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[Norman Kane]

PETERS, Harry T.  CURRIER & IVES, PRINTMAKERS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.  A CHRONICLE OF THE FIRM, AND OF THE ARTISTS AND THEIR WORK, WITH NOTES ON COLLECTING ...  [Arno Press],1976.  Facsimile reprint of 1926 edition.  2 volumes.  Original beige cloth.  12.25 x 9.5".  331, 404 pp.  Some light soiling to cloth, but tight and internally clean.  Very good plus.  24 plates in color and 319 in black & white.  ($80)  $40

FOWBLE, E. McSHERRY.  TWO CENTURIES OF PRINTS IN AMERICA 1680 - 1880.  A SELECTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE WINTERTHUR MUSEUM COLLECTION.  Charlottesville, 1987.  Cloth-backed linen in original dust wrapper, approx. 12 x 12 inches.  Very good/very good.  Spine of book with some light staining.  Profusely illustrated.  ($90)  $45

EDMOND, J. P.  CATALOGUE OF A COLLECTION OF FIFTEEN HUNDRED TRACTS BY MARTIN LUTHER AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES 1511 – 1598.  N. Y.  1 of 150 copies of this undated reprint.  # 79 in the Burt Franklin: Bibliography and Reference Series.  Originally No. 7 in the Bibliotheca Lindesiana publications, entitled "Collations and Notes."  Bound in maroon buckram, approx. 13 X 10 inches,  a bumped corner and the title written on the bottom edge in black ink,otherwise very good. ($85)  $35

BANCROFT LIBRARY.    INDEX TO PRINTED MAPS [2 VOLS WITH SUPPLEMENT]. G. K. Hall, Boston, 1964 – 1975.
The  second volume is entitled, "Catalog of Manuscript and Printed Maps in The Bancroft Library (A Supplement to Index to Printed Maps)."  Large volumes, each measuring 14 x 10 1/2 inches.  very good. (Seldom found as a set. It seems the other copies on offer are all either one volume or the other – not the set –although none bothers to say so.)  ($390)  $150

PULLMAN, Margaret MacDonald.  DAYS SERENE.  ILLUSTRATED FROM THE ORIGINAL DESIGNS OF MARGARET MacDONALD PULLMAN.  ENGRAVED AND PRINTED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF GEORGE T. ANDREW.  Boston:
Lee & Shepard, 1889. Publisher's pictorial cloth, an oblong 10 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches with beveled edges.  Some dampstaining to rear cover and some light soiling and wear.  Interesting exlibris of Charles L. Fifield to paste-down featuring King Alfred reading a book by fire whilst his cakes burn.  Gift inscription.  Hinge loosening.  A  good copy.
($37.50)  $15

GIBSON, Charles Dana.  LONDON.  N. Y.: Scribner, 1897.  First edition.  18 x 12 inches, cloth-backed pictorial boards.  A collection of Gibson's illustrations of London scenes and people at the turn of the last century.  Remarkably well-preserved copy of this rather scare book.  ($225)  $100

[SOCIETÉ DES AMATEURS DE JARDINS; FAUCIGNY-LUCINGE, Aymone de, Comtesse de Brantes].  LA GAZETTE ILLUSTREE DES AMATEURS DE JARDINS.  ANNEES MCMLIII-MCMLIV. [Caption title].  [Paris, 1954?].  First this edition, being an annual issue of this French gardening periodical.  Contents laid-in original printed white paper portfolio with text on front cover reading: "Comtesse de Brantes: Le Fresne."  Presentation inscription signed by the Comtesse de Brantes (with first name), on her engraved calling card, affixed to front endpaper.  Contains 7 pages of printed text, together with 12 plates mounted on leaves measuring 13 x 9.75" (same as text leaves).  The plates vary in size from approx. 10 x 7" to 11.5 x 9".  Each bears the original printed tissue guard. Ten of the plates are superb black & white photographs of the gardens and grounds of the Chateau Le Fresne, by J.P. Leloir.  The other two are photographic reproductions (also by Leloir) of early engravings.  Light soiling and 4" tear to spine of portfolio; contents are fine.  Aymone de Faucigny-Lucinge (b. 1905) was a native of Paris and the daughter of Guy de Faucigny-Lucinge and Natividad Terry.  She became the Comtesse de Brantes upon her marriage to Francois Sauvage in 1929.  Scarce.
($75)  $35

McCOY, Ralph E.  FREEDOM OF THE PRESS, AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, WITH A FOREWORD BY ROBERT B. DOWNS.
Carbondale, 1968.  Linen-backed cloth in dust wrapper, 12 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches.  Very good/very good.  Dust wrapper price-clipped and with a small closed tear repaired internally with archival tape.  Many entries, printed in triple columns.  Index.  ($60)  $30

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RESEARCH PROJECTS REPORTS.  CHECK LIST OF HISTORICAL RECORDS SURVEY PUBLICATIONS.
Washington: WPA, 1941.  Printed wraps, 10 1/2 x 8 inches.  Some marginalia in pencil.  Light sunning and age-toning.  "WPA Technical Series Research and Records Bibliography No. 4."  ($55)  $20

GUTHORN, Peter J.  AMERICAN MAPS AND MAP MAKERS OF THE REVOLUTION.  Freneau Press, 1966.  12 x 10 inches in yellow-stamped green cloth.  Illustrated with facsimiles of maps.  An excellent copy.  ($45)  $20

THOMSON, James.  THE SEASONS . . . WITH ENGRAVED ILLUSTRATIONS . . . AND WITH THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR BY PATRICK MURDOCH . . . EDITED BY BOLTON CORNEY.  London, 1842.  Full morocco with elaborately gilt-stamped border on both covers and inner dentelles.  Spine with raised bands, 6 panels with decorative gold stamping, marbled end papers.  Edges of spine rubbed.  End papers foxed.  Text and illustrations quite clean.  A very good copy overall.  ($95)  $40

RUSHDIE, Salman.  THE JAGUAR SMILE, A NICARAGUAN JOURNEY [PRINTED BROADSIDE EXCERPT].  Berkeley:
Black Oak.  n.d.  A tall printed broadside, 16 x 8 inches, on heavy paper.  The broadside consists of an excerpt from The Jaguar Smile, A Nicaraguan Journey, by Salman Rushdie, published by Elizabeth Sifton Books, Viking, 1987.  Illustration by Bob Baldock; designed by Bob Baldock and Eric Johnson; printed at the West Coast Print Center.  "This is a gift from Black Oak Books, Berkeley, on the occasion of a reading by Salman Rushdie."  The excerpt regards musings on the Nicaraguan Revolution.  Excellent condition.  ($75)  $30

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