[N.p. N.d., ca. 1918]. Panoramic silver gelatin photograph, 9 1/2 x 49 1/2 inches. Minor silvering, else very good. Framed. [with:] CAMP OF THE 25th U.S. INFANTRY ON DUTY ON MEXICAN BORDER, 5.12.'19 [caption title]. San Diego: Tunnell & Sansiper, [ca. 1919]. Panoramic silver gelatin photograph, 9 1/2 x 50.....
[Nome, Juneau, and other locations in Alaska, ca. 1900]. Twenty-four tipped-in photographs, with printed captions, each photograph approximately 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches. Contemporary brown wrappers. Some scuffing to spine. Minor fading to images. Very good. An excellent collection of vernacular photographs of Alaska around the turn of the.....
Boston: Haskell & Post, 1886. Two volumes. [1],vii,152; [1],[3],[153]-308pp., plus 130 plates including frontispieces. Half titles. Folio. Contemporary three quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt, raised bands, a.e.g. Boards and morocco scuffed. Dampstain in lower margin of rear eight leaves in first volume, not affecting images or text. Early.....
New York: A.O. Moore, [ca. 1860]. 378pp. including twenty plates (including frontispiece) and numerous in-text illustrations, plus 12pp. of advertisements. Frontis. Contemporary cloth, stamped in blind, spine stamped in blind and gilt. Cloth sunned, light foxing on frontispiece and titlepage, else near fine. Later stereotype edition of the work (originally.....
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. [2],96pp. plus 5pp. of advertisements. 12mo. Original green cloth, stamped in red. Cloth bubbling. Light stains in printed endpapers. Overall very good. Number 3 in the Appleton HEALTH PRIMERS series. Detailed recommendations for house building and maintenance with regard to health, covering "Soil.....
![NOGALES, ARIZONA AND MEXICO 1909 [manuscript title]. Arizona Photographica](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM55588.jpg?v=1591193949)
Nogales, Az. W.J. Neumann, 1909. Panoramic sepia-toned photograph, 4 1/2 x 12 inches, affixed to a thick card mount. Minor surface soiling and silvering to photograph, slight edge wear and small edge tear to mount, mild chipping to paper on verso of mount. Very good. A small bird's-eye annotated panoramic.....
![ART WORK OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA [cover title]. Georgia Atlanta](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM39904.jpg?v=1544801654)
[Chicago. 1903]. Eight of nine parts (lacking part 1), bound without wrappers in one volume. Later green buckram, spine gilt. Ex-lib. with most library markings removed. Bright and clean internally. The plates begin without a titlepage or any original preliminary leaves. Very good overall. A bound set of parts 2-9.....
New York. 1853. Color lithograph, approximately 23 x 31 inches. Matted and framed. Very good. Large bird's-eye view of the New York Crystal Palace from the north with downtown Manhattan and Brooklyn in the background. Printed in color by Bachmann. Reps appraised Bachmann in the following glowing terms: "No finer.....
Philadelphia. 1848. 15,[1]pp. Dbd. Spine reinforced. Later short pencil annotation on titlepage. Light toning at edges. About very good. James Barclay was a prominent advocate for prison reform in Philadelphia. In this dedicatory address, he explains that although a shelter for juvenile delinquents had been established in the city in.....
Philadelphia: Howard Challen, [copyright 1857]. 132,[2]pp. plus thirty-eight lithographed plates and numerous in-text illustrations. Tall octavo. Original cloth. Spine ends chipped. Front cover rather dampstained, with some bubbling. Some moderate foxing, mostly in text. Clean three-inch tear in plate 17 (no loss). Else good. An interesting 19th-century American work of.....
Philadelphia: Ferguson Bros. & Co., 1886. 152pp. including two hundred in-text illustrations, plus forty-four lithographic plates and [2]pp. of advertisements. Original cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Spine frayed at ends and nicked at edge. Front hinge loosening. Internally very clean. Overall a very good copy. Second edition, "enlarged and.....
New York: Everett Duyckinck, 1815. vii,[5],307pp. Modern half calf and marbled boards, leather labels. Very good. Second edition of this important early American book on dyeing.
Greenfield: Thomas Dickman, 1800. [36]pp. plus thirty-five (of thirty-eight) plates, one folding. Lacks frontispiece and plates 25 and 32. Small quarto. Contemporary calf, remnants of leather label. Binding moderately worn, but sound. Moderate toning and foxing to titlepage. Scattered offsetting from plates, foxing and soiling. Light wear. Plate 29 torn.....
Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey & Co., 1850. 83pp. plus sixty-six plates. Quarto. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, leather label. Hinges cracked, extremities worn. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Some light scattered foxing, but generally clean and fresh. Good plus. Originally published in 1839, this was the sixth of Benjamin's works. As.....
Boston. 1832. 119pp. plus sixty-four engraved plates. Quarto. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, leather label. Extremities worn, boards scuffed. First few leaves moderately dampstained, some light foxing and toning. Good. Third edition, first published in 1830, of one of the classics of American architecture. After embracing the fundamental elements of Grecian.....
Boston. 1833. 116pp. plus sixty plates. Quarto. Worn original calf, text block loose in binding. Lacks text pp. 67-70. Moderate dampstaining to first half of text, light mildewing. Light foxing and wear. A working copy only. First edition. An important early American architectual treatise, by the man who was most.....
New York: Bicknell & Comstock, 1880. [3]-80pp. including numerous illustrations. Original cloth, stamped in black, blind, and silver, spine gilt. Cloth edgeworn; upper front cover soiled. Ex- lib. (Oblate House of Studies, Saskatchewan), with neat ink stamp on titlepage. Overall very good. About equally a publisher's catalogue and a conventional.....
[Boston. 1891.]. One page of letterpress and thirty albertype plates. Folio. Thirty-one leaves in original green cloth portfolio with title stamped in gilt. Light spotting on front cover, else near fine. Number twenty of the limited edition of 500 copies. Similar in appearance and presentation to the 1883 SKETCH BOOK.....
Boston: Printed by Order of the City Council, 1882. 175pp. plus plates (including a few photogravures). Tall octavo. Original gilt cloth. Light fraying to head of spine. Else very good. Nicely illustrated guide to the old state house in Boston. Illustrated with beautiful photogravures of the interior as it looked.....
![VIEWS OF BRITISH GUIANA [cover title]. British Guiana](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM52852.jpg?v=1523625843)
Georgetown, British Guiana: James Thomson, Argosy Office, [ca. 1900]. Twenty-four photographic reproductions on [16]pp., bound in accordion style. Original blue publisher's cloth, front board gilt. Light shelf wear. Pressed leaf laid in. Internally clean. Very good. A scarce volume of images of British Guiana from approximately the end of the.....
Worcester: Edward Livermore, 1852. 148pp. plus seventy-one plates. Illustrated throughout text. Quarto. Modern half calf and marbled boards, original leather label. Some light toning and scattered soiling. About very good. Fifth edition of this popular building guide, first published in 1848. It contains a brief origin of the principles of.....
New York. 1853. 264,[14]pp. In-text illus. Decorated cloth stamped in gilt. Spine sunned, head and toe worn and a bit chipped. Internally quite nice and clean with a few marginal pencil notations and a few pages darkened. Good plus. Attributes the beginning of architecture to the European immigration, and includes.....
Boston. 1863. 204,2pp. Original cloth. Some minor fraying at head of spine. Bit tanned. Still very good. Styled third edition on the titlepage, after the first of 1860. An early American manual on metalworking, with directions for preparing various metal finishes, Japanning, lacquers, etc.
![THE JOURNEY SOUTH WITH MY MOTHER 1901 JAN. 17th - MARCH 21st [manuscript title]. California...](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM55504.jpg?v=1588702104)
[Various locations in California. Jan. 17 to March 21, 1901]. Forty-three leaves with fifty-five original photographs, each approximately 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches (with one small panorama), mounted on rectos only, captioned in ink. Square 16mo. Contemporary limp blue cloth, sewn, later paper label on front cover, reading "MWR.....
New York: Julius Bien, 1875. 4pp. plus ten lithographs by Julius Bien. Large oblong folio. Original brown pebbled morocco, triple-ruled in gilt and lettered on front board, gilt dentelles, modern endpapers, a.e.g. Spine and corners expertly repaired. Text and plates foxed and dampstained. Very good nonetheless. The Centennial International Exposition.....
