Search Results: Titles starting with R from Archway Books

8 pages. Single sheet, folded; unopened; staple holes to upper gutter, otherwise very good condition. A campaign flyer for the 1860 elections; the richest man in the Midwest praises the Republican Party as the protector of working people and farmers. Detroit's first millionaire, tycoon of Great Lakes shipping, railroads, mining, logging and steel, Eber Brock Ward (1811-1875) was not a prolific writer. OCLC locates only a few speeches and pamphlets relating to currency and tariffs; this is the earliest of those.Only edition; OCLC locates Detroit Public, [State] Library of Michigan (2 copies), Ohio History Center, State Library of Ohio, Western Reserve Historical Society.

12mo, 100 x 150 mm (4 x 6 inches), [xii], 512 pages. Contemporary calf, gilt-decorated spine, raised bands; light external wear; staining from old tape to front free endpaper and title page; title page and first and last two text pages chipped; pages age-toned; good condition overall.
The last major outbreak of bubonic plague in Western Europe killed 50,000 in Marseille and 50,000 in the adjacent region from 1720-1722. This account by Marseille physician Jean-Baptiste Bertrand (1670-1752) is the most detailed eyewitness account to survive. He was honored by the authorities for his tireless work through inclusion on the official plague monument erected in 1802.
This first edition was published anonymously under the fictitious imprint "à Cologne, chez Pierre Marteau," suggesting that Bertrand was concerned about potential censorship. A review of online copies reveals that there were at least two "Marteau" editions in 1721, with different title pages but clearly printed from the same… Read More

Thirty-one engravings, all clipped from issues of Памятная книжка (Pamaiatnaia knizhka), an annual almanac of military, naval, imperial court and civil officials, published in Saint Petersburg by Военной Типографий (The Military Press). Each annual contained six to ten plates, mostly of places in the empire outside of Russia proper, reflecting contemporary Russian expansionism. During the period of this album, all the engravings in the almanacs were executed by English engravers whose work appears in English view books. All were based on paintings by prominent "Russian artists". This collection, mounted in an album with a French patent, was assembled during the CDV collecting craze of the 1860s and 1870s.Views include: Svyatogorsk Uspensky Hermitage, Kharkiv; Kerch; Feodosia, Crimea; Sudak, Crimea; Karasubazar Valley, Crimea; Karasubazar Bazaar; Crimea; Yalta; Visit of Empress Maria Alexandrovna to Alushta; Orianda, the estate of the Empress in the Crimea; Palace of… Read More

The Russo-Japanese War: Taken by the Photography Department of the Imperial Headquarter, Numbers 1-14; published in Tokyo, 1904-05, by K. Ogawa. 14 large format (10 x 14 inch) pamphlets recently bound together in hardcover. Original wraps bound in, occasional foxing throughout, good condition overall. 224 full page half-tone photographs taken at the front by Ogawa Kazumasa (1860-1929). Ogawa pioneered photomechanical reproduction in Japan, both collotypes and halftones, and was possibly Japan's most prolific and commercially successful photographer in the early twentieth century. These are 14 of the 23 parts that Ogawa published on the Japanese Army in the war, dating from October 1904 through June 1905.