Search Results: Authors starting with I from Zephyr Used & Rare Books

[Rotterdam: Netherlands Architecture Institute, 2000]. 4to. 302, [2] pp. 100s of colour photos, illusts., diagrams. White cloth, yellow lettrng, w/ d.j. NF/NF copy from the collection of Dr. Rochelle Martin. First edition of this selection of the most important critical texts about Dutch architecture during the end of the 20th century, providing a survey of over 130 projects, including work by Wiel Arets, Benthem Crouwel, Bosch Haslett, Claus & Kaan, Meyer & Van Schooten, Neutelings Riedijk, Soeters Van Eldonk, West 8, and others.

New York: Scribner and Welford, 743 & 745 Broadway, [1889]. 12mo. 384 pp., plus 32 pp. publisher’s catalogue. Frontisp., 11 plates, 1 double-page colour map. Olive-green pictorial publisher’s cloth over beveled boards, cover arrt illustration of Viking helm, spears, shields, and mountains, decorative spine, gilt & black lettering (minor edgewear, rubbing, slight bumping to corners), still VG copy. First edition of this scarce recounting of the famed Icelandic Saga of Grettir the Strong, considered one of the finest in Scandinavian Sagas, and the Icelandic version of the Beowulf Legend set in the 10th century. This work tells of desperate feats, fighting beserkers, and with the spirit of Glam, as well as an excellent account of Icelandic folkways and culture. These are early illustrations by Michael Zeno Diemer (1867-1939) who studied at the Academy in Munich under Gabriel von Gackl and Alexander von Liezen-Mayer, and was especially well-knwon for his watercolours of the Alps.

[Spokane & Pullman, WA: S.G. Sargent; Archie & Milton Loryea Photographic Studio, ca. 1899]. Eleven mounted photographs. 1st -- 10 albumen photos sized from 2.5 x 4.75 in. to 3.8 x 4.8 in. mounted on embossed cream-coloured studio boards, sized 5.5 x 5.5 in. square to 5.4 x 6.4 in., several w/ faint pencil manuscript annotations on versos (minor dustsoiling, edgewear, scuffing, a few very minor stains, creasing to a couple boards, 1 w/ corner chipped, minor bumping); 2nd - 1 silver gelatin lozenge photo sized 1.8 x 2.8 in. mounted on 3.3 x 5 in. gray-brown studio board, photographer’s imprint at lower right corner, signed by S.G. Sargent at lower left corner, a VG set of images. This scarce collection of vernacular mounted photographs open with a photo of Sargent holding a timber cruiser’s measurement board, followed by nine additional images capturing the expedition along the Scotchman Peak trail. These include images illustrating a “snow slide when it cut its way down slope;” “Showing… Read More

Chicago & New York: George F. Cram, [1902]. 12mo. 4.2 x 6.75 in. 14, [2] pp., including illustrated publisher’s ads. With 18 x 24 in. pocket map, points of interest demarcated in red, RR lines in assorted colours, markings, tinted borders (minor edgewear). Printed pink-tinted softcovers (dustsoiling, edgewear, some sunning to front cover) still a VG copy. First edition of this very rare Idaho pocket map, detailing all the cities, towns, post offices, railroad stations, villages, and counties, along with telegraph stations and express company offices, providing number of banks in each banking towns, telegraph stations, and more. Railroad lines such as the Boise, Nampa & Owyhee, Great Northern. Kootenay Valley Railway & Navigation Co., Northern Pacific, Oregon RR & Navigation Co., Oregon Short Line and others are demarcated. Native American reservations and mining districts are also carefully demarcated. No copies in Worldcat (BSU holds a smaller 1902 map extracted from Cram’s Standard American… Read More

Lewiston, ID: Robert G. Bailey, Printing Co., 1943. Tall 8vo. 575, [1] pp. Photo frontisp., w/ 100s of photo and text illustrations throughout, colour-illustrated sheet music art for My Home in Idaho for front endpapers, pictorial map on rear endpapers. Red publisher’s cloth, pictorial map of Idaho on front cover (minor soiling, faint tidemark to fore-edge of front cover, slightly cocked), w/ d.j. pictorial map on front cover of Idaho, photo illustration back cover (wear, edgewear, minor chipping, couple minor tears, soiling), still VG-/VG- copy, signed & numbered, together with [4] pp. Reviews of Hell’s Canyon laid-in. First edition, signed & numbered (1177), of this excellent work filled with historical notes, poetry, and personal memoirs of travel to Yellowstone from Idaho, bridges spanning the Snake River, Freemasonry in Idaho, gold mining, hunting Grizzly Bears, a substantial section on the Nez Perce Indians and their legends, Chief Joseph, as well as the logging and forestry practices of… Read More

Boise, ID: Statesman Printing Co., 1959. 8vo. 246 pp. Numerous illusts. Black cloth, gilt lettrng (slght sunng to spine), VG copy. First edition of this collection of historical anecdotes and stories of pioneer Idaho.

St. Maries, ID: Western Historical, Inc., 1962. Oblong 4to. [82 pp (unpaginated).]. With over 100 sepia-tinted photographic illustrations and plates. Illustrated softcovers, cover art of river sternwheeler on the front, yapp edges (minor edgewear, rubbing, some dustsoiling), still VG- copy. First edition of this scarce, and informative photographic record of the logging, farming, economic, and social development of the area around St. Maries, Idaho along the Saint Joe River, which feeds into Lake Coeur d’Alene from 1890 to 1910.

Washington, DC: Service Center for Teachers of History, [1959]. 8vo. 22 pp. Printed softcvrs (mnr creasng to fore-edge), VG-. First edition.

Chicago, IL: Warner & Beers, 62 & 64 Lake Street, 1873. Atlas folio. 16 x 18.7 in. 3, [3], 5-91, [1] pp. Woodcut-engraved title page, 42 hand-coloured steel-engraved maps, all w/ nicely executed engraved borders (couple double-page), additional steel-engraved “Family Records” page filled-out in manuscript inserted. Original front panel stamped in decorative gilt lettering mounted on recent black cloth binding (occasional edgewear, minor soiling to fore-edges of textblock, couple very minor closed tears), still VG copy from the library of John Inkster (1828-1908), Scottish-American farmer who immigrated in 1860 to Pilot Township, Kankakee, IL to farm with his brother James, and then continued West to farm in Coast Fork, Lane Co., Oregon, and finally the Washington Territory in 1881 where he homesteaded near Davenport, WT, assisted in building Fort Spokane, and served as County Commissioner from 1886-1892. First edition of this exceedingly scarce Illinois Atlas published just after the great… Read More

Yerevan: Sovetakan Grogh Publishing House, [1987]. Folio. 165, [3] pp. Numerous blk & wht text illusts., 53 colour plates. Brown cloth, gilt lettrng (mnr shlfwr, slght bmpng to couple crnrs), w/ d.j. cover art image of The Annunciation by Anomymous Painter of Syuniq (mnr shlfwr, slght rubbng), VG/VG copy. First edition of this scarce and well-illustrated monograph on Armenian illuminated manuscripts.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1927. 8vo. xi, [3], 239, [1] pp. Colour-tinted frontisp., 7 colour-tinted plates. Orange cloth, silver lettering front cover & spine (very minor shelfwear, very slight bumping to corners), w/ d.j. vivid Art Deco cover art of stalking Tiger silhouette on front cover by Reynolds in black, silver and orange (slight chipping head of spine, minor creasing, edgewear), still NF/VG- copy. First edition of this anthology of big game stories of the Indian jungle set on the North Eastern frontier near Bhutan. Casserly (1869-1947) joined the 22nd Bombay Infantry in 1892, served in China during the Boxer Rebellion, and later with the 120th Rajputana Infantry with about 200 sepoys in a small fort in Cooch Behar.

London, Calcutta, & Madras: W. Thacker & Co., 2, Creed Lane; Higginbotham & Co., 1897. Thick 8vo. xxvii, [1], 435, [1] pp., plus xii, [4] pp. publisher’s ads. With numerous plates, text illustrations, diagrams. Burgundy-coloured cloth, gilt inset panel on front cover from original binding, w/ original spine laid back down on spine, renewed endpapers (minor edgewear, rubbing, occasional toning), still a VG- copy, w/ bookplate of Albert Sayman on front pastedown. Third edition, and considered the “best” edition of this fishing classic for South Asia, detailing the angler’s pursuit of the “Mahseer” the chief of the Indian game fishes. Included are expanded and substantially revised chapters on flyfishing, live bait fishing, bottom fishing for Labeo, freshwater sharks, and much more, all augmented with expanded illustrations.

New York: Viking Press, 1943. 8vo. xii, [2], 333, [1] pp. With map. Orange-coloured publisher’s cloth, woodcut illust. front cover of elephant, woodcut-engraved endpapers (minor shelfwear, rubbing to couple corners), w/ d.j. wraparound cover art by Charles Buckles Falls (1874-1960), noted WWI poster artist (minor chipping & sunning to spine, edgewear, small closed tears, old tape repairs), still VG/G- copy. First edition, stated, of this jungle adventure set in the Jungle Reserves of Kakanakote and The Closed Jungle of Mysore, whose Rajah had contributed elephants to the author’s travels in writing of the book.

Bangalore: Office of the Director, Southern Circle, Survey of India, P.B. No. 44, [1915]. 4to. 7.25 x 9.75 in. which holds a 32-panel linen backed colour-printed map which folds out into double atlas folio sized map, sized 36.5 x 53 in. Mounted within Navy-blue linen portfolio, printed label w/ manuscript annotations on front cover indicating the sheet number (minor shelfwear, slight rubbing), still NF copy. First edition, thus, of this map of Bangalore prepared under the auspices of the Survey of India, Office of the Director in the opening years of World War I. This remarkable topographical map featuring a scale of 1” to 1 mile is based on the surveys first launched by William Lambton in the 19th Century known as the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, led successively by Lambton, George Everest, Andrew Waugh, and James Walker. These fulfilled the premise that geodetic survey was the only option for accurate maps of large areas, and much of this work in the survey of India was based upon the… Read More

West Medford, MA: Central Comittee on the United Study of Foreign Missions, [1922]. 12mo. 76, [2] pp. Numerous colour illustrations, text illustrations. Quarter-green cloth over colour-illustrated boards (minor edgewear, rubbing, minor wear to corners), still VG copy, from the library of Ann Elizabeth Coleman, Seattle, WA, and later Ann C. Hildahl, w/ ownership signatures on endpapers. First edition.

London: Methuen & Co., 1897. Tall 8vo. x, [2], 361 pp. Photo frontisp., 15 photo plates, 1 large folding colour map. Blue pebbled cloth, gilt lettering on spine (very minor shelfwear, rubbing, slight bumping to couple corners), VG copy. First edition of this excellent work compiled from information collected during the course of the Ethnographical Survey of the Provinces Agra and Oudh in northwest India.

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1895. 12mo. 390, [2] pp., plus 16 pp. publisher’s catalogue. Frontisp., 11 plates, 3 maps (1 large double-page colour map). Blue pictorial publisher’s cloth, cover art image of figure in tuban holding sword, tiger on spine, in red, white & black, white, red & gilt lettering, decoration (minor darkening, dustsoiling, minor wear to couple corners, slight bumping to couple corners), still VG bright copy. First edition of this rousing tale of privateers, shipwreck, and rescue in India during the third and fourth Anglo-Mysore Wars in Indian 1790-1799. Henty has focused on the failings of Lord Cornwallis, as he describes the battles in which Tipu Sultan invaded the state of Travancore with French allies, which ended in his defeat at the siege of Serigapatam and the signing of the Treaty which required him to surrender half his kingdom to the British East India Company. The Fourth Anglo-Mysore War resulted in the death of Tipu Sultan, when the British won a decisive… Read More

London: James Bowden, 1898. Tall 8vo. 159, [1] pp. Photo frontisp., 13 photo plates, 57 plates. Original khaki-coloured cloth, illustration & brown lettering on front cover, over beveled boards, a.e.g. (chipping, wear, soiling, damage head & foot of spine, bumping & wear to corners, some minor soiling to endpapers), still G- reference copy, w/ Bookseller’s label on front pastedown for Queen City Book Co., Cincinnati, OH, and former ownership stamp. First edition of this scarce illustrated account of the relief of the British Garrison at Chakdara during the siege of Malakand by 10,000 Pashtuns commanded by Saidullah. The British relief column was sent to assist General William Hope Meiklejohn, and was accompanied by a young 2nd Lieutenant Winston Churchill who later published his Story of the Malakand Field Force.

London: S.W. Partridge, 1898. 8vo. 320 pp. Frontisp. Contemporary full red calf prize binding, raised bands on spine, gilt decoration, gilt dentelles, gilt lettering on front cover, gilt & green morocco spine label, marbled fore-edges & endpapers (minor edgewear, rubbing to fore-edges, very slight bumping to corners), still a VG copy, presented to H.I. Marriner, as Prize for Latin, Form I, from The Old Ride School, Branksome Park, Bournemouth, which was located in Martello Road between Branksome Park and Canford Cliffs. Second printing, prize binding, of this third volume in the Romance of Colonization series.

[Portland, OR & Bali, Indonesia: John F. O’Donnell, ca. 1950]. Twenty-six silver gelatin photographs, sized 8 x 10 in., all preserved in contemporary matte boards (minor toning to fore-edges of matting, slight bumping, dustsoiling), still a VG set. This collection of photographs document the people and surroundings in post-World War II Indonesia, during a trip by the recently discharged Captain with his wife Elizabeth through southeast Asia. The images encompass such sites as a crossroads sign complete with fearsome idols, and distances to Mengwi, Denpasar, Etangi, and other places; a family standing in front of a temple with a stone carving of elephant in the backdrop; a Malaysian Sun Bear standing on his hind legs begging; several ornate mosques, and very large Hindu temple under reconstruction; boats traveling down a canal; marketplace scenes, and some with native porters pushing huge loads of filled sacks on wheeled carts. In addition, there are photos of giant Buddha statues, market scene with… Read More