Chicago: Mrs. T.M. Starr, 1896. Softcover. Very good. Fourth edition. 48 pp. 6.5 x 5 inches, in original stapled wrappers. A very good copy, with some chipping to the spine, ownership signature on front cover. Title continues: Including Concise Instructions for Coloring with Transparent Oil Colors and for Enameling Over..... Item #21706
Very good. 5" x 7" photograph on an 8" x 10" mount, showing a booth--likely at an agricultural fair--promoting the packaging and marketing services of the Raisin City Packing & Vending Co. of Fresno. Accompanied by the business card of company president J.H. Caesar, with a signed note on the..... Item #22110
Very good. Original portrait photograph of American author and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) on 4 1/8 x 6 1/4 in. mount with printed signature. Mount is slightly curved, otherwise very good. The photographer is not identified here, but the image is known to be by New York photographer and..... Item #22255
Carte de visite photograph of Frances Coryell (here spelled Coryel), "a Hindoo girl buried alive by her heathen parents," sold to raise funds for the Women's Foreign Missionary Society. The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society was a Protestant woman's missionary organization founded by Methodists in Boston in 1869. The story of..... Item #21179
Four-page circular, 5.75" x 9", urging the reader to "send us your photograph...and we will produce a highly-finished permanent enlargement equaling a rich steel plate engraving." Inside are numerous testimonials to quality of the product, and on the back is a promise of free gift with your first purchase --..... Item #21937
Very good. Fifteen black and white photographs, of which thirteen measure 4 7/8” x 3 ¾”; the other two measure 4” x 6”. Four of the smaller size images have typed descriptions attached to them. Bernard R. Hubbard was a Jesuit priest, explorer, photographer, and lecturer who did much to..... Item #21379
Fifty-one albumen photographs featuring the monuments of Egypt, ca. 1880. All photos 22.5 x 28 cm (ca. 8.75 x 11 inches) on slightly larger card mounts, housed in a two-piece green cloth case stamped “Aegypten I” in gilt, with four brass-rimmed slots for ribbon ties near the corners of both..... Item #21923
Twenty-seven (27) 8” x 10” photographs showcasing high-end vehicles for rent from the Iowa Garage in Pasadana, California, owned by former race car mechanic Eugene Lajunie (b. 1885). Each photo is accompanied by a typed caption giving the model number, color, some specifications, and the price per day to rent..... Item #20563
Very good. Four photograph albums containing a total of 558 mounted images documenting military training and service in Japan in 1920s and 30s, all in very good condition. Although we acquired these albums together, they appear to have belonged to different people. Most, if not all, were officers. One album..... Item #20997
5" x 10" cloth album (labeled in the back as a "Ward's Album for Unmounted Photographs") with thirty-six 2.25" x 6.75" photographs inserted each side of 18 thick cardstock leaves. A few of the images have some hand-coloring. Leaves were original mounted on cloth stubs, but the cloth has deteriorated..... Item #21909
Japan Hydrogen Industry Co, Ltd. [Onahama, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan], 1947. Cloth album, 12 x 8.5 inches, containing 33 silver gelatin photographs mounted to rectos only, with printed captions in English and Japanese on facing pages. Very good. In the aftermath of World War II, the Allied powers recognized the importance..... Item #20999
Good. Accordion-style lacquer album in wooden boards, 5.5" x 7.5", with 108 images mounted on both sides of 24 panels. Image size ranges from 2.25" x 2.25" to 4.25" x 6". One board damaged (see images), photos generally very good, though with varying degrees of contrast. This fascinating album was..... Item #22079
Two large photograph albums containing more than 400 photographs from a prominent sporting family in Edwardian and Interwar Britain. Members of the family played cricket and polo, raised horses, participated in fox hunting and steeplechase events, and visited the estates of similarly inclined members of their class. Major Pascoe William..... Item #20821
Seattle Light City Boundary Project, [1967]. Boundary Dam, located on the Pend Oeille River in Northeastern Washington, supplies a substantial portion of the hydroelectric power used by Seattle residents. A concrete, double-curvature arch dam rising 340 feet from bedrock, it is 740 feet long at the top, 32 feet thick..... Item #20994
Very good. Flexible leather binder containing 29 black and white, 8" x 10" photographs inserted back-to-back in clear sleeves. Stamped in gilt on the cover with the name of the owner/recipient, James Stubbers, as well as the Hiram Walker name and logo. Each photo has a typed caption. Fine condition..... Item #21448
Real photo postcard showing the interior of a Western railroad depot with considerable character and detail. Very mild crease to one corner, a touch of wear to the edges; near fine. Although someone has written "Texas RR" on the back, and there are signs posted relating to the Denver &..... Item #21612
Hardcover. Very good. Accordion-folded album containing nine original albumen photographs of Madeira, including a four-panel panorama of Funchal. Images measure 6.5 "x 9" and are backed with linen; red cloth album measures 6.75" x 9.5" (oblong). Some fraying to boards, final photograph creased at the edge; all else very good..... Item #19770
London: Henry Greenwood & Co., 1918. Softcover. good. Third edition. 5" x7.25", pp 26, [7] ads, in original cardstock wrappers, wth later cloth tape on spine. Ownership stamps on cover and title page, a few penciled brackets in the margins. Instruction on a popular style of portrait photography that "removes..... Item #15182
New York: Leo Castelli / Castelli Graphics, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. [108] pp, with 51 b/w illustrations from Baltz' photographs. Ex-library, with typical markings. One corner of rear board bumped, otherwise nice condition -- clean, tightly bound, unmarked, with minimal handling wear. No dust jacket. One of the most..... Item #22021
Seattle: Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Exhibition catalogue. Approximately 11 x 11 inches, 67, (5) pp, extensively illustrated with b/w photographs. Signature and embossed stamp of David L. Jacobs on front endpaper, otherwise unmarked. Binding sound, light edgewear. Includes photographs by Joseph Deal..... Item #14764
1913. Softcover. Good. 6" x 10", oblong, in embossed cardstock wrappers tied with rawhide. [54] pp, illustrated with 23 original gelatin silver photographs tipped on to the rectos. Staining on front cover and first four leaves, most photographs with foxing around the edges, TWO PHOTOS LACKING. Good. The Mexican Petroleum..... Item #21346
San Francisco, CA: Camera Craft Publishing, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a Fair dust jacket. 160 pp, with b/w illustrations from photographs, with advertisements. Inscribed "To a Young Amateur, Harry Champlin" on title page. Silght wear to edges, name on front free endpaper; else clean and sound. Dust..... Item #1876
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Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. ix, 156 pp, with illustrations, selected bibliography, chronology, index. Fine. Dust jacket shows minimal shelf wear and one small (1/2 inch) tear at head of spine. This book "offers a stimulating panorama..... Item #844
Cleveland, OH: National Lamp Works of General Electric, 1927. Softcover. Good+. Bulletin 52, July 20, 1927. 64 pp, with many illustrations from photographs and a two-page spread showing the photographic rendition of colors with various emulsions, filters, and illuminants. Some soiling, moderate handling wear. Foreword: "This bulletin tells how best..... Item #15179
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1883. Hardcover. Very good. Early reprint (first published 1876), in a full-leather binding with raised bands, decorative gilt rules on boards, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. 6.25", 338 pp, extra-illustrated with 28 mounted albumen photographs (4" x 5.25") of Egyptian scenes. "Rev. Russell Edwards..... Item #21816
