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Pony Tracks

Pony Tracks by REMINGTON, Frederic

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Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books
Title
Pony Tracks
Author
REMINGTON, Frederic
Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1895. First Edition. First Printing, cloth issue. Octavo (23cm); publisher's original burnt orange cloth, with titling and pictorial elements stamped in gilt and in colors on spine and front cover; x,269,[3]pp, with tissue-guarded frontispiece and 69 black & white illustrations by Remington. Light wrinkling to cloth at spine ends, hint of foxing to text edges and endpapers, though text and illustrations are clean internally; a bright, Near Fine copy of Remington's first book, a collection of sketches chronicling ranch life, military campaigns, and the author's adventures acrosss the American frontier. HOWES R-207; HERD 1878; STREETER SALE 4216. 89778.
[NIGERIAN WOMAN FABRIC ARTIST]. Batiks by Nike, Oshogbo, Nigeria

[NIGERIAN WOMAN FABRIC ARTIST]. Batiks by Nike, Oshogbo, Nigeria by Nike (artist)

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Seller: Michael Laird Rare Books LLC
Title
[NIGERIAN WOMAN FABRIC ARTIST]. Batiks by Nike, Oshogbo, Nigeria
Author
Nike (artist)
Seller
Michael Laird Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
Denton, TX: Victoria Scott (P.O. Box 2955), 1981. Very good. Circular, 8.5" × S.5". Front panel signed, "with Love, Mrs. Niké Obuyi Seven Seven." Creased and a bit wrinkled, faint soiling. RARE AND EXTREMELY UNUSUAL CIRCULAR PRINTED IN DENTON, TX PROMOTING THE WORK OF A NIGERIAN WOMAN BATIK ARTIST. OURS, WHICH IS SIGNED, SEEMS TO BE THE ONLY SURVIVING EXAMPLE OF IT. An apparently unrecorded handbill for a pioneering Nigerian cultural revivalist, documenting her attempts to promote Yoruba textile arts to Americans. It is unclear to us how, or why, the present ephemera was printed in Denton, TX. This leaflet advertises the work of "Nigeria's foremost batik artist," whose "uses the traditional techniques and imagery in non-traditional context. Her work is part of a national effort to preserve Yoruba culture by bringing its motifs into contemporary art." Nike's cotton and silk "batiks...are featured in fashions, wall hangs, and yardage." The circular notes that in 1981, clothing made by Niké was "presented before Alhaji Shehu Shagari, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria," before she left to tour the United States. The American collectors and institutions who appreciated Nike's work at an early stage were "Mr. & Mrs. Walter Mondale, the Bank of Chicago." In 1974, only a decade prior to this publication, Niké had "presented lectures and demonstrations at Haystack Mountain Crafts School in Maine," and had toured the United States on several occasions. Chief Nike Davies-Okundaye, referred to here as Nike Twins Seven Seven, was "born in 1951 in Ogidi-Ijumu, a small village in western Nigeria known for its spectacular rock formations and traditional art industry." She was the daughter of impoverished batik artisans, and "did not...receive any formal education in art or preparatory schooling," rather being "trained informally in the traditional crafts of her people through methods practised by women in her family for generations." Among these crafts were "textile weaving and painting," which she developed while employed by a traveling theater that brought Niké to Nigeria's capital of Osogbo. It was here that she "first established herself as an adire" maker, that being the term for a Yoruba artist who extracts "indigo from the indigenous elu plant...followed by painting and resist-dyeing the fabric with a homemade cassava emulsion." Niké began selling her art from her bedroom gallery in 1968, and quickly found an audience of eager American collectors who had expatriated to Africa, including "Alan Donovan...an aid worker during the Biafra War," who went on to become an acclaimed gallerist known for his collection of African art and artifacts. Through Donovan's support and her undeniable skill, Niké became one of the "first artists from Africa to travel to America in 1974." Provenance: Pico Banerjee, to whom we are grateful for his preliminary research. Sources Consulted: "The material of life according to textile queen Nike Davies-Okundaye" at ForbesAfrica online.
Relation historique de la peste de Marseille en 1720

Relation historique de la peste de Marseille en 1720 by Bertrand, Jean-Baptiste

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Relation historique de la peste de Marseille en 1720
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Bertrand, Jean-Baptiste
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Archway Books (United States)
Description
12mo, 100 x 150 mm (4 x 6 inches), [xii], 512 pages. Contemporary calf, gilt-decorated spine, raised bands; light external wear; staining from old tape to front free endpaper and title page; title page and first and last two text pages chipped; pages age-toned; good condition overall. The last major outbreak of bubonic plague in Western Europe killed 50,000 in Marseille and 50,000 in the adjacent region from 1720-1722. This account by Marseille physician Jean-Baptiste Bertrand (1670-1752) is the most detailed eyewitness account to survive. He was honored by the authorities for his tireless work through inclusion on the official plague monument erected in 1802. This first edition was published anonymously under the fictitious imprint "à Cologne, chez Pierre Marteau," suggesting that Bertrand was concerned about potential censorship. A review of online copies reveals that there were at least two "Marteau" editions in 1721, with different title pages but clearly printed from the same set type. A reset "Marteau" edition appeared in 1723. The first edition to credit Bertrand appeared in 1779, with the imprint "A Amsterdam, Et se vend A Marseille, Chez Jean Mossy, Imprimeur du Roi, de la Marine, & Libraire, au Parc." Amsterdam sounds potentially spurious, suggesting there was still concern about censorship fifty years later, even though the imprint of the bookseller Mossy shows the book was clearly intended for public sale.

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