![Pencil Sketch after Britton & Rey California Pictorial Letter Sheet]. California, Pictorial...](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1475.jpg?v=1612531147)
[Medway, Ma.? ca. 1850s]. Pencil sketch on heavy paper, with faint tempera highlights. Image measuring 7.5 x 11.5 inches on a sheet 8.25 x 13 inches. Light dust soiling and faint foxing. Evenly tanned. A skilled contemporary pencil sketch after a classic California Gold Rush pictorial letter sheet by San..... More
Milwaukee: 1883. Chromolithograph, 16 x 19.75 inches. Lightly backed, repairs to small losses at edges and corners. Lower edge with several closed tears, not affecting image; paper a bit crisp. Later color added to flags. Chromolithograph depicting the public execution of thirty-eight Dakota Indians following the end of the Dakota..... More
New York: L.W. Ahrens Co., [ca. 1885?]. Chromolithograph, 21.5 x 28 inches. Matted. Minor wear, soiling, and a couple of modern pencil annotations at lower corners. A fine image of a proposed railroad bridge across the Hudson River, just north of Peekskill, New York. Plans to build a bridge over..... More
New York: Grolier Club, 1915. xxi,120,[1]pp. Small folio. Original blue boards with linen spine, gilt leather label. Spine worn, label chipped, moderately dampstained. Light wear to boards and corners. Mostly clean internally, with some light foxing to gutter of first few leaves and some very faint dampstaining to edges of..... More
Brooklyn: Douglass Howell, 1958. [20] leaves, comprised of a title page, eighteen plates, and colophon leaf. Publisher’s brown morocco, gilt, in the original slipcase. Negligible wear. Copy one of sixty, signed by the artist. This handsome little book is comprised of a letterpress title page and colophon, as well as..... More
New York: Baker, Godwin & Co., 1853. 16pp. Original printed wrappers, rear cover lacking. Contemporary ownership inscription on front cover. Lightly creased, some light foxing and soiling. Description of William H. Powell’s famous painting of De Soto from the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, published in conjunction with the completion of the..... More