A Home in the Wilderness by Currier & Ives

London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1787. First English Edition. Hardcover. First edition in English. xxxii, [4], 476pp (with one pagination error); [4], 463, [1]p. Contemporary full calf, spine in compartments with red and green leather labels lettered and decorated in gold. The board edges are also decorated in gold. Map of Mexico and twenty-four inserted plates in volume I; map of the lakes of Mexico and one inserted plate in volume II. The appendix includes a list of Mexican Years from the foundation to the conquest of Mexico, compared with Christian years, a Mexican calendar, and more. With the neat bookplate of mining engineer Franklin Wheaton Smith, designed by Robert W. Hyde. Front joint of volume I and rear joint of volume II partially split, title of map in volume I cut out, wear to corner tips, light scuffing and rubbing to covers. A very good set. Graesse II.196-197. Sabin 13519. Streeter Sale I:194.; Quarto.

Jorge Welsh Books, 2011 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; 3 hardcover volumes in slipcase; 1204 pages; 927 colour illustrations, 20 black and white illustrations; 26 x 35.5 cm; 12 kg; The RA Collection of Chinese Ceramics: A Collector's Vision is the most important new reference book on Chinese export porcelain to be published for many years. It provides the first comprehensive study of what is probably the world's best private collection of pieces for the European market and contains new research into the subject of Chinese export porcelain. The author Maria Antónia Pinto de Matos has been researching the RA Collection for 11 years and the result is a work of true scholarship providing the most up to date and complete account of the subject available. The three-volume set of hardcover books includes chapters on earthenware, stoneware and porcelain of the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, works with Western shapes and decoration and armorial Chinese export porcelain.… Read More

Philadelphia: H. C. Carey and I. Lea. Very Good+. 1823. Hardcover. A two-volume first edition of an account of the Long Expedition to the Rocky Mountains by expedition botanist and geologist Edwin James. Compiled from the notes of Major Stephen H. Long, Mr. T. Say, and other gentlemen of the party by Mr. James. This rather scarce set presents the account of the experiences of the Stephen H. Long expedition of 1819-1820, in which Long was sent to find the source of the Platte River in the Rocky Mountains. Lacks the separate accompanying oversize atlas which was issued in 1822 per Howes J.41, who remarks [the expedition was notable in that it supplemented] ". . .earlier discoveries of Pike and of Lewis and Clark, and pronouncing the plains region as nothing but a desert, incapable of cultivation!". --- In maroon half leather and marbled paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling, four raised bands to spines and marbled endpapers. --- A very nice set, with bright, mostly… Read More

1752-1753, Halle, Johan Justinus Gebauer. 2 volumes. [xlviii]+688 pages with frontispiece and 41 plates; [xxii]+905+[ 63] pages with 18 plates (15 folding], 8 maps (.5 folding), bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 8") bound in quarter brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine over blue boards. Compiled and translated by Johann Friedrich Schröter. Introduction by Siegmund Jacob Baumgartens. (Sabin 77989; Howes S200; Borba de Moraes, page 453) First edition. Extensively illustrated cultural and natural history of the Americas, compiled and translated by Johann Friedrich Schröter. The work is illustrated with two large folding maps of North and South America after Delisle. Also included are folding views of Cuzco and Mexico City. Numerous engravings depict various native tribes, their customs, and the flora and fauna of the Americas. The first volume is based on a translation of Lafiteau's Moeurs des Sauvages Ameriquains (Paris, 1724), with accounts of the discovery of the New World and… Read More

1904. Boston: The Merrymount Press, 1904. Boston: The Merrymount Press, 1904. A Memorial Tribute to a Prominent Female Boston Artist Inscribed, Signed and Marked by Holmes [Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. (1841-1935)]. [Whitman, Sarah Wyman (1842-1904)]. Sarah Whitman. Boston: The Merrymount Press, 1904. [vi], 27, [2] pp. Specked paper boards with contrasting spine, title and image of wreath to front board, gilt title to spine, deckle edges. Light wear to spine ends and corners, light toning to text, light foxing to a few leaves. "Helen C. Bell/ 14 Chestnut St./ From O.W. Holmes" in pencil to head of title page, check marks in pencil, most likely by Holmes, in margins next to two passages. $2,500. * A prominent and commercially successful painter and stained glass and book cover designer who ran an important literary salon with her husband, Whitman was one of Holmes's neighbors in Boston and Beverly Farms. Sarah Whitman is a record of a memorial service in her honor at the Baptist Church in Beverly… Read More

Dublin: The Cuala Press Ltd. Near Fine, slight soiling, mainly marginal, no date. SCARCE. SIGNED in the print and handcoloured by Jack B. Yeats, brother to William Butler Yeats and a highly regarded artist in his own right. Overall print size 11 1/4" x 14 3/4", image size 8 1/4" x 11 3/4". . SIGNED BY ARTIST. First Edition. Print. Near Fine. 11 1/4" x 14 3/4".

The Artist, 1965. Original woodcut print on rice paper , paper size 15 1/2" x 15 1/2", image size 11 1/2" x 11 1/4", pencil signed bottom with pencil title "Sisters", A/P (Artist Proof), 1965. Near Fine, creasing to margins. Betty Hahn is best known for her photographic artworks, which have incorporated a range of artistic techniques unconventional to that medium. Her works are in many museum, university, and private collections worldwide, including The Chicago Art Institute, The Museum of Modern Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Smithsonian Institution. This woodcut is an early work, dating from her MFA years at Indiana University in the mid-1960's, and her works from this era are SCARCE. . SIGNED BY ARTIST. Print. Near Fine. 15 1/2" x 15 1/2".

The Artist, 1964. Original Woodcut on Rice Paper, pencil signed bottom right, '64. 4th proof, titled "Nuns". 17" w x 24 1/2" h, image size 11 1/2" w x 18" h. Near Fine, 1" horizontal folds top, left, and bottom margins, 1 1/2" chip left edge, horizontal crease at center with tiny hole at that crease and right margin. Betty Hahn is best known for her photographic artworks, which have incorporated a range of artistic techniques unconventional to that medium. Her works are in many museum, university, and private collections worldwide, including The Chicago Art Institute, The Museum of Modern Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Smithsonian Institution. This woodcut is an early work, dating from her MFA years at Indiana University in the mid-1960's, and her works from this era are SCARCE. . SIGNED BY ARTIST. Print. Near Fine. 17" x 24 1/2".

(Chicago): (Design Class of the Art Institute of Chicago), 1950. RARE. # 35 of an edition of 50 copies produced by a design class in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, no date, but 1950 given inscription at front end page. Bound in black cloth, title in white with white hand printed designs front cover, title page printed in red with same designs as front cover only printed in red, followed by 74 unnumbered pages with 37 silk screen hand printed designs, then limitation page. Inscribed at front end page "Harry Breen May 12, 1950 Remember Exhibition Millenium; you certainly helped to make it a wonderful success Harrison Lagerstrom (?)", the inscription partially blurred by dampstain. Very Good, dampstain front end pages, worm holes and small chips at edges of rear blank end pages and paste down. A number of the pages SIGNED by Bob Appel, Jack D. Nelson, Leon A. Muller, Emelyn Brehan, Bruce Kartebrein (?), Stanley Sczepanski, Gene De Smut (?), Peter H. Jalosian, Theodore M. Steele,… Read More

Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey , 1907. SCARCE in current commerce. xi, 453, (1) pages, with 21 plates, 16 of them color lithograph plates of fish, and 188 figures in text. E.M. Uzzell and Co., Raleigh, printers and binders. Very Good Plus, no jacket, bound in red cloth with gilt lettering., cloth a bit faded at bottom of spine, light rubbing to boards, interior clean, bright, and unmarked. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Small 4to.