator from New York. <br /> <br /> 16 3/8 x 10 3/4" cream paper original folds gold seal with manuscript additions and signatures with signed and stamped swearing in page for the County Clerk's Office in New York County 8 1/2 x 7" cream paper manuscript additions. Some folds are split with slt loss. Otherwise very good and an interesting piece of nautical history. unknown
187724402Newburgh NY: E. M. Ruttenber & Son 1877. Good condition. Large impressive broadside printed in a variety of type fonts for Hudson River property that is currently on the southern edge of the campus of Mount Saint Mary College and Bishop Dunn School. The broadside lists the owner as Dennis Glennon located at Chambers Street and Gidney Avenue Newburgh NY. <br /> <br /> Referee's Sale with Auction date Wednesday July 18th 1877 at the Court House in the city of Newburgh. The property is a lot measuring 100 X 100ft with 4 large dwelling houses D. W. Esmond Referee. <br /> <br /> Printed in black on yellow paper. Period folds some slt. holes at intersection of some folds a couple of crease separations short tear upper left corner repaired. 19 x 24". Not recorded in OCLC. E. M. Ruttenber & Son unknown
16637The Steamboat William Young was a Hudson River boat out of Newburgh NY. Receipt for butter eggs oats & freight charge $14.77; with a small woodcut illustration of the steamship with the slogan "Keep a supply of plaster coal salt flour & c". Sold for G. Ludington. 7 x 2 1/2". Very good. unknown
