Search Results: Authors starting with J from 19th Century Rare Book and Photograph Shop

This is a splendid print of this classic Jackson view of Salt Lake City.
William Henry Jackson is the greatest figure on the photography of the American West in the nineteenth century. This image is from his series of photographs made in the summer of 1869 upon the completion of the Union Pacific transcontinental railroad. Jackson's catalogue of photographs describes this great image: "Great Salt Lake City, Utah. A view looking south from the bluffs just north of the city, giving a bird's-eye view and also a view of the Wasatch Mountains in the distance. In the center of the first view are grouped the many fine buildings of President Young. The one with the many gable windows is the 'Lion House,' the abode of his numerous wives, while the one just to the left of it is the 'Bee-Hive' House, his own private residence. The houses are so called from the emblems placed on them. Plainly visible are also many others of the finest private and public buildings" (Descriptive Catalogue of the Photographs of the… Read More

The Great "She" Bible, the "authorized version" or King James Bible, one of the greatest monuments of English literature. This edition is known as the "She" Bible for the reading "She went into the citie" in Ruth 3:15. In this copy he error "Judas" for "Jesus" in Matthew 26:36 is corrected with a pasted-on slip. Fry styles this the "first edition, second issue," though it is more properly the second edition. "The general title is usually dated 1613, though the NT title bears the date 1611. Probably the greater part of the book was printed in 1611, but the publication, for some reason or other, was delayed till 1613. . . . Smith suggests [the delay resulted from] an accident in the printing-office which destroyed a large number of sheets" (Herbert).
One of the masterpieces of the English language, the King James Bible is surely the greatest literary work ever created by committee. In the preface, Miles Smith, one of the dozens of translators, commented on the importance of the work: "Translation it is… Read More

Provenance: Emma Frances Johnston (1834-1905), with her inscriptions dated 1858, 1864 and 1904; her niece, Anne R. Hanson, with her inscription dated March 1915.
This tremendous discovery is the extensive photographic archive of the little-known Victorian photographer Emma Frances Johnston. This is apparently the earliest comprehensive archive of a female photographer in private hands. Beginning around 1858, Johnston made this wonderful series of portraits of her friends and extended family comprising the intellectual and social world of nineteenth- century Hampstead in London.
The introduction of the wet collodion process in the 1850s brought a minor wave of amateur photographers, very few of them women. At around the time that Emma Johnston was making her portraits in Hampstead, Lady Clementine Hawarden began to make her photographs. Julia Margaret Cameron took up photography when she received a camera as a gift in 1863.
This unique collection is essentially the only known source for the study of… Read More

9 volumes. Contemporary mottled calf calf, spines gilt, morocco labels. Light wear to binding, two joints tender. A very good set in a very handsome binding.
Gifford's edition of Jonson's works played an important role in the Jonson revival.

9 volumes. Contemporary polished red calf, spines gilt, morocco labels. Light wear to binding, slight separation at top of one joint. A very good set in a handsome red calf Victorian binding.
Gifford's edition of Jonson's works played an important role in the Jonson revival.

5 x 8 1/2 in . 4pp. Very good.
This is the rare original announcement and program for a major early benefit concert supporting Jewish refugees from Russia. The pogroms carried out in 1881-82 drove countless Russian Jews to the West. This era marks the beginning of the period of the greatest Jewish immigration to the United States.
The concert was held at Mechanics Hall in Boston in 1882. The featured conductors are Carl Zerrahn and George Henschel. Henschel had become the first conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra a year earlier. Here he leverages his position to support Jewish refugees.
"Beginning in the 1880s, a much larger wave of Jewish immigrants arrived [in Boston] from the Pale of Settlement in Russia and Eastern Europe. During the nineteenth century, the Russian czars had confined Jews to this region and subjected them to religious persecution, expulsions, and forced military conscription. Passage of the May Laws in the 1880s made matters worse by forbidding Jews from owning… Read More