Search Results: Titles starting with V from Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC

Hardcover. Very Good. oblong quarto, album contains 36 mounted silver prints on 17 cardstock leaves, along with 16 unmounted silver prints of the family, laid in, bound in original cloth, in very good condition. The images measure 4 x 7 ¾ inches, the images are in generally very good condition, some are over exposed, but most are sharp and clear. The album is of probable New York or New England origin. The photographs show members of an extended family charmingly posed either in groups or singly, in and around their suburban home and garden, or on outings to nearby streams, the presence of American flags in some of the images suggest they were taken on the Fourth of July. Family members are depicted with their various wheeled vehicles, wagons, buggies, bicycles, and one young boy in a wagon pulled by a goat.

oblong quarto, photo album containing 203 silver and cyanotype views mounted on 35 black paper leaves, images identified in white ink captions, bound in original flexible paper backed boards, string, tie, some minor dust soiling to album, otherwise in very good, clean condition.
A nice photograph documenting the 1922 automobile trip of an unidentified Los Angeles couple – west to east and back again – The couple departed their home located at 927 S. Windsor Boulevard and traveled via the southern route through Arizona, New Mexico, visiting Native American sites, Holbrook, Arizona, and a Rodeo at St. Johns Arizona, Socorro, Santa Fe, Pecos, and an Indian Reservation in Isleta, New Mexico, Colorado Springs, Garden of the Gods, Manitou, North Platte, Nebraska, Des Moines, Iowa, Allegan, Michigan, Grand Rapids, Owosso, Michigan, Port Huron, Ontario and Toronto, Niagara Falls, and various towns in New York State, New York City, Princeton, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Gettysburg, across… Read More

Quarto, album containing 61 photographs, nine of which are loose and laid in, images are mounted on 31 leaves, bound in contemporary ½ roan and brown covered cloth boards, binding worn, front cover detached, but present, portions of back-strip missing, old tape repairs to binding, some foxing to mounting leaves, else very good.
The views are largely identified in pencil either on mounting leaves, or in the case of the loose photographs in pencil on the verso of the image.
Most of the photographs are large, ranging in size from approximately 9 x 7 inches to 2 ½ x 3 ½ inches at the smallest. Two images are dated 1858, including: "Entrance to Shingodama's Pagoda Kenindine", signed at bottom right corner in red ink "W.S. .58" and "On the Kenindine Road", likely signed by the same individual. Two of the images are dated in pencil "1865," most of the images based on costume styles are clearly from this period. However, several images may be from the 1850s, one image taken in India… Read More

octavo, 51 page pamphlet, ex-library, handstamp on titlepage, removed from bound volume of pamphlets, else a good copy. American Imprints 13188, 9 locations.