Search Results: Titles starting with G from Howard S. Mott, Inc

VERY LARGE COLORED LITHOGRAPHED SHAKER CHART
[SHAKER BIBLICAL CHART]. SKEEN, Jacob, Louisville, Kentucky. Genealogical, Chronological and Geographical Chart embracing Biblical and Profane History of Ancient Times from Adam to Christ. Two (2) Large Folio colored lithographed sheets in 6 colors, 86 x 65cm; 31 1/4 x 45 3/4" (image size inside decorative border). Louisville, KY: Publishers & Propritors: Skeen Chart Co., Limited; Jacob Skeen, Louisville, Ky...Benjamin Gates, Mt. Lebanon, N.Y., M. B. Carter, Union Village, Ohio...Louisville, Ky. Kentucky Lith. & Printing Co., 1887.
"These huge lithograph color sheets depict genealogical charts from Adam to Jesus Christ and other genealogical charts of Biblical characters. The chronology dates from 4004 B. C. to 100 A. D. Four maps show the Eastern and Western hemispheres, 19th century Europe, the location of the tribes of Israel, Russia, and the Near East. Extensive tables give dates, Biblical references, prophecies, miracles and parables, etc. An… Read More

WALLACE, Alfred Russel. The Geographical Distribution of Animals. With a study of the relation of the living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes in the Earth's surface. With Maps and Illustrations. 2 vols., original pictorial gilt stamped green cloth, pp. [xxiv], 503; [xii], 607, [1] blank, [2] ads + 7 colored maps, 3 folding or double-page & 20 plates. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1876.
First American Edition. Acquired from a private collection. An excellent copy of an important book by one of the leading evolutionary thinkers of the 19th century. A foundational work of zoogeography. "To those more interested in facts, than in theories this book will serve as kind of a dictionary of the geography and affinities of animals. By means of the copious index, the native country, the systematic position, and the numerical extent of every important and well established genus of land-animal may be at once discovered..."-Wood, p. 617. With neat 1877 pencil… Read More

GEORGE II BANISHES THE PRINCE OF WALES FROM HAMPTON COURT: A CONTEMPORARY MANUSCRIPT APPARENTLY IN WALPOLE'S HAND
GEORGE II, King of Great Britain (1683-1760). [WALPOLE, Sir Robert]. Contemporary MS copy of George II's famous letter to his son, Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales (1707-1751), throwing him out of St. James's Palace over the birth of a granddaughter. 1 1/2 pp., folio, with integral blank, entitled, "The King's Letter." Hampton Court 10th Sept. 1737.
The letter was drafted by John, Lord Hervey (see, Memoirs,
807-808 & altered and amended by Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Oxford 1676-1745). This copy appears to be in Walpole's hand. Frederick had not given his parents, George II and Queen Caroline, "the least intimation..that the Princess was with Child...," and the suspicion was that a fraud was intended. "On the evening of 31 July 1737, while the royal family was residing at Hampton Court, Augusta went into labour. Despite… Read More

[WASHINGTON, George]. George Washington Commandant en chef des Armees des Etat unis de l'Amerique. Line engraving by Noel Pruneau, 9 1/2 x 6 7/8". Full bust, in uniform. Paris [177-?]. "Extremely rare."-Baker (1880) #29. Very scarce. A Beautiful impression."-William Loring Andrews Collection, sale, April 18, 1921, #407, which is the last copy to appear at auction. Hart 94. Cresswell 211. WE HAVE A SELECTION OF 18TH CENTURY REVOLUTIONARY WAR PRINTS OF AMERICAN, ENGLISH AND FRENCH OFFICERS. INQUIRIES WELCOME.

1831 GIBRALTAR PRINTED HORSE RACING BROADSIDE ON SATIN
[GIBRALTAR]. [HORSE RACING]. Gibraltar Garrison Races. Tuesday 3d May, 1831. To Start at Half-Past One O'Clock. Small 4to broadside on yellow satin, 9 ¾ x 6 3/8", edges fringed. [Gibraltar: 1831].
The day's program, and a very rare souvenir of early horse racing at the British garrison of Gibraltar. "I cannot find any record of any formal horse racing on the isthmus or elsewhere in the Campo arc prior to 1765, but the enormous popularity of the Calpe Hunt which established itself as a major institution in Gibraltar in the very early 19th century will undoubtedly have led to impromptu races from time to time and may have been the catalyst for organizing a more formal approach to racing. As early as 1838, Charles Rochfort Scott, a Royal Artillery officer stationed in Gibraltar, was singing the praises of horse racing on the Rock…From this one might gather that formal racing probably did not begin until after… Read More

UNRECORDED 1877 HIRAYAMA JINTA BROADSIDE OF A "GRAND FIREWORKS DISPLAY" TO CELEBRATE THE EMPEROR'S BIRTHDAY, THE FIRST SUCH CELEBRATION TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED BY RESIDENT FOREIGNERS
JINTA, Hirayama. Grand Display of Fireworks, at the Public Garden, Swamp Concession, Yokohama, on Saturday, November 3rd, 1877...Hirayama Jinta. Pyrotechnist, No. 68, Otamachi Shichômé, Yokohama. Folio broadside, double-column, 13 1/4 x 9". [Yokohama: 1877]. On March 25, 2012, the government of Japan sponsored a revival of Jinta's daylight fireworks display at the opening of the National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D. C., to celebrate the Japan-US Cherry Blossom Centennial, part of Japan's "Japan Next Campaign" to showcase earthquake recovery, and gratitude. We quote from the 2012 press release as published in businesswire: "11:30-12:30 March 25-Revival of Daylight Fireworks...Mr. Jinta Hirayama's daylight firework is patented in US in 1883. It was 1st… Read More

[?HYDE, Robert Wilson, artist]. The Guest Book. Oblong folio, Full green morocco [by Robert Hyde?] (front cover pleasantly faded to brown at edges), elaborate inner gilt dentelles, green moire end papers, a.e.g. N.p., n.d. [Santa Barbara? ca. 1902-1910?]. There is no indication here as to the identity of the binder, the artist, or the date and place of printing, although it resembles the work of Hyde, a member of the Santa Barbara arts and crafts movement. The preliminary illustrations are medieval in nature,a specialty of Hyde's. We know Hyde produced one-of-a-kind volumes including a Guest Book. Nonetheless, all we have is supposition. Whatever its origins, this is a beautiful piece of work, inside and out.

EKKENSTEIN, Jean.
Guide de la ville de Dresden, ou tableau topographique de la capitale de Saxe et voyage pittoresque de ses environs. On y a joint un nouveau Plan de Dresde et une Carte des Environs.
16mo, original blue-green boards (rebacked with cloth; corners mildly rubbed), original printed paper label, folding engraved frontispiece, pp. xvi, 268, [4] + folding Plan & folding Map. Dresden and Leipzic: Arnold Libraire, 1832.
First Edition of a scarce tourist guidebook to a famous city. Of course, most of what is described here is no more as Dresden was virtually destroyed by Allied bombing in March, 1945. The author was a professor of French and English in Zittau and Dresden. Armorial bookplate of James Whatman, Jr., M.A., F. R. S., F. S. A, of Vintners, near Maidstone, graduated Eton, then Oxford, M. A., in 1838, liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons… Read More