![Residence of Herman Shainwald 2800 Pacific Ave. San Francisco, Cal. [cover title].](/pictures/thumb/3906_3.jpg?v=1512258280)
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...
![Residences Memorables De l'incomparable Heros de nôtre Siecle ou Representation exacte des Edifices et Jardins de Son Altesse Serenissime Monseigneur Le Prince Eugene Francois Duc de Savoye et de Piemont…Augsburg, 1731–40 [Bound with:] Kleiner, Salomon. Representation des animaux de la menagerie de S.A.S. Monseigneur le prince Eugene François de Savoye et de Piemont ... Augsburg, 1734. Salomon Kleiner.](/pictures/thumb/3362_1.jpg?v=1526498372)
A spectacular set of engravings after drawings by Salomon Kleiner picturing one of the most extraordinary estates of the eighteenth century, Prince Eugene of Savoy’s Belvedere, in Vienna, designed by Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt, court architect to the Hapsburgs. Residences Memorables comprises a series of engravings published in ten...
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...
![Villa Montalvo, Santa Clara Co., California. James D Phelan [cover title]. Gabriel Moulin, photog.](/pictures/thumb/4503_1.jpg?v=1522254752)
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...
First edition of this collection of Wright’s lectures delivered before undergraduates at Princeton, inscribed by Wright to his sister, as follows: “To Sis in all affection from Frank.” CONDITION: Good, loss of paper along back edge of spine, worn at extremities, front cover slightly bowed with wrinkle in paper...