Rare books from Arroyo Seco Books

Arnheim: Christoffel Van Sichem / Ioan. Iansonium, 1609. Original Woodcut . Single Sheet. Near Fine. 12.6 x 16 Cm. Original Engraving Of Anabaptist Leader Adam Pastor Van Dorphen, 6 1/4" X 4 7/8", One Of A Series Of Fine Woodcut Portraits Executed By Van Sichem, Junior, All Rare. A Very Fine Example, Trimmed To Plate Mark, Mounted. Christoffel Van Sichem (1581, Basel - 1658, Amsterdam), Was A Dutch Golden Age Woodcutter And Engraver. According To The Rkd He Made Woodcuts Of Famous People After His Father, Christoffel Van Sichem The Elder. He Was The Brother Of Karel Sichem Who Published Many Of His Prints. Van Sichem Also Made Woodcuts After Portraits By Leading Artists Such As Abraham Bloemaert, Hendrick Goltzius And Maarten Van Heemskerck, Among Others. He Made These For Various Publications And Then He Bundled And Published Them Himself In "Der Zielen Lust-Hof '. His Work May Be Seen In "Bibels Tresoor, Ofte Der Zielen Lvsthof", By Christoffel Van Sichem, Pieter… Read More

Chicago: Privately Published, 1915. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. Folding Map at Rear. Xiv, 277 Pp. Blue Cloth Stamped In White. Good Source For History Of Formation Of Liberia. Privately Published By The Author. Near Fine. Almost No Wear At All. White Lettering Strong And Unworn, Spine Not Faded, No Fraying, Hinges Tight. Inscribed "With Best Wishes" By Author On Front Endpaper. Frederick Starr (1858-1933) Was Professor Of Anthropology At The University Of Chicago From 1892 Until His Retirement In 1923. Starr Was Born In Auburn, New York, The Fourth Son Of A Presbyterian Minister. He Was Educated At The University Of Rochester And Received A Ph.D. In Geology From Lafayette College In 1885. He Served In Various Academic Posts Including Registrar And Professor Of Geography At Chautauqua Where He Became Acquainted With William Rainey Harper. In 1892, Harper Asked Starr To Help Organize A Program In Anthropology At The New University Of Chicago. Starr Taught… Read More

Los Angeles Circa 1940, 1940. Original Artwork . Board. Near Fine. 8" x 6. Small Oil Landscape On Board, Signed, 8" X 6" Oblong, Undated But Circa 1930/1950. [Provenance: Estate Of Edwin Roscoe Shrader Of Otis Art Institute.]

Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1981. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/As New. Plates Throughout. Xii + 7 "Portfolios" Of Plates. First Published In 1977, This Is An Entirely New Design By Ann Lampton Curtis, New Printing By Gardner/Fulmer Lithograph On Centura Gloss Paper Using New Higher-Quality Laser-Scanned Separations. Signed By Ansel Adams On The Half-Title, No Inscription. As New In As New Dj.

Lee And Shepard (Boston) / Lee, Shepard, And Dillingham (New York), 1872. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. Ix, 224 Pp. Green Cloth, Gilt. First American Issue With "Wade " For "Wake" On P. 21. Original Brown Endpapers. Wear, Gilt Bright Except Some Wear Through Publisher's Gilt Monogram On Bottom Of Spine, Fraying At Corners And Top 1" Of Rear Spine Edge, Hinges Tight. Former Owner's Name James Duane Moore, 117 E. 17Th Street, New York, On Second Front Free Endpaper, With Pencil Inscription Above. A Decent Example. First Printings, Uk Or American, Of The Alice Books Are Becoming Curiouser And Curiouser In Entirely Original Bindings. .

Los Angeles, 1934. Original Artwork . No Binding. Fine. Original Drawing On Tissue. 5 5/8" X 4 3/4", Titled And Signed On The Artist's Matting. Napolitano Studied At Chouinard And Otis In 1922-925, Engaged In Work On Architectural Murals 1925-1930 Working For Designer Herman Sachs On Such Buildings As Bullocks Wilshire, Los Angeles City Hall, The Palm Beach Biltmore, Etc.; Studied Pottery In Ny And Mural Painting In Germany 1929-1931, Returned To Architectural And Other Work In The U.S., Completed Many Wpa Murals In Southern California 1934-1938 And Some Private Commissions, Illustrated Many Books For Merle Armitage 1935-1960, Worked As A Set And Prop Designer And Artist In The 1940'S, And Notably Did Church Art Work For Th Next Twenty Years Including Full Church Interiors, Monumental Sculptures, Etc. He Is The Subject Of The Monograph "Napolitano", 1934, By Merle Armitage.

London: Macmillan And Co., 1883. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Plates. Xx, 111 Pp. Salmon Cloth, Gilt; Black Endpapers. First Printing. Lightly Used, No Fraying, Gilt Bright, Hinges Very Tight, Pages Crisp. Presentation Inscription From The Author To The Duke Of Bedford, With An Additional Letter Of 23 April 1883 From Siemens To The Duke, Francis Charles Hastings Russell, 9Th Duke Of Bedford Kg (1819 -1891) (The Dedication Is Dated April 4, 1883), 2 Pp. An Early British Essay On The Dynamics Of Solar Radiation, With Reprinting Of Many Scientific Comments Thereupon. Per Wikipedia, Charles William Siemens (1823- ) Received His Education At The Gymnasium Of Lubeck, The Art School Of Madgeburg, And The University Of Gottingen. In 1843 He Visited England And Again Came To England To Patent An Invention, Becoming Naturalized Subject In 1859. In 1851 Mr. Siemens Introduced His Water-Meter. Between The Years 1856 And 1861, Mr. Siemens, In Conjunction With His Brother Frederick, Worked… Read More

London: George Allen And Unwin, 1964. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 92 Pp + Catalog At End. Green Cloth, Gilt. First Printing. Fine In Near Fine Dj, Not Price Clipped, Minute Loss At Top Of Two Flap Folds, No Foxing, Bright And Clean, Hint Of Fading To Spine Panel.

Boston: J. B. Millet Company, 1898. First Edition Thus . Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated By K. Ogawa (Flower Collotypes), Kozaburo Tamamura (Hand Colored Albumen Photographs). Section Ten Only, Volume 10 Of 10, Pages 347-382 + Table Of Contents Only, Uncut Double Pages, Three Large (8 X 10 In) Hand Colored Albumen Pictures, 1 Large Round Color Collotype By K. Ogawa Of Flowers, And 18 Colored Photographs Mounted In The Text. The Four Large Hand Colored Albumen Photographs Are The Great Bell At Choin-In Temple, Kyoto, Tmangwanji Temple At Nikko, Washing Kiminos, And Village Wrecked By Earthquake. #75 Of 100 Copies Of The Imperial Edition, Bound In Olive-Grey Silk With Mounted Title And Decorations In Heavier Silk, Endpapers Are Japanese Paper With Embedded Gilt Squares And Specks. The Boards And Pages Are Bound With Cords. Silk Is Clean But With Some Wear At Edges And Worn Through Along Lower Edge Of Boards And Spine.

Pasadena Circa 1920 - 1930: Carnegie Institution, Mt Wilson, 1920. Original Astronomical Photograph . No Binding. Near Fine. Black And White Photograph. Original Astronomical Photograph, 8 5/8" X 6 3/4", Mounted On Card Stock, Without Markings, Of Modernist Appearance. Circa 1920/1930. Science As Art. [Note- Gray/White Cloudiness In Part Of Photograph Is Due To Unavoidable Reflectivity Of This Quite "Live" Original Photograph, An Artifact Of My Photography, Not In The Original Photograph]. 3" Light Crease, Not Breaking The Photographic Surface, On Top Edge Towards Right.

Pasadena Circa 1920/ 1940: Carnegie Institution, Mt Wilson Observatory, 1930. Original Astronomical Photographs . No Binding. Near Fine/No Jacket. Original Astronomical Photograph Approximately 19" X 15 5/8", Round Circle Added In Negative At Upper Right Mt. Wilson Stamp On Verso Indicates That It Was "Copied 11/5/45 For E. Pettit

Pasadena: Mt. Wilson Observatory, 1937. Original Astronomical Photographs . No Binding. Near Fine/No Jacket. Original Astronomical Photograph, Showing Sun And Sunspots And Surface Granular Structure, 20" X 16". Undated And Unmarked, One Of A Large Group Of Photographs Of Sun, From Mt. Wilson Observatory 1920-1955, Of Which One Dated In 1937. 1/2" Closed Tear At Lower Edge Outside Image; A Few Tinyabrasions Within Black Area Around Sun In Image.

[Circa 1670-1674]: Giovanni. Battista Hacque/ Hacque, Johann Baptist (?), 1670. 1st Edition 1st Printing. No Binding. Very Good. Original Engraving, Circa 1670, Engraved By J. F. Leonart. Apparently A Leaf From A Collection Of Portraits. Part Of A Large Collection Of Original Antique Engravings Formed By A Southern California Artist In The Early To Middle Twentieth Century. Each Plate Has Small Glue Marks On Reverse Where They Were Tipped In To An Album. Charles Ii Of Spain (Spanish: Carlos Ii; 6 November 1661 - 1 November 1700) Was The Last Habsburg Ruler Of Spain. His Realm Included Southern Netherlands, Italian Territories, Several Cities In North Africa And Spain's Overseas Empire, Stretching From The Americas To The Spanish East Indies. Known As "The Bewitched" (Spanish: El Hechizado), He Is Noted For His Extensive Physical, Intellectual, And Emotional Disabilities And His Consequent Ineffectual Rule. He Died Childless In 1700, With All Potential Habsburg Successors Having… Read More

Cape Canaveral: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1965. Original Photograph . No Binding. Near Fine. Original Nasa Color Photograph Of Apollo 1 Astronaut Edward H White Smiling At Camera. Inscribed "To Lew Hartzell [Sic] Thank You For The Great Cookin & For Gemini Vii Although I Don't Fit In My Suit Any More! Edward H White 16 Nov 1965." Inscribed For Louis Hartsell, The Chef In The Astronaut Training Facility At The Kennedy Space Center At Cape Kennedy/Cape Canaveral. An Original Photograph, Without Nasa Serial Number And Notations On Reverse, But With 'Edward H White, Ii" Printed At Bottom.. From Hartsell's Collection Of Astronaut Photographs All Taken And Signed In The Astronaut Facility, Many Signed The Evening Before The Space Flights Circa 1964-1972.

Reading, Massachusetts 1963 1964 1965: Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1963. First Edition 1st Printing. Red Cloth. Very Good +/No Dust Jacket. 11 1/4" Tall. Profusely Illustrated with Black and White Charts, Graphs, Diagrams and Equations. Volume I First Printing, 1963, Perfect Bound, As Issued; No Indication Of Later Printing, No Isbn, No Publisher's Code On Last Page. Volume Ii Also First Printing, 1964, No Indication Of Later Printing, With Publisher's Code Abcde6987654 At Bottom Of P. 6 Of The Index At End; Volume Iii Shows No Additional Printing On Copyright Page, And Code Abcde698765 At Bottom Of Page 7 Of The Index At End. First Two Volumes With Ownership Signatures Of A Prominent California Engineer. Lightly Used, No Other Marks, Slight Rubbing.