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La Rivista Illustrata del Popolo d’Italia. 79 Numbers. by MORGAGNI, Manlio; FASCISM

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Seller: Ursus Books
Title
La Rivista Illustrata del Popolo d’Italia. 79 Numbers.
Author
MORGAGNI, Manlio; FASCISM
Seller
Ursus Books (United States)
Description
1935. MORGAGNI, Manlio. La Rivista Illustrata del Popolo d'Italia. 80 Numbers, Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout with photographs and photomontages. Folio, bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers as issued. Milan: 1924-1943. A superb collection of the official fascist propaganda magazine, full of stunning full-page illustrations by Munari, Carboni, Nizzoli, Strada, Ricas, Depero, Sironi, Bazzi and others, as well as a host of photographs and photmontages. Even many of the advertisements are remarkable examples of fascist book design. As a collection this is a unique window into Italian book-design of the period. Overall in good condition, but with occasional wear to spines. For some reason sets are incredibly rare, with OCLC just listing 2 sets, 1 in the British Library and 1 in the Spanish National Library. To find such a large number of issues is extremely rare. See Grillo. Il Libro Fotografico Italiano 1931-1941, pp.94-96.
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Works of the English Poets by CHALMERS Alexander JOHNSON Samuel

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Seller: Bauman Rare Books
Title
Works of the English Poets
Author
CHALMERS Alexander JOHNSON Samuel
Seller
Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1810. JOHNSON, Samuel. The Works of the English Poets… With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Dr. Samuel Johnson: and the Most Approved Translations. The Additional Lives by Alexander Chalmers, F.S.A. London: J. Johnson et al., 1810. Twenty-one volumes. Octavo, early full brown calf, raised bands, burgundy morocco spine labels, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, marbled endpapers and edges. $5500.Third edition of Johnson’s great final project, the lives of the English poets together with their works, with the continuation by Chalmers, very handsomely bound.In 1777, prominent London booksellers commissioned Johnson to write, as Johnson told Boswell, ""little lives and little prefaces to a little edition of the English poets"" (Wain, 344). ""The series consisted of the 56 volumes of the Poets (dated 1779) and Volumes I-IV of [Johnson's] Prefaces. The intention had been to prefix the prefaces to the volumes of poets, but the publishers could not afford to wait,"" and printed the poems' texts separately from Johnson's biographies of the poets; both his volumes and these, however, were originally sold together. ""'Johnson's Poets' form an attractive and useful collection; but the volumes being small were easily mislaid, and it is now hard to find a set which is complete and uniform in binding"" (Courtney & Smith, 156). This third edition—preceded by the first and the 1790 second edition—is in a larger format than the first two. With additional lives by Scottish writer Alexander Chalmers: Chalmer's biography of Johnson himself, along with Johnson's poetry, is in Volume XVI. Scattered light foxing. A beautifully bound set in excellent condition.
Kentucky, Reduced from Elihu Barker’s Large Map

Kentucky, Reduced from Elihu Barker’s Large Map by Barker, Elihu; W[illiam] Barker, engraver

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Seller: James Arsenault & Company
Title
Kentucky, Reduced from Elihu Barker’s Large Map
Creator
Barker, Elihu; W[illiam] Barker, engraver
Seller
James Arsenault & Company (United States)
Description
[Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1795]. Engraving, 9.5” x 20”, sheet size, 22.5” x 17”. CONDITION: Very good, edgewear, light creasing, sewing holes in left margin, a few minor stains in the margins. The second appearance in the United States of Elihu Barker’s important map of Kentucky. This map is a reduced version of Barker’s exceptionally rare large map of Kentucky of 1794 and appeared in Mathew Carey’s American edition of Guthrie’s Geography (1795). It shows the new state of Kentucky and its adjacent areas, including Tennessee (identified as “Tenassee Government”) to the south, “Northwestern Territory” to the northwest, and Virginia to the east. Details include roads, bodies of water, settlements, towns, counties, stations, trails, salt licks, courthouses, furnaces, mines, “fertile land,” springs, and forts. A small portion of the Mississippi River is seen in the lower-left corner and the Ohio River—the border between Kentucky and the Northwest Territory—extends across most of the map. The Henderson & Co. Grant is identified in western Kentucky. This tract was given to Richard Henderson and his Transylvania Company in 1778 as compensation for the loss of their claim in the middle of the state. Other interesting cartographic features include representations of mountains in eastern and western Kentucky; multiple regions designated as “barren naked land”; and several outlying stations (Moddrel’s Station, Shaw’s Station, and Barnett’s Station). Some of the most minute details include drainage basins and the names of the tributary creeks. The prime meridian is Philadelphia and a scale appears in the lower-right corner. Relief is shown pictorially. While scant information exists on Elihu Barker (d. 1792), scholar Willard Rouse Jillson notes that Barker “was evidently an Englishman…who had good connections there as well as in America, and was particularly interested in the western country. His map of Kentucky was preceded by John Filson’s much distorted map of Kentucky and other of the Eastern Mississippi River Valleys, but it is by far the most accurate of the early maps of this State. It is so well done that it could be used today with satisfaction for general purposes.” Born in Philadelphia, William Barker (1770–1805) was the son of Elihu Barker and was active as an engraver in Philadelphia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He appears in Philadelphia directories from at least 1795 to 1809. Dublin-born American publisher Mathew Carey (1760–1839) ran the largest American publishing house of the nineteenth century, which he founded in 1785. Carey’s first cartographic publication appeared in 1794: A General Atlas for the Present War, based on maps from William Guthrie’s Atlas to Guthrie’s System of Geography. A year later, in 1795, Carey published The General Atlas for his edition of Guthrie’s Geography Improved, which included sixteen maps of U.S. States by Americans. Later that year these sixteen maps, along with five others, were published as Carey’s American Atlas. For this work, Samuel Lewis made many important contributions as geographer, draftsman, mapmaker and penman. Engravers included William Barker, Joseph T. Scott, James Thackery, John Vallance, Samuel Hill, Amos Doolittle and Benjamin Tanner. In 1796 Carey published his General Atlas, which included maps of the rest of the globe.  Barker’s map was also published in London in 1795 and appeared in Gilbert Imlay’s A Topographical Description (1797). REFERENCES: Wheat & Brun 641–642; Rumsey 2862.040; Jillson, Willard Rouse. “Elihu Barker Map of Kentucky,” Register of Kentucky State Historical Society, Vol. 21, No. 63 (September, 1923), pp. 322–323.
ABC for Collectors of American Contemporary Art with drawings by Saul Steinberg

ABC for Collectors of American Contemporary Art with drawings by Saul Steinberg by Baur, John - EDITH HALPERT - DOWNTOWN GALLERY

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Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books
Title
ABC for Collectors of American Contemporary Art with drawings by Saul Steinberg
Author
Baur, John - EDITH HALPERT - DOWNTOWN GALLERY
Seller
Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition
Good; some marginal wear; pencil signature of the front cover.
Description
New York, 1954. First Edition. Original printed publisher's wrappers.. Good; some marginal wear; pencil signature of the front cover.. 8vo, [24] pp., illustrated. In 1954, Edith Halpert, owner of the Downtown Gallery in NYC commissioned the curator and scholar John Baur to write this beginner's guide. The sentiments of Baur accompanied by the humorous illustrations of Steinberg expressed Halpert's no-nonsense approach and the pleasure of collecting. An exceptional artifact of a by-gone era in American art history. Those unfamiliar with Halpert's pioneering career and the impact of her gallery are referred to the recent show and published catalog (R Shaykin: Edith Halpert -The Downtown Gallery and the Rise of American Art) at the Jewish Museum in NYC.

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