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rif. B254468-1Philadelphia/Chicago International Publishing Company 1893. 640pp. Prof. illus. 4to. Orig. full embossed leather disbound; head of spine damaged. A.e.g. Philadelphia/Chicago (International Publishing Company), 1893. hardcover books
rif. 4015San Diego:: The Exposition . Many halftones plans and maps. 80 pp. Tall 8vo stiff white wrappers front pictorial and in color; come separation at head and foot of spine; lower front corner bumped and first few leaves slightly dog-eared; two small grease stains on front cover extending through the first three leaves. Institutionally common but scarce in trade—only copies available are print-on-demand copies. San Diego:: [The Exposition], ,. unknown books
1894rif. 305504San Francisco Hergert & Frey Oblong octavo 9 5/8" x 6 1/4". 16 pages of plates from photographs accordion style panorama. Original elaborately gilt stamped red cloth text separated at one fold else very good. No signatures or bookplates. Numerous views of San Francisco Sausalito etc. [San Francisco? Hergert & Frey?, 1894. hardcover books
1894rif. 171109San Francisco: H.S. Crocker 1894. Nos. 1 and 2 in the California Educational Series published in March and May of 1894 and issued as Sunday supplements by the "San Francisco Chronicle" in conjunction with the California Midwinter International Exposition a World's Fair held from January 27 through July 5 1894 in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Each volume features 12 color lithograph illustrations accompanied by descriptive captions. Both volumes side-stapled in wrappers. No. 1 Good only moderate loss to the wrapper edges with wrappers and several leaves detached from the binding. No. 2 Very Good plus with some light wear to the bottom right corner of the final leaf and rear wrapper. H.S. Crocker unknown books
1931rif. 172102New York: The Museum of Modern Art MOMA 1931. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. Published in conjunction with a show held at MOMA from March 13 through April 26 1931. Illustrated in black-and-white. Very Good or better in perfect-bound wrappers with some faint foxing to the endpapers and a couple of faint splashes to the front endpaper. The Museum of Modern Art [MOMA] unknown books
2007rif. 64762Manchester England: RGG Publishing 2007. First edition. Leia Bell. 168 pp. Small square quarto 21 cm; pictorial wraps. Bit of rubbing to covers else Near Fine. Exhibition catalogue signed and dated by the artist Leia Bell on the title page in the year of the exhibition. Thoroughly illustrated in full color. Short interview with the artist followed by a broad showcase of her work in four sections: Paintings Drawings Posters Art Prints. "Features all the paintings and drawings from the show plus over 120 posters and art prints covering all her career including all of 2006 and 2007 so far Richard Goodall Gallery." A nice production. From the introduction: "Leia Bell is Salt Lake City's poster queen. She has been creating posters for her own club Kilby Court and other locations in the USA since 2000. She has also produced posters for venues in the UK and Ireland including Rock City Manchester Academy and Vicar Street in Dublin. Her work captures snapshots of everyday life that everyone can relate to re-told as small scale screenprints in very limited runs of around 100 of each print. RGG Publishing unknown books
1893rif. 47874Salt Lake City: George Q. Cannon & Sons Co 1893. First edition. Hardcover. 318pp. Octavo 22 cm Original brown cloth with gilt title to front cover and spine. Blind stamped decorative borders on front and rear covers. Decorative endsheets. Very good. Minor wear to edges surfaces corners. Large spot of fading on the top of front cover. The top edge of the rear board is subtly darkened. There is also a tiny stain on the rear board. A numerical paper label is mounted to the spine. Pages mildly age-toned. Black and white illustrations and photos. Includes: An epitome of the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints compiled by Andrew Jenson. George Q. Cannon & Sons Co hardcover books
1913rif. 191661Bruxelles and Paris: G. Van Oest & cie 1913. One set of 500 printed. Paperback. Good-Both volumes' wraps show heavy shelfwear and small tears here and there foxing soiling and age-toning but are intact; pages of both volumes are very clean and in great condition showing some light age toning as expected with age; pages are untrimmed all around and darkened with age; the spine of Volume I is split in three parts and the back cover and plates 105-118 have been pierced. Tan wraps with black and white lettering and illustration; Volume I is marked as #388 out of 500 copies; Volume II is unnumbered; Volume I has xxxi 317 pp. and 118 plates with some tissue guards. Volume II has 286 pp and 82 plates with some tissue guards. Text in French. The volumes are oversized. 14.5x10.5x5 inches. G. Van Oest & cie paperback books
1876rif. 303823Philadelphia Thomas Hunter 1876. 1876. Oblong small 4to 11 3/8" x 7 1/2". 6 color lithographs on 6 separate sheets. Very good few short tears. Views of Machinery Hall U.S. Government Building Horticultural Hall Agricultural Hall Judges Hall Main Building. No Binding. Very Good. Philadelphia, Thomas Hunter, 1876. unknown books
2003rif. 24026Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago / UCLA Hammer Museum / Harry Abrams 2003. Cloth. Fine/Fine. An immaculate copy of the 2003 1st edition in its less common hardback. Clean and Fine in a crisp Fine dustjacket. Quarto hundreds of first-rate color reproductions throughout. Major monograph on this "pioneer figure in the New York art world" 1931-2022. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago / UCLA Hammer Museum / Harry Abrams unknown books
1990rif. 159588San Francisco: Art Lick Gallery 1990. Vintage flyer advertising San Francisco-based Art Lick Gallery circa 1990. The Art Lick Gallery was opened by artists David Seibold and Luiz da Rosa in 1989 and was at that time the only art gallery located in the Castro District. Founded just as the catastrophic impact of the AIDS crisis was beginning to be fully appreciated in the national media and during an unprecedented attempt at censoring art particularly queer art the gallery served as a safe haven for the LGBTQ art community as well as a bulwark against attacks to the community. In Seibold's own words the gallery was "an alternative to 'downtown' gallery spaces places that sometimes present art work as being so precious and intimidating that it's really unapproachable." Notable among the exhibitions held at Art Lick were Christopher Enzi's "Inferno & Other Scenes" Jerome Caja's "Compact" and the group exhibition "Eros." The shows held at the gallery which included both group and one- and two-person shows proved essential not only to the Castro community but also to the queer community at large during a period often described by many without hyperbole as a time at war. The gallery closed after Seibold's death in 1992. 8.5 x 11 inches. Near Fine with some light edgewear. Art Lick Gallery unknown books
1849rif. 38909New York. 1849. Promoting "the taste for the Fine Arts" this small pamphlet outlines the General Plan of the International Art-Union. In exchange for an annual fee of five dollars the subscriber received an engraving equal to the value of the subscription as well as the opportunity for an American student to study in Europe for two years subsidized by the Union. The final two pages advertise the engravings held by the Art-Union. Among those listed under the "Committee of Reference" are Washington Irving and N.P. Ellis. Minor creasing to edges. Near fine. unknown books
1862rif. 56424London: Her Majesty's Commissioners 1862. First Edition. Folio 37cm. Green library buckram backed in green morocco stamped in gilt on spine and front board all edges sprinkled green top edge stained grey; plain endpapers; viii 18331-11916311-6 7 7 8-111 1 91 1 115 1pp; 3 inserted plates and numerous in-text wood engravings some large. Ex-library with discard stamp to front pastedown and pencil notes to endpapers. Straight and sturdy with minor shelfwear first two leaves repaired at the upper margin occasional scattered foxing and minor fingersoil but largely clean: Very Good. "A descriptive catalog of the industrial exhibits. Volumes 1 and 2 are devoted to the industries of Great Britain. . . At the beginning of volume 1 is 'A concise history of the International Exhibition of 1862' by John Hollingshead." With sections on mining and metallurgy; chemicals and pharmaceuticals; food products; "Animal and Vegetable Substances used in Manufactures"; railroads and trains; carriages; manufacturing machines; agricultural & horticultural technology; and general machinery. RYDELL 114. [Her Majesty's Commissioners] unknown books
1893rif. 4247New York 1893. Fair. 3213840pp. plus two folding plates. Pagination a bit irregular. Illustrated. With dual text in English and Spanish. 12mo. Original blue publisher's cloth stamped in black; spine perished boards loose. Light toning to exterior leaves internally clean. A bilingual guide to the World's Fair in Chicago. The text is printed with English on the upper half of the page and Spanish below. Illustrated with scenes of the fabulous buildings on the grounds and obviously sponsored by "Knox the Hatter" with ads for the haberdasher throughout on the covers and at each end of the main text. A slightly sad copy and obviously used at the event. Still a rare and interesting survivor. unknown books
1908rif. 89233New York & London: Privately Published De Vinne Press 1908. First Limited Edition. No. 65 of 300 numbered copies. Quarto 29.5cm. Half-morocco by Stikeman; 21pp text plus 23 unnumbered leaves of plates photogravures mounted on heavy card stock each with tissue guard and a facing page of text description. Occasional faint foxing to plate margins; small puncture at center of one tissue-guard else a tight Near Fine copy in an attractive Stikeman binding slightly rubbed at joints and spine ends. Introduction signed by J. Taylor Ellyson; main text unattributed. This copy with the engraved bookplate of noted Virginia bibliophile John W. Hancock Sr.; laid in are 1 a 1925 note from Stikeman to Hancock noting that the book is ready to be shipped; 2 the original mailing label from Goodspeed's where the book was originally purchased; and 3 TNS from Hancock to Thomas F. Ryan dated October 26 1925 transmitting details regarding this copy. Attractive copy of this lavishly-produced volume published by Ryan ".for private circulation among his friends who may not have the privilege of seeing the originals.which he preserved as a reminder of one of the most historic of Expositions ever held in America." Doubtless Ryan was concerned as to how one of these freely distributed copies might have entered the trade in 1925 prompting the query to which Hancock's letter preserved here was in answer. [Privately Published] De Vinne Press unknown books
rif. D17552Autograph diary written in pencil signed by Miss Elizabeth Woods of Bowling Green Kentucky. 135 pp. Well educated wealthy American woman's account of seeing Europe; mostly Paris France. Her Southern sensibilities were shocked at seeing a white woman at the same table with a black man. Turns out he was a minister from Haiti and the lady was his wife. Miss Woods saw the Paris Exposition several times; saw Sarah Bernhardt perform; saw President Kruger of South Africa; saw a street where Jews were not allowed to come out after 6pm; describes fancy balls and dinners; shopping for clothes.much of interest. Worn oil cloth binding. Numerous accounts of "charming" or "lovely" people. hardcover books
1894rif. LIST109Various Places 1894. Sammelband of thirteen reports each with original front wrapper or wrappers bound-in; in half-calf with gilt titles on spine. Very Good. Includes: Guillouard Louis. Rapport sur les travaux du comiteÌ deÌpartemental du Calvados. Caen: Ch. Valin 1893. 19 pp. printed gray wrapper; Drouet Paul. Souvenir du neuvième Congrès international des ameÌricanistes tenu en 1892 à Huelva Espagne et de l'exposition reÌtrospective de Madrid. Caen: Delesques 1893. 56 pp. printed pink wrapper; Bazenerye Armand. Quatrième centenaire de la deÌcouverte de l'AmeÌrique. ComiteÌs du Cher et de l'Indre chargeÌs d'assurer la participation. Bourges; M.H. Sire 1894. 38 pp. with illus. b/w frontispiece in printed green wrapper; Kerros Ernest de. Quatrième centenaire de la deÌcouverte de l'AmeÌrique. ComiteÌ du Finistère…. Brest: A. Dumont 1894. 35 pp. in printed gray wrapper; Sarran d'Allard Louis de. Le Quatrième centenaire de la deÌcouverte de l'AmeÌrique dans les CeÌvennes. Anduze: Castagnier 1893. 35 pp. in printed wrapper; Couret Alphonse. Rapport d'ensemble sur les travaux du comiteÌ orleÌanais pour la ceÌleÌbration du quatrième centenaire de la deÌcouverte de l'AmeÌrique. OrleÌans: G. Michau 1893. 15 pp. printed wrapper; Couret Alphonse. L’Exposition Hispano-Orleanaise de la rue Jeanne-d’Arc. Orleans: Michau 1892. 15 pp. printed wrapper; Couret Alfonse. Les Relations d'OrleÌans avec l'Espagne et les Espagnols au siège d'OrleÌans en 1428-1429. Orleans: Michau 1892. 13 pp. printed wrapper; Plante Adrien. Le Congrès de Huelva. Orthez: J. Goude-Dumesnil 1893. 44 pp. printed wrapper; Hospital Pierre. Quatrième centenaire de la deÌcouverte de l'AmeÌrique . Rapport à M. le marquis de Croizier . sur les travaux du ComiteÌ en 1892-93…. Clermont-Ferrand: G. Mont-Louis 1894. 16 pp. printed wrapper; Barghon de Fort-Rion François de. Le Portugal au quatrième centenaire de la deÌcouverte de l'AmeÌrique et à l'Exposition de Madrid 1892. Paris: Chez les principaux libraires 1895. 38 pp. printed wrapper; Laville Auguste. Quatrième centenaire de la deÌcouverte de l'AmeÌrique … Comite du Var …. Toulon: Isnard 1894. 26 pp. with two albumen prints of decorative medallions tipped in printed wrappers; Terris Jules de. Quatrième centenaire de la deÌcouverte de l'AmeÌrique. Comite de Vaucluse. Bar-le-Duc: Bertrand 1894. 16 pp. printed wrappers. An interesting collection of imprints showing the French involvement in the Columbian Exposition. All reports related to the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus given by various governmental or academic committees documenting French participation in the exposition celebrating the same in Madrid and Huelva the Spanish port from which Columbus departed. Some with manuscript signatures or dedications from the author to the Marquis de Croizier. Volume presumably from Croizier’s library. One see above Laville with photographic prints tipped in. Generally very good with boards rubbed corners bent one pamphlet tearing at fore-edge. OCLC finds no or fewer than five North American holdings for most reports one unrecorded. unknown books
rif. 39840EXPOSITION--LONDON--1862 THE ART JOURNAL ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION 1862. London: James S. Virtue 1862. Small folio. Contemporary quarter calf all edges gilt. xii 324 pages 10 lithographic plates. First edition. A profusely illustrated catalogue for the London 1862 exhibition the much enlarged successful followup to the original inaugural 1851 exhibition published by The Art Journal featuring articles on the fine and decorative arts such as "The International Exhibition" "The Mediaeval Court" "Notes on the Raw Materials used by Artists as seen in the Exhibition" "Machinery employed in Art-Manufactures" "Art in its Influence on Art-Manufacture" "Modern Sculpture of all nations in the Exhibition" among others. Every aspect of arts and manufactures is included and well illustrated: furniture jewellery iron steel and brass work porcelain terra-cotta etc. carpets tapestries glass silver stone and wood carving wall decoration works in sculpture etc. Very good. unknown books
1911rif. 100851Souvenir pamphlet 8vo colored printed pictorial wrappers illustrated 16 pp. Folded and creased down the middle with a little wear at the fold some minor rubbing to wrappers normal aging; otherwise very good. This is a scarce piece of ephemera commemorating the 1911 groundbreaking ceremony by President William H. Taft for the exhibition in the Golden Gate Park. While the purpose of the exhibition was to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal it seemed to function more as a worlds fair held in San Francisco. It took over three years to construct and the exhibition ran from February through December 1915. There are a number of black and white photographs in the booklet including a double page panoramic view of the city of San Francisco. The activities of the ceremony are recorded in this pamphlet which feature speakers songs marches and what they had for dinner Blair-Murdock Co., books
1927rif. 23301NP 1927. Softcover. vg. Oblong 8vo. Unpaginated 24pp. Stapled printed wraps as issued. Rare exhibition catalogue of the "Erste Frühjahrsschau für angewandte Kunst" which was held in Berlin in 1927. Illustrated with 10 tipped-in b/w photographic reproductions of metal ceramic glas wood weaving and ivory art works. "Erste Frühjahrsschau für angewandte Kunst in Berlin zeigt Musterarbeiten aus verschiedenen Materialgruppen vorwiegend Einzelstücke.Angestrebt wird den Begriff und das Unterscheiden von gut und schlecht in Material Form Farbe und Ausführung weiten Kreisen näher zu bringen dadurch Produktion und Absatz wertvoller Dinge zu steigern wertloses zurückzudrängen. Vertreten sind Einzelarbeiten aus Keramik Glas Metall Holz Weberei und verwandten Materialgruppen." Photographs show art work by Prof. L. Gies O. Douglas Hill & A. Ehlers Prof. E. Scharff Prof. C. O. Czeschka E. Lettrè W. Raemisch Prof. M. Läuger Werkstätten der Stadt Halle Kunstgewerbeschule Burg Giebichenstein and Prof. Th. A. Winde. Minor creasing sunning and staining on wraps. Small stain on margins of bottom and fore edge of first 5 pages. Text in German. Overall very good condition. Scarce. NP unknown books
1864rif. 53725London: Day & Son 1864. First Edition. Large octavo 26cm. Publisher's embossed cloth-covered boards decoratively titled in gilt on spine and front cover; xxiv447pp; 431 wood-engraved text-figures; 39 inserted leaves of engraved plates most folding. Neatly rebacked; some spotting and soiling to boards spine cloth slightly dulled. Endpapers soiled with faint marginal tidemark to preliminary leaves but in all a tight complete Very Good copy. Ownership signature on front endpaper of a William John Lafferty Belfast dated 1866. A significant work infrequent in commerce. Especially valuable for its coverage of early railway technology an area in which the author was himself expert as he had served as a Consulting Engineer for the Great North of Scotland Railway as early as 1853. The book's four divisions - Railways; Textile Machinery; Metal and Wood Manufacturing Machinery; and "Machinery in General" are each profusely illustrated with both text figures and folding plates. The final plate at end of text is a "General Plan of the Western Annex" where mechanical exhibits were housed. Day & Son unknown books
1925rif. 32877Paris: Vaugirard 1925. First edition. Original wrappers 480 pages plus unnumbered advertisements folding plates. Small chip at the top of the spine else fine. Vaugirard unknown books
1852rif. 53659London: William Clowes & Sons 1852. First Edition. First printing. Stout octavo 26cm. Publisher's red cloth-covered boards decoratively stamped in gilt and blind; a.e.g.; cxx1-86716pp; 3 inserted leaves of chromolithographic color plates. Mild foxing to preliminary leaves with occasional spots of scattered foxing to text margins. Else a remarkably bright and well-preserved copy of this massive volume easily Near Fine. Full transcript of expert jurors' verdicts on the thousands of entries of items in the Great Exhibition of 1851. Prefaced with an index to the divisions list of jurors and a complete list of the prizes awarded in subject areas ranging from raw materials first prize for "a process for washing and purifying coals" awarded to Bérard & Cie of France to decorative furnishings to the Gobelins-Beauvais Manufactory for "originality and beauty of design of the different specimens of tapestry exhibited". William Clowes & Sons unknown books
1862rif. 9027602London: Clay & Lea 1862. Hardcover. Very good. Expertly rebacked with original spine pieces. Gilt titling on spine is still bright. New endpapers. Clay & Lea hardcover books
1867rif. List01217Boston Paris: J.P. Whitney 1867. First Edition Thus. . 8vo publisher’s green cloth 107 pp. Some tearing and fraying to boards particularly at head of spine text block excellent very good minus overall. Very Good. The scarce Paris Universal Exposition edition of J.P. Whitney’s early title on the silver mines of Colorado. Whitney a wealthy sportsman from Boston with investments in Colorado traveled as the sole commissioner from Colorado to the Paris Universal Exposition in an effort to entice foreign investment in the mining industry which was suffering from a poor reputation as the costs of extraction grew higher. Whitney had published this title in pamphlet form a year earlier. Whitney shipped his own collection of Colorado minerals to France where it was the most extensive of any of the North American regions to be displayed receiving a gold medal from Napoleon III. A new title on Colorado minerals Colorado in the United States of America: Schedule of Ores Contributed by Sundry Persons to the Paris Universal Exposition of 1867 With Some Information about the Region and its Resources. Whitney also brought with him copies of his pamphlet in a special hardcover edition which we offer here. This is the second example we find on the market. Whitney would gain great popularity in Colorado for his efforts which did much to improve its standing. J.P. Whitney unknown books