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Eastern Coast of the United States: 1794-1845. We are pleased to offer as a collection this group of silhouettes which covers the highs and lows of the field, including an African American profilist, a women profilist, folk art, and the great names, Edouart, Medford and Peale. The collection includes hollow..... More
Boston & Philadelphia: Benjamin B. Mussey & Deliver, Thomas & Co., 1836. Large 4to. 275 x 215 mm., [10 ¾ x 8 ½ inches]. viii-116 pp., 60 engraved plates. Contemporary sheepskin binding, worn at edges and spine, joints cracked and expertly repaired; some foxing to the margins and plates; generally..... More
ca. 1970. 7½ x 9 ¼ inches. Housed in an inexpensive gilt frame with a linen liner. The liner shows some foxing but the painting is in very good condition and does not appear to have been cleaned. On the back of the painting the original brown paper backing is..... More
Sainte-Étienne: Les Cahiers de l’Atelier, 1955. 8vo. 240 x 190 mm. (9 ½ x 7 ¼ inches). Original stiff wrappers decorated with the design of woodcut artist at work; with protective glassine wrapper. Illustrated with a pochoir-printed frontispiece in red, blue, yellow and green; linocuts in black ink throughout the..... More
Chester, Randolph County, Illinois: Kaskaskia River Navigation Company, [ca. 1850]. Broadside. 290 x 215mm., [11½ x 8 ½ inches.] Folded as for mailing (but verso blank), otherwise fine. A “Request for Proposals” issued to architects and civil engineers to be addressed to the Company at Chester, Randolph County. The text..... More
New York: Wiley and Putnam, [1853]. Sq. 4to. 248 x 220 mm., [ 9 ¾ x 9 inches]. Illustrated with 53 illuminated pages (hinged boards), with highly gilded and decorated borders; all edges gilt. Orig. beveled brown morocco, with gilt title in shield on front cover in blind on rear..... More
ca. 1910. Two original watercolor drawing on artists board. I: mat size 500 x 375 mm., [19 ½ x 15 inches] and image size 485 x 320 mm [19 x 12 ½ inches]. II: mat size 500 x 390 mm., [19 x 15 ½ inches] and image size 485 x...... More
New London, Ct. Printed at the Office of the Daily Star, 1871. Broadside, matted and framed. Folio. Visible image size 340 x 258 mm., [13 ½ x 10 inches.]; frame size 420 x 370 mm., [16 ½ x 14 ½ inches]. Illustrated with woodcut image very well executed and printed..... More
Rome, New York: ca. 1875. Oblong 8vo. 145 x 250 mm., [5 ¾ x 9 ¾ inches].30 pp. Illustrated with 30 color lithographs by Punderson & Crisand, Lithographers and Printers of New Haven, Conn. Bound in original green coated paper wrappers printed in gold ink; a crease at the lower..... More
San Francsico, California: Pacific Rolling Mill Company, 1890. 8vo. 250 x 170 mm., [10 x 7 inches]. 100 pp., plus 4 leaves of ruled paper, 2 with measurements in manuscript. Illustrated throughout with simple drawings of parts, many stenciled with green wash; one plate folding. Bound in limp cloth covered..... More
Chicago, Ill., U. S. A. Thomas Kane & Company, February 1892. Oblong 8vo. 195 x 270 mm., [7 ½ x 11 inches]. 43 pp. Illustrated throughout with lithographs, many full-page images of launches and boating equipment. Bound in original green paper wrappers, title on front cover, vignette of a sailing..... More
New Haven: William Edwin Rudge, 1941. Updike, Daniel Berkeley. Some Aspects of Printing Old and New. New Haven: William Edwin Rudge, 1941. 4to. 265 x 195 mm., [10 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches]. [vi], 73 pp. Illustrated with one half-tone portrait of the author at his desk. Bound in..... More
