Search Results: Authors starting with T from Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA

San Francisco: Taber Photo, [ca. 1880]. Two large (7 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches) original albumen prints, mounted back-to-back on board. With Taber's imprint at bottom. Cathedral Spires (B2653) has one small spot on it but it is in a dark area of the print so difficult to see. Bridal Veil Falls (B 962) has a white cow in the foreground. Very good.

San Francisco: Taber Photo, [ca. 1880]. Large original albumen print (7 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches). With Taber's imprint at bottom (Taber No. B981). A very good image.

San Francisco: Taber Photo, [ca. 1880]. Original albumen photograph on Taber mount. 4 7/8 x 8 inches. Very good.Taber #831. The original photographer was Carleton Watkins. In 1876, Watkins lost his gallery and negatives to his competitor Isaiah West Taber. Without crediting him, Taber continued printing many of Watkins's early Yosemite image.

Tokyo: Nakanishi-ya, 1910. Octavo. Folding color woodcut (ukiyoe) frontispiece, xxxviii, 269, [1] pp. Textual illustrations throughout. Complete as issued. Publisher's decorative boards with gilt cover lettering. Some rubbing but a very good copy of this fragile publication.In the same year, and issued by the same publisher, there were published another two editions of this title, both with more colored plates. This issue appears to be the scarcest. Chushingura is the title given to fictionalized accounts in Japanese literature, theater, and film that relate to the historical incident involving the Forty-seven Ronin and their mission to avenge the death of their master, Asano Naganori. Including the early Kanadehon Chushingura, the story has been told in kabuki, bunraku, stage plays, films, novels, television shows and other media. With ten different television productions in the years 1997–2007 alone, Ch shingura ranks among the most familiar of all historical stories in Japan.

New Zealand: Tourist Department, 1906. Original real picture postcard of a Maori chief probably named Te Ritimana wearing huia feathers and with moko (facial tattooing). Photographed by the New Zealand Tourist Department. This card was posted to London and bears a New Zealand one penny stamp. Corners a bit rounded but a very good copy.'Tattoo' is the English version of the Tahitian word tatu. Tattoo is the tradition of marking the skin with ink and needles, whereas moko is the practice of scarring and marking the skin to reflect the whakapapa (genealogy) of the Maori wearer.

Tokyo: Zen Photo Gallery, 20110. First edition. One of 1000 copies. This copy if one of the 50 numbered and specially bound copies that includse a separate black silk portfolio containing a signed and numbered Goede silver gelatin print (the print herein show a Japanese woman with her robe lowered to display her whole back tattoo of a Buddhist boddhisatva). Quarto 8 x 10 1/2 inches). 216 pages bearing 154 photographic images with text in English and Japanese. Japanese stitched binding in a red cloth portfolio with the same image as the silver gelatin inset on the front. All housed in the publisher's slipcase with a cherry blossom motif. Ass new, plastic covering still present.Asakusa is a photographic diary of the days Ronin spent photographing the work of Japanese master tattoo artist Horikazu and the clients who hire him. As Japan has historically been and continues to be a country where tattoos remain closely associated with the criminal underworld, following Horikazu’s work – his specialty… Read More

[Tokyo]: [?], 1986. First edition. Japanese size octavo. 203, [1] pp. Photographically illustrated with 36 full page photographic illustration of Japanese tattoos on women. At the opening of the book there are 6 full page color illustrations of the same with the first three being of the author. All text in Japanese. Publisher's plain white wrappers with pink endpapers and a glossy photographically illustrated just jacket. A very good copy.This book was written by Hiromi Nakano, wife of Asakusa's first tattoo artist of note; Horiyoshi III (nee Yoshihito Nakano)It tells how she met Mr. Asakusa, how she got a tattoo, and the relationship between tattoos and sexual arousal. That they married seems a given. In late 2020, the Japanese supreme court ruled that tattooing could become legal. Until that point, the practice of tattooing—which had a somewhat scandalous image due to its historic association with the organized crime group called the yakuza—was considered a medical procedure, due to the use… Read More

N.p.: The Artist, 1914. One of 35 numbered and signed tinted impressions of this evocative engraving by this well known Czech artist. Signed in pencil, lower left and with his red seal. Sheet size of 12 1/4 x 9 inches. Very good contrast. Matted, glazed and in a nice simple black frame.Tavik Frantisek Simon (1877-1942) was a Czech painter, etcher, and woodcut artist. Born Frantisek Simon, he later adopted the additional name 'Tavík', which was his mother's maiden name, generally signing his work T. F. imon. Largely ignored during the Communist era in Czechoslovakia, his work has received greater attention in recent years. Novak 216

New York: Charles Vinten, 1842. First edition. Small octavo. [2], 104 pp. Publisher's quarter black roan over marbled boards, printed paper cover label. Some erosion to bottom inch of spine but not affecting integrity, some general rubbing to spine and toips but a very clean copy; no markings and in the publisher's binding.

(Fort Collins): Old Army Prdess, (1974). First edition. One of 25 numbered copies, signed by Taylor and green. Octavo. [12], 115, [1] pp. Illustrated from photographs. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt spine lettering, orange endpapers, pictorial dust jacket, marbled slipcase. A fine copy.Undoubtedly the most detailed history of the Fort Worth Stock Yards ever published.

San Franciso: H. S. Crocker, 1934. First edition. Quarto. 78 pp. with numerous photographic illustrations by Ansel Adams. publisher's green cloth with gilt cover lettering. Some sunning to edges but a clean and tight copy of this early Ansel Adams work.

Teaneck: Somerset House, 1973. Quality reprints of these classic bibliographic tools. Two large folio volumes. Green cloth. Mild wear but very good. Heavy.

Boston: A. A. Rothenberg & Co., 1895. First edition. Oblong folio (14 x 11 inches). 499, [9, index] pp. Photographic illustrations and portraits on every page. Publisher's padded pebble-grain brown morocco, gilt spine and cover lettering, fine gilt representation of a mounted Knight on front, floral endpapers, all edges gilt. Original plain two-part box (some repair). A fine copy of this lavish publication.Laid in the the August 27th special issue of the Boston Herald devoted to the Encampment (illustration on page one is in color). This was a massive meeting of 40,000 Knights Templar and it almost took over the city of Boston for a short period. In the New York Times of August 27th, we read - "Boston has seldom, if ever, been so elaborately decorated. Practically every building along the line of the march, besides many of the side streets, is clothed in color, with appropriate mottoes and Masonic emblems, intertwined with streamers and bunting." California participants arrived there in a special train.

San Antonio: Paul Ebers, (1909). First edition. Oblong octavo. 80 pp. Predominantly full page photographic illustrations (most full page). Publisher's printed pictorial wrappers in red green and blue. Lower corner of title page excised but not even extending into the border. A very good copy.Quite unusual on the market although OCLC records 12 copies. While the numerous views of early San Antonio are excellent, the real interest in this item lies in the Fort Sam Houston section (the second half of this book). In it are views of soldiers manning machine guns and a machine gun mule, soldiers at parade, four wonderful views of cavalry charges, heavy munitions, signal corps, etc. "1890 the post at San Antonio was designated Fort Sam Houston in honor of Gen. Sam Houston. In 1886 Apache Chief Geronimo was held in the quadrangle before his exile to Florida. During the Spanish-American War, the First United States Volunteer Cavalry, commanded by Col. Leonard Wood but known as Roosevelt’s Rough Riders,… Read More

Austin: Pemberton Press, 1967. Broadside edition. One of 135 signed and numbered copies. Quarto. xix [1] 299, [3] pp. plus numerous illustrations. With a folder containing an original broadside dated April 13, 1839 and bearing an original proclamation by the Mexican government under the direction of President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. Publisher's quarter red morocco over red cloth, gilt spine lettering, black endpapers, matching publisher's slipcase. A very good copy.

Queretaro: Imprenta de J.M. Lara, 1848. First edition. Octavo. [4], 44 pp. Modern blue wrapper with printed paper cover label. A very cleand and attractive copy.Dated in type December 11, 1845. "An important circular letter that was sent to the departments to gauge their feelings about war or peace. At the time, the question of Texas was being heavily discussed and John Slidell was waiting at the door to negotiate. Not one to necessarily shrink from war, the author is the consummate realist. He proposes many reasons to avoid a war with the United States, but chief among them is that Mexico is in no condition to sustain a war with all its horrible consequences: “Y ¿cuántos y cuales serian los sacrificios que tendria que hacer la república mexicana, para emprender y sostener decentemente una guerra formal con la de los Estados-Unidos del Norte? Innumerables ciertamente, y todos ruinosísimos e insorpotables bajo los aspectos, con el estado deplorable en que nos hallamos” (p. 21). At bottom, he… Read More

Denver: The Liberal Church, INC., 1934. Typed letter from the Bishop of the Liberal Church Inc. Diocese of San Francisco conferring a Doctorate of Divinity title to Dr. THomas J. Hampton of Bush Street in San Francisco. It is typed on the outlandish letterhead of the church and bears an embossed seal of same. Excellent condition.The Liberal Church was an independent church founded in Denver, Colorado on 23 February 1923 by Frank Hamilton Rice. He was born in 1881 in Danville, Illinois and originally was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1915 he and his family moved to Denver from Oklahoma where he was employed by the Colorado Manufacturer and Consumer as its editor. He served the Grant Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church as a Sunday School teacher and lay minister. In 1922 he advocated that the church sponsor weekly dances for young people as a means of combatting the influence of the public dance halls. After a vigorous debate his idea was soundly defeated and he left the MEC. He was… Read More

Berlin: Verlag der Schild, 1924. Second edition (first was in 1919 with a slightly different title). Octavo. 124, [4, ads] pp. Photographic illustrations. Publisher's quarter green cloth with gilt spine lettering over pictorial boars showing a German plane. Corners a bit bruised, some sunning to spine but a very good copy.As sometimes seems to be the case, a paragraph of p. 50 is blacked out. It is also on this page that we see an image of a plane with a swastika on it. Perhaps it was a bit too laudatory for the upcoming Nazi party. The story of the achievements of German-Jewish pilots in the first world war.

Madras: C. Foster and Co., 1883. First edition. Small octavo. 47. [1] pp. Publisher's printed buff wrappers. Some dust-soiling to wrappers else and excellent copy. Only four copies located by OCLC.We in the West tend to think of the Theosophical Society as a new religion practiced almost entirely in Europe and America but in fact there was a very large contingent of Indian Theosophists. Row, a Vice-president of the Madras Branch of the the Theosophical Society, explains the importance of the movement to him, an Indian practitioner, and why he joined.

[New York]: [Geo. W. Wilson, printer]., 18888. First edition. Octavo. 551. [1] pp. Publisher's printed blue wrappers. Slight sunning along top edge but a beautiful copy.American Section refers to the organization of American Theosophists created on October 30, 1886, at a convention held in Cincinnati, where William Quan Judge was elected as General Secretary and Treasurer. Dr. J. D. Buck and the newly formed Cincinnati Theosophical Society hosted the convention. It was the first national section of the Theosophical Society.There were nine Theosophical lodges in various cities throughout the United States: seven in the East and mid-Western states, and two on the West coast. Mr. Judge established The Path as the official organ of the section, based on subscriptions to support its publication. The Cincinnati Theosophical Society mentioned this in its minutes for January 22, 1888:The First National Convention of the American 9as opposed to international) Section was held in Chicago on April 22,… Read More