1889rif. 028690Anderson South Carolina: Various Business Enterprises 1889. A group of nine 9 ephemeral business documents printed and with manuscript entries for various businesses in the Anderson SC area including: 1889 Cunningham Bros. Dealers in General Merchandise and Cotton Buyers. For cotton and the guano account. 1892 Kay & Baker Dealers in General Merchandise Fertilizers Etc. Etc. Fine Flour and Tobacco Specialties. For cash for Mrs. M.J. Milford. 1894 Handwritten receipt of monies received of Mrs. M.J. Milford for the return of a cow per an agreement. Signed with the mark "x" of Andy Humphreys witnessed by J.M. Burgher. 1888 - 1900 Brown Osborne & Co. Dealers in General Merchandise Cotton Bagging and Ties and Fertilizers. Five 5 separate receipts for cotton sales fertilizer and bags to Sanders Chasteen R.M. Herron and several to Mrs. M.J. Milford. 1901 Handwritten receipt of monies received of Mrs. Martha Milford for 4835 shingles from JU. Walter Dickson of Townsville SC. Receipts average approx. 6" x 7" size; some wear and spotting edge-chipping; content very legible and in good condition. . Manuscript. Good. Various Business Enterprises
1992rif. 2054San Francisco: Fox & Wilkes 1992. Hardcover. Very Good/good . Red cloth hardcover with gilt spine lettering in dustjacket. A very good copy with bumping at the extremities of the spine and a bit of bending to the upper board corners. Interior is clean and unmarked in a sturdy binding and hinges. Dustjacket has ruffling and bending along the top of the panel edges and a short blue pen mark to the top of the rear panel - unclipped with light soiling to the cream panels. 306 pp. a solid collection of Spooner's writings on personal freedoms anarchy and the rights of the individual. Fox & Wilkes hardcover
1999rif. biblio314Fine edition Crowood hardcover
rif. 028451Japan Japan circa 1935. 74 pages printed on one side. A photographic history of the Japanese military invasion & occupation of northern China through the activities of medical units. Black & white imagery throughout with one color-plate of an illustration of a wounded Japanese marine being helped by medical personnel. Text mostly consisting of photo-captions entirely in Japanese. The first few leaves with larger imagery with tissue-guarded plates depicting the visit of Japanese civilian and military dignitaries and officials to various medical military offices and facilities including visits to patients in hospital wards. Imagery continues with pictures of prosthetic devices including replacement limbs and false eyes bandaging and active hospital staff working with patients. Commanding officers & juniors are also pictured and identified along with group portraits. A couple of small maps depict areas of activity along with landing areas bombed zones shipping and landing facilities and shoreline batteries; also some of the river-craft associated with medical activities. Invasion photos include various infantry approaches trenches and fortifications field artillery horse and mule-drawn apparatus and miscellaneous wheeled and tracked vehicles; pictured also are single-wing military aircraft having medical designations. Much of the history is devoted to general activities of the military in the field marching occupation and camp activities including communal dining & bathing with emphasis on medical actions ambulance and emergency work hospital trains and accommodations doctors & nursing duties. Included are interior views of facilities and works including laboratories dental examination areas test rooms and operating theaters. Personnel with winter gear and uniforms capable of withstanding temperature extremes are displayed. Exterior views include hospital and medical facilities from tent & ambulance field depots to large urban buildings devoted to health care; also pictures of patients undergoing rehabilitation and exercise regimens. A few photos show landscapes the local populace and their surroundings; the last few of the photos are of the flooding in Harbin. Primarily this is a regimental history of medical unit actions. Approx. 10 1/8" x 14 1/4" size oblong format. Leaves held by purple silk tapes threaded through sturdy internal metal posts. Bound in green cloth hardcovers with gilt title; patterned paper endpapers and with illustrative printed backgrounds throughout the pages of the volume; the photos are given these backgrounds in muted colors. Some edge & tips wear to the boards; binding color mottled around the edges. Volume is contained within a cardstock slipcase with pasted-on matching title label; slipcase worn; the binding and the volume contents are very clean and in very good condition. First Edition. Hardcover in Slipcase. Very Good. hardcover
1855rif. 027724New York NY: J. Andrews 1855. Three broadsides with the imprint of Andrews: "I Never Says Nothing to No-body. By Silent Sam"; 6 stanzas; ornamental surround. Approx. 5 1/4" x 8 ½" size overall; trimmed close at top and left margin; edge-chipped; a little loss to the ornament not the text; a little spotting; old fold lines. In good condition."Cottage By The Sea. By J.R. Thomas. The Music of this Song as well as a thousand others can be obtained at Firth Pond & Co.'s Extensive music Establishment 547 Broadway N.Y." 4 stanzas including chorus; ornamental surround. 5 7/8" x 9 3/8" size overall; a little edge-wear; spotting; old fold lines; in very good condition. "Shells of the Ocean" 4 stanzas; ornamental surround. Previous owner name at bottom margin of Mary C. Rose. 5 7/8" x 9 3/4" size overall; a little edge-wear; spotting; old fold lines; in very good condition. Not dated and circa 1850s for this New York City printer; the three broadsides as described above. . Broadsides. Not Bound. Good. J. Andrews paperback
1898rif. 027269Frankfort Kentucky: E.C. Wolff Photographer 1898. Both photographs taken in the same room-setting slight differences of position and the following individuals are identified below the images: John Crepps Wickliffe Beckham 1869-1940 Speaker of the House Lieutenant Governor Governor & U.S. Senator; Senator Ferguson; Henry Nare; M.C. Bennett enrolling Clerk KY Senate & Virginia & Adah Bennett; Senator Nelson of Henderson; Margret Ingles Paris Kentucky; Senator J.M. Thomas Paris Kentucky; Mr. Smith member from Louisville; Sen. McConnell; Miss Sublett; and Senator Cranshaw of Christian County. One of the images identifies the location as "Miss Luti Nare's our boarding House Winter 1898" The backs of both mount cards with the studio stamp-imprint of 'E.C. Wolff Fotographer Frankfort Ky.' Our research indicates that "This Frankfort photography studio operated successively by E. Carl Wolff Harry A. Gretter and Forrest Cusick with his wife Anna and her brothers documented families businesses neighborhoods industry and state government in the capital." Kentucky Historical Society Photographs approx. 4 3/4" x 8 1/4" size; both on cardstock mounts 8" x 10." Some edge-chipping soiling & dustiness; one mount with closed crack; one image faded the other clearer; in good condition. Photographs. Not Bound. Good. E.C. Wolff, Photographer paperback
1885rif. 027280Richfield Springs New York: Bronner Portraits Spring House Park 1885. 14 photographs of this New York upstate resort and spa area images of Richfield & Sharon Springs and surrounding lake & valley countryside. Including: The first image a candid of two groups of 4 gentlemen each at tables playing cards outdoors at Spring House Park identified in the mount as by Bronner Portraits of Richfield. Also: Spring House and Park 2; American Hotel 2 here identified as Richfield Springs now Sharon Springs; Spring House Park and Sulphur Spring; Main Street; Richfield Springs from the Observatory; View of Spring House from the street; Otsego Lake from the Observatory; and 4 additional lake-side and wooded road views in the surrounding area. Not dated circa 1885. All taken in small panoramic format approx. 3 1/2" x 7 5/8" size; all on cardstock mounts 8 1/2" x 11"and sewn to the original binding spine no binding covers present First image a bit time-dimmed; the balance of the views sharp and with good detail. In very good condition. Photographs. Not Bound. Very Good. Bronner Portraits Spring House Park paperback
1806rif. 27116France: L'Institut des Sciences Lettres et Arts 1806. 71 -134 pages; extracted from the Memoires de l'Institut des Sciences Lettres et Arts; French text. Set out in six 'memoires'; with a folding plate; Rumford's researches regarding experiments in heat. Sir Benjamin Count Rumford in the nobility of the Holy Roman empire Thompson 1753 - 1814 American-born & educated British royalist natural philosopher and philanthropist who left during the Revolution and who ".Once in Britain Thompson presented himself as an expert on America rather than as a refugee and became the main contact between American loyalists in England and the British government.Like Davy's Faraday's and Tyndall's Rumford's is a story of the social mobility which science could bring: the farm boy and shop assistant became the Massachusetts Yankee at the courts of Europe. He spoke well German French Spanish and Italian; he played billiards against himself and enjoyed chess; he was a good draughtsman; indifferent to literature sculpture and painting he had a great taste for landscape gardening. His daughter Countess Rumford returned to America and died in 1852. In his eloge at the Institut de France on 9 January 1815 Georges Cuvier emphasized the revolutions warfare and conflicting loyalties which had dominated Rumford's life and was mildly embarrassed by his pursuit of honours and wealth. He stressed the value of Rumford's practical inventions with their scientific basis. Later to Tyndall lecturing at the Royal Institution in 1883 Rumford's researches on the nature of heat put him firmly in the tradition leading to James Joule conservation of energy and modern thermodynamics.Brown author of the biography of Rumford places his researches on heat in their context where the implications Tyndall saw were not perceived by Rumford or his contemporaries and where the diversity and utility of his discoveries based on research rather than empiricism were most impressive. He has an important place in the origins of applied science." David Knight in the ODNB Title page with the small name-stamp of collector George R. Brush; M.D. in the U.S. Navy; a surgeon & medical inspector from 1861-1894. Approx. 8 1/2" x 11" size; bound in the original plain brown paper wrappers with the handwritten name 'Rumford.' A little wear and dustiness to the cover some spotting and foxing within; in very good condition. Extracted from Original Volume. Soft Cover. Very Good. L'Institut des Sciences, Lettres et Arts paperback
1663rif. Bostonbookfair1Manuscript. 17th century 1663-1695 Spanish church register of the village of Montánchez is a municipality located in the province of Cáceres Extremadura Spain. Written in several hands on paper. Folio 29 x 22 cm approx. 135 leaves. Characteristic limp vellum binding. Damage to top cover. First leaves wormed else good.
1909rif. 26971Paris France: Compagnie Des Eaux Minerales Economiques 1909. A photograph album composed of 29 heavy cardstock leaves each titled with a French hospital with a mounted photograph of the interns of 1908-09. On the mounts printed below the images are the surname-identification of the new doctors along with a quote from a famous medical personage. Photographic studio not identified aside from the printed notice in the surround of "Cliche Femina." Our research indicates that these albums were produced by the Compagnie des Eaux Minerales. as promotional devices; the cover titles are further personalized and include the name of one of the graduates A Monsieur Corylles actually Coryllos from the Hopital Cochin Paris. Dr. Coryllos 1880-1938 was an eminent thoracic surgeon and pioneer in the use of the mobile field hospital saving lives during military conflicts Every photograph black and white silver gelatin process; approx. 4 ¾" x 6" size is characterized by extraordinary clarity and very professionally taken; several of them presenting the graduating physician's candid expressions of humor - one posing with a monkey on his back another lugging a huge travel-box by a rope over his shoulders many with pet dogs & cats one with what appears to be a monstrous lizard; in another three men sit astride sheep and a goat; other portraits promoting expressions of extreme gravitas. The Hopital Des Enfants Malades with two women identified Mlle. Bouteil and Mme. Debre; the Hopital de la Pitie with Mme. Long; Mlle. Dechaux at Hopital Claude-Bernard Aubervilliers; two of the images from the Hopital Bichat & Hopital Beaujon with unidentified women posed with the groups. The images appear to have been taken on the grounds and building forecourts of these medical establishments including: Hopital Andral & Bastion 27 et 29; Beaujon; Berck Sur-Mer; Hospice de Bicetre; Bichat; Boucicaut; Bretonneau; Broca; Broussais; de la Charite; Claude-Bernard Aubervilliers; Cochin; Cochin Annexe; Maison Dubois; des Infantes Assistes; des Infantes Malades; Herold; Hotel-Dieu; Hospice D'Ivry; Laennec; Lariboisiere; La Maternite; Necker; de la Pitie; Saint-Antoine; Saint-Louis; Hospice de la Salpetriere; Tenon; and Hopital Trousseau. Heavy oblong format covers about 8 pounds shipping weight. Approx. 11" x 14" size; gilt titled green pebbled cloth & leather corners; binding damaged worn spine covering gone; all photographs in very good condition. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Compagnie Des Eaux Minerales Economiques hardcover
1975rif. 26562Long Island New York: Not Published 1975. Ann Ullman Hirsch 1929 - 2017 had formal musical training and education at Juilliard and NYU; she was a passionate musician music educator and administrator. In a career spanning more than 60 years she was well known on Long Island for her extensive musical contributions including founding the Eastern Suffolk School of Music in Riverhead in 1977 and serving as its executive director for 10 years. Pianist and violinist she was a valued member of the L.I. Sound Symphony and was a private piano instructor to children and adults. Named East End Woman of Year in Education East End Magazine Suffolk County NY 1979 and honored by Peconic Bay Zonta at a Celebration of Women in 2013. from her obituary in 27 East and several online sources Collection includes: 1975 A 68-page typed manuscript with 2 annotated working draft copies of "A Basic Guide for the Teaching of Piano" by Ann U. Hirsch. These include tipped-on photographs of students' correct form along with the teaching exercises in the text & with extra image-sheets and 35mm photographic negatives laid-in. One of the drafts has extensive marginal notation. All are accomplished one-side either on quality typing bond paper of the time or copies. The original set is a group of loose sheets; working drafts are in 3-ring binders. Ms. Hirsch' introduction explains her purpose since according to her research - "There are also many fine books both long and short written by great pianists that suggest technical and artistic approaches for the advanced and professional performers but my purpose is hopefully to have written something for those who work primarily with beginners. I have tried to make it personal and informal while at the same time offer specific advice in the areas I consider most crucial. My hope is that if this book were to be published it could be made inexpensively in pocket book size and thus be available on counters in music stores as well as in colleges for all those who study piano and expect to teach it too" With 3 typed original letters from Ms. Hirsch to the music publishers Theodore Presser Co. Sterling Publishing Co. and Prentis Hall Publications all describing the content and asking in similar fashion to consider her book for publication. Included here are these three publishers' rejection-replies & another letter from Dover publishing which also rejected her project for various reasons. There is also a handwritten request from Ms. Hirsch soliciting the opinion of a professional editor-writer whom she thought may be able to help put her book into proper form for publication. Our research on OCLC at time of cataloging does not indicate any publication history. With A series of 8 Catalogs of the Eastern Suffolk School of Music spanning the years 1979 - 1989. Approx. 5 ½" x 8 ½" size; stapled printed softcovers; 20 to 40 pages each. These catalogs provide a listing of the board of directors committees administration staff - faculty with extensive musical biographies of the dozens of teachers involved giving instruction in voice piano violin flute cello guitar oboe trumpet dance harp organ recorder French horn viola brass instruments jazz improvisation composition eurythmics early winds theory percussion and more for example the 1988-1989 Catalog lists 42 instructors with their extensive qualifications & background; financial aid information schedules calendars tuition contact details & locations. 1978 - 1984 Group of 30 concert programs for the ESSM including student & faculty performances instrumental offerings & dance programs. Approx. 5 ½" x 8 ½" size; stapled printed softcovers usually 4 pages each giving the pieces played orchestra members & their instruments or soloists. With locations dates; held at the Fine Arts Theatre Southampton College Riverhead Mattituck East Islip H.S. Benjamin House Shoreham-Wading River Library & First Congregational Church of Riverhead. A run of 26 piano recital programs given in 1987 - 2013 by the students of Ann U. Hirsch; given in various private homes on Long Island. Most approx. 7" x 8 ½" size; single folded sheets with four printed sides. 1980-1984 Approx. 30 one or two page programs for the ESSM concerts student recitals often given monthly and a few other miscellaneous programs sponsored by ESSM in the Riverhead NY area: Jazz concerts percussion events concerts by faculty & guests student presentations. With personnel players pieces performed. 1986 A file folder with approx. 30 typed pages of material some on ESSM letterhead. These papers recount the struggle apparently of several months duration of the music school's attempts to restructure the board of directors and executive functions find adequate and sustainable financing and address critical accounting insurance liability and staffing issues which threatened the institution's continued existence. Some of the letters reveal troubling circumstances and finally include the resignation of Ms. Hirsch as the school's executive director and her choice of ceasing any further activities associated with the school including teaching. Other letters document and list various complaints needed changes salary & staffing requirements involving Ms. Hirsch board members and others who were involved in the running of the school. Miscellaneous: A three-ring binder with thumb-guide sections with some dozens of pages; this was Ms. Hirsch' own personal teaching and performance log: Students; Billing; Music; Musicians & Schedule. These sections have handwritten entries lists of student names addresses phone numbers; billing schedule and names columned with payments & various billing tiers. The "Music" section gives student names pieces planning for programs teaching notes; "Musicians" section with names phone numbers musical instruments & often the location of a large group of varied musical talents. With a variety of paper ephemera in a back pocket: newspaper clippings regarding music; MS performance names locations; schedules including for fees; TLS with her teaching offerings; name lists receipts. Approx. 7" x 10" size; black 'leatherette'; worn with tape-repaired spine. 1981 New Directions Resource Center Inc. Fifth Anniversary Gala list of donors; ESSM provided music.1983 Eastern Suffolk Woodwind Quintet & 1984 Michael Parola: Percussion Plus both hosted at The John Drew Theater of Guild Hall East Hampton. 1983 Eastern Suffolk Woodwind Quintet & 1984 ESSM Flute Choir performances both hosted at the Parrish Art Museum Southampton. 1984 The Raphael Trio appearing at the Shoreham-Wading River H.S. program. 1989 2-sided flyer program for Music Recital Mrs. Charlotte Murrin with pieces performers listed. With several 'reminder' and location direction-sheets for attendees of Ms. Hirsch' student performances. Condition: Generally everything is in very good condition with light wear and soiling to letters and binders. A very good archive documentation on a very active woman educator performer and teacher's musical & creative life. . Typed Draft. Various. Very Good. Not Published
1920rif. 25648Mt. St. Gabriel Peekskill New York: Not Published 1920. Photograph album of 108 black and white candid snapshot images of this exclusive girls school located in Peekskill NY at Mt. St. Gabriel. Identifications handwritten in white ink on the album leaves most of which has worn away. 96 of the photos are mounted 4 to a page loosely inserted in their 'window' mounts; the balance are loosely laid-in. Images about 2 3/4" x 4 1/2" and portray the daily activities of the female school attendees including boating trips on the Hudson gym and outdoor antics school events - communion ceremonies"Turkish" wedding costume party the architecture of the school including new buildings being added to the venue. Not dated; circa 1920s. Previous owner name of Mary Frances Sanborn on the front endpaper. Album pages approx. 7 1/2" x 11 1/4" size; only the top cover present detached. The photographs in very good condition overall mostly very sharply-taken and with very clear details. Photography. Photo Album. Very Good. Not Published hardcover
1940rif. 25612Garrison New York: Ave Maria Hour & St. Anthony's Legion 1940. A group of 30 black and white Albertype-process postcards all with different images of this retreat-house monastery located in Garrison New York. Founded in 1898 the Society of Atonement is a Catholic Franciscan order that maintains various community outreach programs; their founder Rev. Father Paul James Francis Lewis T. Wattson is currently a candidate under review for saintly canonization. The cards have two copyright notices on their backs about half the cards with Ave Maria Hour and the Prayer of The Blessings of God's Poor Upon You printed in the stamp section; the others with the copyright of St. Anthony's Legion with the prayer of May Jesus Mary Joseph be With Us On Our Way. Images include Father Paul school the cloister walk Little Flower Friary living quarters pictures of the grounds landscaping statuary friars at prayer and play interior and exterior views of the buildings. All of the cards with short printed descriptions of the images on their reverse sides. Not dated; however the Fr. Paul card notes his death in 1940. These are unused postcards with slight wear and a little age-darkening; in very good condition. Postcards. Not Bound. Very Good. Ave Maria Hour & St. Anthony's Legion paperback
1882rif. 25318Sergiyev Posad Russia: I. Efimova 1882. 186 4 pages. Including a double-page color tinted lithograph view of the monastery grounds and architecture; at back is a double-page map-plan giving the geographical position of the monastery and the layout of the grounds within the wider community; a number key with description is on the following pages. Text entirely in Cyrillic describing in a chronology the history of the monastery established by one of the most important Russian Orthodox patron saints of Russia the monk Sergius of Radonezh Saint Vartholomei Kirilovich. With the occasional marginal pencil comment and mark. Approx. 5 3/4" x 8 1/2" size; bound in the original finely pebble-textured dark teal cloth. Edge-wear tips wear-through; spine cloth fraying and loosening at bottom. Remains of old label old sticker with number on front board; no blank free endpapers; a couple of pencil numbers and a pen number and with the stamp of a church library with a central illustration of the same & another rectangular stamp that is partially incomplete throughout. Text generally clean and very good; lithographed plate & the map also in very good condition. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. I. Efimova hardcover
1914rif. 25502London England: Hodder & Stoughton 1914. xxii advertisement sections about evenly divided between front and back of the publication 21 page Hodder & Stoughton catalog including 4 pages on browned paper 'war publications' pages 61 - 112 1- 157 of the Christmas Supplement. Some color printing including tipped-on plates and with black and white illustrations throughout examples of various noted illustrators of the time publishers' announcements and catalogs. This does not contain the additional separate 'Portfolio' section of this special issue. Approx. 9" x 13" size; cover illustrated with tipped-on color plate "The Glory of Belgium" by Bruckman; printed on beige hessian-paper combined softcovers. Some wear soiling to binding old faint discoloration bottom edge cover illustration chipped worn. Contents clean and in very good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. Hodder & Stoughton paperback
1880rif. 25137Berlin Germany: Wertheim Zeidler Roloff Strom & Walter Conrad Wilhelm Stein Globus Jandorf Gulzer Wenzel Bohme Appel Fuchs et al 1880. Group includes 7 cabinet cards and 60 cartes-de-visite. Portraits are mostly of young men and young women with a few older adults & children; one cdv of a group of men in a horse-drawn cart accompanied by a young man on bicycle. One cdv with hand coloring. The cabinet cards average approx. 4 1/4" x 6 1/2" overall size. Cartes about 2 1/2" x 4" with several longer examples. A few of the cdv's with a name identified: Balke Virujinski Bergmann Fuhrmann; most of the photos are not identified. Several with edge tips wear soiling chipping to the mounts; a few corners clipped or chipped; others very clean and with clear images. A couple with the image faded and with some spotting. Photographs all contained within a red-velvet covered album of the period with gilt decorations and metal clasps broken; one gilt corner mount unpinned; lacking the central ornament; binding worn leaves loose within. Several of the images are loosely laid-in; many of the mounting 'windows' torn. The group of photographs are in very good condition overall; the binding is in fair to good condition. An interesting overview of the prolific Berlin Germany photographic studio portrait work being accomplished at the end of the 19th century. . Photography. Photograph Album. Very Good. Wertheim, Zeidler, Roloff, Strom & Walter, Conrad, Wilhelm Stein, Globus, Jandorf, Gulzer, Wenzel, Bohme, Appel, Fuchs et al hardcover
1984rif. 23823Calverton Long Island NY: Not Published 1984. Album with 29 color & black and white photographs printed on glossy Kodak paper; images of the visit of NY House Speaker Stanley Fink 1936 - 1997 and Paul E. Harenberg 1931- 2010 also a NY politician to the Calverton Grumman Aviation plant to inspect the Grumman X-29 - an experimental aircraft built primarily for the use of DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program testing - from the NASA site ". X-29 aircraft featuring one of the more unusual designs in aviation history were flown at NASA Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility The demonstrators investigated advanced concepts and technologies during a multi-phased program conducted from 1984 to 1992 provided an engineering database that is available for the design and development of future aircraft."; photographs include the jet on the tarmac official handshakes with company representatives the X-29 in the hangar workers Mr. Fink & Mr. Harenberg taking turns sitting in the cockpit the assembly line plant photographs and an impressive aerial view of the Grumman manufacturing and testing grounds; photographs not credited presumably by a company photographer and dated via internal evidence; 8" x 10" size approx. size photographs; all in the original imprinted official Grumman blue plastic hardcover three-ring binder; each photograph loosely inserted two to a protective sleeve; a few of the sleeves chipped and worn; the photographs clean clearly-taken and in very good condition; an interesting visual record of this experimental jet aircraft at its inception and the involvement of politicians in promoting the aerospace and military. Photography. Three Ring Binder . Very Good. Not Published Hardcover
rif. 21858U.S.A.: Artist Published Including: An artists' proof of this lithograph approx. 14 1/2" x 22" overall size. Titled & signed "Full Moon - Artists' Proof - Mark Freeman" at bottom edge in pencil. With The artists catalog "Prints by Mark Freeman" 1964 Parrish Art Museum Southampton NY - Part 2 Lithographs section - which gives this information about the work: " This group consists of Lithographs almost all in color. Chronologically these prints represent the artist's earlier work most of the editions having been produced between 1950 and 1960 .Editions of Lithographs are limited to a maximum of 75 prints." The catalog depicts this lithograph. With A typed letter signed by the artist dated October 26 1993 on printed "Mark Freeman Union Square NY" letterhead. Within the artist states that " I believe that the print you have was donated to the Guild Hall East Hampton NY probably for a charity event in the Sixties when I was active in participating in the Annual Fairs .As to the prints of your inquiry: I have finally located two impressions with green background as in our copy. They were "artists Proofs" tried for effect; the edition was printed in brownish peach sky. The green proofs are rare - only four I believe Please let me know about the "Strange Moonlight" print. Sincerely Mark Freeman." The artist in his communication also included a color photocopy of a " section of the print which gives you the coloring of the edition. and initialed MF" With A catalog of his works at an exhibition held at the Sylvan Cole Gallery NY 1987 and another catalog from the Elliott Museum Stuart Florida 1991 and the original mailing envelope sent to his correspondent. Mark Freeman 1908 - 2003 Austrian-American artist celebrated for his boldly-imaged artworks " an inventive and experimental artist." Quote from George Albert Perret director of the Parrish Museum from the information in the included catalog. Art. Not Bound. Very Good. Illus. by Mark Freeman. Artist Published Paperback
1890rif. 23927New York City N.Y.: Not Published 1890. Large plan or land-map; accomplished in blue ink with some added coloring & detail for a meandering stream and a few structures; with much elevation data; also two locust post surveyor's benchmarks indicated; land bordered at the north with D. Riker property to the east with the Bowery Bay Road the Jackson property and a small cemetery; other ownership names noted are P. Titus and Baldwin; the plan's title information handwritten on one of the panels on the reverse; no engineer or surveyor noted or date circa 1890; accomplished on polished linen architectural 'onionskin' which remains strong; approx. 42" x 56`" large size; some edge tips wear browned towards edges & along a few fold lines little bit of holing at center line; as is reverse especially at exposed surfaces and with some soiling; few 1" chips to material at top and bottom edges no loss to the text or drawing; in good condition; interesting Long Island City real estate development & community history; now known as the Ditmars-Steinway neighborhood of Astoria Queens. Manuscript. Not Bound. Good. Not Published Paperback
1939rif. 2221730"FDR" 1 page on mint green The White House letterhead Washington D.C. January 9 1939 1 page with integral leaf. 9" x 7". The paper watermarked "Whiting Woven Linen." To Frederick B. Adams. Very good. Adams 1878-1961 was married to Ellen Walters Delano a first cousin of FDR. Roosevelt thanks Adams for the gift of a fishing rod. unknown
1965rif. 23139New York - London: City Investing Company 1965. Two large loose portfolios approx. 14" x 18" size sheets; both are illustrated with actual tipped-on professionally-taken photographs in black and white and color; for several of the projects very dramatic before-and-after views of the developments are shown; text printed in dark teal-blue on good quality heavy light putty - color paper- stock; the 'Major Projects' sheets 15 including title page cover sheet include Parkchester New York 'the largest planned residential community in the country'; Stuyvesant Town Peter Cooper Village - NYC 'innovations in large scale metropolitan residential communities'; Penn Center Philadelphia 'a vital center of commercial business and transportation'; Penn Park Pittsburgh 'occupies six million square feet of land along the Allegheny River'; Gateway Center Pittsburgh; Calgary Central City Canada; Sterling Forest NY; with The Omnia Building study 14 sheets giving the background for this concept in the 30th street area in Philadelphia photo of the concept artwork site location along the Schuylkill River details of the building ".accommodating a minimum of 50000 persons with a potential to increase to 100000.a vertical street composed of the many varied facilities and services of a major downtown avenue.offices exposition and sales shopping transportation communications manufacturing and distribution." with details of each of these conveyed via text and composites of imagery on photographs an impressive site development proposal; Robert W. Dowling 1895 - 1973 American real estate investor developer and philanthropist; Dowling College on Long Island is named for him - among his many diverse achievements we wish to note here that due to his involvement in the performing arts ". In 1959 President Dwight Eisenhower tapped Dowling to head the Arts Advisory Committee of the National Cultural Center in Washington. Dowling proposed the design of the center which later became the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts." from the Dowling College site biography - see it for extensive references to Dowling and his creative and wide-ranging career; not dated and circa 1965 from internal evidence; light edge tips wear to sheets; occasionally some old mounting-spots are found on the backs not intrusive or detracting; the black and white photographs especially are very sharp and well-delineated the color photos more muted reflecting the technology of the time and their age; both portfolios in very good condition and an interesting group of material documenting some of the largest real estate development projects in the United States & Canada by one of the business' largest investment firms in mid-20th century; with 11 extra plates being doubles of some of the pages noted above. Manuscript. Portfolio. Very Good. City Investing Company Hardcover
1793rif. 23161Boston Massachusetts: Belknap and Ball 1793. 12 324 2 pages contents at back; including a portrait of Della Crusca and another of Anna Matilda both engraved by Sam. Hill Boston; 2 title pages one which describes this as the First American Edition from the Fourth London Edition; mostly short poetic pieces originally edited by Edward Topham; credited to Robert Merry Hannah Cowley Miles Peter Andrews Edward Jerningham others; printed at the Apollo Press Boston; approximately 4 1/2" x 6 3/4" size; previous ownership name-stamp of Mary G. Clark; bound in full contemporary polished tree-calf leather; spine with gilt decorations; much edge tips wear rubbing to boards worn binding split in half; lacks title label on spine; no front free blank endpaper; portraits darkened with the tissue guard of Anna Matilda having a tracing of the figure in line; some foxing soil and discoloration of leaves; in good condition. First American Edition. Leather. Good. Belknap and Ball
1950rif. 21606Japan: Artist Published 1950. Group includes two country landscape scenes in color both signed lower left in black ink both approx. 9" x 13"; with 2 ink and wash heightened and accented with white paint winter scenes approx. 10" x 14 1/2" one signed lower right; and 2 ink washes waterside scenes 10" x 14 1/4" one signed lower left. Not dated and circa 1950s; all are laid-down on to paper backers. Light wear; one of the wash pieces with a thin line-scrape; the paper backers with wear and wrinkling in margins creasing couple short tears. The artworks are in very good condition. First Edition. Not Bound. Very Good. Artist Published Paperback
1896rif. D11320Berlin / Weimar: Neue Photogr. Gesellsch / Deutschen Photogr. Seitung K. Schwier 1896-1897. Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth and decorative paper portfolio "Internationale Musterblätter von Portrait-Aufnahmen" stamped on front board; contains 49 silver print photographic plates 6x9 inches with 3-9 images per sheet; loose as issued. Commercial portraits and images of European theatre performers with the plate number and date in the plate. Some show good humor -- a classroom of children being taught by a dog men drinking a woman peering through a tennis racket and the like. Portfolio soiled and worn. A few plates very lightly chipped along the edges but contents are generally VG or better. Neue Photogr. Gesellsch / Deutschen Photogr. Seitung (K. Schwier) hardcover
2007rif. 000220Oceanport NJ: Digital Editions 2007. Reprint. CD_rom. New. Aram Alban Laure Albin-Guillot Binia Bill Pierre Boucher Brassai Louis Caillaud Frantisek Drtikol Nora Dumas Andreas Feininger Emile Gos John Hanvinden Raoul Hausmann Florence Henri Andre Kertesz Edmund Kesting Julius Kulszar-Magyar Ergy L. A digital reproduction of photographic art originally published in Paris 1935 by Editions d'Art Graphique et Photographique. This remarkable publication assembled in a single volume 96 examples of the sensual sometimes erotic work of Europes outstanding photographic artists: Aram Alban Laure Albin-Guillot Binia Bill Pierre Boucher Brassai Louis Caillaud Frantisek Drtikol Nora Dumas Andreas Feininger Emile Gos John Hanvinden Raoul Hausmann Florence Henri Andre Kertesz Edmund Kesting Julius Kulszar-Magyar Ergy Landau Jacques Lemare Therese Le Prat Herbert List George Platt Lynes Man Ray Dora Maar Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Franz Roh Georges Saad Roger Schall Emmanuel Sougez Andre Steiner Stephen Storm Rolf Ubach-Michelet Maurice Tabard and Maurice P. Verneuil. This edition contains 214 high-resolution images 171 Mb in jpg format and a small text file in doc format. For a more detailed description see http://www.imagesofhistory.com/FormesNues.htm CD-ROM. Digital Editions
