ALTE TABAKZEICHEN (Old Tobacco Labels)
Berlin: Widder-Verlag, 1924. Handsomely produced and illustrated with color and black and white images of tobacco labels. This is #373 of 500 copies.
Berlin: Widder-Verlag, 1924. Handsomely produced and illustrated with color and black and white images of tobacco labels. This is #373 of 500 copies.
Zittau: verlegts Joh. Jacob Schöps, 1750. Hard Cover. An eighteenth century Lutheran hymnal, published in Zittau, 1750, by Johann Jacob Schöps. Text in German. As was common for Lutheran hymnals, there is no musical notation, only lyrics. Hymns are numbered.....
London: [J. S. Virtue & Co.], 1867. Half Leather. The January through October, 1867 issues of the Art Journal, with numerous engraved plates, and additional plates depicting art works from the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1867, the second world’s fair.....
An original sepia photograph, 8” x 10”, which was featured on the cover of the Images of America book on Ashland, Virginia by Dale Paige Talley. Helpfully pencilled on the verso of the photograph is “The Chorus, Minstrel Show’ |.....
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1867. Quarto. Hard Cover. BEING A SERIES OF VIEWS OF THE PRINCIPAL BUILDINGS, CHURCHES, MONUMENTS, ETC. WITH A SELECTION OF SUBJECTS FROM THE ROYAL PICTURE GALLERY, AND OTHER COLLECTIONS OF PAINTINGS; TOGETHER WITH INTERIOR.....
An albumen photograph of a major snowstorm in February 1898, showing a most wintry view of the State House and Boston Common, and a very early image of the Park Street Subway stop. The Park Street Station was one of.....
Hard Cover. About 120 pages of glossy color photographs of Tibetan wall paintings and about 100 pages of text in Japanese; published in 1981 or prior as there is an old invoice for the book dated 1981 laid in;.
1860-1880. A leatherbound Carte de Visite album with metal clasp belonging to “Mrs. Sue F. Terrell, Golansville, Virginia”. The album is full with 26 cartes de visite and 4 tintypes; there are two unbound cdv’s laid in that seem to.....
Leeds: T. W. Green and Co., 1844. Octavo. Hard Cover. [2], [iv], 38, [2], 18, 16, 18, 16, 16, 16, 73 (Volume I is serially paginated, Volume II, through paginated). Relatively uncommon work. This copy bound with most of Volume.....
Leipzig: Verlag von E. A. Seemann. Quarto. Hard Cover. A stout quarto binding in tan buckram, with titling in black. 104 pp. of text in German. Followed by 100 color plates mounted on dark gray art paper, preceded with tissue.....
Leipzig: Verlag von E. A. Seemann. Quarto. Hard Cover. A stout quarto binding in tan buckram, with titling in black. 92 pp. [105-197] of text in German. Followed by 100 color plates mounted on dark gray art paper, preceded with.....
Houghton Mifflin, 1881. Three Quarters Leather. A beautiful copy of the Longfellow Portfolio [Deluxe Edition] bound in three quarter morocco over green pebbled cloth. All edges gilt. All of the numbered plates are present, but none have the artist’s pencilled.....
[Washington, D.C.]: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1944. 40” x 28.5”; Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz World War II framed propaganda poster; original Official Navy Poster, Industrial Incentive Division; “That’s The Spot To Hit!”. Some creases evident, but no tears --.....
A. Hoen & Co. | Hatch Lith. Co., [1874]. Lithographic advertisement for Diana brand tobacco, by A. Hoen & Co. in Richmond, Va.
Richmond, Va. A. Hoen & Co., [c. 1890]. 10 3/8 x 10 3/8”; color chromolithograph label for “Winner Plug Tobacco” backed in linen. The British-American Tobacco Co. was the advertising company and labels such as these were intended to be.....
[Virginia City, Nevada]: [Kierski & Co’s Book Store], [c. 1870]. A Christmas advertising card depicting a weary Santa, taking a much needed reading break. Printed for the Kierski & Co. Book Store in Virginia City, Nevada, from the 1870’s. Originally.....
New York: Wm. Helburn, [1902]. Forty plates in autotype, housed in a somewhat worn portfolio, with a preliminary title leaf. The title leaf is a bit chipped; all of the 40 plates are Very Good. The portfolio is lacking the.....
A finely illuminated double-sided leaf from a 15th century Book of Hours. Thirteen lines in Latin, with richly decorated and embellished capitals in blue, red and gold. A beautifully penned border with leaves in gold, and tiny flowers in blue.....
A group of 50 unused matchbox printed labels from Sweden, most approximately 1.25” x 2” (well now, that’s just about the size of a matchbox).. In vivid colors.~~Undated, but surely from the first half of the 20th century. For the.....
Yale University Press, 1924. Two 8 x 10” movie stills from “Dixie”, one of The Chronicles of America Photoplays, a series undertaken by the Yale University Press as attempt to translate their history books of the same name into film.....
East Aurora, NY | Boston: [Roycrofters] Printed for the Musiclovers Company by the Roycrofters, 1905. Quarto. Soft Cover. First Edition. First Edition of the First Issue of The Musiclovers Calendar. Advertisements at the front and rear. With photographic portrait plates.....
Philadelphia: William M. Harding, [1870’s]. A deeply embossed morocco photograph album with clasps; all edges gilt and gauffered. Sadly, a number of the mounts are torn and with loss at the bottom. The album is about half full, with approximately.....
A mounted photograph (7 1/2” x 9 1/2”; on 9 1/2” x 10 1/2” captioned mount), along with a patch for the Trumpetfish attached at the top of the mount. The USS Trumpetish, a Balao class submarine was launched in.....
Seattle, Washington; Longview, Washington; Portland, Oregon: West Coast Lumber Bureau, [1928]. Original Wrappers. With illustrated views of the interiors and exteriors of the houses, in addition to architectural plans of each. Tearing with loss to the fore edge of the.....
Library of Congress with in association with Academia Sinica Digital Center, 2013. Hard Cover. First Edition. Bound in grey cloth with a pictorial pastedown; housed in a pictorial slipcase .~No marks of any kind. Slipcase bumped at spine bottom edge.....