Americana
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CORNEILLE (Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, dit). Images de New York.
Paris, Georges Fall, 1959. In-folio – 17 x 13.6 inches. Copy in sheets in a blue folder with closing laces. Title on the front cover. Complete copy of its 16 plates in black and white with their printed signature. Only 80 copies printed, all numbered. Original signature of the artist on the page with the…
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Hopkins, Daniel. A sermon, preached December 29, 1799, in the South Meeting House, Salem, the Lord’s Day after the melancholy tidings were received of the death of General George Washington, who died Dec. 14, 1799
(19 x 12cm). 28 pp. In recent soft cover binding for protection. Easily removable with no damage to original text block. 1/4″ of head of title page removed, 1/4″ x 1/4″ chip to head of page 1, rest of text block unmarked with occasional foxing and ink bleed through of the thin paper. 1880 OCLC 559905541 2)1817 Specimens of…
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French pamphlet against England predicting the birth of the USA, published in 1703
Les interests de l’Angleterre mal-entendus dans la présente guerre. Traduits du livre anglois Englands inetrest mestaken en the present War. Qui mare teneat cum necesse rerum potiti. Cicero ad Atticum Libro decimo, Epistola sexta. Amsterdam 1703. Jean-Baptiste Dubos in-12° full calf, spine ribbed, fleurons on boxes, title and author. Very good condition. Headdress partly torn…
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Apache Kid Sparks, William 1926
8vo (20 x 15 cm). 215 pp. Brown cloth covers with gilt embossed titles to upper and spine. Professional repairs to tail of spine, water marks (2cm) to edges of endpapers. Inscribed (1926) by author on free endpaper to J.F. Crampton (“in 1866 the family moved to Arizona and passed through where the city of…
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Report of the Committee on Providing a Thanksgiving Dinner for the Soldiers and Sailors : presented December 14th, 1864. 1865
Charles H Marshall; Theodore Roosevelt; George Bliss, Horace Greeley, L. Delmonico (committee members) 8vo (23 x 15cm). 84pp. Original sewn wraps, expert repair to upper cover. PO name to title page. Pages 1-16 chipped (1-1/4″ descending to 1/4″), pages 17-25 folded in (1/16″) at tail corner but none affecting text. Text block tight and unmarked. In…
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John T. The Origin, Progress and Conclusion of the Florida War. Sprague. 1848
8vo (24 x 16 cm). 16, [3], 2-557pp. 32 pp. Publishers advertisements to rear. Later brown cloth binding with gilt titles to spine. new endpapers PO stamp to second free endpaper, rest of text block unmarked with light foxing throughout. Foxing, A collection of historical notes and documents on the Second Seminole War (1821-1845) with…
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Indianische GerätschaŌen und Waffen. – Ustensiles et Armes indiens. – Indian Utensils and Arms, Tab XXI
Fine old hand coloured aquatint engraving of Plain utensils and arms.In center a wonderful painted Buffalo robe. Mató-Topé Chief of the Mandan painted the basle with a Cheyenne Chief on this skin. (This original robe is to see at the collections of the Linden Museum, Stuttgart, Germany). The robe is surrounded by arms and utensils…
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Mexkemahuastan Chief of the Gros-Vendres de Prairies
Portrait of a proud Chief, armed and his head embellished with symbol of prowess in fight.Rare aquatint engraving from Maximilian Prince of Neuwied “Travels in the Interior of NorthAmerica”, German 1. Edition 1840,Engraving by Hürlimann, Paris, Coblenz & London (1839-1841), blind stamp, rare large paper edition!Koblenz 1840Print size: 31 cm x 23 cm, paper size:…
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City Plan of Philadelphia
Steel engraving of the city of Philadelphia from“Meyer ́s Handatlas”, Hilburghausen, Germany ca 1845Print-Size: 37,3 cm x 30 cmPrint in very good condition Offered by Kunstantiquariat Monika Schmidt $160 To purchase, contact info@monika-schmidt.com
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Prospect des Plazes vor dem Rath-Haus zu Boston – Vue de la Rue et de la Maison de Ville áBoston
Hand coloured engraving by Franz Xaver Habermann, printed in Augsburg 1780. Print size: 31 cm x 40 cm Old hand coloured copper print, small margins, the paper with some creases otherwise compare to the age is this fine print in very good condition. Offered by Kunstantiquariat Monika Schmidt $380 To purchase, contact info@monika-schmidt.com