THE AMERICAN VITRUVIUS: by HEGEMANN, WERNER AND ELBERT PEETS - 1922 AN ARCHITECT'S HANDBOOK OF CIVIC ART.

Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Banchard. Very Good+. 1828. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes in one. 212 & 238pp. Rebound in orange leather with an ornate gilt border on front cover. Black spine label. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Scattered foxing. First edition in English, originally published in German the same year. Bernhard of aristocratic military rank traveled throughout America & made in-depth observations of the developing country. Americana, Usiana; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 450 pages .

Includes Antioch College Bulletin: Supplementary Information for Prospective Students 1935 - 36.

2 volumes. xii+414 pages with frontispiece folding map with hand-colored routes and five plates with four folding; [4]+492 pages with tables and one folding plate. octavos (8 1/4" x 5 1/4") bound contemporary tree calf with black and red labels to spine in gilt lettering. Second edition.
In the last half of the eighteenth century, England and Europe were hungry for information concerning america. One of the books which had combinations of personal and borrowed observation and reflection. one of the best know is Lieutenant Thomas Anburey's Travels through the Interior Parts of America printed for William Lane in 1789. It was reckoned a valuable source on the Borgoyne campaign, in which the author served and on America, through which he traveled. Anburey's Travels are for the most part lifted from earlier publications. The work was lifted in large chunks from the accounts and descriptions of more than a dozen earlier travels, histoires and geographies. Anburey was doing only what other did-and… Read More

Brown cloth with black corner ornaments and border for large gilt ornamental central lettering. Recased with perfectly matched new spine and new endpapers. Large label on front paste-down retained, reading "This Album is the Property of This Hotel…" A beautiful fresh copy.Pictorial lithograph title page and 19 lithograph plates, all signed "G.W. Averell & Co. del & print. N.Y.", facing pages of ads for New York merchants: wine importer, steamship lines, printers, tailors, tobacco and billiard table purveyors, shops selling Chinese and Japanese goods, and many others.Wonderful plates, each including several New York City scenes and characters: Jewish tailors on Chatham Street, Chinese opium den, immigrants at Castle Garden, park scenes, street vendors, Fulton Ferry, horse racing, boxing, theater, an African American and other ethnic types.

Black cloth spine and color pictorial boards in orange, white and black. Orange endpapers decorated with industrial cogs. Small, closed repaired tear on front endpaper. Remarkable copy of an exceedingly rare book. (A facsimile was printed in 2009 and is widely held institutionally.)With 62 pages; text and illustrations in sharp primary colors on facing pages tell the story of a little boy robot who grew up out of pieces of a wrecked steam engine, an old trolley car and a broken automobile. He has constructed himself out of the wreckage of technology: drill, saws, wheel, pliers, chisel, hammers, etc.Higonnet, Margaret, "Modernism and Childhood: Violence and Renovation" in The Comparatist, Volume 33 (May 2009), University of North Carolina Press. discusses the brilliantly experimental design of three Modernist children's books: El Lissitzky, Suprematist Story of Two Squares, l922; Kurt Schwitters, Die Scheuche (The Scarecrow), 1925; and Mary Liddell, Little Machinery, 1926. "(Liddell's) text plays with… Read More

Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Banchard. Very Good+. 1828. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes in one. 212 & 238pp. Rebound in orange leather with an ornate gilt border on front cover. Black spine label. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Scattered foxing. First edition in English, originally published in German the same year. Bernhard of aristocratic military rank traveled throughout America & made in-depth observations of the developing country. Americana, Usiana; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 450 pages .

Includes Antioch College Bulletin: Supplementary Information for Prospective Students 1935 - 36.

2 volumes. xii+414 pages with frontispiece folding map with hand-colored routes and five plates with four folding; [4]+492 pages with tables and one folding plate. octavos (8 1/4" x 5 1/4") bound contemporary tree calf with black and red labels to spine in gilt lettering. Second edition.
In the last half of the eighteenth century, England and Europe were hungry for information concerning america. One of the books which had combinations of personal and borrowed observation and reflection. one of the best know is Lieutenant Thomas Anburey's Travels through the Interior Parts of America printed for William Lane in 1789. It was reckoned a valuable source on the Borgoyne campaign, in which the author served and on America, through which he traveled. Anburey's Travels are for the most part lifted from earlier publications. The work was lifted in large chunks from the accounts and descriptions of more than a dozen earlier travels, histoires and geographies. Anburey was doing only what other did-and… Read More

Brown cloth with black corner ornaments and border for large gilt ornamental central lettering. Recased with perfectly matched new spine and new endpapers. Large label on front paste-down retained, reading "This Album is the Property of This Hotel…" A beautiful fresh copy.Pictorial lithograph title page and 19 lithograph plates, all signed "G.W. Averell & Co. del & print. N.Y.", facing pages of ads for New York merchants: wine importer, steamship lines, printers, tailors, tobacco and billiard table purveyors, shops selling Chinese and Japanese goods, and many others.Wonderful plates, each including several New York City scenes and characters: Jewish tailors on Chatham Street, Chinese opium den, immigrants at Castle Garden, park scenes, street vendors, Fulton Ferry, horse racing, boxing, theater, an African American and other ethnic types.

Black cloth spine and color pictorial boards in orange, white and black. Orange endpapers decorated with industrial cogs. Small, closed repaired tear on front endpaper. Remarkable copy of an exceedingly rare book. (A facsimile was printed in 2009 and is widely held institutionally.)With 62 pages; text and illustrations in sharp primary colors on facing pages tell the story of a little boy robot who grew up out of pieces of a wrecked steam engine, an old trolley car and a broken automobile. He has constructed himself out of the wreckage of technology: drill, saws, wheel, pliers, chisel, hammers, etc.Higonnet, Margaret, "Modernism and Childhood: Violence and Renovation" in The Comparatist, Volume 33 (May 2009), University of North Carolina Press. discusses the brilliantly experimental design of three Modernist children's books: El Lissitzky, Suprematist Story of Two Squares, l922; Kurt Schwitters, Die Scheuche (The Scarecrow), 1925; and Mary Liddell, Little Machinery, 1926. "(Liddell's) text plays with… Read More