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Click here to subscribeLeighton, Clare, The Farmer's Year A Calender of English Husbandry, New York, Longmans, Green and Company, 1933, Oblong folio (310 x 380mm.), half title, title vignette, historited initials, and illustrations, illustrated endpapers, original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, extremties rubbed, First Edition. With a third edition of the above work (London, 1934).
The Edinburgh Geographical and Historical Atlas ... the History of Geography ... principles of Mathematical, Physical, Civil, and Political Geography ... History of each Continent, State, and Kingdom ... view of the Principal Mountain Chains in the World, Edinburgh, published by John Hamilton ... successor to Lizars (and others), ca. 1830(?), folio (470 x 300mm.), double-page hand-coloured in outline maps [not complete], some loose, lacking title, contemporary half calf, worn.
The Illustrated London News, London, [Illustrated London News], Jan to June 1856, folio (405 x 270mm.), volume 28, folding frontispiece plate of Sebastopol, illustrated title, illustrations, many full-page, contemporary half calf, rubbed. With a number of other works including ca. 20 other volumes of 'The Illustrated London News'.
Mannering, Eva (editor), Mr. Gould's Tropical Birds, London, The Ariel Press, 1955, folio (405 x 290mm.), title printed in green and black, 24 colour plates, illustrations, original limp boards, illustrated dust-jacket, few marginal tears. With the Ariel press published 'Pierre-Joseph Redoute Roses' (London, 1954), and a colour botanical print of 'Hypericum olympicum'.
Mecham, Clifford Henry, Sketches & Incidents of the Seige of Lucknow, from Drawings Made During the Siege ... with descriptive notices by George Cooper, London, Day & Son, 1858, folio (545 x 345mm.), tinted lithographed title, and 26 tinited lithographed plates on 17 leaves, occasional marginal staining, contemporary half red morocco, rubbed, First Edition.
Murphy, James Cavanda, Plans, elevations, sections and views of the church of Batalha, in the province of Estremadura in Portugal..., London, printed for I. & J. Taylor, 1795, folio (550 x 375mm.), illustrated title, dedication leaf with oval portrait, plates, and plans, a few double-page, some water-staining, and marginal browning contemporary half calf, front cover detached, worn. With a number other mainly Church and theological related works including Charles Wickes 'Illustrations of the Spires and Towers of the Historical Churchs of England' (London, 1858-1859), parts I-VII of Sidney Corner's 'Our Rural Churches' (London, n.d.), 'A Sermon Preached in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London' (London, 1810), William Paley's 'Natural Theology, and Tracts' (London, 1824), and Laurentius Uwens & Adriaan Poirters 'Af-Beeldinghe van D'Eerste Eevwe der Societey Iesv Voor Ooghen Ghestelt Door de Duits...' (Antwerp, 1640).
Murray, A. S., Twelve Hundred Miles on The River Murray, Australia, George Robertson & Co, London, J. S. Virtue & Co, 1898. Oblong folio (330 x 445mm.), 11 tipped in colour plates (of 15), leaves becoming loose, margins frayed, original green cloth, front cover lettered in gilt, extremities worn. With 'Offical Handbook The Port of Sydney...' (Sydney, 1919).
Plans, Copues, Elevations des plue belles Maisons et des Hotels..., Paris, de Clousier, sold by the Editors Krafft (and others), [1801-1802], folio (490 x 320mm.), text in French and English, frontispiece, plates (lacking Nos. 37-54, & 97-108) lacking text leaves, disbound. With two volumes only of 'Le Pitture Antiche D'Ercolano...' (Napoli, 1757-1779), I. A. Timmis 'Chronological, Historical & Heraldic Charts of the Royal House of England' (London, 1890), two volumes of 'Tableaux, Statues, Bas-Reliefs et Camees de la Galeries de Florence, et Du Palais Pitti' (Paris, 1789-1792), another volume of the Krafft edited 'Maisons et des Hotels...' (Paris, [1801-1802]), and 'Oeuvre de Jacques Androuet dit Du Cerceau' (Paris, n.d.) .
Shaw, Lachlan, The History of the Province of Moray, Elgin, printed by and for J. Grant, 1827, small folio (165 x 205mm.), folding frontispiece map, plates, some marginal spotting, map with obvious crease repairs to verso, new endpapers, modern morocco backed spine, red morocco lettering piece.
Taylor, Jeremy (1613-1667), and William Cave (1637-1713), Antiquitates Christianae: Or, The History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: As also the Lives, Acts and Martyrdoms of His Apostles..., London, by R. Norton for R. Royston, 1675, folio (345 x 215mm.), additional illustrated title, frontispiece, title printed in red and black, historiated initials, illustrations, folding plate (of 4?), contemporary calf, boards detached, First Edition, not complete. With 'The Complete Young Man's Companion; or, Self Instructor' (London, n.d.).
Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892), & Gustave Dore (illustrator), Elaine, London, Edward Moxon and Co, 1867, folio (415 x 310mm.), half title, frontispiece, plates, contemporary presentation inscription on front free endpaper, title and half title partially loose, upper marginal water-staining, original green cloth gilt, g.e., rubbed . With 'Engravings after The Best Pictures of the Great Masters' (London, n.d.).
The Wilkie Gallery: A Selection of the best pictures of The Late Sir David Wilkie, R.A. including his Spanish and Oriental Sketches, with Notices Biographical and Critical, London and New York, George Virtue, ca. 1845, folio (340 x 255mm.), additional illustrated title, frontispiece, and ca. 71 plates, contemporary maroon morocco, front cover and spine lettered in gilt, extremities worn. With 'The Illustrated London News Record of the Transvaal War, 1899-1900 ... contents The Record of the War by Spenser Wilkinson' (London, n.d.).
Wright, M[agnus von] and F. von & Einar Lonnberg, Svenska Fagalr, efter Naturen och pa sten Ritade, Stockholm, Forlaget Sevnska Faglar, 1927-1929, folio (380 x 280mm.), three volumes, half titles, ca. 366 chromolithographs, marbled endpapaers, contemporary half calf, spines lettered in gilt, eagle device in gilt on spines, Nissen 1026.
The Sporting Life (Compiled by) The British Turf and The Men Who Have Made It, being an historical and contemporary work of racing in the British Isles from its earliest inception to the present day, together with an international section, folio, 502pp, numerous engravings and half-tone illustrations, marbled endpapers, black morocco, titled gilt to spine, a few plates loose, published by the Biographical Press, London, 1906
Fortune, eight orig. issues, vol. XV, nos. 5-9, 11-12, & vol. XVII, no. 1, May-September, 1937 & November, 1937-January, 1938, numerous col. and b&w illusts. and ads., incl. many in art-deco style, all orig. printed wrappers, each with design to cover by Petruccelli, Binder, Ralph Frederick, or Maurice Freed, very sl. rubbed to extrems. (issues for May 1937 with some minor wear to extrems., and tear to lower outer corner of upper cover, without loss), folio (8)
A group of seventy-two black and white photo. lobby cards and publicity stills, c. 1920s/30s, the majority showing Ivor Novello and co-stars, films include The Lodger, Downhill, The Vortex, The Constant Nymph, The Rat and The Triumph of The Rat, mostly with photographers name (H. Young) or negative number in image and some with printed legend beneath, images approx. 18 x 23 cm, all corner-mounted in two contemporary stiff wrapper albums, some damage to mounts and contents loose, folio (72)
A group of twelve lovingly compiled scrap albums of newspaper and magazine cuttings relating to Ivor Novello and his acting career, c. mid-1920s to 1951, all carefully pasted in, including numerous photo. illusts. and some cartoons, occ. minor annotations, one large sepia head and shoulders portrait signed by Novello and dated 1926, in total over 500 pages, contemp. near-matching cloth albums, folio/oblong folio (12)
A collection of printed sheet music and programmes for musical plays, etc., with music by Ivor Novello, c. 1912-1950, titles include The Little Damozel (1912), Not Really! (1913), Till The Boys Come Home [better known as Keep the House Fires Burning] (1914), etc., two signed (including The Rat Step), plus one Theatre Play Bill for The Little Theatre, Strand, 9th June, 1914, listing Ivor Novello as the harpsicord player, some occ. soiling and minor fraying, but mostly slim folio, VG, arranged chronologically in plastic sleeves in a modern ring binder (approx. 70)
A group of approx. 80 theatrical newspapers, magazine issues, and related of Ivor Novello interest, c. 1918-51, including issues of The Era, The Play, Picture Show Art Supplements, Daily Film Renter, Picture Show, Film Weekly, mainly with portraits of Ivor Novello to upper covers, mostly slim 4to/folio, chronologically arranged in plastic sleeves in modern ring binder (approx. 80)
Cottafavi (Gaetano). Nuova Raccolta delle Principali Vedute di Roma e Suoi Contorni, Rome, 1858, eng. title (foxed and marked, and with small hole on bottom outer corner), sixty-three eng. plts., corners creased, some with marginal foxing, one with large piece torn away, affecting image ('Arco di Settimio Severo'), orig. printed wrappers, frayed and soiled, with loss to spine and fore-edge of upper cover, oblong folio (1)
Daniell (Thomas & William). Oriental Scenery... the Architecture, Antiquities, and Lanscape Scenery of Hindoostan, 1812-16, six uncol. aqua. vigns., 144 fine uncol. aqua. plts. and eight uncol. eng. ground plans, all complete with printed tissue guards, some minor scattered spotting, confined to margins, contemp. crimson half morocco gilt, a trifle rubbed, folio. Abbey, Travel, 432. (3)
Edge-Partington (James). An Album of the Weapons, Tools, Ornaments, Articles of Dress, Etc., of the Natives of the Pacific Islands. Drawn and Described from Examples in Public & Private Collections in England and Australasia, 1st-3rd series, issued for private circulation by James Edge-Partington & Charles Heape, 1890-95-98, reprinted c. 1970s, 3 parts in 1, num. illusts. to text, orig. cloth, soiled and worn, thick oblong folio (approx 21 x 42 cm.) (1)
Scenery, Costumes and Architecture, Chiefly on the Western Side of India, 2 vols., [1826]-1830, hand-col. stipple eng. vign. to title of vol. 1, uncol. litho. title to vol. 2, thirty-six fine hand-col. aqua. plts. with tissue guard (complete), separate contents list to each vol., part titles to parts 2-6 present (with one leaf of Advertisement in parts 2, 4 & 6), some minor scattered spotting and off-setting, not affecting plts., contemp. navy diced calf gilt, rubbed at extrems. (front hinge of vol. 2 just starting to split), folio. Abbey, Travel, 442. The work was originally published in six parts, begun by Ackermann but taken over and completed by Smith, Elder & Co. See illustration on front cover of this catalogue. (2)
Hamilton (Sir William, and Hancarville, Pierre Francois Hugues d'). Antiquites Etrusques, Grecques et Romaines, tirees du Cabinet de M. Hamilton... (Collection of Etruscan, Greek and Roman Antiquities from the Cabinet of the Honble. Wm. Hamilton, His Britannick Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Naples), vols. I & II (of 4), Naples, 1766-67, two hand-col. etched titles to each vol. in French and English, text in French and English, three uncol. etched dedication plts., and 220 plts. (including many double-page, and seventy-four hand-col.), several eng. illusts. to text, occn. minor marks, titles to first vol. lightly soiled and one with some creasing, small damp stain to extreme head of inner margin at front of first vol., marbled endpapers, contemp. full tree calf, rubbed and some marks, minor wear to extrems., early 19th-c. good-quality reback, scuffed to extrems., large folio. Cohen-de Ricci 474; Brunet I, 321. (2)
[India]. "Diary of the Miri Mission 1911-12. Captain A.M. Graham, 5th Goorkas F.F. Commdg. Escort" [so titled on leather title label to upper cover], meticulously detailed journal of the mission comprising 108 full pages of ink ms. text, 67 contemp. mounted b & w photographs (each approx. 82 x 135 mm) all with ink captions including destruction of Mai, Rugi burning, Tali, Seloo, Sirtum, Niktak, Kabak, Gocham, Dibrugarh, Lakhimpur, etc. and eight ink and watercolour plans, maps and drawings including Camp Gocham, Camp Peine River, Camp Sirtum, Camp Tali, view of Tali, etc., rear section includes a typed letter signed from the Office of the Inspector-General of the Eastern Bengal and Assam Police congratulating Capt. Graham on his gallantry and various cuttings including one depicting Graham headed "British Friendly Mission Reported to have been Massacred", another report states thet "the expedition to avenge the death of Mr. Noel Williamson, the assistant political officer at Sadiya, Lakhimour, left for the Abor country some six weeks ago under the command of Major General Bower. It has a total strength of about 5000 men", bound in contemp. half calf with crimson leather label to upper cover, folio (approx. 350 x 227 mm) (1)
Le Brun (Cornelius). Voyages de Corneille le Brun par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aux Indes Orientales, 2 vols., Amersterdam: les Freres Wetstein, 1718, titles in red and black, engraved frontis., portrait, three folding maps and 261 numbered plts. including some large panoramic views (inc. a fine view of Moscow), numerous unnumbered engravings to text, one plt. with a repaired closed tear, panoramic plts. with some vertical creasing, occ. minor dust soiling, modern panelled calf, folio. Cohen de Ricci 610; Brunet III, 911. (2)
Linschoten (Jan Huygen van). Histoire de la Navigation, de Jean Hugues de Linschot Hollandois, aux Indes Orientales, 2nd ed., Amsterdam, Jean Evertsz Cloppenburch, 1619, eng. general title and printed title with large eng. vign. for the Description de l'Amerique, lacks all other plts., maps and titles, etc., generally a clean copy, contemp. full mottled calf, gilt spine, rubbed and minor wear to extrems., folio (1)
Malte-Brun (Conrad). Precis de la Geographie Universelle ou Description de Toutes les Parties du Monde sur un Plan Nouveau..., Atlas vol. only, Paris, 1843, half-title present, 86 engraved maps and plates on 72 sheets, some double-page, all hand coloured in outline and complete as list, occ. light spotting, contemp. calf-backed buckram, rubbed to spine with a little fraying to head, folio (1)
Martin (R. Montgomery, editor). The Illustrated Atlas, and Modern History of the World, Geographical, Political, Commercial & Statistical, pub. J & F Tallis, [1851], engraved title, 79 engraved maps only (of 80), lacks map of Southern Italy, two plts. of rivers and mountains, all maps hand coloured in outline with engraved vignette views, contemp. half calf, lacking upper board with prelims. near-detached (one prelim. leaf with closed tear), folio. The maps in excellent condition throughout. (1)
[Montanus, Arnoldus]. America: being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World; containing the Original of the Inhabitants, and the Remarkable Voyages thither. The conquest of the vast Empires of Mexico and Peru, and other large provinces and territories, with the several European plantations in those parts..., collected from most authentick authors, augmented with later observations, and adorn'd with maps and sculptures, by John Ogilby, printed by the author, 1671, eng. frontis. (stained and strengthed to margins), title printed in red and black (with some soiling and a little frayed and stained to extreme margins), folding general map (torn with loss to all margins, and now relined), forty-seven (of 55) mostly double-page eng. maps and views, incl. a few single-page ports., lacks a few leaves of text (pp. 481-482 & 649-652), pp. 59-64 repaired to margins, with a little loss of running-title or printed marginal notes, and eng. portrait of Vespucci relined, folding map of Carolina (facing page 204), relined and with some loss to extreme lower margins etc., folding eng. view of Nova Mexico (facing page 244), with loss to outer corners, sl. affecting image (restrengthened to margins), folding map of Jamaica (facing page 336), with a little loss to right hand margin, some creases, etc., double-page view of Callao de Lima (facing page 466), torn and repaired without loss, folding eng. view of Mauritiopolis (facing page 604), with loss to extreme left and right margins, occn. marks and some marginal soiling and minor stains, a few other minor marginal repairs, early 19th-c. full calf, with old reback, some wear, folio. Sabin 50089. This copy contains the additional double-page map of Barbados, bound in at page 376, but not in the list of plates at rear, and often not present.
Oliver (Vere Langford). The History of the Island of Antigua, One of the Leeward Caribbees in the West Indies, from the First Settlement in 1635 to the Present Time, 3 vols., 1894-99, b & w illusts. and maps, some folding, t.e.g., orig. cloth gilt in bright condition, folio. Limited edition 138/150. A handsome set. (3)
Picturesque Europe, 5 vols., pub. Cassell, n.d., c. 1870s, sixty-five steel eng. views, addn. eng. vign. title to each, num. wood eng. illusts, contemp. uniform maroon morocco, heavily worn, with backstrips mostly deficient, some covers detached, folio, together with Grant (James), Cassell's Old and New Edinburgh: Its History, its People, and its Places, 2 vols., n.d., c. 1870s, num. wood eng. plts. and illusts., orig. dark green cloth gilt, 4to (7)
Tanner (Henry Schenck). A New American Atlas, containing a Series of Maps of the Various Countries of North and South America, West Indies, &c. together with Maps of the Several States and Territories of the North American Union, Philadelphia, 1837, twin-hemisphere World map, twenty-four maps of states, eleven maps of American continents and countries, three city plans and one other plate of mountains and rivers, all maps engraved with original wash colour, all plts. complete as list, each map plate measuring approx. 370 x 290 mm, title and contents leaf with some marks and damp staining, last few plates with minor damp-staining to upper-right corner, contemp. half calf with leather label to upper cover, worn, folio. This appears to be a variant edition with the title 'A New American Atlas' but the maps similar to those in Tanner's Universal Atlas.
Teesdale (Henry & Co., publisher). Teesdale and Co.'s General Atlas of the World, Compiled and Constructed with the Greatest Care from the Documents in the Foreign, Colonial, Admiralty, and Geographical Offices, also those of the Honourable the East India Company, 1856, 46 engraved maps on 45 sheets after Dower, hand coloured in outline, one plate of rivers and mountains, all maps double-page except folding map of India sectionalised onto linen (comprises maps 26 & 27), all complete as list, occ. minor spotting, orig. cloth gilt, split to joints with upper cover near-detached, folio (1)
Wyld (James). A General Atlas, Containing Maps Illustrating some Important Periods in Ancient History and Distinct Maps of the Several Empires, Kingdoms and States in the World, Edinburgh: John Thomson, n.d., c.1820, engraved title, forty-four engraved maps with inset vignette views, all hand coloured in outline and complete as list, a few other engraved topographical views and two engraved plts. of rivers and mountains, some marks and finger soiling, contemp. half calf with marbled boards, worn with some peeling and fraying, folio (1)
* Cartes-de-visite albums. A late Victorian cartes-de-visite album (patented 26th November 1895), seventeen thick card leaves, orig. brown and gold velour with pierced brass corners, clasp and oval mirror mounted to the centre of the upper cover, 4to, together with six other embossed Victorian cartes-de-visite albums, with clasps in working order, including two narrow folio speicmens and one double album, some rubbing and sl. wear but generally G/VG (7)
Cundall, Downes & Co., Photographers. Architectural Details from Wells Cathedral and the Precinct Buildings, [1865], forty mounted albumen prints on thirty-eight leaves, a few images showing exterior shots with figures, mostly approx. 18 x 22 cm and similar, some spotting and soiling of mounts, orig. leather-backed printed boards, worn and contents detached, folio (1)
* Egypt, Australia, Great Britain, etc. A good album of approx. 200 albumen prints, c. 1870, incl. approx. 100 images of Egypt, etc., photographers names including Arnoux, Abdullah Freres, Lekegian, Sakieh, Sebah, and Zangaki, plus approx. thirty views of Australia, including Sydney and Melbourne, many of the images identified in the image with initials J. P., plus approx. fifty images of views of Great Britain and Ireland, including photos. by James Valentine, George Washington Wilson and Frith's Series, plus images of Italy (8), Malta and Gibraltar (6), etc., plus various miscellaneous views and some smaller portraits, etc., all tipped-in at corners and largely uncaptioned, images approx. 22 x 28 cm and smaller, orig. cloth with modern leather reback, large folio. (1)
* Egypt. An album of approx. seventy albumen prints, c. 1870s, including images of Arab men and women in traditional dress, views of buildings and ruins in Cairo, Alexandria, Karnak, etc., mostly approx. 20 x 26 cm and similar sizes, variable fading, all pasted onto album leaves and some with title captions and numbers in the negatives, contemp. half morocco, with two brass clasps, rubbed, folio (1)
* Egypt. An album of approx. twenty-two albumen prints of Upper Egypt, c. 1870s, including temples, statues, etc., a number by A. Beato, some fading, images approx. 25 x 20 cm and similar, mounted to album rectos only, plus six views of the Alps, contemp. half morocco, upper cover deficient, oblong folio, together with a further album of photographs and prints including four albumen prints of Egypt, contemp. cloth, rubbed, folio (2)
* Great Britain. An album of b&w photos. compiled by J. Martin Blair, dated February 1900, including views of Southport, Ormskirk, Wigan, Preston, Derby, Canterbury, Hanley, a mixture of commercial and amateur photos., including monuments, bridges, churches, industrial works, etc., some fading of images, neatly presented with ink and decorative borders to many leaves, some spotting and soiling of mounts, contemp. morocco, some wear and backstrip def., oblong folio (1)
* India, Egypt, etc. A pair of matching mixed photo. albums, c. 1900s, including nineteen platinum prints of Indian interest, including a portrait of the Nawab of Bahawalpur with a portrait of the young Maharaja of Mysore to reverse, a group portrait of men in traditional costume with a similar group of women to reverse, a photo. of Rewah State carriage drawn by an elephant and several photos. of the 1903 Coronation Durbar in Delhi, and several with ceremonial elephants, mostly approx. 29 x 23 cm, or similar sizes, plus fifteen albumen and gelatin silver print images of Indian and Chinese interest, thirty-one albumen prints of Egypt including images by Sebah and A. Beato, and seventeen albumen prints of Italy, various sizes, the Italian and Egyptian photos. with neat ink captions beneath, one volume with the bookplate of Charles H. Shaw, contemp. morocco gilt, sl. rubbed, folio (2)
* India. A good album of seventy albumen prints of India, c. 1860s, mostly by Bourne and Bourne & Shepherd, many numbered and signed in the negative, including scenes of Calcutta, Darjeeling, Himalayas, Benares, Lucknow, Agra, Futtepore Sakri, Gwalior, Delhi, Leypore, Amber, Bombay, Ceylon, Lahore, etc., mostly approx. 19 x 27 cm, mounted with neat ink captions beneath, contemp. blue morocco, rubbed and some wear to extrems., oblong folio (1)
* India. An album of b&w photo. snapshots by Mr. Hendrick, Engineer, c. mid-1920s, including images of rogue elephants shot in Assam, river steamers, cars, people, animals, tea-picking, Jaffa, camp groups, Calcutta, Punjab, etc., approx. 200 images in all, 10 x 8 cm and smaller, many identified in ink beneath, orig. cloth, soiled and some wear, oblong folio (1)
* Italy, Ireland, Scotland and Isle of Man. An album of approx. seventy albumen prints, c. 1890s, including images of Genoa, Gibraltar, Naples, Pisa, plus smaller views of Ireland, etc., including a few Isle of Man with embossed stamp of Geo. A. Dean, some spotting, contemp. half morocco, worn and covers near det., oblong folio (1)
Italy. A late 19th c. album containing approx. 50 albumen prints of Geneva and Pisa, by Noack, and others, incl. landscape views, street scenes, interiors, architectural studies & sculpture, etc., images mostly approx. 27 x 22 cms., or slightly smaller, orig. half-calf, back strip deficient, folio (1)
* Japan - Nagasaki. An album of twenty albumen prints [by Felice Beato], c. 1864, including town views, street scenes, temples and boats with figures, birds-eye views of the town, boats on estuary mud, a tea house on a bridge on Tocaido Road, plus an extra albumen print of a large group of Europeans posing on rough ground, all images approx. 21 x 28 cm, most with English pencil captions beneath, some fading throughout, mounts badly dampstained with some purple colour on the majority of images, contemp. traditional style Japanese album with pictorial wooden boards, backstrip deficient, and covers det., oblong folio. Felice Beato arrived in Japan in 1862/3 and lived in Yokohama from 1863 until 1884. He visited Nagasaki in 1864 and took some of the earliest known photographs in this region. Three of the rare photographs in this album are also in the collection of Japanese old photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period at Nagasaki University. These are a photograph of the Bell Tower within the Daionji Temple compounds in Teramaschi (no. 1286); the tea house on the Tocaido Road, upstream on Nakashima River, the oldest known photograph of this bridge (no. 1289); and a general view of Nagasaki from Battery Hill from around the cemetery of Donnoyama in Koshima (no. 1292). (1)
* North America - Oregon. An album of approx. thirty-two mounted gelatin silver prints of Wigrich Ranch, Oregon, c. 1910, all showing hot picking, other ranch activities, etc., each mounted one to a leaf, printed captions beneath, Parker Studio label at rear, images approx. 11 x 17 cm, and smaller, disbound without covers, oblong small folio (1)
Paris Commune 1871. Les Ruines de Paris et de ses Environs 1870-1871, Cent Photographies par A. Liebert, Texte par Alfred D'Aunay, 2 vols., pub. A[lphonse] Liebert, Paris, 1872, each volume with printed title, table of contents, 11/12pp essay and fifty albumen photographs, image sizes approx. 10 x 13.5 cm, each individually mounted with photographer's name and printed caption beneath, all correct as listed with tissue-guards present, slight paper damage to upper margin of contents leaf of volume 1 and rear endpapers of both volumes, a.e.g., orig. diced calf with gilt-lettered spines, some wear to corners and spine ends, spine of vol. 2 slightly torn and repaired without loss, oblong folio (approx. 22.5 x 32 cm). Truthful Lens 105 - first issue of 1871: 'Many photographers recorded the devastation of Paris and surroundings following the Franco-Prussian War and the uprising of the Commune. This, however, is the only collection published with descriptive text and letterpress captions... Among the subjects are views of the gutted City Hall, of the Tuileries, Saint Cloud, the overturned Colonne Vendome, etc.'. (2)
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