Broadsides

Dallas: Northouse & Northouse, 1981. First Edition. broadsides. Fine in case as issued. A collection of 8 folio broadsides and title page ranging in size from 13" x 17" to 13" x 19" and printed on heavy paper of various colors with all but two of the broadsides illustrated and each individually SIGNED by the author. This is Copy "F" of 26 lettered copies of a total edition of 126. Contributors are John Updike ("Two Sonnets"), Allen Ginsberg ("Capitol Air" - - Ginsberg has also made a single word holograph correction to the text), Linda Pastan ("Mother Eve"), Howard Nemerov ("Landscape with Self-Portrait"), Heather McHugh ("From 20,000 Feet"), William Stafford ("Geography Lesson"), William Heyen ("Mother and Son"), and Scott Davison ("Soft Salvation"). The five printers are The Red Ozier Press, The Meadow Press, The Press of A. Colish, The Press of W. Thomas Taylor, and the Wind River Press. Housed in a plexiglass box especially made for this publication and allowing the portfolio to be hung on a… Read more

New York: McIntosh Publishing Co, 1895. Unbound. Very Good. Broadside or poster advertising the 1895 book. 12½" x 18". Illustrated by F. Richard Anderson. Printed in black with a whimsical football illustration on pale green paper. Very good with small chips at the extremities affecting no printing, and a small piece of tape on the reverse (to no purpose). The illustration depicts a man in a fleur-de-lys uniform with a leather nose guard, opposed in the distance by some rather goofy looking football players (some with "Y," "H," "C," and "P" – presumably for Yale, Harvard, Columbia, and Princeton or Penn). Anderson was a successful Broadway costume designer, which probably explains the *très sportif* uniform. A poster advertising a very early football book, following Walter Camp's *American Football* (considered the first book on the sport) by four years. Rare. *OCLC* locates one copy of the 36-page book at the University Club in New York City, and no copies of this poster.

Prov. R. I. [ Providence, Rhode Island ]: Henry L. Tillinghast, 1855. First Edition. Near Fine. First Edition. Broadside. Single leaf, printed on recto only. 9 x 6 1/4 inches. Wove paper with no watermarks. Cleanly trimmed (with minor variation on upper edge). A nice impression noting some ink ghosting (presumably from other copies printed at the same time). Signed in type "J. A. Foster" at base of leaf. Intended for brief use in a town or village, these broadsides had a low survival rate. The photographer would pin them up or circulate in the village they were in, drumming up whatever business they could with this new wonder. Once they left, there was no use for the advertisement anymore. Traveling photographers left fewer traces of their businesses - even semi-permanent establishments could put advertisements on their photographs, in local papers, etc. The itinerant photographer was just that - moving around constantly. It is a wonder any record survived - and most we find were those presumably… Read more

[Edo, 1860. Two woodblock-printed Kawaraban broadsides on Japanese paper, each 9 x 11 5/8 inches. Two late Edo Kawaraban broadsides recording foreign people, objects, coinage, dress, and material culture at the moment of Japan's accelerated contact with Europe and America. These two Kawaraban belong to the popular printed culture that developed around Japan's encounter with foreign powers in the 1850s and early 1860s. Produced for circulation beyond official channels, such broadsides translated diplomatic and commercial contact into a form legible to a broad Japanese readership, combining image, caption, anecdote, and report. Their interest lies in the way they classify the foreign world through visible particulars: clothing, physiognomy, tools, coins, flags, animals, weapons, and curiosities. The first broadside is arranged in four compartments under a title describing Western products and curiosities. It includes figures identified as foreign visitors or crewmen, among them an English captain and… Read more

San Francisco, CA: Published by Henry Payot, 184, Washington Street, 1867. broadside. oblong folio. broadside. wood engraving 5-5/16 x 19-1/4, printed across a double sheet measuring 7-7/8 x 21-3/16, blue wove paper. Panoramic view looking east down Sacramento Street from Nob Hill, with several Chinese at left; Telegraph Hill at left in distance. Probably made from a photograph; several misunderstandings as a result. (This was used for Baird 317; one copy of Baird 235 at California Historical Society has date of January 12, 1867, suggesting that the 1860 date on Baird 317 may not be actual date of publication.) See also Baird 236. Some staining throughout, but mostly to the edges. Overall a lovely copy of an incredibly rare piece. Copy at UC Berkeley.

Etched playing board with rules of the game in lower margin of the sheet and publisher's number 221. Sheet-size 407 x 335 mm. Very rare and beautifully illustrated etched sheet for dice game; the centre field of the playing board depicts an outdoor scene with a dressage show of monkeys in various costumes with spectators behind wooden bars, in the corners more or less anthropomorphic images of four species of monkeys. 14 of the 30 fields showing monkeys in various costumes doing acrobatic stunts, and if you enter one of these fields you have to according to the rules restart from the beginning or pay a penalty. - Georg Nikolaus Renner (1803-1854) was an art dealer and publisher in Nuremberg since 1826. From 1837 Friedrich Schuster became his partner, from then on the company was called "Renner & Co" – therefore the present game must have been published before. An almost perfect copy of a finely illustrated example of a monkey theatre dice game, a subject which became very popular in the 19th century.

Two hand coloured lithographed broadsides by Lemercier after Victor Adam (1801-1866) and Louis Stanislas Marin-Lavigne (1797-1860) heightened with gum Arabic, each with a large central image showing Napoléon on horseback one dated 1800 the other 1815, each framed by 20 further images which relate important steps in his military and political career giving a full account of his reign closing with a view of his tomb on the island of St. Helena. Large folio (660 x 500 mm). Mounted and framed within modern white cardboard passepartouts. Light foxing, in margins else fine. Two spectacular large size lithographs in beautiful contemporary hand colouring, celebrating Napoleon's life and accomplishments. Many of the small images depict battle scenes others with important political events. Lower margins of each sheet with variant hand coloured allegorical vignette, one showing a heraldic eagle the other the Code Napoléon. Well margined copies.

Large engraved and folded broadsheet (585 x 468 mm) with a beautifull interior view of a billiard hall with a lavishly decorated billiard table with 6 male billiard players, ca 224 x 470 mm, in the upper half of the sheet, designed and engraved by Daniel, graveur du roi. Lower part of the sheet with text in 6 columns, centre fold marked by a billiard cue, adorned with four richly decorated medals in the corners of the text. - Bound with: Chéreau, Charles. Nouvelles règles du jeu de billard, ... Paris, chez l'auteur ca 1844. Large engraved and folded broadsheet ((585 x 468 mm) with an ornate calligraphic drop-title framed by emblematic vignettes, with rules of variant billiard games in six columns, centre fold marked by a billiard cue, and with two oval ornate medals in lower corners of the text. - Bound with: Chéreau, Charles. Nouvelles règles du jeu de billard, ... A Paris, chez l'auteur ca 1844. Large engraved and folded broadsheet ((585 x 468 mm) with an ornate calligraphic drop-title framed by… Read more

Very large broadside statistical overview of France in 1824
Paris, Belin-Leprieur, printed by Imprimerie de Jules Didot aîné, June 1824.
Plano (69x100 cm.). Letterpress text, engraved title and illustrated with an engraved ornamental border on thick paper without watermark.
€ 2.400
Impressively large and very rare French broadside table providing a detailed overview of the statistics on population, geography and economy of the 57 départemens of France for the year 1824. It does so in an extremely structured manner. Of each administrative region the precise geographic and topographic values are given, after which the specialization in natural or industrial productivity of these regions is described. For example, the département Calvados has "excellent horses, bestieux fat, grains, cider, cider brandy, flax, hemp" etc. etc. According to a contemporary review in Revue encyclopédique (1825), this table was considered especially useful to understand the importance of each of the départements, and… Read more

New York: Julien Levy Gallery, 1936. Unbound. Fine. Pictorial broadside on blue paper. Approximately 10½" x 16¼". Nicely framed. Unexamined out of frame, evidence of neat, old folds else appears fine. Central image of Magritte's painting *Man with a Newspaper*, with Paul Eluard's poem "Rene Magritte" appearing on the left-hand side which has been translated into English by Man Ray. A list of 22 of Magritte's works on exhibit on the right, and below the image are remarks by Paul Nouge, translated into English. The Levy Gallery was one of the foremost promoters of Surrealist Art in the U.S. Exceptionally scarce. *OCLC* locates four copies (three in art museums).

1853. Broadside poster printed in black ink on cream-colored wove paper, 6 x 12 7/8 inches (151 x 321 mm), the full sheet. Overall toning, scattered foxing and damp stain. Corner losses, none of which effects the image area. Newspaper articles published throughout the winter of 1856 and the into the summer of 1857 which appear in local publications including the Galveston Star, The Central Texian, and The Weekly Telegraph, tell an almost cinematic story of murder and escape set against the backdrop of a country on the precipice of civil war. Skirmishes already taking place in Kansas and across the south, and notices of "radical abolishionist" activity in New York, the Presidential canvas had begun; the Know Nothing candidate Millard Fillmore, who was the last Whig candidate in American history, and Democrat James Buchanan were preparing to square off in the Nation's highest civic contest. While most local news still consisted of mundane issues like steamship arrivals, land disputes, and cattle theft,… Read more

(Rutland, Vermont) (N.D., circa 1880s) : Ripley Sons Poster. Very Good. One Page,Folded. Text below title - "All varieties of turned work constantly on hand or finished to order. Our own designs furnished on application or we will fit up monuments from designs furnished by our Customers". Scale 1 " = 1 foot. J. H. Bufford's Sons lith., 141 Franklin St. Boston (printers). 22" h x 28 " w. One horizontal and one vertical fold. Very Good, 4 spots of soiling verso, archival tape mend verso, a few small edge tears, several creases. Of the 12 styles of monuments pictured, seven have the original printed model letter lined out with replacement letters in black ink. No date, circa 1880s, the US Post Office required the name of Centre Rutland changed to Center Rutland in 1892, and the Ripley Sons sold the company to Vermont Marble in 1889. Brothers William Y. W. Ripley and Edward Ripley, who were running the company at this time, both had distinguished service careers in the Civil… Read more

Besnard: L'Aigle (Orne), Normandy, France. Printer: Paris: H. Besnard. Printer: Imp. Petitjean, 1930. A jockey riding a brandy bottle through the sky -- what could be more whimsical? This scarce poster has a visual charisma borne of its simplicity, its bright coloration. It promotes its product with virtually no words. N.d., circa 1930. The poster measures 120 by 80 cm, not including the canvas margin. Rare -- we couldn't find other copies of this delightful poster. Backed by linen, which stabilizes and protects the poster and allows for easier handling. We haven't been able to find out anything about the company, suggesting it was a smaller concern, long gone. The graphics of the poster, though, should have an eternal appeal.

[Nashville, 1861. Good plus.. Small broadside, approximately 11 x 7.25 inches. Creased along lower edge; ink burn causing a dime-size paper loss at upper right, slightly affecting border, plus a few additional stray ink marks. Later, faint pencil annotations on blank verso. Moderate tanning and dust soiling. A scarce Confederate carrier's address, published on Christmas in Nashville during the first year of the Civil War. The Republican Banner was formed in 1837 from a merger of two other periodicals, and was the first permanent daily newspaper to serve the Nashville area, as well as the first to operate its presses by steam. Tennessee officially seceded from the Union on June 8, 1681, but Nashville surrendered to Gen. Grant's troops on February 23, 1862, whereupon the Republican Banner suspended publication for the remainder of the war. As a result, the present broadside is only carrier's address issued by the paper that is also a Confederate imprint. The text is printed in two columns with in a… Read more

Various, 1880. Few condition issues. Overall fine. This collection of 36 anthropomorphic cards can be truly for fun or used in the study of advertising techniques or social or visual culture. They include: Cabbage - 1 seductive cabbage lady; 2 Gourd ladies - on promotes Hawley's Reliable Seed, the other Buffalo Honest Fertilizers; 5 Potatoes - 1 playing violin in a tree, 2 spud bodies with human heads, 1 potato body promoting Kangaroo Komplete Kompound (KKK) and 2 potato gents promoting shirts, cuffs and collars, a cucumber man and a celery woman both promoting Rice's Seeds; a carrot gent with monocle and top hat for Buffalo Honest Fertilizers; a turnip couple; 2 rutabaga fellows promoting McCullough's Seeds and Larkin's "Boraxine"; 1 Mikado or Turner Hybrid Tomato; 1 plum head for Hayes, Murray & Co. (children's shoes); 1 onion man, Holden & Robinson; 2 corn people, 2 with Indigenous themes promoting fertilizers, Rice's Seeds and a Minnesota land management company selling "fertile' land; 1… Read more