Titles starting with C from Margolis & Moss

Cairo: Groppi, 1962. Folding colored map of Cairo, measuring 14 x 19 1/4 inches. Folding into pictorial printed wrappers, 7 1/4 x 5 inches. A fine, bright copy On verso of map are various advertisements. ... more information

Rogersville, Tennessee: Re-published by C. Armstrong, 1827. 309 pages + index. 8 1/4 x 5 inches. Bound in printed boards from an 1830 edition, with a cloth spine; original wrappers bound-in; covers rubbed. Stated "Second edition - abridged." A southern Presbyterian publication, written and edited by James Gallaher, Frederick A. Ross, and David Nelson. It was printed from 1827 to 1830 and again from 1845 to 1850. An uncommon periodical, surprisingly not listed in Mott's HISTORY OF A... more information

Cambridge, (1927). 11 pages. Two illustrations from photographs. Twelvemo, printed wrappers. Description of the school and a five-page list of graduates. ... more information

(Mexico, Circa 1900. 33 unnumbered pages of lithographed music from manuscript. Octavo, 9 x 6 inches. Calf backed boards with leather labels; soiling to title page (probably the original cover). The author most likely is Marcelino Davalos (1871 - 1923), lawyer and politician, but also writer of poetry, plays and other literary properties. <p> <p> ... more information

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, (1971). 170 pages. Illustrated form engravings. 8vo, cloth with dust jacket First ediiton. Mrs. Merry first appeared on the English stage at age sixteen and after only three years was being favorably compared with the famed Sarah Siddons. She came to the Chestnut Street Theater in Philadelphia in 1796, only two years after its formation, and through her portraits of Shakespearean heroines, as well as roles in sentimental comedy and in tragedy, she soon became ... more information

New York: Henry Hold and Co., 1922. 160 pages + ads. 8vo, beige cloth; minor wear to cover; presentation to Kate Napier from a "Tusculum College student. Second printing of the first series of plays, soon to expand to four volumes. "These collections represent the work of student playwrights at the University of North Carolilna, in Professor Koch's course in play writing and production." BAKER p. 224. ... more information

Lugano: A. Trub & C. Aarau, circa 1930. Folding colored contour map showing the lake region north of Milan. The map measures 13 x 23 and folds to a colored cover 6 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches. In fine condition. ... more information

Belfort: J.-B. Schmitt, (1913). A map measuring 23 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches, folding into printed wrappers 7 x 4 1/2 inches. A fine, bright map. A 1913 revision of an 1896 map. Belfort is in Eastern France, near the Swiss border. ... more information

Stuttgart: Karl Goepel, circa 1857. Large foldingl map, with outline coloring and measuring 22 1/2 x 26 1/2 inches. Folding into printed boards, 8 x 4 1/2 inches. Boards stained. Text in German and French. A previous owner noted several places visited and signed and dated this map 1857. ... more information

Santo Domingo, 1980. 275 pages. Text in Spanish and English. Profusely illustrated from photographs, many in color. Quarto (11 x 8 1/2 inches); leatherette + fine dust jacket. With an ink inscription from a previous owner. ... more information

Circa 1920.. Eight pages of text and a large folding map measuring 33 x 27 inches, folding into printed wrappers, 7 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches. An attractive city map printed in red, green and black. The map depicts "street car lines, wards, house numbers; including sites of all parks, solders' home, cemeteries, rivers, steam and electrical railways, the new city limits, bus lines, state highways, etc... ... more information

London: Mrs. F. Nevill Jackson, circa 1920. 32 pages. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. Printed blue wrappers; one corner chipped on cover. Mrs. Jackson, having acquired a folio volume containing the artist's personal examples, created a small industry reproducing his English and American silhouettes. ... more information

Pawtucket, R.I.: Narragansett Machine Co., 1930. 162 pages. Profusely illustrated. Octavo, printed wrappers. Laid in is a price list for 1931. ... more information

Bruxelles: Galerie Ghemar, 1875. 87 pages. Attractively illustrated with 11 albumen photographs by Ghemar Frères, mostly 5 x 8 inches (127 x 203 mm.) on stiff mounts. Quarto, 11 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches (292 x 191 mm.). Printed wrappers. An attractive catalog of 2,456 lots. Shown in the photographs are 121 oriental vases, bowls, jars, and figurative ceramics. The photographers credit themselves as "Ghemar Frères, Photographes du Roi" and have been called "the most famous portrait stu... more information

Lawrence, Kansas: H. A. Cutler, 1886. 11 pages + advertisements. 8 3/4 x 6 inches. Printed green wrappers; small stain to cover and small tear to rear wrapper. Hesper Academy, a Quaker school, was charted in Hesper, Kansas in 1884. This catalog listing the faculty and students of the first class, which graduated in 1887. The school closed in 1912 (or 1914). The community continued to use the building until it was sold for $300 in 1939. Dr. Sam Robinson, Kansas City, tore down the building and used the lum... more information

New York: The Hispanic Society of America, 1911. 151 pages. Illustrated from photographs. Octavo, 7 3/4 x 5 inches; later red cloth. With the signature of "Wm. Campbell, Oct., 1946. Cambridge." A fine copy. First edition of this important collection of 169 pieces, dating from 1660 to the nineteenth century. "Recent investigations have resulted in the discovery that true stanniferous faience was made in Mexico by Spanish potters and their native pupils as early as the sixteenth century... more information

283 pages. This copy is illustrated with 33 mounted woodburytypes, 7 ½ x 4 ¾ inches (191 x 121 mm.), by an unknown photographer. Royal octavo, 10 ¼ x 6 ½ inches (260 x 165 mm.). Quarter calf, a very fine copy, with prices realized in margins. Auction catalogues such as the above offer insight into provenance and the movement of art throughout the world. As an example, the National Gallery of Art (Washington) has a painting by Sir Peter Paul Rubens titled "Daniel in the Lio... more information

London: Christie, Manson & Woods, 1882. 234 pages. With 77 carbon prints, 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches (191 x 114 mm.), by J. Craig Annan. Octavo, 9 3/4 x 6 inches (241 x 152 mm.). Gilt-printed red cloth; professionally re-backed and with new endpapers. The Duke of Hamilton's sale was a major auction of the late 19th century. The entire collection, 2,213 lots, divided into five portions, took fifteen days to disperse and brought £397,000. Remarkable items changed hands - paintings by Cranach, Holbein... more information

Lawrence, Kansas: Haskell Institute, 1922. Illustrated from photographs. Quarto, 10 x 7 inches; covers soiled. A scarce pamphlet, but our copy has pages 7-12 and the last pages after 48 crudely removed. The catalogue belonged to Eulalia Lucero from Isleta Pueblo, New Mexico, while she was a student at the Indian School, Albuquerque. ... more information

New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1894. 24,[24],[10] pages. 9 x 6 inches. Printed wrappers; spine chipped. Listing of hundreds of late 19th century scientific, military and navel publications. ... more information