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1956réf. 949UK: Unpublished 1956-57. String Tied. Very Good. A string tied Photograph Album 11 1/2" by 8 1/2" containing 38 pages with 96 photographs and five postcards along with three press photographs in envelope. which show the activities of the members of the Sea Training Scheme For Girls founded by Comdr. C.L.A. Woollard in 1947. All the photographs are captioned and show the girls at various activities on the training ship "English Rose II" a 33 ton 58 1/2 foot sailing ship and some related shore activities. The Officer/Instructors were chosen from ex Women's Royal Naval Service boat's crew. Unpublished books
1945réf. 134Topeka : Unpublished 1945. String Tied. A string tied hard cover scrap book containing three leaves. Ephemera consisting of programs tickets flyers and one b/w team photograph of the 1944-45 season to four pages with a hand drawn title page. It appears that the Highland "Scotties" made it to the district finals where they were beaten by Osage City.Very good throughout with small tear to the top edge of two leaves. Unpublished books
1905réf. 866Nome Alaska: Miners and Merchants Bank of Alaska 1905. Wraps. Very Good. Slim Memorandum Book in limp board covers 3/4" by 3 7/8". 30 pages of information of use to miners and prospectors in the region including mining laws and regulations best practices hydraulics weights of rock help in the case of accidents and poisonings and even simple rules for the game of whist.Of more interest are the 24 pages of handwritten notes by the owner which start with . for Nome Mining Co. from July 27-07 to . on following ground. All ground being worked by laymen. Followed by what appear to be records of oz ounces of gold presumably by week named men employed with their hours worked and pay an entry "pay dirt on dump." and other miscellaneous jottings and reminders e.g. "send pictures and letters" "gold pan" "glue for boots" Miners and Merchants Bank of Alaska unknown books
1919réf. 69California: Unpublished 1919-1922. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover scrap book with hand written paper label to front and spine. 10 1/2" by 8" by 3". Consists of 120 leaves with an almost complete run of weekly newspaper articles relating to local oil leases and associated news from Oct 1919 to Jan 1922 clipped from the Huntington Beach News and pasted into a scrap book. Newspaper evenly tanned. Book fully intact with a little toning and wear to edges. A detailed record of the early days of oil production in Southern California.On May 24 1920 the first Huntington Beach well the Huntington A-1 was brought in as a producing well. By October 1921 the field had 59 producing wells. Even with 16 of those 59 wells being idle the field produced 16500 barrels of oil equivalent 101000�GJ per day with each well producing from 50 to 200 barrels daily. The conflict of coastal oil drilling with beachfront recreation and tourism has been a central theme in Southern California politics. The discovery of oil was followed by a real estate boom in the surrounding communities. For example as the Huntington Beach Oil Field expanded the homes in that area that stood in the path of drawing oil from the ground were physically relocated north 6 miles in 1921-1922 to lots in Midway City California which "started Midway City". In addition the discovery led to the development of the oceanfront community of Sunset Beach California which was established in 1905. Unpublished hardcover books
1900réf. CAT0004561900. Some restaurant menus but most for occasions weddings first communions royal dinners and various other festivities as well as countless dinner parties some very professionally printed some handwritten in a variety of styles. The bulk of the material is from 1890-1920 and the early 1930s into the 1950s almost all in Europe though it trickles into the late 1990s. England Belgium Germany France and many from Luxembourg. It includes a number of menus from during the two world wars and a few referencing them a number of the menus appear to be from an RAF chef whose identification card is included in the collection. Like many collections of this sort while it was clearly collected first hand in part it's hard to tell which menus the collector gathered at the time and which were collected later or if perhaps the earlier group was passed down and added to. 146 pieces in all a remarkable collection that stretches from the height of 19th century French cuisine well into the 20th century - a tumultuous period in Europe to be sure but one where at least some people evidently continued to entertain. Held in three binders. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000456. unknown books
réf. 007299Cloth portfolio. Very Good. Fabulous Regency fashion including its affinity for the exotic shown in seven overlay metamorphics. N.d. circa 1816. Based on paper watermark of that date. Thus these were executed then or shortly afterward as fashions shown are very much of the Regency period. The base leaf is 16.5 by 13.5 cm. The overlays are captioned: "Turkish Dress" "Spanish Dress" "Winter Dress" "Virgin of the Sun" "Ball Dress" "Shepherdess" and "Queen's Dress". The overlays a variable in size and they have to be and moved just so to fit correctly with the base head. One of the overlays has a small amount of tissue reinforcement. The group is housed in a modern custom cloth portfolio with flaps to hold the paper in and a ribbon tie to seal the portfolio. unknown books
réf. 84521 6 11 47 folding leaves. Large 8vo orig. yellow patterned wrappers wrappers a little soiled orig. block-printed title label on upper cover new stitching. Korea: 1870s. A rare anonymous manual for the general education of writers of classical Chinese from late ChosÅn Korea. The term “bamboo slips” originally referred to the material supports of writing in antiquity. In classical Chinese usage of later ages — and in this title — the phrase was used metonymically in reference to the implements and genres of classical Chinese writing. This book covers the four “rites” of capping marriage funerals and sacrifices. Each rite had specific genres associated with it which a reader of the book would learn to practice. Ample advice is included for writing letters to parents children teachers and friends — and words to use when referring to these individuals — as well as servants and slaves. While focused on the acquisition of everyday writing skills in classical Chinese this book brings to mind a larger genre of so-called “daily use encyclopedias” Ch.: riyong leishu 日用類書 which flourished in East Asia from at least the 16th century onward but had older antecedents. Those books provided readers even from lower social strata with information for use in a variety of areas. Our book with its national viewpoint and inclusion of elements of elite writing such as classical Chinese verse probably envisaged a rather more elite readership or at least one that had aspirations of social advancement. Who actually used this book is another question of course and the Compilation offers some hints: the pictured page from the list of “state taboos” contains marginalia that is written in part in vernacular Korean in the han’gŭl alphabet with nouns written in Chinese characters. From what we see of the text it appears that it concerns the ritual of entering the tablet of a recently deceased ancestor to the temple. This is also referred to in the printed text below in the context of the succession of kings and consorts. Vernacular writing was widely practiced within the ChosÅn elite but the brushstrokes — for whatever reason — look a bit hesitant. On the basis of the phrases used in the list to refer to the ChosÅn kings and royal consorts researchers have concluded that the edition dates from the reign of King Kojong but before the death of Queen MyÅngsÅng that is sometime between 1864 and 1895. A very good copy. Marginal worming in the final 14 leaves. Our copy agrees with the Harvard copy WorldCat accession number 40692963. unknown books
1996réf. 266790Capistrano Beach CA: Sandy Thomas 1996. Pamphlet. 72p. 5.5x8.5 inches illustrated with full-page fetish line drawings very good booklet in stapled pink pictorial wraps. Sandy Thomas unknown books
1897réf. 156237Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company 1897. Hardcover. 407p. first edition original green cloth binding slightly edge worn paper slightly browned previous owner's name on front blank endpaper. "An English aristocrat narrates the history of a colonization movement begun by a mineralogist who discovers a gold mine and two miracle metals. He uses his riches to form a secret brotherhood and to establish the Nationality Confederation in the Midwest and Southwest. After his death the Confederation peacefully spreads over America. The hero's disciples honor him with elaborate oaths and rituals." Roemer p. 202. Charles H. Kerr & Company hardcover books
1830réf. 0046431830. Full Straight-Grained Morocco. Very Good. An exquisite manuscript copy of plates from the 1644 work by Wencelaus Hollar. While a copy the pen-and-ink work here is absolutely exceptional requiring a loupe or magnifying glass to fully appreciate the niceties of detailing achieved by the artist copier. It is also clear that this copier did not merely trace the original work. Heightening the pen-and-ink work are touches of watercolor. 8vo. 173 by 117 mm. Unpaginated half-title page with a handwritten copy of the verse from "The Merchant of Venice entitled "The Folly of Fashion the Deceit of Ornament or Appearance" second title copied from the 1644 work followed by 36 mounted pen and ink copies of fashion etchings from the 1644 work and a final page with a drawing of a trophy and two musings written out. The drawings besides being meticulous with near-microscopic detail are austere with the pen and ink work heightened with only touches of flesh color for the women's faces and tiny dabs of gold for jewelry buttons and the like. The austerity we would stress is befitting the fashions represented as the early and mid-17th century was a time that garments tended to be more monochromatic and sober meant to suggest piety as any student of portraits from this era coincident with the Puritan Revolution and religious wars on the continent would have absorbed. And we would add the austerity is not just of the dress but also the expression on the women depicted here. The flesh color applied to the faces and also hands is just as nuanced as everything else about these portraits. There is a gradient of coloration capturing very realistically the actual pigment of human flesh. The one exception to the limited color usage is a depiction of a woman from Virginia a Native American whose bare garment is painted red and who is wearing jewelry that is captured with bolder applications of gold. This exotic specimen also shows a woman with a tattoo on her arms something that was completely alien from European cultures at the time. The Virginian is not the only non-European depicted however as there is a woman from Algiers a Moresco woman an Argentinian. Also shown is a Turkish woman and the dress shown is from different strata of the societies represented. Short cursive handwritten captions identify for us where the model is from. All the handwriting including on the title the poem etc. is rendered in a tight minute script. Unfortunately there is no indication who the artist copyist was other than the initials PC by several of the drawings. In the front there is an ownership inscription of an Elizabeth Cobbett. There is a watercolored bookplate with the Hillman family crest. unknown books
réf. 34873Oblong octavo ca. 205 x 275 mm. Decorative copper and green wrappers. 1 title 8 pp. Scored for soprano and alto voices. Second layer of text and notation in black ink to p. 3 with key signature and text but no music. Notated in a single hand in brown ink on 8-stave rastrum-ruled paper. Contains 4 duets for two unaccompanied voices: Pp. 2-3: "Il signuol che vai cercando" in D major in 2/4 time 4-5: "Cari amanti che per prova conoscere cosa e' amore" in F major in 2/4 time 6-7: "Non son io sei tu crudele" in F major in 2/4 time 8: "Tornate sereni begl' astri d'amore" in F major in 3/4 time Wrappers slightly worn creased and creased. Corners slightly creased. In very good condition overall. Apparently unrecorded. unknown books
réf. 34825Oblong quarto ca. 225 x 290 mm. Sewn. 32 pp. Notated in a single hand in black ink on 10-stave rastrum-ruled paper. Movements: No. 1 : Allegro in G minor 3/4 time.5 pp. With "Bolero" at head. No. 2 : Largo in E minor in common time. 7-11 pp. No. 3 : Lento assai in Bb major in common time.13-15 pp. No. 4 : Moderato in Ab major in 3/4 time; Trio in Db major in 3/4 time. 17-20 pp. No. 5 : Introduzione in G major in 2/4 time; Trio in C major in 2/4 time. 21-23 pp. No. 6 : Allegro in G major in 2/4 time. 24-26 pp. No. 7 : Allegro in G major in 2/4 time. 27-28 pp. No. 8 : Allegro in D major in 2/4 time. 29-32 pp. Slightly worn and browned. A charming collection of short parlor pieces. unknown books
réf. 26878Oblong folio 310 x 240 mm. i blank 2 i blank pp. on one bifolium. Notated in brown ink on 12-stave paper. No ascription. No watermark. Systems of three staves; scored for two violins and string bass. In C major; trio in F major. A fair copy. Slightly browned; occasional small stains. Unrecorded. The Fiera di Sassuolo is an annual fair in the Italian town of the same name held in October. unknown books
réf. 31108octavo 4 pages unsigned possible incomplete in very good condition. The writer describes his travels in Pittsburg and other western Pennsylvania towns he provides an epistolary tour of Pittsburg's industries of the day an oil refinery comments on the pollution "earth and air are impregnated with the aroma of petroleum" lumber raftsmen and iron mills before continuing on to New Brighton New Castle and Franklin in Venango County: "My dear Theora … My letter from Pittsburg was written on Thursday morning and mailed then and there so I suppose you have read it before this time and I shall start from the point where I left off …. After taking my breakfast at the St. Nicholas which by the way was an excellent one and at the moderate charge of 25 cents I turned out to view the city went to P. Office with your letter and thence across the Allegheny river and through the city of Allegheny to the heights beyond from which a fine view of the rivers and surrounding country could be obtained – rambled over a German Catholic cemetery on one of the highest hills and then descended towards the river and found myself on plunging down into a deep ravine in what I supposed by the stables and shanties around to be the Irish town or suburb but the steep hill sides were terraced and laid out in rude gardens or graperies indicating a German population in part if not in whole. I threaded my way out towards the shore where a number of oil refineries are located. I entered one of them and discoursed the proprietor upon the subject of coal oil and he very politely showed me through his refinery and described the various processes and operations to which the crude material is subjected reserving only to himself the final chemical mystery which of course no "outsider" has a right to enquire into. He made me a present of a vial filled with the purified oil – transparent warranted to be non-explosive and to burn without smoke or odor in any properly constructed lamp; of which oil he offered to sell me one hundred barrels more or less at 20 cents per gallon! Cheap and brilliant light indeed. After parting from him I wandered among the oil boats rafts and bins lying along shore all so saturated with oil and the barrels which cover the landings and surrounding commons leak so profusely that earth and air are impregnated with aroma of petroleum and even the beautifully transparent waters of the Allegheny are glazed with a coating of the same material borne on the current towards the gulf of Mexico. I crossed by a different bridge to the Pittsburg side and got among the lumber raftsmen who tried to sell me shingles at $ 1.25 per bunch of 500 and boards proportionately low but I was not ready to purchase and left them for a peep at some of the large iron mills close at hand. These mills abound along the margin of both the Allegheny and Monongahela but more particularly in Manchester which is across the latter river from Pittsburg. You may wonder how I had so much leisure time and I may state that a gentleman with whom I had conversation upon the subject of reaching the oil region informed me that he had wells and property here and that he preferred to travel by the New Castle rout when the Allegheny was not full enough for Steamboats to run. By this rout passengers take the cars as I did by the accommodation train of the Pittsburg and Chicago R. R. at 4.45 in the afternoon. As that hour approached I recrossed to Allegheny City where the depot is paid 55 cents for a ticket to New Brighton on the Beaver river a distance of 28 miles where we arrived about 6 ½ o'clock after a very pleasant run along the margin of the Ohio among gardens and truck patches villas and towns so numerous that I cannot name near all of them but there was Industry Economy and Freedom - very good and suggestive titles; besides Rochester at the mouth of Beaver and but a short distance below New Brighton. This latter is a very pretty manufacturing town there being a grand water power here equal to Manayunk which propels machinery for a variety of purposes among which are the making of tub buckets woolen shawls and numberless other articles. After taking supper at a well conducted hotel in the town we prepared for a night travel by that now antiquated and almost obsolete conveyance a canal packet which carries passengers from that point to New Castle distant 26 miles by the Beaver Canal they being expected to pay one dollar for the privilege of taking a berth and waking up in the morning in the latter town which your geography will tell you is the seat of justice of Lawrence County. The evening being cool on deck the captain thought to consult the comfort of the sleepers about 20 in number by making a fire in the cabin stove after they had retired to rest and as my berth was immediately along side of it came pretty near to being roasted. The consequence was very indifferent rest but fortunately I did not take cold and after partaking of a ramble around the little town and a very palatable breakfast at the Cochran house some 10 or 11 of our boat passengers too coach for this town of Franklin and intermediate points via Meadville which is made the dining station. Our teams were not first rate and the road but a clay one over a hilly country made the travel very slow and it was sunset by the time we had overcome the 43 miles of distance and after climbing nearly two miles uphill and descending the same distance again we entered this metropolis of Venango County dusty tired and ready for supper and rest …" books
réf. 39321Large oblong octavo ca. 175 x 235 mm. 10 pp. Notated in ink on 5 staves per page each voice on both sides of a leaf. Watermark of a small crown and 6-pointed star. Slightly worn and soiled; creased at folds. We have not located any other sources of the present work either manuscript or printed. unknown books
1976réf. 3601Luzarches France: Daniel Morcrette 1976. Hardcover. Full calf boards gilt floral decorations and red title label on spine. Very good. 208 pages. 17.5 x 10.5 cm. An attractive Facsimile of the 1740 cookbook that at the time was the most celebrated book of it's kind. Attributed to Louis Auguste de Bourbon Prince of Dombes to whom the dedicatory note is addressed. Daniel Morcrette the publisher was a leading collector of rare cookbooks who decided the rest of the world needed to see these near extinct cookbooks. All edges red. Interior and marble papers are pristine. The boards are lightly rubbed at the edges. Daniel Morcrette hardcover books
réf. 3495Boston: The Gorham Press 1901. . 4to tan printed paper-covered boards Two holdings only in OCLC Yale and Harvard -- Harvard copy has been filmed by Google Books. A most extraordinary and amusing compilation of puns double entendres homophones and absolute idiocy. We have not been able to find anything on the author or the two illustrators--one with the initials "GR" and the other who signed as "Billy". There is a colophon at the end: "Malum nunc et olim. Done at the Cider Press" Boston: The Gorham Press, 1901. hardcover books
1841réf. 2222159Early edition. 4 3/4" x 2 3/4". Full contemporary black calf. Two page preface by Henry Hobbs Samuel Beede William Burr. 1832 copyright by David Marks. Very good. 608 pages. Printed by The Boston Type and Stereotype Foundry. Includes: Table of First Lines. Index of subjects. The Trustees of the Free-Will Baptist Connection hardcover books
réf. 306877New York The Butterick Publishing Company Ltd. 1889. Third edition. 8vo. Frontispiece vignette of a couple in 18th century dress. Original gilt stamped dark green cloth floral patterned endpapers slight rubbing to spine ends and corners. Very good. 392 pages. No dust jacket. No signatures or bookplates. Metropolitan Culture Series. Contains chapters on household civilities letters of introduction invitations dining funeral customs debuts chaperons weddings visiting Washington and traveling abroad visiting cards Christenings children's parties balls and dancing. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. New York, The Butterick Publishing Company, Ltd., 1889. hardcover books
réf. 305718London F.J. Mason 1834. First edition Thick 8vo. Contemporary tree calf skillfully rebacked red morocco spine label. A fine large margined copy with no foxing. 2 volumes in one. 1015 pages. Bookplate of Irish prelate Vincent Lloyd Russell on the front pastedown. Printed by Charles Whittingham. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. London, F.J. Mason, 1834. hardcover books
réf. 11730NY CHRISTIE'S 1986. FINE. NY, CHRISTIE'S, 1986 unknown books
réf. 1301LONDON NISTER ND. VERY GOOD. LONDON, NISTER [ND] unknown books
réf. 500989of A.H. Perry to W.P. Burrall Esq. on Hartford and New Haven Railroad Office letterhead Springfield MA February 22 1864. Small 4to 1 page. Signed by Authors. F. Soft cover. paperback books
1950réf. 11759WILMINGTON DU PONT 1950 1950. BLUE CLOTH GOOD. Hardcover. WILMINGTON, DU PONT, 1950 hardcover books
réf. 501001holograph copies of text for 4 telegrams Boston February 15-18 1864. Small 4to sheet 2pp. recto and verso. F. Soft cover. paperback books
