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A Fine Album of Thirty-Three Superb Hand Colored Lithograph Plates, Heightened with Gum Arabic

GAVARNI, Paul [pseudonym of Guillaume Sulpice Chevallier]; DAUMIER, Honoré; VERNIER, Charles; TRAVIES, Charles Joseph · 1837 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$8,500.00 (€7,712.32 | £6,434.22 | ¥1,357,344)

Paris: Chez Aubert, 1837. An Amazing Collection of Thirty-Three Superb Hand Colored Lithographs By the Best French Caricaturists - From Some of their best Series GAVARNI, Paul. [pseudonym of Guillaume Sulpice Chevallier]. DAUMIER, Honoré. VERNIER, Charles. TRAVIES, Charles Josep…

1906 Manuscript Diary of a Cool Mit Grad, Transportation Enthusiast, and Future Lawyer Working and Living It Up in New England

AMASA MAYNARD HOLCOMBE · 1906 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$1,855.99 (€1,684.00 | £1,404.92 | ¥296,378)

Hartford Connecticut CT: MIT Graduate, Patent Lawyer, Hartford, Washington, N.D.. Hardcover. On offer is the well-kept 1906 diary of bright 23-year-old Amasa Maynard Holcombe (1882-1971) , who is coming of age as he works, socializes and dates in the interval between his graduat…

1910-1914 Diary of a Remarkable Mount Holyoke and Columbia Graduate Who Would Make History As Maine’S First Female State Legislator and Senator

DORA J. BRADBURY PINKHAM · 1910 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$5,975.00 (€5,421.31 | £4,522.88 | ¥954,133)

Maine, Usa, 1910-1914. Hardcover. On offer is the five-year diary of Dora J. (Bradbury) Pinkham (1891-1941) of Fort Kent, Maine. Dora kept this diary while completing her undergraduate degree at Mount Holyoke College (graduated 1913) and her Master’s degree at Columbia Universit…

Cavalarice, or, the English Horseman: Contayning All the Art of Horse-Manship, Asmuch As Is Necessary for Any Man to Understand, Whether Hee Be Horse-Breeder, Horse-Ryder, Horse-Hunter, Horse-Runner, Horse-Ambler, Horse-Farrier, Horse-Keeper, Coachman, Smith, or Sadler. Together, with the Discovery of the Subteil Trade or Mystery of Horsecoursers, an an Explanation of the Excellency of a Horses Understanding: Or How to Teach the to Do Trickes Like Banks His Cutrrall: And That Horses May Be Made

Gervase Markham · 1617 · Rooke Books

£9,500.00 (€11,387.09 | $12,550.08 | ¥2,004,090)

London, Edward White, 1617. Leather. The second edition of this immensely important work on Arabian horses, written by the man, Robert Markham, who brought the now common breed to England for the first time. Illustrated with in-text woodcuts throughout. A very important work. Th…

Flora. First Edition

McGarrell, Ann and Jack Beal.( artist) · 1990 · Wittenborn Art Books

$1,250.00 (€1,134.17 | £946.21 | ¥199,609)

Mount Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press (Walter Hamady), 1990. Oblong small folio. 26 x 33 cm (10¼ x 13"), wood boards with vellum spine, original green cloth clamshell box with decorations in blind. No. 36 of 125 copies. Collation: 7 blank leaves of different types of handmade…

In the Situation of the Artist Today There Are Both Analogies to and Differences from That of the Scientist;. Original Broadside Signed by Zapf

Zapf, Hermann (1918-2015); Robert Oppenheimer (1903-1967) · 1974 · Wittenborn Art Books

$600.00 (€544.40 | £454.18 | ¥95,812)

Jerusalem: 1974. Original letterpress broadside in German with English in smaller font. 61 x 47cm . Signed and dated by Zapf. Presentation copy in Jerusalem to Raymond Gid, signed and dated again. Creases in margins. Discolored in lower margin.. Robert Oppenheimer poster designe…

1916 Unpublished Autograph Poem Handwritten and Delivered by Laurence Housman in New York: A Queer English Writer and Suffragist’S Wartime Appeal for Peace, Equality, and the Moral Renewal of the New World

LAURENCE HOUSMAN · 1916 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$5,285.99 (€4,796.15 | £4,001.32 | ¥844,106)

LONDON ENGLAND UK, 1916. Decorative Cloth. On offer is an unpublished autograph poem, handwritten by English dramatist, illustrator, and reformer Laurence Housman (1865–1959) , an internationally celebrated playwright, pacifist, and early queer rights advocate. In 1916, Housman …

The EXCELSIOR DIARY. 1898. Vassar College

Truesdale, Phoebe K[irkpatrick. 1875 - 1960] · 1898 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$1,072.50 (€973.11 | £811.85 | ¥171,265)

: , 1898. Maroon half-leather with marbled boards & edges. Commercial diary, beginning with 16 printed pages, including an almanac calendar for the year, followed by pages of 'factoids', e.g. "States and Territories", "Value of Foreign Coins", etc. The followed by the diary port…

1918-1919 Diary of an Intelligent, Witty Us Army Medic Exploring France While Stationed in Rumaucourt As the War Drew to Its Close

HAROLD EDMUND (EDWIN) DRAKE · 1918 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$1,225.99 (€1,112.38 | £928.03 | ¥195,775)

Rumaucourt, France, 1918-1919. Softcover. On offer is an excellent, intensely detailed World War I diary kept by a bright, well-written young man named Harold Edmund (sometimes Edwin) Drake (1897-1987) , who would become a well-respected dentist in his home state of Ohio followi…

Recueil de Scenes Populaires

PIGAL, Edmé-Jean · 1822 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$12,500.00 (€11,341.65 | £9,462.09 | ¥1,996,093)

Paris: Chez Martinet et Gihaut, 1822. Fifty-Two Highly Amusing Hand Colored Lithograph Plates Showing the People of Paris PIGAL, Edmé-Jean. Recueil de Scenes Populaires. [Collection of Popular Scenes]. Paris: Chez Martinet et Gihaut, [1822]. First edition. Folio (12 1/2 x 10 1/8…

Wig Making and Styling: A Complete Guide for Theatre & Film

Martha (North Carlina School of the Arts) Ruskai (Autor),? Allison (Wig and Makeup Specialist, Austin Performing Arts Center, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA) Lowery (Autor) · 2015 · LLU Buchservice

€43.90 ($48.38 | £36.62 | ¥7,726)

, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015. 322, 24,1 x 3,2 x 22,9 cm, Hardcover. Zustand: 2. Wig Making and Styling: A Complete Guide for Theatre and Film, Second Edition is the one-stop shop for the knowledge and skills you need to create and style wigs. Covering the basics, from styling to…

Memoirs of Rachel.

[BARRERA (A., Madame de)]: · 1858 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.27 | ¥52,739)

London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, Successors to Henry Colburn..., 1858. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. 2 volumes. 8vo, 186 x 108 mms., pp. xii, 342; [ii], iv, 326, vi, collotype (probably) portrait of Rachel as frontispiece in volume 1, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, b…

1924-1928 Diary of the Edith Souther Tufts, the New Hampshire-Born Female Professor and Long-Time Wellesley College Dean of Residence

EDITH SOUTHER TUFTS · 1862 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$3,875.99 (€3,516.81 | £2,934.00 | ¥618,947)

Wellesley, Massachusetts, Mass, MA. Softcover. On offer is the diary of a woman ahead of her time, who spent her life in academia, advocating for women’s education through her roles as professor of Greek, and later Dean of Residence at Wellesley College. Edith Souther Tufts (186…

Visualizing Justice in Burgundian Prose Romance. Text and Image in Manuscripts of the Wavrin Master (1450s-1460s)

Rosalind Brown-Grant · 2020 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€105.00 ($115.72 | £87.60 | ¥18,480)

, Brepols, 2020 Hardback, 389 pages, Size:178 x 254 mm, Illustrations:140 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503586335. Summary This is the first monograph devoted to manuscripts illuminated by the mid-fifteenth-century artist known as the Wavrin Master, so-called after his chi…

Physionomies Tragiques [&] Physionomie Tragico-Classique [&] la Tragedie

DAUMIER, Honoré · 1841 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$7,500.00 (€6,804.99 | £5,677.26 | ¥1,197,656)

Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie. 1841. Daumier also felt the time was ripe to revive Greek tragedy, but in a somewhat unexpected way" DAUMIER, Honoré. Physionomies Tragiques [&] Physionomie Tragico-Classique [&] La Tragedie. Paris: [1851], 1841, 1848. Oblong folio (10 x 13 1/4 inches; …

1913 Diary of a Lovestruck, Flawed University of Toronto Student, Son of Prominent Canadian, Dr. Perry Ernest Doolittle

GORDON WESTOVER DOOLITTLE · 1913 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$1,255.99 (€1,139.60 | £950.74 | ¥200,566)

Toronto, Ontario Canada, 1913. Softcover. On offer is the 1913 coming-of-age diary of Gordon Westover Doolittle (1891-1972) of Toronto. Gordon was the son of prominent Canadian, Dr. Perry Ernest Doolittle (1861-1933) , a surgeon whose true love was transportation. Dr. Doolittle …

Corpse in the Middle Ages: Embalming, Cremating, and the Cultural Construction of the Dead Body

Romedio Schmitz-Esser · 2021 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€150.00 ($165.32 | £125.14 | ¥26,400)

, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2021 Hardback, vi + 780 pages, Size:220 x 280 mm, Language(s):English, Latin. ISBN 9781909400870. Summary To what extent are the dead truly dead? In medieval society, corpses were assigned special functions and meanings in several different ways. The…

Dali's Mustache. A Photographic Interview. By Salvador Dali & Philippe Halsman. First Edition

Halsman, Philippe (1906-1979); Salvador Dali · 1994 · Wittenborn Art Books

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

Paris: Flammarion, 1994. 12mo. 13 x 18cm. Boards in d-j. Fine..The relationship between Dali and Halsman:.. The collaboration between Dalí and Halsman began in 1941. They met while working on Labyrinth, a project performed by the Ballets Russes at New York's Metropolitan Opera H…

Le Carnaval à Paris [and] Les Bals Masqués

GAVARNI, Paul [pseudonym of Guillaume Sulpice Chevallier] · 1834 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$9,500.00 (€8,619.66 | £7,191.19 | ¥1,517,031)

Paris: Chez Bauger, 1834. Midnight in Paris - Gavarni and the Secret Theater of Carnival A Superb Hand-Colored Copy of Le Carnaval à Paris in the Original Publisher's Binding Together with the Very Rare and Complete Suite of Les Bals Masqués GAVARNI, Paul [pseudonym of Guillaume…

1942-47 Archive of an Older Brother’S Letters on Loss, Aging, Politics, Familial Relations, Evolution of the Community, Wartime Rationing, Local Gossip, and More in Hartstown, Pennsylvania

MYRON MANSON MILLER · 1942 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$1,955.99 (€1,774.73 | £1,480.62 | ¥312,347)

Hartstown, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, PA. Non-Book. On offer is a collection of 32 lengthy, newsy, emotional letters written between 1942-1947 by a highly respected elderly Hartstown, Pennsylvania man to his younger brother. The letters in this archive are written by Myron M…