North America
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# 16372
McMURRAN, C.W.
From New York to New Zealand; or, The new century trip
Wellington, N.Z. : Government printing office, 1904. Octavo, illustrated paper wrappers (tear to spine, corners chipped), 150pp, colour folding map, b/w photographic plates. Designed as an introduction to New Zealand history, politics, culture and contemporary society for the benefit of North American readers, in particular prospective settlers or traders. Includes notes on government services, the …
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# 16320
BOURKE-WHITE, Margaret (1904-1971)
Coffee through the camera’s lens
New York, N.Y. : Home Economics Department, American Can Company, [1936]. Printed card portfolio, folding to 180 x 130 mm, containing 11 reproductions of photographs by Margaret Bourke-White, a map of South America and a sheet illustrating canned coffee, on loose sheets numbered 1-13 on verso; plus 3 sheets containing instructions for making coffee project …
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# 16190
HABY, Gracia and JENNISON, Louise [Gracia & Louise]
Those two daring pirates
[Melbourne] : the artists, 2004. Artist’s book, 180 mm tall, 22 page concertina offset lithograph with original hand colouring, bound in coloured fabric, initialled by the artists. Printed in an edition of 30 copies with one artist’s proof. A colourful celebration of the cultural life of New Orleans, Louisiana. “[These two daring pirates] is Gracia Haby …
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# 16110
BAEDEKER, Karl (editor)
[BAEDEKER] The Dominion of Canada with Newfoundland and an excursion to Alaska : handbook for travellers
Leipzig : Karl Baedeker ; London : Dulau and Co., 1907. Third revised and augmented edition. Small octavo, original limp red cloth lettered in gilt; front pastedown and endpaper with publisher’s advertisements; pp lxiv, 331; with 13 maps and 12 plans (some folding); a near fine copy.
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# 16106
BAEDEKER, Karl (editor)
[BAEDEKER] The United States with an excursion into Mexico : handbook for travelers
Leipzig : Karl Baedeker ; London : Dulau and Co., 1899. Second revised edition. Small octavo, original limp cloth lettered in gilt (faded and lightly marked); front free-endpaper and half-title detached; pp c, 579; with 19 maps and 24 plans (some folding); clean throughout.
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# 16103
RIDER, Fremont (editor); COOPER, Frederic Cooper (compiler)
Rider’s Washington : a guide book for travelers
London : George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. ; New York : The Macmillan Co., 1924. Thick octavo, original blind-blocked limp green cloth lettered in gilt; pp xli, 548, 16 publisher’s announcements; with 3 maps and 22 plans (some folding); original owner’s occasional pencilled marginalia, else a fine copy.
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# 15687
GRASSET DE SAINT-SAUVEUR, Jacques, 1757-1810
Encyclopédie des voyages, contenant l’abrégé historique des moeurs, usages, habitudes domestiques, religions, habitudes domestiques, religions, fêtes, supplices, funérailles, sciences, arts, et commerce de tous les peuples : er la collection complette de leurs habillemens civils, militaires, religieux et dignitaires, dessinés d’après nature, gravés avec soin et coloriés à l’aquarelle.
Rare set of Grasset de Saint-Sauveur’s ethnographic encyclopaedia, containing additional plates and in a fine binding. [Paris] : Deroy, 1796. First edition. Quarto, five volumes bound in four, early nineteenth century full vellum with central arabesque lozenges tooled in blind, manuscript titles to spines, green silk ribbons, four engraved frontispieces and 434 plates, all with fine original …
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# 15855
VANCOUVER, George, 1757-1798; SPARRMAN, Anders, 1748-1820
En upptäckts-resa till Norra Stilla Hafvet, och kring jordklotet : att på Kongl. Engelsk befallning och omkostnad i synnerhet forska efter något segelbart sammanhang imellan Norra Stilla och Norra Atlantiske Hafven förrättad åhren 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, under commando af Capitain George Vancouver. Ifrån engelskan i sammandrag utgifven af Anders Sparrman.
Scarce Swedish edition of Vancouver’s voyage account, being Anders Sparrman’s abridgement of Voyage of discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and round the world (1798). Stockholm : Anders Zetterberg, 1800. Two parts in one volume, small octavo, contemporary half calf over speckled papered boards, spine ruled in gilt with title labels (one partially erased); speckled edges; pp [vi], …
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# 16014
REEP, Richard Thompson; [CAMERON, Roderick William, 1823-1900]; [ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKET COMPANY]
[MARITIME] Letter from the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company to shipping line owner R.W. Cameron regarding the conveyance of mails on the new Panama Route to Australia
London, 12 August 1859. Entire letter, 2 pp small quarto, on the engraved letterhead of the ‘Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, No 55, Moorgate Street, London’, from Richard Thompson Reep, Secretary of the RMSCPC, to R.W. Cameron, owner of the R.M. Cameron & Co. Shipping Line, New York; Reep’s message is a reply to Cameron’s enquiries about …
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# 16002
AMERICAN SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION
[CHAPBOOK] The Penny Hymn-book
Philadelphia : American Sunday-School Union, [c.1850]. Duodecimo (110 x 70 mm), woodcut illustration to upper wrapper; 32 pp; lower wrapper with publisher’s advertisements; corners dog-eared, paper tear at tail of spine, small toning spot at fore-edge of several leaves, otherwise internally clean and sound.
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# 16003
AMERICAN SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION
[CHAPBOOK] Memoir of Elizabeth
Philadelphia : American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, [c.1850]. Duodecimo (110 x 70 mm), woodcut illustration to upper wrapper; 16 pp, woodcut illustration at head of text; lower wrapper with ‘A Hymn’; wrappers foxed and re-stitched; contents with scattered foxing.
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# 15553
“Hewitt” Trout Fishing Specialties
New York : Marchbanks Press, [c.1900]. Octavo, paper wrappers, staple bound (some rust marks), [pp 7]. A trade catalogue for flies and other fishing equipment, with an article on Hewitt’s Trout Feed.
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# 15580
SCHOLES, David
The way of an angler : an appreciation of fly-fishing on many waters
Brisbane : Jacaranda Press, 1963. First edition. Octavo, patterned boards with dust jacket (some silverfishing), pp 184; photographic plates; a good copy. Discussing fishing regions in Victoria, Tasmania and the Monaro district of New South Wales, as well as in the U.S. and U.K.
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# 15459
KEENE, J. Harrington
Fly-fishing and fly making for trout, bass, salmon, etc.
With plates of the actual material for making flies of forty-eight varieties. New York : Forest and Steam Publishing Company, 1898. Third edition. Octavo, pictorial cloth boards with gilt roundel containing fly blocked in black, laid over a fishing rod with small fish, spine lettered in gilt, previous owner’s bookplate to front pastedown, pp. 159; …
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# 15686
[MEAGHER, Thomas Francis, 1823-67]
[TASMANIA] General Thomas Francis Meagher, Irish Nationalist, convict in Van Diemen’s Land
[U.S.A. : s.n., circa 1865. Albumen print photograph of a painting or drawing, carte de visite format (102 x 61 mm), printed caption below image ‘Maj. Gen. Meagher’; no studio imprint; in fine condition. Thomas Francis Meagher (1823-67) was a prominent figure in the 1848 Irish Rebellion, during which he was captured by the British and arrested …
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# 14141
STUART, Martinus (1765-1826); KUYPER, Jaques (artist)
[ABORIGINES] De mensch, zoo als hij voorkomt op den bekenden aardbol,
beschreven door Martinus Stuart ; afgebeeld door Jaques Kuyper. Volume I : Te Amsterdam : bij Johannes Allart, 1802; volumes II – VI : Te Z. Boemel [Zaltbommel, Netherlands] : bij J. Noman, 1818. Six volumes, octavo, original yellow papered boards, spines with wear and loss, a mixed set, the first volume from the first issue and the …
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# 15546
[MANUSCRIPT] A Journal or Narrative of the Proceedings betweene the Commissioners appointed by His Majestie, and the Commissioners Deputed by the States Generall, pursuant to the Treaty of Peace made at Westminster 9/19 Ffebruary 1673/4 Concerning a Treaty Marine to be observed throughout all the World. And also an Article particularly relateing to the English and Dutch East India Companyes Concluded in the yeare 1674.
[London, 1674-75]. Folio, old mottled calf gilt, spine with raised bands, gilt ornament, red leather title labels lettered in gilt, all edges gilt; manuscript written in English, Latin, Dutch and French in several contemporary secretarial hands; ff 269; clean and fresh throughout. An important contemporary manuscript record of the Mixed Commission established to draw up a Treaty Marine and …
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# 15565
Nicetto, Juan Bautista; Fortet, Pierre Paulle (translator)
[MANUSCRIPT] Briefue Relacion de ce qu’il y a de plus remarquable dans la grande Chine, envoyée par le R.R.P.P. Jean Baptiste Nicetto Missionaire Apostolique dans ce grand Empire, & traduitte fort fidelement de l’Espagnol en langue française.
[Mexico, 1708]. Small quarto, old marbled papered boards; ex libris of Florencio Gavito to front pastedown; manuscript in ink in a neat contemporary hand, pp 13; colophon at the foot of the last page: ‘In Mexico, this 20th November 1708. Most faithfully translated by Pierre Paulle Fortet, currently in this city, capital of the Kingdom of New …
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# 15422
BAIN & BURTT; [GIBBS, Alexander]
[NEW ZEALAND] Whaling letter written from Auckland to New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1853
Entire letter, single sheet folding to form [4] sides, quarto, closely written manuscript in ink on 3 sides, headed ‘Auckland, New Zealand, 8th February 1853’, addressed to ‘Alexander Gibbs Esqr., New Bedford’; signed at the foot ‘Your faithful obedt. servants, Bain & Burtt’; outer side with address panel, endorsed ‘via New York’, with ‘LONDON / …
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# 15476
THOMPSON, Lindsay G.
History of the fisheries of New South Wales;
With a sketch of the laws by which they have been regulated. Sydney : Government Printer, 1893. Royal octavo, rebound in modern cloth boards lettered in gilt, title page with tape marks and ink stamp, pp 126; with 4 plates and explanatory text, 16 full page illustrations, and 7 folding maps (last few maps attached …
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# 15296
"ARIEL" [PAYNE, Buckner H.]
The negro : what is his ethnological status? Is he the progeny of Ham? Is he a descendant of Adam and Eve? Has he a soul? Or is he a beast in God’s nomenclature? What is his status as fixed by God in creation? What is his relation to the white race?
Cincinnati : Published for the Proprietor, 1867. Second edition. Octavo, original printed green wrappers, 48 pp; a near fine copy. Colonel Buckner H. Payne (1799-1889) was an American clergyman, publisher and racist pamphleteer. Under the pseudonym of Ariel, Payne authored a racist pamphlet, offering a counter-argument to the Curse of Ham, suggesting instead that blacks did …
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# 15256
[PAGANINI, Nicolo]
Dettagli sopra la giovine Esquimaude giunta in Francia il 27 Luglio 1827 in compagnia degli Indiani-Osagi venuti dall’America e presentati a S. M. Carlo X. nel suo Palazzo Reale di S. Cloud il 15 Agosto 1827 e che Il. Sig. Paganini espone alla pubblica vista. Compendio della nascita e costumi di questa giovine Esquimaude ed altre particolarita’ degne dell’ osservazione del pubblico.
[Cover title: L’Esquimade vivente.] Torino : Tipografia Eredi Bianco e Comp., 1838. Octavo, original green printed wrappers (stitching a little loose, a trifle dog-eared), woodcut frontispiece illustration of the young female Inuit, pp 16; internally clean and sound, a good copy. This scarce pamphlet – a wonderful example of the nineteenth century European public’s fascination with travelling exhibitions …
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# 13816
SAY, Thomas (1787-1834)
Description of the land and fresh water shells of the United States.
Philadelphia : [Mitchell, Ames and White], 1819. “From Mitchell, Ames & White’s third edition of Nicholson’s Encyclopedia” (title page). Octavo, plain wrappers, upper section of title page with late nineteenth century paper restoration, [24] pp, illustrated with 4 engraved plates; scattered foxing. Sabin, 77380. Rare. Not in Shaw-Shoemaker, Early American imprints. Series II (1801-1819). The bibliography in Turton’s A …
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# 15861
[Grolier Club]
A Catalogue of an Exhibition of Angling Book Plates held by the Grolier Club of the City of New York
New York : The DeVinne Press, 1918. Octavo, some marks on front wrappers, plate opposite title paper, pp 84. With announcement card.
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# 15956
Anon.
Original pen drawing of Sir Thomas Lipton’s America’s Cup challenger, the yacht Shamrock, 1899
Ink on thin card, 200 x 240 mm (image), 210 x 270 mm (sheet), unframed, calligraphic title at the head Trial of the Shamrock, with three views of the Shamrock racing, a vignette portrait of the owner, Sir Thomas J. Lipton at upper left, a group of spectators at lower left, and a crest emblazoned with …
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# 15121
New Orleans Mardi Gras 1881. Schedule of special train. New York to New Orleans and return
via B & O, O & M, and Jackson Route. Carrying the members and guests of the 71st Regt., NGSNY. Lithographed card, 150 x 76 mm (5 3/4 x 3 inches) folded, printed in green ink, 4 panels with decorative lettering and vignette illustrations of the soldiers celebrating Mardi Gras, and scenes on the train …
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# 14347
POLO, Marco (1254-1324); SANTAELLA, Rodrigo Fernández de (1444-1509)
Libro del famoso Marco Polo Veneciano de las cosas maravillosas que vido en las partes orientales: conviene saber en las Indias, Armenia, Arabia, Persia, y Tartaria. E del poderio del gran Can y otros reyes. Con otro tratado de micer Pogio Florentino y trata delas mesmas tierras y islas.
Logroño, Miguel de Eguia, 3rd June 1529. Folio, ff. [4]; 32, woodcut initials, the title leaf expertly remargined along the lower and fore-edges (prior to 1927), with a very small area of penwork to the edge of the decoration, brown staining to about half the folios, a couple of other very small marginal repairs, contemporary …
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# 14688
Cook, James (1728-1779) and King, James.
A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean.
$14,000 USD Undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. Performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in his majesty’s ships the Resolution and Discovery; in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780. London, H. Hughs for G. Nicol and T. Cadell, 1785. Three volumes, …
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# 15744
SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF DESTITUTE CHILDREN OF SEAMEN
Society for the Relief of Destitute Children of Seamen, Staten Island, N.Y., U.S.A. Programme of Concert, to be given in the saloon, R.M.S. “Britannic.” … May 8th, 1896 …
[New York : Society for the Relief of Destitute Children of Seamen, 1896]. Single sheet folding to form [4] pages, quarto (280 x 215 mm), lithograph illustration to front, second page with printed information about the Society, third page with Programme of Concert printed in blue (owner’s pencilled annotations including amount of funds raised, £25.17.0), last page …
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# 15207
MARIGHELLA, Carlos
Urban guerilla minimanual.
[Cover title: Minimanual of the urban guerrilla]. Vancouver : Pulp Press, 1974. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, pp 38, [1]; a fine copy. Carlos Marighella (1911-1969) was a Brazilian Marxist writer, politician – and guerilla.
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# 15294
[KENNEDY, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963]
[JFK] Kennedy for President. 1960 Election campaign pinback button
[U.S.A. : Democratic Party, 1960]. Original metal button (badge); diameter 33 mm; pin intact; fine condition.
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# 15387
CHORLTON, William
The American grape grower’s guide. Intended especially for the American climate.
Being a practical treatise on the cultivation of the grape-vine in each department of hot house, cold grapery, retarding house, and out door culture. With plans for the construction of the requisite buildings, and giving the best methods of heating the same. Every department being fully illustrated. New York : Orange Judd & Company, 1852. …
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# 14612
ELLISON, Harlan
[PULP] Rockabilly
Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1961. First printing (October 1961). Trade paperback, small octavo, 176 pp; a fine copy. “Stag Preston, idol of millions – whose private life was wilder than any of the songs he sang.” (cover)
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# 14569
LENTZ BROS.
[CIRCUS HISTORY] The Australian Wild Children
Circa 1875. Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 165 x 115 mm, printed caption on mount beneath image, verso with studio imprint of Lentz Bros., Peru, Ind[iana].; the albumen print is a little faded and has some light marks; the mount is in good condition. A portrait of two microencephalic sideshow 'freaks', whose physical appearance …
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# 14628
GOESIN, Petrus de
Geographie, ofte beginselen der Land-Beschryvinge, zoo als die in haer eygen aerd, in verdeeling
van Landen en Gewesten met Wateren en Zee-en sig bevinden, en door Bergen, Rivieren en Stroomen onderscheiden zyn; als mede den principaelsten Koophandel die in elke Landen verrigt worden. Tot Gend [Ghent] : Petrus de Goesin, [1762]. Duodecimo, contemporary calf (heavily rubbed and scuffed), spine with raised bands, compartments with stamped floral design in gilt …
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# 14641
CAGE, John Milton, Jr. (1912-1992)
[JOHN CAGE] Cartridge music : also duet for cymbal and piano duet, trio, etc.
New York : Henmar Press : Sole selling agent, C.F. Peters Corp., [1965] ©1960. Series: Edition Peters, no. 6703. Quarto, original printed portfolio with Peters' advertisements for other John Cage musical scores to recto and verso of rear cover; printed inner wrappers with full page of composer's instructions for performance of the various compositions, and …
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# 14633
JAZZ MAGAZINE; [ELLINGTON, Duke, 1899-1974]
[DUKE ELLINGTON] Jazz Magazine. Vol. 1, nos. 5 and 6. January 1943. Ellingtonia issue.
New York : Jazz Magazine, 1943. Quarto, original pictorial wrappers, original owner's signature to upper wrapper; pp 31, photographic illustrations throughout; occasional underlining, but a good copy. A double issue of Jazz Magazine, devoted to one of the most important music composers (in any genre) of the twentieth century, Duke Ellington. Contains a complete discography …
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# 14520
LONEY, Alan (1940 - ); WAGENER, Richard (1944 - )
Loom
Santa Rosa [U.S.A.] : Nawakum Press, 2014. Folio, papered boards, pp. [38], poetry by Loney and wood engraving by Wagener. Limited to 30 copies, signed and numbered by the poet. A deluxe edition was also published. Both editions quickly sold out. “The binding is hand sewn on linen tapes and laced into a limp paper …
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# 14335
Van Noy Inter-State Co.
From Salt Lake City to San Francisco Bay via the Western Pacific Railway
Consisting of twenty-five views in eleven colours. Salt Lake City : Van Noy Inter-State Co., c. 1920. Oblong quarto, illustrated wrappers (corners worn, spine split), 25 photographic plates, text.
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# 14278
BINGHAM, Hiram, Senior
[MORNING STAR] Missionary life boats.
/ Written for the occasion, and chiefly sung at the embarkation of the Author's children on board the MORNING STAR, Boston, Nov. 12, 1866. Tune – Missionary Chant. [Boston] : [s.n.], [1866]. Small broadside, 220 x 100 mm, caption title in calligraphic bold, nine verse stanzas; small chips at upper corners, old horizontal fold line; …
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# 14186
GROUP SERIES
[BLACK AMERICANA] Future Rulers of Florida
[U.S.A.] : “Group Series”, [between 1890 and 1900]. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, 77 x 145 mm, mount 90 x 170 mm, captioned in negative Future Rulers of Florida; the mount imprinted “Group Series”; verso blank; the print is in good condition with slight loss of contrast to the left side; note that the print is …
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# 608
CABAY, Joseph (d. 1865)
[NATIVE AMERICANA] Autograph calling card of Joseph Cabay (Ojibwe Nation), early 1860s
Buff card, 90 x 53 mm; manuscript in ink verso: Kewakezhig = A Home in the Skies / Joseph Cabay; recto: 5 Tremont St. Boston. Very fine. Joseph Cabay was an Ojibwe chief from Saginaw Bay, Michigan. He moved to Boston in the early 1860s and married Mary Henderson, a missionary and author of Thirty-three …
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# 13974
DE LA MANO. [DREITZEHN, Zell, 1830-1882?]
[MAGIC] De La Mano the magician
A group of ephemera relating to the nineteenth century Austrian-born magician and spiritualist De La Mano, who toured the east coast of the United States in 1876, 1878 and 1881. As early as 1878 he was incorporating spiritualist elements into his shows, and his 1881 tour as an illusionist was ultimately abandoned in favour of …
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# 12897
ROBERTS, Morley
On the earthquake line. Minor adventures in central America
With six paintings by the author. London : Arrowsmith, 1924. Octavo, gilt-lettered blue cloth (clean and bright), pp. 309, light foxing to fore-edge, else clean, colou plates. Travel through Guatemala, Nicuragua, El Salvador, Honduras etc..
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# 12741
TUCKER, Ethel & TUCKER, Catherine F.
Glimpses of Bermuda : a few highways and byways
Sevenoaks, U.K. : J. Salmon Ltd. (printer), [1930]. Large octavo, original pictorial card covers (lightly marked), unpaginated, illustrated with 12 tipped-in colour plates reproducing the authors' paintings, accompanied by text on facing pages, and with an introduction with description of the islands; contents clean and bright, a good copy of a charming privately published book.
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# 12522
DUNCAN, John M.
A Sabbath among the Tuscarora Indians
Glasgow : Printed at the University Press, 1819. First edition. Small octavo, lacking the original wrappers but with the original cloth backstrip, author's name inscribed in ink in a contemporary hand on the title, the final blank inscribed in the same hand “Mr. John Duncan, Rothsay”; corners dog-eared, leaves with handling wear to the margins, …
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# 11986
SCHOOL OF APPLIED ART, BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN.
[ART NOUVEAU] Instruction paper on fashion illustrating in general
Battle Creek, Mich. : School of Applied Art, 1910. Octavo, original decorative wrappers, 23 pp, illustrated with line drawings, a fine copy; [TOGETHER WITH] Instruction paper on fashion illustrating, heads, hats, etc. Battle Creek, Mich. : School of Applied Art, 1910. Octavo, original decorative wrappers (upper wrapper with small tear at top edge), 18, [1] pp, illustrated …
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# 11949
DAVIES, Norman
Hank was a Yank
Melbourne : Pilven and Stephens, [1944?]. Small quarto, original pictorial limp covers (lightly marked, a little darkened along spine), [47] pp, illustrated with black and white line drawings throughout, a very good copy. The humorous story of an American sailor's experiences in Australia during World War Two.
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# 10959
[COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION] STEVENS, Thomas
[STEVENGRAPH BOOKMARK] 400th Anniversary in commemoration of the discovery of America 1492
Stevengraph bookmark, embroidered silk, 190 x 65 mm, in fine condition. This Stevengraph design was sold at the Columbian Exposition which opened on 1 May 1893. It is not known whether the design was woven by J.J. Mannion, Stevens' American agent, or by Stevens in the U.K.
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# 10642
JOHNSON, Phyllis (editor)
Aspen : the magazine in a box. Vol. 1., No. 4. The Marshall McLuhan issue.
New York : Roaring Fork Press, Spring 1967. White box printed in red and black, 310 x 230 x 20 mm (light wear), containing the following items:1. “The Medium is the Massage”, a press-proof from the new McLuhan-Fiore book; 2. “The TV Generation”; 3. “How to Improve the World” (John Cage); 4. “The Electronics of …
