LA JEUNE FILLE VERTE. Illustré de quatorze lithographies de Roger Chastel
TOULET (Paul Jean). Roger CHASTEL illustrateur [1946]. Grand in-4° carré, 240 pages et 2 feuillets de table, en feuilles sous étui. Une suite de 14 lithographies hors-texte en noir sous chemise. Couverture lithographiée en couleurs par l'artiste. Une chemise étui de l'éditeur, un bel exemplaire. L'un des 70 exemplaires imprimés sur Pur Fil DE RIVES avec une suite. COMPLET DE SA SUITE.- $225
- $225
The Memorable Year: -of the War in China, the Opening Up of the Resources of Siam; the Projected Movement Upon Cochin-China; and the Monetary Crisis in Europe and America. By a Corresponding Member of the American Geographical and Statistical Society, Etc
Gideon NYE (1812-1888). Large 8°, [24 pp.] with title, verses, preface, index, 4 blank pages, starting with p. 9 on second text page (complete), 360 pp., pp. A-D between pp. 339-340, contemporary half dark brown calf with gold tooling and lettering on the spine and marbled paper boards, a presentation copy with a dedication by the author in black ink on the first blank page and a later owner's signature in pencil in the upper part "A. Salles, Paris, Oct. 1903" (pp. 318-319 with a tear in the upper white margin, small worm holes in the inner upper corner of the first part, minor sporadic staining, binding slightly rubbed on the corners and in the upper and lower part of the spine, but overall in a good condition) MACAO IMPRINT: A rare book on the events in China, Cochin China, and India, authored by an American diplomat Gideon Nye in Macao, in 1858, and written in a modern style, where the author seeks connections between global events and is not discussing them in isolation. With a dedication by the author to John Gray, the Archdeacon of Hong Kong - Gideon Nye (1812-1888) was an American diplomat, writer and art collector, who arrived to China in 1831 from his native Massachusetts. He lived in Guangzhou and Macao until his death in 1888 and in almost six decades in China, Nye, a corresponding member of the American Geographical Society and an American Vice Consul, authored several books on the region, political events, such as the events which leading up to the First and Second Opium Wars, tea trade and art. A contemporary report describes Gideon Nye as "Nestor of foreign residents in China, publicist, philanthropist and patriot." Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, Vol. 19, 1888, p. 525). In this book, printed in Macao in 1858 and addressed to American readers, Nye describes a series of contemporary events, related to China, Cochin China, and India and connects them into a group of global events. The book is dedicated in manuscript on the first blank page by the author to John Gray (1823 1890), the Archdeacon of Hong Kong (1868-1878), and a consular chaplain at Canton (Guangzhou, 186778) and a commissary of the Diocese of Victoria, Hong Kong: To the Venerate Archdeacon Gray with Mr. Nye's Compl[iment]s. Canton 12th March 1870. We could trace about half a dozen institutional examples on Worldcat, the other appear to be microfilms (Harvard Law School Library, Phillips Library (Peabody Essex Museum), University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, The Claremont Colleges, Library of Congress, American Antiquarian Society, The British Library (or microfilm?), Yale University Library (or microfilm?)). References: OCLC 681653924 (also microfilm), 504088286.- $4,256
- $4,256
Gorey Stories: Books & Drawings by Edward Gorey
Poster advertising the titular exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, on display from October 26, 1984 to March 17, 1985. Illustrated in four compartments showing three companions and a dog in a rotating array of positions "while sitting around after tea." Fine. Framed. (Frame measures 17 1/4 by 8 3/4 in.) Together with the exhibition catalog, bifold with additional sheet laid in providing a curatorial statement. Signed by Gorey. This with minor bumping to corners, motes of soiling, else very good. (Toledano, p. 169).- $518
- $518
A Song and a Diary for A.
Elliott, Richard Octavo. (60)pp. From an edition of twenty-six copies, this is an apparently out of series copy, unsigned and unnumbered at the colophon. Cover design by Gorey, in the manner of a flat image to be cut out and folded into a cuboid. Printed mimeograph. A rare contribution by Gorey to the storied publishing project at St. Mark's. Staple-bound. Toned overall, as expected, trace soiling and edgewear, else near fine. (Toledano D-Elliott).- $230
- $230
This Summer, Relax!
Square octavo triptych brochure. An advertising giveaway from Bantam, sent to booksellers to entice them with "the opportunity to profit from crime." The brochure's use of colorful Gorey images of a trepidatious summer garden party is paired with nods to Masterpiece Mystery! In addition to new publications, Bantam offers various marketing materials, including a floor display, a lineup of print advertisements, and complimentary bookmarks. Housed in pocket at rightmost panel are a "Map of Mystery," charting book settings and author homes in the United States; a display kit order form; and an entry form to participate in Bantam's window display contest. Mild bumping to corners, faint soiling to rear center panel, else near fine.- $115
- $115
![[Manilla]. Plan De La Baye et Ville de Manille](https://rarebookinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/31910516617.jpg)
[Manilla]. Plan De La Baye et Ville de Manille, Capitale des Isles Philippines, Située en L’Isle Luçon, par 14. D.gré 39.m de Latitude Septentrionale, & par 118 D.gré 33.m de Longitude Méridien de l’Observatoire de Paris.
APRÈS DE MANNEVILLETTE, Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Denis d' (1707-1780). Original copper-engraved sea chart of Manilla (57.5 x 41.5 cm overall) printed on heavy paper. The chart extends from the North coast of Mindoro Island to north of Pointe de Capones, centered on Manilla Bay and Subec Bay. It is based on the most progressive sources available to the French Navy. European interest in Manila Bay, and the Philippines in general, was heightened upon hearing news of British Admiral George Anson's capture of a Spanish Manila Galleon off of Cabo Espiritu Santo, in 1743. A few isolated spots, generally a very good clean copy. The present chart was drafted by French sailor and hydrographer Jean-Batiste de Mannevillette (1707-80). Mannevillette apprenticed under the great royal cartographer Guillaume De L'Isle. He then joined the maritime service of the Compagnie des Indes, eventually attaining the rank of captain. Upon his return to Paris, Mannevillette was appointed as director of the Dépôt des Cartes et Plans de la Navigation des Indes. In 1745, he published the first edition of his sea atlas of Asian waters, Le Neptune Oriental, regarded as a major achievement and a library indispensable to navigators. The high quality of Mannevillette's charts won him the acclaim of both mariners and academics alike, and he was admitted as a fellow of the Academy of Sciences. He published a second, heavily revised, edition of the Neptune Oriental in 1775., from which the present chart derives.- $1,655
- $1,655
Mittelbach’s karte des Türkischen reiches mit Südrussland, Kaukasus, Persien, Ägypten, Arabien.
MITTELBACH. Original large colour-printed map of the Middle East (94 x 78 cm) focussing on the Arabian Peninsula, with an inset map of the Nile Delta and Suez Canal to upper corner. Folding into publisher's original card wrappers (24 x 15.5 cm) printed in black and red. Photolithographed by Druck. One small patch of browning to Caspian Sea, otherwise an excellent copy preserved in the original wrappers. The map shows the Middle East around the time of the First World War and includes a wealth of detail including railways (including the Hejaz Railway), roads, ruins, forts, cables, steamer lines, etc. European colonial possessions are shaded in dark green (British), yellow (Italian), and orange (French).- $496
- $496
Dunkirk to Berlin. June 1940 – July 1945. A map of the Historic Wartime Journeys undertaken by The Right Hon. Sir Winston Churchill, K.G., O.M., C.H. In Defence of the British Commonwealth and Empire.
(CHURCHILL, Winston); HUNT, Frank A. Devine. Original colour printed map (91 x 117 cm) of the "historic wartime journeys undertaken by the Right Hon. Winston Churchill.in defence of the British Commonwelath and Empire. Folds into original card slipcase (22 x 15 cm) with pictorial front-cover". "Issued to World Book Members in April 1956" printed to back of case. Some crude tape repairs to slip-case, map in excellent condition. The routes of Churchill's wartime trips abroad are shown, noted the conferences he attended and Churchill's mode of transport. Colourful vignette portraits of the planes and ships Churchill used appear at the foot of the map and include HMS Duke of York, HMS Renown, HMT Queen Mary, and the airplanes "Commando" and "Berwick." Churchill's popular six-volume memoir The Second World War, originally published between 1948 and 1954, was reissued in a cheaper edition by the Reprint Society between 1950 and 1956 for its World Books book club. "Upon publication of the sixth and final volume of the Reprint Society edition in April 1956, the publisher issued World Books members a folded slipcased 'Map of the Historic Wartime Journeys undertaken by The Right Hon. Sir Winston Churchill, K.G., O.M., C.H. in Defence of the British Commonwealth and Empire' to commemorate the 'completion of the Reprint Society edition of the Churchill war memoirs'" (Cohen A240.6(VI).a).- $993
- $993
ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT OF CHARLES BUKOWSKI AT THE RACETRACK
Bukowski, Charles (subject); Montfort, Michael (photographer) Original color photo on Kodak paper, measuring 23cm x 16.5cm (9" x 6.5"). Thin mounting strip along the upper edge on verso, else Fine. Original photograph of Charles Bukowski taken by photographer Michael Montfort for the 1982 Black Sparrow Press publication of Horsemeat, a celebration in verse and prose of one of the poet's great loves the racetrack. This was one of 20 full-color photographs taken by Montfort for the project, which captured Bukowski prowling the various racetracks of Southern California, like Santa Anita and Del Mar (this image appearing on p.33 in the book, depicting Bukowski, newspaper in hand, admiring a horse as it passes by). An unused image, from the collection of Earle and Larry Gray (of the Earle Gray Bookbinding Company), who bound most of the Black Sparrow Press titles produced between 1967-2001, as well as works by Capricorn, Turtle Island, and various other small presses. 7280.- $400
- $400
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
FLEMING, Ian First edition, first printing. 8vo. Black boards with white ski track design to front board & gilt titles to spine. Pictorial dustwrapper by Richard Chopping. A near fine copy with clean unmarked boards. A couple of small light marks to textblock edges o/w fine. No inscriptions. The very good+ near fine dustwrapper is complete and bright with some edgewear and a couple of short closed tears. Very bright red lettering. Original price of 16snet on front flap. A bright attractive copy without the usual fading to red lettering & toning to spine. Gilbert A11a (1.1). James Bond's passion for his job has gone cold and the only thing that can warm it up is his interest in Contessa "Tracy" Di Vicenzo, a troubled woman who has a penchant for fast cars, gambling and danger. Tracy pulls Bond closer but not close enough; however, if her father a powerful gangland boss can get him close to Blofeld he may be able to consider settling down with Tracy. But Bond is not one to settle down and the unexpected leads to the unthinkable.- $985
- $985
Very Good Jeeves
WODEHOUSE, P. G. First edition, first printing, first issue orange boards with black titles. 8vo. A very good copy with no chipping or splitting to boards. Some dusting to panels. Internally clean and complete with some light spotting to prelims. Wrinkling to rear pastedown. Endpapers original and unsplit. No inscriptions. An uncommon title in first edition. McIlvaine A42a. A collection of 11 Jeeves stories with the ongoing scrapes of Bertie Wooster. In every story Bertie or one of his friends or relatives are in a "scrape" and everyone's favourite valet, Jeeves comes to the rescue.- $217
- $217
Joy in the Morning
WODEHOUSE, P. G. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Orange boards with black titles. Pictorial dustwrapper by Frank Ford. A very good+/near fine copy with clean boards. Clean boards with no marks. Internally clean & complete. Some very light sporadic spotting to edges & endpapers. No inscriptions. The very good dustwrapper is complete with edgewear to extremities & a number of short closed tears. Some dusting to panels. Original price of 8/6net to front flap. A very good copy with none of the usual fading to spine. McIlvaine A65b. Trapped in rural Steeple Bumpleigh Bertie fights against a past fiance and her new fiance, Stilton Cheesewright and the malevolent Edwin the Boy Scout - only Jeeves can save him.- $217
- $217
Very Good Jeeves
WODEHOUSE, P. G. Sixth printing c1935. Red boards with black titles. A near fine copy with very clean boards. Internally clean and co plete with no inscriptions. The very good dustwrapper has edgewear with light chipping/nicking to extremities & some lightening to spine. Original price of 5/-net to front flap. A very good copy of the thicker early edition of this title in same format as the first printing & not the much more common very thin red boards edition from the 1950s. McIlvaine A42a. A collection of 11 Jeeves stories with the ongoing scrapes of Bertie Wooster. In every story Bertie or one of his friends or relatives are in a "scrape" and everyone's favourite valet, Jeeves comes to the rescue.- $112
- $112
Daido Moriyama: Tokyo (Reflex New Art Gallery), Special Limited Edition (with Gelatin Silver Print) [SIGNED]
MORIYAMA, Daido, FEIL, Marcel First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Special limited edition of 40 (this being #28/40), with a gelatin silver print, in a black paper folio with titled embossed in pink. Book and print (in folder) housed in a velvet-covered clamshell box. The silver print image size is 6-5/8 x 9-1/4 inches; paper size 8 x 10 inches, and is signed and numbered on verso in pencil by Moriyama (the photograh was made in the 1970s and printed in 2003. ABOUT THE BOOK: Photographically illustrated paper-covered boards with printed obi, no dust jacket as issued. Boldly signed (in Japanese and English) in black marker opposite the title page by Moriyama. Photographs by Daido Moriyama. Essay by Marcel Feil. Design by Alex Daniels. 104 pp., with 78 black and white plates (most 2-page spreads), finely printed by Meco Offset BV, Zwaag, The Netherlands. 9-3/4 x 6-6/8 inches. This first trade edition was limited to 1000 copies. Out of print. Very scarce. As New. Signed by Author.- $2,750
- $2,750
Roni Horn: Haraldsdóttir, Part Two (Ísland (Iceland): To Place 10), Special Limited Edition Artist’s Proof/AP (with Archival Pigment Print) [SIGNED]
HORN, Roni Special limited edition of 100 copies + 25 Artist's Proof copies (this being AP #14/25), with an original archival pigment print (image size 9-1/2 x 7-1/2 inches; paper size 9-7/8 x 7-7/8 inches), signed in pencil recto by Horn and numbered verso in pencil. The laid-in print and book are contained in a matching cloth-covered slipcase. About the book: First edition, first and only printing. Hardcover. Fine bright blue linen cloth with debossed title in black, no dust jacket as issued. Photographs by Roni Horn. 144 pp., with 100 four-color and tritone plates, beautifully printed on heavy fine matte art paper by Steidl Verlag. 11 x 8-5/8 inches. This first edition was limited to 1000 hardbound copies (100 of which were reserved for this special Limited Edition, with print). Out of print. Scarce. [Cited in Andrew Roth, ed., The Open Book. (Göteborg, Sweden: Hasselblad Center in association with Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, 2004), and in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume II. (London and New York: Phaidon, 2006).]. As New in publisher's original packaging (from the artist's archive). Book, slipcase and print are flawless. Using water as context, photographs of a woman create an intimate but ambiguous portrait where the face becomes the place. This is the tenth volume in the series of the work, To Place (It is related to Haraldsdóttir, which was published in 1996 by Ginny Williams). To Place is an ongoing series of publications. Each volume is a unique dialogue addressing the relationship between identity and place. The books take as their starting point Iceland and the evolving experiences of the artist in this country. From Roni Horn (in a 1995 interview with Claudia Spinelli): Spinelli: "Compared to your installations, looking at and reading books is a very private way of confrontation." Horn: "It's very intimate. A book is really a sensual, if not sexual experience and I use these books to focus people in this very intimate one-on-one relationship. The book can become a kind of mirror. The book has an inside and an outside. (A lot of things don't have that. They have only outsides; images for example.) And then you enter it and it has a fixed sequence. It has a before and an after, there is a narrative implicit in it. So all that is part of the structure that I'm using. I'm working on the sixth volume now which is completely different again. It focuses on one woman, exclusively. It's about the face as place. It's a sequence of very tight head shots. I was photographing Margrét outdoors and in water. The water and the weather became very important as the visual context. Water and weather are dominant phenomena in Iceland. So we would travel and I would photograph her in the water and in the weather. It was a very simple relationship: I didn't tell her to do anything, she would just get into the water and I would photograph her. In the sunlight and with the clouds under the open, forceful sky--the water was all around her, on her, and in her hair, and in the air as well." Horn: "The entrance to all my work is the idea of an encyclopedia of identity. It is best represented by the books, the series called To Place, which is extremely important to me. I have been working on this since 1988. It's really the heart. It is a series of books, each one of which adds to the whole in a way that alters the identity of it retroactively. So the first volume appears to be a book of drawings. The second book was about a completely different subject but in the same format. With the third volume people start to realize something: 'Well, this looks like a series, so there must be some relationship. But I haven't a clue as to what it is.' Then there was the fourth volume, with texts and photographs. The books are this very slow process of accumulation in the period of a life, my life." From the publisher: "In 1996, [Ginny Williams] published Roni Horn's Haraldsdóttir, the tenth book in her "To Place" series about the- $1,500
- $1,500
Roni Horn: Lava, Special Limited Edition (with Gelatin Silver Print) (Ísland (Iceland): To Place 3) [SIGNED]
HORN, Roni Special limited edition of 100 copies (this being #78/100), with an original gelatin silver print (8 x 10 inches), numbered and signed in pencil on verso by Horn. The print is enclosed in 3 special additional folding orange endpapers attached to the rear inside board of the book and presented with a copy of the book in an embossed cloth slipcase, in a numbered edition of 100. About the book: First edition, first and only printing. Hardbound. Black linen cloth with blind-stamped title, no dust jacket as issued. Photographs of lava (reproduced actual size) and text by Roni Horn, with studio photography by Morgan Rockhill, Providence, Rhode Island. Designed by Roni Horn and Anthony McCall Associates, New York. 96 pp., with 45 four-color and black and white plates, beautifully printed on heavy fine matt art paper. 10 1/2 x 8 3/8 inches. The lava used to make the images was collected in Iceland between 1979 and 1991. This is the third volume in the series of the work, To Place. Out of print. Very scarce. To Place is an ongoing series of publications. Each volume is a unique dialogue addressing the relationship between identity and place. The books take as their starting point Iceland and the evolving experiences of the artist in this country. [Cited in Andrew Roth, ed., The Open Book. (Göteborg, Sweden: Hasselblad Center in association with Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, 2004), and in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume II. (London and New York: Phaidon, 2006).]. As New in publisher's original packaging (from the artist's archive). Book, slipcase and print are flawless. From Roni Horn (in a 1995 interview with Claudia Spinelli): "The entrance to all my work is the idea of an encyclopedia of identity. It is best represented by the books, the series called To Place, which is extremely important to me. I have been working on this since 1988. It's really the heart. It is a series of books, each one of which adds to the whole in a way that alters the identity of it retroactively. So the first volume appears to be a book of drawings. The second book was about a completely different subject but in the same format. With the third volume people start to realize something: 'Well, this looks like a series, so there must be some relationship. But I haven't a clue as to what it is.' Then there was the fourth volume, with texts and photographs. The books are this very slow process of accumulation in the period of a life, my life." Signed by Author.- $4,950
- $4,950
Bill Burke: Mine Fields, Limited Edition (Lacking Print) [SIGNED]
BURKE, Bill First edition, first printing. Special limited edition of 75 copies, signed by Burke, in a black linen slipcase (with blind-stamped land mine shapes and red printed label tipped in), lacking the original 10 x 8 inch gelatin silver print. Signed in ink opposite the title page by Burke (under his self-portrait). Hardcover. Photographically illustrated laminated paper-covered boards, no dust jacket as issued. 118 pp., with 95 duotone and numerous color reproductions, including two 2-page gatefolds (photographs, video stills, journal entries, film stills and other illustrations, from Burke's trips to Cambodia since 1982). 11-1/4 x 8-7/8 inches. Out of print. As New. Burke designed the book entirely in the offset printing medium, without computer resources. Also included with the book is a booklet 16-page journal/book insert (8 1/8 x 5 3/8 inches) with illustrations of samples from Burke's personal journals, and including 11 black and white reproductions of Polaroid prints. From the publisher: "Mine Fields (a sequel to Bill Burke's justly famous I Want to Take Picture), is Burke's scrapbook of his life and his pursuit of the history and daily life of Cambodia. Part adventure story, part personal confession, part travelogue, and always fascinating, Burke's negotiation of the mine fields of divorce and war is a compelling collage of photographs, found objects, stories, and the contrast between glorious ancient temples and the horrors of war and genocide." About Bill Burke: Since the early 1980s, Bill Burke has photographed extensively in Southeast Asia, focusing primarily in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. Burke's haunting and layered examination of the landscape and people is informed by the collective political and social conscience galvanized by the United States' lengthy occupation and annihilation of these regions before, during, and after the Vietnam War. His lifelong desire to connect personally and viscerally to the people he meets sets his work in an altogether separate category from most artists who photograph outside their circumscribed "experience." Neither overtly political nor proscriptive, Burke's work instead recognizes the personal is indeed political. Gone are the cultural stereotypes we have long seen in images of Southeast Asia. Instead we are able to experience the intensity of the individual through Bill Burke's idiosyncratic and careful observation. He obliterates the notion that the "documentary photograph" is a vehicle for "truth" and compellingly shows the viewer that it is always a form of personal or political propaganda. 'I Want to Take Picture' (originally published by Nexus Press in 1987) is a combination artist book and 'travelogue.' It is considered by many to be one of the very best, disturbing and important books in the history of photography. From Bill Burke (1987): "Each day, I was thinking about practicality, is my pass in order, how do I get there, who do I meet that will get me through. The philosophical thoughts came later. When I realized that I had access to the camps and could see the Khmer Rouge, it was like being able to see the Devil. It seamed to be an incredible opportunity." From an interview with Bill Burke by Willis Hartshorn (New York City, June 1987): "Hartshorn: 'Do you find it problematic that in a politically savage environment your pictures are often ambiguous as to who's good and who's bad?' Burke: 'I have no problem with ambiguity. Again, all the information is filtered, everything I know about it is secondhand. I know what the refugees at the border say and what books say. I heard how bad the Khmer Rouge were, and then as I read more I found out the other people had been bad too. The people who were victims at one time were victimizing others at another time. There are two sides, the information is slanted, and it's good that people understand that. . . I would like things to be spelled out clearly so I wouldn't have to think about it. But that's not the way it is. I can't say- $204
- $204
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On Edge: Photographs by Karin Apollonia Müller [SIGNED]
MÜLLER, Karin Apollonia First edition, first printing. Signed in black ink on the half-title page by Müller. Hardcover. Fine gray cloth-covered boards with tipped-in four-color plate on cover and printed vellum dust jacket. Photographs by Karin Apollonia Müller. Unpaginated (48 pp.), with 28 four-color plates beautifully printed on fine matt art paper. 12-1/4 x 14-7/8 inches. This first edition was limited to 500 copies. New (opened only for signature). From the publisher: "On Edge is Karin Apollonia Müller's second monograph, and the first to be published by Nazraeli Press. While Angels in Fall (2001) dealt with the disconnect between human beings and their environment, On Edge shows the earth 'crumbling away,' and our futile efforts to control or hide the subtle invasion of nature into cultivated spaces. Working in color with a muted palette and low contrast, Müller creates powerful images which evoke a sense of displacement in keeping with the artist's 'visitor status' as a foreigner in Los Angeles. Born in Heidelberg in 1963, Müller grew up as the daughter of a sea captain. She studied photography and film at the University of Essen before moving to the western United States in 1995. Karin Apollonia Müller's work has been widely exhibited in the United States and Europe, and is included in such collections as The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum, New York; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art." Signed by Author.- $110
- $110
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Melanie Pullen: High Fashion Crime Scenes [SIGNED]
PULLEN, Melanie, CRISELL, Luke, ENRIGHT, Robert, WESTERBECK, Colin First edition, first printing. Signed, dated and noted ("L.A. 2007") in black in on the title page by Pullen. Hardcover. Photographically illustrated paper-covered boards with title printed on cover and spine, with matching dust jacket. Photographs and text by Melanie Pullen. Foreword by Luke Crisell. Essays by Robert Enright and Colin Westerbeck. Includes thumbnail reproductions and titles of the plates. 128 pp., with 57 varnished four-color plates beautifully printed on fine matt art paper. 14 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches. This first was edition limited to 3000 hardbound copies. As New in As New dust jacket (publisher's original shrink-wrap laid-in, opened only for signature). From the publisher: "Melanie Pullen's long-awaited first monograph, High Fashion Crime Scenes, presents her breathtakingly beautiful works based on vintage crime scene images, first-hand accounts, and documents Pullen mined from the files of the L.A.P.D. In 2002, drawn to the rich details and compelling stories preserved in the criminal records, Melanie Pullen began restaging the events, outfitting the 'victims' (her selected models) in current haute couture, and photographing them in her staged settings. To create this work, Pullen at times enlisted the help of up to sixty people per shoot: set builders, makeup artists, models, stylists and stunt crews, among others. Her models have included the actresses Rachel Miner and Juliette Lewis. The collection of more than one hundred images has received considerable critical acclaim in the national and international press. Over the past three years, the twenty-nine year old artist has occasionally worked as a commercial fashion photographer. She has shot layouts for the likes of Flaunt and Rolling Stone." Signed by Author.- $325
- $325
A New Mappe of the Romane Empire newly described by Iohn Speede.
SPEED, John Speed's map of the Roman Empire Double-page engraved map with hand-colour. A map showing the historical extent of the Roman Empire from the 1676 edition of the first atlas compiled and published by an Englishman, Speed's 'Prospect'. The decorative border along each side depicts men in regional costume from former imperial countries (for example, 'A Spainyard'), with 'His Wyfe' illustrated in the panel below. Along the top of the map is a series of city views. Among these is Venice, despite the fact that it was not founded until 421 C.E. and, as such, post-dates the heyday of Rome. A cartouche at the lower edge provides a potted history of the foundation and expansion of the Roman Empire. In the top left-hand corner is a medallion portrait of Roma, the personification of Rome, and in the top right-hand corner is Romulus, legendary founder of the city. Accompanying text in English, 'The Description of the Roman Empire', is printed on the reverse. John Speed (1552-1629) was the outstanding cartographer of his age. By trade a merchant tailor, but by proclivity a historian, it was the patronage of Sir Fulke Greville, poet and statesman, that allowed him to pursue this interest in earnest. His 'Theatre of Great Britain', first published in 1611 or 1612, was the first large-scale printed atlas of the British Isles. The 'Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World', from which the present work is drawn, appeared in 1627, bound with the 'Theatre', and is the first world atlas compiled by an Englishman to be published in England. Engraved in Amsterdam, many of the maps are anglicized versions of works by Dutch makers in distinctive carte-à-figure style, featuring borders with figures in local costume and city views. This map is from the 1676 edition of the 'Prospect', published by Thomas Bassett and Richard Chiswell. While not as rare as the earlier publications, this edition is perhaps the most important, given that it is the first to include the nine new maps: among them, Virginia and Maryland, Barbados, and Russia. It is also the last time that the 'Prospect' was printed as an atlas. Shirley [Atlases], T.SPE-2f.- $1,953
- $1,953
Essai sur l amour tiré des Réflexions morale de Mr De la Rochefoucault.
[MANUSCRIT]. [LA ROCHEFOUCAULD]. Grand in-8 de 182 pp. Veau brun marbré, triple filet doré en encadrement des plats avec fleurons en écoinçons, dos à nerfs, roulette dorée sur les coupes, tranches rouges (rel. de l époque). Charmant manuscrit littéraire décoré du 18e siècle aux encres de trois couleurs (rouge, noire et sépia), d une seule et même main, d une écriture parfaitement lisible, sur cent quatre-vingt-deux pages numérotées. Il est orné d un magnifique titre décoré au lavis d encre rouge, d un beau bandeau en en-tête et d un cul-de-lampe pour chaque chapitre ainsi qu un bandeau pour la table et de petits culs-de-lampe pour chaque article de chapitres. Dans une préface circonstanciée, l auteur explique son choix de s inspirer des Maximes de François de La Rochefoucauld. S il trouve dans cet ouvrage une matière extraordinaire à disserter sur d innombrables sujets moraux, le « désordre » des maximes n est pas à son goût et les commentaires comme ceux de l abbé de la Roche qui affirme que l alternance des sujets empêche l esprit du lecteur de s émousser ne le convainquent pas le moins du monde. Cet esprit des lumières aime les « avantages solides de l ordre », et le plan de son essai en six chapitres nous le prouve : « Ce que c est que l amour : de la sympathie, de l envie de régner, de l envie de prospérer ; De l avantage et de la véritable destination de l amour : quelle espèce de bonheur l amour peut nous procurer, quelles sont les bornes de ce bonheur ; Des plaisir et des avantages de l amour : la sympathie rend plus heureux par la passion que l on a que par celle que l on donne ; l amant guidé par l amour propre est plus heureux par la passion qu il a que par celle qu il donne ; De la constance en amour ; Des dangers de l amour ; Des femmes ; De la jalousie. » Manuscrit très intéressant et très décoratif de cet essai semblant inédit. Reliure restaurée.- $2,754
- $2,754
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 – Present
Zinn, Howard Reprint. Signed by Howard Zinn on the title page. Bound in publisher's original yellow paper-covered boards over black spine cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light wear at corners and spine ends. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light toning, light rubbing and crimping at the edges. The late radical historian's best-known work, which has reportedly sold over two million copies.- $450
- $450
Maskerade.
PRATCHETT, Terry. London: Victor Gollancz, 1995. 8vo. Publisher's burgandy cloth, spine lettered in gilt; in the original pictorial dust wrapper (not price-clipped); pp. [vi], 7-285; a touch faded along the spine, a very good copy. First edition, signed by the author. The fifth book in the Witches Series, and the eighteenth book in Discworld. This story follows a set of mysterious murders that happen behind the scenes of Ankh-Morpork's Opera House.- $232
- $232
Jingo
PRATCHETT, Terry London, Victor Gollancz, 1997. 8vo. Original cloth, tiitled gilt to spine, with illustrated letterbox dust wrapper; pp.285; a very good copy, signed to title. First edition, signed by the author. The 21st novel in the Discworld series and the 4th City Watch novel. When a lost city rises from the ocean, Discworld goes to war, which is of course very illegal and can't help but get the city watch involved.- $154
- $154
An Unexpected Gift.
VAN SANDWYK, Charles (author and illustrator). [North Vancouver]; Charles Van Sandwyk Fine Arts. 2013. 8vo. Original cherry-red card jacket exquisitely embellished in green and red foil with border and lettering panel in burnished gilt over gilt card with an onlaid pictorial card plate to upper cover depicting a reindeer and a penguin; pp. [44], including beautiful matt gilt endpapers with a repeating design of holly sprigs in colours; with text pages printed in green on cream laid paper, with decorations in red; with 7 fine full colour plates (including 1 double-page spread), some printed on untrimmed handmade paper, together with other plates and vignettes in sepia and red; a fine copy. First edition, signed in ink by the artist below the illustration of the penguin and the polar bear with the mistletoe. One of Charles van Sandwyk's sought-after Christmas books. A gentle, and traditional, tale of Bartholomew the Green, cousin of Father Christmas, who leaves Antarctica on a mission to restore an old-fashioned Christmas to a wayward and needy world.- $201
- $201
The History of Sandford and Merton.
DAY, Thomas. London: Walker and Evans et al., 1815. 12mo. Full calf, spine lettered in gilt on morocco labels; boards filleted in gilt and ornamented in blind; gilt dentelles; marbled edges; pp. xii, 420; with two engraved frontispieces; minimal bumping to corners and rubbing to extremities; contemporary ownership inscription in ink to front fly-leaf; slight spotting to text, a very good copy. First published in 1783, this was a popular educational work for children. Following the lives of two young boys, Tommy Merton and Harry Sandford. As the pair work through different challenges and experiences, Day communicates simple yet important moral lessons and virtues in topics such as friendship, honesty, and hard work.- $154
- $154
Fringilla: Some Tales in Verse
BLACKMORE, Richard Doddridge London: Wlkin Mathews, 1895. 4to., sage green cloth elaborately blocked and lettered in dark green to both boards and spine, with a central circular motif featuring a bird to the lower cover; pp. [ix], 2-128, 20 [ads.]; with full decorative title; proliferated throughout with borders, initials and full-page illustrations by Louis Fairfax Muckley, and three by James W. R. Linton; all behind mounted tissue-guards; edges, endpapers and tissue guards a little browned; evidence of a former bookplate being removed from the front paste-down; some light spotting to prelims; still a lovely example, a little pushed to corners and head/foot of spine. First edition, published simultaeously with the American edition, also printed in 1895, which had parallel illustrations by Will Bradley. "Can'st thou suppose it right or just, When thine own creature so misled us, In virtue of our simple trust, To torture us like this, and tread us Back into dust? Often referred to as the "Last Victorian", R. D. Blackmore is best known for his magnum opus Lorna Doone, and much of his other work has faded into obscurity. Despite this fact, however, he achieved literary merit and acclaim in his time for his vivid descriptions and personification of the countryside, sharing with Thomas Hardy a Western England background and a strong sense of regional setting in his works. One reviewer writes, of his work: "He may be said to have done for Devon what Sir Walter Scott did for the Highlands and Hardy for Wessex." Fringilla, as a series of tales told in verse, focuses on Blackmore's love of nature, but also includes poems which explore themes of Egypt, Good and Evil, Religion, Myths and Legends.- $704
- $704
Nocturnes.
ISHIGURO, Kazuo. London: Faber and Faber, 2009. 8vo. Original midnight blue boards; dark green endpapers; in the original unclipped dust jacket (£14.99) with a photograph of the author to the lower flap; pp. [x], 3-221, [xi]; fine. First edition, signed by Ishiguro on title-page. A cycle of five short stories. "From the piazzas of Italy to the Malvern Hills, a London flat to the 'hush-hush floor' of an exclusive Hollywood hotel⦠young dreamers to cafà musicians to faded stars, all of them at some moment of reckoning."- $196
- $196
4′ x 5″ Original Photograph of Old Fort Apache (circa 1890)
A nice sepia photograph of Old Fort Apache Adjutant's Office with officers standing on porch. The adjutant's office, built of adobe in 1875 was maintained even after Geronimo's surrender. They still were tryiing to capture the Apache Kid and Massai as well as move squatters from the Apache reservation.- $155
- $155
The Antiquities, Natural History, Ruins, and Other Curiosities of Egypt, Nubia and Thebes;exemplified in Near Two Hundred Drawings Taken on the Spot
Norden, Martin F. Folio. When Frederick Ludwig Norden went to Egypt in 1737 on an exploratory mission, he was the first European to penetrate as far as Derr in Nubia and to publish descriptions of the Nubian temples. He died in 1757 but fortunately his work was completed with engravings of Mark Teuscher. This work was projected to have up to 200 engravings but 164 were all ever issued which includes a portrait of the author. This very rare posthumous publication of The Antiquities, with its wonderfully detailed and realistic plates has survived in beautiful condition (there is a scarce edition issued in 1792), the Danish master engraver Carl Marcus Tuscher worked on his friend Norden's work in London. The engravings when finally published captured the European imagination about Egypt in a way that was to dominate the dramatic research for the next several centuries. The work remains to this day a valued primary source on the appearance of Egyptian monuments before the widespread excavations and tourism of the 19th and 20th centuries - including the first ever depiction of The Great Sphinx missing its nose. All 164 engravings are present as in all recorded copies. (NYPL has all the images online). Bound in ¾ calf over marbled paper covered boards, earlier rebacking retaining the original endsheets and morocco spine label laid down, pencil notes on rear endpaper from previous owner's collation. Some ocassional light scattered foxing to few plates, margins toned. Very rare.- $11,845
- $11,845
The Oracle of Southern California Vol. 1 No. 6
Underground Newspaper - Russell, Stan, Editor (Timothy Leary, Fred Adams, Charles Miller et al) Tabloid newspaper format. Unpaginated. Issue number six of this underground newspaper offshoot of The San Francisco Oracle which was edited by Allen Cohen. Unfolded format and uncommon thus. Not folded and in handsome very good condition.- $113
- $113
The English Moths and Butterflies: Together with the Plants, Flowers, and Fruits whereon they Feed, and are usually Found
Wilkes, Benjamin A print from the first edition of this work, with hand colored plates drawn by two of the most celebrated botanical artists of the 18th century, Georg Ehret and Jacob van Huysum. The engravings show the complete life cycles and habitats of each species. Two orange & black moths hovering above an erica or broom plant. Sml. "112" penciled in lower right corner. 12 3/8 x 9 7/8". Engravings in original hand color, plate mark visible, printed on laid paper. Outside the plate mark in the margins, some light browning at the bottom edge and from sticky tape transference from the verso. Overall, very good, bright condition. "Benjamin Wikes was one of the most significant of the group of 18th century 'aurelians' which established British entomology in the direction it was to follow for well over a century." (Wilkinson, Benjamin Wilkes, the British Aurelian p.4). The continued title: All Drawn and Coloured in such a Manner, as to represent their several beautiful Appearances, Being copied from the Subjects themselves, and Painted on the best Atlas Paper.- $165
- $165
Retreat
Blunden, Edmund First edition. No. 53 of 112 copies, signed by the author. Title page printed in red and black. 70 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Kirkpatrick A25b Brown buckram. Fine, in fine dust jacket Title page printed in red and black. 70 pp. 1 vols. 8vo First edition. No. 53 of 112 copies, signed by the author.- $200
- $200
The Sportsman’s Companion or An Essay on Shooting . by a Gentleman
(Derrydale Press) Fourth edition and first Derrydale. One of 200 copies. ix, 52, [2, contents] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Fine Copy. An uncommon Derrydale reprint of the earliest sporting book published in America. Rarely seen in the slipcase and in such outstanding condition. Siegel 44; Frazier S-19-a Original blue paper over boards, with paper spine label and label on upper cover. Fine in original blue board slipcase ix, 52, [2, contents] pp. 1 vols. 8vo Fourth edition and first Derrydale. One of 200 copies.- $500
- $500
Retreat
Blunden, Edmund First edition. No. 53 of 112 copies, signed by the author. Title page printed in red and black. 70 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Kirkpatrick A25b Brown buckram. Fine, in fine dust jacket Title page printed in red and black. 70 pp. 1 vols. 8vo First edition. No. 53 of 112 copies, signed by the author.- $200
- $200
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant
Grant, Ulysses S. First edition. Illustrated. 584, 647, [1]pp. 2 vols. 8vo. IN PUBLISHER'S DELUXE FULL TURKEY MOROCCO. The president and Civil War general's remarkable memoir, written in the final years of his life as he was suffering from terminal throat cancer. Suffering both physically and financially, as the result of financial misfortune, Grant began writing his autobiography in the fall of 1884 and finished in July of 1885, five days before his death. Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) encouraged Grant and shepherded the book to publication through the Webster connection. Eagerly anticipated by a public that had been following Grant's illness in the press, the book was an immediate success upon its release, and has long been considered one of if not the best memoirs written by an American president. Since its publication, it has received acclaim from literary figures including Twain and Gertrude Stein, and from numerous modern American historians and political commentators from Eric Foner to Ta-Nehisi Coates. The publisher's full morocco binding is by far the rarest form of the work and the most expensive format when published. Publisher's deluxe full black Turkey morocco, with blind stamped corner fillets and portrait medallions of Grant on front and rear covers; title stamped in gilt on spine, with additional gilt stamping to edges, with very minor bumping; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers Illustrated. 584, 647, [1]pp. 2 vols. 8vo- $4,750
- $4,750
In Summer. The Rotunda of the Bishop of Derry . with decorations by Edward Carrick
Blunden, Edmund First edition, one of 290 numbered copies, signed by the author. [8] pp. First leaf is a blank. 1 vols. 8vo. Kirkpatrick A42a [8] pp. First leaf is a blank. 1 vols. 8vo First edition, one of 290 numbered copies, signed by the author.- $250
- $250
Great Short Stories of the War. England, France, Germany, America. With an introduction by .
Blunden, Edmund, editor First edition, no. 30 of 250 copies printed on India paper, signed and numbered by the editor. 983 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Kirkpatrick B40b Black buckram spine, titled in gilt, marbled boards. Near fine, bright copy (minor rubbing) without slipcase First edition, no. 30 of 250 copies printed on India paper, signed and numbered by the editor.- $350
- $350
Cannery Row
Steinbeck, John First Edition, First Printing. A spectacular copy. This ORIGINAL untouched, unrestored dustjacket is seldom seen in this amazing shape. The ORIGINAL First Issue dustjacket is rich in color with NO chips or tears. The book is in fabulous shape with the top stain blue to top pages from the publisher vibrant in color with NO fading. The binding is tight and the boards are crisp. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A superb copy from the Steinbeck family library.- $4,000
- $4,000
France. Riviera and South-Eastern France and Corsica.
BAEDEKER, John. First edition, xxxvi, 480 pp.with 82 maps and plans,; publisher's red cloth gilt; a very good copy. First and only edition of this title in English. This volume covers a wide area including the Italian Riviera as well as the French. Issued c.1931.- $157
- $157
Pocket Guide to the Soviet Union.
[INTOURIST] First edition. Small 8vo, (15 x 10 cm), 706pp, 2 (of 4) folding coloured maps, (lacks maps of Moscow and Leningrad usually inserted loose in a booklet at rear), adverts at rear, slight spotting throughout, previious owner's pencilling inside ; publisher's original black cloth, slightly marked and worn; a very good firm copy. A good example of this interesting Communist guide. Intourist was the Soviet agency established in 1929 to promote the USSR's image overseas. Stalin's Russia wasn't a closed country by any means, although many western visitors arrived as part of delegations sent by trade unions and other sympathetic groups. This guide nearly always lacks the two maps of Moscow and Leningrad inserted loose as a booklet with printed wrappers at rear. The two other maps bound in the book are of the European USSR and the Asiatic USSR.- $182
- $182
Ponderazioni sulla contrattazione marittima ricavate dalla legge civile e canonica, dal consolato del Mare e dagli usi marittimi. profittevole non solo a praticanti del Foro ma ancora ad ogni sorta di mercadanti e marinari.
TARGA Carlo In-8 (205x130 mm.), pp. (8), 259. Freg. xilogr. al front. Legat. in piena perg. rigida coeva con titolo calligrafato al dorso, tagli spruzzati di rosso. Bell'esemplare. Ristampa (ed. orig. per lo Scionico, in Genova, nel 1672) dell'opera che rese la più grande notorietà europea al Targa. Il giureconsulto genovese ebbe il grande merito di ordinare una materia complessa e all'epoca disorganica come quella evocata nel titolo, fissando i principi del diritto relativi alla fabbrica dei vascelli, alla pesca, ai contratti di comodato di navi, all'accomandita e all'assicurazione, alle polizze, alle lettere di credito e di cambio, ai sinistri e ai naufraghi, agli attacchi pirateschi e agli ammutinamenti. Bibliogr.: Haym, p. 169 (per ediz. orig.). Kress It., 305. Choix, II-518. Bibl. Mansutti, 1582.- $642
- $642
Basilika: The Workes of Charles the Martyr with a Collection of Declarations Treaties and other Papers
Charles I [Wenceslaus Hollar] An attractive first edition which boasts all three double page engravings but lacks the preliminary portrait of Charles I and the engraved general title page. Folio (35 x 24.5m) bound in tree calf, red morocco spine label; the binding a little scuffed and rubbed but perfectly sound and serviceable and pleasing to the eye. Marbled endpapers with the armorial book plate of 'James Greenway' to the front pastedown. Two preliminary blanks precede the printed text which lacks the engraved title page and the portrait of Charles I (A1-2), beginning at A3 with the red-ruled letterpress title page. Otherwise the text collates complete with the three double page plates present - the Carolus plate; Lotha and the Cedar engraving. Noted during collation: small hole below page number to k2; a little staining to the lower outer corner of the text block which becomes slightly more pronounced in the final gatherings. The book comprises two volumes in one as issued: pp [16]120 [2] pp123-460 [8] pp 734 [6] without the inserted leaf of Latin verses after p.458 which Madan notes as not always present. This is an important work which marks the change of fortunes of the Stuart dynasty following Charles II's restoration to the throne and the rehabilitation of his father. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item- $851
- $851
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Pompeii [A Collection of Albumen Photographs]
Giorgio Sommer A tourist souvenir of Pompeii from the 1870s containing 70 albumen photographs of Pompeii, its ruins, murals and some of the sculptures that ended up in Naples' museum together with a photographic frontispiece. Sommer (1833-1914) was one of Europe's most prolific and important photographers who had at least three studios in Naples, near to Pompeii itself. Small album (23x18.5cm) bound in blind-stamped cloth, rubbed to edges and corners; paper endpapers with browning and dust spotting. The indivdual images (14x10.5cm) are mounted on card leaves, usually with a printed number and pencilled title in Italian. A few figures appear along the 'Strada delle Tombe'. Images include general views, villas, theatres, human figures and the famously contorted dog as well as Cave Canem. An impressive collection which focusses on Pompeian murals in the final section plus a few images of Herculaneum. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item- $458
- $458
FRIDA KAHLO & DIEGO RIVERA IN DETROIT Evelyn Cohen’s Notebook with Drawings by Kahlo and Rivera
Frida Kahlo - Carmen Rivera; Diego Rivera An extraordinary memento of the creative presence of the artistic super-couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera - 'equals and accomplices' as they were described - in the mid-western city of Detroit, early in 1933. With these drawings into a young woman's autograph album, made a few days before their departure for New York, Kahlo and Rivera marked the close of a period of great artistic achievement for them both. Three days before these drawings were created Rivera finished his industrial frescoes and Kahlo ended her anguished sequence of Detroit canvases. In her drawing and inscription Kahlo has overtly recognised this transitional moment. Her miniature figure of a holds out flowers ('I paint flowers so they will not die' - Kahlo) and in her inscription she looks forward to moving to New York. Kahlo emphasises her Mexican identity by calling herself the 'Princess of Tenoxtitlan' (sic) and signing herself 'Carmen Rivera' as she did on her Detroit paintings. To the album Rivera contributes two remarkable drawings: a mask-wearing man who resembles closely his masked automotive engineers on the north wall of what is now Rivera Court at the Detroit Art Institute. In his second figure Rivera depicts a serene, upwards-gazing African-American man viewed in profile with his work mask pushed nto his forehead. Together Kahlo and Rivera spent much of 1932 and early 1933 in Detroit where Rivera had been commissioned to create a series of frescoes for the Detroit Art Institute which would draw upon the city's industrial heritage. It is generally acknowledged that while in the city both artists hit 'a career peak' as Rivera completed his DIA mural and Kahlo worked intensely on a series of portraits dealing with her personal struggles. Rivera remembered how: 'Frieda began work on a series of masterpieces which had no precedent in the history of art. Never before had a woman put such agonized poetry on canvas as Frida did at this time in Detroit.' Whilst they lived in the city the couple were feted and entertained by Detroit's elite. Kahlo in particular responded provocatively to her American hosts: 'the expansive Rivera speaking Spanish and French and demanding all the attention, with the petite and caustic Kahlo dressed in colorful Mexican costumes. At Henry Ford's sister's home, Frida talked on about the wonders of communism. At a dinner at Henry Ford's she asked the anti-semitic industrialist if he was Jewish.' One of the other elite Detroit households who entertained Kahlo and Rivera was the Cohen family, parents of Evelyn Cohen who, on the evening of March 13, 1933, persuaded Kahlo and Rivera to inscribe her little album. This album captures a pivotal moment in art history. PROVENANCE: Evelyn Cohen and by descent. EVELYN COHEN'S ALBUM: Padded black roan (15x11.5cm), maker's stamp of 'Horn Est 1846, [ff] 48, alternating pink, yellow, blue leaves, c 60 entries - the entries do not follow chronological order but range over the years from 1922-1934 including, school teachers, friends, musicians, written in English and sometimes in Hebrew. Kahlo's miniature of a woman with flowers is balanced by her thoughtful inscription written in faulty English: 'March 16. 1933 To Eveline, three days before going to New York, with the love of from [sic] the Princess of Tenoxtitlan Carmen Rivera'. Below this Kahlo has placed her tiny figure of a woman holding a bunch of flowers away from her body and a huge swirling pen line that connects the woman with her signature and inscription above. Using blue ink Rivera has made two drawings: the first depicts a man wearing a gas mask and goggles, very similar to the masked figure he muralled on the automotive north wall of what is now Rivera Court at the Detroit Art Institute and wrote below: 'D.R. To beautiful Eveline'. On the adjacent leaf Rivera has sketched an African-American man in profile, apparently wearing goggles which have been pushed up onto his forehead and inscribed 'Diego Rivera Detroit March 16 1933'.- $15,060
- $15,060
NEO-ROMANTIC LANDSCAPES, ENGLISH CHURCHES & ARCHITECTURE IN A WARTIME SKETCHBOOK
John Piper A remarkably rich wartime sketch-book in which John Piper recorded his 1943 summer tour of Devon and Cornwall in the company of Geoffrey Grigson, sketched Welsh landscapes as well as the Victorian villas and churches of the English Midlands while he stayed at Renishaw Hall, home of his friends Edith and Osbert Sitwell. Piper's sketches include churches in Exeter and West Ogwell in Devon, Lackington (later worked-up into an illustration to Betjeman's Guide to English Parish Churches) and Hemington in Leicestershire. From Cornwall Piper has sketched a ruin that would evolve into his 1943 'farmyard chapel' aquatint at Botallack and there are around a dozen sketches and watercolours of Piper's beloved Victorian villas, soon to be the subject of his collaboration with J M Richards in Castles on the Ground. Alongside the sketching, note-taking and train times, Piper also includes reading notes relating to Ruskin's Stones of Venice. Almost all of Piper's archive went to the Tate Gallery making this a rarity on the open market. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION Green cloth-effect paper over boards (23.5x15.5cm), spattered with paint, with a now-loose elastic closure band and a pencil sleeve. The sketchbook has the label of the London stationer, C Robertson and Co 'Sketch Book Hand Made Water Colour Paper', priced in pencil '5/8' with a pencilled note in Piper's hand opposite relating to his friend the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner. The sketch book's pages are of thick wove paper, designed to take water-colour, with a line of perforations 1cm from the gutter, similar to Piper's other notebooks that Piper used for sketching in the field (see Plates 76/77, Piper's Places, 1983). The manuscript comprises 21 leaves, one inserted drawing and one inserted postcard, with a similar number of stubs where pages have been removed - two of which have residue of black wash, similar to extant watercolour landscape sketches that survive in the sketchbook. Very much work in progress, the sketchbook records several facets of Piper's practice in 3 pages of pencil drawings; 7 pages of pen and watercolour wash, 12 pages of ink drawings and 5 pages of notes - 28 pages in total, with 14 blanks - mostly the versos of the more substantial watercolours. PROVENANCE: given by John Piper to Orde Levinson, friend and author of The Prints of John Piper: A Catalogue Raisonne, 1923-1991. NARRATIVE: WEST COUNTRY The first part of the sketch-book records Piper's July 1943 trip to the west country and into Cornwall that he took with Geoffrey Grigson. The sketchbook starts in Devon 'between Torbryan and Denbury' where Piper sketched, annotated and watercoloured a late Georgian house; continuing a mile up the road to the church at West Ogwell which is the subject of an ink sketch with extensive architectural annotation: 'dark box pews pitch pine (mostly removed) Jac.[obean] pulpit.' In Exeter Piper visited 6 of the city churches, particularly enjoying 'Holy Trinity. v fine wedding-cake W. front with portico & elaborate cupola (ogee) the whole painted pale grey.' and opposite these descriptions he made a carefully worked ink sketch of a blank arcade of niches, each with its urn and surmounted by a stone coat of arms. Below his church notes (recto), Piper has jotted down train (or perhaps bus) times from Exeter to Polperro and Looe in Cornwall. Once in Polperro Piper sketched a house on 'Meadow Terrace', adding additional annotation in orange crayon. The first of the sketchbook's watercolours follows this sketch, depicting a shower of rain over a coastal outcrop - perhaps from the south Cornish coastline near Polperro. Piper and Grigson's journey west reached its furthest point with two ink sketches of Hall Place, Botallack. The first of these is an exterior view which is a preparatory sketch for his aquatint completed in the same year (Hall Place, Botallack, Levinson 29), a sketchy rendering with three annotations and on the following leaf an internal view of the same buildi- $19,643
- $19,643
‘THE BOROUGH MONGER SYSTEM IS DEROGATORY AND CORRUPT’ Manuscript Polemic in Favour of Parliamentary Reform sent to a Whig Peer
Luke Batten; Thomas Brand, Lord Dacre. A singular early nineteenth century letterbook that centres on a polemical essay sent to Thomas Brand, 20th Baron Dacre, on the state of the British nation and the need for multiple reforms, notably parliamentary reform which would be achieved in the Great Reform Act only two years later. To the rear of the volume Dacre's thoughtful reponse to his former Hertfordshire neighbour and perhaps constituent has been tipped in. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION Quarto format, full fawn limp leather, ruled and roll-tooled in blind, remnants of hand-written white paper title label pasted to front cover; soiled and rubbed, losses to spine, corners worn and rounded. Bands of browning, from glue, to endpapers which are peeling at head and tail of front hinge, small losses, but wrappers remain firmly attached. 46 leaves 92 pages blank paper; numbering begins on first page, running f. 1, pp. 1-4, ff. 5-41; text continuous, except three blank pages between entries, script ends on [p. 80], followed by 7 blank leaves. The author has compiled an index of letters and subjects to the verso of the front endpaper. Script, in brown ink, in an attractive, open and (mostly) legible hand; toned with some foxing, ink smudges and crossings-out. Overall, clean and a 3 page letter, addressed 'Chesterfield/ Tuesday' and signed "Dacre" tipped in to rear: closed tears to both leaves, with repairs, small losses to second leaf, which has been pasted to another page to reinforce it, text remains legible. TEXT: Batten writes in a lively and well informed style. He has copied in full his letter-essay to Dacre (pp. 44; dated 01.02.1830, from St Albans) which makes up most of the book and argues for church reforms, changes to beer taxes, the civil list, game laws, enclosure bills and licensing. But it is parliamentary reform that rouses him to fury: 'The Borough Monger System is Derogatory and Corrupt. While Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Birmingham and other large Towns. ought to return members. are denied the privilege.' Dacre's response to this letter is polite and respectful, acknowledging 'your observations upon the present state of the country.' There are also two shorter letters to Dacre and Lord Althorp (1830), in similar vein, discussing beer and leather taxes. The penultimate section, written in lighter ink and another hand, lists the reforms that have been implemented with corresponding folio numbers to relevant sections in Batten's letters; It closes with: 'Remarks on the Law of Militia, Legacy, and Probate Duty's' (c. 1847). A letterbook with resonance for the present day in capturing a testing time for Britain, when 'inhabitants of this once envied and almost adored island are looking with watchful, and penetrating eye, on the conduct of their rulers.' CONTEXT The historical record is scant for Batten, though he served as a Poor Law overseer in St Albans in 1838. Thomas Brand, 20th Baron Dacre (17741851) was a British peer and Whig politician. Before succeeding to the barony of Dacre in 1819, Brand held the seats of Helston and Hertfordshire. He lived at The Hoo, Hertfordshire. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item- $393
- $393
No6/10 COPIES – HORS COMMERCE Bladud of Bath
Iain Sinclair No 6 of 10, 'hors commerce' - not intended for sale - of these Extracts from 'Suicide Bridge', originally published in 1976 by Zero's Fool Press, reprinted here on the occasion of the exhibition 'Histories & Hauntings: Correspondences from the Whitechapel Gallery (1974) to Swedenborg House. Through image and action.' (13 October to 21 December 2023). Bifolium single sheet, folded once into 4pp., 8vo. This is one of 10 hors commerce copies numbered, signed, and hand-coloured by Sinclair with a signed postcard and contained within an envelope also numbered and labelled in Sinclair's hand. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item- $144
- $144
SHIPBOARD WORLD WAR II JOURNAL REPORTING A NAVAL BATTLE IN THE SOUTH ATLANTIC ‘Carnarvon Times’
Captain Hardy and Crew Two issues of an unrecorded shipboard magazine which was printed in the south Atlantic onboard HMS Carnarvon Castle, an ocean liner which was commissioned as an armed merchant cruiser in 1939. The second of the issues, Vol 3 No 13, December 14th, 1940, was produced in the aftermath of HMS Carnarvon's five hour running battle with the German cruiser Thor in which she sustained 27 hits, 6 dead and, 7 with serious wounds (this magazine records a different total from Wikipedia) and another 30 'slightly wounded'. The imprint begins with a congratulatory message from Captain Hardy followed up by the First Sea Lord, Admiral Pound: 'In view of superior armament of enemy vessel, the damage which you inflicted represents a most creditable performance.' Shortly afterwards the Carnarvon put into Montevideo for repairs with steel plate reportedly salvaged from the German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee. First issue, Vol 2, No 11, printed on rectos of 6 sheets of foolscap of different colours, stapled and numbered in pencil '245'. Contents a mixture of shipboard news and international bulletins together with comic vignettes and jokes aplenty. Volume 3, No 13, Saturday December 14th, 1940, [pp] 11, printed on both sides of six sheets of yellow foolscap. Dominated by news of the recent action with Thor and the time spent in Montevideo under repair and concluding with a dignified Roll of Honour. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item- $229
- $229
Deed
DEED FOR LAND CLOSE TO, OR ABUTTING GEORGE WASHINGTON'S FATHER'S PLANTATION True copy of a November 28, 1737, deed for property adjoining Pope's Creek, Westmoreland County, VA, sold by Morrice Veal II to Edward Bush. Circa 1743.3 pages, holograph, on folded sheet, 7½ by 12½ inches. The deed is docketed: "Veal to Bush Copy Deed F[or] Colo. Washington." This is Augustine Washington, Sr. (1694-1743) father of George Washington, who was often referred to as "Colonel Washington." Augustine had moved to Pope's Creek in 1718. Wakefield, the Manor House built by Augustine at Pope's Creek Plantation in 1722, was the birthplace of George Washington. By 1737 Edward Bush owned 80 acres of land on Pope's Creek that formerly belonged to Augustine Washington. Thus, the property referenced in this deed is likely land owned by Veal that bordered Washington's land and Bush was expanding the land he had earlier purchased from Washington. This true copy is signed by Colonel George Lee (1714-61) as County Clerk [of] Westmoreland, thus dating this true copy between April 1742 (when Lee became Clerk of the County) and April 1743 (the month Augustine Washington died). Interestingly, George Lee and his wife, Ann Fairfax Washington Lee, (George Washington's former sister-in-law) owned Mount Vernon and leased it to George Washington. The deed reads, in part: "THIS INDENTURE made the 28th day of November [1737] in the 11th year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second by the grace of God of Great Britain, France & Ireland, King, Defender of the faith &c., Between MORRICE VEAL of Prince William County of one part and EDWARD BUSH of Westmorland County of other part; Witnesseth that MORRICE VEAL for the sum of five thousand pounds of good, Tobacco in hand paid him. confirm unto the said EDWARD BUSH. One hundred acres of land be the same more or less situated in County of Westmorland & Washington Parish being part of a parcel of land formerly granted to MORRICE VEAL, Father of the aforesaid VEAL for two hundred acres, beginning at the head of POPES CREEK with all houses, out houses, and Tobacco houses, with all Orchards, fences, and gardens thereon In Witness the parties above mentioned have interchangeably set their hands and seals the day and year above written MORRIS VEAL. . . .[Witnessed by] NICHOLAS MINOR. GERRARD DAVIES, and WILLIAM BERKLEY. Recorded the Seventh day of December 1737, pr. G. TURBERVILLE, C. C. W. Copy Test: George Lee C.C. W." John Washington, the grandfather of Col. Augustine Washington (and great-grandfather of George Washington) initially acquired Pope's Creek from his father-in-law, Nathaniel Pope (who is the namesake of Pope's Creek). Colonel Augustine Washington eventually inherited 150 acres of the Pope's Creek property and moved there in 1718. He began acquiring adjoining property and in 1722 began work on a manor house (named Wakefield). The manor house at Pope's Creek Plantation was located less than a mile south of the creek's confluence with the Potomac River thus it was "at the head of Pope's Creek," as is the Veal/Bush property described in this document. Colonel Washington's manor house eventually controlled a plantation of 1,300 acres with several outbuildings and 20 to 25 slaves. George Washington was born at this manor house in February 1732. Edward Bush (b. 1714) was a carpenter who was born and raised in Westmoreland County. Given where he lived, it is likely that he did carpentry work for Augustine Washington at the Pope's Creek Plantation. In 1742 Edward sold his Pope's Creek property and moved to Culpepper, VA. Those witnessing that deed were relatives and close friends of the Washington family. Less is known about Morrice (aka Maurice or Morris) Veale II (c. 1676-1750). He was the son of Morrice Veale I. In 1707 Morrice Veale II (and John and William Veale) sold an acre of land to Nathaniel Pope (1st cousin of Augustine Washington) upon which Pope built a grist mill. In 1728 Augustine purchased- $5,500
- $5,500
Encyclopedie Automobile
SATIRICAL LITHOGRAPHS OF EARLY FRENCH CARSEncyclopédie Automobile: La Belle Epoque et Les Pionniers de L'Automoile. Illustrated with 16 original color lithographs by Guy Sabran. Oblong Folio. Original pictorial olive green folding cover; title in a frame representing the entrance to the Parisian metro station. Guimard, Champrosay, Editeur, Paris, 1956. First Edition.Loose illustrations, as issued, inserted in folding cover. A wonderful series of color lithographs satirizing early French car culture. Illustrations are: Coupé de Ville Renault 1905; Zèbre 1904; Double Phaéton Morse 1903; Double Phaéton Delaunay-Belleville 1911; Landaulet d'Amédée Bollée 1878; Phaéton Panhard Levassor 1891; Léger George Richard 1893; Peugeot Grand Luxe 1895; Delahaye 1897; Le Petit Phaéton Renault 1898; Cabriolet Chenard et Walker 1904; Le Phaéton Bardon 1899; LA "Jamais Contente" de Jenatzy 1899; Phaéton Grand Sport Panhard 1899; - La Limousine de Ville de Léon Bollée 1899; Taxi Renault 1905. Covers slightly soiled; spine and corners worn; some slight warping to a few lithographs; some with tape at corners, having been crudely hung, not in any way damaging the images; o/w bright and clean.- $275
- $275
Le Bateau Ivre. (The Drunken Boat).
Illustrated with 36 color plates and text manuscript by Raymond Moretti. Folio. Cream-colored vellum binding, with Moretti illustration on cover; enclosed in ¼-leather-backed marbled board box, with vellum spine label. Chez Joseph Pardo à l'enseign du Sefer, Nice (1966). One of 350 copies on vellum pure rag, with an extra suite of 11 full-page color plates on Japan paper. Copy #298, dedicated and signed by Moretti. Laid-in is a "Certificat de Garantie" from Joseph Pardo. Spine of box chipped and frayed; edges chipped; book in fine condition, with clean, bright pages and plates. Rare- $2,750
- $2,750
MEMOIRS OF A CAPTIVITY IN JAPAN during the Years 1811, 1812 and 1813, with observations on the country and the people.
GOLOWNIN Vasili. Second Edition, 3 vols, pp lv, lxxxiv, 315; 356; (ii), viii, 302; contemporary tan calf, aeg, near fine. First Edition to have all 3 volumes printed at the same time.- $1,960
- $1,960
FIGHTING THE SLAVE-HUNTERS IN CENTRAL AFRICA; a Record of Twenty-Six Years of Travel and Adventure round the Great Lakes and of the Overthrow of Tip-Pu-Tib, Rumaliza and other great Slave-Traders.
SWANN Alfred J. FIRST EDITION, large 8vo, pp 359, folding map, frontispiece, illustrations, original blue cloth, gilt vignette, excellent.- $509
- $509