North America

# 43115

ELITE STUDIO (JONES & LOTZ) (SAN FRANCISCO); WENDT, Frank (NEW YORK)

Two studio portraits of Australian Aborigines from North Queensland in R. A. Cunningham’s second touring company, taken in San Francisco (late 1892) and New York (early 1894).

I. San Francisco : Elite Studio, Jones & Lotz, 838 Market Street, [1892]. Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format (108 x 163 mm, mount), recto with embossed studio imprint at left margin; verso with contemporary inscription in ink: ‘Nov. 3 92 Stockton Cal. saw them throw them. Photo of Cannibals from Australia who use the …

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# 42254

FORMAN, Michael (editor)

3 Days of Peace & Music. Aquarian Exposition : Woodstock Music & Art Fair

Official programme for the first Woodstock Music & Art Fair held in Woodstock, New York in August 1969. [Philadelphia?] : Concert Hall Publications, Inc., 1969. First edition, first issue, with the ‘f’ in the word ‘of’ on the upper wrapper overlapping a flower, adjusted for greater clarity in later reprints. Quarto, colour photographic wrappers, pp …

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# 42515

[MILK, Harvey 1930 - 1978)

Gay vote. News from the San Francisco Gay Democratic Club

San Francisco : the Club, 1978 – 79. A collection of 13 issues of a highly significant periodical in the gay civil rights movement, commencing with vol. 1 no. 2. Each issue pp. 4, illustrated, in fine condition, unfolded and unposted. The first issues are subtitled News from the San Francisco Gay Democratic Club, and …

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# 42514

San Francisco Arts & Athletics Inc.

[GAY GAMES]. Gay Newsletter Vol. 1, No. 10, August 1982

San Francisco : San Francisco Arts & Athletics Inc., 1982. Newsletter, pp. [4], folded sheet, illustrated in black and white, stamped and mailed as issued, with the word ‘Olympic’ redacted at multiple points. The inaugural Gay Olympic Games was held in San Francisco in August 1982, with Tina Turner performing at the Opening Ceremony. Three …

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# 42513

[MILK, Harvey 1930 - 1978)

If you could see us now … the Harvey Milk Gay Democratic Club celebrates Harvey’s 50th birthday.

[San Francisco] : [Harvey Milk Gay Democratic Club], [1980]. Newspaper, 380 x 290 mm, pp. [20], central crease, illustrated in black and white. Includes a contribution from Jane Fonda. Celebration souvenir newspaper of the life of gay politician Harvey Milk who was assassinated eighteen months prior, with articles about gay political activism in San Francisco, …

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# 42855

TOWNSEND, Larry (1930 - 2008, pseudonym of Bud Bernhardt)

The Leatherman’s Handbook

New York : Olympia Press, 1972. Octavo, paperback, original wrappers, light rubbing to corners, crease to spine with crack in text block, pp. [viii]; 319; [7 – advertisements], internally clean, a very good to fine copy. ‘The only definitive exploration of the gay S & M leather scene over written by a qualified writer who …

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# 41557

BRISSOT, Jacques-Pierre (1754-1793)

[ABOLITIONISM] Nya resa genom Nord-americanska fri-staterna år 1788.

Från franska originalet sammandragen, och med anmärkningar försedd af Johan Reinhold Forster. Öfwersatt från tyskan. Stockholm : A. J. Nordström, 1799. Octavo (172 x 112 mm), contemporary half calf over papered boards (rubbed and with light staining, corners bumped), spine richly gilt (a little faded and with a couple of small marks) and with dark …

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# 42450

BROUGHTON, William Robert (1762-1821)

A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean … Performed in His Majesty’s Sloop Providence and her Tender, in the years 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798.

London : T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804. Quarto, full contemporary calf, spine renewed in period style; pp. xx, 393, [1], [2 publisher’s advertisements]; with three charts and six plates and views (most folding); a fine wide-margined copy, with fresh plates and maps. Broughton’s A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean is an acknowledged …

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# 40322

VALENTINE, James

[ABOLITIONISM] An illustrated Anti-slavery propaganda envelope.

Dundee : Designed & engraved by J. Valentine, [ca. 1853]. Postal envelope, 76 x 125 mm, the verso engraved with six vignette illustrations depicting scenes from Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and two main legends in capitals, the first around the upper flap: ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER YE WOULD THAT MEN SHOULD DO UNTO YOU DO YOU SO …

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# 42024

[PROGRESS PHOTO CO.]

[CANADA] Pair of panoramic photographs of Calgary, Alberta, ca. 1910.

I. [Calgary : Progress Photo Co, ca. 1910]. Gelatin silver print photograph printed on postcard stock, 80 x 270 mm, captioned in the negative lower right: Calgary, Alta., looking N. East from Grain Exchange. “Empire Series” Copyright Reg. No. 5003C; not mailed; in very good condition. II. [Calgary : Progress Photo Co, ca. 1910]. Gelatin silver …

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# 41181

GAUL, John

Jamaica-born Gertrude Colleton, daughter of Frederick Colleton and great-granddaughter of Admiral Richard Graves. Melbourne, November 1866.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 61 mm (mount); verso imprinted ‘Photographed from life by Gaul, 75 & 77 Swanston St., Melbourne’ and with an extensive inscription in ink: ‘Gertrude Sophia Jane Plantagenet Colleton, only child of Frederick Nassau William Graves Colleton and great-grandchild of Admiral Richard Graves of Hembury Fort, County …

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# 41822

LEVER, Hayley

Exhibition of paintings by Mr Hayley Lever

Rochester, New York : The Memorial Art Gallery, 1914. Octavo, lettered wrappers, pp. [8], black and white illustration, catalogue of 90 works. ‘Lever was born in Adelaide, South Australia, and was part of the early twentieth century Cornwall art colony in England before settling in the U.S.’ – Trove. Scarce.

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# 41235

CLIFT, William (1944- )

New Mexico : photographs by William Clift.

Announcing a portfolio of eight original photographic prints by William Clift. With an introduction by Eliot Porter. Santa Fe, NM : William Clift, 1975. Prospectus. Printed paper wrappers, 105 x 115 mm, containing [8] loose sheets with high quality reproductions of the images in the forthcoming portfolio, and [2] sheets with publication and ordering information; …

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# 29235

KRUSENSTERN, Adam Johann von (Ivan Fedorovich Kruzenshtern) (1770-1846)

A voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 4, 5, & 6; performed, by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, on board the ships Nadeshda and Neva, under the command of Captain A. J. von Krusenstern, of the Imperial Navy.

In two volumes. Translated from the original German by Richard Belgrave Hoppner, Esq. London : Printed by C. Roworth [Volume II Printed by T. Davison], for John Murray, Bookseller to the Admiralty and the Board of Longitude, 1813. First edition in English. Two volumes in one, quarto, later half calf over marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed), …

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# 40288

LETAILLE, Charles

Croquis et Souvenirs d’un Artiste, ou détails les plus curieux d’un Voyage Autour du Monde.

Récreation instructive. Dédiée à la jeunesse par Chles. Letaille. Paris : chez les Principaux Mds. de nouveautés pour Etrennes et Cadeaux [Charles Letaille, 30 rue Saint-Jacques], [ca. 1855]. Original box of papered card, 265 x 200 x 30 mm, the lid with embossed gilt border and hand-coloured lithographic onlay depicting a New Zealand scene with Māori; the …

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# 40395

CHITTENDEN, Hiram Martin

The American fur trade of the far west

New York : Barnes & Noble, 1935. Second edition. Two volumes, octavo, gilt-lettered cloth, spines slightly sunned, slipcase (edges cracked), pp. xxx; 1014, folding map in rear pocket, a very good set.

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