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New York: H. A. Thomas, Lithographic Studio, 1875. Color lithographic plate. 22" x 28". Printed on paper and mounted to board and varnished; small scuffs & gouges, some pieces of the print are missing, edges worn, but the colors are strong and the images well preserved. An evocative print showing Neptune and his mermaids riding in a chariot, being drawn by a team of eight finely delineated horses and driven by a member of Barnum's circus. A very rare survival and even in this condition, an excellent example of the showmanship of Barnum and his sense of attracting attention to his latest attraction. The lithographer is H. A. Thomas, whose lithographic studio was on Broadway just below Houston Street. Peters provides a very limited biography, focusing more on his production, including a very large lithograph of a tattooed prison. I was unable to locate this image in any of the standard works. See Peters, American on Stone, page 384 for information on the lithographer. (337).

12mo. 160 x 100 mm., 6 ½ x 3 ¾ inches). xii, 251(1) pp. 12mo, contemporary tree calf, spine gilt, red morocco label (joints very slightly rubbed, upper cover a trifle marked. Early armorial bookplate of Sir Thomas Hesketh.
First edition. A lively Grub-Street poetical miscellany, edited by Matthew Concanen. Concanen was born in Ireland in 1701 began to publish poetry before the age of 20; his Match at Foot-Ball
and Meliora's Tears for Thyrsis were both printed in Dublin in 1720, and then incorporated two years later into a small collection of Poems on Several Occasions (also printed in Dublin). Shortly afterwards he went to London with his friend John Sterling, and the two young men began careers as hack writers and journalists.
Concanen is perhaps now best remembered for his squabbles with Alexander Pope, who was once to refer to him as "a hired scribbler." In 1732 Concanen succeeded in persuading the government to give him a post as attorney-general for Jamaica, and he performed his… Read More

London & New York: E. & F. Spon, Ltd. & Spon & Chamberlain, 1902. 8vo.  210 x 135 mm., [8 ¼ x 5 ¼ inches].  94, 3 pp. index, plus 7pp. ads.; endpapers also with ads.  Illustrated in the text with images of grinding equipment and brushes, including stipple brushes, sable brushes, varnish brushes and the like.  Additionally illustrated with 72 original paint chips mounted on three plates of card stock.  Bound in publisher's blue cloth, showing some discoloration of the cloth, otherwise a very good copy. First edition of A. S. Jennings often reprinted manual on painting mixing.  Jennings was the author of numerous articles on paint and mixing paint colors and according to his short introduction this publication was initiated by many of his readers who wished for more technical guidance on producing vibrant and long lasting colors.  He begins with a chapter on the composition of paint, made up of pigments, oil, turpentine, and driers. The book continues with hints on mixing, the equipment… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2001. Small 8vo.  200 x 130 mm., [7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches].  [x], 209 pp.  Publisher's yellow boards, title on spine; dust jacket. First edition.  An account of a travel to Sutri, an ancient Etruscan village, by an attorney escaping the high pressure of a white-shoe law firm in Manhattan.  Rips, a native of Nebraska, records his impressions of small town life in Italy and demonstrates his affinity to the eccentricities he encounters.  "Wonderfully fanciful, philosophical, and moving Pasquale's Nose is a journey, a memoir, and a story about finding home in the weirdest place imaginable." .

New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1853.  Sq. 4to. 248 x 220 mm., [ 9 ¾ x 9 inches].  Illustrated with 53 illuminated pages (hinged boards), with highly gilded and decorated borders; all edges gilt. Orig. beveled brown morocco, with gilt title in shield on front cover in blind on rear board. Lacks free front endsheet. Binding rubbed, lacking bit at top of spine. Endsheets foxed. Very sound & clean, complete with orig. tissue guards. First edition  One of three illuminated works by Mapleson, exquisitely printed in the chromolithographic process by Alphonse  Brett and Thomas Sinclair of Philadelphia.  In his pioneering bibliography of American color plate books Whitman Bennett writes, "The editor has been amazed at the variety and the beauty of Mapleson's work, which seems to him...both in abstract decoration and in miniature work, just as good and worthy of enthusiasm as that of the English Sangorski half a century later. And the reproductions are certainly better than the Sangorski reproductions."… Read More

(Philadelphia), 1828. Oblong folio. 258 x 380 mm. (10 x 15 inches). Etching decorated with blue, green, brown and red watercolor, and a yellow border. Small tear to upper right corner minor discoloration, otherwise in very good condition. Born in South Carolina, James Akin (1773-1846) migrated north to Philadelphia in the mid-1790'S and immediately began producing images and cartoons in a satirical style. He moved to Newburyport, MA for a couple of years but returned to Philadelphia where he spent the remainder of his career. He was skilled in the arts of fine line engraving, relief cutting, and lithography and when business was slow, he acted as an apothecary, print seller, and restauranteur. He was straight out of the school of James Gillray but his wit and his skills as a printmaker distinguished him from many of his contemporaries who were satisfied to simply copy the work of the English master. "Whether in his fine line engraving or in his etched or lithographic cartoons and caricatures,… Read More

Paris: NRF Editons, 1930. 12mo.  160 x 120 mm., [6 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches].  63 pp.  Woodcut portrait of Klee by Georges Aubert and 47 black and white illustrations of the artists' work. Original printed wrappers. some soiling  a bit tattered at the spine, but sound.Third Edition.

(Caldwell, New York), 1820. Folio broadside. 465 x 280mm., [18" x 11 inches].  Folded in quarters, couple of tiny separations along folds. Lightly toned, moderately foxing. An attractive, untrimmed copy. Signed in type by David Alden and Frederick Miller, Chairman and Sec'y of the meeting, respectively, as well as by members of the Republican Central Committee, at conclusion. A handsome broadside, utilizing a good deal of large, bold type. Warren County is situated north of Glens Falls, on the eastern border of  New York, encompassing almost all of Lake George. Caldwell, N.Y., now the village of Lake George, at the foot of the lake, was for a time the county seat of Warren Co. It had a newspaper from the eighteen-teens and separate imprints from as early as 1820. The Lake George Coffee House served as the first county court and the Republican [i.e. Democratic] Central Committee had its office in Caldwell. Not in OCLC or American Imprints for 1820.

Philadelphia: Crissy & Markley, Printers, 1858. Large 8vo. 245 x 165 mm., [9 ½ x 6 ½ inches].  8 pp. Orig. printed wrappers (top corner chipped). Rare Philadelphia auction catalogue which lists 35 paintings and engravings by T. Birch, A. B. Durand, E. Leutze., and others, and 37 elegantly illustrated books.  Moses Thomas and Sons appear to have begun business in Philadelphia in 1823 and continued in business until 1906, moving a number of times in and around Center City during its 73 year of existence. This catalogue appears to quite rare.  No copy is cited in OCLC and McKay cites only one copy at Historical Society of Philadelphia.  Does not appear in the Library Catalogue database. McKay,  American Book Auction Catalogues, 756.   See McKay pp. 29-33 for information on Philadelphia auctioneers and Moses Thomas in particular. (686).

London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1960. 8vo.  215 x 135 mm., [8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches].  [xiv] 335 pp.  Illustrated with a frontispiece and 8 plates. Original red cloth, dust jacket. Well researched biography of Johann Heinrich Petalozzi, the Swiss born Italian immigrant whose ideas about education reflected the transitions in society where industrialization and urbanization were creating changes to traditional customs and mores.  " "Pestalozzi recognized the danges inherent in the industiral age; progressive mechanization, growing mass development, increasing state control, and diminishing individual responsibility" were threatening the well-being of families in 19th centiry Europe.   Silber's goal in writing this book in English was to bring the progressive ideas of Pestalozzi to an audience not well aquainted with his enlighten thought.

Philadelphia: Carey and Co, 1787. 12mo.  165 x 100 mm., [ 6 ½ x 4 inches].  viii, 123 pp.  Contemporary brown calf, joints cracked and reinforced with expert tissue repair; paper stock brown with age, three leaves with expert repair to tears, edges a bit fragile, yet a sound and attractive copy.  Ownership inscription of Joseph Mathew Liber. `"First American edition of this popular textbook. . . The present edition is copied from the English version, first published in London about 1710, with the title The London Vocabulary." "The woodcuts on the title-page depicts Philadelphia on the left-hand side and London on the right.  In the text there are 25 very crude woodcuts.  First American edition of this popular textbook." Evans, American Bibliography 20398.  Sabin , Dictionary of Books Relating to America, 28690 "school book with poor woodcuts".  Rosenbach, Early American Children's Books, 177.  Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators and Wood Engravers, 116.  (570).

Philadelphia: Printed for D. Johnson, Portland by J. Watts, 1806. 12mo. 180 x 110 mm., [7 x 4 ¼ inches].  [viii], 273 pp.  Portrait frontispiece and title-page vignette.  Bound in contemporary calf, red leather label, gilt spine; joints cracked but sound; paper stock lightly brown with age, some sporadic foxing.  Bookplate of Knox College Library, a gift from Donna Workman. Second American edition, originally appearing London 1756 and it first appeared in America in 1805.  Burke's essay of taste and the sublime was very well received and it, along with his Reflections published earlier in the same year, announced his entry into English intellectual circles.  His Inquiry had influence in both France and Germany, and it became one of the hallmark publications of the Romantic movement that peaked at the end of the century. Shaw and Shoemaker, American Bibliography, 10065.

Boston: Printed by Benjamin Edes and Sons, 1780. Small 4to. 185 x 120 mm., [7 ¼ x 4 ½ inches]. 35 pp., including half-title. Old library pamphlet binder. Marked "Withdrawn Bowdoin College Library" pencil mark "Dup" on paper label. First edition. The American Academy of Arts and Sciences was founded in Boston in 1780 during one of the most difficult years of the American Revolution. James Bowdoin was the first president and other founders were John Adams and John Hancock. It is the oldest society of its kind in America and was organized to foster the development of a new nation in the liberal arts, commerce, agriculture, science, and technology. Bowdoin's speech begins with a recitation on the history of nations and their development from classical time to the modern nation states of Europe. He continues by arguing that the United States of America is advancing civilization in a new hemisphere with a new governmental structure created for the well-being of its citizens and prosperity of its people.… Read More

New York City, N. Y., 1920. Collection of 263 photographic postcards documenting a New York City Italian American family's return to Italy to visit family members and tour the country.  The photographs show an enthusiastic family embracing their extended family and the country from which they emigrated. The photos include:  Gibraltar (12). the immigrant ship Presedente Wilson with on-board imagery (22); Napoli (20); Roma (100);  Palombara (17); Trento (16);  Milano (20); Como (10); Genova (8); Tivoli (5); Torino (4); Verona (4);  Pisa (3); miscellaneous unidentified single images of towns and people (18).  There is some duplication, usually portraits of family members. Many of the images are identified in black ink in a highly legible hand, and often include the year, place names, and occasionally additional details.  Some are initialed "AB" which refers to A. Bernasconi, the name that appears in some of the photo-printing.  In the Palombara group of photos, Palombara being a small town… Read More

Colorado Springs, Colorado: Published by Ernest Whitney, 1891. Oblong 8vo. 205 x 255 mm., [8 x 10 inches]. Title-page, 12 leaves of poems printed on tissue, and 12 photogravures. Bound in publisher's green cloth , title in gilt of upper board, blind tooled borders on both boards; edges a bit rubbed and bumped; otherwise a very good copy. Second edition originally issued in a limited number in 1890. The photogravures in his handsome volume include images of Pike's Peak from various positions, the "Gateway to the Garden of the Gods", views of Cheyenne Canyon, the Seven Falls, Ute Pass, and Monument Park, to name a few. Each image is well printed with high and low tones by the Press of the Photogravure Company of New York and possess details which make the Peake and its environment jump from the page. This monochrome reproductive technique created images "with an accuracy of detail and depth of tone" that reflected characteristics of an aquatint engraving. This copy is inscribed to "Harriet E. Whitney… Read More

New York and Londong: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1897. 8vo.  210 x 140 mm., [8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches].   xxiv, 385 pp.  Illustrated with a frontispiece and 48 half tone photographs.  Original decorated publisher's cloth, some slight water damage to the upper cover. Account of Sicily at the turn of the 20th century, with a focus on the art, history,  and landscape of the Island, from the largest of cities to its hamlets and villages.    "To know Europe, one must know Italy.  To know Italy, one must be well versed in Sicilian history, archaelogy , art and literature.  Italy without Sicily leaves no image in the soul;  Sicily is the key to it all"  (Goethe).  Paton echoed Goethe's sentiments and produced a well illustrated guide to this ancient island. Although called a "revised edition", this 1897 edition appears to be the earliest listed in either OCLC or the British Library Catalogue.  Editions of this work were published into the 1920's.   .

Arnaldo Forni Editore, N.d.. Facsimile reprint of the Ferrara edition, printed by Giuseppe Rinaldi in 1770. The Forni edition was printed in an edition of 300 copies.

Boston: Houghton, Miffllin and Company, at the Riverside Press, 1911. 8vo. 210 x 145 mm., [8 ¼ x 5 ¾ inches]. xxiv, 603 pp. Illustrated with a folding frontispiece and a folding map, and 58 photo reproductions printed on glossy paper in the text. Publisher's decorated green cloth and spine; showing minor wear and very little fading of the cloth, front hinge cracked, with a rather long pencil note about Bruce Roger's design of the book by a previous owner. With faults a good copy. First edition, designed by Bruce Rogers and very nicely printed and bound at the Riverside Press, Boston. This work, "endeavors to be an exposition of the whole region of the Venetia, setting forth all its towns and countryside worth visiting, in the realms of history, art, and natural beauty. . ." Included are descriptions of Brenta, Padua, Vicenza, Bassano, Treviso, Undine, Verona, Brescia, Ferrara, and Rovigo to name the most prominent cities Williams visited. Egerton Williams was the author of a number of other books… Read More

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911. 8vo.  210 x 145 mm., [8 ¼ x 5 ¾ inches].  xxiv, 603 pp.  Illustrated with a folding frontispiece and a folding map, and 58 photo reproductions printed on glossy paper in the text.  Publisher's decorated green cloth and spine; showing minor wear and very little fading of the cloth.  With the book and signature of Carleton Potter Small on the front endpapers and some pencil notations on the rear endpaper and a few checkmarks on the table of contents and the list of illustrations.  A very good copy. First edition, designed by Bruce Rogers and very nicely printed and bound at the Riverside Press, Boston.  This work, "endeavors to be an exposition of the whole region of the Venetia, setting forth all its towns and countryside worth visiting, in the realms of history, art, and natural beauty. . ."  Included are descriptions of Brenta, Padua, Vicenza, Bassano, Treviso, Undine, Verona, Brescia, Ferrara,  and Rovigo to name the most prominent… Read More

N.p. (Toronto): Privately Printed, 1862. Small 4to. 170 x 135 mm. (6 ¾ x 5 ¼ inches). viii, 112 pp. Original blue printed wrappers, some minor chipping to tail of spine. Very good copy. Printed in an edition of 150 copies, this pirated edition of Tennyson's poems was printed in Toronto by C. W. Chewett and edited by J. Dykes Campbell, who published it at his own expense. The poems originally appeared in Tennyson's editions of poems that were printed in 1830 and 1833, but removed from the 1842 edition by the author. John Camden Hotten, the London publisher and bookseller, offered the 1862 edition for sale, and Tennyson immediately sued Hotten, who was forced to apologize, destroy all remaining copies and pay a fine. A note in the online catalogue at McGill University states that this pirated edition was the first suffered by Tennyson and cites as the source of this information David Sinclair's article "Tennyson's Poems: The First Pirated Edition" which… Read More