Alexander Archipenko: Mit Einer...
First edition. Signed by Archipenko on title: “Alexander Archipenko New York 1924.”.
First edition. Signed by Archipenko on title: “Alexander Archipenko New York 1924.”.
A compelling archive of letters, a cabinet photo, and other items relating to Col. Thomas Aspinwall who was U.S. Consul to London, having been appointed by President James Madison and serving in London until his removal by President Franklin Pierce in 1853. These items all date to 1853 and 1854.....
A handsome, privately printed edition collecting the author’s Civil War letters. As stated in the title, Auchmuty served in the Fifth Corps of the Army of the Potomac, setting aside a career as an architect when the war broke out. The only son of a wealthy family, and a grandson.....
A photo album comprising 181 images documenting a wealthy family’s eight-and-a-half month stay at a dude ranch in Tucson in the 1940s. This album chronicles the Austin family’s time at the “Flying V” Ranch, featuring images of the ranch and its lodgings; dudes on the trail; a “chuckwagon” with African-American.....
First trade edition, inscribed by Avedon to fashion editor Polly Allen Mellen and her husband Henry as follows: “For dear Polly & Henry—a la recherche de temps perdu. Love Dick Avedon 2001.” This exhibition catalog features Avedon’s work for Harper’s Bazaar in 1950s Paris complimented by images of period production.....
A charming original watercolor view of the home of Captain Winborn Adams Sanborn and its environs, by important New Hampshire artist and prominent Battle of Gettysburg historian John B. Bachelder. Taken from a somewhat elevated vantage point and overlooking Lake Winnipesaukee with the White Mountains and its foothills in the.....
An album of over 100 original photographs documenting a French tourist’s trip to Hawaii at the time of the centennial of the arrival of American missionaries, with images of apparently related celebrations, two photos of Duke Kahanamoku—the noted father of modern surfing and Olympic swimmer—and an engaging variety of other.....
One of 325 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator, Leonard Baskin. Copy #161. With a portrait etching of Baldwin printed on blue paper and an etching of a pomegranate printed in red. From the colophon: “Three hundred & twenty-five copies of ‘Gypsy & Other Poems’ were printed by The Gehenna.....
One of fifty special copies out of a total edition of 325, all numbered and signed by the illustrator, Leonard Baskin. With six portrait etchings of Baldwin on various papers, each signed and numbered in pencil by the artist, and an etching of a pomegranate printed in red. From the.....
A manuscript indictment of a Chillicothe innkeeper for violence against a Black woman, written by a talented and colorful U.S. attorney just two years before Ohio joined the Union as a free state. Meeker, an innkeeper of Ross County in the Northwest Territory, is here indicted for his repeated abuse.....
The second edition of this important 1860s map of California and Nevada. First published in 1864, Bancroft’s detailed and striking pocket map of California and Nevada constitutes one of the best maps of Western America published west of the Mississippi during this period. Extracted from Bancroft’s Map of the.....
An engaging group of six Civil War letters written by two brothers to their parents. Both brothers saw action in the pivotal 1864 Battle of Nashville, and one later died from wounds received there. Born in McDonough County, Illinois, Joseph Gilmer Banning (1843–1908) and Pinkney “Pink” Asa Banning (1845–1865) moved.....
First edition, later printing (but same year). This work is based on Barker's time as a steamboat captain, sporting camp owner, river driver, etc. in Maine’s Rangeley Lakes region. Chapters include “The Indian Chief Metalluk,” “First Experience in Logging,” “Guiding Days,” “Camp Bemis and the Birches,” “Experiences on the Ice,”.....
A unique and truly delightful Arts & Crafts illumination of an account of the pursuit and capture of wild horses in Nevada, calligraphed, illustrated, and bound by San Francisco artist Otis Oldfield. This seems to be the only example in book form of horse-breaker Charles “Pete” Barnum’s vivid, first-hand account.....
A scarce Barnum’s Museum broadsheet highlighting the aquatic and land animals on display and a drama set in the Swiss Alps. Described here are fifty Angel Fish (“outvieing even the tints of the rainbow”), Squirrel Fish, Surgeon or Doctor Fish (“a very grave and dignified piscatorial gentleman”), Cow Fish (“with.....
A significant and captivating photographic archive recording the first modern war from the perspective of an important figure in its documentation, pioneering American war correspondent and photojournalist Richard Barry. This remarkable archive contains half stereographic photographs taken and captioned by Barry during the Russo-Japanese War, some of which illustrate his.....
Bartlett reports on techniques for reviving or re-animating persons thought to be no longer breathing. The Acts of Incorporation for the Society appear in an appendix. William Baylies (1776–1865) of Dighton, Mass. was an attorney and U.S. Representative. He served as a Federalist in the 13th and 14th Congresses (1813–1817).....
A marvelously captivating book of monsters. The text consists solely of a passage from St. Bernard of Clairvaux, which serves as a sort of preface. This is copy #30 of 450 numbered copies. REFERENCES: Baskin, The Gehenna Press : The Work of Fifty Years, 79.
A scarce, early Confederate map presenting an overview of the seat of war as it stood after the Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run. The map itself measures approximately 9 x 8 inches and presents a wide view of northern Virginia with Washington, D.C. at the upper.....
The elegant, original illustration for the frontispiece to the International Shakespeare edition of As You Like It (London: Cassell & Co., 1887). The moment depicted here occurs in Act 1, Scene 2, when Rosalind gives her necklace to Orlando for his gallantry following his wrestling match with Charles, saying “Gentleman.....
An important early study of Manet, illustrated with two original Manet etchings, “L'Odalisque Couchee” and “La Convelescente,” as well as three etchings by M. H. Guérard after Manet, and six gravures. Both Manet etchings are nice, strong impressions. Inscribed to etcher and poster artist Ernest Haskell on the ffep as.....
A rare issue of the Bar Harbor Blue Book illustrated with three mounted photographs. Includes routes to and from, tables, and individual chapters on Topography and History; Literature on Mount Desert; Laws concerning Carriages; Bar Harbor and Boating, Walks, Hotels, and more. Folding maps of Bar Harbor and Mount Desert.....
Stated fifth edition of this classic work of popular natural history, illustrated with the much-admired wood engravings of Thomas Bewick. Binding made by Arno Werner.
Second edition of this important pre-Revolution abolitionist text by “the single most prolific antislavery writer and the most influential advocate of the Negro’s rights on either side of the Atlantic,” published a year after the first edition and appearing both separately and, as here, in a sammelband with various other.....
An important copy of an extraordinary retaliatory order issued by the Confederate Government during the Enchantress Affair, instructing the head of prisons in Richmond to select for possible execution a number of captured Union officers being held as prisoners there. This copy was obtained by Col. Milton Cogswell in an.....