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Art, Prints, Engravings
03732-M0595CUEE-
GRAND REVIEW IN WASHINGTON BY LINCOLN & McCLELLAN, HARPER’S WEEKLY.
Original 19th Century Woodcut. Delicately hand colored.
16” x 22”. $83.00
03730-M0595CUEE-
Original 19th Century Woodcut- HOOKER’S BATTLE ABOVE THE CLOUDS, LOOKOUT
MOUNTAIN, HARPER’S WEEKLY. Original
19th Century woodcut. Delicately hand colored. 16” x 22”. $64.00
03729-M0595CUEE-
ADVANCE OF FEDERAL TROOPS ON CORINTH, HARPER’S WEEKLY. Original 19th
Century woodcut. Delicately hand colored.
16” x 22”. $80.00
03726-M0595CCHO-
HORSESHOEING IN THE ARMY, HARPER’S WEEKLY. Original 19th
Century woodcut. Delicately hand
colored. 11-1/2” x 16”. $50.00
03727-M0595CCHO-
RETURN OF A FORAGING PARTY, HARPER’S WEEKLY. Original 19th Century
woodcut. Delicately hand colored. 11-1/2”
x 16”.$40.00
03728-M0595CCHO-
CAMP ZAGONYI, HARPER’S WEEKLY. Original
19th Century woodcut. Delicately hand colored. 11-1/2” x 16”.. $40.00
04849-M1195EKCU-
19th Century Woodcut- CHICHESTER'S COTTON-PACKER. Original large front
cover page from March 3, 1860
Scientific American. Woodcut and approximately 12 column inches of text. Great
for display. Excellent condition. 9-1/2” x 13-1/2". $28.00
02672-M1094LEEE- Woodcut- FORT SANDERS COLLEGE/VIEW OF KNOXVILLE FROM KEITH'S HILLS. Nov 1863. Hand colored. Very good condition. 10” x 16". $40.00
05754-M0397CUHH-
Journal- HARPER'S WEEKLY, A JOURNAL OF CIVILIZATION, Vol. VII, No..320, Feb
14, 1863. Great Civil War issue. Large woodcuts throughout. Huge center
spread of "Fruitless Attempt
Of The Army Of The Potomac To Move Toward The Rappahannock On 20th January,
1863." Edges worn and evenly age-toned. Woodcuts eminently displayable.
11-1/2" x 16-1/2" x 16pp.
$80.00
04864-M0695EOUC-
HARPER'S WEEKLY: A JOURNAL
OF CIVILIZATION, NY.
Oct 6, 1866. Much of this
entire issue is devoted to Methodists: 1)
Front page--"A Centennial Song" by Rev. Geo. Lansing Taylor, M.A.
Approximately 22-1/2" of text and four woodcuts-- Philip Embury's House
in which first Methodist Sermon was preached in NY, 1766. Strawbridge Meeting
House, MD 1766. The Rigging Loft occupied as preaching-place by the Methodists
in NY in 1766. The First Methodist Church And Parsonage in NY, 1768.
2) Page 2 has
"Centenary Of Methodism"-- 28 column inches of text. 3)
Pg 5--Large woodcut of "The Rev. William Arthur, Pres of Wesleyan
Methodist Conference, England" w/11 column inches of text. 4)
Full center spread of "Distinguished Men Of Methodism". Woodcuts
from photographs by Brady, Hallett & Others. 5)
Pg 10- The Centenary Of American Methodism -42 column inches of text. Much
else on other subjects included in issue also. Previously bound, surprisingly
well preserved. Fantastic engravings! 11” x 16” x 16pp.
$65.00
04848-M0496CLHL- 19th Century Woodcut- COTTON TEAM IN NORTH CAROLINA. Original large page from May 12, 1866 HARPER'S WEEKLY. Depicts cart loaded w/cotton pulled by two mules, one horse, one ox (what a combination!). Two Black workers coax them along. Great display piece. Excellent condition. 16” x 11". $60.00
06243-M1195EKCU-
Tabloid Journal- HARPER'S WEEKLY, A
JOURNAL OF CIVILIZATION, New York. Vol. X, No.480, Saturday, March
10, 1866. Fantastic, full front page woodcut of "Display Of Fireworks In City Hall Park On Washington's Birthday,
February 22, 1866." Sketched by Stanley Fox. The individual fireworks
displays and the day's events are described in a short article.
Other large woodcuts of note include nearly full page of John William
Draper (original photo by Brady), half page of President (Andrew) Johnson
addressing a large crowd, full page of schoolmaster in classroom about to
strike a napping student with his glove, full page of Paris Fashions, much
more. Numerous ads include a nice one for a device which "rendered
spectacles useless." Spine
is a little frayed where it has been disbound, but the paper's binding threads
are still present. Overall very good. A rare one and highly collectible. Worthy
of prominent display. 11-1/4" x 16" x 16pp.
$64.00
05658-M0397AAKE-
Original Broadsheet Advertisement- From HARPER'S
WEEKLY, March 29, 1873. P. T. BARNUM'S GREAT TRAVELING WORLD'S FAIR FOR THE
CAMPAIGN OF 1873. Illustration is a collage of many elements. Menagerie,
exotic peoples, steam circus train, museum aflame, Barnum rising from the
ashes, ocean and rail transportation
scenes, and ol' P. T. himself offering "The World In Contribution."
Among the fantastic and aggrandizing claims, he says, "..GRAND CROWNING
TRIUMPH OF MY MANAGERIAL LIFE.
Notwithstanding the burning of my last museum, in December (which,
however, did not destroy any of my great traveling chariots, vans, cages, or
horses, nor duplicates of most of my living wild animals, which were then on
exhibition in New Orleans), I have been enabled, through the aid of cable
dispatches, electricity, and steam, and the expenditure of nearly a million
dollars, to place upon the road by far the largest and most interesting
Combination of MUSEUM, MENAGERIE, and HIPPODROME ever known. Indeed, it may be
called a great TRAVELING WORLD'S FAIR."
Much more. Barnum's signature printed. Very good condition. Large
woodcut engraving measures 9" x 7-7/8".
Page overall is 10-7/8" x
15-3/4". Rare item worthy of prominent display.
$98.00
05661-M1196CSEE-19th
Century Woodcut- RAPID TRANSIT IN NEW YORK- SPEER'S ENDLESS RAILWAY TRAIN.
Original center page spread from FRANK LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED
NEWSPAPER, March 21, 1874. Wow! what a piece of art! Detailed
panoramic perspective of this invention in city street scene w/the commerce of
the city and social interaction in progress all around. Very large, fantastic
engraving by Berghaus & Shimpf. It's impossible to adequately describe
this piece-- you have to see it! Center
spread measures 21" x 16-1/4" overall.
Reverse of one sheet has three sketches and detailed description of
Speer's invention in a total of 20-1/2 column inches. Briefly-- "This
invention is described as an endless perpetually moving elevated train, or
belt, of light platform cars, each eight feet wide and thirty or forty feet long, closely
coupled, so as to form a continuous platform moving up one side of the street
and down the other. One half of
the floor of the train will be left uncovered, forming a sidewalk for the
use of pedestrians... Proposed speed is ten or twelve miles an
hour...." So far as we know this device was
never built, but it is a marvelous exercise in design and
contemplation. Paper is lightly
foxed and reverse has a few obscure archival tissue repairs which do not show
on front. Rare and deserving of
prominent display. It's a real
conversation piece! We have
reproduced the material on reverse on off-white paper so that purchaser may
work out a pleasing matting arrangement of both sides without doing violence
to either. With this item
we'll include the story of woodcut engraving originally published in the
Illustrated London News, July 6,1844. All as described. $118.00
02670-M1094REEE- Woodcut- KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE and SURROUNDINGS. From HARPERS WEEKLY, May
7, 1887. Drawn by Chas. Graham (1852-1911). Auction range of his work is
$400 to $6100. Center page spread. Six vignettes, de1icately hand co1ored.
Most1y panoramic views-- Knoxville From Across The River, Lyons View,
Knoxville University, Marble Barges, An Old-Time Hut, Private Residence.
Fantastic display piece! Excellent condition. 21-3/4”
x 16". $80.00
00789-B0990QRT-
Journals- AMERICAN ARCHITECT AND BUILDING NEWS. A WEEKLY JOURNAL OF
CONSTRUCTIVE AND DECORATIVE ART. Ticknor & Co., Boston, MA.
Thirty-four various issues of this weekly from March 3, 1888 to Nov 24,
1889. Each issue is 9-1/4''
x 14" and includes an average of 28 pages of ads, 12 to 14 pages editorial, 6pp (3
large sheets loosely inserted, illustrated on one side) of architectural
renderings of private residences, public and institutional buildings,
tombs/statues, banks, decorative architectura1 details, etc., all very well
done and suitable for framing and display.
Each issue is heavily illustrated (even the articles), as one might
expect of journa1s of this type. Covers are generally darkened from age and
chipped at extremities, remainder good to very good. All. $675.00 or
Each, our choice. $25.00
04904-M0596EAKE-
Book- A BOOK OF COUNTRY THINGS. Told by Walter Needham, Recorded By
Barrows Mussey. The Stephen Greene Press, Battleboro, Vt. 1965, 4th
printing. "Explains all the lost arts of pioneer living...Currier &
Ives prints come to life...the purest Americana": Gramp, On The Farm,
Sugaring, Doing With Stone, The Animal Kingdom, From The Woods, Grandpa's
Tools, What He Had To Buy, Around The House, Indians, etc. Indexed, woodcut
prints throughout, Hardback. Some wear & soil to dust jacket. 5-3/4” x
8” x 166pp. $21.00