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Souvenir de Constantinople et d'un Voyage fait en Egypte en 1845, par le Duc alors Prince Roger de Bauffremont. Aquarelles de Preziosi et du Vicomte Adalbert de Beaumont by PREZIOSI, Amedeo (1816-1882), BEAUMONT, Adalbert de (1809-1869)

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Title: Souvenir de Constantinople et d'un Voyage fait en Egypte en 1845, par le Duc alors Prince Roger de Bauffremont. Aquarelles de Preziosi et du Vicomte Adalbert de Beaumont
Author: PREZIOSI, Amedeo (1816-1882), BEAUMONT, Adalbert de (1809-1869)
Seller: Donald Heald Rare Books (United States)
Description: Constantinople and Egypt: Unpublished, 1845. Portfolio. 42 watercolors hinged onto 20 period card mounts, 7 signed by Preziosi, 1 signed by Beaumont, ranging in size from 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches to 13 x 20 1/2 inches, 37 with contemporary ink manuscript caption titles on the mount, the remaining 5 with neat pencil captions within the images, some images additionally captioned by the artists. Housed in burgundy cloth chemise within a period burgundy morocco box made to resemble a paneled binding with gilt edges, signed by A[lphonse] Giroux (1776-1848), a pupil of Jacques-Louis David who manufactured the first daguerreotype camera, at Rue du Coq S. Honore, No. 7, Paris, with original white silk lining in moiré pattern and white ribbon, clasped together with gold lock on fore-edge complete with key Provenance: Prince Roger de Bauffremont. A captivating collection of watercolors of Turkish and Egyptian scenes, accomplished by two notable nineteenth-century Orientalist artists, documenting a journey through the region by the French Prince Roger de Bauffremont that was intended to be published as a travel book. Some of these forty-two watercolors of Beaumont and Preziosi depict views of the Bosphorus, Therapia, and other sites in and around Constantinople. The remainder depict scenes and costumes of Egypt. Each an aristocrat, though Beaumont was French and Preziosi Maltese, they were both known as illustrators of travel books in the mid-nineteenth century. Preziosi's books were lavish chromolithographic affairs, as the present portfolio was likely intended to be. Preziosi had published Costumes of Constantinople (1844) the previous year, and would go on to issue Stamboul (1858) and Souvenir du Caire (1862). The son of Count Gio Francois Preziosi of Malta, Preziosi initially studied law before turning to painting. After studying under Giuseppe Hyzler, Preziosi finished his art training at the Paris Académie des Beaux-Arts. He moved to Constantinople in 1842, fell for the city, and was able to make a living painting the places and peoples that surrounded him. It is noted in the Atabey catalogue that "Preziosi was well-known. His studio is mentioned in Murray's guidebooks for 1854 and 1871. By that time he had become an institution in the city. He produced views of the city, and genre and costume drawings." [The Ottoman World] His paintings sold well to both the affluent local and the Grand Tourist, and his reputation was such that he also served as court painter to Sultan Abdul Hamid II. Less well-known, though no less skilled, is the other artist represented in these watercolors: Adalbert de Beaumont. De Beaumont traveled extensively, and authored several acclaimed works on Orientalist design and ornamentation. The present watercolors, accomplished on behalf of a traveling French prince, were never published and constitute a valuable and exquisitely rendered documentary of the sites visited and local costumes of the period. It is, as it were, a lost work from a bygone era. Provenance: Levy Sale Sotheby's April 20, 2012 (sold at $ 134,500); Collection Peter Tillou (who sold 14 watercolours). Watercolour Titles: 1.) "Souvenir de Constantinople Title Page." 9 ½ x 6 1/2" 2.) "Femmes Turques." (2 watercolours on one sheet) 8 x 10 ¼" 3.) "Costumes Turques et Armeniens. Constantinople Septembre 1843." (2 watercolours on one card mount) 11 ½ x 8 ¾" 4.) "Vues de Therapia sur le Bosphore: En face du Palais de France; Palais de France." (1 pencil drawing and 1 watercolour on one card mount) 9 x 13 ¼" 5.) "Pont de Brousse. Asie Mineure." 14 x 20 ½" 6.) "Fouak sur le Nil." 13 x 19 ¼" 7.) "Birket el Shaouareb. Le Caire." 13 ¾ 20 ¼" 8.) "Costumes Tures et Egyptiens." (4 watercolours on one card mount) 7 ½ x 5 ½" 9.) "Costumes de la Haute et de la Basse Egypte." (6 watercolours on one card mount) 5 ½ x 4" 10.) "Costumes de la Haute et de la Basse Egypte. (6 watercolours on one card mount) 2 are 6 x 4 ½", 2 are 7 ½ x 5 ½" and 2 are 4 ¼ x 5 3/4" 11.) "Costumes Tures. Constantinople." (2 watercolours on one card mount) 10 x 7" 12.) "Costumes Grecs." (2 watercolours on one card mount) 10 x 7" 13.) "Nubiens dans le Désert." 9 ½ x 14 ¼" 14.) "Musiciens du Maroc." 10 ¼ x 15" 15.) "Vue du Bosphore prise de la Rive l'Asie." 13 ¼ x 18 3/4" 16.) "Les Murailles de Constantinople." 13 ¾ x 20" 17.) "Un Canal a Venise." 16 x 11 ¼" 18.) "Une Porte de la Mosquee de Bajazet. Constantinople 1845." 14 x 8 ½" 19.) "Mosquee de Shazade. Constantinople 1845." 13 ¼ x 8 ¾" 20.) "Palais Persan." 8 ¾ x 6 ¾"; [3 Egyptian figures: figure with camel, figure in traditional costume, water bearer] 6 x 4 1/2"; "Therapia." 4 x 5 ½" (4 watercolours and one pencil drawing on one card mount) Llewellyn, The People and Places of Constantinople: Watercolors by Amedeo Count Preziosi. Sotheby's, The Ottoman World: The Library of Sefik E. Atabey, p.535.

Poems - Second Series by Dickinson, Emily

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Title: Poems - Second Series
Author: Dickinson, Emily
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Boston: Robert Brothers, 1892. Second printing. Near Fine. One of 1,000 copies of the second printing (with 1891 on the copyright page and 1892 on the title-page). Publisher's green cloth over white boards decorated in gilt (Myerson's A binding). 230 pp., with the four page facsimile of "Renunciation" in the preliminaries. All edges gilt. An attractive copy, bright and fresh throughout, with just a bit of soiling to boards. Contemporary ink ownership signature to preliminary blank. Near Fine. "One of the most popular and enigmatic American writers of the nineteenth century, Emily Dickinson wrote almost 1,800 poems. Nevertheless, her work was essentially unknown to contemporary readers since only a handful of poems were published during her lifetime, and a vast trove of her manuscripts was not discovered until after her death in 1886. Often typecast as a recluse who rarely left her Amherst home, Dickinson was, in fact, socially active as a young woman and maintained a broad network of friends and correspondents even as she grew older and retreated into seclusion" (The Morgan Library). Called the "great poet of inwardness" by Joyce Carol Oates and "the best mind to appear among Western poets in nearly four centuries" by Harold Bloom, Dickinson was a master of short-form poetry who deployed metaphors drawn from the natural world to explore experiences of wonder, death and loss, religious faith and doubt, meaning and meaninglessness, and selfhood. Near Fine.

Again---The Hospital (Broadside/Poster) by Huncke, Herbert

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Title: Again---The Hospital (Broadside/Poster)
Author: Huncke, Herbert
Seller: Bungalow Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Louisville, KY: White Fields Press. Very Good. 1995. Broadside. Copy number 36 of 50 numbered copies signed by Huncke. Number 23 in the Heaven Poster series, an excerpt from The Evening Sun Turned Crimson. Shrinkwrapped and mounted on foamcore. 22" H by 12"W (56 by 30 cm). ; Poster; Signed by Author .

Mid-19th-century Watch Paper by Williams, J. H

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Title: Mid-19th-century Watch Paper
Author: Williams, J. H
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Condition: Very good
Description: St. Clairsville, Ohio: J. H. Williams, Watch Maker. Jewelry, Watch and Fancy Store, 1854. Very good. Watch paper; 1 3/4 inch in diameter; text in various fancy fonts to recto; manuscript note to verso; a bit of age-toning and minor foxing; several tiny nicks to edges; in very good condition.Watch papers, popular in the 18th- and 19th- centuries, were round paper disks, placed between the inner and outer cases of pocket watches to protect their inner workings. While most were engraved and illustrated and featured business names and advertisements for watchmakers, some were letterpress printed and a few were hand-drawn. There were also entirely hand-made ones, which were often created by young women - to be given to their sweethearts as proof of affection - and which were to be kept in the latter's watches, close to their hearts. The verso was often used to record repairs, over the life of the timepiece. This particular one advertised the services of J. H. Williams, Watchmaker, with a small manuscript name of the original owner of the watch and a date to verso - "Allen Dorsey / April 8, 1854." Though research has revealed little, it seems Williams might have also been a bookseller and a printer at one point in his career.

Dry Land: Man and Plants. by Adams, Robert; Adams, Marina; Willens, Alan; Willens, Ann.

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Title: Dry Land: Man and Plants.
Author: Adams, Robert; Adams, Marina; Willens, Alan; Willens, Ann.
Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: New York: St. Martin’s Press, (1979). First Edition, Review Copy. Quarto, blue leatherette (hardcover), gilt letters, vii, 152 pp. Good+, with soiling to page edges, neat former-owner stamps, former-owners published review pasted to rear endpaper, in a Near-Fine dust jacket. From jacket: Over a quarter of the world’s surface is arid or semi-arid, and there are fears that this total may increase sharply as the result of climatic change and growing pressures from an expanding and hungry world population. Urgent needs have led man himself to contribute alarmingly to the continuous depletion of the stock of usable lands through unconsidered exploitation: fertile areas are degrading rapidly and marginal ones are turning into deserts. This timely book shows how the threats to such fragile territories can be arrested, controlled and reversed through the careful management of dry-land ecosystems. It examines the characteristics of arid and semi-arid environments throughout the world and describes the kinds of vegetation they are able to support. Drawing thier lessons from nature, the authors show how indiginous vegetation can be used to create developments which are self-sustaining in the long run, based on an apporach that works with nature rather than against it. They set out in great detail the techniques that are involved, from the preliminary survey of climate, topography, soils and water through the analysis of the existing ecosystem, to the planning of developments with plants and regimes of irrigation, plant propagation and management of soil, water, vegeation, and human settlements....

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