Search Results: Titles starting with C from James Arsenault & Company

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890. Small 8vo, original blue cloth. [x], [296], [8] pp. of ads., 10 illus. King's account of the Sioux campaign of 1876, originally published in pamphlet form, is here reprinted, accompanied by other sketches of Army life. Very good, moderate foxing to endpapers.

Brunswick, Maine: The Dog Ear Press, 1988. Hardcover in dj. Oblong 8vo ( 8.75" x 11.25"), quarter red cloth over red paper, color. Unpaginated, with laid-in 10 pp. publ. catalog. CONDITION: Fine volume, near-fine dj. First edition.

Amsterdam: Printed for J. Covens and C. Mortier, [c. 1740]. Hand-colored copperplate engraving, 19.875" x 18.75" plus margins. CONDITION: Very good, bit of separation at fold just slightly into image at bottom; a fine, dark impression, with pleasing outline color. This is the Dutch edition (title in French, the rest of the map in English) of the index map for Henry Popple's monumental 20-sheet map of North America, the first large scale British map of the American Colonies, and the first English map to name all thirteen. The map extends from lower Canada to northern South America, and from the eastern seaboard as far west as the Mississippi and its western tributaries. Inset views of Niagara Falls (after Father Louis Hennepin, 1698), Mexico City, Quebec (after J.B.L. Franquelin, 1688) and New York City (after William Burgis, 1720) appear in the upper left and right hand corners respectively. On the right is a series of eighteen inset maps depicting Boston, New York, Charlestown, Bermuda, St.… Read More

New York: Fitzroy Carrington, November 20th to December 12th, 1923. 8vo (8.75 x 6.25"), printed light blue wrappers. 150 pp., 4 b&w plates. CONDITION: Good, rusted staples with stain on covers and title page, wear at wrapper extremities, chip on bottom right corner of back wrapper, interior clean.

New York: Rich G. Hollaman, 73 Fulton St., 1884. 4to (9.625" x 6.5"), chromolithographic wrappers. 72 pp., alternating text and blank pp. reserved for advertisements, 5 ads, numerous b&w illus. CONDITION: Good, one signature detached, a few very minor chips and tears along extremities, .24" loss at lower-left corner of front wrapper, spine edge curled. A handsome guide to the Eden Musée wax museum, concert hall, and amusement center in New York City. A vivid, theatrical illustration printed by lithographers Mayer, Merkel and Ottmann on the front wrapper depicts a military figure drawing back a curtain to reveal the stately, Second Empire-style museum building. The text includes diagrams and description of the exhibits in each chamber of the "Temple of Art": the Vestibule, Entrance Hall, Central Hall, Sacred Chamber, The Crypt, and the Concert Hall. The Crypt includes tableaux of a savage Indian scalping; beheadings in Morocco; the French guillotine; cannibals; and curiously, figures of explorers of… Read More

Bloomington: The Pantagraph Stock-Printing Establishment, 1883. Softcover. 8vo (9" x 6"), printed blue wrappers. 30 pp., 2 lithographic illus. CONDITION: Good, covers toned with some soiling, some browning to title page, occasional old folds. Includes a "History of the Clydesdale horse" by James M. Hyatt and a descriptive list of various stallions and mares.

111 Fulton Street, Room 11, New York: Berlin & Yeddo Chromo Co., [ca. 1880]; Holt Brothers' Press. 18mo (15 cm), decorative pink wrappers. 48 pp., [1], numerous color illus. An appealing trade catalog offering chromolithographic decorations for pottery, albums, etc. as "amusement for all." Includes lists of designs, papeteries, scrap books, screens, autograph and picture albums. Also offered are 103 red clay pots to decorate, in a variety of forms, all of which are pictured. These include Etruscan, Greek, Roman pots, etc. CONDITION: Very good, light wear at extremities, sound and clean copy.

New-Haven, 1813-1832. Sammelband. 12 mo (7.5" x 5"), original calf. 14 annual catalogs. Several inscriptions of one "Elias S. Townsend, New Haven" on title. CONDITION: Fair, spine rubbed with small tears at head and foot, flyleaf torn at lower right corner, one page ("List of Students") with tape repair and torn at spine-edge, covers worn, foxing throughout. 14 catalogs of Yale University, including one of the Medical School.

New York: J. L. Mott Iron Works, 1889. Folio, recent three-quarters brown morocco and green cloth, gilt-stamped title on front cover. Title, 131 pp., of engraved illus., including 2 folding plates illus. on both sides. One of the more impressive American trade catalogs of the nineteenth century. Most of the catalogs published by Mott between 1873 and 1905 are described in Romaine, who states that the company "issued many of the finest pictorial catalogs of ornamental ironwork." The variety of fountains, urns and other iron garden furnishings is truly astonishing, and the scale of the illustrations, obviously necessary to convey an accurate sense of many of the richly detailed objects pictured, results in a graphically dazzling and convincing presentation. A genuine classic of its genre. Scarce in the market-place today. OCLC locates only one copy of this edition. REFERENCES: Romaine, p. 258. CONDITION: Good, large repaired tear across bottom of title page, occasional light staining with little… Read More

Philadelphia, Pa.: L. J. McClosky & Co., [c. 1890]. 32mo (6" x 3.5), printed wrappers in color with gilt borders. [8] pp., 8 mounted samples, 1" x 2.5" each. A catalog of mounted stain and wood filler samples, illustrating amber, cherry, mahogany, walnut, oak finishes on thin wood blocks; also price lists. CONDITION: offsetting of stain on leaves, pleasing light varnish aroma.

Philadelphia, 1882. 4 albumen photographs, each 5" x 8", affixed to paperboard mount measuring 18" x 22". Each image with title and photographer's credit and date in image. A set of four dramatic images of Luray caverns, entitled (clockwise from upper left): Throne in Cathedral, Saracen's Tent; Campbell's Hall; and Brand's Cascade.Two of the cavern titles reflect their discovery and early exploration. Local tinsmith Andrew Campbell and nephew Billy discovered the draft of cool air leading to the 1878 exploration, illumination and public opening of the caves. Alexander Brand, Jr., a correspondent for the New York Herald, was the first travel writer to visit the Caverns. Along with Campbell and Dr. Horace Hovey, a noted author and authority on caves, Brand toured the cave and named formations, many of them still used today. CONDITION: Images fine with strong tonality; mount with 1 cm chip and 2 cm closed tear on right edge, 2 cm closed tear on left edge, light wear.

Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, Printers, 1876. Broadside on silk, printed in red and blue, 12.25" x 9.375" (overall dimensions). CONDITION: Good, loss to much of delicate selvage, but main portion of the broadside, which is printed on heavier silk, is intact and stable; wrinkled. A rare silk broadside announcing the celebration of the U. S. Centennial aboard the excursion steamer "Plymouth Rock," in Shanghai, China. The day long program included a "Salute of One Hundred Guns at Sunrise," a "national Salute at 12 Meridian," a reading of the Declaration of Independence by O. B. Bradford, an oration by Consulate-General John C. Myers, and a series of thirteen toasts to the President, the Emperor of China, the Memory of Washington "drank in silence," the memory of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Union, and so on. The text concludes with the following note: "The 'Plymouth Rock' will leave the Wharf adjoining the Consulate General at 9 A. M. precisely, returning at 6 P.… Read More

London: George Routeledge and Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate, 1867. Hardcover. 16mo (6.5" x 4"), modern half morocco, gray paper over boards, marbled edges. viii, 9-187. CONDITION: Good, faint dampstain to upper edge of title, small brown stains to inmost sections of upper margins of some leaves. First English edition. Originally published in wrappers. Scarce. "An incident on which the jumping frog story is based actually occurred at or near Angel's Camp and was reported in a Sonora newspaper in 1853. Mark Twain heard the story from an old bartender named Ben Coon in Angel's Camp in early 1865. His brief notes indicate that the frog's owner was called Coleman and that the amount of money wagered was $50. Shortly after leaving Angel's Camp,. Mark Twain began writing his own version of the story, but it took him half a year and several false starts to find a satifactory frameowrk." REFERENCES: BAL 3586; Rasmusen, R. Kent. Mark Twain A to Z (New York, 1995), p. 266.

New York: C.H. Webb, 1867. CONDITION: Good, re-backed with original spine laid down, loss to head and foot of original spine, 1960s gift inscription in ink on preliminary leaf. First edition, first printing. With the uncommon placement of the gilt frog in the center of the front cover, not the lower left corner. BAL 3310.

New York: Underwood and Underwood, ca. 1927. Original warm-toned silver print photograph, 7" x 9"; signed "Underwod" in the negative at lower right. Early inscription on verso of a separate relatively early backing board. An appealing warm-toned photograph of Charles A. Lindbergh posing in front of the Spirit of St. Louis, with a huddle of men on the far right. With an early ink inscription on the backing board reading "Charles A. Lindburg, the first man to make a non stop flight from New York to Paris. May 21- 1927."CONDITION: Good, light toning at edges.

Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1848. J. Ackerman, N.Y. Lithographer. Folio, original decorative, gilt-stamped red cloth covers, recently re-backed with matching red cloth. Chromolithographic half-title, 30 pp., 6 hand-colored lithographs set within chromolithographic borders. CONDITION: Good, head and foot of spine chipped, wear and some splitting along edges of spine, covers rubbed and spotted with some loss to ink in blue medallions at each corner of cover designs, light foxing to contents. A large format work for the gift book trade, combining very fine hand-colored lithographs with elaborate, handsomely printed, chromolithographic borders. The text is a series of romantic stories, each featuring a pair of lovely young women. Each story is accompanied by an illustration picturing its beautifully dressed protagonist striking a sentimental pose. Bennett rightly terms it "the acme of marvellous Victorian workmanship and silly Victorian art." Bennett, p.38. For other color plate books in the genre of… Read More

Privately Printed, New York: Press of Walters & Mahon, Inc., 1930. Hardcover. 12mo (7.5" x 5"), green cloth with black lettering, deckled edges. [8], 68 pp., [1], 2 vignettes, 1 laid-in Poland Spring billhead with manuscript note on verso, early owner inscription on flyleaf in pencil: "Alvin E. Gilbert 1946-47 Poland Spring.". A pleasing collection of poems about experiences at the Poland Spring Resort, a classic grand hotel and health spa in Maine, home of Poland Spring water. The bill head is from the Poland Spring Company of Pennsylvania; on the verso are editing notes in pencil from an unidentified source. CONDITION: Very good, slight wear at cover, clean and bright leaves.

Chattanooga: Southern Railway System, [c. 1910]. 8vo brochure, folded into 9" x 4", outer panels in color. 28 panels plus inside back cover, numerous b&w illus., 1 7" x 7" color map, 1 8.5" x 16" color map. An impressive brochure and itinerary for Southern Railway System tour of the Battle of Chickamauga battlefield with five routes noted through Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia to Chattanooga. Includes detailed accounts of various aspects of the battle (corresponding to segments of the tour); nine monuments are pictured; also entrances to the park, head-quarter locations, and views. The full-color battlefield map shows the "Location of Chattanooga, National Cemetery, National Military Park, and Battlefields of Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Orchard Knob and Wauhatchie"; also includes five Southern Railway System routes through the terrain. The double-page color map illustrates seven railways and railroads, all part of the Southern Railway System, ranging from Boston in the N.E.,… Read More

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1922. Hardcover. 16mo (6.875" x 5"). x, frontis. port., 64 b&w illus., [3] pp. text. Early ownership inscription of Gustav Laumeister in ink on ffep. Gustav Laumeister was Palo-Alto, California builder-architect. CONDITION: Near fine, with slight insect damage on back paste-down.

Chicago: A Century of Progress Exposition, 1932. Small 4to (8.25" x 6.25"), pictorial front wrapper, plain back wrapper. [6], 64 pp., numerous b&w illus., 3.25" x 5.5" laid in pencil note, ink inscription in Chinese at flyleaf. An exhibition catalogue describing the contents and architecture of the Golden Pavilion, the summer palace of Manchu Emperors replicated for the 1932 exposition in Chicago. Included also is a history of Lamaism. A laid-in penciled note reads "that's my name at the right hand side", explaining a column of Chinese characters inscribed on the front free endpaper. CONDITION: Very good, light wear on covers, interior clean and bright.