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Robert Macaire, Les by DAUMIER, Honoré; PHILIPON, Charles

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Title: Robert Macaire, Les
Author: DAUMIER, Honoré; PHILIPON, Charles
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: Paris: Chez Aubert, 1838. The First Twenty Hand Colored Lithographs of Daumier's Most Celebrated Work DAUMIER, Honoré and Charles Philipon. Les Robert Macaire [Caricaturana]. Paris: Chez Aubert, 1836-1838. First edition. Oblong folio (10 3/8 x 14 inches; 264 x 355 mm.). Twenty hand-colored lithographed plates (numbered 1 - 20) heightened with gum arabic. Plate no. 7 supplied and expertly re-margined at gutter and lower margins. Contemporary quarter green calf over green patterned boards decoratively ruled in gilt with gilt corner pieces, smooth spine. Inner hinges repaired, slight rubbing to extremities. An excellent collection of the first twenty plates of Daumier's Caricaturana. "Les Robert Macaire remains Daumeir's best-known work... Baudelaire chose it... for specific discussion in his essay on French caricaturists and Carteret accorded it a place in his bibliography. Its contemporary popularity was immense. As an album it was published by Aubert in an edition of 2500 copies, a far larger number than for any other series. Yet so persistent was the demand that 6000 two-volume sets of reduced copies, called Les cent-et-un Robert Macaire, were published in 1839..." (Ray). Though 2,500 may have been printed few have survived. OCLC/KVK records only two copies in institutions worldwide, Sadleir's at the Morgan Library, and at Yale. Though both are complete only the Morgan copy is in the original cartonnage portfolio. ABPC reports only three complete copies at auction since 1935 and it appears that at least two were rebound; it is safe, we think, to presume that the third copy was also rebound. The 'reduced' edition of 1839 is still quite rare at auction (two copies only since 1975) but there are more copies in institutional holdings. "When politics became a forbidden topic in Le Charivari, where Caricaturana first appeared, Daumier and Philipon turned to social satire. If they could not attack Louis-Philippe directly, they could at least show the kind of society that flourished under his gross and venal regime. Taking the flamboyant and florid swindler Macaire from the character that Frederick Lemaitre had created in a hack melodrama called L'Auberge des adrets, they showed him...ranging through all kinds of commercial enterprise, in the stock market, in the banks, in the courts, and in dozens of other public settings, never failing to find eager dupes...Though Daumier's designes are are superb in themselves...they would be incomplete without the unfailing wit and point of Philipon's captions" (Ray). Ray, Art of the French Illustrated Book 161. Beraldi V, p. 124.

Accurata E Succinta Descrizione Topografica Delle Atichita Di Roma Dell' Abate Ridolfino Venuit by Venuit, Ridolfino

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Title: Accurata E Succinta Descrizione Topografica Delle Atichita Di Roma Dell' Abate Ridolfino Venuit
Author: Venuit, Ridolfino
Seller: Royoung bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Full modern antique niger. Near fine. 2 vols
Description: Rome: Pietro Piale & Mariano de Romanis, 1824. Third edition. leather_bound. Full modern antique niger. Near fine. 2 vols. (2) xvi, xxxii, 256' vi, 238 pages. 27.9 x 20.3 cm. Engraved vignette on title-pages, engraved portrait following title, 2 engraved head-pieces, large engraved folding map, 68 engraved plates after Piranesi, Morel, Rinaldi. Ferrerri, Duflos and others. Complete with 70 copper engraved plates of which 23 are by Piranesi. Included is a large fold-out map of Rome of Pirro Ligorio. An important work on the monuments of Rome. CICOGNARA 3905 (for 1st edition). Some marginal browning and spotting. Raised bands, spine decorations in blind, olive spine labels lettered in gilt.

The New Patterson Hotel...One of America's Finest Colored Hotels... [caption title] by [African Americana]: [Travel]: [Louisiana]: Patterson, J.R.

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Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC

Title: The New Patterson Hotel...One of America's Finest Colored Hotels... [caption title]
Author: [African Americana]: [Travel]: [Louisiana]: Patterson, J.R.
Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Description: New Orleans, 1955. Photo-illustrated trade card, 2.75 x 6.25 inches. Minor edge wear and toning, horizontal crease, some biopredation to bottom and right portions costing a handful of letters. Good condition. An extraordinary survival from Jim Crow Louisiana, advertising the New Patterson Hotel in New Orleans, owned and operated by John Robert Patterson. The hotel was the first African American-owned hotel in New Orleans, and became one of the most popular during the Green Book era of African American travel. The hotel was located at two different addresses during its years of operation, in which it was routinely listed in the annual publication of The Negro Traveler's Green Book. The present trade card emanates from the hotel's second location at 1815 Bienville Avenue, where the hotel moved in 1954 or 1955; the hotel is listed at its first address on Rampart Street in the 1954 edition and the Bienville location by the time of the Green Book's 1955 edition. The trade card features two small photographs. At left is an image of the hotel itself, with some promotional slogans beneath, reading "One of America's Finest Colored Hotels and 'New Orleans Most Discriminating,'" and "The 'Very' Best Place to Sleep Away from Home." The right side of the card prints a portrait of J.R. Patterson who is touted for his "Years of Business Experience in Successful Service" and "Nationally and Internationally Known." The center of the card prints information about the hotel, located "In the Heart of Downtown New Orleans Close to Everything," offering "Rooms With Baths" and "Hot and Cold Running Water in Each Room," and with the address and phone number at bottom. The card is similar to the regular newspaper advertisement for the hotel printed in The Louisiana Weekly from 1956 to 1965. We could locate no other copies of this striking trade card for an important African American hotel in New Orleans founded, owned, and operated by a notable local businessman.

Bibile and Sword by Barbara W. Tuchman

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Title: Bibile and Sword
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: New York University, 1956. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Presentation & Association. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine Copy In a Near Fine Price Clipped Jacket.First Edition. Rare Presentation Copy. Inserted Slip. "For Amos Perlmutter who shed real light where it is badly needed with appreciation and admiration Barbara Tuchman."Comes With a Sheet on The Council of Foreign Relations in Honor of Recipient Amos Perlmutter.Additionally With a Note For Perlmutter to Come to Her House for Dinner. First Hardcover of This Great Historian..

The Dame by Richard Stark (Donald E.Westlake)

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Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA/ILAB

Title: The Dame
Author: Richard Stark (Donald E.Westlake)
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Macmillan, 1969. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Fine Copy In Like Jacket.First Edition Stated.$4.50 on flap.Gorgeous Pure White Copy..

THE GALLERY OF CONTEMPORARY ART, AN ILLUSTRATED REVIEW OF THE RECENT ART PRODUCTIONS OF ALL NATIONS by SILVESTRE, ARMAND

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Title: THE GALLERY OF CONTEMPORARY ART, AN ILLUSTRATED REVIEW OF THE RECENT ART PRODUCTIONS OF ALL NATIONS
Author: SILVESTRE, ARMAND
Seller: L'Estampe Originale (United States)
Description: Philadelphia., Gebbie and Co.., 1885. Ed. by J. Eugene Reed. Folio. Full calf. gilt cover and spine. Illustrated with 60 photogravures and 94 wood engravings after works by Bouguereau, Corot, Fromentin, Meissonier, Millais, and Puvis de Chavannes, etc. A.e.g. 94 pp. Worn edges; fine interior. Colltr's. stamp: Chas Holbrook.

1852 - Letter from a foreman reporting the status of laying track for the Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad with a crew of "men not worth a damn. by E. F. Judkins

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Title: 1852 - Letter from a foreman reporting the status of laying track for the Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad with a crew of "men not worth a damn.
Author: E. F. Judkins
Seller: Kurt A. Sanftleben (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Loudonville [Ohio], 1852. Unbound. Very good. This four-page letter from E. F. Judkins is datelined "Loudonville [Ohio] December 19 1852". There is no mailing envelope. In this letter, Judkins, who was apparently the foreman of a track-laying crew for the Ohio & Pennsylvania Railroad relates the difficulties he is facing and his hope to soon be appointed as a conductor. "The next week after you left I went to Wooster to get some money to pay the men that were to work for me and Bailey sent me to this place to buy timber. . .. I am at present track laying here and a hard time I have had no boarding places and men not worth a damn and no chance to change off for better but I am in hopes that I shall not be here always for I have something better in view I spoke for a situation on the road when it is finished and the men I spoke to applied to Mr Courtney the present superintendent for a Conductors birth for me and he said I should have it and when I get there if you want to go with me on a train I shall feel it duty bound to give you as good a situation as the next man has Should I get disappointed in that Bailey has offered me work for a year yet and before them all is Mr Stimpson who wanted me to work for him but there must not be any thing said as to that except in private. . .. When I get done laying track I would like to have you out here to start a train with me should fortune smile on me enough to get it and you know sure I am of it. . .." The letter also discusses Judkins concerns about leaving his wife and children at home rather than bringing them with him while laying the track through Ohio. . The Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad was chartered in two states: Ohio on 24 February 1848 and Pennsylvania on 11 April 1848. It was approved to build a route from Allegheny City. Construction began on Independence Day in 1849, and the line had been extended to Wooster, just east of Loudenville by August of 1852. When it reached Crestline on 11 April 1853, a throughline from New York City to Cincinnati was formed via its connection with the Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati Railroad. The Ohio and Pennsylvania eventually was consolidated with other regional lines to form the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Rail Road which when completed in December, 1859 provided the Pennsylvania Rail Road system dedicated track between New York and Chicago. (For more information, see Wikipedia.) .

Dickens's Children. Ten Drawings by Jessie Willcox Smith by SMITH, Jessie Willcox

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Title: Dickens's Children. Ten Drawings by Jessie Willcox Smith
Author: SMITH, Jessie Willcox
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition: Very good +
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912. First Edition. Cloth. Very good +. Jessie Willcox SMITH. First edition. 8vo; [46pp]; dark green ribbed cloth over board with gilt stamped wreath, title and author to front board, color illustrated onlay to wreath center; age toning to endpapers; 10 color illustrations on heavy glazed stock, printed recto only; lightly scattered foxing to half-title and fly leaves; illustrations bright and unmarked; light shelf scuffing to cover corners, head and tail of spine; very good plus. Bright illustrations with a passage from a Dickens' story on the facing page.

Cranial deformation in the reign of Akhnaton. by Snorrason, Egill.

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Title: Cranial deformation in the reign of Akhnaton.
Author: Snorrason, Egill.
Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 1946. Fine. Offprint from the Bulletin of the History of Medicine 20 (1946), pages 601-610, specially bound in decorated paper-covered (wooden?) boards with crushed morocco backstrip with author's name lettered in gilt on upper flap of the backstrip. Abstracted profile portrait of a man wearing Egyptian headgear on upper board.

Men Without Countries. Three Adventures of the Early Southwest by Weems, John Edward

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Title: Men Without Countries. Three Adventures of the Early Southwest
Author: Weems, John Edward
Seller: Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket.
Description: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969. First printing. Cloth with map end-papers. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket.. ix, 272 pp. Illus. with b/w drawings. 8vo. Rick Duiker, illus.

[Special Session of the Senate]. By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation by Wilson, Woodrow

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Title: [Special Session of the Senate]. By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation
Author: Wilson, Woodrow
Seller: Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Pin holes along inner margin, faint mail fold, stamped by the Chief Clerk's office on Feb. 16, 1921, else a very good+ copy.
Description: [Washington D.C.]: [U.S. Government Printing Office], 1921. First edition. Pin holes along inner margin, faint mail fold, stamped by the Chief Clerk's office on Feb. 16, 1921, else a very good+ copy.. Broadside. 7 3/4 x 12 3/4 in. No. 1584 (Feb. 3, 1921).

Aperture 8:2 by WHITE, Minor (editor)

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Title: Aperture 8:2
Author: WHITE, Minor (editor)
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Rochester, NY: Aperture, 1960. First edition. Softcover. This issue features "The Sense of Abstraction in Contemporary Photography" and includes black and white images from Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Frederick Sommer, Edward Steichen, Man Ray, Edward Weston, Aaron Siskind, Harry Callahan and many others. A clean very near fine copy in stapled wrappers with a Frederick Sommer image on the front cover. A nicer than usual copy.

Mission to Paris (Signed First Edition) by Furst, Alan

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Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books

Title: Mission to Paris (Signed First Edition)
Author: Furst, Alan
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
ISBN: 9781400069484
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: Random House, 2012. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo., 255pp. Sharp Stated Edition, First Printing with full number sequence. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear save a bump to the heel. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($27.00), is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases, toning or tears. Signed by the author on the title page. A beautiful collectable copy at a great price.

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Creatures of Empire; How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America by ANDERSON, Virginia DeJohn

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Title: Creatures of Empire; How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America
Author: ANDERSON, Virginia DeJohn
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
ISBN: 9780195158601
Condition: fine
Description: New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. First. hardcover. fine/very good(-). Illus. 8vo, 1/2 tan cloth, d.w. lightly soiled. (New York): Oxford University Press, 2004.

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