Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827 -- Portraits; George, Saint, d. 303; Diogenes, d. ca. 323 B.C; Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 -- Portraits; Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge; Raphael (Archangel);...
Includes "28 Heliotype illustrations from a number of methods, each designed to highlight various applications of the process...This book was prepared in conjunction with Osgood's display at the Centennial in Philadelphia. All of the plates are...
Shipping; Clark, Robert Sterling, 1877-1956 -- Correspondence -- Manuscripts; Sowerby, Arthur de Carle, 1885-1954 -- Correspondence -- Manuscripts;
Letter from Robert Sterling Clark in New York City to Arthur de Carle Sowerby in which Clark instructs Sowerby to have items such as wine, tents, and horse tackle shipped back to France and the United States. He also states that he's enclosing a...
One of "120 three-color Half-tone illustrations from photographs of stuffed birds. Plates by the Chicago Colortype Co., Chicago, Ill...This undertaking was the most ambitious three-color work to this date. These plates were also some of the most...
China--Politics and government--1912-1928; Budgets, Personal; Cost and standard of living; Tianjin (China); Foreign exchange rates; Zhejiang Sheng (China)--History; Hebei Sheng (China)--History; Anfu Xian (China)--History; Jiangsu Sheng...
Letter from Arthur de Carle Sowerby in China to Robert Sterling Clark in which Sowerby acknowledges and thanks Clark for the 400 pounds he's sent. He apologizes for the "over-vehement" tone of his previous letter, but insists that the former...
China--History--May Thirtieth movement, 1925; Shanghai (China). Municipal Police; Shanghai (China : International Settlement); Communism--China; Zhongguo guo min dang; Child labor; Shanghai (China)--History--20th century; China--Politics and...
Letter from Arthur de Carle Sowerby in China to Robert Sterling Clark in which Sowerby provides a long treatise on current events in Shanghai in China, in particular the circumstances leading up to a protest during which Shanghai police fired on a...
Jacquard, Joseph-Marie, 1752-1834; Abbās I, Shah of Iran, 1571-1629; Rugs, Oriental
Author's armorial book-plate reproduced on t.-p. Ornamental lining-papers. Each colored plate accompanied by leaf with descriptive letterpress. Includes index. Bibliography: p. [387]-401. Allegory.--Contemporary arts.--Carpets, runners and...
Publisher's advertisements bound in at end of volume. Rest of title page: by Mrs Pullan, (aiguillette,) author of "The manual of the wardrobe," "The court partial," "Maternal counsels," etc; editor of "The London review" and "The London and Paris...
Through Shen-Kan is the account of a 1908-09 expedition to the Shensi and Kansu provinces of northern China. The expedition was funded by Robert Sterling Clark, one of the heirs to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune. Clark was joined by the...
"Single sheet...Advertisement for a series of 6 albertypes on 11 x 14 paper. Though not the plates themselves, this item, along with the other Hooper published items in this collection shows how much the railroad used photography as a sales...
Includes "2 Artotype illustrations, 1 a portrait and 1 a collage of many photographic images. By Harroun & Bierstadt, 58 & 60 Reade St., NYC."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 66
Photomechanical processes -- History -- 19th century; Photography -- History -- 19th century; Crystal Palace (London, England); Chateau de Fontainebleau (Fontainebleau, France); Musee du Louvre; Sculpture, Medieval -- France -- Reims; Notre-Dame de...
"...20 plates: 3 salt prints (La Parnasse, Raphael; Le Concert de Famille; La Kaire, planche 7), 1 heliogravure of Cardinal Amboise by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, 1 photolithograph of sculpture, Procede Poitevin, 2 photolithographs from art, Zurcher...
Printing -- Periodicals; Printing industry -- Periodicals; International Printing Pressmen's Union of North America; Boston Typographical Union, No. 13 (now Local 13)
"Four specimen Half-tones by various companies, [plus] others in the text and 1 in an ad. Prints by J.E. Mangan Printing Co., Blomgren Brothers & Co., Chicago, J. Manz & Co., Chicago, Crosscup & West, Phila., Moss Eng., NY. These trade publications...
Coal-tar colors; Calico-printing; Dyes and dyeing; International Exhibition (1861 : London, England)
Includes mounted specimens of cloth. Included are textile samples from Wood and Wright, Calico printers and bleachers, Manchester (England); Edward Schunck and Simon Pincoffs, dye chemists, Manchester (England); E. Brooke and Co., dye chemists,...
Three volumes paged continuously. "Bibliographie": v. 3, [565]-567. Rest of title: t. 1. Bijouterie, bagues, bracelets, boucles d'oreilles, bijoux en acier & en fonte de Berlin, boutons, châtelaines, cachets, pommes de cannes, éventails, miroirs,...
Newman and Levinson -- Catalogs; Clothing and dress -- Catalogs; Consumer goods -- Catalogs; Department stores -- California -- San Francisco -- Catalogs; Knitting;
Cover title. With this is bound [How to use the celebrated Florence knitting silk / Nonotuck Silk Company, 1881]
