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Image for The Quantocks and Their Associations. A Paper Read Before the Members of the Bath Literary Club on the 11th December 1871. [Significant, inscribed association copy]

The Quantocks and Their Associations. A Paper Read Before the Members of the Bath Literary Club on the 11th December 1871. [Significant, inscribed association copy]

By: NICHOLS, WILLIAM LUKE

Price: $325.00

Publisher: Bath: Printed for Private Circulation: 1873

Seller ID: k190121l

Condition: Good

1st ed., 8vo, original decorated green cloth, gilt decorations and lettering. 41 [2] i-xxxiii. Tipped in photographic frontispiece of “Wordsworth’s Glen.” [See note below] A talk about the Quantock Hills area of southwest England, where Coleridge and Wordsworth wrote Lyrical Ballads, which Nichols writes about the landscape as well as some of the other "Quantock Poets," including Charles Lamb, Thomas Lovell Beddoes and Charles Lloyd. Gift inscription on FFEP “with the writer’s compliments” to Welsh mathematician, photographer, and painter Rev. Calvert R. Jones, [1804-1877]. We bel...
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Pictures of California Floods 1955 - 1956 [portfolio]

By: California State Dept of Education

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Sacramento, California State Dept of Education: 1956

Seller ID: k181231a

40 single plate black & white photographs (8 1/2" x 11"), printed on stiff paper and housed in publisher's printed portfolio folder; accompanied by three page "Teacher's Guide"). Plates are fine; folder has some wear and a few nicks but very good overall; title written in red ink on the spine. The photographs depict the famous CA flooding throughout the north state the week before Christmas --, principally Yuba City and the Feather River, but also other cities and counties -- including a few in the south state. ; a photographic archive of the mainly northern and central California flood even...
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Personal Photo Album - Oahu 1940-41; on the Eve of World War II. 165 original b/w photos.

By: Drake, Robert L.

Price: $275.00

Publisher: Oahu, 1941

Seller ID: k180331d

A wide variety of photos of camp life at Schofield Barracks and activities of the Hawaiian Division Command -- extra-illustrated with original cartoons drawn by one of the soldiers stationed there. Appears to be assembled by Sgt. Robert J. Drake of Columbus Georgia. Camp social life, barracks, scenery. Not much military history, but a great portrait of life on base.
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MANHOLE COVERS OF LOS ANGELES / No. IV in the series ‘Los Angeles Miscellany’

By: Melnick, Robert and Mimi

Price: $140.00

Publisher: Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles: 1974

Seller ID: k180620b

8vo, decorated boards, black cloth spine w/ gilt titles, 82 pages, illustrated w/b&w photos. No. IV in the series ‘Los Angeles Miscellany’. A classic work of urban archeology. Very good: A clean, tight copy with near fine appearance overall, but with rubbed and slightly chipped corners.
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Vintage Photograph of Robert Louis Stevenson in Hawaii, 1889

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Hawaii, 1889

Seller ID: k201010e

Condition: Very good

8"x10" matte-finish toned silver print of RLS and King Kalakaua, Honolulu. [Image size 6”x7-3/4”] No photographer identified, but probably taken by Joe Strong. RLS seated on wooden chair, King (white suit) in armchair, RLS (l leg over r, looking at camera) wearing a lei and coat over his shoulders. Copies of the photograph are in the Stevenson section of the Writer’s Museum, Edinburgh and the Beinecke Library, Yale Univ. The photo is indexed in the Robert Luis Stevenson Archive/Catalog of Photographs as Jan-Jun 1989, photo 9. The photo was used in J.C. Furnas' "Voyage to Windward... t...
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Meubles d’Art Nouveau au Salon du Mobilier de 1902. (Art Nouveau Furniture from the 1902 Paris Salon of Furniture)

By: Thezard, Emile [Ed.]

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Paris: A. Dourdan: 1903

Seller ID: s180407a

Art nouveau furniture designs from the 1902 Salon, one of several held in Paris at the turn of the century that introduced and advanced the nouveau revolution in art and design. Forty-three folio-sized sheets [13"x18") containing 130 b/w heliotype photographs of chairs, tables, book cases, beds, and other nouveau furniture. These were printed by Maison Fortier et Marotte, Paris. Condition: Fair; Covers are detached with substantial soiling and chipping. Most of the plates are very good-fine but several are soiled or stained -- most often on the recto but sometimes on verso. The margins are wi...
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Olympia 1936. Die Oliympischen Spiele 1936 in Berlin und Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Band I. [The1936] Olympic Games in Berlin Vol I]

By: [Olympics]

Price: $325.00

Publisher: Berlin, Cigareten-Bilderdienst, Hamburgo : 1936

Seller ID: k180331a

4to, Publisher's blue boards with bright gilt design and black lettering. 128 pp. plus folding map. The first only of two volumes; this volume for the winter olympics. Several hundred glossy photographs tipped-in to their pages; mostly b/w but some color. A good+ copy overall. Text block and photos are very good-fine with some light toning to page margins. Covers are rubbed at corners and top of spine with a 2" white crayon mark on front cover and some rubbing to the gilt logo.
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Second World War - German Soldier's travelogue photo album. 92 photos; 1943-45.

By: [Photographs]

Price: $225.00

Seller ID: k180331f

92 photos of Life in camp, behind the lines; touring the fronts [Western & Eastern] No battle scenes. A additional 30-40 photos in the latter half of the album are personal photos long after the war into 1990 and of little to no value.
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Cabinet Cards - 50 sepia toned photographs of New York businessmen. 1877-1881

By: [Photographs] Pach, Gustavus

Price: $550.00

Publisher: New York, 1877-1881

Seller ID: k180331e

50 sepia toned photographs of New York businessmen by noted photographer Gustavus Pach. With his engraved logotype on the back. The photos are unidentified and undated, but were produced sometime between 1877 and 1881 while Pach had his studio at this New York address. Rich and famous; ordinary? We have no idea. Very good-fine condition.
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Orwat and Wife - Colored Silver Gelatin Print of Inuit Couple, 1898

By: [Photograph] Leeson, Benjamin W.

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Victoria BC, Leeson, Benjamin W. : 1898

Seller ID: k210111d

Condition: Near fine

Orwat and Wife - Colored Silver Gelatin Print of Inuit Couple, 1898 7.5-9.5”, signed by the photographer at bottom and again, with hand-lettered title on verso. The photo was taken in 1898; unknown when Leeson printed and colored this particular copy. Benjamin William (B. W.) Leeson (1866 - 1948) of Vancouver, B.C. was a scholar, customs official, and photographer who studied the Quatsino peoples of Vancouver Island. He began taking photographs in the Cariboo in 1887 and moved to Quatsino Sound in about 1894 where he and his father managed the salmon and clam cannery located on the opp...
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