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1894Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 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
1911Best.-Nr. 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
1927Best.-Nr. 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
1864Best.-Nr. 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
1925Best.-Nr. 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
1852Best.-Nr. 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
1862Best.-Nr. 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
1867Best.-Nr. 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
1854Best.-Nr. BB120CRYSTAL PALACE aka GREAT EXHIBITION Descriptions of the Egyptian Court erected in the Crystal Palace by Owen Jones and Joseph Bonomi with an historical notice of the monuments of Egypt by Samuel Sharpe 71pp The Greek Court. 113pp An Apology for the Colouring of the Greek Court 56pp The Roman Court ii 86pp The Alhambra Court 119pp The Nineveh Court 80pp The Byzantine and Romanesque Court 116pp The Mediæval Court 123pp The Renaissance Court 108pp The Italian Court 91pp The Pompeian Court 73pp Guide to the Crystal Palace and Park by Samuel Phillips 193pp. London: Bradbury & Evans 1854 the last volume 1856. TWELVE volumes bound as three each of the dozen titles with a colored pictorial printed front wrapper folding frontispiece and profusely illustrated including additional folding plates. 8vo 3/4 leather scuffed marbled boards exterior worn internally near-fine. Individually issued as part of the Crystal Palace Library series rarely does one find such a large collection of these small titles bound together detailing the specific contents of each division. The Crystal Palace was a cast iron and plate glass structure originally built in Hyde Park London to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. After the exhibition the Palace was relocated to an area of South London known as Penge Place which had been excised from Penge Common. It was rebuilt at the top of Penge Peak next to Sydenham Hill an affluent suburb of large villas. It stood there from June 1854 until its destruction by fire in November 1936. The nearby residential area was renamed Crystal Palace after the landmark. The park still contains Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins's Crystal Palace Dinosaurs which date back to 1854. Bradbury & Evans hardcover books
1894Best.-Nr. 008457San Francisco: H. S. Crocker 1894. Hardcover. Fine. MIDWINTER FAIR. Oblong quarto. 10x13 inches. Three parts bound together. Illustrated with 8 full-page lithographed color plates by Dickman-Jones Co. of San Francisco plus the full set of 24 full-page lithographed color plates by H. S. Crocker Co. plus over 213 full-page black & white photographs with extensive descriptive text including 13 of 14 double-page panoramas. Publisher's binding of three-quarter brown morocco darker cloth sides gilt lettering and pictorial element on cloth cover gilt-lettered spine. Outer hinges and spine ends rubbed 3 corners show light wear. A fine clean copy. First edition. With the bookplate of Thomas Wayne Norris and included in the famous Norris Catalogue. An incredibly scarce tile with the full complement of 24 full-page color lithographs Series I & II of scenes and buildings at the Midwinter Fair also issued by H. S. Crocker Co. and the addition of the souvenir grouping Glimpses of the Midwinter Fair issued by Dickman-Jones Co. to their customers with 8 full-page color lithographs of the Fair bound in with its original wrappers. Sunset City and Sunset Scenes is usually found only with the Taber black & white reproductions. We have never had a copy bound with the full series of color lithographs although over the years we've seen a few odd plates. The large number of black and white photographic reproductions include a number of views of the buildings and grounds of the Midwinter Fair held in Golden Gate Park; they are interspersed with select views of the natural wonders of the State. Nearly all the photographs are by Isaiah W. Taber official photographer of the Fair. The text for the non-Fair images was written by J. M. Hutchings; the twenty-four lithographs issued by Crocker were drawn by the famous western artist H. W. Hansen. Norris Norris Catalogue this copy: 3493; Rocq Glimpses of the Midwinter Fair: 11355; Rocq Sunset City: 11359; no Auction Records that include the color plates. H. S. Crocker hardcover books
1798Best.-Nr. 43772Paris: Imprimerie de la Republique 1798. Exposition publique des produits de l'industrie française. Catalogue des produits industriels qui ont été exposés au Champ-de-Mars pendant les trois derniers jours complémentaires de l'an VI . . . 25pp. Paris: Imprimerie de la République Vendémiaire an VII 1798. 199 x 129 mm. Original plain blue-gray wrappers lower corner of front wrapper lightly creased; boxed. Minor foxing but fine otherwise. First Edition of the catalogue of the First Official Public National Industrial Exposition the forerunner of all subsequent "World's Fairs" and international expositions. In 1797 the Marquis d'Avèze an official of the French Republican government visited the factories of Sèvres china Gobelins tapestries and Savonnerie carpets and was appalled to find the factory workshops deserted their artisans starving and their warehouses filled with luxury goods that had no commercial outlet. "It then occurred to the marquis that if these and other objects of industry of the national manufactures could be collected together in one large exhibition a stimulus might be given to the native industry and thus relief be afforded to the suffering workmen. The plan was approved by M. François de Neufchâteau the Minister of the Interior" Tomlinson p. ii. Due to political difficulties the exhibition was not held until the following year. After a highly successful preliminary showing at the Maison d'Orsay the French government built a "Temple of Industry" on the Champ de Mars surrounded by 60 arcades filled with useful and decorative objects by French manufacturers. "The Exhibition remained open only during the last three complimentary days of the year VI of the Republic; but it excited the greatest enthusiasm throughout the country. The merits of the several exhibitors were entrusted to the decision of a jury composed of nine men distinguished in science and in art; and this plan was found to work so well that it was continued in subsequent Expositions" Tomlinson p. iii. Rare-OCLC cites only three copies all in French libraries. A second issue of the catalogue expanded to 30 pages was issued at Grenoble in the same year. Tomlinson Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts 1852 I pp. ii-iii. . Imprimerie de la Republique unknown books
