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Waters, Deborah Dependahl & Kimberley Ahara & Bruce Barnes & JosephCunninghamBiblio.com

The Jewelry and Metalwork of Marie Zimmermann

2012réf. 93811Yale University Press. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 400 pages. 517 color 28 b/w illus. Publisher description: A true eclectic in her personal life her professional pursuits and her creative expression Marie Zimmermann has proven an elusive character for historians. But her skill as a designer and prodigious output of extraordinary jewelry and metalwork in the early 20th century have routinely caught people by surprise. At its best Zimmermann's work is beguiling and exhilarating exploring a wide range of innovative approaches to pattern material and surface. The diversity of her oeuvre including work in gold silver bronze copper and iron is as astonishing as the boldness of the life she led. This book gathers for the first time the story of Zimmermann's life and work and puts a spotlight on one of the most singular makers of metalwork active in early-20th-century America. Essays by leading scholars in the decorative arts offer extensive new research on Zimmermann and her work while more than 500 gorgeous full-color images show the breadth and novelty of her design practice. -- with a bonus offer--; A true eclectic in her personal life her professional pursuits and her creative expression Marie Zimmermann has proven an elusive character for historians. But her skill as a designer and prodigious output of extraordinary jewelry and metalwork in the early 20th century have routinely caught people by surprise. At its best Zimmermann's work is beguiling and exhilarating exploring a wide range of innovative approaches to pattern material and surface. The diversity of her oeuvre including work in gold silver bronze copper and iron is as astonishing as the boldness of the life she led. This book gathers for the first time the story of Zimmermann's life and work and puts a spotlight on one of the most singular makers of metalwork active in early-20th-century America. Essays by leading scholars in the decorative arts offer extensive new research on Zimmermann and her work while more than 500 gorgeous full-color images show the breadth and novelty of her design practice. . 2012. 0300181140 . Yale University Press hardcover

AB Books · États-Unis1 976,00 $US≈ 1 761,93 €

[Women's Education] Caroline D WatersBiblio.com

Mathematics notebook of a 16 year old girl being educated in the 19th century

1850réf. 3448Great Britain 1850. Comprised of 88 manuscript pages of mathematical definitions tables methods and exercises in a single hand with the ownership signature of "Caroline Waters Age 16 yrs" to the front endpaper. Marbled paper vernacular binding measuring 8 x 12 inches and stitched at spine. Caroline's metric measurements and English currency reveal her to be a student somewhere in the UK. Though the commonness of her name and the absence of a specific date prevents us from locating her in genealogy records the manuscript she left behind reveals much about how and why girls of her age and class were being taught arithmetic. Caroline's elegant practiced hand suggests that she is a member of the rising middle class and the opening of the book suggests that she is a beginning to intermediate mathematician. At the top of the first page she defines Arithmetic as "the art of computing by numbers" which "has five principal sic rules for this purpose viz. Numeration Subtraction Addition Multiplication and Division." Using this definition she divides her notebook into a section for each providing a definition for that principle plus clear-cut examples of its use in both Simple and Compound formats. Numeration Subtraction and Addition are grouped together at the front; and after these sections conclude Caroline enters in Practical Questions in Compound Addition and Subtraction. These involve word problems involving the exchange of money and the calculation of wet and dry weights cloth measurements and time. She then mirrors this with Multiplication and Division before adding sections on Decimal Fractions more Practical Questions and sections on Federal Money and Simple Interest. The organization of the manuscript suggests that Caroline copied it out for continued reference where sections are easy to locate and problems clearly illustrate each of the principles. And the emphasis in sample problems on currency conversion monetary exchange and banking implies that her family in some way wanted her to be aware of these concepts. An exceptional and rich document Caroline's notebook is a rich resource for study including but not limited to the history of women's education middle class education women's domestic use of mathematics women in business paleography genealogy gender studies. unknown

Whitmore Rare Books · États-Unis2 000,00 $US≈ 1 783,33 €

Waters" [William Russell]Biblio.com

RECOLLECTIONS OF A DETECTIVE POLICE-OFFICER

1856réf. 53813London: J. & C. Brown & Co 1856. First edition. Very good. First authorized edition in book form of these collected police detective stories the first ever of their kind to feature an investigator from Scotland Yard. Originally published in CHAMBERS'S EDINBURGH JOURNAL the thirteen stories of the First Series plus an eight additional episodes gathered three years later in the Second Series mark the first appearance in fiction of a Scotland Yard detective. Russell in the persona of "Waters" presented his narratives as first-person recollections in line with the conventions of the mid-Victorian police memoir then enjoying great popularity while offering to the reading public a new kind of hero: a policeman with intelligence curiosity and integrity. Detective fiction has always pressed up against the porous borders of that much-derided segment of popular literature now known as "true crime": just as the latter is frequently embellished and distorted for the sake of a better story crime and detective fiction in its earliest forms borrowed the shock of the real insisting as a matter of genre convention that the events depicted were only lightly fictionalized that the reader was given entrée into the "marginalized social space between 'respectable' and 'criminal'" Saunders occupied by the real-life police detective; that they were being told a true story by an insider. Verisimilitude was the point: "The genre was designed to take the private spaces operations and methodologies of the police force and publicize them for the reader and Russell himself explained that his memoir writing was designed to present an inside view into policing for readers" Saunders. Given the bedrock importance of this interplay between the real and the unreal at the dawn of detective fiction it is perhaps unsurprising that Sherlock Holmes the most famous fictional private detective of later Victorian decades would inspire a legion of devotees to insist on his factual reality perfectly well aware that this was not true and sublimely indifferent to it. A handsome copy of this scarce and vital Queen's Quorum and Haycraft-Queen title - especially uncommon complete in one volume. Two octavo volumes bound in one 6.25'' x 4''. Contemporary half calf marbled boards. Gilt-ruled spine with spine label. Lacking frontispiece as sometimes seen. 8 310 pages. In custom cloth slipcase. Sympathetically rebacked with reinforcement to hinges. Some rubbing chipping rear joint. Overall clean and sound. J. & C. Brown & Co unknown

Type Punch Matrix · États-Unis2 000,00 $US≈ 1 783,33 €

Waters" [William Russell]Biblio.com

THE EXPERIENCES OF A FRENCH DETECTIVE OFFICER

1861réf. 54625London: Charles H. Clarke 1861. Very good plus. First edition of this classic Victorian detective novel ostensibly written in the form of a memoir by an expat detective who fled his home country to avoid political persecution. After his RECOLLECTIONS OF A DETECTIVE POLICE-OFFICER 1856 the first novel of its kind to feature an investigator from Scotland Yard Russell followed-up with this first-person series of eight short stories featuring Detective Duhamel "who escaped his native France to avoid imprisonment for political reasons" Dever 234. Detective fiction has always pressed up against the porous borders of that much-derided segment of popular literature now known as "true crime": just as the latter is frequently embellished and distorted for the sake of a better story crime and detective fiction in its earliest forms borrowed the shock of the real insisting as a matter of genre convention that the events depicted were only lightly fictionalized that the reader was given entrée into the "marginalized social space between 'respectable' and 'criminal'" Saunders occupied by the real-life police detective; that they were being told a true story by an insider. Verisimilitude was the point: "The genre was designed to take the private spaces operations and methodologies of the police force and publicize them for the reader and Russell himself explained that his memoir writing was designed to present an inside view into policing for readers" Saunders. To this end Russell / Duhamel begin the book with an "essay" "The Difference Between English and French Detectives" writing: "It is true they are alike agents of the public force and that their common mission is to frustrate or detect offenses against the person and against property. But there the resemblance ends . Yes multifarious all-embracing are the duties of the French Secret Police." Rare; OCLC locates just eight copies. 6.25'' x 4''. Original full purple textured cloth with gilt spine titles. 2 13-317 1 publisher's ad pages complete. Spine sunned with faint perished label shadow. Minor shelfwear. Overall clean and sound. Charles H. Clarke unknown

Type Punch Matrix · États-Unis2 000,00 $US≈ 1 783,33 €

RJ Waters Company R JBiblio.com

Panoramic Photograph Oakland California 1000 ft. elevation

1908réf. NL-02426Spectacular 1908 panoramic aerial photograph of Oakland documenting the city's rapid growth after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. This monumental 1908 panoramic aerial photograph of Oakland California taken by R. J. Waters & Co. captures the city in the midst of its early 20th-century expansion. Shot from roughly 1000 feet in elevation the image looks northeast over downtown toward Lake Merritt and the rolling East Bay hills offering a richly detailed view of the city's grid architecture and civic growth. The intersection of 14th and Broadway dominated by the Oakland Tribune building and early department stores anchors the composition while a dense pattern of Victorian homes brick commercial blocks and broad unpaved streets extends toward the horizon. R. J. Waters a San Francisco photographer renowned for his panoramic and aerial work produced this image at a time when such high-altitude photography was still experimental—likely achieved from a tethered balloon. The photograph's fine clarity and tonal range exemplify the studio's technical mastery and reflect Oakland's transformation into a modern metropolis in the years following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. By 1908 Oakland had become a key node in the post-earthquake migration and rebuilding of the Bay Area drawing residents and industry displaced from San Francisco. The city's population more than doubled between 1900 and 1910 fueled by transbay rail connections the development of the Key System and new civic projects surrounding Lake Merritt and the waterfront. This view preserves that pivotal moment—when Oakland emerged from San Francisco's shadow to define its own urban identity as the industrial and residential heart of the East Bay poised between Victorian domesticity and modern industrial ambition. Census and publication information Issued as a sepia-toned gelatin silver panorama the print bears the caption "Oakland California 1000 Ft. Elevation. Copyright 1908 by R. J. Waters & Co. 370 Market St. San Francisco." A number of US institutions hold collections of R. J. Waters' panoramas including the Library of Congress and Bancroft Library in which this photograph is likely to occur. A specific listing of this particular panorama is available in public online image repositories linked to Library of Congress cataloging OCLC no. 456374167. Context is Everything In the first decade of the twentieth century Oakland was a rapidly growing port and commercial center in the East Bay. The present photograph copyrighted 1908 captures some of this downtown growth as well as the city's integral relationship to Lake Merritt which in 1908 was already an established civic amenity within the urban fabric. R. J. Waters was a San Francisco-based commercial and panoramic photographer active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His studio produced a range of these panoramic views of Californian cities specializing in aerial panoramas that were used both for commercial display pieces and as documentary records. Panoramic photographs like this were typically stitched together from individual images taken from elevated vantage points such as balloons kites or even early aircraft. As such they constitute an essential documentation of American urbanism at the beginning of the 20th century. They were routinely used by municipal city planners rail and shipping interests and photographic studios to advertise a city's size infrastructure and civic landmarks. R. J. Waters' panoramas fit squarely within that commercial/documentary practice and are today considered critical primary sources for reconstructing turn-of-the-century urban form in California. Cartographers: Raper James R. J. Waters 1856–1937 was a commercial photographer active in California and Nevada whose studio produced a wide range of documentary and panoramic photographs around the turn of the 20th century. Waters opened a commercial studio in San Francisco in the 1890s and became especially known for panoramic city views and commercial photographic services. His photographs are held in significant collections including those of the Library of Congress the Getty and the Metropolitan Museum among others. Aerial photos of urban landscapes were among the most common genres of images that R. J. Waters's studio produced in the late 1910s. These include multiple aerial and panoramic images of cities like San Francisco Oakland Fresno and Sacramento. These prints were often made in large sizes for display and municipal record-keeping and now form a valuable visual record of how California cities looked before the ubiquitous transformations of the mid-20th century. Condition Description Scattered wear and soiling. Minor spots of loss. Lower right corner chipped. R.J. Waters Company

Neatline Antique Maps · États-Unis2 200,00 $US≈ 1 961,66 €