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N.p.: Illinois Bell, 1976. Signed color print. Folio (13¼" X 25½"). Near fine. Superb heavy stock color print of AT & T's most famous telephone directory cover, the 1976 bicentennial cover of which 176,000,000 -- that's right, ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY-SIX MILLION! -- copies were distributed. Depicted are 10 rows of portraits of historic figures and characters (two images per person) speaking on a variety of telephones. In order (spelled out in caption): Benjamin Franklin, the Statue of Liberty, an astronaut, a telephone operator, Thomas Jefferson, a Native American, Abraham Lincoln, Shirley Temple, John D. Rockefeller, an Eskimo, Will Rogers, Frederick Douglass, Norman Rockwell, Paul Revere, a young rebel, Robert E. Lee, a senorita, G.I. Joe, Whistler's Mother, man's best friend, Alexander Graham Bell, Jackie Robinson, Betsy Ross, Mark Twain, child's birthday party, Uncle Sam, the American teenager, a father, a Cub Scout, Marian Anderson, George Washington,…
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1976: Our Nation's 200th Birthday, the Telephone's 100th Birthday
by MELTZOFF, Stanley (1917-2006)
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Basilique Palladienne
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Paris: Auguste Vincent, Editeur, 1907. Folio (15" X 11"). Plate 16 from the second edition of the noted portfolio collection, "Choix d'Elements Empruntes a l'Architecture Classique et Donnant des Exemples Connus de l'Application des Ordres...." Very good. Slightest bit of edgewear, else a bright, handsome line drawing of the front facade of Andrea Palladio's Basilica in Vicenza. This Olympic theatre was built between 1580 and 1584 and is not actually a basilica, but rather a series of two-story arches surrounding a 15th century Gothic hall. Most attractive.
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Carry On With Franklin D. Roosevelt / For Vice-President Henry A. Wallace
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Belleville, NJ: Sweeney Litho Co., Inc, n.y.. Attractive pair of 1940 presidential campaign handbills. 4to (each 8¼" X 11"). Very good. Minor edgewear and several small archivally-closed (on verso) edge tears. The FDR handbill consists of a well-known Pach Bros. head-and-shoulders portrait of Roosevelt, with "Carry On With" in large typeface on the top margin and "Franklin D. Roosevelt" in large typeface on the lower margin. The Wallace handbill consists of a closer-up head-and-shoulders informal portrait, with "For Vice-President" in large typeface on the top margin and "Henry A. Wallace" in large typeface on the lower margin. This pair were also issued in a larger size.
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Carte-de-Visite
by (McCLELLAN, Ellen "Nelly" Mary Marcy -- CARTE-DE-VISITE)
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N.p.: N.p., n.y. [likely 1865]. 2½" X 4". Good only. Edgeworn and lightly soiled, with homely crease at upper right corner; mounting traces on verso. Fairly attractive image nonetheless. The wife (1836-1915) of Union General George McClellan was the daughter of his former commander; they wed in 1860 and she bore him two children. This charming steel-engraved portrait shows her seated, half-length, in a large bulky black dress, hand clutching a handkerchief in her lap. Despite hard wear, the image is strong and bold. Uncommon.
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Descriptions of Various Species of the Heteropterous Genus Phyllomorpha
by (ENTOMOLOGY PRINT -- WESTWOOD, John Obadiah)
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John Obadiah Westwood (1805-93) was a prolific and influential English entomologist, archaeologist and Oxford University professor -- considered one of the most important of his day -- who was actually an accomplished artist as well, filling some of his books with illustrations remarkable for their accuracy as well as their beauty; his books include the 1839 "An Introduction to the Modern Classification of Insects" and the 1848 "The Cabinet of Oriental Entomology." Hand-colored lithograph, 5 3/4" X 9¼", from the first edition of Westwood's "Arcana Entomologica; or Illustrations of New, Rare, and Interesting Insects" (London: W. Smith, 2 volumes, 1845). Near fine. Small (5/8" diameter) circular "M.H.S." inkstamped in blue at lower left, not affecting image. A delightful rendering of four types of the insect Cimex paradoxus artfully arranged around a tall green leafy stem with blue and yellow flowers. Delicately, expertly colored in…
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Good Company
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St. Paul: Brown & Bigelow, n.y.. Color print. Folio (15½" X 11 3/4"). Fine. Talio-crome was a reproduction technique that appears to have been popular in the 1950s, the approximate period of this print. This near-pristine piece bears a separate printed label affixed at the upper left corner (and meant to be detached upon framing) describing the scene and the artist. In part: "Outside, from a leaden sky, a gentle snowfall covers roofs and streets with a soft mantle of white as congenial friends meet in a public room of the old inn. Here, in the pleasant warmth from a glowing hearth, a pipe is smoked and stories told while waiting for the innkeeper to mix a bowl of bracing punch with which to drink a toast to friendship and good company...." Some background detail on the contemporary Scottish artist also given. A charming scene -- like a Scottish Norman Rockwell. Blank margins appear to have been slightly trimmed, though the ½" grey/green border surrounding…
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Gothic Architecture Selected from Various Ancient Edifices in England
by PUGIN, A., and PUGIN, A.W.
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Cleveland: J.H. Hansen, 1923. Hardcover. Complete 2-volume set. 4to. String-tied brown cloth spine and corners and tan paper over boards lettered in red portfolio housing heavy card stock loose sheets (title page, index and plates 1-170 in Volume I; title page, index and plates 171-337 in Volume II). Very good/near fine. Portfolios lightly soiled and faintly edgeworn only; title pages (only) a bit soiled and age toned. Handsome complete set of this large collection of detailed architectural renderings by French-English artist and architectural historian Augustus (1762-1832) and his architect son Augustus Welby (1812-52), who together helped spur the Gothic Revival of the early 18th century. This pair's two-volume "Specimens of Gothic Architecture" (1821-23) and three-volume "Examples of Gothic Architecture" (1831) are both contained in this work, here a "Complete Reprint without text." The upper left corner of every card bears the inkstamped name of "A.S.…
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The Great Emancipator
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Chicago: Sabel Studios, 1942. 11½" X 14". Sophisticated three-quarter portrait within a circle, "Engraved from drawing made with one continuous line."
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A Humble Petition to the President of Harvard
by BEECHER, John
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Phoenix, AZ: Rampart Press, 1963. Broadside. Folio (12½" X 16"). Titled in red. Limited to 250 copies printed on German mouldmade paper. Fine. First separate printing. Although Beecher didn't graduate from Harvard, he did attend Harvard Graduate School for language and literature in 1926 -- hence his opening declaration here, "I am, sir, so to speak, 'a Harvard man.'" Possibly occasioned by a much later visit by Beecher to his almost-alma (he refers to "Nostalgic reminiscences brought on / by your most recent bulletin"), this delightful piece begins as a tribute to the legendary Harvard literature professor G.L. Kittredge (1860-1941), Shakespeare and Chaucer authority, prim and proper "in forked snowy beard and pearl-grey spats" whose teachings were equally fastidious: "Prince Hamlet / made no unseemly quips anent the thighs / Ophelia spread for him...." -- thus "Nice young men were we / in Kitty's class...." Personal…
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The Judge: Vol. 5, No. 116 (9 January 1884)
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New York: The Judge Publishing Company, 1884 January 9 (Vol. 5, No. 116). 4to. Front leaf (ONLY) of this issue. Good plus. Moderately and evenly age toned, with touch of edgewear and margins slightly cropped. Color lithograph front cover illustration depicts an ornate Victorian parlor, with portly older U.S. Grant at right and former Senator Roscoe Conkling at left. Between them a large cake (labeled "Senatorship") rests on a table, and each appears to be bowing to the other and urging the other to take the first slice. Caption below reads: "POLITICAL POLITENESS. / GRANT. You take it. CONKLING. No! No! You." Usual elaborate Judge masthead. Editorials on verso include the following commentary: "There is something truly affecting in the spectacle of these two old stand-bys of the Republican party... standing punctiliously aside for each other and gracefully waiving the way to the Senate...."
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Les Chefs-d'oeuvre d'Architecture et Sculpture du XIIe au XIXe Siecle
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Paris: Ch. Massin, n.y.. Hardcover. Folio (18¼" X 13¼"). Grey cloth spine and marbled paper over boards with paper label string-tied portfolio housing 120 heavy stock rectos-only plates (+ half-title page, title page, 4pp table of contents). Extensive illustrations (1-2 photographs per plate). Overall very good. Portfolio soiled and age toned, with interior pastedowns age toned (dampstained?) near gutter; half-title page naturally shows more age toning than the remainder, which are mainly age toned about the edges, with images themselves untouched and handsome. Decent complete set of this large and lovely detailed photographic plates handsomely recording architectural details in French structures from the 12th through 19th centuries. Given their title page credit apparently sponsored by the "Musee de Sculpture Comparee (Palais de Trocadero)," the Museum of French Monuments founded in 1879, as part of their "Librairie Generale de l'Architecture et des Arts…
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Libby Prison. The Only Picture in Existence. As It Appeared August 23, 1863
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Well-known lithograph of the notorious Confederate prison in Richmond, second in infamy only to Georgia's Andersonville Prison. Richmond, VA: Wm. A. Mountcastle, 1882. Ca. 9" X 8". Very good. A clean and handsome example of this famous image of this prison, with six large tents in the middle ground. One soldier stands sentry in the foreground, another stands with arm in a sling and a handful of others, military and civilian, mill about near the tents and along the large brick structure; interestingly, three male civilians stand as a group in the foreground, one of them clutching the hand of a young girl, clearly posing for the photograph upon which this lithograph has been based. A front corner of the building still retains its original large "Libby & Son / Ship Chandlers & Grocers" sign. An attractive and highly detailed image. Housed in a modern (ca. 1970s) single cream matte and a simple ½" wooden frame with non-glare glass (overall dimensions 12"…
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Louis Philippe, King of the French / Her Majesty Maria, Amelia, Consort of Louis Philippe, King of the French
by GERARD, Francois
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N.p.: Whittaker & Co, 1830. Pair of hand-colored steel-engraved head-and-shoulder portraits, each 5" X 8½" (each matted in tan to 12" X 16"). Fine. A striking pair of portraits by the French artist to the royals (1770-1837), Louis Philippe engraved by James Thomson and Maria Amelia by T.A. Dean. Quite handsome.
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Nauvoo, from the Mississippi, Looking Down the River
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Hand-colored steel-engraved newspaper print, ca. 10" X 8" (image size 9" X 7"), n.p., n.y. [1853 or 1854]. Near fine. A clean and attractive example of this charming scene of the tiny west central Illinois city associated with Joseph Smith and the Mormons before their westward flight. No artist's or engravers name appears in the margins. This image first appeared in the July 8, 1853 issue of the "New-York Illustrated News," then on July 22, 1854 the identical image was published in "Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion" in Boston. This particular example has been simply and tastefully hand colored, and is framed under a single cream matte in a modern 3/4" wood frame, all archival and quite handsome -- overall dimensions 15" X 13". (Removal from the framing would of course allow determination which printing this is based on the typeset text on verso, but the engraving plate is identical in either case.) A beautiful example of this…
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News Agency Photographs
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Trio of three vintage 7" X 9" black and white glossy news agency photographs issued in 1956 by International News Photos in Chicago. The first (condition good only) shows the then-agriculture secretary testifying before a Senate committee; the second (condition fine) shows Benson and other agriculture officials meeting with Eisenhower; and the third (condition fine) shows Benson chatting with reporters outside the White House.
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On Acquiring a Cistercian Breviary
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Phoenix, AZ: Rampart Press, 1963. Broadside. 4to (9" X 12½"). Titled in blue. Edition limited to 200 copies. Fine. First separate printing. Dedicated to Father M. Louis, O.C.S.O. -- better known as Thomas Merton (1915-68), the celebrated Trappist monk with the Cistercian Order of the Strict Observance. Ruminations on faith and the monastic life brought on by perusing "these old volumes that my hands / profane." One of the great American protest and radical poets, Beecher left his steel mill background to teach English and sociology at various universities; he worked various positions under the New Deal; his first published poem, "And I Will Be Heard" (1940), placed him on the literary map, and the book-length narrative poem "Here I Stand" came the following year; during World War Two he sailed aboard the first racially integrated ship, the S.S. Booker T. Washington, and wrote about those experiences in "All Brave Sailors"; blacklisted from…
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Out, damned spot! Out, I say!!
by (SHAKESPEARE, William -- MACBETH -- POSTER). WALL, Bud (1939-2005)
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[Platteville, WI]: Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival, 1982. Glossy poster. Folio (23" X 33"). Very good. Quite minor bit of wear to upper and lower edge, discreet and inoffensive. Annual poster for this professional company that performs at the Center for the Arts at the University of Wisconsin at Platteville in southwestern Wisconsin. Titled "Shakespeare shooting pigeons in the Globe Theatre" at the lower margin, this is a glossy reproduction (image size 22" X 24") of a dramatic charcoal depiction of the Globe Theatre stage, the bottom of the image extending well below the stage floor and the top of the image displaying the theatre's rafters. The stage itself shows a backdrop of a Renaissance cityscape. Center stage stands a male figure, aiming upward towards the rafters with a crossbow. Just below the image, Wisconsin artist BUD WALL (1939-2005) signs large and bold in pencil, dating it 1982. A superb piece in handsome condition.
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Out of the North: A Brief Historical Sketch of the Blackfeet Indian Tribe
by LINDERMAN, Frank Bird
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St. Paul: Great Northern Railway Co., 1947. Paperback. 4to. Wrappers. 12pp. Very good. Tight, nice first edition of this pamphlet, accompanied by all 24 color 9" X 12 prints of Blackfeet Indians by noted German-born American artist Winold Reiss (1886-1953). The prints are all very good, each with pin pricks at top corners and occasionally on lower edge as well, but not affecting the images. The original printed envelope is not present, but the entire portfolio is housed in a large heavy gauge mylar sleeve.
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Palais Massimi a Rome
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New York: The Architectural Book Publishing Company, n.y.. Hardcover. Folio (17" X 11 34"). String-tied slate blue spine and corners with tan printed paper over boards portfolio housing 42 loose heavy card stock 11½" X 16 3/4" sheets (rectos only). Good plus/near fine. Portfolio rubbed and slightly scuffed, with expert archival strengthening to spine -- complete and overall fairly attractive and handleable; top sheet (title page) slightly age toned, remainder only toned about the edges. Attractive and complete set of these detailed architectural renderings from this 16th century Renaissance palace in Rome designed by Baldassarre Peruzzi, first published in Paris by F.T. Suys et L.P. Haudebourt in 1818. Undated, but likely circa 1915. The blank verso of each card bears the inkstamped name of "A.S. Graven, Inc.," the Chicago architectural firm responsible for many of that area's famed movie palaces and other structures. The first edition is quite scarce in…
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Partridge Shooting
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London: G.P. McQueen, 1880. Color aquatint. Large folio (ca. 29" X 21"). Fine. A bright, crisp, large-margined print by this well-known English painter and illustrator (1842-1904), remembered for his landscapes and animal scenes -- especially dogs. This scene, engraved by William Summers, depicts two hunting dogs in the foreground sniffing out their prey in a rural English landscape, with a shotgun-carrying hunter and his companion in the middle distance at right. This superb example has been single-matted in cream and framed in a simple 1¼" oak frame (overall dimensions 37½" X 29").
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