North America
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# 44849
ROSTENBERG, Leona and STERN, Madeleine B.
Bookends
New York : Free Press, 2001. Octavo, cloth in dustjacket, pp. x; 246, illustrated. Biblio-memoir by the pair of American women booksellers.
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# 44542
GENTHE, Arnold (1869-1942)
Margaret Anglin as Antigone. Greek Theatre, University of California, Berkeley, 30 June 1910.
Platinum print photograph, 225 x 157 mm; verso with a fully contemporary inscription in pencil ‘Margaret Anglin as Antigone. Greek Theatre, Berkeley, 30 June’, and with a later pencilled annotation ‘Arnold Genthe 1910’; unmounted; very slight bend at bottom left corner, otherwise superb condition. A magnificent study by Arnold Genthe of the great Canadian actress …
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# 44496
Anon.
I am opposed to woman’s suffrage
Pledge card, U.S.A. circa 1910, 77 x 126 mm, with the name and street name of an anti-suffragette, fine condition. Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted women the right to vote in the United States. Both pro- and anti-suffrage movements were …
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# 44829
DEAN, Douglas (pseudonym for Dean Goodman)
Douglas Dean’s San Francisco Gaylife ’73 – ’74
Bars – baths – restaurants – clubs – churches. Make out – a provocative short story by Douglas Dean. Plus photos of the hunkiest guys this side of heaven. San Francisco : Barbary Coast Productions, 1973. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 48, illustrations (including male nudes), light foxing. Dean Goodman (Douglas Dean Goodman) was a San …
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# 43944
WOOD, J. E.
[AFRICAN-AMERICANA] Letter by a 6th Ohio Cavalry veteran advocating black suffrage. La Grange, Iowa, June 1865.
Manuscript in ink, [3] pp. quarto (245 x 195 mm); headed ‘Lagrange, Lucas Co., Iowa, June 12th 1865’, the letter is addressed ‘Dear Miller’ and is signed at the foot ‘Your friend, J. E. Wood’; accompanied by the original postal envelope, addressed to ‘L. D. Miller Esq., Newton Falls, Trumbull Co., Ohio’, with pen-cancelled 3¢ …
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# 44283
HOWES, Wright
U.S. iana (1650 – 1950) : a selective bibliography in which are described 11,620 uncommon and significant books relating to the continental portion of the United States
New York : R. R. Bowker for the Newberry Library, 1962 (1978 reprint). Second edition, revised and enlarged. Octavo, lettered cloth, pp. 652, bibliography. Book label to front free endpaper with bleed through. A classic bibliography of Americana with Pacific references.
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# 13321
Maffei, Giovanni Pietro, 1533-1603
Historiarum Indicarum Libri XVI. : Selectarum item ex India epistolarum, eodem interprete, libri IV. Accessit Ignatii Loiolae vita.
Coloniæ Agippinæ : in Officina Birckmannica, sumptibus Arnoldi Mylii, MDXCIII. [Cologne : Arnold Mylius, 1593]. Second Cologne edition. Small folio, contemporary calf with embossed armorial device to boards, ruled in blind, rebacked, spine with raised bands; edges stained blue, later endpapers, title with woodcut printer’s device, manuscript inscription lower margin; woodcut initials and tail-pieces; pp 541, …
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# 42451
DIXON, George
A Voyage Round the World; but more particularly to the north-west coast of America: performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon.
Dedicated, by permission, to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart., by Captain George Dixon. London : Published by Geo. Goulding, 1789. Second edition. Quarto, full diced russia, ruled in gilt, masterfully rebacked, spine in compartments with raised bands, elaborate gilt ornamentation and contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, gilt dentelles; marbled edges and endpapers; presentation inscription …
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# 44046
LISIANSKY, Urey (1773-1837)
A voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 4, 5, & 6; performed, by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, emperor of Russia, in the ship Neva.
London : John Booth … and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1814. First edition in English. Quarto (285 x 220 mm), modern half calf, spine in compartments with raised bands and gilt rule, contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, marbled boards; speckled edges; preliminaries (2 blanks, frontispiece portrait of Lisianskii); xxi; [blank]; [ii], …
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# 43015
FEMBO, Christoph (editor and publisher)
[INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS]. Abbildungen der Bewohner der Erde,
aus den besten Schriften zusammengestellt … … Nürnberg : Christoph Fembo, 1816. Broadsheet, 610 x 500 mm, copper engraving with original hand colouring; light creasing, some short edge tears and a few expert repairs. A spectacular early nineteenth-century coloured engraving illustrating the traditional costume of peoples of the world. The sixty-six full-length portraits are arranged …
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# 42678
OBAMA, Barack Hussein II (b. 1961)
Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance. (First edition)
New York: Times Books/ Random House, 1995. First printing of the first edition, with the number line ending at 2, as called for. Octavo, publisher’s papered boards in unclipped dust jacket (light handling wear, short split to one corner), pp. 401, [1]; a very good copy. Obama’s autobiographical masterpiece, a work of profound wisdom and …
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# 43408
Photographer unknown
Ambrotype of two amputees, almost certainly Civil War casualties. U.S.A., 1861-65.
Ambrotype (wet collodion positive), 80 x 70 mm (sight); housed in a double elliptical brass mat under cover glass, in a half leather case with geometric design; the ambrotype has some tiny mould spiders, minor crazing and specks of dust, but is otherwise in very good condition. It has been estimated that 60,000 surgical amputations …
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# 43358
Photographer unknown
Outdoor ambrotype of a family group with three generations of women (and a pet pony). U.S.A., 1856-57.
Sixth-plate ambrotype (wet collodion positive), 70 x 80 mm (sight); housed in an oval brass mat under cover glass, in an A. P. Critchlow thermoplastic Union case, 82 x 94 mm, with Mother Embracing Child 2 design (Berg 1-14); the ambrotype and case are in superb condition. A beautifully composed outdoor portrait of three generations of …
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# 43558
KNOWLES, Squire (designer); KNOWLES, Evelyn (illustrator)
Program : Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, 1945. Presented by the United Nations Conference Committee of the City and County of San Francisco.
[Drop title]. San Francisco, CA : The United Nations Conference Committee of the City and County of San Francisco (printed by Pisani Printing Company), 1945. Quarto (280 x 220 mm), stapled blue wrappers lettered in gold (lightly rubbed), 15 pp., sepia tone illustrations (including double-page view of the San Francisco Civic Center Buildings, the venue …
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# 43043
CALIFORNIA MOTOR CLUB
California Motor Club. Wallaby Run 1972
Pin back badge, 4 cms in diameter, with a map of California and an image of a palm tree and a wallaby. Early badge for the gay motorcycle club, the Wallaby Run referring (much like the ‘kangaroo route’), to bounding up and down the state making various stops.
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# 43133
SMITH, David Emerson
I promise you this. A collection of poems for Harvey Milk (signed presentation copy)
San Francisco : David Emerson Smith for the Poets and Artists, February 1979. Octavo, colour printed wrappers (light edge wear and toning), pp. [iii]; 29, stringbound, black and white illustrations. Presentation copy, signed and inscribed inside the upper wrapper ‘To David, in homo-erotic boy love David Emerson Smith’ and also inscribed ‘Love & Eros, the …