![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 confirm...
A handsome house portrait album documenting a plantation-style, Georgian revival home in Palm Beach, Florida, designed by Wyeth and King, Architects, for Dr. John Vietor and his wife, Eleanor, built in 1934. The photographs are by Samuel Gottscho, one of the leading architectural photographers of the day, and portray...
![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...