Search Results: Authors starting with W from Antiquariat Banzhaf

1te. - (4te.) Lieferung. 4 instalments (= all published). Basel und Genf, H. Georg's Buch- und Kunsthandlung (1864 ?). 20 original photographs (albumen – various sizes ca 110 x 180 mm to 225 x 280 mm) mounted onto white cardboards. Loosely contained in publisher's lithographed wrappers, with calligraphed title on front cover and contents on back cover. Folio (450 x 310 mm). Spine of fourth instalment restored, wrappers lightly dust-soiled and with a few short tears in margins. Cf. ADB XL, 460-465 (for Wackernagel) ; not in Heidtmann. Bibliographie der Photographie. Jakob Hoeflinger (1819-1892), was a native from the Black Forest region who emigrated to Swiss and became a photographer around 1853. He established his very successful business in Bale in 1857. His son Albert (1855-1936) took over the company in 1885. In 1896 he sold it to his cousin August Höflinger (1867-1939), who had joined the management the same year as he. From then on, August himself devoted himself to portrait painting. Until… Read More

Calligraphed title, verso with manuscript inked faked printer's sign "the Shingle-syde Press" within double rules, 16 architectural plates (15 on thick drawing paper, one on tracing paper) with pencil and watercolour drawings of elevations, plans and sections of his house. Loosely contained in later cloth portfolio, with gilt morocco label to front cover. Folio (700 x 470 mm). A charming set of large hand-drawn and delicately coloured architectural delineations for the home and studio of Connecticut illustrator, poet, and architect, William Walworth Stilson, (1874-1962), a Connecticut artist born in New Milford and a resident of Bridgeport and Shelton. He illustrated several books, including Willard Nelson Clute, Our Ferns in Their Haunts (1901); William Cullen Bryant, Thanatopsis (1909); and Hamilton Wright Mabie, The Writers of Knickerbocker New York (1912). The house was completed in 1902. His papers are housed at the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript… Read More

Toned lithogr. double-page title richly adorned, within lithogr. border, 133 manuscript ink numbered double-page lithographed plates by and after August JĂĽttner. (4) pages letterpress index. Publisher's darkbrown half calf, gilt title to front cover. Sprinkled edges. 4to (324 x 245 mm). Extremeties worn, else fine.
A very extensive catalog, with hundreds of metal articles, household wares, all kinds of tools for horse breeding and keeping, hunting utensils, guns and all kinds of tools for the workman (shoemaker & saddler tools; harness buckles & accessories; shooting & hunting utensils; steel & gallantry goods; bellows for household & forge fire; wood turning goods, tools and other goods in iron & steel). 3 plates with contemporarily mounted pieces of lithogr. illustrations, probably with new designs. Schmalkalden was all along renowned for its ironworks and a centre of the manufacturing of metal articles, displayed at the Frankfurt fair as "Schmalkalder articles", a kind of hallmark. Around the year… Read More