Search Results: Authors starting with L from Auger Down Books

Nashua: J. Riley, 1890. Albumen photograph, 5 ½ x 4 inches on larger mount. A portrait of seven women holding weaving shuttles, most likely mill workers in Nashua. Two large mills, the Nashua Manufacturing Company and the Jackson Manufacturing Company, were active during this period, though we cannot confirm if this picture was taken at either. Generally well preserved with some wear and what looks like a fingerprint on the head of the subject in the upper right of the image, and some stray soiling and marks. Remains in good condition overall.

Costa Rica, 1890. Albumen photographs, 9 x 7 ½ inches on larger mounts, with credits to Rudd y Paynter and the Paynter Bros. Near Fine. H.N. Rudd and the Paynter Brothers, Richard and John, were photographers who were active in Costa Rica in the 1890s, operating out of San Jose. Five of these views show the Rudd y Paynter mark on versos, with their address at the Parque Central in San Jose. The Paynters were from the United States, arriving in 1874 and first establishing Rudd y Paynter out of a shop in the Parque Central, where they also sold marble and art objects. In 1895 the studio changed its name to Paynter Bros. Collected here are nine scarce albumen views of Costa Rica from the 1890s. Five of them document a trip up Mt. Turrialba (these bear the Rudd y Paynter mark). Of the other other four, one image shows a building likely in San Jose with a gathered crowd; one shows a very striking mural and is captured "Corpus Christi / Cartaga, Costa Rica, June 4 / 96 (this shows no photographers mars… Read More

Lima, 1870. Albumen photographs measuring 2 x 3 ½ inches on larger mounts. Some slight fading, a few spots to one image including one with loss, about very good overall. A striking pair of early carte-de-visite portraits of Peruvian women from the Courret studios at 197 Calle de la Union, one bearing the Courret Hermanos imprint and the other with just Eugenio Courret's credit, from the same studio. Eugenio formed the Courret Hermanos firm in 1863 with his brother Aquiles. The portrait of the woman and child is particularly uncommon for the Courret catalog, as most of the photographs they took were of single wealth patrons.

N.P., 1922. Oblong 8vo, wraps, 9 x 6 inches. Rear wrap detached, tears and chips to front wrap, fine contents, very good overall. Very Good. An uncommon first edition copy of Manuel Gomez Miralles' photographic survey of Costa Rica. Miralles was one of Costa Rica's most prolific photographers, operating for many decades, and this book is an early collection of his work. Miralles work is compositionally advanced and his large format images are reproduced effectively in the volume. This book was the only survey of Miralles' work to appear in his lifetime, and after his death his negatives were sold to a foreign photographer. We find no records of this book in the trade or auction records at the time of this listing.

Maryland, 1919. Cloth banner measuring 32 x 50 inches, with 4 ½ inch lettering. The text reads "Eleventh Ward - J.G.L. of MD." Back is blank. Fading to lettering, stitched at top to facilitate hanging. Very good condition overall. The Just Government League was one of several major Suffrage groups in Maryland during the years preceding the 19th Amendment. Edith Houghton Hooker, a former medical student at Johns Hopkins, with help from her husband Donald Hooker and her Hopkins classmate Mabel Glover Mall and Florence Sabin, the first female senior faculty member. The group, compared to other Maryland suffrage groups, was more militant, taking action in open air marches and other public realms not traditionally accessed by women. The group staged a series of suffrage hikes beginning in 1914: "the first [suffrage hike] was held in January 1914, where the "Army of the Severn" marched from Baltimore to Annapolis to deliver a suffrage petition to the Maryland General Assembly. Hikes continued into 1915,… Read More

V.p., 1970. Thirty-three 11 x 14 images, thirteen 8 x 10 images. Excellent. These photographs, likely taken by a participant in the various events but probably printed in the 1970s, encapsulate many of the iconic themes of the New Left. Most of the photographs show protesters at unidentified events, though the clothing and settings are without a doubt the late 1960s, and one photograph, a close-up of Abbie Hoffman, as well as several pictures of demonstrators being arrested suggest that the pictures may have been taken at the 1968 Democratic Convention. The smaller series of photographs show mud-caked festival-attendants in various states: having sex, smoking marijuana, walking pleasantly alongside each other, and painting each other with mud. The pictures vary in technical quality but encapsulate the moment quite vividly, with an intimacy lacking from most press photographs of the period, and despite the student photography feel they show a pivotal moment in American social history with a… Read More

Le Havre: Museum D'Histoire Naturelle, 1920. Small 4to, red library buckram over original wraps, 108 pp. + 42 plates. With an additional three original photographs of Lesueur's work tipped in, along with a letter, presumably written by a staff member at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle in Le Havre which hold the works. Ex-LOC, with duplicate and deaccession marks to plate on front pastedown, still very good overall. Very Good. An uncommon title on Charles-Alexander Lesueur's travels in America from 1816 to 1839, illustrated with forty-two plates reproducing his sketches from the period, some of which was spent in New Harmony, Indiana. In addition, this copy contains three photographs taken of Lesueur's sketches, two of Lake Champlain and one showing The Hermitage in Nashville, from the originals held in Le Havre.

Massachusetts, Brazil, et al., 1861. (Newport, England; Bahia, Brazil; Vp, MA and ME; Charleston, SC): (April 20, 1860 - March 1, 1861). Large 16mo (3" x 5"; 76 x 127mm). Pocket journal(s) in marbled self-wrappers rebound in contemporary or old boards; front board absent, back board present but detached, scuffed, bumped, and rubbed. 48 leaves machine-ruled paper, paginated in pencil, comprising approx 82pp mss text recto-verso also in pencil; original marbled self-wrapper and first signature detached from a shaken text block, internally uniformly toned with some smudging. Manuscript contains text of three (3) 19th-century sea shanties, some of which showing possibly unattested verse variants. Good. In this journal, American mariner Otis Littlefield vividly documents one important phase of his career as a rigger on a 19th-century transatlantic shipping vessel. He names himself as author at the outset, and announces the scope and purpose of his narrative: "[This is] the journal of Otis Littlefield… Read More

Madrid: Imprenta Real, 1796. First Edition. Good. The first bilingual edition of Pinckney's Treaty of San Lorenzo, which ended the West Florida Conflict by establishing an amicable agreement between Spain and the United States for the navigation of the Mississippi River. Thomas Pinckney signed as a representative of the United States, and Manuel de Godoy signed in the name of Carlos IV of Spain. The agreement's effects were far reaching, as the ceded land that became the Mississippi Territory - particularly the Natchez region - formed a gateway for the United States expansion into the Southwest by destabilizing Spanish power. A landmark treaty, uncommon in its first bilingual edition. Rear wrap and final leaf detached, and lacking the passports. Worming and chips to wraps, contents well preserved, good condition overall. Palau 339329; Sabin 96587.