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Hell Gate/ Oyster Bay and Huntington/ Huntington Bay by DESBARRES, J.F.W

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Title: Hell Gate/ Oyster Bay and Huntington/ Huntington Bay
Author: DESBARRES, J.F.W
Seller: Martayan Lan, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London, 1778. No Binding. Near Fine. 30 ¾ x 21 ¼ inches. Original wash color; light staining in fold, else excellent condition. Rare, finely engraved work from one of the greatest maritime atlases ever produced, The Atlantic Neptune. Made for the use of the British navy during the American Revolution, the chart, in the large inset, shows hazardous water passage from Manhattan to Long Island Sound, known as Hellgate, and includes all of Roosevelt Island. The large, primary chart focuses on Locust Valley, Oyster Bay, Lloyd's Neck, and parts of Great Neck, Eaton's Neck and Cow Harbor. The chart appeared in the Atlantic Neptune, a marine atlas that contained the first generally accurate charts of the eastern seaboard of North America. As many of its charts were made on a very large scale, DesBarres' works possess a majestic beauty quite unlike any others in the history of cartography.

MITSUKOSHI, MITSUKOSHI TIMES, & O^SAKA MITSUKOSHI, 44 ISSUES by [DESIGN] Sugiura HISUI, designer

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Title: MITSUKOSHI, MITSUKOSHI TIMES, & O^SAKA MITSUKOSHI, 44 ISSUES
Author: [DESIGN] Sugiura HISUI, designer
Seller: Boston Book Company (United States)
Description: 1908. [DESIGN] Sugiura HISUI, designer. MITSUKOSHI; MITSUKOSHI TIMES; O^SAKA MITSUKOSHI To^kyo^ & O^saka, 1908-1923. Western-style magazines, 24.9 x 18.4 cm, decorated wrappers. Lovely covers, most by Sugiura Hisui [1876-1965] or designed under his supervision. Hisui is the most important figure in the development of Japanese commercial art in the 20th century, the progenitor of "Taisho^ Chic" and a force to be reckoned with as a practical designer at Mitsukoshi and an educator at the Japan School of Art, the Imperial School of Fine Art and the Tama Imperial School of Art which he co-founded. He even spent two years in Europe in the early 20s, researching design. He created many portfolios of design examples for professionals, wrote treatises on the principles of design and was a tireless creator of posters and magazine covers. He began work at Mitsukoshi in 1908 as a design consultant in charge of cover art for the house organ, MITSUKOSHI TIMES. When MITSUKOSHI magazine began in 1912, he had already been promoted to head of design for the company a year earlier and stayed in that position for decades. His artwork graced the covers of many magazines over the years, but it was his work for MITSUKOSHI and MITSUKOSHI TIMES and O^SAKA MITSUKOSHI that began his design career. We are offering here a group of issues of those magazines, most with his brilliant cover art. The magazines, as a form of trade catalog and guide to fashion for the well-heeled clientele of Mitsukoshi department store, were intrinsically ephemeral. They are hefty magazines, a vade mecum for the bon ton, with pictures of summer frocks, kimono fabrics, morning coats, shoes - with instructions on how they should be cleaned, stored, worn. With pictures and prices and order sheets. Useful and used, then thrown away, they are seldom found today. A gathering of this size is quite unusual, especially as it begins with issues of MITSUKOSHI TIMES from 1908 - the year that Hisui took over design reponsibilities for the house organ. The issues: MITSUKOSHI TIMES 11 issues from 1908-13 (Oct & Nov, Meiji 41 {1908}; V.8, #s 4 & 6; V.10, #s 9 & 11; V.11, #s 4, 7, 11 & 14 V.12, #3). MITSUKOSHI 31 issues from 1912-1923 (V.2, #4; V.4 #s 5, 6, 7 & 8; V.5 #s 4, 5, 7 & 8; V.6 #s 2 & 11; V.7 #s 6, 7 & 8; V.8, #s 2, 3, 4, 5 & 7; V.9 #s 4, 5, 6, 7, 9 & 12; V.10 #s 4, 6 & 12; V.11 #11`; V.12 #3; V.13 #6). O^SAKA MITSUKOSHI 2 issues, V.4 #8 [1915] a.

An Oversized Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy Photograph, Showing Them In Their Trademark Bowler Hats by STAN LAUREL & OLIVER HARDY

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Title: An Oversized Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy Photograph, Showing Them In Their Trademark Bowler Hats
Author: STAN LAUREL & OLIVER HARDY
Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
Description: STAN LAUREL (1890-1965) and OLIVER HARDY (1892-1957). The skinny, American-born Laurel and the chubbier, British-born Hardy were one of the most popular comedy duos of early cinema. They appeared in over one hundred films together, and their most popular was probably Babes In Toyland.PS. 10 x 13 . June 21, 1940. No place. An oversized black and white studio photograph signed Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy; the Hardy is a rubber stamp signature. Laurel inscribed it June 21st 1940. Our best wishes always Mr. Knight, Sincerely Stan Laurel and the Hardy is a rubber stamped signature. They are shown in their famous costumes, complete with bowler hats. The Laurel signature is a bit lighter than the darker Hardy stamped signature, but both are completely legible. It is beautifully framed to an overall size of 18 by 21 . This photograph sold at Pacific Auctions in 1997, and it was also sold by Walter Benjamin. Laurel and Hardy photographs of this size are rare.

Original photograph of Andre Gide and Andre Malraux at a 1936 antifascist meeting in Paris by Andre Malraux, Andre Gide (subjects); David Seymour (photographer)

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Title: Original photograph of Andre Gide and Andre Malraux at a 1936 antifascist meeting in Paris
Author: Andre Malraux, Andre Gide (subjects); David Seymour (photographer)
Seller: Royal Books (United States)
Description: Paris: N.p., 1936. Vintage borderless photograph from an antifascist meeting in Paris in 1936, showing novelist Andre Malraux speaking into a microphone, with novelist Andre Gide seated at a table next to him. Stamp of Magnum Photos photographer David "Chim" Seymour on the verso. Likely a photograph from a meeting of the Popular Front, a French alliance of various left-wing movements, including communists and socialists, during the interwar period. As Magnum Photos was not formed until 1947, it is likely photographer David "Chim" Seymour added the stamp at a later date to a print in his collection. Magnum, which included early members like Robert Capa, Maria Eisner, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, was created as an international cooperative, one of the first of its kind. 10 x 6.5 inches. Very Good condition, with some professional restoration.

A Naturalist's Calendar, with Observations in Various Branches of Natural History; Extracted from the papers of the late Rev. Gilbert White, M. A. of Selborne, Hampshire, Senior Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. Never before published. by WHITE, Rev. Gilbert (1720-1793).

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Title: A Naturalist's Calendar, with Observations in Various Branches of Natural History; Extracted from the papers of the late Rev. Gilbert White, M. A. of Selborne, Hampshire, Senior Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. Never before published.
Author: WHITE, Rev. Gilbert (1720-1793).
Seller: Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
Description: London:: B. and J. White, 1795., 1795. 8vo. (196 x 123 mm) iv, [5]-170, [6] pp. One hand-colored plate. Uncut. Modern quarter white paper spine, preserving original boards, new head caps and paper spine label. RARE. FIRST EDITION. The advertisement preface notes that Dr. John Aiken compiled this work, incorporating the author's unpublished notes and observations. The first section of this work is devoted to the calendar itself, giving month-by-month landmarks of plant flowering, insect activities, animal behaviors, etc. The second section, Observations on Various Parts of Nature, White discusses his observations of birds, quadrupeds, insects and vermes (worms), vegetables and weather. The hand-colored plate of a hybrid pheasant is particularly handsome. With regard to meteorology, White quotes Dr. Samuel Johnson in mentioning the 'Black Spring' of 1771 in which the weather was so severe that on the Isle of Skye, "The snow, which seldom lies at all, covered the ground for eight weeks, many cattle died, and those that survived were so emaciated that they did not require the male at the usual season." The last chapter consists of a summary of the noteworthy meteorological events from 1768 until the present year. The British naturalist and "man of genius" [Martin], Gilbert White spent much of his time in the quiet study of his beloved subject, nature. The substance of White's calendar observations, made during his many years of country walks, was originally incorporated into his renowned Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, 1789. At his death, his manuscripts and notes became the property of his brother, the bookseller and publisher, Benjamin White, and in 1795 Dr. J. Aiken, a fellow naturalist. "prepared and extracted . . . from the Naturalist's Calendar which White had prepared, and added thereto from White's papers a selection of Observations on Various Parts of Nature. From its depth of observation, and the diversity of subjects dealt with, the minute details which characterize the observations, and the well-reasoned conclusions to which the author arrives, it could not fail, even now, to make a lasting impression on the natural history literature of the day." [Martin]. BM Readex, Vol. 26, p. 1149; DNB, Vol. xxi, pp. 36-48; Martin: Bibliography of Gilbert White, p.98.

Correspondence of Beulah Irene Peters, of Parryville, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, written to Charles L. Miller, Superintendent of the Missouri Furnace Company, at St. Louis, Missouri, 1888 by Peters, Beulah

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Title: Correspondence of Beulah Irene Peters, of Parryville, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, written to Charles L. Miller, Superintendent of the Missouri Furnace Company, at St. Louis, Missouri, 1888
Author: Peters, Beulah
Seller: Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Collection of 83 letters, 502 manuscript pages, no envelopes, letters dated January 11th to November 8th, 1888. Letters are in good condition, written in ink, in a legible hand.Beulah Irene Peters was born on 17 October 1866 at Parryville, Carbon County, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Jacob and Mary Elizabeth Peters. The Peters were members of the United Methodist Church of Parryville. Jacob Peters was a local merchant. When Jacob died in 1917 at the age of 85, he was described as a wealthy retired business man, who had followed mercantile pursuits at White Haven and Parryville. In the 1880 Census the family was enumerated at Parryville, showing Jacob, his wife Mary Elizabeth, sons Harry and Guy, and their daughter Beulah. The family was doing well enough to have a live-in servant. The letters chronicle the development of Beulah and Charles L. Miller's long distance relationship, almost up to the time they were married on 20 November 1888. According to the Carbon Advocate newspaper of 24 November 1888, Beulah and Charles married at Beulah's home in Parryville, Pennsylvania. Charles had met Beulah about a year earlier when he worked as superintendent of the Carbon Iron and Pipe Company in Parryville. Soon after, Charles left town to work as the superintendent of the Missouri Furnace Company in St. Louis, leaving the majority of the couple's relationship to develop via correspondence. Charles L. Miller was born in 1866. It appears that Beulah moved to Missouri to live with her husband after they married, but by the 1900 Census, they were found enumerated at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where Charles is listed as a general superintendent of a steel company. The couple had two children, Lyman who was born in 1890 when the family was still living in Missouri, and another son Kenneth, born in 1896 in Illinois, presumably another place the family lived before returning to Pennsylvania. The couple had the services of an African-American servant, a twenty-two year old woman by the name of Hannah Gray. Twenty years later the 1930 Census shows the family is still living in Pittsburgh. Charles is now listed as Vice-President of American Steel & Wire. Charles L. Miller died in 1936 at Pittsburgh. Beulah appears to have out-lived him - she died around the year 1951. They appear to have both been buried at Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh. Sample quotations: Beulah writes to Charles about her day to day activities, and gives her opinion of some of his habits: "No, I don't think six cigars in one week 'is doing very well.' I was going to say one a week was sufficient, but that is one more than any one ought to smoke." As revealed in her letters, Beulah kept their relationship secret from almost everyone, save her mother, and even when the time came to marry, she told few people: "I don't intend telling anyone else here in town, I dislike to say goodbye, so to avoid that I will be very quiet." Not only does the correspondence lend insight into the courting traditions of the late 19th Century, but Beulah's letters inform the historical setting. She tells of an outbreak of smallpox and the aggressive vaccination going on in the region. She writes often about local coal mining issues and strikes. In March, Beulah tells Charlie of her experience with what would come to be known as the "Great Blizzard of 1888," which took place from March 8th to the 14th and was stated to be one of the most severe blizzards in American history dropping from 20 to 60 inches of snow, drifts of 50 feet, and winds of 45 miles per hour. "We couldn't open but one shutter, wandered around in the dark. Actually at night, I was afraid. The house fairly shook." In a letter dated 14 October 1888, Beulah relates news of the Mud Run Disaster on the Lehigh Valley Railroad. On October 10th, a train carrying members of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America, ran into the back of another train about 25 miles from Parryville, killing sixty-six people and leaving fifty injured. Thirty-seven of the dead were from the small village of Pleasant Valley (later renamed Avoca) and many of these were teen age members of the Drum and Bugle Corps of the Aloysius Society. Beulah knew the engineer of the train who was blamed for the accident, having had a near disaster with him herself: "Presume you have heard or read of the terrible accident up here, or rather at Mud Run, very near White Haven, that occurred last Wednesday. It was dreadful, makes me shudder, when I think of it - seems more frightful and sad to me because some that were injured I was acquainted with and have visited at the places where the people lived. No one from White Haven or Wilkes-Barre were injured, all from towns above - along on the D.L. & W. R.R. One man from Weissport was seriously hurt, - Charlie Graff's brother, you remember they did the painting here last fall. The engineer who is blamed for the accident lives at East Mauch Chunk he is the very man who nearly took us over the embankment coming from Wilkes-Barre when Edith was buried, you remember we were so late getting home that evening. I feel very sorry for the man, his feelings one cannot imagine." Another event of the day Beulah writes about is the "Payroll Caper," which was described at the time as one of the most brutal, cold blooded murders in the history of the county. Michael "Red-Nosed Mike" Rizzolo, Guissepi Bevevino, and Vincent Valalli, all Italian immigrants, murdered payroll officers of Charles McFadden, a well-known area railroad contractor. McFadden was working on a major project for the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Red-Nose Mike and his accomplices shot and killed two payroll officers and their horse and were able to get away with $12,000, the entire payroll for the men that were working on the project. McFadden hired the Pinkerton Detective Agency to find the killers and recover the money. The three men were eventually caught. Red-Nose Mike was arrested in Philadelphia; the other two in Italy, however only about $2,000 was ever recovered. Red-Nose Mike was found guilty and hung. The other two were never extradited back to America: "Monday morning, 10-22-1888 Dear Charlie, ...Presume you read of the terrible murder which occurred near Wilkes-Barre last week? I tremble when I think of the time I drove over that lonely road, told my people yesterday I would not go over the [Pocono] again for a fortune, it is very like the road where those men were murdered."

Partie Orientale Del Canada Nuova Scozia Settentrionale, E Parte Di Labrador by ZATTA, Antonio

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Title: Partie Orientale Del Canada Nuova Scozia Settentrionale, E Parte Di Labrador
Author: ZATTA, Antonio
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
Description: Venice: Antonio Zatta, 1788. unbound. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 12.25" x 16.75". Beautiful early map of part of Southeastern Canada including Quebec, the Saint Lawrence, and Prince Edward Island. Part of a twelve section map comprising the Italian edition of Mitchell's map of North America In good condition with some light stains to the margins and surface abrasions. Antonio Zatta (1775-1797) was the most prominent Italian map publisher of the late 18th century. His Venice-based publishing company produced maps that mark an important transition from 18th- to 19th-century cartographic styles. He updates and redefines the traditional title cartouche by replacing the mythic elements common in earlier maps with more representative images.

ART AT AUCTION, THE YEAR AT SOTHEBY'S & PARKE-BERNET, 1968-69 by WILSON, Philip (editor)

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Title: ART AT AUCTION, THE YEAR AT SOTHEBY'S & PARKE-BERNET, 1968-69
Author: WILSON, Philip (editor)
Seller: The Bookpress, Ltd. (United States)
Description: WILSON, Philip (editor). ART AT AUCTION, THE YEAR AT SOTHEBY'S & PARKE-BERNE 1968-69. New York: Viking Press, (1970). 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. 496 pages. First edition. Presenting the year in review for the "two hundred and twenty-fifth season" o the auction house. Well illustrated. Rubber stamp of design consultant on front flyleaf, else very good.

HIGH IN THE MOUNTAINS by Young, Ed; Radin, Ruth Yaffe

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Title: HIGH IN THE MOUNTAINS
Author: Young, Ed; Radin, Ruth Yaffe
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
ISBN: 9780027756500
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Description: New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1989. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket.. Signed first printing of this story of the beauty to be found in the passage of a day, with vibrant illustrations by Ed Young. Ed Young entered the world of illustration as a commercial artist, and this background in compelling visual storytelling is evident in all his books. Over his long career, he has earned two Caldecott Honors and two nominations for the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award. 10'' x 7.75''. Original cloth-backed boards. Original unclipped ($13.95) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. [32] pages. Signed by Young to front flyleaf. Jacket with a hint of sunning to spine. Clean.

THE SECRET FILES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES by Thomson, June

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Title: THE SECRET FILES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
Author: Thomson, June
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ISBN: 9781883402365
Condition: About fine in near fine jacket.
Description: New York: Otto Penzler Books, 1990. First edition. About fine in near fine jacket.. First printing of this exceptional pastiche of seven untold cases "found" in the tin dispatch box mentioned in THE PROBLEM OF THOR BRIDGE. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original quarter red cloth, blue paper boards, gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($20/$25.95 in Canada) pictorial dust jacket designed by Todd Radom. 224 pages. Though no provenance markings, this copy from the library of the noted actor and Sherlockian Curtis Armstrong. Jacket with faint shelfwear. Book with tiny rubbing to foot of spine. Interior clean and crisp.

The National Geographic Magazine (April 1948: Vol. 93, no. 4)

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Title: The National Geographic Magazine (April 1948: Vol. 93, no. 4)
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: National Geographic Society, 1948. The National Geographic Magazine (April 1948: Vol. 93, no. 4). Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 1948. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very god with rubbed and bumped edges. Former owner's name on front cover and first two pages.

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