Search Results: Titles starting with I from Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1946]. First edition. Square octavo. 40 pp. Color illustrations of babies throughout. Publisher's pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers. In the original printed pink box. Mild sunning and wear to box but book fine.A premium given out by Penney's for parents to fill out as their babies goes through the paces.

Clevelan: the Editor, 1849. First and only issue of this slightly wonky periodical, Octavo. 32 pp.

Rome: N.p., [1905]. Original bright chromolithograph broadside showing all of Italy's leader between those dates. 15 1/4 x 20 1/2 inches, mounted on a sheet 1 inch larger. Bear images of 24 Presidents (with the place of honor going to Camillo Cavour) and a scene of inauguration in the center surrounded by a calendar. Some minor split to mount but broadside is in fine condition.

Edingburgh: Waugh and Innes, 1819. Second edition. Octavo. xiv, [2], 576 pp. Complete with folding map and sixteen full page engraved plates of scenes in Iceland (the map is included in the plate list on the "Instructions to the Binder' but there are two plates of Icelandic costume where the plate list states just one). Rebound for well known dealer/collector John Sinkankas in quarter red calf over marbled boards, gilt spine lettering. Bookplate (Sinkankas), mild toning throughout and with offsetting from plates to text. Small marginal repair to folding plate. A very good copy.This copy signed on the top margin of the title page - "Jane Reynolds, 1820". Quite likely, Jane Reynolds was the wife of poet and humorist Thomas Hood (m. 1824) and sister of poet and playwright John Hamilton Reynolds."I have spoken of this Journal as the best account that we have of Iceland. No other English traveller has spent so much time on that island, or travelled there so extensively, or enjoyed such advantages for… Read More

Austin: University of Texas Press, (1985). First edition. Quarto. 64 pp. with color illustrations. Publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Some old tape residue on front endpaper (holding down a review slip possibly), very light edge wear to jacket. A very good copy.

New York: Macmillan & Co., 1883. Second Lang translation (the first a year earlier by D. Lathrop). Octavo. Uncut. [viii], 518 pp. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine with two morocco gilt labels and densely gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. Tips bruised and minor rubbing but a very nice copy.

Pasadena, CA: N.p., 1922. This ALS is written by hand in ink on three sheets of paper (rectos only). It is written from Sharp at his Pasadena residence to Cornelius O'Brien of Lawrenceburg, Indiana, and dated January 6th of 1922. Two small diagrams drawn in the text. Very legible and in excellent condition.The letter is written by Sharp to a customer of his, a Mr. Cornelius O'Brien, a banker and prominent citizen of Lawrenceburg, Indiana. Mr. O'Brien bought a Sharp painting ("The Chief's Son") and had inquired of Sharp of the proper frame in an earlier letter. Apparently Sharp and O'Brien both bought the same frame and were pleased with them. But the letter then evolves into a mini-history lesson on both Sharp and Native Americans. At the beginning he writes "I generally go to my cabin & studio at foot of Custer Battle Field in the Crow Country, Montana.. but Mrs. Sharp's health is not robust so we came here [1481 Carson St., Pasadena). In April we go to our home- Taos, NM. Most of my pictures are… Read More

Nevada City: Carl Mautz Publishing, 2013. First edition. Tall octavo. xvi, 229, [1] pp. Profusely illustrated. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering, pictorial dust jacket. New.One of 25 signed and numbered copies with an original print made from a calotype negative by the author tipped in."In this volume Hanlon turns conventional photographic history inside out, restoring American photography to its proper place among the great early traditions. Too often the United States is seen as a provincial player in calotype photography; a poor cousin to the Britons who invented the technique and the French who perfected it. In this book, we see early American photography as a vital part of that tradition—creative, dynamic, and influential. Accessibly written and exquisitely researched, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in photography and its origins. In addition to being a great reference work, it dramatically expands our understanding of the field." Phillip… Read More

[Lawrence, MA]: N.p., [ca. 1905]. Original manuscript. Quarto. [78] leaves with calligraphic text and many paintings and illuminations on rectos only. Royal part with 10 full page hand-colored illustrations of shields etc and 11 historiated initials and arabesques; all in color. Pilgrim part all in dense cursive and with red borders to the pages. Almost surely created and given as a present to her father, Arthur Demerick Marble, by Marion Wright Marbles. Excellent.Arthur Demerick Marble was born at Hingham, Massachusetts to Deborah Hawkes and Demerick Marble (1819-1898). Arthur became a civil engineer and worked in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He married Mary O. Richardson in November 1876 and the couple had a daughter Marion Wright Marble in 1871. Arthur D. Marble became City Engineer in 1879. Arthur was the family historian and Yale has two volumes of genealogical and related materials of the Marble-Richardson family from the Hingham area of Massachusetts. The work was compiled by Arthur Demerick… Read More

New York : J. W. Reedy Elevator Manufacturing Co., (ca. 1890). First edition. Octavo. [20] pp. All but the last two pages bearing full page illustrations of various types of elevators and their mechanisms. Publisher's stapled gray wrappers with black cover lettering on the front and a view of the Chicago Reedy factory of the rear. Some mild browning along the edges but remarkably fine.

London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1845. First edition. Tall octavo. xi, [1] 144 pp. plus 27 full page lithographs of shells (uncolored). Publisher's blind-stamped diaper-grain green cloth, spine heavily gilt and with gilt lettering, pale yellow endpapers. Some mild foxing to plates else a beautiful copy."After his regiment was disbanded he bought the Fifeshire flax mill. That, however, burned down before Brown had the opportunity to insure it. He then started to write books about nature for a living. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1818, one of his proposers being James Jardine. In 1840 he became curator of the Manchester Museum, where he served for twenty-two years. He wrote several natural history books, a few dealing with conchology. He became a fellow of the Linnean Society, a member of the Wernerian, Kirwanian and Phrenological Societies, and president of the Physical Society. Material from his books was used by United States naturalist Thomas Wyatt for his book… Read More

Philadelphia: H. S. Henry, 1907. One of 50 deluxe copies. Oblong folio (13 1/2 x 11 inches). [88] pp. including [30] full page illustrations of paintings owned by Harry Samuel Henry. Publisher's full dark green morocco, front cover with gilt fillet border and gilt lettering, wide gilt turn-ins, brown watered silk doublures and endpapers. original slipcase. Some rubbing to spine and joints but overall a very attractive copy.A famous art sale in the early 20th century, beautifully presented in this limited edition. Includes such artists as Eugene Fromentin, Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, Charles Francois Daubigny, Alexandre Gabriel Decamps, Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix, Narcisse Virgile Diaz De La Pena, Jules Dupre, Jean Louis Andre Theodore Gericault, Jean Francois Millet, Theodore Rousseau, and Constant Troyon and others.

Cambridge, MA: Fogg Museum of Fine Art, 1927. One of 500 numbered copies. Folio. Introductory text plus 5 plates in color and 25 in monochrome. Complete. Loose as issued in the publisher's cloth portfolio with gilt cover lettering, original ties. A very good copy.

New York : J. W. Reedy Elevator Manufacturing Co., (ca. 1890). First edition. Octavo. [20] pp. All but the last two pages bearing full page illustrations of various types of elevators and their mechanisms. Publisher's stapled gray wrappers with black cover lettering on the front and a view of the Chicago Reedy factory of the rear. Some mild browning along the edges but remarkably fine.

San Francisco: H. S. Crocker Co., (1949). Fourth edition. Octavo. 127, [3] pp. Illustrated throughout with maps and photographs after Ansel Adams. Publisher's stiff blue wrappers with white lettering, plastic spiral spine. Slight edge wear but an excellent copy.

Tillamook: Chamber of Commerce, [ca. 1922]. First edition. Quarto. [28[ pp. with 92 photographic illustration. Publisher's printed yellow wrappers. Some waviness but no signs of water damage. A very good copy.With much on the timber industry, the dairy and cheese industry and the recreational opportunities of this seaside town and county.

New York: L. H. Mace & Co., 1899. First edition. Quarto. 44 pp. with full page photographic illustrations of baby carriages on all but 4 pages. Publisher' brown wrappers with company name in raised gold lettering and title in white. A bit of edge wear and an old faint tidemark to outer lower corner (about an inch) but a very good copy.One is tempted to think that the excessive coddling of youngsters is a Millennial thing; not so. These carriages are excessively luxurious and with prices to reflect that. Carriage No. 794 is a work of art, very rococo in design and lined with satin and silk, and it is priced a modest $54 (about $1600 in today's dollars). OCLC records no copies.

New York: Abrams, 1992. First edition in this format. Quarto. Each volume is limited to 500 copies, Reproduced typescript with color and black and white photos at the rear. Titles include; The Fly with the Wings; Mental Institution, or Institute of Creative Research; The Red Wagon; We Are Leaving Here Forever! Housed in the publisher's cardboard clamshell case."Kabakov has created catalogues that reproduce the texts he has devised for the exhibitions and virtually recreate the original spectator's view. These are four of the catalogues, from 1991 exhibitions in Pittsburgh, Hanover, Dusseldorf and Malmo. The texts are all in Russian and English and most are in French and German as well. Gatefolds of the plans enable readers to see how entire rooms appeared and numerous photographs offer an immediate experience of the finished installations." (Abrams).Ilya Kabakov is a Russian - American conceptual artist, born in Dnipropetrovsk in what was then the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. He worked for… Read More

Oakland: The Camera Club of Oakland, 1942. First edition. Printed broadside on stiff card. 11 x 14 1/4 inches. Slight wear to corners but very good.A broadside announcing a series of twelve lectures on image management to be given in Oakland by the influential photographer Nicholas Haz. Sponsored by The Camera Club of Oakland the lectures were to be held in the Rock Ridge Women's Club. The broadside also bears a wonderful portrait of Haz (surely a self-portrait) and five printed accolades by such renown photographers as Edward Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Arnold Genthe. "Hungarian-born painter and photographer Nicholas Haz became one of the important teachers of photography in the second quarter of the 20th century. A theorist whose ideas bridged pictorialism and modernism, Haz published two classic texts on photographic technique: Emphasis in Pictures: A First Aid to Composition (Canton, 1937) and Image Management: Composition for Photographers (Cincinnati, 1946). Ansel Adams worked with Haz… Read More

Boston: Impressions Graphic Workshop Inc., 1965. First edition. One of 75 copies (this being #54). Folio (20 1/4 x 26 1/4 inches). Title page and fourteen loose plates by Mazur, all pencil signed and numbered by him. Compete. In the publisher's clamshell case with gilt morocco lettering labels to spine and front. An excellent copy.Artist Michael Mazur first came to public notice in the early 1960s with his series of etchings and lithographs depicting inmates in a mental asylum in Howard, Rhode Island where Mazur volunteered as a hospital aide. “Images from a Locked Ward,” a portfolio of 14 lithographs created with master printer George Lockwood, has been called Mazur’s “first artistic descent into Hell.” This was a theme he later explored while illustrating poet Robert Pinsky’s translation of Dante’s Inferno. ”These lost souls,” John Canaday wrote in The New York Times, “have the terrible anonymity of individuals who cannot be reached, whose ugly physical presence is only the… Read More