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Album with 63 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of California Franciscan MissionsBiblio.com

Album with 63 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of California Franciscan Missions Titled: California’s Richest Heritage – Her Franciscan Missions. Ca. 1933-1935.

rif. PB51Oblong Quarto album ca. 18x29 cm 7 ¼ x 11 ¼ in. 67 black card stock leaves including eight blank at the rear. With 63 mounted gelatin silver photos all ca. 85x85 cm 3 ¼ x 3 ¼ in. All photos with period white ink captions and dates on the mounts captions relate to one or two images. With manuscript white ink title on the second leaf and extensive manuscript notes on separate leaves. Period brown sheep album fastened with a string; gilt-lettered title “Photographs” on the front board; paper labels “Savaco Photograph Album” and “A. Carlisle & Co. Printers Stationers Lithographers San Francisco” on the inner side of the rear board. Album slightly rubbed on extremities a couple of photos mildly faded but overall a very good album of interesting strong photos. Interesting collection of original gelatin silver photos documenting the state of the 18th-century Franciscan missions in California in the 1930s. Dated August 1933 or May-September 1935 the images show nineteen out of twenty-one missions: Mission Dan Diego de Alcala church and bell tower Mission San Carlos de Rio Carmelo church entrance gate Mission San Antonio de Padua church aqueduct Mission San Gabriel Arcangel side wall of the church belfry Mission San Luis Obispo main entrance to the church Mission San Francisco de Asis the original adobe building Mission San Juan Capistrano entrance gate central courtyard statue of “Fra. Junipero Serra and Indian Boy” ruins of the “Great Stone Church” belfry Mission Santa Clara church historic wooden cross Mission San Buenaventura church inner yard with an “olive crusher” Mission Santa Barbara general view church fountain inner courtyard gallery “Indian wash trough” Mission La Purisima Concepcion ruins of the original mission destroyed during the 1812 earthquake “Indian soap pots” Mission Santa Cruz old graves on the mission cemetery Mission Nuestra Senora Dolorisma de la Soledad ruins Mission San Jose de Guadalupe the main entrance Mission San Juan Bautista general view “grave of the last San Juan Mission Indian under the olive trees brought from Spain at Mission San Juan Bautista died March 1929” Mission San Miguel church inner courtyard gallery Mission San Fernando gallery with the sign “Curio Shop” statue of Fra. Junipero Serra and a native child Mission San Luis Rey church courtyard “first pepper tree brought to California from Peru 1830” Mission Santa Ynez church belfry. Three images show the Pala Asistencia “sub-mission” to Mission San Luis Rey established in the modern-day Pala Indian Reservation in northern San Diego County church “Victor and Andre Smith Indian kids at Indian reservation at Pala”. The album also contains a photo of an oil portrait of the founder of the California Missions Franciscan priest Junipero Serra 1713-1784 canonized by the Catholic Church in 2015. The photos are accompanied by extensive manuscript notes commenting on the history or contemporary state of the missions. Overall an interesting original source on the history of the Franciscan missions in California in the first half of the 20th century. unknown

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(COLOR PLATE BOOKS). [SAUVAN, JEAN-BAPTISTE-BALTHAZAR] (BINDINGS - CATHEDRAL-STYLE)Biblio.com

DIORAMA ANGLAIS OU PROMENADES PITTORESQUES À LONDRES: RENFERMANT LES NOTES LES PLUS EXACTES SUR LES CARACTÈRES LES MOEURS ET USAGES DE LA NATION ANGLAISE

1823rif. ST15946Paris: Jules Didot l'aîné et Baudouin Frères 1823. FIRST EDITION. 235 x 150 mm. 9 x 5 3/4". 2 p.l. 235 pp. Quite attractive contemporary calf decorated in gilt and blind in the Gothic cathedral style central panel of covers with blind-stamped centerpiece in the style of a rose window and gilt cornerpieces enclosed by blind- and gilt-roll frames raised bands spine panels with blind-stamped drawer-handle ornaments gilt titling gilt-rolled turn-ins marbled endpapers all edges gilt. WITH 24 LIVELY COLOR PLATES IN THE STYLE OF GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. Front pastedown with book label of "Beguin." Vicaire III 564. Upper cover with small dark stain spine sunned to a soft tan head of spine with small chip minor wear to front joint and corners but the binding solid and pleasant; text leaves with mild foxing due to paper quality but the plates happily unaffected and still bright with vivid coloring. In a stylish contemporary binding and with illustrations depicting the various "characters mores and manners" of the English this humorous exploration of the highs and lows of London society is a close adaptation of Pierce Egan's enormously popular "Life in London." The present work though not a word-for-word translation closely follows Egan's original story of Tom Jerry and Logic a group of friends whose misadventures lead them from the most fashionable districts of London to its poorest slums. The wonderful illustrations show the trio taking part in all manner of mischief and merrymaking including attending a masked ball mingling in the crowded foyer of a theatre visiting a bespoke tailor taking boxing lessons carousing at a rowdy alehouse and perhaps inevitably having to appear before a constable. Though the plates are unsigned they appear to be faithful copies of those done by George and Robert Cruikshank for the original Egan work. Deriving its name from the use of design motifs taken from Gothic architecture the so-called "Cathedral Binding" or "Cathedral-Style Binding" was fashionable in England and France for about three decades beginning ca. 1810. French binder Joseph Thouvenin is sometimes credited with popularizing the style. The design is usually accomplished with either blocking or gilt tooling but sometimes both are employed in a pleasing mixture as seen here. Jules Didot l'aîné et Baudouin Frères unknown