Album of Correspondence between the Raggio School in Buenos Aires and Vocational High School in Syracuse, New York
by [manuscript album]
1930s. Hardcover. Fine. Embossed leather boards (image of a painter's palette, paintbrushes, and other tools); 300 x 350 mm; contains 16 heavy cardstock leaves, rich with tipped-on material, including folding architectural drawings (2), photographs (12), fabric specimens (8), handwritten letters in Spanish with typed English translation (20+), original paintings (a landscape, an ad), decoratively carved metal, and more. Correspondence between the Raggio School in Buenos Aires and the Vocational High School in Syracuse, New York, conducted through... Read More
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India, late-1800s to early-1900s, Writing Album. Manuscript poems, prayers, and meditations
by [manuscript album]
Very Good. India, late-1800s to early-1900s, Writing Album. Manuscript poems, prayers, and meditations. Full brown morocco over flexible boards (8.25” x 10.25”) with “Writing Album” stamped in gilt on upper board, all edges gilt; approx. pp. 150, with decorative endpapers and alternating paper colors (some white, blue, grey), nearly all of which contain handwritten entries, from numerous contributors. In English. Boards lightly scuffed along the edges; gilt a bit faded; a few leaves show some very light worming,... Read More
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Album of photo-collage Original Watercolors, Decorative Floral Borders
by [album, original artwork, watercolors, photo-collage]
likely England, c. 1875?. Hardcover. Very Good+. Full black morocco, ornate border and initials "S. M. B." gilt-stamped on boards, details gilt-stamped in spine compartments (5 raised bands); square 8vo (7.5 x 8.75 inches); contains 24 tipped-on reproductions of famous portraits and scenes (usually religious), printed in sepia or b/w, and surrounded by original watercolors (beautifully accomplished botanical borders in full-color). Corners and spine tips gently scuffed; faint waterstain at the very top edge of a... Read More
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Deux Voyages en Chine et au Japon (1927-1928), Deux Voyages en Egypte et en Syrie (1928), Trois Voyages aux Etats Unis d'Amerique [SOLD WITH] Voyage en Chine et au Japon (1929-1930), New York, Photos Diverses
by [photo album]
c. 1930s. Paperback. Very Good+. Two unique albums. (No. 1) Cloth-covered flexible boards, bound with thin black rope, typed label on inside front cover (see title); oblong 8vo (11.25 x 7.25 inches); unpaginated (approx. pp. 50), black heavy cardstock leaves with b/w photographs (silver gelatin prints) affixed with corner mounts. (No. 2) Green wraps, bound with thin green rope, typed label on inside front cover (see title); oblong 8vo (11.5 x 8 inches); unpaginated, (approx. pp.... Read More
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Early-20th Century Photo Album, Silver Prints
by [photo album]
California, 1914. Paperback. Very Good. More than 50 b/w or sepia silver prints, affixed to the recto and verso of disbound black leaves (175x134mm); photos range in size from about 10x15mm to 115x70mm, and some are captioned directly on the photo. Photographs are nicely composed, tho our amateur photographer makes occasional mistakes in focus or over/under-exposure. Occasional faint silvering, but prettily so. A fun collection of snapshots, offering a nice look at men and women's... Read More
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Tiny Album of Tiny Tin-Type Portraits
by [photo album]
19th Century. Hardcover. Very Good. Album manufactured by J. E. Tilton & Company, of Boston (as indicated by title-page). Lavishly gilt-stamped red morocco, fore-edge clasp with honeycomb pattern; 1.75-by-1.75 inches; pp. [18], heavy cardstock, with a tin-type portrait (about .75-by-.8 inches) slipped into the recto and verso of every page. Binding broken, with pages loose. A few tin-types a little rubbed, scratched, or crackled, but overall in excellent shape -- featuring men, women, and children,... Read More
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Norwegian steam ship photograph album, containing 73 photographs, 1905
by [PHOTO ALBUM]
Hardcover. Very Good. An engaging Norwegian steam ship photograph album, containing 73 photographs, albumen silver prints, 82 x 110 mm or 110 x 82 mm, June-July 1905. Taken by a Birmingham doctor during a trip from Grimsby to Tromso and Bergen aboard the polytechnic steam yacht Ceylon, accompanied by pages of his manuscript annotations and diary entries, Limp pebbled leather album, gilt, a bit rubbed, some of the photographs a little faded.The voyage of a Birmingham doctor aboard... Read More
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Student's Album of Photographs and Autographs from Eastman Business College
by [photo and autograph album]
New York, 1897. Hardcover. Fine. Black morocco, "Autographs" stamped in gilt on upper board; 164 x 200 mm; contains 55 personalized photographic stamps of students, friends, and faculty; each is signed and many include an inscription in beautiful calligraphic script, including a few in Japanese; one is annotated by the owner, Ernest G. Simon. A stock certificate from Eastman College Bank is tipped in at rear. During the 1890s, a local photographer, Charles Gallup, made a practice... Read More
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1890 Portrait Album of the Vermont Senate -- Photographs and Autograph Cards
by [photo album]
1890. Hardcover. Very Good+. Original full padded morocco, "Vermont Senate 1890" stamped in gilt on front cover, with fore-edge clasp; 4to (about 9-by-11 inches); contains 40 albumen prints (each about 4.5-by-6 inches), inserted into heavy cardstock pages, with matching autograph cards inserted below. Boards and spine lightly scuffed; rear board and tail of spine chipped. A little light spotting to photographs, but overall nice and clean. Includes the portrait and autograph of Governor Carroll... Read More
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Photo Album of a Voyage from Guernsey to Alderney
by [photo album]
1925. Hardcover. Fine. Contemporary full black morocco, simple ruled border with red floral cornerpiece decoration, "Alderney 1925" stamped in gilt on upper board; oblong, 205 x 148 mm; contains 68 original sepia photographs (150 x 100 mm), mounted to the recto and verso of every page (black leaves), with handwritten captions in white ink. Some scuffing along spine and edges of boards -- but, meh, who cares?! Record of a holiday taken by (it seems) a... Read More
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Lucerne 1906
by [photograph album]
1906. Paperback. Near Fine. Maroon heavy cardstock wraps, bound with thin maroon rope; oblong (250x143 mm); contains 19 black leaves, each with 1-3 b/w or sepia photographs (silver gelatin prints) tipped to the recto only; 35 photographs total (one of which is loosely laid-in), ranging in size from 92x42 to 75x92 mm, each labelled by hand in white ink. Each photograph is so expertly composed, exposed, printed, and mounted, that one must wonder if it's the work... Read More
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Early-20th Century Photo Album of India, Egypt, Japan & China
by [photo album]
1920s. Hardcover. Very Good+. Grey cloth over flexible boards; oblong (14x10.75 inches); contains more than 210 views by an accomplished amateur photographer, many of them hand-colored; silver prints (ranging in size from 3.5x3.5 to 3x5.25 inches), mounted 5 or 6 to the recto and verso of every page. Comprised of approximately 140 snapshots of India (native people, architectural details, religious statuary, street scenes, funerary pyres, studio portraits); 11 prints of Japan (landscapes and landmarks); 18 of Egypt... Read More
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Photo Album of Cabinet Cards, Cartes-de-Visite, and Tin-Types
by [photo album]
America, 19th Century. Hardcover. Very Good. Elaborately embossed morocco with gilt-stamped details, heavy clasp; contains 92 heavy cardstock mounts, with alternating oval and rectangular frames, accommodating 1, 2, or 4 images on each side; 86 images in all, ranging in size from 2.5-by-4 inches to 4-by-6 inches. A collection of albumen, silver gelatin, and tin-type prints -- portraits of men, women, and children (from little babies, to toddlers, to adolescents). Numerous cabinet cards printed by Walters of Rochester,... Read More
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19th-century Brown family photograph album, with scenes from India, Australia, Scotland, and England
by [photo album]
c. 1870s. Hardcover. Very Good+. 19th-century Brown family photograph album, with scenes from India, Australia, Scotland, and England. 155 vintage albumen print photographs (a few hand-colored) mounted on 27 album leaves, the majority displayed through window mounts and captioned in pencil, comprising: 136 cartes-de-visite (3-3/4 x 2-1/4 in.), 6 large format prints (approx. 7-1/4 x 9-1/2 in.), 9 cabinet card-sized prints (approx. 4 x 6 in.) and 5 smaller-sized prints (approx. 3-1/2 x 4-1/2 in.). 4to. ca. 1870s.... Read More
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Photographic Album
by [photo album]
France, c. 1916-1933. Hardcover. Near Fine. Mottled black cloth over boards, backed in black morocco; oblong 8vo, approx. 8 x 7 inches; pp. 25, with 200 sepia and b/w photographs (silver gelatins and albumens). A little scuffed along spine and edges of boards, else fine. A unique and seemingly homemade family album, containing group portraits and landscape photographs -- cute candid photographs of fat babies in little kitchen pots, women laughing and smoking, people swimming, and... Read More
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Early-20th Century Photo Album of a Cruise from Nice to Cairo
by [photo album]
c. 1906. Hardcover. Near Fine. Sheep over flexible boards; oblong 4to (352x275mm); contains 135 sepia photographs (silver prints), each about 4x5 inches, affixed to the recto and verso of black leaves (last half of text block left blank), many of them with handwritten captions beneath, in English (handsome cursive, white ink). Boards rubbed, and a little chipped and torn along the edges. Contents are fine -- photographs are nicely composed, exposed, printed, and preserved, with a... Read More
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Photo Album of Journey to Egypt, Sri Lanka, India, Singapore, Penang, Shanghai, Japan, and California
by [photo album]
early 1900s. Hardcover. Very Good+. Black leather over flexible boards; oblong (about 14.5-by-11 inches); containing approx. 250 mounted b/w or sepia silver gelatin photographs (usually many per page), ranging in size from about 2-by-3 inches to 6-by-9 inches, and including 33 lovely panoramas, about 12-by-4 inches. Boards rubbed and scuffed; front hinge cracked. This one-of-a-kind album records a long journey from the Port Said in Egypt to Aden, Sri Lanka, Jaipur, Agra, Rajasthan and Darjeeling in... Read More
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Early Twentieth Century Photo Album, Containing Cabinet Cards and Cartes-de-visite
by [photo album]
likely France, early 1900s. Hardcover. Very Good+. Alligator in metal-framed boards, with heavy fore-edge clasp (though the album is way too full to dream of closing), all edges marbled, inside gilt dentelles; 6.5 x 8 inches; contains 25 heavy cardstock leaves, with either one or two inserts on the recto and verso, accomodating cabinet cards and cartes-de-visite. Nearly full, with just a few empty inserts, for a grand total of 10 cabinet cards and 75 cartes-de-visite (sepia... Read More
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Album of Cyanotypes and Silver Prints of Cornell University and Ithaca, New York
by [photo album]
1898-1905. Hardcover. Very Good+. Half morocco and gilt-lettered black cloth; oblong (290x182mm); contains 550 cyanotypes and 100 silver prints, carefully arranged, and mounted to the recto and verso of 42 heavy cardstock leaves. Various sizes, average is about 3x4 inches, and smaller; many with handwritten captions. Spine perished; boards and leaves chipped along the edges. Images are fine. A rich volume, demonstrating photography's popularity at the turn-of-the-last century, and an amateur's love of... Read More
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Late-Nineteenth Century Photograph Album, Portraits, Albumen and (Early) Silver Gelatin Prints
by [photo album]
America, late-19th century. Hardcover. Near Fine. Photograph album produced by F. Heppenheimer of 22 N. William Street, New York, with "The Photographic Album" printed in red an gold on the title page. Ornately blindstamped tan morocco, "Album" stamped in gilt on spine, two fore-edge clasps, a.e.g; 12mo (5 x 6 inches); contains a printed page for "Index to Portraits" (left blank, except for one pencilled name, Norman Anderson) and 20 heavy cardstock leaves, each with a photographic... Read More
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European Travel photo album
by [photo album]
France, Italy, and (possibly) Spain, c. 1910. Hardcover. Near Fine. Full green leatherette; 4to (198 x 268 mm); contains 92 platinum prints (116 x 92 mm), each inserted into window mounts on recto and verso of heavy leaves. Only two include handwritten captions in the lower margin, "Harbour St. Jean de Luz." Accomplished amateur album depicting sites in France, Italy, and possibly Spain, including typical tourist destinations (castles, abbeys, ecclesiastical interiors, hilltop towns, formal gardens, and more).... Read More
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Carte de Visite Photograph Album of the Members of the Royal Families of Europe
by [photo album]
1868. Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth-backed album with wooden boards, upper board carved with a scene of a hunting dog and rifle in a woodland setting, brass clasps, a. e. g.; oblong 8vo, (160 x 240 mm); 25 heavy cardstock leaves, with two sepia albumen prints mounted to the recto and verso, labeled by handdated 1866-68 throughout. 100 photographs total. Spine rebacked, worn; inner hinges split resulting in detached. Photographs are nicely composed, exposed, and printed, and internally in... Read More
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Album of Original Pencil Drawings, Portraits of Women Attributed to Pierre-Louis Henri Grevedon
by [album of original drawings]; [Grevedon, Pierre-Louis Henri (French, 1776-1860)]; [De Haven, Franklin (American, 1856-1934)]; [Hoe, Robert]
n.p.: n.p., n.d.. Hardcover. Near Fine. Full chestnut morocco, boards and spine ornately stamped in gilt and blind, including "Grevedon" in blind, and "F.H." in gilt, on upper board; oblong 8vo (305x235mm); contains 21 original pencil drawings, each about 90x140mm, mounted to the recto only, one per leaf. Undated, but likely drawn in the late-18th or early-19th century (tho they could be as late as mid-19th); a pencilled notation on the FFEP indicates that the artist is Pierre-Louis... Read More
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Mid-Nineteenth Century German Scrapbook, Containing Numerous Die-Cuts, Moving Parts, Embroidery, Origami, and Other Ephemera
by [scrapbook; album]
likely Germany, c. 1850-65. Hardcover. Very Good+. Mottled black cloth over boards; 4to (8x10 inches); approx. pp. 100, heavy cardstock leaves on cloth stubs, rich with ephemera, either tipped direct to the page, or in corner mounts (and therefore removable). Cloth split along joints, with binding just a little bit shaken. Internally bright and clean -- colors pop! Lavish, varied, and lovely, this rather extraordinary album contains intricate hand-colored engravings and examples of folded printing (18th... Read More
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Art Deco Scrapbook of Playing Cards and other ephemera
by [scrapbook; album]
circa 1930s. Hardcover. Very Good+. Boards, backed in decorative paper, with illustration mounted to upper board; 4to (7.25 x 10.75 inches); approx. pp. 150, with numerous playing cards tipped to the recto and verso of most pages, and a miscellany of ephemera occupying the rest (about one-third). Boards a bit rubbed and scuffed; spine lightly chipped; contents nice and bright. The colorful variety of playing cards is the highlight of this album, offering art deco designs,... Read More
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