Search Results: Titles starting with T from Howard S. Mott, Inc

ILLUSTRATED HORSE WHISPERER BROADSIDE: A RAREY IMITATOR[RAREY, John Solomon]. SELDEN, Dr. A[lbert]. W., of Louisville, Ky.'Tachyhippodamia!' Or, the Art of Taming Wild and Vicious Horses. Dr. A. W. Selden, of Louisville, KY., The World-Renowned Horse Doctor & Trainer, will give A Free Lecture on the Physiology, Diseases, Anatomy, and the Training and Handling of Horses, At [in manuscript: Union Hall, Millersville (Pa.)] on
[in manuscript: Thursday Eve Sept. 8th at 7 O'clock]. The Doctor will, if the citizens wish, take up a Class and teach the whole VETERINARY SCIENCE...TAMING HORSES HE WILL TEACH THE FOLLOWING [10] THINGS...He will also introduce his INDIAN WAR BRIDLE, which if any Scholar says is not worth the Price of Tuition alone, no Charges will be made. Large folio broadside, 18 1/2 x 13 1/4", inside decorative border. N.p., n.d. [Wheeling, West Virginia?] Daily Intelligencer Print [1864?].… Read More

[NEW YORK PROVINCE QUIT RENTS MANUSCRIPTS]. COLDEN, Cadwallader (1688-1776), Lt. Governor of New York: ELLIOT, Andrew, Receiver General; General BANYER, Goldsbrow, Deputy Auditor. 3 Manuscript ADs s, each on a bifolium, being "The General Account of His Majesty's Quit Rents and Fines for the Province of New York Stated by Andrew Elliot, Esqr. Receiver General Constituted thereto by His Majesty's Letters Patent, Commencing the 29th day of Septmr: 1767, & Ending the 29th day of Septr: 1768 [AND: 1768-1769 & 1771-1773]. Large folio, variously, 17 x 23 1/2", 18 x 23 1/2", and 19 x 23 1/2". Signed and witnessed by Lt. Gov. Cadwallader Colden, Andrew Elliott (1728-1797), future Loyalist and acting colonial governor of New York in 1783, and Goldsbrow Banyer (1724-1815), career colonial official, Deputy Auditor General of the Province of New York, future incorporator of the Bank of Albany, and witnessed by all three. New York, 1769, 1770 and 1774.Manuscript tax and payment records apparently "lost" since… Read More

KEYES, Thom. The Return from the High Seas. Illustrated by the Author. 8vo, original leather backed vividly colored paste boards, pp. [vii], 29. [Cochabamba, Bolivia:] Obliva Press, 1983.
First Edition. Number 76 of 100 copies, this copy with an inscription by the author/illustrator, "For...I thought I'd give all my friends a birthday present. Don't see being near the East Coast for some while. Fondly Thom Keyes. 6th July 1983 Cochabamba." He has also signed his name on title. At the bottom of the title he has added "Ex" to "Illustrated by the author," underneath which he wrote "painted after." Cochabamba is a city in the center of Bolivia in a valley in the Andes. Keyes is mentioned as moving there in Andy Roberts, Divine Rascal: On the Trail of LSD's Cosmic Courier, Michael Hollingshead (2019), p. 262. An eccentric bit of verse nonsense about a sailing voyage by Keyes (1949-1995), a writer of science fiction and screen plays. With a Preface about Lewis Carroll and his influence. The… Read More

A THOMAS NAST ORIGINAL CARTOON LAMPOONING OTTO VON BISMARCK'S RESIGNATION AS CHANCELLOR
NAST, Thomas. [BISMARCK, Otto von]. ["The Mad March Hare goes in Like a Lion, But How Will He Come Out?]. Original pen-and-ink political cartoon on flexible "Turnbull's Superfine London Board," 13 x 8 3/4", signed "Th: Nast. March-1890.
A large Thomas Nast original cartoon lampooning one of his favorite objects of satire, Otto von Bismarck, on the occasion of the latter's resignation as "Iron Chancellor" of the German Empire, as submitted to Wilhelm II, on March 18, 1890. Published in Slason Thompson's America: A Journal for Americans (Chicago), vol. IV, April 3, 1890, pp. 14-15. America was a short-lived (1897-1901) periodical espousing anti-immigrant, anti-suffrage and anti-Catholic ideas, mingled with high-minded literary ambitions, for which Nast was contracted to contribute caricatured immigrant national types, stressing their supposed weaknesses and foibles. Original art by Nast done for America… Read More

ONE OF INDIA'S POOREST DISTRICTS PRESENTS A LUXURIOUS SATIN SCROLL ENUMERATING THEIR DISTRICT'S FINANCIAL NEEDS TO SIR FRANCIS JACKSON, GOVERNOR OF BENGAL (AND ONE OF ENGLAND'S MOST FAMOUS CRICKETERS), IN ITS ORIGINAL PRESENTATION CYLINDER
[INDIA]. [BENGAL, DINAJPUR,]. JACKSON, Sir Francis (1870-1947), Governor of Bengal, presented to. To His Excellency Colonel the Right Hon'ble Sir Francis Stanley Jackson, P. C., G. C. L. E. Governor of Bengal. May it please Your Excellency... Folio broadside scroll printed on fine quality, thick, double-sided satin, 25 1/2 x 13" (64cm x 32cm), printed in red and black, 2 decorative gold borders, one of which is inside 2 plain green borders, bordered on all sides with 1/2" gold braid, top and bottom edges of which have long gold fringed ends. HOUSED IN: Original wooden cylinder, 16 1/4 x 3.65" (diameter), with inner felt lining, 3 x 5 1/2" silver metal plaque on the side, reading: "Presented to His Excellency Colonel The Right Honble Sir Francis Jackson P. C.… Read More

AFRICAN HUNTING AND EXPLORATION--A BRILLIANT COPY
IN DUST JACKETHAYWOOD, Captain C. Wightwick. To The Mysterious LorianSwamp. An Adventurous & Arduous Journey of Exploration through the vast waterless tracts of unknown Jubaland. With Illustrations & a Map. 8vo, original pictorial gilt stamped yellow mustard cloth, frontispiece, pp. 275 + 15 inserted photographic plates & folding map. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott [1927].
First American Edition; printed in Edinburgh, Scotland. Whether it be the English or American edition, most copies are less than stellar, and none that we have seen have the dust jacket. This is a brilliant copy in a excellent dust jacket, which has on its spine and front cover the same illustration of a Somali guide as on the front cover of the book. It is an account of the expedition by the former District Commission, Kenya Colony & Political Officer, Jubaland, in 1912, over the wastelands of what was then Kenya, British… Read More

NEW HAMPSHIRE AND MASSACHUSETTS TURNPIKE TOLLS REDUCED AS A RESULT OF THE FIRST GREAT DEPRESSION
[TURNPIKES, EARLY AMERICAN]. Tolls from Concord in N. H. to Medford in Mass. REDUCED. The proprietors of the several Turnpike Roads and Bridges on the above route, desirous to render their expences of travelling on the above roads as light as possible, and of giving every accommodation in their power to passengers--have severally agreed to reduce the tolls thereon, from what is allowed by law, or what has heretofore been taken--and have pledged themselves to each other and the public, that from and after the first day of June next, for the term of two years succeeding that date, the rates of tolls demanded shall in no case exceed those stated in the columns below...and that they will use their endeavours to induce Innholders to be as accommodating...Rates of Toll allowed by law, with the reduced rate agreed upon for the following descriptions of carriages and passengers...May 28th, 1822. Large folio… Read More

THE AUTHOR KILLED A CANADIAN OFFICIAL IN A DUEL IN KINGSTON ONTARIO IN 1793, AND FINED 13s 4p
SUTHERLAND, Capt. [David]. A Tour up the Straits from Gibraltar to Constantinople
with the leading events in the present war between the Austrians, Russians and the Turks, to the commencement of the year 1789. By Captain Sutherland of the 25th Regiment. 8vo, contemporary full straight grain red morocco, gilt bordered sides, elaborately gilt spine, inner gilt dentelles, marbled end papers, pp. xlvii, [1], 372, a.e.g. London: Printed for the Author, and sold by J. Johnson, 1790. First Edition, and an unusually attractive, crisp copy. "The most interesting part of the work concerns the Russo-Turkish War of 1787. Sutherland visited a number of places in Italy at the beginning of his travels, such as Caligiari, Sardinia, and later letters are about Athens, Zante, Ithaca, Turks and Greeks, pirates, Smyrna, Epheses, Athens, etc. Sutherland (1763?-?), an officer… Read More

Clemens, Samuel L. A Tramp Abroad; illustrated by W. Fr. Brown, True Williams, B. Day and other artists---with three or four pictures made by the author of this book, without outside help; in all three hundred and twenty-eight illustrations. By Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens). 8vo, original gilt stamped pictorial green cloth (corners little rubbed, pp. 410, [5] ads. Toronto: Slemin & Higgins, 1880.First (?) Canadian Edition. One of five Canadian printings all from the same plates, with "the sequence not known."-BAL 3626. BAL quotes the Athenaeum, Dec. 18, 1880: "The Canadians are said to have managed to get advance sheets from the steam press at Hartford...and to have been in the market almost as soon as his own publishers." Top one inch of the extreme leading edge of a few leaves at the end very slightly stained green, the same color as the cloth. Very good copy.

PARKER, Robert Andrew (b. 1927), American artist, illustrator and author. Travels with Bob: Words and Pictures. 4to, original pictorial flexible "French-fold jackets", pp. 309, [1], a.e.g., in paper slipcase. New York: Ink Inc., 2009.
First Edition. One of 100 copies printed and signed by the award-winning illustrator/author, this one designated "h/c" or "hors commerce", and unnumbered. With prospectus containing two signed letterpress relief prints, hand colored by the artist, labeled "A/P", or "artist's proof." With over 300 reproductions (most actual size), all in full color, which "selectively chronicles the life, travels, pastimes, collections, enthusiasm, dreams and works of the artist…a rich and delightful miscellany; it includes pages from Parker's many travel books, drawings from his earliest known 'artist's book' (compiled at age 8), representative prints, watercolors, paintings, models, studies for works-in progress…"-Prospectus. Parker's drawings have appeared in… Read More