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AARDVARK BOOKS/EZRA THE BOOKFINDER
- War, Peace, and Protest *New*
- Walt Whitman
- Spring Miscellany -- Early Baseball, Travel, Botany, Signed Books, Hand-colored Plates, etc.
ANTIPODEAN BOOKS, MAPS, PRINTS
Featured item
A Pair of Tintypes of Civil War Soldiers in Federal Uniforms, Possibly Women
American, c. 1860s. Quarter plate tintypes, first measuring 2 ½ x 3 inches, second 2 ¼ by 3 ⅜ inches, both cased.
Though it is known that many women - perhaps as many as 750 - served as soldiers in the Civil War, evidence of their service is quite ephemeral. These two images of soldiers in Federal uniforms are ambiguous, though the forms of the bodies and expressions do suggest that both show women soldiers. Loose fitting wool clothing and the formal nature of bathing and hygiene made discovery quite difficult. Women who enlisted would assume a fake name, and of the few documented cases, some were able to serve their posts without discovery. The confirmed images of women soldiers are practically non-existent. One exception is a photograph of the Massachusetts woman Frances Clayton, who fought under the name Jack Williams. Other photos of women in uniform, like that of the spy Pauline Cushman, were obviously posed. Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Matilda Gave cited women’s service in the Civil War as an argument for gender equality in the History of Woman Suffrage (1881).
These two images are intriguing, particularly the duo in the cavalry uniforms. The figure on the right looks more likely to be a woman, though the intimacy is a bit of a conundrum, as generally there are more examples of intra-sex intimacy than inter-sex intimacy in photographs of this period. There is at least one known example - Frances Clayton and her husband - of a husband and wife fighting together.
An intriguing pair of images. The image of the single figure with some scratches to the image and a fully split case, good overall, the image of the pair in excellent condition.
Offered by Auger Down Books, and included in their catalog "E-list #1: New Arrivals in Americana."
- Short List (June 25, 2019)
- Recent Acquisitions (August 2019) *New*
- New Acquisitions (July 2019)
W. C. BAKER RARE BOOKS & EPHEMERA
- High School Favorites (Newsletter) *New*
- Illustrated Books (Newsletter)
- August Newsletter (Brooklyn Antiquarian Book Fair & New Arrivals) *New*
- Highlights from the New York Book Fair & New Arrivals (Newsletter)
- English Libertine Literature 1652-1843 -- Catalog available by request stuart@sbrarebooks.com
Featured item:
Gurevich, S[olomon] S[amoilovich]; (Almazov, N. G., editor).
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo legkoi promyshlennosti, 1933. Octavo (20 × 13.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 71, [1] pp. With twenty-six plates of illustrations, many in color, and two sets of original stereoscopic filters (glasses). Very good. First and only edition.
This technical guide for creating 3D imagery in print (in books, magazines, posters, brochures etc.) offers a unique glimpse into the understanding and uses of this new technology in the Soviet Union during the first Five-Year Plan (1928-1932). Typical for the time, stereoscopic imaging is treated here as a way of advancing Soviet technology and science, rather than its uses in entertainment. Unlike flat imagery, this technology allowed for accurate measurement of distances between two objects in space as well as their accurate size, books with microscopic imaging, astronomy books, as well as technical machine manuals could all use 3D imaging for educational purposes. This text aims to popularize stereoscopic printing by introducing a new printing method developed by the author at the Research Institute of Printing and Publishing Industry, part of the Union of State Printing Houses (OGIZ). The author also mentions that the technology was first developed by the German military during WWI but naturally omits any mention of potential uses of this technology by the Soviet military. Little is known about the author, Solomon Gurevich (1893–19??) who seems to have been a researcher at the Institute. His last publication on the subject is “Three-dimensional print illustration: theory and practice” (1959). One of 2500 copies printed. Not in KVK, OCLC.
Offered by Bernett Penka Rare Books, and included in their list of "Recent Russian and East-European Acquisitions" (item #9).
BETWEEN THE COVERS, RARE BOOKS
- Catalog 58: California Book Fair
- Catalog 57 -- Sustained Ambitions or, The Eccentricities of Endurance
- E-list #1: 37 Photobooks, PhotographicallyIllustrated Artist's Books, and Other Books of Photographic Interest
- American Notes & Queries, 1946-1950 and 1962-1976. 18 volumes, lacking 3 issues. -- contact books@bledsoebooks.com for more information...
- Summer Miscellany *New*
- Spring Sale -- 30 first and limited editions
- Book Spotlight: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Blog) *New*
- V.S. Naipaul and Other Writers Who Hated Their Biographies (Blog)
- Onchi, Part 2 *New*
- Onchi, Part 1
- Brattlecast #51: The Camino Island Saga (Podcast) *New*
- Brattlecast #50: Books to the Future (Podcast)
- August Miscellany *New*
- Illustrated Books *New*
- E-list #22: Evolutionary Biology; Important Association Copies from the Library of Stephen Jay Gould *New*
- E-list #21: Association Copies
ANDREW CAHAN, BOOKSELLER, LTD.
- New Arrivals *New*
- New catalog available — Contact clarebooks@roadrunner.com/(716) 688-8723 to request…
- THE LUNAR VOYAGE FROM THE 17th CENTURY TO THE PRESENT -- In conjunction with the RBMS and the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing -- Offered jointly with John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller
- Popular Fiction 1814-1939: Selections from the Anthony Tino Collection -- Offered jointly with John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller
DE SIMONE COMPANY, BOOKSELLERS
Featured item:
John Smith, Lithographer. Surrender of Gen. Lee.
(Philadelphia): (Published by John Smith, 756 So. 4th Street, 1865). Oblong folio lithographic print. 538 x 678 mm. (21 1/4 x 26 1/2 inches). Excellent tone to the lithography. margins with a few minor tears, a two-inch tear to upper left of the print, repaired; lightly foxed. Early impression of the lithograph, probably a proof, with title only printed on bottom margin, without lithographer's printed signature and date; and the title of the print bearing the abbreviation of Gen. Lee which in the final print appears as General Lee. The copy in the Library of Congress that has the full printed signature at the lower margin, also shows that the positions of General Lee and the two Officers who accompany him change from this copy and to the published print. In this copy one Officer accompanying Lee has his back to the viewer and in the LC plate it is a Union Officer who is in this position. Also, General Lee is reaching for the paper with the terms of surrender held by Grant in the LC copy and in this copy, he is rather reluctant to accept it as Grant hands it forward. Obviously, the lithographer made the change to highlight Lee's reach for the document, a more conciliatory act than in this print where he hesitates to accept the terms. This is a wonderful example of a proof copy being changed to better represent the intentions of the lithographer. It is an excellent impression with deep blacks and multi-toned greys and a highly detailed and discernable background. With faults a deep, rich impression of a very early image of the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox. (349) Mark E. Neely, Harold Holze. The Union Image: Popular Prints of the Civil War North. University of North Carolina Press, 2000, p. 176, figure 88 (similar to the Library of Congress copy).
Offered by De Simone Company, Bookseller, and featured in their latest catalog, "List 13" (item #6).
- New Arrivals (August 20, 2019) *New*
- Catalog #88, Medical Books from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Centuries -- This catalog is print-only. To request a copy, contact MedBks@aol.com...
- E-list 61: Miscellany -- Civil War - Death & Despair, Hair Mounting Devices, Teaching Freed Slaves &, Of Course, the Children *New*
- E-list 60: Miscellany -- Casting Director's Catalogue of Children, Crystal Gazing, Convent Cruelties & Of Course, the Children
- “How to Paint Faces" in 14th-Century Italy (Blog post) *New*
- A Medieval Alphabet Book: Miniatures from Illuminated Music Manuscripts
- August 2019 E-list *New*
- June/July List (Literature, Philosophy, Travel, Americana)
Featured item:
By Neal Stephenson
New York: Bantam Books (1992). First edition. 8vo. [6], 440, [6] pp. Maroon papercovered boards quarter-bound in navy cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $22.00 on front jacket flap. First printing of the first hardcover edition. Near Fine with a bit of light wear to the spine in a beautiful Fine dust jacket. A sharp copy of Stephenson's modern science fiction classic; uncommon in the first edition, reportedly due to an unusually small print run.
Offered by Evening Star Books, and featured in their "August 2019 E-list" (item #1).
- Latin/x Amèrica, African American Poetry, Gender & Sexuality
- 27 items for the 60th Annual Meeting of RMBS
RODGER FRIEDMAN RARE BOOK STUDIO
- OCCASIONAL LIST 22: A Miscellany: Original Art Work; Small Archive of Major English Watercolourist; Interesting Theatrical Pieces; Manuscript Material, Etc., Etc. -- available on request from fgrare@fgrarebooks.com...
THOMAS A. GOLDWASSER RARE BOOKS
DAVID A. HAMILTON AMERICANA BOOKS
JONATHAN A. HILL, BOOKSELLER, INC.
- E-list 139 -- 44 New Arrivals: David Douglas Duncan, Ed Ruscha, Raymond Carver, Gerald Ford, Jim Harrison + Brooklyn Book Fair *New*
- E-list 138 -- 50 New Arrivals: Edward Ruscha, Lee Friedlander, Christo, J.G. Ballard
Featured item:
The Butterfly’s Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast
by William Roscoe (Illustrations by R.M. Ballantyne, R.M.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1857. Single volume, measuring 9.5 x 7.5 inches: [2],[8], 9-24; eight color plates. Original blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and blind, yellow coated endpapers. Four plates of sheet music. Early ink gift inscription, lightest edgewear to binding. First edition of this popular Victorian adaptation of William Roscoe’s 1806 poem, “The Butterfly’s Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast,” reprinted here with musical accompaniment. Scottish artist Robert Ballantyne expands Roscoe’s rhymes into an extended prose narrative, illustrated with festive insects in party dress and dancing shoes: “There were such a multitude of odd creatures, of all shapes, and sizes, and colours; some of whom were by nature bitter enemies, and would have fought and killed each other had they met in the woods while taking a walk, but were quite civil and polite to one another, now that they met as guests in Mrs. Butterfly’s bower.” A bright, near-fine copy of a delightful book.
Offered by Honey & Wax Booksellers, and found in their catalog "Late Summer Miscellany" (item #5).
- Happy Birthday to Me (July 16, 2019)
- 47 Recent Acquisitions (June 4, 2019)
- Occasional List: Summer Miscellany 2019 *New*
- Black Mountain College: A Collection -- available on request from james@jamesjaffe.com...
FEATURED ITEM:
The Science of Being by Eugene Fersen (Inscribed to American Birth Control Activist Margaret Sanger)
A Rare and Special Book. Fersen, Eugene. The Science of Being. New York: J. F. Tapley Co., 1923. First edition. Inscribed and signed by the author to Margaret Sanger. Margaret Higgins Sanger was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. Sanger popularized the term “birth control”, opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. The author, Baron Eugene Fersen, was born in 1873 in St. Petersburg to Marie the Grand Duchess of Russia. His grandfather was King Alexander II of Russia. His uncle was Leo Tolstoy and his half-sister was Queen Maria of Romania, who was the grand-daughter of Queen Victoria of England. A rare and special book. Near Fine in soft, brown textured leather. Front cover stamped with the emblem of the Science of Being in gilt. All edges gilt with curved corners. Delicate pages with rare light and thin paper, the first time in the history of paper manufacturing in the United States that such a paper was made. Beautiful black and gold printing throughout, decorative illustrations in gold begin each chapter. Interior is clean and text bright. 16mo.
Offered by Johansen Rare Books, and featured in their catalog Women's Studies.
- July Randos (New Additions and Selected Old Friends) *New*
- Pride Month List
Featured item:
Divide and Conquer: The Story of Nazi Terror
Quarto, 16pp staple bound pamphlet. Illustrated. Washington D. C.: Office of Facts and Figures, 1942.
A un-noted (to me anyway) masterpiece of polemic illustration, the lithographs or charcoal drawings reproduced here by D. R. Fitzpatrick, particularly the cover, are psychologically gripping. The text gives a candid discussion of psychological warfare that feels uncomfortably topical, and somewhat jarring when compared to present day Government communications and media.
Offered by Kevin F. Kelly, and featured in their catalog "July Randos (New Additions and Selected Old Friends)."
- RBMS list of Gastronomy Books and Manuscripts,1502-1875 -- available on request from bkinmont@gmail.com
JOHN W. KNOTT, JR., BOOKSELLER
- THE LUNAR VOYAGE FROM THE 17th CENTURY TO THE PRESENT -- In conjunction with the RBMS and the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing -- Offered jointly with L.W. Currey, Inc.
- Popular Fiction 1814-1939: Selections from the Anthony Tino Collection -- Offered jointly with L.W. Currey, Inc.
- Catalog #74: 100 Rare Books -- with an emphasis on history and military affairs. Please request from mail@kubikbooks.com...
MICHAEL LAIRD RARE BOOK & MANUSCRIPTS
- A Selection of 30 Manuscripts (August 27, 2019) *New*
- A Selection of 30 Antiquarian Items: Civil, Common, Roman & Scots Law (August 20, 2019)
DAVID M. LESSER, FINE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS
- Catalog 169, Rare Americana (July, 2019) *New*
- Catalog 168, Rare Americana (June, 2019)
LIBER ANTIQUUS, EARLY PRINTED BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
- August 2019 *New*
- Women
- On Our Shelves No. 27 – Beast and Man in India (Video)
- Rare Book Moment 26: Look for relationships in your collection (Video)
- Micro Catalog of Mid-century Socio-PoliticalPamphlets/Leaflets ("Mad World")
- A New Collaboration: WWI, II, Cricket, India, Spectroscopy, and the Canadian Rebellion
J. & J. LUBRANO MUSIC ANTIQUARIANS
Featured item:
New York: Alan Rose/National Lampoon, circa 1977. Spot of tape ghosting on one board, else bright and clean. Pen, ink and watercolor on board. All approximately 9"x14". Color illustrations. Fine.
These three illustrations supported an article by P.J. O'Rourke in the National Lampoon (circa '76-77). This was from the "Conspiracy Issue". The penships had to do with the Air Forces' secret weapons, which curiously resembled ball point pens. The artist suggests it was supposed to "remind certain males of their 14 year-old, bored classroom fantasies." A truly exceptional collection of images. Signatures/ personalization by both Rose and O'Rourke available.
Offered by Lux Mentis Booksellers, featured in their catalog "Space/Astronomy" (item #9).
- List of 77 Mark Twain First Editions and Ephemera available by request from info@macdonnellrarebooks.com (specify elist or paper copy).
MAIN STREET FINE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
Featured item:
Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle or Fun and Adventures on the Road
by Victor Appleton
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, n.y. Mustard cloth with black lettering and black/red pictorial stamping, pictorial dust jacket. v, 206pp, (14pp ads). Frontispiece. Near fine/very good. Ownership signature on front flyleaf; mildest of jacket edgewear, with spine slightly age toned.
A tight, quite attractive later printing of the 1st volume in the 38-volume "Tom Swift Series" (1910-35). Front jacket flap lists up to the 33rd title, "Tom Swift and His Big Dirigible" (published 1933) — this and binding and jacket style date this edition to approximately that year. A lovely copy with a superb, bright jacket.
Offered by MainStreet Fine Books & Manuscripts, and listed in "E-list #11."
- Illustrated Catalog on Carlos Merida (1891–1984) -- Mexican painter, sculptor, writer and graphic designer -- available by request from mmbooks@comcast.net
- Latin America
BRUCE MCKITTRICK RARE BOOKS, INC.
Featured item:
Paris, 1856.
A powerful and intimate advisor of Philip II of Spain, Pérez (1539-1611) countersigned all imperial edicts, conspired against the king’s brother and killed his secretary. Pérez’s fall began with accusations of embezzlement, then of treason, murder and adultery (with Philip’s mistress). Torture and incarceration followed. He escaped in 1590, fled to Paris then moved to London to gather intelligence for Henri IV of France. He survived assassination attempts by the Spanish and fomented anti-Spanish sentiment — the so-called Black Legend — through an alliance with the Earl of Essex and through this autobiography. It was wildly popular as a political document, reviling Spain and her ruler, and as a literary work. Its over-the-top style became the fashion among young bloods in England and France. Pérez has been proposed as the model for the fantastical Spaniard, Don Adriano de Armado, in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour Lost.
This copy belonged to Gaston d’Orléans, who repeatedly conspired against his brother Louis XIII and attempted to kill his chief minister, Cardinal Richelieu. A refined collector, Gaston created two libraries, one in Paris and one at Blois, where he long lived in exile for his mischief. How did heread Pérez’s self-justificatory account of perfidy and rebellion? It subsequently belonged to John Evelyn. This copy may be unique for the two unsigned and unnumbered leaves at the end, printing the Spanish Inquisition’s 1615 condemnation of Pérez for heresy. The complex bibliography of the “1598” Paris printings remains unresolved.
Offered by Bruce McKittrick Rare Books, Inc., and featured in their "Catalog 67."
- E-catalog 17: Feminae -- Two dozen books by, for, and/or about women *New*
- E-catalog 16
Featured item:
WILL, Johann Martin, engraver.
Les Differens Gouts et nouvelles Modes de Coeffures
Augsburg: zu finden bey Joh. Martin Will, [ca. 1780]. 8vo (161x 95 mm). Engraved title, 23 (of 24) engraved plates of extravagant hairdos, all with caption “Coeffures d’Augsbourg” and signed “Joh. Martin Will exc. A.V.” [Augustae Vindelicorum], all except plate 15 with details highlighted in contemporary hand-coloring and grey lead. Lacking plate 14, pl. 13 cropped at fore-margin, slight foxing and creasing to title; the sub-title “II. Theil” effaced and covered by owner’s inkstamp. Contemporary grey embossed floral paper wrappers (rubbed, torn along backstrip, other small tears). Provenance: "G H," circular ownership stamp on title-page.
A model-book for hairdressers, engraved and published by the Augsburg engraver Johann Martin Will (1727-1806), showing elaborately braided hairdos and monumental hair-towers, with ringlets and tresses carefully disposed around teased appendages and interwoven with ribbons, feathers, and a variety of fanciful millenary creations. Augsburg was clearly no backwater; while somewhat less extreme than their French counterparts, these hairstyles were inspired by the latest French vogue for the notorious pouf hair-constructions, allegedly invented in 1774 by the dressmaker Rose Bertin (whose most influential client was Marie Antoinette), in collaboration with a hairdresser named Monsieur Léonard. “The pouf was built on scaffolding made from wire, cloth, gauze, horsehair, fake hair, and the wearer’s own tresses, teased high off the forehead. After dousing the whole edifice heavily with powder, its architect installed amid the twists and curls an elaborate miniature still-life...” (Weber, p. 104).
The engraved plates were cut out from one or two large sheets. This was part II of a series. I locate only one other copy of this part (Augsburg) and one copy of part IV (the Lipperheide copy at the Kunstbibliothek of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin), which has the same title and 23 plates. The Augsburg copy is digitized: it is in wrappers of the same or very similar dark embossed paper. VD18 80238963-001; Lipperheide 1680 (different volume); on Will see Thieme Becker 36:7. Cf. E. Langlade, La Marchande de Modes de Marie-Antoinette: Rose Bertin (1911, digitized on archive.org); C. Weber, Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution (2006).
Offered by Musinsky Rare Books, and found in their "E-catalog 17: Feminae."
- E-list: Stocking Stuffers (Newsletter)
- 10 Eye-Catching Books for Your Collection
- Catalog 42. Exemplary Fine Bindings, 19th Century High Spots in English and American Literature
- Art from the Collection of Richard Schimmelpfeng *New*
- Fine Press Sale
- Japanese Art, Design, & Printing
Featured item:
AMANO: THE COMPLETE PRINTS: 1991-2001
N.P. (Bujitsu, 2002). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 287, (3) pages. Text in Japanese and English. Introductory comments by Amano, biographical sketch. Color and black and white illustrations throughout, including three foldouts. Includes a complete catalogue of Amano's works.
Offered by Oak Knoll Books and featured in their catalog "Japanese Art, Design, & Printing."
- A Magazine’s Eye View of the 20th Century
- San Francisco Map Fair September 2018 - Pictorial Maps of the Twentieth Century
- Catalog 48, July 2019 -- by subscription only. Contact oldwestbooks@earthlink.net for details about obtaining a copy.
R & A PETRILLA, ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLERS
PHILADELPHIA RARE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
- Twenty for Tuesday XV *New*
- Mathematics *New*
- German Americana
- Bodoni
PHILLIP J. PIRAGES FINE BOOKS & MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS
- The Bunker Hill Archive (Newsletter)
- New Historical Documents (Newsletter)
RABELAIS BOOKS ON FOOD & DRINK
RICHARD C. RAMER, OLD & RARE BOOKS
- Catalog 363 Still Cold: Travels & Explorations in the Frozen Regions of the Earth *New*
- Catalog 364 - Literature, Including Recent Acquisitions *New*
- LIST 321: BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS — Including Bibliography, Bibliopoly, Fine Press, Printing,Type, Paper, Illustration, Libraries, Collecting, and Related Arts *New*
- LIST 320: SOUTH CAROLINA, Primarily Books from a Single, Multi-Generational Family
B&L ROOTENBERG RARE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
BARRY LAWRENCE RUDERMAN ANTIQUE MAPS, INC.
- Exlibris John Ruyle (Part 2) -- A list of 110 early science fiction/occult titlesfrom the collection of John Ruyle *New*
- Prints from Audubon's Birds of America
- List: 150th Anniversary of Mendeleev's Periodic System
- California Book Fair 2019: 130 Items on Science and Medicine is now available on request from scientiabk@gmail.com...
- Occasional List 64: GOOD RAPTUROUS SCENES
- Occasional List 63: INSTRUCTION & AMUSEMENT (30 children's books)
MARC SELVAGGIO, BOOKS & EPHEMERA
- Catalog 148: Our Material Culture - A Selection of American and European trade catalogues for retail & wholesale markets, 1870-1965, with a particular emphasis on catalogues from France.
- Medicine & Health
MICHAEL R. THOMPSON RARE BOOKS
- E-list #23: African Americana, Women's rights,Alternative Movements, American culture... *New*
- E-list #22: Women, Diaries, Flyers, Gay Interest...
- Books of the Day Regularly Posted to Their Twitter Feed...
- Catalog 224: THE MIDDLE EAST (especially PERSIA) *New*
- Catalog 223: From the Library of RICHARD WEISS
JOHN WINDLE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLER
Featured item:
England: early Victorian period, c. 1845. 114 bone tiles with engraved letters in black, enclosed in the original mahogany box with bone panel on the sliding top lettered SPELLING ALPHABET. In very good condition, slight wear to some of the discs but no loss. § Of great rarity complete and in perfect condition, these four alphabet sets and two extra sets of vowels were intended for young children to play with to learn the alphabet. By their nature they would be easily damaged or lost and a complete set in the original container like this is virtually unfindable.
Offered by John WIndle Antiquarian Bookseller, and offered in "Letterforms: Typography & Calligraphy" (item #1).
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