Cabinet Card of Sioux Chief High Horse by Anderson, John A. - Photographer - 1900

Map Details and Condition:
color lithograph
dimensions: 26 3/4" x 19"
Brown Paper pocket covers with red bookstore label of Neal Stratford & Kerr, San Francisco
condition: professionally flattened and otherwise in as found, very good conditionDescription:
This 1914 map of now popular wine country Napa County, California shows the county in 1914, with early roads, largely undeveloped, vast open land areas, and natural features. The numbered grid system on this map reflects the Public Land Survey System. Large open tracts of land are identified as ranches, such as Rancho Catacoula, or Rancho Las Putas, Rancho LaJota all of which are large swaths of undivided land. Urban grids are shown in the southernmost part of Napa County, and sections of the southernmost sections of Sonoma County and Solano County. The cities of Petaluma, Sonoma, Vallejo and Napa and Benicia show populated urban areas. A corner of Marin County is shown.
C.F. Weber & Co. and the Punnett Brothers published… Read More

[Félix Díaz] José Guadalupe Posada. El Ejército Triunfante. Mexico: [Antonio Vanegas Arroyo]. [1913-14?] One sheet printed on pink paper. 30 x 40 cm. Edge wear and corner folds not affecting text or image.
OCLC shows one holding of this broadside. (Ibero-Ameri. Inst.) Anti-Maduro, pro-Felix Díaz tract. Illustrated with a portrait of General Felix Díaz. Lists Arroyo's address: Imprenta 2a. de la Penitenciaría Número 29. Felix was the nephew of Porfirio Díaz. When Porfirio Díaz was forced into exile by revolutionary forces in May 1911, most of his family went with him. Félix stayed in Mexico. In October 1912, he rose in an unsuccessful revolt against Madero, but was jailed and sentenced to death for treason. Madero commuted the sentence and he escaped from prison during La Decena Trágica ("Ten Tragic Days"), the coup against Madero led by General Victoriano Huerta in February 1913. Díaz held out in the downtown military arsenal of the Ciudadela, bombarding federal targets and the… Read More

Pawnee Bill's Wild West and Great Far East. Maj. Gordon W. Lilly Pawnee Bill. The White Chief of the Pawnees. The Hero of Oklahoma. [No publication information.] [Circa 1907.] 26.5 x 34.8 cm. [14] pp. Has been folded. Small split at center of spine, else very good.
OCLC shows no holdings. This is the first copy of this elaborate promotional that I have ever seen. "Lillie made his way into Indian Territory while working as a trapper …. He served as a teacher at the Pawnee agency …. During this time he became known as "Pawnee Bill." In 1883 he was recruited to help coordinate the efforts of the Pawnee troupe in the first-ever Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show. … In 1888 he began touring the country with "Pawnee Bill's Wild West." … which traveled the United States and Europe, starring May Lillie as the Champion Horseback Shot of the West. In 1908 he joined forces with Buffalo Bill Cody, forming 'Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Pawnee Bill's Great Far East,' a Wild West show that had no equal at… Read More

[Buffalo Bill] [Native Americans] General Nelson A. Miles and "Buffalo Bill" viewing Hostile Indian Camp, near Pine Ridge, S. D. January 16th, 1891. Baltimore, Md.: A Hoen & Co. [1892] Lithograph poster on tan paper. 27.5 cm x 42 cm. Light age toning and a few minor spots, else very good.
OCLC shows no holdings. There is a copy at the Buffalo Bill Museum. Rare Book Hub shows no auction or catalog listings. William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody (at left) and Brigadier General Nelson A. Miles were photographed by J. C. H. Grabill while scouting an Indian camp near Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, on January 16, 1891, soon after the massacre at nearby Wounded Knee. This lithograph is loosely based on the photographic record. As one newspaper (The Scotsman) reported on January 13th regarding the Pine Ridge Indian camp: "Should the Indians continue to move in this direction, and show a purpose of surrendering, the troops will not attack them; but if any renegades attempt to get away and succeed in piercing… Read More

[Texas] John O. Meusebach Land Certificate. One printed page, 8" x 12", New Braunfels, February 28, 1855, granting the "German Emigration Company . . . six hundred and forty acres of land, as a part of the Premium lands secured to them by the laws of the Republic and State of Texas." Certificate number 15. Signed with Meusebach's printed signature. Printed on blue paper. Minor stains and edge toning, else very good.
In 1845 and 1846, German citizens were promised land by the Adelsverein (German Emigration Company; or the Society for the Protection of German Immigrants in Texas) if they emigrated to Texas, in part, to rid Germany of surplus rural inhabitants. John Meusebach (1812-1897), a German noble, was appointed second commissioner general for Texas for the Adelsverein charged with the allocation of 500 acres of land. In 1854, he was chosen commissioner by Governor Elisha M. Pease to oversee the issue of the land certificates that had been promised to the German Emigration Company and their… Read More

Rochester, New York, nd. (ca.1900): Vredenburg & Co. Oblong Quarto. 100 leaves, all illustrations (138 images). This work which is the largest early photographic editon of Graham County and includes photographs of smelters, factories, copper mining, drug stores, railroad stations, landscapes, libraries, small businesses as well as school buildings. While more than half are devoted to mining, it has many pictures of locations in Graham County which have appeared nowhere else. Two smaller editions were done by newspaper publishes with 30 to 50 pages with mostly text. Here the printing was done by the Electric City Engraving Company of Buffalo which had pioneered Illustrated with half tones by Simon Werner. As is the case with the earliest Arizona Territorial Books, the printing processes for better illustrations were either done in San Francisco or in New York. Bound in brown cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. Inner hinges cracked but holding quite well, lacks rear free endpapers. Rare in… Read More

[Np: The Photographer, ca. 1963].. Original glossy double-weight gelatin silver print from negative, 14 x 11" (inclusive of margins, actual image area 10 1/2 x 9 1/2"). Numbered in pencil on verso. About fine. An original print of one of the sequence of superb photographs taken by Yousuf Karsh on location in South Africa during the filming of the 1964 Diamond Films production, ZULU, directed by Cy Endfield. Karsh's invitation to join the production and photograph the cast and locale resulted in a sequence of photographs of a very high order. The present image is a strong 3/4 profile portrait of a Zulu tribesman in tribal dress. The image is identified as "No. 564" in the series. Although this project is not as widely known as Karsh's formal portraiture, examples of the resulting images have featured prominently in both museum and print retrospectives of his career.

[Np: The Photographer, ca. 1963].. Original glossy double-weight gelatin silver print from negative, 14 x 11" (inclusive of margins). Captioned in pencil on verso. About fine. An original print of one of the sequence of superb photographs taken by Yousuf Karsh on location in South Africa during the filming of the 1964 Diamond Films production, ZULU, directed by Cy Endfield. Karsh's invitation to join the production and photograph the cast and locale resulted in a sequence of photographs of a very high order. The present image is a beautiful half-length portrait of two Zulu tribeswomen in tribal dress, including elegant headgear, against the background of the foothills of the Drakensberg mountains. The image is identified in pencil on the verso as "No. 208" in the series. Although this project is not as widely known as Karsh's formal portraiture, examples of the resulting images have featured prominently in both museum and print retrospectives of his career.

[Np: The Photographer, ca. 1963].. Original glossy double-weight gelatin silver print from negative, 14 x 11" (inclusive of margins, actual image 11 1/2 x 10 1/2). Numbered in pencil on verso, and with "Karsh, Ottawa" credit label and agency label of Rapho Guillumette. About fine. An original print of one of the sequence of superb photographs taken by Yousuf Karsh on location in South Africa during the filming of the 1964 Diamond Films production, ZULU, directed by Cy Endfield. Karsh's invitation to join the production and photograph the cast and locale resulted in a sequence of photographs of a very high order. The present image is a strong half-length portrait of two Zulu warriors in tribal dress, including a visible shield, spear and two staffs, against the background of the foothills of the Drakensberg mountains. The image is identified in pencil on the verso as "No. 117" in the series. Although this project is not as widely known as Karsh's formal portraiture, examples of the resulting images… Read More

1930. Forty-two 7 x 9 inch black and white photographs with Russian photographic text and descriptive text in French mounted on versos. Includes images of the great Communist leaders past and present, and their written works with many quoting either Lenin or Engels. Most cite the earlier days of the proletarian efforts by Lopatine, Lavrov, Vera Zassoulitch, Arnold Ruge, the 1864 London meeting of the First International, the Paris Commune rising in 1871, Marx's expulsion from Germany in 1849, Cologne trial of Communists in 1852, Karl Marx's graduation certificate from college, the Paris insurrection of 1848, suspension of "la Gazette Rhenane," in Cologne (1849) a joint effort by Marx and Engels, et al. A few corners chipped or creased. Very good.