America / Latin America / North America / USA / Canada – Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876)

North America – with Vignettes and illustrations of Cossacks, Esquimaux [sic] Inuit Dog-Sledge, Mount Hekla, Beavers, Falls of Niagara, Convoy of Diamonds, Ancient Monument in Mexico, North American Indians, Wapiti Dear.

London & New York, J & F. Tallis, 1851. Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. Plate Size: 24.2 cm x 35.4 cm. Sheet Size: 27.4 cm x 37.5 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition.

America / USA – Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876)

United States [of America] with Vignettes and illustrations of the Buffalo Hunt, Penn’s Treaty with the Indians, Washington’s Monument, Portraits of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin and a very early depiction of the american flag.

London & New York, J & F. Tallis, 1851. Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. Plate Size: 32.8 cm x 24.6 cm. Sheet Size: 37.5 cm x 27.4 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition. Beautifully Framed !

Cohen, Barbara / Heller, Steven / Chwast, Seymour.

Trylon and Perisphere – The New York World’s Fair.

New York, Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1989. Octavo. 80 pages with amazing illustrations throughout the publication. One double – page of the publication shows a Map of the Fairground. Original, illustrated Softcover. Excellent, FINE condition.

Goin, Peter / Blesse, Robert E.

Stopping Time. A Rephotographic Survey of Lake Tahoe. Essay by C.Elizabeth Raymond.

Albuquerque, Universityof New Mexico Press, 1992. 4°. 134 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Private giftinscription on front free endpaper with greeting card inserted. Rare !

Guralnick, Peter.

Sweet soul music. Rhythm and blues and the Southern dream of freedom.

London, MOJO, 2002. 15.5 x 23.5 cm. 438 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Hirschfeld, Albert (″Al”).

The American Theatre as seen by Hirschfeld.

First Ediiton. New York, George Braziller, 1961. Oblong-Quarto. [254 pages]. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition of the volume itself with only minor signs of wear. The rare dustjacket with very few minor tears and one small piece of the jacket (1 inch) missing). All illustrations in stunning condition. Beautiful publication.

Kennedy, John F.

Dämme gegen die Flut: Reden und Erklärungen. Herausgegeben von John W. Gardner.

Frankfurt am Main / Hamburg, Fischer Bücherei, 1964. 10,5 x 18cm. 189 Seiten. Originale Broschur. Sehr guter Zustand. [Fischer Bücherei, Nr. 620].

Philadelphia – Geissler, Paul. (1881 – 1965).

Philadelphia – Arch of City Hall looking out on Market Street.

1928. Original Etching. Beautifully Framed. Size of frame with etching: 55 cm high x 47 cm wide. Size of actual etching: c. 38 cm x 46 cm. The etching is signed in the plate and also signed and titled in length by Paul Geissler in pencil. The german art critic Richard Braungart placed Geissler “among the german masters of landscape and architectural etching” / Excellent condition (mounted) and framed. Frame with minor signs of wear only. Price includes international shipping, framed and insured, per courier (3-5 working days guaranteed delivery).

Tansill, Charles Callan.

America and the fight for Irish freedom, 1866-1922 / An old story based upon new data.

New York, Devin-Adair, 1957. 22cm. xi, 489 pages. With 8 pages of plates. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear and fraying to the jacket.

Vallarta, El C. Ignacio L. / Avila, Eleuterio /

Memoria que en cumplimiento del Precepto Constitucional Presentó al Congreso de la Union en el primer periodo de sus Sesiones el C. Ignacio L. Vallarta (Secretario de Estado y del Despacho de Relaciones Exteriores) / Bound with Appendix I (Anexo I): Anexo al Informe del Agente de Mexico ante la Comision de Reclamaciones (Reclamaciones de D. Jorge L. Hammeken) / Bound with Appendix II (Anexo II): Comision Mixta de Reclamaciones de Mexico y Los Estados-Unidos. Thaddeus Amat, Obispo de Monterey, y Joseph S. Alemany, Arzobispo de San Francisco, Con Mexico //

Mexico, Imprenta de Gonzalo A . Esteva, 1878. Folio. XXVI, 197 pages / Indice I: 17 pages / Indice II: 35 pages / Indice III: 17 pages / Indice IV: 2 pages / Appendix / Anexi: 291 pages. Original Hardcover (half leather). Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Cancelled from the University of London Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, this rare publication was bequeathed to the University from the library of Charles Henry Huberich.