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Beatty, J W. Catalogue of a Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Librarian of Congress, Washington D.C., 1909.

Price: US$3.26 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:

Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom

JOHNSON, A E. DUDLEY HARDY. Adam and Charles Black, 1909.

Price: US$13.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: lst Edition, Hardback, No D/W. Lightly bumped spine and corners, light foxing, o/w v/g. Brush Pen & Pencil Series, contains 56 examples of the artist's work.

Seller: Joan Andrews, Alton, United Kingdom

. Catalogue d'une collection de belles aquarelles provenant d'un amateur connu d'Amsterdam ainsi que d'un nombre de tableaux modernes dépendant de diverses provenances.. Amsterdam; 1909, 1909.

Price: US$23.28 + shipping

Description: ; Frederik Muller & Cie; softcover; ills. in b&w; work by i.a. J. Voerman, J. Bosboom, G.H. Breitner, C. Springer, W. Witsen, a.o.; includes supplement; text in French; 46 pp. followed by plates. Auction results in blank margins. Spine repaired, cover partly discoloured.

Seller: Antiquariaat De Boekenbeurs, Middelburg, Netherlands

Prideaux, S.T.. Aquatint Engraving : A Chapter in the History of Book Illustration.. W. & G. Foyle, London, first edition, 1909, 1909.

Price: US$38.99 + shipping

Description: Cloth, top edge gilt, 8vo, 25 cm, xv, 434 pp, 25 plates. Prideaux's work focusses almost exclusively on English books, with aquatint illustrations, published between 1775 and 1830. From a contemporary review of the first edition:" Miss Prideaux writes an excellent style, and I remember no book on any branch of engraving which explains so intelligently the connection of the art with all the social conditions of the period in which it arose. She has not merely looked at the illustrations, but has read the books in which they appeared. Her chapters on the rise of water-colour painting in England, on topographical draughtsmanship, on the water-colour painters as teachers and their drawing-books, on the eighteenth century fondness for English topography and the somewhat later passion for books on foreign travel, are all most interesting. ". Contents: Introduction; I The Aquatint Process; II The Development of Colour Printing and the Invention of Aquatint.; III The Use of Aquatint in France and the Aquatint Work of Goya; IV The Rise of Water-Colour Painting and the Topographical Draughtsman; V Paul Sandby and His Aquatinta; VI Rudolph Ackermann and His Associates; VII Humphrey Repton and His Place in Garden Literature; VIII Water-Colour Painters as Teachers, and their Drawing-Books; IX Foreign Travel; X English Topography; XI Sport and Natural History; XII Caricature and Costume. Appendixes: A. Books Published Before 1830 with Aquatint Plates B. Biographical Notices of Engravers Whose Names Appear on the Plates C. Artists Whose Names Appear on the Plates . D. Publications by Ackermann with Aquatint Plates E. Books Illustrated by Rowlandson in which Aquatint was employed F. Alphabetical List of Aquatint Engravers, with the Books Illustrated by Them G. List of Authorities. Small booklabel on front free endpaper, slightly worn at head and tail of spine, some foxing, otherwise a Good bright copy.

Seller: Wykeham Books, LONDON, United Kingdom

Hesseltine, J.P.. Ten More Little Pictures in the Collection of J.P.H.; Second Series. J,J, Waddington, London, 1909.

Price: US$40.00 + shipping

Description: 26 x 19.5 cm. With presentation slip signed by Hesseltine, privately printed by the Chiswick Press. Laid-in a four page ALS to W. Cook dated 4 January 1909. Ten plates (tissue guards) a few in sepia with title, size and medium and collector. The last plates, "Umbrian School" relates to the ALS. J.P. Heseltine was both a distinguished etcher and a great art collector, appointed a trustee of the National Gallery, London serving from 1893-1929. Heseltine sold the most valuable part of his collection (approximately 600 Old Master drawings including his precious Rembrandt drawings) by private treaty sale in October 1912 to P. & D. Colnagi for a reputed £150,000. Orig. blue/gray wrappers. Very good

Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.

[NORTHWEST COAST INDIANS]. LLWYD, Rev. Dr. J.[ohn] P.[lummer] D.[erwent].. The message of an Indian relic.. Lowman & Hanford Co.,, Seattle:, 1909.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Description: 8vo. [2], 21, [1] pp. Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut engraved totem poles as borders, illustrations, 3 sepia-tinted photographic plates. Gray printed & decorated softcovers, colour plate of Haida totem pole in downtown Seattle mounted on front cover, Arts & Crafts decorative lettering & borders, yapp edges (minor creasing, edgewear), still VG copy, sewn w/ red silk ribbon at gutter margin. First edition of this scarce, and well-illustrated work on the iconography of the Tlingit totem pole which had been "appropriated" in August, 1899 by a number of Seattle businessmen from the village of Tongass belonging to the family of Chief Kininook on Queen Charlotte's Island. The totem pole which stood in Pioneer Place became known as the Seattle Totem, and was featured on a wide array of tourist postcards, brochures, and travel literature. Llwyd (b. 1861) was a member of the American Archaeolgoical Society, president of the Board of Library Trustees of the City of Seattle, and served as the rector of St. Mark's Church in Seattle from 1897-1909, before leaving for a post in Toronto. See: Robin Wright, How did Totem Poles Become a Symbol of Seattle?, November 19, 2015, Burke Museum.

Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.

[AQUARIUM]. SMITH, Hugh M.[cCormick].. Japanese goldfish: their varieties and cultivation. A practical guide to the Japanese methods of goldfish culture for amateurs and professionals. . . .. W.F. Roberts Co.,, Washington, D.C.:, 1909.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Description: Oblong 8vo. 112 pp. Photo frontisp., numerous photo illustrations, 10 colour chromolithograph plates by J. Urata, numerous text illustrations. Ribbed-green publisher's cloth, gilt fancy Oranda embossed on front cover, gilt lettering (minor wear & fraying head & foot of spine, corners), still VG- copy. First edition of this excellent work detailing the cultivation and aquarium keeping of Japanese goldfish species. At the beginning of the 20th century, there was an explosion of interest in Japanese goldfish breeds, and the leading goldfish breeding center farms were located in Koriyama next to the ancient Japanese capital city of Nara. Over 350 different goldfish breeding operations were supplying millions of exotic goldfish to international markets, and the Nara Trading Co. which also dealt imported and distributed Chinese & Japanese pharmaceuticals were well known for their aquarium supplies and goldfish breeds. This well-illustrated handbook details with wonderfully rendered chromolithographs the Wakin, Ryukin, Ranchu or Maruko, Oranda Shishigashira, Demkin, Deme-Ranchu, Shukin, and other goldfish varieities. Smith (1865-1941) was a noted ichthyologist and administrator in the US Bureau of Fisheries who wrote this work while leading the scientific expedition aboard the Albatross on her expeditions to the Philippines, and South China Sea. See: Hamera, Parlor Ponds: The Cultural Work of the American Home Aquarium, 1850-1970; Japanese Goldfish Farms, The Summary, New York State Reformatory at Elmira, Vol. 33, June 17, 1905, p. 3; Nippon-Jin Sha, New York Japanese Address Book, 1921.

Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.

CHAMBERS, Robert W. Balliol Salmon (Illustrator). THE KING IN YELLOW.. Archibald Constable,, London,, 1909.

Price: US$487.33 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: New Illustrated Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp 312. Original publishers gren cloth lettered gilt at spine with oval illustration of a woman to cover. Frontis and 5 fine illustrations by Balliol Salmon, the first appearance of these. One of the great fantasies, much referenced in the recent cult TV series 'True Detective.' All early editions are rare, this unknown to WorldCat. Faint tanning to endpapers, very faint rubbing at hinges o/w an excellent vg+ copy. Arthur John Balliol Salmon (1868 Ð 1953) was a British artist particularly noted for his illustrations and his work in pencil, chalk and pastels. He was one of the twenty leading illustrators selected by Percy V. Bradshaw for inclusion in his 'Art of the Illustrator.' He was known for his work for THE GRAPHIC and in 1915 began illustrating girlÕs school novels ( Angela Brazil.)

Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom

The W. D. Harney Photogravure Co.. ART WORK OF THE STATE OF OREGON (EDITION DE LUXE OF PHOTGRAVURES). The W. D. Harney Photogravure Co., Portland, OR, 1909.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hardback in Very Good+ condition without dust jacket. . Folio 13" - 23" tall. Professionally repaired full leather binding. Edition De Luxe of Photogravures. . * Quick Shipping * All Books Mailed in Boxes * Free Tracking Provided *

Seller: Easton's Books, Inc., Mount Vernon, WA, U.S.A.

W. M. Flinders Petrie. The Arts & Crafts of Ancient Egypt. T. N. Foulis, Edinburgh & London, 1909.

Price: US$513.32 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A signed presentation copy of the first edition of Flinders Petrie's study of Ancient Egyptian arts and crafts. Inscribed to the half title: 'the Rev'd A.E. Beacon, with the author's best regards'.The first edition of this work from the prominent British Egyptologist Sir Flinders Petrie, a pioneer in the field of archaeology and preservation of artefacts.Illustrated with forty-five plates, containing one-hundred and forty illustrations. Collated, complete.With five pages of advertisements to the rear.Works signed by Petrie are scarce.With chapters on various periods and schools, painting and drawing, stone-working, jewellery, metal work, glass, ivory, and much more, this is a wonderful signed first edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Significant discolouration to back strip and perimeters of front board. Inscription to half title. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with light spotting throughout. Plates exceptionally bright. Very Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

. Art Work of the State of Oregon. W. D. Harney Photogravure Co., Portland Oregon, 1909.

Price: US$650.00 + shipping

Condition: Poor

Description: Each of the nine staple-bound parts of this work originally had 7 to 10 sheets of one or two plates each and then a few pages of historical text at back. Each part has had a whole or a half sheet cut out with the exception of Part One which has had three and a half sheets removed. Part Six has lost at least one page of text and been repaired without it. The bindings of all the other eight parts are tight, with dings only to the covers of Part One. The interiors and exteriors are pretty clean.

Seller: The Bookloft, Enterprise, OR, U.S.A.

GUERINET, Armand [editeur]. Nouvelles Collections Du Musee De I'Union Centrale Des Arts Decoratifs. Librairie D'Art Decoratif, 1909.

Price: US$800.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Palais du Louvre, Pavillon de Marsan GUERINET, Armand [editeur] w/ 32 plates present Librairie D'Art Decoratif 1909 12 1/8" x 8 3/8" The Central Union of Decorative Arts (UCAD), is an association of the law of 1901 recognized of public utility which fulfills missions of conservation of public collections, cultural dissemination. It was created in 1882 in the wake of the Universal Exhibitions by collectors wishing to highlight the applied arts by creating links between industry and fine arts to "maintain in France the culture of the arts that pursue the realization of the beautiful in the useful". This is the 14th series of the new collections, concerning ceramics. Published in the early twentieth century by Armand Guérinet. Bookseller and publisher specializing in decorative arts and architecture, active from the late nineteenth century to the 1920s. He buys and distributes photographers' collections. Under his name have been inventoried a very rich collection of works by architects, decorators, ornamentalists, artists, as well as many reproductions of works from the National Museums. *lacking plates: 3-5/ 11-12/ 15-126/ 129-141/ 146-147/ 152-153/ 166-169/ 174-175/ 180-183/ 188-189/ 192-193/ 197-198/ of 213 plates*

Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.

Harney Photogravure Co. ART WORK OF THE STATE OF OREGON. W.D. Harney Photogravure Co, Portland, OR, 1909.

Price: US$895.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 9 Parts in Orig Paperbacks, Filled with 80 Sepia Photogravure Plts (w/Tissue Guards), Maroon Covers with Large Gilt Design & Title on Each Cover, Folio (11 x 14 Inches), the 9 Volumes together are 2.25 Inches thick, small ink owner name else VG, 1st ed [Deluxe Edition] (The Photogravure Plates are mainly by B.A. Gifford who was a famous scenic artist; views are predominately of landscapes and nature, but also of buildings and towns)

Seller: Larry W Price Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

Shakespeare, William (Text by); Arthur Rackham (Illustrations by). Le Songe d'Une Nuit d'Été (A Midsummer Night's dream). Hachette et Cie, Paris, 1909.

Price: US$950.00 + shipping

Description: 1/330. Folio (11 3/4 x 9 1/4"). [6], 134, [2]pp. Uncut. Original gilt-stamped full vellum, with gold lettering to spine and front cover. Top edge gilt. Tipped in color frontispiece. Illustrated title page in black and gold lettering. Originally published in London by William Heinemann (1908), this limited edition of William Shakespeare's romantic comedy takes on a new and vivid life in these brilliant images by Arthur Rackham, one of the preeminent illustrators of the early 20th century. This work is indeed splendidly illustrated throughout with numerous in-text and full-page b/w illustrations as well as forty striking color plates mounted on brown art paper, all with captioned tissue guards. "Some of the floriated headings are the finest of Rackham's line at the time, as for example the heading vignette for Act One, Scene One, which with typical Rackham irrelevance spreads its tendrils over the page, and into the text, ignoring the fact that the setting is supposed, according to Shakespeare, to be the Palace of Theseus, and throwing us immediately into a tangle-wood Rackhamerie, with mice, pixies and a sleeping maiden." (Fred Gettings. Arthur Rackham, pp. 117-123). One of 330 numbered copies on Vélin paper, of which this is No. 168. Binding partly age-toned and foxed along spine and edges. String tie detached but present. Minor and sporadic offsetting throughout. Text in French. Binding in overall good, interior in very good condition. About the illustrator: Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) is widely regarded as one of the greatest illustrators of the 'Golden Age' of British book illustration. He worked with many publishers on both sides of the Atlantic during his prolific career and in the process won multiple awards. His work is housed in numerous collections and is highly sought after.

Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.

[CASE MACHINE COMPANY ARCHIVE -- PHOTOS & CATALOGUES].. [Factory photo archive with over 80 original photographs, and 25 negatives, most preserved in factory file folder, with explanatory text, photographer, and dated, including images of Case Steam Engine No. 1]; (together with) Case road building machinery; The Case steam road roller. . . ; Automoviles Case de seis cilindros. Los carros de calidad. Modelos: Limousine, Turismo, Sport, Coupe; Report of an inquiry into changes in quality values of farm machines between 1910-14 and 1932, prepared by J.B. Davidson, G.W. McCuen, R.U. Blasingame, with letters on Case letterhead and sales brochures. . . ; Price comparisons. 1913-1937, farm machines and other manufactured products. . . .. J.I. Case Threshing Machine Co.; American Society of Agricultural Engineers; Farm Equipment Institute, ca. 1909 - 1962]., Racine, WI; St. Joseph, MI; Chicago, IL:, 1909.

Price: US$1450.00 + shipping

Description: Eighty-three original photographs printed on glossy photo stock, sized from 2.5 x 4.5 in. up to 7.5 x 9.5 in. (49 are 7.5 x 9.5 in. (some duplicates); 58 photos & 23 negatives mounted and preserved in original printed file folders w/ typed & ink captions, annotations on covers (occasional edgewear, couple w/ slight scuffing affixed on front); 5 additional collotype photos included, each w/ negative number in lower margin of image (slight toning); [together with] 5 works. 4to. 40; 28; 6; 165, [1]; 14 pp. 100s of photo illusts., diagrams, text illusts. First work: over 100 text illustrations, diagrams, with Arts & Crafts painting cover art showing completed road heading off into the distance (some edgewear, rubbing, annotations on title, scuffing to corners); 2nd work with over 50 text photos & illustrations, w/ gray softcovers, blue-tinted image of steam roller on front (some soiling, edgewear, darkening); 3rd with 4 plates, self-printed triptych catalogue, pages printed in light green, white borders, and black & white illustrations; 4th work with over 100 photo images, text illustrations, inserted material with additional diagrams, illustration, Case letterhead; 5th work with red & black tables, printed softcovers. All preserved in slipcase. This remarkable archive of over 100 factory photographs & negatives, and original catalogues for the Case Threshing Machine Company offer an excellent record of the famed manufacturer of steam engines, farm equipment, tractors, road building machinery, and more. Jerome Increase Case (1819- 1891) began building threshing machines in 1847 in Racine, WI, and by 1869 had engineered and built Case Steam Engine Number One, the first steam engine for agricultural use, and depicted in two of the photographs. One of the images shows the historic engine being hauled on a trailer behind a 1962 Case work truck, before it was donated to the Smithsonian. This rolling steam engine revolutionized farming, and road building machinery. By 1912, Case was manufacturing a complete line of heavy equipment for road building, including Case Steam Road Rollers which weighed up to 10 tons, and were powered by excellent 36 - 75 horsepower multi-purpose steam engines, along with Graders, Rock Crushers, Elevators, Screens, and Bins. A number of the photos are reproduced in the Case Road Building Catalogue, and the Case Road Roller Catalogue. The file photos include images by H.A. Wright of 10" Case Rock Crushers being pulled by LI Tractors in Washington County, IN; a Case LI Motor Patrol Galion with Scarifier by H.A. Caraway mixing oil with gravel in Montana; LI Tractors & Adams Maintainers by Daubert building roads in Polk County, IA, and more. Many of the images depict the Case Model C (1929-1939), and Case Model D gasoline engine tractors introduced in 1939, and developed through the 1940s and 1950s. The original photos show CI tractors fitted with Roustabout Cranes; cranes cleaning boulders from fence rows in 1929; equipped with a portable Stover Wood Saw for mills and logging; DI tractors with Hough Hydraulic Shovels; equipped with Hough fork lift; 42-inch bucket shovel; outfitted with caterpillar tracks, and much more. Of particular interest in the archive is the exceedingly scarce Case Automobile catalogue for Mexico, and other automobiles can be seen in the Road Building Machinery catalogue as well. In 1910, Case had purchased the Pierce Motor Co. and quickly began manufacturing the Pierce-Racine automobile, and later the Case Auto employing Pierce Motor Cos.' 8000 dealers and agents worldwide. Case produced touring models, sedans, coupes, and limousines, as well as race cars. They ceased production of autos in the mid-1920s. Of additional interest are the two reports included on the productivity gains made by the rapidly improving farm equipment manufactured by Case, with graphs and details showing how farmers were benefitting from the technology improvements. Worldcat locates no copies of 1st & 3rd catalogues; 1 copy of 2nd (NYPL); See: Case Construction Equipment History (2013); Leffingwell, Classic Farm Tractors: History of the Farm Tractor, Chapter 2; Bill Ganzel, Wessels Living History Farm, York, Nebraska (2014).

Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.