THE IMAGE OF WAR: 1861-1865 6 volumes. SHADOWS OF THE STORM; THE GUNS OF '62; THE EMBATTLED CONFEDERACY; FIGHTING FOR TIME; THE SOUTH BESIEGED; THE END OF AN ERA.
NY: Doubleday & Co., 1981-1984. 4to's. Black cloth. Allvery good in dustjacket. More
Photography
ELEVEN ORIGINAL PHOTOS OF THE WRECK OF THE SCHOONER "HENRY M. CLARKE" AT ATLANTIC CITY IRON PIER, AUG. 25, 1891- AUG. 29, 1891.
Philadelphia, PA: Clark Dillenbeck, C.E., 1631 Arch St. [1891]. Eleven photos, ranging in size from 4 5/8 x 3 5/8 in. to 3 3/8 x 4 1/4 in., mounted on stiff card stock. Stamped on verso "Clark Dillenbeck, C.E., 1631 Arch St., Philadelphia, PA.," and captioned in ink in a...... More
American Beauty Personified as the Nine Muses.
(Boston, MA: A. A. Childs & Co., Printed by Rand, Avery & Frye], nd [1869]. First edition. Square 12mo (7 1/8 x 6 1/8 inches). 27 leaves [printed rectos only], the text enclosed within bold red rules. Photographic portrait frontispiece of the artist Joseph Fagnani. The text on leaves 16-27..... More
With Compliments of C.P. Flockton of Walack's Theatre, New York, and Prince of Wales's, Olympic, Adelphi Theatres, London, Permanent Address, Lamb's Club, New York [cover title].
(New York: Ollivier, Photographer), nd [ca. 1875]. First edition. Small 4to. 13 photographs, eleven 7 1/4 x 4 3/8 inches, the other two 5 1/8 x 3 7/8 inches, mounted on seven leaves of cad stock, the first a portrait of Flockton, the other 12 presenting him dressed for some..... More
A SMALL GROUP OF PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTS PRODUCED FROM IMAGES TAKEN FROM THE ORIGINAL 1860-1861 BOUNDARY COMMISSION FIELD WORK ALONG THE 49th PARALLEL. PREPARED FOR THE BRITISH AND AMERICAN JOINT COMMISSION REPORT MAKING A FINAL SETTLEMENT, IN 1865-67, OF DISPUTES ALONG THE BORDER BETWEEN BRITISH NORTH AMERICA [CANADA] AND THE UNITED STATES
Washington, DC: A. Gardner, Photographer, 511 Seventh Street, nd [ca.1865-67]. Photographic prints, all mounted on stiff card stock with the imprint of Alexander Gardner's Seventh Street studio in Washington, D.C., including three prints of photographs on three sheets, and eight prints of illustrations on six sheets, each with a caption..... More
Tales of Beaufort; Illustrated with photographs by Eugene B. Sloan
Beaufort, SC: Beaufort Book Shop (R.L. Bryan Co., Columbia), (1964). Revised second edition. 8vo. xii, 155, (1) pp. Illus. from photographs, plates, illus. endpapers. Bookplate on verso of front endpaper, portions of dust jacket mounted on endpapers, a good copy. Tan cloth (soiled). (#8059). More
Tales of Columbia; Introduction by Augustus Tompkins Graydon. Illustrated with photographs by Eugene B. Sloan
(Columbia, SC: R.L. Bryan Co., c1964). First edition. 8vo. xvi, 263 pp. Illustrated from photos, plates, color view on title page. Bookplate on half-title, portions of dust jacket mounted on endpapers, a good copy. Gilt-stamped gray cloth (soiled). Over 100 short sketches covering historical events (colonial, ante-bellum, civil war, reconstruction..... More
Hawaii as pictured in a group of ten photographs, as described below.; All are mounted, either on thick card stock or stiff album leaves. Some of the images are a bit wrinkled, others show a little fading, soiling or rubbing; a number of the mounts are foxed. Still a very good lot.
(1) [A group of four Hawaiians, three women and a man, eating poi, sitting cross legged behind bowls in a studio setting]. Oval photograph, 5 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches, inset on photo paper, 6 1/2 x 9 inches, mounted on a large board. Dated in pencil on verso "circa..... More
PHOTOGRAPHS BY KEN HEINEN, FOR THE COLUMBIA MISSOURIAN, ENTITLED "DEMONSTRATION FOR APATHY," EXHIBITED AT THE 23rd ANNUAL PHOTO COMPETITION.
[1966]. A group of seven black & white photos, laid down on three stiff black backing boards, all depicting an anti-Vietnam War march on Washington, probably from April 1965, called "The March on Washington for Peace in Vietnam." The photos vary in size from 6 1/4 x 6 3/4 in...... More
DESCENDANTS OF GEORGE HUBBARD, FROM 1600 TO 1872.
NY: The author, 1872. First edition. 8vo. 34 pp. Illustrated with two mounted photographic portraits and a photographic frontispiece plate of the author, signed by him under the image. Largely a Massachusetts and New Hampshire family. Original gilt-stamped cloth. One leaf torn into text (no loss), some pencil markings, otherwise..... More
Picture Maker of the Old West, William H. Jackson
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. First edition. 4to. x, (2), 308 pp. 393 photographs, sketches, and paintings, plates, endpaper maps. Old tideline at lower corner of dust jacket's rear panel and a number of leaves of text, else very good. Original brown silver-stamped decorated cloth, color pictorial dust jacket..... More
Jacksonville, Fla.: Indelible Photographs
NY: Albertype Co. [for} A. Wittemann, c1892. Oblong 8vo. 32 photographic plates of captioned scenes from around Jacksonville. Original 3-color and gilt-stamped illustrated blue cloth, tied. Very good. Second edition (first published in 1891). Servies 10445 (JPL, but only 29 plates). Cf. Servies 10145 (UFPKY only, for the 1891 edition)..... More
PHOTOGRAPHICALLY ILLUSTRATED TRADE CARD, with a mounted photograph of a bouquet of ornamental grasses on recto, captioned “Florida Natural Dried Grasses, Various, Curious, Beautiful: A Splendid Parlor Decoration, A Beautiful Mantel Ornament, Retaining their Shape and Beauty for Several Years,” dated in print “Jacksonville, Sept. 15, 1877” beneath the image; verso prints advertising material, a “Price List of Florida Ornamental Grass Bouquets,” the announcement for a catalogue, etc.
Jacksonville, FL: St. Johns River Nursery & Grass Bouquet Manufactory, 1877. Trade card, 5 ½ x 4 1/8 inches, with mounted photograph (3 5/8 x 2 5/8 inches; two tiny white spots in upper left corner of background). St. Johns River Nursery was owned by Alexander Henry. Very good. More
PEE DEE PANORAMA. Photographs by Carl Julien. Introduction by James McBride Dabbs.
Columbia, (SC): USC Press, 1951. First edition. 4to. (10), 118 pp. Photographic essay on the Pee Dee watershed. A 28-page introduction by Dabbs and 83 captioned photographs by Julien, each with a short description at the rear, illustrated endpapers. Gift inscription in the year of publication, endpapers and edges lightly..... More
Japanese Temples: Sculpture, Paintings, Gardens, and Architecture. Photographs by Tatsuzo Sato, Shihachi Fujimoto, Yoshio Watanabe, Ken Domon, Yasukichi Irie, Yukio Futagawa.
Amsterdam and Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha and Harry N. Abrams, (1964). First edition. Folio. 554 pp. Profusely illustrated, plates, maps. "The text endeavors to bind [the illustrations] into a religious and artistic history of Japan as revealed through its chief extant monuments [i.e., the temples]." Bookplate on front pastedown, else very..... More
Vacations Here and There [manuscript title page]
Grand Lake, ME, and other sites: 1940-1942. 4to (12 3/4 x 10 1/4 inches), with 79 mounted photographs, mostly in the 2 1/2 x 3 inch range (with a few much smaller and a few 7 x 9), almost all with ink captions and with a little other manuscript commentary..... More
Colorado on Glass: Colorado's First Half Century as Seen by the Camera. With a directory of early Colorado photographers by Opal Murry Harber
(Denver, CO): Sundance Limited, (1980). Later printing. 4to. x, 406 pp. Profusely illustrated with Colorado photographs from 1853 through the early years of the 20th century, plates, some in color, folding panorama, illustrated endpapers. The photos picture outdoor scenery, streetscapes, individual buildings and people, industrial, commercial, agricultural, and mining endeavors..... More
IMAGES OF JAPANESE CAVALRYMEN IN THE LATE-1930'S, AS COLLECTED IN A PHOTO ALBUM.
[ca.1937-38]. Oblong 4to photograph album, 24 leaves of stiff black paper, with photographs mounted mostly two or more to a page. Approximately 65 of the photographs are portraits of individual cavalrymen, with collar insignia indicating service with the 25th Cavalry Regiment of the 4th Cavalry Brigade, Imperial Japanese Army; the..... More
Interlude in Africa [cover title]
NP: The author, nd [1977?]. First edition. Small 4to. (11) pp. Illustrated (line drawings by the author). Account of a two-week Kenya safari in 1976, spent "photographing and sketching (doodling?) wild animals and other natural scenery." Inscribed by the author in 1978. Illustrated green wrappers, stapled. Very good. More
Mountaineering in the Alps of Switzerland circa 1910,
as pictured in two photograph albums comprising 74 snapshots, each 2 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches. 12mo. cloth albums. 33 of the photographs are landscapes of the mountains taken at great height, almost all including snow, glaciers, sheer faces, and soaring peaks; 13 more scenes from the same series include..... More
The Holy Land, 1910-1920. 24 photogravures by S[hlomo] Narinsky.
Jerusalem: Jamal Bros. c1921. First edition (?). 4to. Title and contents leaf, 24 photogravures of scenes from the Holy Land, each captioned and signed by the photographer in brown ink and protected with a tissue guard. All of the scenes are from Palestine: David's Tower, the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem..... More
Mes Croisieres dan la Mer de Behring: Nouvelles Chasses et Nouveaux Voyages. Traduit de L'Allemand par I. Roustan. Avec 132 gravures d'apres les photographies de l'auteur et une carte.
Paris: Plon-Nourrit, 1908. First edition in French (first published in English in 1909 by Rowland Ward as "Cruises in the Bering Sea"). 8vo. (6), ii, 296, (2) pp. Illustrated from photographs, portrait frontispiece of the author, plates, folding map in pocket at rear. Czech Asia, p. 150: "On the Kamchatkan..... More
PHOTO ARCHIVE OF THE TWENTIETH KANSAS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY'S SERVICE IN THE PHILIPPINE AMERICAN WAR, 1898-1899, ALL PRESUMABLY FROM THE ESTATE OF LT. COL. EDWARD C. LITTLE WHO COMMANDED THE FIRST BATTALION UNDER COL. FREDERICK FUNSTON.
(1898-1899). Twenty-three original black & white photos, varying in size from 9 x 11 in. to 3.5 x 4.5 in., all mounted on stiff card stock. Two or three of the images are faded, but overall the photos are clear. The group includes both military actions during the Philippine American..... More
McLEOD--THE WILD WEST PHOTOGRAPHER
Photograph, measuring 9 1/4 x 7 in., mounted on stiff cardboard, n.d. Image of a pair of 'cowpokes,' one mounted on a steer with a rifle slung over his shoulder, the other standing alongside, both wearing cowboy hats, and posed in front of a low log cabin. Some fading and..... More
THREE UNIDENTIFIED GENTLEMEN IN JACKETS AND VESTS, posed in a studio, full-length, with arms linked, as pictured in a cabinet card photograph, 5 3/4 x 3 7/8 inches, mounted on larger, heavy card stock, with the photographer's name "A. McIntosh, Hickory, N.C." printed in the card's lower margin.
Hickory, NC: nd [ca. 1900]. Backmark stamp: "Copies by Harvey M. Day, Charlotte, N.C." Both McIntosh and Day were at work in their respective cities at the turn of the 20th century. Some wear around the edges and on verso, a good example. (10305). More