Collection of 21 manuscript financial documents from one of the first American companies dedicated to extracting and selling oil outside the United States. Known variously as the Peruvian Refinery Company, Peruvian Refining Company, Peruvian Petroleum Company and Peruvian Petroleum and Refinery Company, the company was founded by James Bishop --..... (Item #21378)

Hardcover. Very good. Large cloth album (11.5" x 14.5") containing two lithographed hand-drawn maps and 294 photographs mounted on both sides of 27 thick cardstock leaves (3 additional leaves unused). Also includes some small half-tone tourist views not included in the photo count. Some leaves loose from binding, otherwise very..... (Item #21375)

Unused postcard, 3.5 x 5.5 inches, with a half-tone photograph of Enrico Toti and his bicycle on the front, short printed text in Danish on the back. Signed by Toti in pencil on the front. Mild scuffing, very good. Enrico Toti was born in Rome in 1882, and lost his..... (Item #21371)

Fourteen complete letters and one partial letter totaling 80 handwritten pages (various sheet sizes, but most ca. 8 x 10 in.), about 12,500 words in all; also a copy in Prince's hand of a letter recommending him promotion from writer and Harper's Weekly editor George William Curtis. All in fine..... (Item #21360)

Octavo-sized volume (9.25" x 5.5") in three-quarter leather and black pebbled cloth boards, containing 97 hand-colored lithographed plates of fruit, flowers, and trees by William Henry Prestele (1838-1895), the youngest of three artist sons of the German botanical artist and master lithographer Joseph Prestele, who emigrated to the United States..... (Item #21354)

Philadelphia: Old Franklin Publishing House. Softcover. Fine. 60 pp, with 4 wood-engraved plates. Original pictorial wrappers. Cheaply printed on acidic paper that is now browned and brittle, badly chipped along edges, rear wrapper detached. A fair copy only. Often cited as fiction (see Wright Vol. 3, 4735, for example), this..... (Item #21351)

Hardcover. Very good. Green cloth photograph album (12.5" x 10.5") containing 144 photographs, mostly gelatin silver prints (a few albumen, three cyanotypes), in a wide range of sizes, with the majority in the range of 2" x 3" to 4" x 6". Approximately two-thirds of the images are captioned. A...... (Item #21348)

Approximately 150 black and white photographs, almost all either 7 x 9.5 or 5 x 7 inches, showing various aspects of a 1949 archaeological expedition led by Walter Fairservis Jr. (1921-1994), then a graduate student at Harvard. About half with old (now inert) glue residue visible on the backs, most..... (Item #21340)

No place or date of publication given, but ca. 1910, printed by Poole Brothers, Chicago. 8 x 5.5 inches, 31 pp, with illustrations from photographs, in original illustrated wrappers. Light soiling and abrasion to wrappers; very good. Offers a detailed discussion of the process of immigrating to Cuba and assurances..... (Item #21337)

San Francisco: Albert Dressler, 1927. Hardcover. Very good. Copy #178 of 550 issued. 30 pp, illustrated, in original orange cloth, with poem "Ave! Imperator Norton!" by William McDevitt (3 pp) tipped in at the end. Title handwrittem on the spine, endpapers lightly foxed. Label of bookseller Fred M. DeWitt of..... (Item #21330)

Santa Monica, CA: Angel City Press, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. 271 pp, with frontispiece, illustrations, bibliography, index. A fine copy, in like dust jacket, signed by Read with short personal inscription to "a fellow Rotarian" on the title page. "Tells the little-known story..... (Item #21326)

Very good. Three-page manuscript letter, approximately 800 words, from Dr. G.A. Hinnen of Cincinnati, Ohio, to his parents. Dated March 22, 1937 and written on letterhead of the National Association for the Elimination of Home Work, of which the Hinnen was on the Advisory Committee. Writing more than a month..... (Item #21323)

London: Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society, [1920]. Hardcover. Very good in a good dust jacket. First trade edition. Two volumes, pp xxx, 439; xxii, 531,with a total of 36 beautiful color plates by Flint. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt spine lettering, blind-stamped decoration on upper..... (Item #21320)