5 lettersheets with lithograph vignettes, Including: "Central Park Scenery, New York" (16 vignettes of the Park hand coloured); "Norfolk, Portsmouth, VA."; "North East View of the Capitol at Washington, with the New Extension" (hand colored); United-States Firemen" (hand coloured); and "Deutsche Friedensfeste in Amerika
by Magnus, Charles (1826-1900)
- Used
- Condition
- Mostly fine. Provenance: Estate of James and Katherine Abbe, Long Island, New York
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Magnus, 61 Bowery. Most bifoliums. 4to (Largest 21" x 9-1/2" unfolded). Mostly fine. Provenance: Estate of James and Katherine Abbe, Long Island, New York. Most bifoliums. 4to (Largest 21" x 9-1/2" unfolded). A lovely group of lettersheets by Charles Magnus, entirely typical of his output. Lettersheets were a convenient and thrifty form of stationery in an era which postage was calculated on the number of sheets used. Folded in half, these four pages were charged as a single page.
Charles Magnus emigrated to New York with his family in the late 1840s. His older brother published the weekly German language newspaper, Deutsche Schnellpost, and it was there that Charles learned the trade, eventually going out on his own. In the guises of a publisher, map dealer, bookseller and stationer, he issued more than a thousand pieces of illustrated stationery - lettersheets, envelopes, song sheets, as well as prints - usually copying the work from other sources without attribution, sometimes altering the images slightly. He continued to use lithography and hand-coloring long after other publishers turned to photomechanical reproduction processes.
Charles Magnus emigrated to New York with his family in the late 1840s. His older brother published the weekly German language newspaper, Deutsche Schnellpost, and it was there that Charles learned the trade, eventually going out on his own. In the guises of a publisher, map dealer, bookseller and stationer, he issued more than a thousand pieces of illustrated stationery - lettersheets, envelopes, song sheets, as well as prints - usually copying the work from other sources without attribution, sometimes altering the images slightly. He continued to use lithography and hand-coloring long after other publishers turned to photomechanical reproduction processes.
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- Bookseller
- James Cummins Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 300751
- Title
- 5 lettersheets with lithograph vignettes, Including: "Central Park Scenery, New York" (16 vignettes of the Park hand coloured); "Norfolk, Portsmouth, VA."; "North East View of the Capitol at Washington, with the New Extension" (hand colored); United-States Firemen" (hand coloured); and "Deutsche Friedensfeste in Amerika
- Author
- Magnus, Charles (1826-1900)
- Format/Binding
- Most bifoliums. 4to (Largest 21" x 9-1/2" unfolded)
- Book Condition
- New Mostly fine. Provenance: Estate of James and Katherine Abbe, Long Island, New York
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Charles Magnus, 61 Bowery
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Keywords
- Americana
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
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About the Seller
James Cummins Bookseller
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New York, New York
About James Cummins Bookseller
Founded in 1978 by James Cummins, the firm has grown to include two New Jersey locations as well as the main store at 699 Madison Avenue (between 62nd and 63rd Streets) in New York City.Hours: Monday - Friday 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (During July & August, until 4:00 p.m. on Fridays.)The Madison Avenue store is a seventh-floor oasis for book-lovers, a quiet and pleasantly furnished book room with a carefully chosen, expertly catalogued and broad-based selection of fine and rare books, autographs, manuscripts, and works of art. We have built notable private collections for American and international clients. Our stock is always changing, and our steady input from private buying and public auctions assures our clients of new surprises (and temptations!) at each visit. Our stock covers a wide range of collecting interests, with particular emphasis in the following fields: British and American Literature, Sporting Books, Private Press and Illustrated Books, 19th-Century Color Plate Books, Americana, Travel, Sets and Fine Bindings, History, and Authors' Manuscripts and Letters. Our catalogued inventory exceeds 50,000 titles, much of which can be searched on the internet. In addition, our New Jersey warehouse contains over 400,000 books in all subject areas. We might have the books you're looking for.
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