Search Results: Titles starting with P from James Arsenault & Company

Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1871. 8vo, original black cloth, pictorial gilt title to upper cover, binding samples affixed to front and rear paste-downs; sample text and illustrations with subscriber leaves bound in at rear. A rare salesman's dummy for the best-selling of Twain's books during is lifetime, and one of the best-selling travel books ever written. With binding samples affixed to the paste-downs, representative content, and subscriber's forms at the rear. CONDITION: Very good, worn at extremities.

London: Printed for G. Kearsley, by J. Taylor, 1804. 8vo (8.5 x 5.5"), original 3/4 calf, marbled paper over boards. xlii, [1], 540 pp., 5 plates (3 folding), with 1 folding table. CONDITION: Good-, spine rubbed, hinges cracked with front cover coming loose, extremities rubbed with minor loss, clean interior with minimal foxing. First English edition. Tingry was a Professor of Chemistry at the Academy of Geneva.

Chicago: Palmer House, 1885. Lith. by Crump Label Co., Chicago. Chromolithographic menu, 18 x 14 cm, folding to 14 x 9 cm, with fancy pictorial color border surrounding menu. A delightful chromolithographic menu for "The Palmer House" in Chicago., detailing a Sunday Five O' Clock meal for May 10, 1885, with such choices as Little Neck Clams, Green Turtle Soup, Halibut au Gratin, Corned Beef and Cabbage, Roast Beef, Calf's Head en Tortue, Salmi of Wild Duck, Sweetbreads with Mushrooms, Sorbet au Kirsch, Broiled Teal Duck, Fresh Lobster, vegetables; then desserts such as Birdsnest Pudding, Pieplant Pie, Tutti Frutti Ice Cream; concluding with cheese, fruit and beverages. The back panel contains a medley of illus., one a pond-side scene where a naked child in a sun bonnet is fishing, another depicts the Palmer House building, yet another advertises "American European Plans, 850 Rooms." A fine piece of Chicago culinary history. CONDITION: Very good, light wear at extremities.

[San Francisco, 1915.]. Oblong 4to (11" x 13") photo album. 67 photographs (approx. 3" x 5.5" to 9.5" x 7.5"): 12 color and 55 black and white, each photo captioned in white ink, many images numbered in the bottom-right corner, tissue guards. An extensive photo album documenting the historic Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. The Panama-Pacific Exposition, a world's fair held in San Francisco for nine months (Feb.-Dec. 1915), celebrated the opening of the newly-completed Panama Canal, and was also widely perceived in the city as an opportunity to demonstrate its impressive recovery from the 1906 earthquake. This album does much to capture the sheer scope of this vast Exhibition. Pictured are many of the Exposition's main attractions such as the Palace of Fine Arts; the Fountain of Energy; Festival Hall; the Tower of Jewels; Avenue of Palms; the Horticulture Building; Court of Flowers, the Educational Building; Court of the Four Seasons; the Court of Ages, etc. Also pictured… Read More

Glendale, CA: Gerald A. Eddy; Union Pacific Railroad, 1958. Folding color process map, 22" x 31", 18 panels of illus. and text on verso, folded size 7.5" x 5.25". A striking post-WWII panoramic map of the Southwest including portions of Nevada and Arizona, as well as California's Death Valley and Utah's Zion, Bryce and Cedar Breaks areas, depicting the vast region accessible via the Union Pacific Railroad, including its mountains, cliffs, washes, plateaus, mines, Hoover and other dams, Nellis Air Force Base, the Atomic Energy Commission testing grounds, Indian reservations, Valley of Fire state park, numerous national parks, forests, and monuments, the Colorado River supplying Lake Mead, and Boulder City and Las Vegas with street grids showing hotel locations. The map ranges from the Grand Canyon in the East to Death Valley and the Yucca Flats in the West; and from Boulder City in the south to Salt Lake City in the North. The Union Pacific Railroad lines are delineated in red; elevations are… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf for the Society of Calligraphers, Printed at the Plimpton Press, Norwood, MA, 1928. Hardcover. 8vo (8" x 6"), half black cloth, patterned paper, paper label at spine. LXXXII, [2] pp. Author signature at colophon. Bookplate at front pastedown. CONDITION: Near-fine, slightly bumped spine, minimal wear to extremities, label faded. Number 56 of an edition of "540 copies of this first formal publication of the Society" of Calligraphers, a fictional society invented by Dwiggins to promote his ideas on book-design and market himself to other more prominent presses (Shaw).

New York: The Viking Press, 1982. Hardcover, dj. 4to (14" x 10"), green cloth, gilt upper cover. [4], 5 -123 pp., [3]., numerous color illus., musical scores, text in Hebrew and English. CONDITION: Near fine, dj with slight wear.

New York: Atheneum, American Antiquarian Society, 1969. Hardcover. Sm 4to (11" x 8.75"), half red leather, blue cloth. xx, 262 pp. CONDITION: Near-fine, light rubbing to covers, minor wear at extremities.

[circa 1910]. 7.5" x 9.5" platinum print photograph, on gray 10" x 12" mount. A beautiful larger format landscape view of the mesa and rolling hills of Peach Springs, Arizona; a gentleman in a bowler hat surveys the scene, a [tiny] cluster of buildings at the foot of a hill appears in the far distance. Peach Springs is located on the Hualapai Reservation in Mohave County, on the historic Route 66 and former Atchison,Topeka & Santa Fe railroad line. CONDITION: Strong tonality, good condition, pencil title under image, slight warp to board, extremities bumped.

[circa 1910]. 7.5" x 9.5" platinum print photograph, on gray 10" x 12" mount. A larger format photograph of several hills descending into a gully in Peach Springs, Arizona, with a few black cows along the road. Peach Springs is located on the Hualapai Reservation in Mohave County, on the historic Route 66 and former Atchison,Topeka & Santa Fe railroad line. CONDITION: Strong tonality, good condition, pencil title under image, slight warp to board, offsetting on verso.

Portland, ME: Published by G. W. Morris, Portland, Maine, 1906. Printed in Germany. 5.5" x 14" tinted collotype jumbo postcard. A vivid and quite handsome panoramic view of the Peaks Island House and several annexes. Publisher G. W. Morris (in business 1901-1922) created a distinct look using drawn-in effects on postcards. CONDITION: Fine.

London: The Astolat Press, printed at the Curwen Press. Hardcover. 4to (12.25" x 8.5"), half gilt white vellum, patterned paper over boards. 268 pp., 5 color plates. CONDITION: Good, wear at extremities with loss to paper at bottom right of front cover, split front inner hinge. From the colophon: "This edition is limited to 350 copies, of which 150 copies are for sale in England by the Astolat Press and 135 copies for sale in America by the Wakefield Book Shop, 509 Madison Avenue, New York. This is number 229" of the copies published by the Astolat Press.

Dourdan (Seine-et-Oise) : Ch. Juliot, [circa 1900]. Folio, portfolio of original red cloth and printed gray paper over boards. [11] pp., 40 chromolithographic plates, loose in portfolio. The second in a series of three portfolios of lovely art nouveau designs by Mulier. All of the designs involve floral motifs which are identified by titles such as Interpretation de L'Eglantine, Interpretation de L'Iris, etc. Some of the plates present the overall decorative scheme, and others enlarged details of those schemes. CONDITION: Good, light damp-staining at fore-edge and top edge of front cover, and damp-stain at top edge of back cover, plates unaffected, loss at lower corner of margin to plate 1, minor edge rubbing to plates, generally clean and attractive.

London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, LTD, [1912]. Hardcover. 8vo (8.5" x 6"), pictorial brown cloth. xii, 207 pp., [3] pp. publ. ads.,numerous b&w illus. A drawing manual from the Pitman's Handwork Series, with philosophy, examples and directions. Common objects illustrated include wheels, pails, chairs, stools, umbrellas and the like. CONDITION: Good, moderate wear at extremities, spine and lower cover soiled with light splattering and ink spots, owner's inscription on flyleaf, interior clean and sound.

[circa 1860s]. Pencil on wove paper, 8" x 12" (sheet size). A lovely sketch of a large tree curling over a shed, with a farm at center and a suggestion of trees, fields and hills to the left. Xanthus Smith (1839-1929) was born and raised in suburban Philadelphia. All of his immediate family relations were accomplished painters. Instruction from his mother, noted floral painter Mary Priscilla Wilson Smith, and father, the celebrated landscape artist Russell Smith, supplanted institutional instruction in his youthful artistic development. Critics of the day often compared his technique to his father's, though their subject matter often differed considerably (Xanthus' fame rests on his seascapes and Civil War naval battle scenes). This strong parental influence also shaped the career of his sister Mary, who became an acclaimed painter of small barnyard animals in her adult life. All of the Smiths exhibited their work at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.This drawing is from a small archive of Smith… Read More

Oberlin, Kansas: Press of the St. Francis Herald, 1909. Oblong 24mo 6" x 9", pictorial blue wrappers. [48] pp., with 8 pp. text, 2 pp. ads and 40 illus. from photos, including 1 foldout (39" x 6") with panorama on one side and multiple illus. on the other. Early inscription on front free endpaper: "Mr David Roberts St. Francis kansas. Mr. H. B. Ball P.S." CONDITION: Good, light 1.5" damp stain to back wrapper, significant separation along panorama folds, clean interior. A rare and richly illustrated promotional booklet covering the thriving communities in St. Francis and Bird City, Kansas and touting the opportunities awaiting prospective settlers. It begins with an overview of Cheyenne County and its history, covering the County's natural resources, land, industries, water supply, the "underflow" watering the western prairies, noted companies, climate, wheat (a staple crop), stock raising, the sugar beet industry, broom corn, religious institutions, schools, "representative citizens" (H. B. Bear… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. Hardcover. 8vo (9.5" x 7.5"), black cloth with pictorial front cover. Color illus. end papers. 208 pp., color and b&w plates throughout. Previous owner's inscription in ink on ffep. CONDITION: Very good, rubbed front cover, spotted rear cover, interior clean, binding sound.

New Haven, Ct.: Printed by Josiah Meigs, 1787. 16mo pamphlet (21 cm), printed self-wrappers, disbound from sammelbound. 25 pp., manuscript pp. 240-265 written in ink top outside corner of each p., including title page and verso. First Printing. Calvinist minister, theologian, and Yale (1756) graduate John Smalley discusses Psalm XIX, "The Law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul." Smalley was a member of the New Divinity movement, associated with Jonathan Edwards. REFERENCE: Evans 20710. CONDITION: Leaves separating at spine, 3 cm. damp stain to terminal leaf and other minor stains, foxing throughout.

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1956. Hardcove. Sm 8vo (8" x 4.5"), plain cream Linson vellum, cover stamped in green, red, and gold, imitating inlays. xxxiii, 127 pp. CONDITION: Near-fine, small dent at spine. Number 657 of an edition of 785, "the first publication of these poems and letters" (McKitterick 124). The editor states that "[t]his edition is an offshoot of a biography of Margaret Lucas," published in 1957.

London: Arnold Hatfield, 1603. Folio, early full calf, raised bands. [viii], 1363, [1 blank p.], [62] pp., engraved title-page headpiece. In a recent custom-made clamshell box, in half brown calf and brown cloth, with raised bands. First edition in English of Plutarch's Moralia. Although Plutarch is best known as a biographer, over half of his work consists of philosophical writings. In addition to his discussions of several classical schools, Plutarch writes on a wide variety of subjects, from marriage, the proper education of children, and how to tell a flatterer from a friend to the morality of meat-eating, the face of the moon, and the relative intelligences of land and sea animals. In this varied light, a more appropriate title might have been the one given to the first Latin translation ever printed: Apothegmata, originally from the Greek word "to speak out," was printed in Venice by Johannes Vindelinus de Spira in 1472. However, further translations into other languages took the title… Read More