A appealing little trade catalog for upholstered ottomans and hassocks; includes slipper-box and diamond ottomans, a church hassock, and walnut blacking cases for shining shoes. CONDITION: Good with bumped, creased last page and back wrapper.
A handsome house portrait album documenting the vast and richly decorated Georgian revival home at 2800 Pacific Ave during its ownership by prominent early 20th century Bay Area real estate broker Herman Shainwald. Known as “Herbst Manor,” the house was designed in 1899 by English-born architect Ernest Coxhead, who...
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.....
An unusually handsome, wide-margined copy of this marvelous collection of views of early eighteenth-century Vienna. The series begins with a beautifully designed allegorical plate consisting of a panoramic view of the city in the form of a relief panel on a monument surmounted by an eagle, with two figures...
A beautifully designed volume illustrated with a splendid series of one hundred stereographic photographs of ancient ruins. British photographer Francis Frith (1822–1898) made three trips to the Holy Land between 1856 and 1859. His photographs, many of them masterful works that established him as a major photographer, sought to...
A delightful volume of trial drawings, many of them satirical, for an illustrated alphabet featuring a variety of humorous and imaginative characters complimenting Johnston’s limericks. The volume begins with two calligraphic frontispieces, one consisting of the phrase “The Envelope” graced by an angelic figure holding a brush and canvas.....
An exceptionally handsome monograph on the work of British illustrator Walter Crane, and still the most authoritative work on the artist. Richly illustrated with chromolithographs, two tipped-in facsimile leaves from the Kelmscott Press edition of The Story of the Glittering Plain, and examples of Crane’s paintings, book illustrations, wallpaper designs.....
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California politician James D. Phelan’s personal house-portrait photo album, capturing his stunning Santa Clara County estate. Designed by architects William Curlett and Charles Gottschalk, Villa Montalvo in Saratoga, California, was built between 1912–1914 for James Duval Phelan (1861–1930), a politician, civic leader, banker, and the first U. S. Senator.....
A rare portfolio of photographs documenting Schliemann’s discovery of the great treasure at Hissarlik. One of 500 copies. “Apart from the value of the Atlas caused by its extreme rarity, it also has the additional interest of being the first archaeological work illustrated with actual photographs…The plates forming the.....
One of 492 copies “printed upon Japan paper for private distribution” of this sumptuous volume produced by Tiffany himself. According to the preface, Tiffany compiled this volume at the urging of his children. Most copies were distributed for promotional purposes. Included are chapters on Tiffany’s paintings, stained glass, favrile.....
Winslow Homer’s copy of the first edition of Willis’s History of Portland, with his ownership inscription in pencil on the front paste-down in each volume, reading “ W. Homer Scarboro Me.” Homer lived at Prout’s Neck in Scarborough, just south of Portland,from 1883 to 1910. It was there that Homer.....