Search Results: Authors starting with P from Howard S. Mott, Inc

[FUNERAL BISCUITS]. PARKER, Elizabeth, confectioner. In Memory of Martha, the Wife of Richard Slater, of Birkett, in Rowland, Who departed this life May 20th, 1855, In the Eighty-sixth Year of her Life, And was interred at Bolton Church, on the 24th Instant. 4to broadside, 11 1/2 x 8 5/8", with evidence of black seal wax at two edges, within very decorative printer's ornamental border, surmounted by cemetery woodcut; framed. Clitheroe: James Fielding, Printer [1855].
Funeral biscuits have had a long tradition, and the traditional death notice merged with the funeral biscuit to become its wrapping, and our broadside is probably the wrapping that someone kept as a souvenir, a keepsake of the deceased. These ornately printed biscuit wrappings were sometimes sent with the biscuits as a means of alerting people to the death of a loved one. Elizabeth Parker made the funeral biscuits for Mrs. Slater's funeral, and… Read More

PARKER, Robert Andrew (b. 1927), American artist, illustrator and author. Travels with Bob: Words and Pictures. 4to, original pictorial flexible "French-fold jackets", pp. 309, [1], a.e.g., in paper slipcase. New York: Ink Inc., 2009.
First Edition. One of 100 copies printed and signed by the award-winning illustrator/author, this one designated "h/c" or "hors commerce", and unnumbered. With prospectus containing two signed letterpress relief prints, hand colored by the artist, labeled "A/P", or "artist's proof." With over 300 reproductions (most actual size), all in full color, which "selectively chronicles the life, travels, pastimes, collections, enthusiasm, dreams and works of the artist…a rich and delightful miscellany; it includes pages from Parker's many travel books, drawings from his earliest known 'artist's book' (compiled at age 8), representative prints, watercolors, paintings, models, studies for works-in progress…"-Prospectus. Parker's drawings have appeared in… Read More

[WASHINGTON, George]. S. E. George Washington General en Chef des Armees des Etats Unis de l'Amerique. Line engraving by Pierre Adrien Le Beau, after Charles Willson Peale. Bust, full face, to right, in uniform, with gorget. Oval, in border 6/16, in a rectangle. Above oval a festoon of olives leaves, with the word "Li/ber/tas", surrounded by radiating rays. Below, flags, cannon, laurel and palm branches. Tablet, within rectangle,bearing title. Paris: chez Mondhare [177-?]. "Excessively Rare."-Hampton L. Carson Collection (1904) #35. Hart 30. Baker (1880) 20.. Not in James T. Mitchell Catalogue (1907). WE HAVE A SELECTION OF AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR PRINTS OF AMERICAN, ENGLISH AND FRENCH OFFICERS. INQUIRIES WELCOMED.

THE RARE PRSUMPTIVE PRE-PUBLICATION ISSUE
PECK, George W. Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa. 12mo, original pictorial terra cotta cloth (moderate rubbing at edges), spine lettered in gilt, pp. xiv, [2], 196, [16] ads + 19 wood engraved plates (including frontispiece) from drawings by Gean Smith. Chicago: Belford, Clarke & Co., 1883.
First Edition, first issue, first state, with rules above and below the copyright notice at page [iv] a full 7/8" apart, and with no text, save the advertisements, after p. 96. "The earliest copies do not have in the front matter 'A Card from the Author' dated Milwaukee, Feb. 1883 [and not present here]. Copies without this feature are so seldom found that one may be permitted the suspicion that they represent a pre-publication issue."-Peter Parley to Penrod (note added to the 2nd printing of PPtoP), pp. 67-68. "...filled with unabated mischief and spectacular pranks...illustrations are by Gene Smith."-Morgn… Read More

AN EXTRAORDINARY EARLY AMERICAN INVENTOR AND ENGINEER
"THE THEORY OF THIS INGENIOUS METHOD OF ABSTRACTING HEAT"
PERKINS, Jacob. On the Explosion of Steam Boilers. [caption-title]. 8vo, disbound, pp. 18 + folding plate. N.p., n.d. [i.e. London: 1827. First Edition. Rare. "In 1823, at fifty-seven years of age, Perkins started an entirely new type of activity, new to him and almost entirely new to science. This was his experimental work with steam of high pressure."-Dirk J. Struik, Yankee Science in the Making (1948), p. 69. Our copy is exactly like the BL copy, without formal title-page, and beginning on sig. "B"1. Inscribed on title: "With the Author's Compliments," and with a single correction in ink on p. 16. In 1823 Perkins invented super heated steam in an experiment, called a "flash boiler", one thousand shots per minute, using 900psi steam. This steam was later used in nuclear power plants to turn the steam turbines, and small flash boilers were used on some steam automobiles and… Read More

[PUTNAM, Israel]. Israel Putnam Eqer. Major General des Troupes Ameriquames de Connecticut...Commandoit en Chef a la Premiere Action contra les Anglois a Bunckerhill pres Boston le 27Juin 1775. 10 x 7" overall (image 6 5/8 x 4 1/2") line engraving bust portrait, in uniform with hat inside oval, with word "Li/ber/tas" above, with draped flags over cannons. Not in WorldCat, Carson, Holden, Mitchell, or Cresswell , although the latter's #179, published by Esnauts et Rapilly, and probably by Dupin, is similar. Fine. We have other 18th century engravings of Revolutionary War figures, American, English and French. Please enquire.