![BUFFALO BILL AND THE "FRENCHMAN'S BOTTLE GAG," A COMIC TABLEAU FROM THE WILD WEST SHOW]. Alfred...](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM37573.jpg?v=1593711546)
1893. Oil on canvas, laid down on wood, 22 x 30 inches. Signed and dated lower left: "Alfred Agoust / 1893." Titled: "Buffalo Bill" on Kennedy Gallery labels. Provenance: Kennedy Galleries; Collection of Edward Eberstadt & Sons. Superb displayable condition. Handsomely presented in a period-style gilt American exhibition frame. This.....
[Boston: Printed by Benjamin Edes], Nov. 2, 1776. Broadside, 15 x 9 1/2 inches. Several folds, minor staining, fold lines reinforced with archival tape on verso. Good. Early November 1776 was a dark moment for the American side in the Revolution. Washington had been routed from New York, the victory.....
London. 1829. Double elephant folio print, framed. Near fine condition. Audubon's depiction of the Mississippi Kite appeared in 1829 as plate 117 in THE BIRDS OF AMERICA. This plate aroused considerable debate at the time, because many natural historians were quick to note the similarity between the lower of the.....
Sampaloc [Philippines]: Convento de Ntra. Sra. de Loreto, 1736. [32],219,[3]pp. Printed on rice paper. Small quarto. Antique-style mottled calf, ornately gilt, by Palomino. First few leaves brittle with slight cracking and minor loss, else in excellent condition. Very good. In a half morocco box. A remarkable survival of early Philippine.....
![ALBUM OF THIRTY-ONE ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPHS SHOWING SCENES IN BERMUDA AND ELSEWHERE]. Bermuda, N. E....](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM46598.jpg?v=1593711700)
[Bermuda. ca. 1882]. Sixteen leaves, containing thirty-one mounted photographs, each approximately 7 x 9 inches. Oblong folio. Contemporary black cloth, neatly rebacked and recornered in contemporary black morocco, gilt. Light wear and soiling to cards. Images generally crisp and clean. Very good plus. A handsome 19th-century photo album which includes.....
![ORIGINAL SIGNED PENCIL SKETCH, FROM LIFE, OF A SCENE IN A CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH TOWN]. John David...](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM49029.jpg?v=1593711758)
[N.p., near San Francisco. ca. 1851]. Original pencil drawing, 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches. Backed on thicker stock to an overall size of 6 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches. Signed in the lower right, "J. D. Borthwick." Light foxing in the image, minor toning around the edges. Near fine.....
Wheatland, near Lancaster [Pa.]. April 28, 1852. [2]pp. on a folded folio leaf, docketed on the fourth page. One horizontal and two vertical folds. Lightly dampstained. Two tiny edge tears. Very good. In a blue half leather and cloth folding box, gilt. A remarkable political letter from future president James.....
Paris: J. Claye for Noblet & Baudry, 1863. Extra lithographic titlepage on india paper, mounted; plus eleven tinted lithographic plates (including large folding panoramic view) by Emile Vernier after Budan. Folio. Original green cloth, stamped in blind, gilt lettering, neatly rebacked. Text somewhat toned, but plates clean. Small old dampstain.....
[ 1883]. Oil on canvas, 18 x 26 inches, on original wooden stretcher, with letters in lower margin, after the lithographed view of the same title published by Bosqui. Very good. "Edward Bosqui was born in 1833 in Montreal, of French descent. When he was about seventeen years old he.....
London: Day & Son, [ca. 1855-1860]. Hand-finished color-printed lithograph, drawn on stone by J. M'Gahey of Chester after George Catlin, printed by Day & Son, within a lithographed thin single-line border printed in ochre, with lithographed title printed in black beneath. Sheet size: 14 3/4 x 19 inches. A few.....
London: William Faden, Aug. 10, 1776. Engraving, 12 x 19 1/2 inches. Small old ink stamp on verso. Near fine. A profile view of Sullivan's Island, the main fort guarding the mouth of the Charleston harbor, with a key indicating the main features, ship locations, and gun emplacements. Below the.....
New York. 1860. 226pp. Illustrated with ninety-nine lithographs of carriages, one tinted plate advertising Henry Austin (the architect), and numerous black and white engravings. Double frontis. Oblong octavo. Original cloth, stamped in blind. Inner hinges expertly repaired. A few light spots on the front free endpapers. Near fine. A handsomely.....
London: Printed for the Royal Society, 1776. [4],44pp. Half title. Small quarto. 20th-century three- quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt label. Leaf C4 (signed C3) a cancel, as usual. Occasional minor foxing, ink stain on p.2. Very good, bound with five other works by Pringle (see below). One of the.....
[London: Jodocus Hondius, ca. 1583, but printed later]. Engraved portrait, 15 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches. A fine, black impression, expertly laid down on a larger sheet. Slight wear to upper edge. Very good and handsomely presented. Matted. This handsome and striking print is generally considered the finest contemporary portrait.....
![ENGRAVED PORTRAIT OF FRANCIS DRAKE]. Francis Drake, Crispin van de Passe, the Elder](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM41697.jpg?v=1593711624)
[Cologne. 1598]. Approximately 4 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches. An excellent, sharp, crisp impression. Fine. In a blue half morocco slipcase. This rare portrait of Drake by Crispin van de Passe comes from an early volume of engraved portraits, EFFIGIES REGUM AC PRINCIPUM, EORUM SCILLICET (Cologne, 1598). Drake, who circumnavigated.....
London. 1830. [6],[2 blank leaves],[18]pp. plus 146 lithographic plates (some folding). Elephant folio. Modern half blue morocco and cloth, raised bands. Some slight foxing in margins of a few plates. Overall internally very good. This important series of topographical views and illustrations of Mayan artifacts, based on drawings made in.....
![NOVA SCOTIA ILLUSTRATED IN A SERIES OF VIEWS TAKEN ON THE SPOT AND ON STONE BY WILLIAM EAGAR]....](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM46649.jpg?v=1593711701)
[Halifax: C.H. Belcher, 1839-1840]. Six (of twelve) lithographic views, each approximately 11 1/2 x 17 inches. Minor soiling and wear. Very good. Each view archivally matted to 15 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches, housed together in a red cloth clamshell case, gilt leather label. A very rare series of views.....
Venice: A. Vercellenius, 1503. 452,[9] leaves, including four full-page woodcuts picturing the Creation, Expulsion from Eden, the Death of Abel, and the Tower of Babel, and ninety-five smaller woodcuts of city views. Folio. Medieval vellum manuscript over boards, rebacked in vellum at an early date, manuscript label. Boards rubbed. Bookplate.....
![REMINISCENCES OF FLORIDA, ILLINOIS AND MISSOURI [cover title]. D. C. Goodale](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM47071.jpg?v=1593711711)
[Various locations. 1892]. Twenty-six leaves containing 104 albumen photographs. Each photo caption in contemporary ink on the mount. Oblong octavo. Original brown morocco, cover gilt, sympathetically rebacked, a.e.g. Corners heavily worn, covers rubbed. Minor soiling and wear to mounts, but images clean. Very good. An interesting album of photographs compiled.....
New York. 1851. 259pp. 12mo. Publisher's embossed cloth, spine gilt. Spine and edges faded, corners scuffed. Mild foxing. Good. Second edition, following the first of the previous year, of Green's memoirs, detailing his life as a gambler, and of his swift reformation after twelve years as one of the most.....
![WATERCOLOR OF GENERAL JEAN-PIERRE BOYER, PRESIDENT OF HAITI]. Haiti, Jean-Pierre Boyer](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM47136.jpg?v=1593711712)
[Port-au-Prince? ca. 1825]. Watercolor, 6 1/2 x 5 inches. Matted and framed to 10 x 8 inches. A few faint spots of foxing. Colors bright and fresh. Near fine. A handsome watercolor of Haitian general and president Jean-Pierre Boyer (1776-1850), who reigned over Haiti from 1818 to 1843. Boyer, a......
Utrecht. 1698. [70],389pp. plus folding map and four folding plates. 12mo. Handsome tan crushed morocco, gilt extra, leather labels, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., by Lucien Broca. A few tiny marginal paper repairs. Otherwise, internally clean. Near fine. First edition. This edition of Hennepin's writings is a continuation of his NOUVELLE DECOUVERTE.......
Philadelphia: John Melish, 1815. Folding map, 46 x 51 inches, partially handcolored, backed on linen. Laid in original three-quarter roan and marbled boards, linen ties affixed to spine. Contemporary signature on front board. Minor insect damage to linen, not affecting map. A very nice copy in fine contemporary condition. In.....
New York & Boston. 1852-1856. Two volumes. xii,100; iv,96pp., plus ninety- six chromolithographed plates. Frontispiece portrait in each volume. Quarto. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spines gilt, leather labels, t.e.g. Occasional light foxing. Overall a very good, tall set, with nice ample margins. The most beautiful American work on.....
Denver. [ca. 1880]. Mammoth-plate albumen photograph, 22 x 17 1/4 inches. Jackson's name printed on the mat. Light discoloration in the sky in the upper center portion of the image. Near fine. Matted, glazed, and framed, with calligraphic manuscript title below the photograph. Contemporary wooden presentation frame (see below). A.....
