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ARABIC CALLIGRAPHY Illuminated Calligraphy Leaf
(ARABIC CALLIGRAPHY) Mu'tamid al-Daulah, Mirza Abdul-Wahab. Leaf from a Calligraphy Manual. Persia,1851. Leaf measures approximately 6 by 10 inches. Matted in blue silk and handsomely framed, entire piece measures 12 inches by 16 inches. $900. Lovely illuminated leaf from a "Muraqqa," or album of calligraphy, handsomely framed. Scribed mainly in the shikasteh script in Persia by Mu'tamid al-Daulah on paper laid on board. Text is written horizontally and vertically in black ink with cloud bands of gold, borders decorated in floral motifs in red, orange, blue, green and gold. Light smudging to ink in lower left corner. A near-fine piece, beautifully framed.
Price: USD 900.00 other currencies   order no. 38356   details     inquire
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ARABIC CALLIGRAPHY Illuminated Calligraphy Leaf
(ARABIC CALLIGRAPHY) Mu'tamid al-Daulah, Mirza Abdul-Wahab. Leaf from a Calligraphy Manual. Persia,1851. Leaf measures approximately 6 by 9 inches. Matted in red silk and handsomely framed, entire piece measures 12 inches by 16 inches. $900. Lovely illuminated leaf from a "Muraqqa," or album of calligraphy, handsomely framed. Scribed mainly in the shikasteh script in Persia by Mu'tamid al-Daulah on paper laid on board. Text is written horizontally in black ink with cloud bands of gold, with an elaborate floral design in orange, blue, purple and green in lower right corner. Borders decorated in floral motifs in red, orange, blue, green and gold. A handsomely framed piece in fine condition.
Price: USD 900.00 other currencies   order no. 38357   details     inquire
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HOLOCAUST Concentration Camp Autograph Letter
(JUDAICA-HOLOCAUST) FRAMINOWSKI (?), Josef. Autograph letter signed. Konzentrationslager Sachsenhausen: November 2, 1941. Octavo, one leaf, written in ink on recto, address on verso. $750. Autograph letter from an inmate of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, with the inmate's prisoner number and block number, dated November 2, 1941. Text in German. Fine condition.
Price: USD 750.00 other currencies   order no. 38371   details     inquire
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HOLOCAUST Concentration Camp Autograph Letter
(JUDAICA-HOLOCAUST) WAJEVECKOWSKI (?), Johann. Autograph letter signed. Konzentrationslager Dachau:November 14, 1942. Octavo, two leaves, printed and written in ink on four pages. $750. Autograph letter from an inmate of the Dachau concentration camp, with the inmate's prisoner number and block number, dated November 14, 1942. Text in German. Fine condition.
Price: USD 750.00 other currencies   order no. 38372   details     inquire
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HOLOCAUST Concentration Camp Autograph Letter
(JUDAICA-HOLOCAUST) GUSTAW (?), Matejko. Autograph letter signed. Konzentrationslager Auschwitz: January 10, 1943. Octavo, two leaves, printed and written in pencil on four pages. $750. Autograph letter from an inmate of the Auschwitz concentration camp to Lublin, Poland, with the inmate's prisoner number and block number, dated January 10, 1943. In this letter the prisoner greets loved ones, gives thanks for packages received, says he hopes to see them another Christmas, and says he is healthy, hoping the same for them. With censor's stamp. Text in German. Four small perforations. Near-fine condition.
Price: USD 750.00 other currencies   order no. 38373   details     inquire
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HOLOCAUST Fragebogen [Polish Jew's Work History Questionnaire]
(JUDAICA-HOLOCAUST) Fragebogen zur erstmaligen Meldung der Heilberufe [Occupational Questionnaire].Partially printed document. Sokal, Poland: March 11, 1942. Quarto, two leaves, printed and completed in ink on four pages of yellow paper, photograph affixed. $950. Partially printed 1942 occupational questionnaire for a Polish Jew, Bernard Pelz of Sokal, a dentist, with a small photograph of him affixed to the document, printed on yellow paper with a Star of David stamped on the front page. Each line of this document, a series of questions about past working and military history, has been printed in German, with Russian and Polish translation beneath. Fine condition.
Price: USD 950.00 other currencies   order no. 38377   details     inquire
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CALDWELL, Erskine Original Photograph Inscribed
CALDWELL, Erskine. Original Photograph Inscribed. [No place: no publisher, circa 1968]. Image measures 8 by 10 inches, framed, entire piece measures 13-1/2 by 16 inches. $900. Head-shot of Caldwell, inscribed to the publisher of his Deep South: "For Victor Weybright, To the end of our days, Erskine Caldwell." Publisher Victor Weybright published one of Caldwell's books: Deep South: Memory and Observation (1968), an informal view of religion from inside the Bible Belt, where Caldwell grew up. "Portraying a region steeped in religious piety and ritual, excess and prejudice, Deep South is a product both of Erskine Caldwell the storyteller and Erskine Caldwell the minister's son. By the time he left home at 17, Caldwell had witnessed such varieties in religious experience as Church of God all-night camp meetings, Holy Roller exhibitions on splintery wooden floors, primitive Christian baptismal immersions in muddy creeks, Seventh Day Adventist foot-washings, Body of Christ blood-drinking communions, Kingdom of God snake-handlings, Full Redeemer glossolalia services, and Fire Baptized Holiness street-corner rallies" (University of Georgia Press). A fine inscribed photograph, handsomely framed.
Price: USD 900.00 other currencies   order no. 38390   details     inquire
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KENTON, Stan Photograph
(KENTON, Stan) Lewis, Reuben. Large photograph. Chicago, circa 1942. Print measures 10 1/2 by 13 1/2 inches. Mounted, piece measures 16 by 20 inches. $500. Large photograph of Stan Kenton and his orchestra The photograph, from the Hotel Sherman's Panther Room in Chicago, shows Kenton standing in front of his orchestra, with the singer Dolly Mitchell seated behind him. On the back is the stamp of Rube Lewis. "Rube" is photographer Reuben Lewis, probably the hotel's photographer. The Hotel Sherman was an important location for big band and jazz music in Chicago from the twenties to the forties, one of the first places in "respectable" white Chicago to hear the extraordinary music coming out of places like New Orleans and Chicago's own south side. The popular late-night radio broadcasts from the Panther Room were heard throughout the country. Photograph fine; light wear to cardboard mount. A wonderful image, suitable for framing.
Price: USD 500.00 other currencies   order no. 38394   details     inquire
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MARX, Chico Inscribed photograph
(MARX, Chico) Lewis, Reuben. Large photograph. Chicago, circa 1942. Print measures 10 1/2 by 13 1/2inches. Mounted, piece measures 18 by 23 inches. $600. Large photograph of Chico Marx at the piano, inscribed on the mount: "Best Wishes to Rube from Chico Marx." The photograph is from the Hotel Sherman's Panther Room in Chicago; "Rube" is photographer Reuben Lewis, probably the hotel's photographer. The Hotel Sherman was an important location for big band and jazz music in Chicago from the twenties to the forties, one of the first places in "respectable" white Chicago to hear the extraordinary music coming out of places like New Orleans and Chicago's own south side. The popular late-night radio broadcasts from the Panther Room were heard throughout the country. "Reuben A. Lewis" and "Chico" are written in pencil just under the photograph. With Lewis' stamp on verso and a label indicating that it was displayed at Washington & Lee University in 1948. Photograph fine; light dampstaining to edges of cardboard mount. A wonderful image, suitable for framing.
Price: USD 600.00 other currencies   order no. 38396   details     inquire
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PENN, William Document signed by Richard Hill, Isaac Norris, and James Logan
(PHILADELPHIA). Original document signed by Richard Hill, Isaac Norris, and James Logan. [Philadelphia]: December 30, 1717. Folio, one vellum sheet, with great wax seal of William Penn attached. Mounted in shadow-box frame measuring 19 inches by 18 inches. $2500. Pennsylvania land purchase document for 250 acres in Bradford Township by James Steel, together with the Philadelphia lot at the southeast corner of Third and Mulberry Streets (now Arch Street), signed by Penn's three agents in Philadelphia, with the great wax seal of William Penn attached. In handsome shadow-box frame. In 1681 Charles II granted to William Penn, as payment for a debt owed to the latter's deceased father, a "great tract of land north of Maryland," which the King insisted be named "Pennsylvania" in honor of the elder Penn. It was not until 1682 that Penn first traveled to America, although during the months preceding his journey he had made extensive preparations for settling the colony. Among these preparations was the publication of a promotional pamphlet, Some Account of the Province of Pennsilvania (1681), in which Penn makes a novel offer to prospective land owners: "land in town as well as the principal grant in the country" (Bronner, 266). This document, executed in December of 1717, is for the purchase of 250 acres of farmland in Bradford Township by James Steel from its previous owner, William Bryant of Berks County, Great Britain. With it came a premium plot in Philadelphia, measuring 100 by 150 feet at the southeast corner of Third and Mulberry Streets (now Arch Street). The document is written in fine English uncials, with the signatures of Penn's Philadelphia agents, Richard Hill, Isaac Norris, and James Logan boldly inscribed across the bottom. Restoration to wax seal. Exceptionally good condition.
Price: USD 2,500.00 other currencies   order no. 38403   details     inquire
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CARNEGIE, Andrew Original Photograph by Frederic Bulkeley Hyde
CARNEGIE, Andrew. Original Photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie by Frederic Bulkeley Hyde. [No place: no publisher], 1902. Image measures 8 by 10 inches, matted, entire piece measures 13-1/2 by 15 inches. $400. Original photograph of Andrew and Louise Carnegie by Hyde. "In 1873 Andrew Carnegie was prepared to stake all his possessions, at this time considerable, on what was then a new American industry [steel]-to begin his famous policy, as he himself described it, of 'putting all his eggs in one basket, and then watching the basket.' Americans did not realize it at the time, but, when Carnegie made this decision, the industrial supremacy of the United States was born. In his married life Carnegie was fortunate. His wife, Louise Whitfield of New York, made not only an ideal companion and an accomplished hostess, but she sympathized with all his plans for distributing his wealth and assisted him in executing them" (DAB). Identifying ink caption, probably in Hyde's hand. Minor chips and crease to corners, not affecting image. Near-fine condition.
Price: USD 400.00 other currencies   order no. 38427   details     inquire
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GRAY, Glen Photograph
(GRAY, Glen) Lewis, Reuben. Large photograph. Chicago, circa 1942. Print measures 10 1/2 by 13 1/2 inches. Mounted, piece measures 16 by 20 inches. $100. Large photograph of Glen Gray, leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra, the original "Swing" band. Originally an offshoot of Jean Goldkette's orchestra in Detroit, the Casa Loma Orchestra took their name from a club in Toronto that never actually opened. As early as 1929 they were developing their unique sound and becoming quite popular; by the forties their popularity was on the wane, as their Swing sound was no longer a novelty. The photograph was taken at the Hotel Sherman's Panther Room in Chicago by Reuben Lewis, probably the hotel's photographer. The Hotel Sherman was an important location for big band and jazz music in Chicago from the twenties to the forties, one of the first places in "respectable" white Chicago to hear the extraordinary music coming out of places like New Orleans and Chicago's own south side. Photograph fine; light dampstaining to edges of cardboard mount. A wonderful image, suitable for framing.
Price: USD 100.00 other currencies   order no. 38459   details     inquire
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SAVITT, Jan Photograph
(SAVITT, Jan) Lewis, Reuben. Large photograph. Chicago, circa 1942. Print measures 10 1/2 by 13 1/2inches. Mounted, piece measures 16 by 20 inches. $100. Large photograph of the Jan Savitt, leader of the Philadelphia-based Big Band the Tophatters. The photograph, of Savitt leading with the snap of his fingers, is from the Hotel Sherman's Panther Room in Chicago, and was taken by Reuben Lewis, probably the hotel's photographer. The Hotel Sherman was an important location for big band and jazz music in Chicago from the twenties to the forties, one of the first places in "respectable" white Chicago to hear the extraordinary music coming out of places like New Orleans and Chicago's own south side. A child prodigy, Savitt was invited by Stokowski to join the Philadelphia Orchestra at the age of 15. He formed the band the Tophatters in 1937, and was musically active up to his death by cerebral hemorrhage in 1948 at age 35 Photograph fine; light dampstaining to edges of cardboard mount. A wonderful image, suitable for framing.
Price: USD 100.00 other currencies   order no. 38465   details     inquire
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YEAGER, Buddy Photograph
(YEAGER, Buddy) Lewis, Reuben. Large photograph. Chicago, circa 1942. Print measures 10 1/2 by 13 1/2 inches. Mounted, piece measures 16 by 20 inches. $150. Large photograph of Buddy Yeager, a trumpeter from the Big Band Era. The photograph, of Yeager playing the trumpet, is from the Hotel Sherman's Panther Room in Chicago, and was taken by Reuben Lewis, probably the hotel's photographer. The Hotel Sherman was an important location for big band and jazz music in Chicago from the twenties to the forties, one of the first places in "respectable" white Chicago to hear the extraordinary music coming out of places like New Orleans and Chicago's own south side. Yeager played with Tex Beneke's band in the forties. Beneath the mount is written in pencil "Air Mail Special" and the photographer's name. On the verso is a stamp indicating that the photograph was displayed at Washington and Lee University in 1948. Photograph fine; light dampstaining to edges of cardboard mount. A wonderful image, suitable for framing.
Price: USD 150.00 other currencies   order no. 38466   details     inquire
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PRADT, Dominique-Dufour de Des Colonies, et de la Revolution Actuelle de L'Amerique
PRADT, Dominique-Dufour de. Des Colonies, et de la Revolution Actuelle de l'Amerique. Par M. De Pradt, Ancien Archeveque de Malines. Paris: F. Bechet and A. Egron, 1817. Two volumes. Octavo, original paper wrappers, uncut. $750. First edition of this popular account of French America and other colonies, signed by the publisher on the verso of the title page to distinguish it from pirated editions. An important study of colonialism in the New World, examining its history and differences as practiced by the Dutch, English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. Current events are detailed concerning the French holdings in the Caribbean, slavery and the future of the Haitian blacks, as well as Mexico, Central America, other Spanish holdings and Portuguese Brazil. Pradt also discusses the expansionist tendencies of the United States. A popular work, this treatise was translated into English and Spanish the same year. Text in French. Palau, VI: 152. Sabin 64882. Light scattered foxing (as usual), near-fine. Rare in original wrappers and entirely uncut.
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MACFALL, Haldane History of Painting
MACFALL, Haldane. A History of Painting. Boston: D. D. Nickerson and Company, [circa 1910]. Eight volumes. Quarto, original navy cloth gilt, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. $2000. The "Byzantine Edition," number 594 of 1000 sets produced, with 200 vivid tipped-in color reproductions of masterpieces from throughout the history of Western painting. Macfall's comprehensive survey covers the Renaissance through Impressionism. Separate volume titles include: The Renaissance in Central Italy, The Renaissance in Venice, The Later Italians and the Genius of Spain, The Renaissance in the North and the Flemish Genius, The Dutch Genius, The French Genius, The British Genius, and The Modern Genius. Each plate with printed protective overlay detailing painter, title, date, size of the original, and a brief description of the subject. Includes nine maps and 16 charts, some folding, in addition to the plates. Occasional light foxing to text; plates clean. Publisher's cloth bindings fine and attractive.
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ALI, Muhammad Photograph signed (portrait in tuxedo)
(ALI, Muhammad) LEIFER, Neil. Large original color photograph signed. No place: November 1993. Poster-sized photographic print, image measures 20 by 20 inches, entire print measures 20 by 24 inches (signed by Ali beneath the image), suitable for framing. $4800. Splendid poster-size color photograph of Muhammad Ali in a tuxedo smiling, number 81 of only 350 copies signed by photographer Neil Leifer, one of only 35 signed by Ali. Renowned sports photographer Neil Leifer chronicled Ali throughout his career and captured many of the defining images of "The Greatest." "There's no sport I enjoy photographing as much as boxing. The atmosphere of a big-time fight-the crowd, the fashion show, all the celebrities-is electric... Over the last 42 years, I've shot almost every major fight and every major fighter... But my favorite subject, no matter what the sport, was and still is Muhammad Ali." Fine condition, an exceptional signed photographic portrait.
Price: USD 4,800.00 other currencies   order no. 38672   details     inquire
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RAVEL, Maurice Daphnis & Chloe
RAVEL, Maurice. Daphnis & Chloé. Ballet en un Acte. Fragments Symphoniques 2e Série. Lever du Jour-Pantomime-Danse Générale. Paris: Durand, (1913). Folio, original printed paper boards. $3500. Association copy of the full score of one of the two orchestral versions of Ravel's ballet, often considered his greatest work, inscribed by noted conductor Charles Munch on the front pastedown: "En Souvenir a mon premiere concert a Denver. le 7 Nov. 48. Charles Munch." Ravel began working on Daphnis & Chloé in 1909 after being commissioned by Diaghilev for his Ballets Russes. The work took Ravel three years, and the early performance history was fraught with difficulties, including at one point a rather bitter argument between Ravel and Diaghilev that was worked out quite publicly in letters to various newspapers. Despite the controversy, the work, "his most ambitious stage work of all," was immediately recognized as a masterpiece (New Grove 15: 611). Ravel also produced two orchestral suites of the work, this copy being the second of those works. "The finest of all French ballets... Daphnis et Chloé now survives not so much in the theatre as in the concert hall, through performances of the two orchestral suites into which Ravel split the ballet... Daphnis et Chloé is a tone poem in all but name, achieving, through adroit orchestration, vivid characterizations of the two lovers, Daphnis's rival (the brutish Dorcon), and the gang of pirates who abduct Chloé (the story is taken from a third-century pastoral poem)" (Classical Music, 332). Charles Munch (1891-1968), who has inscribed this copy, was one of the greatest conductors of his generation and a friend and colleague of Ravel. He is perhaps best known for his work on French composers, particularly Ravel: he in fact recorded Daphnis & Chloé twice, both times with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which he led from 1948 to 1962. (Those recordings are today still considered the standard against which all subsequent ones are measured.) He has inscribed this copy to conductor Antonia Brico, perhaps the most celebrated female conductor of the twentieth century. A native of the Netherlands, Brico grew up in the United States and studied conducting both here and abroad. Her talent was immediately recognized; while still in her twenties, she became a popular conductor, working with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Los Angeles and San Francisco Symphonies, and the New York Philharmonic, among others, routinely being the first woman conductor an orchestra worked with. After working in New York throughout the thirties, she settled in Denver in 1940, where she became conductor of the Denver Community Orchestra. In 1974, Judy Collins, Brico's most famous student, made a widely seen documentary on Brico (Antonia: Portrait of a Woman) that produced many new invitations to conduct, at places such as Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center. In this copy Brico has written a list of conductors, orchestras, times and places, presumably times she heard Daphnis & Chloé performed. All of the performances are in New York up to 1938; the last two listed are Ormandy with Philadelphia in Denver in 1946 and Munch with the National Orchestra de France in Denver on November 7, 1948, the date of the inscription. Front hinge starting, but interior otherwise fine. Light edgewear to original boards, a bit of discoloration to rear board. A near-fine copy with a wonderful provenance.
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COHEN, Hermann Das Princip de Infinitesimal-Methode und Seine Geschichte
COHEN, Hermann. Das Princip der Infinitesimal-Methode und seine Geschichte. Berlin: Dümmlers Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1883. Octavo, contemporary half brown morocco, marbled boards, raised bands. $500. First edition. A co-founder of the Marburg School of Critical Idealism with Paul Natorp, Hermann Cohen is generally considered to be that school of thought's leading thinker and most outspoken representative. Although he initially supported the "return to Kant" movement in 19th century German philosophy, Cohen ultimately transcended Kant in developing a system of critical idealism in which he offered a critique of absolute idealism, positivism, and materialism. An early pioneer in modern Jewish philosophy, Cohen's academic interests eventually turned toward theology and he became one of the leaders of liberal Judaism in Germany. Boards rubbed, with some loss to the spine. A near-fine copy.
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ART Great Modern Painters
(ART) The Great Modern Painters. English, French, German, etc. Medalists of Successive Universal Expositions. Texts by the Principal Art-Critics. Paris: Goupil & Co., 1884. Two volumes bound in eight. Large folio (12 by 19 inches), original printed paper-covered boards with brown cloth spines. $1650. "Amateur's edition," number 350 of 850 copies printed on French vellum paper, with 120 photogravures and hundreds of in-text illustrations. Covers the works of 24 artists active in the late 19th century, including Baudry, Bonnat, Gerome, Meissonier, Boulanger, Bonheur, Millais, and Bouguereau. Text and plates fine, faint soiling to a few of the original front boards. A magnificent production.
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GREENAWAY, Kate Birthday Book for Children
GREENAWAY, Kate. Kate Greenaway's Birthday Book for Children... Verses by Mrs. Sale Barker. London:George Routledge and Sons, (1880). Square 32mo, original green cloth elaborately decorated in gilt and black, full-color pictorial stamp pasted on front board, gray and white floral endpapers, all edges gilt. $1500. Second edition, beautifully illustrated by Kate Greenaway and delightfully bound. An enormously popular book after its debut in 1880, of "Kate Greenaway's Birthday Book for Children (1880) not only were 123,000 English copies sold, but 135,000 French and 85,000 German copies were placed on the market. For this charming duodecimo volume, with verses by Mrs. Sale Barker, Miss Greenaway made 382 drawings, one for every day, with a full page in colour for each month. It is said that The Birthday Book inspired Robert Louis Stevenson to try his hand at the verses which became A Child's Garden of Verses" (A Critical History of Children's Literature, 254). Schuster & Engen 39.2.a. Owner inscription, dated September 29, 1880, owner signature. Very light foxing to occasional leaves. Minor rubbing to edges of front board. A bright, lovely copy of this delightful children's classic.
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PENNSYLVANIA Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
[PENNSYLVANIA]. Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as Established by the general Convention. Carefully Compared With the Original.... Philadelphia: Francis Bailey, 1784. Octavo, unbound, stitched as issued; pp. (1)-64. $1500. Early edition of the important 1776 Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, "the most extreme of the Revolutionary state constitutions," printed by order of the Council of Censors. From a private family collection. "The states began the process of establishing new constitutions soon after British royal authority began to disintegrate... a few, like Pennsylvania, staked out radical new forms of government... The Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776 was the most extreme of the Revolutionary state constitutions. Framed by radical leaders with little practical political experience, it attempted to bring the entire government within the control of the people..." (A Covenanted People, 45-48). "In 1776 Pennsylvania adopted a new constitution that has been described as the most democratic in America... In late June [1776]... convention representatives met in Philadelphia and by July 8 elected delegates to write a new state constitution. Deliberations began one week later under the chairmanship of Benjamin Franklin. While it appears that George Bryan, James Cannon, and Benjamin Franklin were the principal authors of the new constitution, others such as George Clymer. Timothy Matlack and even Thomas Paine might have been involved in its creation. Influenced by the language of the Stamp Act congress, the First Continental Congress, and the Declaration of Independence, the authors crafted a document that proclaimed in detail the rights of citizens and expanded the voting franchise to all tax-paying free men... A Council of Censors was created whose members were to be elected every seven years to conduct, for a year, an evaluation of the activities of the government and to 'censure' those actions that were deemed to have violated the new constitution. Any changes to the constitution could only be made through this Council of Censors" (Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission). Following passage of the constitution by the convention at the end of September 1776, the first edition was published; a reprinting followed a year later, and another edition was printed in 1781 with the Articles of Confederation. A new constitution was adopted in 1790, after the end of the Revolutionary War. The constitution is followed here by, "A Report of the Committee Appointed to Enquire, 'Whether the Constitution has been preserved inviolate in every Part, and whether the legislative and executive Branches of Government, have performed their Duty as Guardians of the People, or assumed to themselves or exercised other or greater Powers, than they are intitled to by the Constitution.'" Evans 18680. Sabin 60015. Title page and first leaf of text worn with some chipping and loss to edges, affecting a few letters. Occasional minor foxing; some wear to corners of last few leaves. A desirable unbound copy of this rare early printing of an influential state constitution.
Price: USD 1,500.00 other currencies   order no. 38804   details     inquire
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GREENAWAY, Kate Birthday Book for Children
GREENAWAY, Kate. Kate Greenaway's Birthday Book for Children. With verses by Mrs. Sale Barker. London: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd., (c. 1930). Square 32mo, full contemporary blue crushed morocco gilt, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, patterned endpapers, gilt edges. $750. Later edition, beautifully illustrated by Greenaway and handsomely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. An enormously popular book after its debut in 1880, of "Kate Greenaway's Birthday Book for Children (1880) not only were 123,000 English copies sold, but 135,000 French and 85,000 German copies were placed on the market. For this charming duodecimo volume, with verses by Mrs. Sale Barker, Miss Greenaway made 382 drawings, one for every day, with a full page in colour for each month. It is said that The Birthday Book inspired Robert Louis Stevenson to try his hand at the verses which became A Child's Garden of Verses" (A Critical History of Children's Literature, 254). Fine condition.
Price: USD 750.00 other currencies   order no. 38805   details     inquire
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CRUIKSHANK, George Life of Sir John Falstaff
CRUIKSHANK, George. The Life of Sir John Falstaff Illustrated by George Cruikshank, With a Biography of the Knight from Authentic Sources by Robert B. Brough. London: Longman et al., 1858. Royal octavo, contemporary full brown polished calf, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. $1250. First edition, containing 20 full-page plates drawn and etched by Cruikshank, beautifully bound by Riley & Son, with the ten original wrappers bound in. These are the original parts, bound with the general title page and upper wrappers preserved. "George Cruikshank succeeded his father and James Gillray as England's chief artist in comic ephemerae of all sorts. He could toss off city types and scenes from memory ... and possessed an enthusiastic middle-class following. Cruikshank was at his best as an interpretive illustrator in books that permitted him to exercise his talent for comic exaggeration without distorting the author's intent" (Hodnett, 114). Brough's works show "neatness of execution and happiness of fancy... and his essays are bright and humorous" (DNB). Cohn 96. Armorial bookplates. Scattered foxing to a few images. A lovely copy, beautifully bound.
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GREENAWAY, Kate Almanack Series
GREENAWAY, Kate. Almanack Series... For the years 1883 through 1895. London and New York: George Routledge, 1883-1895. Sixteen volumes. 12mo, twelve in original publisher's pictorial boards and cloth, three in original gilt-stamped imitation morocco, one in original hand-painted paper wrappers and satin-ribbon stitching. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $6000. First editions of Kate Greenaway's beloved Almanack Series, including a variant issue for 1892 and additional variants for 1885, 1886, and 1894. "In the portrayal of childhood, no Victorian artist could combine charm, beauty and gentleness with such style as Kate Greenaway, the undisputed queen of nursery books" (Dalby, 26). In 1883 the first of Kate Greenaway's diminutive almanacs for children was published. "Its gratifying success [especially in America] encouraged artist, printer Edmund Evans, and publisher George Routledge to embark on a regular yearly series" (Morgan Library 177). "Comprised of eight to ten pages, and measuring three inches by two inches, these miniature books featured some of her most accomplished work" (Dalby, 29). No almanac was published in 1896, but for 1897 the firm of J.M. Dent brought out the last and final volume in the series. Notably, this volume is also the rarest and is often missing in sets of the almanacs. This set includes two issues of the Almanack for 1885 (Schuster & Engen 5.3a and 5.3c), two issues for 1886 (Schuster & Engen 6.4c and 6.4e), and two issues for 1894 (Schuster & Engen 14.12a and 14.12b). Schuster & Engen, Almanack Series: 3.1a, 4.2a, 5.3a, 5.3c, 6.4e, 6.4c, 7.5a, 8.6d, 9.7b, 10.8a, 11.9a with original paper mailing wrapper, 12.10a with variant blue spine instead of green, 13.11a, 14.12a, 14.12b, and 15.13a. Morgan Library 177, 178. Six with bookplates from the library of F.H. Goodyear, the 19th-century New York rail and lumber magnate. For the most part in exceptionally lovely condition with only occasional very light wear or foxing. A wonderful collection with a fine provenance.
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CRUIKSHANK, George George Cruikshank's Omnibus
CRUIKSHANK, George. George Cruikshank's Omnibus. Illustrated With One Hundred Engravings on Steel and Wood. London: Tilt and Bogue, 1842. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter olive morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers and edges. $750. First edition in book form, containing 22 engravings on steel and 78 woodcuts, all but three by Cruikshank. "George Cruikshank succeeded his father and James Gillray as England's chief artist in comic ephemerae of all sorts. He could toss off city types and scenes from memory ... and possessed an enthusiastic middle-class following. Cruikshank was at his best as an interpretive illustrator in books that permitted him to exercise his talent for comic exaggeration without distorting the author's intent" (Hodnett, 114). In 1837 Richard Bentley published the first number of his once famous Miscellany, for which Cruikshank designed a cover, and supplied, as time went on, some 126 plates. Some of the illustrations are very unequal in merit, and can only be accounted for by the supposition that he was out of sympathy with his work or fretting for other enterprises. In 1841, when at variance with Bentley, though still under engagements to him, Cruikshank started a magazine of his own, The Omnibus, with Laman Blanchard for editor. Thackeray, who wrote 'The King of Brentford's Testament,' was one of the contributors" (condensed from DNB). Cruikshank's Omnibus first appeared in nine monthly parts from May 1841 to January 1842, shortly after his limited but very fruitful alliance with Charles Dickens. This is the first edition in book form, with a general title page. Cohn 190. Owner signature (and monogram on spine). Scattered foxing to plates. Paper restoration to the Heartwell plate (not affecting image). Minor abrasions to boards. A lovely copy.
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GREENAWAY, Kate Day in a Child's Life
GREENAWAY, Kate. A Day in a Child's Life. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway. Music by Myles B Foster (Organist of the Foundling Hospital). London: George Routledge and Sons, [1881]. Quarto, original glazed pictorial boards. $500. First edition, abundantly illustrated by Greenaway. Said to contain "some of her most delightful" illustrations, A Day in a Child's Life is a lovely example of one of Greenaway's successful collaborations with other artists to create delightful books for children and adults alike (A Critical History of Children's Literature, 254). This volume of children's music is illustrated in Greenaway's characteristic style, rich "with a vision of sunlit and flower-surrounded children... that inspired... devoted readers and countless imitators" (Carpenter and Prichard, 225-27). Schuster & Engen 66.1a. Plates bright and lovely. Minor rubbing and toning to original boards. A lovely, near-fine copy.
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GERARDE, John Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes
GERARDE, John. Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes...Very Much Enlarged and Amended By Thomas Johnson Citizen and Apoyhecarye of London. London: A. Islip, J. Norton and R. Whitakers, 1636. Thick folio, period-style full red morocco gilt, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spine. $11,000. Revised and expanded edition of Gerarde's esteemed Herball containing over 2700 delicate woodcuts in text, beautifully bound by Frost of Bath. "Gerarde wrote during that golden age of literature when it seemed impossible not to write vivid and lively prose. As a result, Gerarde's Herball is a work of great value and charm that has been read and loved by generations of English gardeners and botanists. Gerarde's book was regarded as the undoubted standard work for over a quarter of a century, until the rival herbal of John Parkinson was nearing completion. Fearing competition, the publishers resolved on a new and revised edition. For this they had the wisdom (or good fortune) to engage Thomas Johnson...Johnson added eight hundred new species and seven hundred woodcuts." This is the second edition of Gerarde's Herball edited by Johnson (the previous edition appeared in 1633). Title page restored and a bit trimmed, occasional marginal paper repairs, scattered faint foxing and dampstaining; binding in fine condition. A lovely copy.
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BODMER, Karl Encampment of Piekann Indians
BODMER, Karl. Encampment of Piekann Indians, Near Fort McKenzie on the Muscleshell River. Philadelphia: Daniel Rice and James G. Clark, circa 1842. Folio (measures 20-1/2 by 14 inches), mounted and matted. $1800. Early printing of Bodmer's 43rd plate made during his travels into the "deep west" with Baron Braunsberg, Prince Maximilian, in June 1833, finely hand-colored. The print depicts the three tribes of the Blackfeet at McKenzie on the Marias River, erroneously identified as the Muscleshell River in McKenney and Hall. "These three hard-riding, maraudering, and treacherous tribes were the Huns of the plains. War was their god and they broke as many treaties as the white man. The Piegans [Piekanns] were the most congenial of the three tribes" (Horan, 354). Bright, clean lithograph with a few small closed tears. A lovely print.
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MAP Carte de la Lorraine et du Barrois
(MAP OF FRANCE). Carte de la Lorraine et du Barrois dans laquelle se trouvent la Généralité de Metzet Autres Enclaves. [Nancy: no publisher], 1756. Framed size: 29 inches by 25 inches. $750. Large, hand-colored map of Lorraine, depicting the territory awarded to the King of Poland as consolation following his failed attempt in 1733 to regain his crown. Stanislas Leszczynski, Duc de Lorraine, was placed on the throne of Poland in 1704 by Swedish King Charles XII following the defeat of the occupying Russian Army. Five years later Leszczynski himself was deposed after the Swedish loss to the Russians at the Battle of Poltava. In 1733, he attempted to regain Poland-the conflict lasting five years and again ending in his defeat. However, as consolation, the subsequent Peace Accord of Vienna (1738) awarded Leszczynski the continued use of his title, King of Poland, and life-long governance over Lorraine and Barrois. Here he became a staunch patron of the arts and architecture and a good friend to Voltaire. This map, drawn by Robert de Vaugondy and engraved by M. C. Haussard, delineates his territory. The hand-colored cartouche displays the instruments of the arts and the arms of Lorraine in the grasp of the Polish eagle. Fine condition, handsomely framed.
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ORTELIUS, Abraham Hispaniae Novae Sivae Magnae
ORTELIUS, Abraham. Hispaniae Novae Sive Magnae Recens et Vera Descriptio 1579. Antwerp: no publisher, 1579. Folio, matted in blue and framed, the entire piece measures 25 by 21 inches. $1250. Handsome hand-colored map from an early edition of the "first modern geographical atlas" (Brown, 162). Commissioned to remedy the cartographical inconveniences of "the balky ways of big [maps]... and the eyestrain a man suffered from trying to decipher the print on very small" maps, Ortelius created Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first uniformly collected and bound atlas (Brown, 161). "Unlike earlier compositions..., each of Ortelius' maps was engraved specifically for his atlas according to uniform format" (Shirley, 144). Also unlike its predecessors, the Theatrum is the first publication to admit the symbolic equality of the Americas among the three better-known continents of Asia, Africa, and Europe, with its inclusion of a fourth figure on the ornamental title page among the traditional three (Brown, 163). This wonderfully detailed map of New Spain, beautifully hand-colored with three decorative title cartouches in Latin, is a rarity; of the roughly 5875 copies published, only a few remain. A fine piece. Scarce.
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SENDAK, Maurice Fantasy Sketches
SENDAK, Maurice. Fantasy Sketches. Philadelphia: The Philip H. & A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation, (1973). Quarto, original pictorial paper wrappers. $450. First edition, second printing, signed on the front flyleaf by Sendak. This collection of drawings contains numerous brief illustrative narratives, ranging in content from the sweetly innocent to the delightfully naughty. Hanrahan A74.1. A fine signed copy.
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SENDAK, Maurice Bat-Poet
(SENDAK, Maurice) JARRELL, Randall. The Bat-Poet. New York: The Macmillan Company; London: Collier-Macmillan Limited, (1964). Octavo, original blind-stamped pictorial cloth, gilt-stamped spine, original cream pictorial dust jacket. $850. First edition, inscribed by illustrator Sendak, "For Marciarose, Maurice Sendak, June '82." "In this story about a young bat who cannot sleep during the day and follows his own individual and isolating creative lights, Jarrell offered his young readers what many consider to be one of the best statements about the plight of the artist in his search for creative independence on the one hand and his longing for acceptance on the other" (Children's Books and Their Creators, 352). Hanrahan A60. Bookplate. Book fine. Price-clipped dust jacket with very slight soiling and a few small closed tears; exceptionally good.
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SENDAK, Maurice Somebody Else's Nut Tree
(SENDAK, Maurice). KRAUSS, Ruth. Somebody Else's Nut Tree and Other Tales from Children. (Lenox, Mass.: The Bookstore Press, 1971). Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. $425. Later edition, signed by Maurice Sendak on the front free endpaper. First published in 1958, this charming book is the product of the years-long artistic collaboration between Ruth Krauss and Maurice Sendak, which began with the well-loved A Hole is to Dig. This book is very much in the same style, with the prose largely inspired by children's own words and Sendak's illustrations delightfully capturing the spirit of the written word. Book fine. Dust jacket edges and rear panel lightly rubbed; near-fine.
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STRAVINSKY, Igor Pulcinella, proof copy
STRAVINSKY, Igor. Pulcinella proof copy. No place: J. & W. Chester, [1920]. Quarto, 50 leaves printed on the recto, unbound as issued. $7800. Proof copy of the first edition of the piano-vocal score, with notations throughout by Stravinsky and others. The first leaf is marked "private" and has written at the top "These proof copies belong to the publisher J & W Chester and should not be used for performance"; each leaf contains the stamp of the Ballets Russes. Based on a 17th-century Pergolesi manuscript featuring Pulcinella, the traditional hero of the Neapolitan commedia dell'arte, Pulcinella is "more an action dansante than a ballet... the effect on his own style was not immediately apparent. (There is no sign of Pergolesi's influence in his next two works-the Concertino and the Symphonies of Wind Instruments). But, as he says in his Memories, his work on Pulcinella undoubtedly led to a new appreciation of eighteenth-century classicism on his part and to a new style of composition distinguished by certain classical features... As he says in his Expositions, 'Pulcinella was my discovery of the past, the epiphany through which the whole of my late work became possible'" (White, Stravinsky, 246-8). With corrections to text, tempo, volume, and emphasis throughout. Incomplete, with the first 50 pages only. Edgewear to the leaves, text clean and fine. A fascinating document from a pivotal point in Stravinsky's career.
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CRUIKSHANK, George Tales of Other Days
(CRUIKSHANK, George) AKERMAN, J.Y. Tales of Other Days. With Illustrations by George Cruikshank. London: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, 1830. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter maroon crushed morocco gilt, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, top edge gilt. $2500. First edition, the only believed surviving copy with 6 full-page woodcuts and a title page vignette by Cruikshank and the India paper proofs of each illustration bound in. This rarity, the Truman-Bruton copy of Tales of Other Days, illustrated by George Cruikshank with each of his 7 woodcut illustrations faced with their proofs on India paper, is believed to be the only existing copy from a stated 75 so printed: "Only the Truman-Bruton copy, which is in my collection, appears to have survived" (Cohn 24). With original wrappers bound in at rear, along with 24 pages of advertisements. Cohn 24. From the library of Albert M. Cohn, the foremost bibliographer of Cruikshank's work, whose signed stamp identifies the book as originally number 23 in his catalogue raisonne.A penciled memorandum in Cohn's hand on the recto of the front fly leaf reads "Contains the proofs of the Woodcuts on India Paper and the wrapper at end, with Mr. Bruton's autograph." A following notation signed by Bruton states "Also the original brown paper wrappers of the India proofs from the Truman collation with Mr. Truman's note 'I know no other copy.'" With H.W. Burton's signature on the yellow wrapper bound in at rear and Truman's message and signature on the verso of the original brown paper wrapper bound in at rear, stating "India Proofs (only 75 printed)." Cohn's and Bruton's bookplates, along with two others from previous owners. A most unique and desirable copy, handsomely bound and in fine condition.
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CRUIKSHANK, George Hans of Iceland
(CRUIKSHANK, George). [HUGO, Victor]. Hans of Iceland. London: J. Robins and Co., 1825. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown crushed morocco gilt, raised bands, patterned boards and endpapers, uncut. $650. First edition, with four plates of illustrations by George Cruikshank, from the library of Cruikshank scholar Albert M. Cohn. "As a caricaturist [Cruikshank] was the legitimate successor of Rowlandson and Gillray; but both the broad grin of the one and the satiric ferocity of the other were mitigated in their pupil by a more genial spirit of fun and an altered environment... the comic gallery of the first fifty years of the nineteenth century would be poorer for his absence" (DNB V: 258). This volume, with four original plates, is from the library of Albert M. Cohn, the foremost Cruikshank scholar and bibliographer, and bears Cohn's bookplate and label identifying the book's entry in his catalogue raisonné as "Cat. Rais. 382" in his hand. Cohn 382. Three owner bookplates other than Cohn's. Plates very lightly foxed, with slight offsetting onto facing pages. Minor toning to spine. A fine association copy.
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LAMB, Charles Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia
LAMB, Charles. The Essays of Elia. With an Introduction by Augustine Birrell and Illustrations by Charles E. Brock. WITH: The Last Essays of Elia. London: J. M. Dent & Co.; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. Two volumes. Small octavo, contemporary three-quarter crushed brown morocco, raised bands, gilt-decorated spines, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. $350. Lovely illustrated edition of Lamb's Essays of Elia, and Last Essays of Elia, with 70 full-page designs by Charles Brock and almost as many head- and tailpieces. Beautifully bound by Bickers & Son. "The prose essays under the signature of Elia form the most delightful section amongst Lamb's works." "They are carefully elaborated; yet never were works written in a higher defiance to the conventional pomp of style. A sly hit, a happy pun, a humorous combination, lets the light into the intricacies of the subject... [Lamb] gives an importance to every thing, and sheds a grace over all" (Allibone, 1050, 1049). The first series of these popular essays appeared in the London Magazine between 1820 and 1822; the second series, between 1823 and 1825. This edition is illustrated by Charles Brock, who took extraordinary care to period dress, furniture, and accoutrements-to the extent of "having full-scale costumes made up and using models" (Hodnett, 196). Lowndes, 1300. Light rubbing to corners. A handsome pair in fine condition, beautifully bound.
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NEWELL, Peter Hole Book
NEWELL, Peter. The Hole Book. New York: Harper Brothers, (1908). Quarto, original blue cloth with pictorial paste label. $500. First edition of Newell's groundbreaking illustrated book. "Of picture-book inventions, [The Hole Book] comes close to sheer, ungimmicky inspiration;a mong novelties, it is one of the few with perennial appeal" (Children's Books and Their Creators). The innovation of the book lies in its format; the narrative revolves around a die-cut hole in each illustration following the path of a bullet fired in the first plate and documenting the chaos its journey creates. Owner signature, dated 1908. Interior clean. Minor rubbing to boards, with some loss to extremities, spine toned. A very good copy of this children's classic.
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CRUIKSHANK, George Fairburn's Pleasing Instructor
(CRUIKSHANK, George). Fairburn's Pleasing Instructor; Being a Description of all the Nations of Europe, Their Produce, Trade, and Curiosities. London: John Fairburn, Jun, [n.d.]. 12mo, contemporary full green calf gilt, dentelles and top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. $985. First edition, with thirteen woodcuts and a full-color folding frontispiece by George Cruikshank. This charming little volume contains 22 brief descriptions of European countries and regions. After the publication of Cruikshank's woodcuts in Fairburn's Pleasing Instructor, they "were used by him for the 'Lottery Puffs'" (Cohn 294). This, the Edwin Truman-Captain Douglas-J.B. Townsend copy, is extremely rare, and both initialed notations by Edwin Truman and an inlaid letter referring to the Townsend sale of the book affirm that it is the only known copy. Cohn 294. Two bookplates, one from J. Barton Townsend. Original paper wrappers bound in. Interior generally clean, with occasional penciled marginalia and slight offsetting from plates. Minor toning to spine. A fine copy. Scarce.
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CRUIKSHANK, George Fashionable Swindler
(CRUIKSHANK, George and Isaac Robert). The Fashionable Swindler, or, Villainy Displayed; Being the Genuine History, and Surprising Events, Frauds, Deception and Remarkable Occurrences, of the Celebrated and Elegant Sharper, Geroge R-. London: J. Bailey, [1812]. Octavo, contemporary full tan calf gilt. $1600. First edition, inscribed by George Cruikshank on the full-color folding frontispiece, "By my Brother I.R.C. G. Ck.," handsomely bound by Larkins. Both caricaturists and book illustrators throughout the 19th century, the Cruikshank brothers enjoyed very different levels of success during their careers. It is widely considered that "as a caricaturist [ George Cruikshank] was the legitimate successor of Rowlandson and Gillray; but both the broad grin of the one and the satiric ferocity of the other were mitigated in their pupil by a more genial spirit of fun and an altered environment" (DNB). Isaac "Robert" Cruikshank's reputation, on the other hand, "may have suffered to some extent from the superior popularity of his brother George. But it is certain that with many happy qualities as a draughtsman and pictorial satirist, he had neither the individuality, the fancy, nor the originality of his junior" and is perhaps better known for his collaborative efforts with his brother (DNB). Although "noted by G. Cruikshank to be 'By my brother I.R.C.' in the Douglas copy, ... there seems to be a lot of George's work in it... Douglas accepts this as George's work, and possibly he assisted his brother, as was often the case in items of this description" (Cohn 306). Three owner bookplates, one belonging to J. Barton Townsend, and one stamp. Interior clean. Some rubbing to spine; outer hinges just splitting, still strong. An extremely good inscribed copy, very scarce.
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CRUIKSHANK, George Impostor Unmasked
(CRUIKSHANK, George). The Impostor Unmasked; or, the New Man of the People; with Anecdotes, Never Before Published, Illustrative of the Character of the renowned and immaculate Bardolpho. Inscribed, Without Permission, To that superlatively honest and disinterested Man, R.B.S-r-d-n, Esq. London: Tipper and Richards, 1806. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown calf, marbled boards $500. First edition, with a full-color folding frontispiece illustrated by George Cruikshank. George Cruikshank, "as a caricaturist... was the legitimate successor of Rowlandson and Gillray; but both the broad grin of the one and the satiric ferocity of the other were mitigated in their pupil by a more genial spirit of fun and an altered environment... Many of his etchings are masterpieces of grouping (he managed crowds as well as Rowlandson, or the painter of the 'March to Finchley'), and Cruikshank's lushly colored frontispiece illustration for The Impostor Unmasked, depicting Sheridan's address to the electors, is a lovely example of his mastery of crowd images (DNB). Cohn 429. This, the Douglas copy, bears bookplates from the Edward Hailstone (reading "Edward Hailctone") and J. Barton Townsend collections. Bookstamp to front pastedown. Minor rubbing and a few small scratches to boards, with slight loss to spine head. An extremely good copy of this scarce volume.
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TEGG, Thomas Tegg's Prime Song Brook
(CRUIKSHANK, George). TEGG, Thomas. Tegg's Prime Song Book. London: Thomas Tegg, [circa 1815]. Octavo, later full red calf, raised bands, top edge gilt, uncut. $2500. Extremely scarce first edition, with full-color frontispiece and title page illustrations by George Cruikshank. This collection of English ballads and drinking songs features two colored plates by noted 19th-century illustrator George Cruikshank. Remarkably rare, this volume is not included in Cohn's relatively exhaustive bibliography of Cruikshank's works. Armorial bookplate of Sir David Lionel Salomons, first director of the City of London Electric Lighting Company (DNB). Modern catalogue description pasted to front flyleaf. Very slight offsetting from plates; a fine copy. Scarce.
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CRUIKSHANK, George Bachelor's Own Book
CRUIKSHANK, George. The Bachelor's Own Book; or, the Adventures of Mr. Lambkin, (Gent.), in the Pursuit of Pleasure and Amusement, and Also in Search of Health and Happiness. In Twenty-Four Plates, Designed and Etched by George Cruikshank. London: George Routledge and Sons, [ca. 1845]. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter green crushed morocco, raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled boards and endpapers. $850. Early edition, illustrated with 24 plates by George Cruikshank and handsomely bound by Riviere & Son. Perhaps better known for his illustrations of others' books, George Cruikshank is "at his best when he freely follows his own conceptions" as both author and illustrator (DNB). "As a caricaturist he was the legitimate successor of Rowlandson and Gillray; but both the broad grin of the one and the satiric ferocity of the other were mitigated in their pupil by a more genial spirit of fun and an altered environment" (DNB). This amiable humor is best shown in the delightful narrative of Mr. Lambkin, the bachelor's, restoration to good health and social standing through his eventual marriage. With the original blue paper wrappers bound in at rear. Bookplates. Catalogue description pasted in on the front flyleaf. Toning to spine and extremities of boards. A lovely near-fine copy, handsomely bound.
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SHACKLETON, Ernest Photograph: 'Digging': Heart of the Antarctic II:56
(SHACKLETON, Ernest). "Digging to Ascertain the Depth of Snow Covering a Depot Left by the Discovery Expedition" [Antarctica: 1908]. Original silver bromide photograph (9-1/4 by 11-3/4 inches), contemporary dark gray mount, entire piece measures 20 by 23 inches. $4500. Original silver bromide photograph depicting three explorers fully-entrenched beneath a flag planted six years earlier by the Discovery Expedition, taken on the morning of January 27, 1908 and used as an illustration in The Heart of the Antarctic. In Heart of the Antarctic Ernest Shackleton recounts his 1907-09 "Nimrod Expedition"-the first to reach the Magnetic South Pole and the first to ascend the active volcano Mt. Erebus. Information gathered during this expedition substantially increased knowledge of the geology and biology of the region. To document the journey visually, the explorers took ten cameras, including one for motion pictures. Various members of the party manned the cameras, of whom James Murray and assistant geologist Sir Philip Brocklehurst were the most eager. "There was a bamboo pole about eight feet high projecting from the snow, with a tattered flag attached to it..." This authentic photograph, later captioned "Digging to Ascertain the Depth of Snow Covering a Depot Left by the Discovery Expedition" appears as one of the illustrations in the first edition of Heart of the Antarctic (London: William Heinemann, 1909), opposite page 56 in Volume II. Two small abrasions to surface. Near-fine condition.
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BASEBALL Dime Baseball Player for 1870
CHADWICK, Henry. Beadle's Dime Base Ball Player, Comprising the Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Base-Ball Convention.... New York: Beadle, (1870). 12mo, original pictorial orange wrappers. $2600. Rare 1870 edition of Beadle's Dime Base Ball Player, with professional club records and statistics for the year 1869, baseball history, instruction and the new code of playing rules. The Beadle baseball guide was first published in 1860 and was "the first baseball guide published for commercial sale to the public" (Smith 172). Editor Henry Chadwick, "widely known as the 'Father of Baseball'" (DAB), chaired the National Association of Base Ball Players and is credited with devising the box score, among other innovations. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of fame in 1938. With a diagram of a baseball field at front and advertisements at rear. Nice, complete 19th-century baseball guides are scarce, Henry Chadwick's Beadle Guides (published 1860-1881) are exceptionally so. Interior generally quite clean, with only a little light foxing. Only minor edgewear to fragile original wrappers. An exceptional copy of this rare and desirable early piece of baseball history.
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CRUIKSHANK, George Tom & Jerry; or, Life in London
(CRUIKSHANK, George and Robert). Tom & Jerry; Or, Life in London... The Costumes and Scenery, superintended by Mr. J.R. Cruikshanks, from the Drawings of himself and his Brother, Mr. G. Cruikshanks, the celebrated Artists of the original work. London: John Lowndes, [ca. 1825]. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter blue polished calf gilt, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt. $850. Early edition libretto of a musical dramatization of the popular stories, with a hand-colored folding frontispiece illustration by the Cruikshank brothers. In 1821 Pierce Egan began publishing monthly part publications narrating the urban exploits of Tom and Jerry, a duo whose popularity led them to a popularity rivaling that of Dickens' "Mr. Pickwick and Sam Weller a few years later" (Muir, 41). George and (Isaac) Robert Cruikshank, the original illustrators for the continuing stories of Tom & Jerry, also provided etchings for the numerous reprints of the original and printed publications related to its multiple dramatizations. The frontispiece drawing of this libretto, depicting "Mr. Wilkinson, Mr. Burroughs & Mr. Wrench, As Logic, Jerry & Corinthian Tom," is credited to both Robert and George Cruikshank, though it is thought that Robert was perhaps more responsible for a majority of the project's drawings. "The greater part of the illustrations -two-thirds, it is said- were by Robert Cruikshank; and his son (according to Blanchard Jerrold, Life of George Cruikshank, 1883, pp. 82-3) claimed the original idea for his father, who, he says, 'conceived the notion, and planned the designs, while showing a brother-in-law, just returned from China, some of the "life" which was going on in London at the time. He designed the characters of Tom, Jerry, and Logic, from himself, his brother-in-law, and Pierce Egan, keeping to the likenesses of each model'" (DNB). "Nobody," however, "has succeeded in allocating between the Cruikshanks the proportion of work" produced for the Tom & Jerry series (Muir, 41). Not in Cohn. Bookplates. Interior generally clean. Minor rubbing to extremeties. A near-fine copy.
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SHACKLETON, Ernest Photograph: 'Side of the Ferrar' For: Heart of the Antarctic II:318
SHACKLETON, Ernest. Original photograph, captioned "The Side of the Ferrar Glacier Western Mountain" and used in The Heart of the Antarctic. Ferrar Glacier: 1908. Original silver gelatin photograph, measuring 22-1/4 by 15-3/4 inches, mount measures 27 by 20-1/2 inches. $7000. Splendid very large original silver gelatin photograph depicting the southern side of Ferrar Glacier, "where [ice] descends as a series of ice-falls," taken on December 22, 1908. In Heart of the Antarctic Ernest Shackleton recounts his 1907-09 "Nimrod Expedition"-the first to reach the Magnetic South Pole and the first to ascend the active volcano Mt. Erebus. Information gathered during this expedition substantially increased knowledge of the geology and biology of the region. To document the journey visually, the explorers took ten cameras, including one for motion pictures. Various members of the party manned the cameras, of whom James Murray and assistant geologist Sir Philip Brocklehurst were the most eager. "The main object of our journey up the Ferrar Glacier was to examine the beacon sandstone at any accessible exposures with a view to the discovery of any traces of former organic life..." This authentic photograph, later captioned "Side of Ferrar Glacier. Figure of Man in Lower Left Corner" appears as one of the illustrations in the first edition of Heart of the Antarctic (London: William Heinemann, 1909), appearing opposite page 318 in Volume II. Small abrasion, translucent spot, and few minor scratches to surface. Re-mounted (original mount present, with additional caption on verso). Near-fine condition.
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CRUIKSHANK, George Lord of the Manor
(CRUIKSHANK, George). The Lord of the Manor; An Opera, in Three Acts: Altered from General Burgoyne, by Charles Dibdin, Jun. [London: Sherwood, 1825-27]. Octavo, contemporary paper wrappers. Housed in custom brown cloth chemise. $1100. First edition, signed by George Cruikshank just beneath the illustration on the first page, from the library of Cruikshank scholar Albert M. Cohn. From The London Stage: A Collection of the Most Reputed Tragedies, Comedies, Operas, Melo-Dramas, Farces, and Interludes, etc., this play is one of a two-year run of weekly issues. The frontispiece woodcut illustration by George Cruikshank is a fine example of his talent for accurately representing the author's work visually: "His illustrations for books have always this advantage, that they are honest and generally effective attempts to elucidate the text, not nowadays an ever-present ambition to the popular artist" (DNB). Cohn 507. Paper wrapper with a bookplate and bookstamp from Albert M. Cohn, the foremost bibliographer of "Cruikshankiana." Bookplate on chemise. Interior clean, with marginal tears to upper corners of pages 9-12, with slight loss. An exceptionally good signed copy. Scarce.
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CRUIKSHANK, George Authentic Memoirs of the Life of the Late Lamented Princess Charlotte
(CRUIKSHANK, George). Authentic Memoirs of the Life of the Late Lamented Princess Charlotte; with Clear Statements Showing the Succession to the Crown, and the Probability of the Wife of Jerome Buonaparte Becoming Queen, and her Son, Jerome Napoleon, Being Prince of Wales, and Afterwards King of these Realms. London: William Hone, 1817. Quarto, modern cardboard portfolio with pasted label. $285. First edition, with an engraved frontispiece portrait by George Cruikshank. Written in honor of Princess Charlotte's passing in 1817, this pamphlet includes a table charting the path of succession to the crown, a twelve page memoir of the princess's life, and a charming frontispiece nuptial portrait of her and Prince Leopold of Cobourg of Saafeld by the famed 19th century illustrator George Cruikshank. Bookstamp. Cohn 134. A fine copy.
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CRUIKSHANK, George Glass and the New Crystal Palace
CRUIKSHANK, George. The Glass and the New Crystal Palace. London: J. Cassell, 1853. Octavo, original paper wrappers. Housed in a custom brown cloth clamshell box. $1600. First edition, with 11 woodcuts by George Cruikshank, inscribed with a flourish on the front cover: "with the compliments of Geo. Cruikshank." Prior to illustrating The Bottle and the immensely popular and multiply dramatized The Drunkard's Children, Cruikshank "had not been a strict abstainer. He now became one, and henceforth he devoted himself, with all the energy of his nature, to the duty of advocating by his pencil and his practice the cause of total abstinence" (DNB). The Glass and the New Crystal Palace is a clear example of the author's dedication to teetotalism and condemns alcohol as the cause of, robbery, brutality, mischief, blasphemy, murder, madness, destruction, and death in the first plate alone. The rear cover bears advertisements for Cruikshank's other moralistic publications on abstinence, the avoidance of gambling, and "Hints to Housekeepres to Prevent Housebreaking," indicating first edition. Cohn 203 Bookplate. Occasional inoffensive owner marginalia. Text and plates clean. Some rubbing and discoloration to original paper wrappers, with two tears to the rear panel. A near-fine inscribed copy. Scarce.
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VITRUVIUS Dix Livres D'architecture de Vitruve
(VITRUVIUS) PERRAULT, [Claude]. Les Dix Livres D'architecture de Vitruve. Corrigez et Traduits nouvellement en Francois, avec des Notes & des Figures. Paris: Jean Baptiste Coignard, 1673. Large folio, period-style full dark brown calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, raised bands. $12,000. First edition of Perrault's Vitruvius, with 65 fine engraved folio plates, many double-page, and numerous in-text woodcut illustrations, beautifully bound in full period-style calf-gilt. Written in the first century B.C., the manuscript of De Architectura was lost for some time and rediscovered in the 15th century. "This handbook on classical architecture is the only Roman work inspired by Greek architecture that has come down to us. It is therefore important as our prime source of many lost Greek writings on the subject... By exemplifying the principles of classical architecture it became the fundamental architectural handbook for centuries... The classical tradition of building, with its regular proportion and symmetry and the three orders-Doric, Ionic and Corinthian-derives from this book... Alberti, Bramante, Ghiberti, Michelangelo, Vignola, Palladio and many others were directly inspired by Vitruvius" (PMM 26). "Doctor, scientist, classicist, and amateur architect, the omnicompetent Perrault combined two distinct books in this treatise, one of the key texts in the history of French architecture. His scholarly translation of Vitruvius earned widespread praise, while the notes carried a controversial attack on the foundations of classicism. Perrault boldly argued that most aspects of beauty, including architectural proportions, were defined not by universal and invariable standards, but by custom" (Avery 84). Without engraved frontispiece. Fowler 418. Occasional inoffensive pencil notations. Slightly darkened title page with faint crease, remargined along top edge. Plates and text generally quite clean and fine. A very beautiful and important work in fine condition, splendidly bound.
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BODE, H. W. Relations between Attenuation and Phase in Feedback Amplifier Design
BODE, H. W. "Relations between Attenuation and Phase in Feedback Amplifier Design." IN: The Bell System Technical Journal, Volume XIX, Number 3, pp.