Joslin Hall Rare Books & Ephemera Catalog 376: Recent Acquisitions Joslin Hall Rare Books Post Office Box 239 Northampton, Mass 01061 telephone: (413) 247-5080 e-mail: offi[email protected] website: www.joslinhall.com Member- Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America & the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers -Email reservations are highly recommended. -Standard courtesies are extended to institutions and dealers. -Postage charges are additional. -We are happy to arrange lay-away terms to fit your needs. -All items may be returned within ten days of receipt -please notify us in advance and repack the book/s carefully in the original box (if possible); please make sure that the parcel is properly insured. Checks,Visa, Mastercard & Paypal accepted. join us on Facebook & Twitter ! 1. [American Art] Original 1895 Pen & Ink Poster for Davis Gallery Exhibition of American Artists, Worcester Massachusetts. An attractive original pen & ink on posterboard, the design for a poster advertising an “Exhibition of Paintings - Best Work of American Artists - at the Davis Studio: Cor. Main & Park Streets”, which, according to the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, was held at Arthur E. Davis’s Davis Art Galleries / Davis Studio in Worcester, Massachusetts between May 20 and June 17, 1895. A very attractive Aesthetic Movement- inspired design with a stylized vase of flowers and ribbons. Poster Board. 8.75”x11.25”. Some light soil, some wear, corners with chipping. Pencil notes along the bottom, apparently directions for the printer. [43405] SOLD 2. [Art School] 1892 Prospectus for Rockford Illinois Art School Run by the Inventor of Air Brushes. A prospectus for the Illinois Art School, located in Rockford, which was run by the wife of the man who invented air brushes. Well, sort of. The very first air-brush-type appliance was patented in 1876 by the Stanley brothers, of Stanley Steamer fame, and was used for coating photographic plates. An air-compressor brush for artists was invented a few years later by Abner Peeler "for the painting of watercolors and other artistic purposes" and was constructed with parts from a jeweler's workshop. Liberty Walkup of Mt. Morris, Illinois then refined the design for practical assembly and patented it with a name invented by his wife Mimi- ‘air-brush’. Mimi then founded the Illinois Art School, located in the Air Brush company building,and taught general artistic subjects as well as air-brushing to students from around the world, including American Impressionist Wilson Irvine. At Mimi’s school you could buy individual lessons for 50 cents, a week’s worth for $5, a month for $16, and 4 months for $50. That might seem a trifle steep, but the brochure assures prospective students that- “The demand for artists and teachers is due to a growing appreciation of Art productions, and demand is sure to intensify with the growth of population and the development of culture. It is certain that few fields of effort are more promising to success than the one now rapidly opening to those possessing professional skill as artists. Our students are occupying positions from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to South America. The work they have been able to do has caused the demand for more help of the same class, so much so that we have not been able to fill one-fourth the demand. One stenographer and many others in the same field of office work have laid down their pen and taken up art work as they learn of the lucrative positions offered for competent help in the studio”. So there- the starving artist thing is a 20th century phenomenon. Softcover. 4.5”x6”, 8 pages, 1 black & white illustration of the school building. Minor soil. [43403] SOLD 3. [Art at Wanamaker] 1901 Guide to Paintings at the Wanamaker Store, New York City. The great Wanamaker’s Department Store started in 1876 in an abandoned Pennsylvania Railroad station and was one of the earliest of the grand department stores in America. Over the decades Wanamaker’s was the source of many innovations in the retail field, and in 1881 John Wanamaker opened an Art Gallery in the Philadelphia store, a innovation which was later extended to the New York location. Wanamaker purchased French paintings at Paris salons for sale in the store’s gallery as well as for the store’s, and his own, permanent collections. 131 paintings are described here, including some recently purchased at several 1901 salons. Softcover. 4.25”x6.5”, 36 pages. Covers with light soil, some wear, chip and crease on the rear panel. [43404] $40 4. [Balloons] Early 1900s Sheet of C.C. Phelps Gas and Hot Air Balloons Stationary. A sheet of pictorial stationary for C.C. Phelps, daring aeronaut and manufacturer of balloons for likewise daring do-ers- “C.C. Phelps Manufacturer of Gas and Hot Air Balloons and Apparatus - Aerial Exhibitions Furnished for All Occasions by the Best and Most Daring Artists in the World. McConnellsville, N.Y.”. The sheet includes 2 illustrations of balloonists doing things that most sensible folks would not do. Single sheet. 8.5”x11”. Minor soil. [43421] $35 5. [Blinds] 1880s American Patent Blind Fastener Business Card. An attractive business card for P.K. O’Lally, “Patentee and manufacturer of the Automatic Patent American Blind Fastener and also the ‘Republic’ Blind Operator”. Mr. O’Lally lived in Boston, and was seeking agents for his life-altering invention. Card. 3.75”x2.25”. Minor soil. [43381] $28 6. [Books] A Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Books, in Various Departments of Literature, Ancient and Modern, On Sale at Extremely Low Prices for Ready Money - John Miller, Trafalgar square - 1853. “Literature” meant, as it so often did at the time, anything between covers, and was mostly nonfiction. An interesting peek at the mid-19th century antiquarian and used book trade, in condition basically the same as if you were sitting down to read it in 1853. Softcover. 4”x6.5”, 32 pages. Sun shadow on the rear cover, light soil, otherwise fine and clean and spiffy. [43402] $35 7. [Bulbs] 1882 Ornamental Flowering Bulbs Label for Parker & Gannett. A handsome Aesthetic Movement label for flowering bulbs sold by Parker and Gannett, dated 1882, featuring a lily flower. Handsome. Parker & Gannett Agricultural Warehouse and Seed Store, was listed in the 1870s directories for Boston & Cambridge, Massachusetts. Label. 4.75”x7.25”. Minor soil. [43379] $60 8. [Celluloid] 1890s Celluloid Manufacturing Company Card Printed on Celluloid. Developed in the mid-19th century, celluloid came into its own as a manufacturing material in the 1870s, providing a useful substitute for ivory and horn. The Celluloid Manufacturing Company was founded by John Wesley Hyatt, one inventor of the product, who spent a certain amount of time embroiled in legal disputes with other inventors of the product. Baldwin & Gleason made a specialty of printing celluloid trade cards and other celluloid novelties, but a card for the Celluloid Company itself on celluloid is kinda neat. 4.75”x3”. A bit ‘rumpled’, minor wear, light soil. [43359] SOLD 9. [Ceramics] 1893 Villeroy & Boch World’s Columbian Exposition Card. A handsome oversized card for Villeroy & Boch, famous makers of fine pottery and porcelain, and beloved of stein collectors everywhere. 6.75”x4.5”. Minor soil, light wear. [43361] $175 10. [Chinoiserie] 1850s Belgian Professor & Instructor in Chinese Painting Card. A striking card for A. Dubin, of Gand, Belgium, “Professeur de Peinture Chinoise et autres arts d’agremens”. He also notes- “Donne des cours dans les couvents, pensionnats, & a domicile pour tous les genres de peintures, dorer sur etoffe, & du desin indelibile” (Courses given in convents, schools, & at home for all kinds of paintings, cloth decoration, & ink drawing). The card was printed in Bruges by Daveluy, the Royal lithographer. 5.5”x4”. Minor soil. Lightly mounted in thin blue paper. [43364] $275 11. [Church Ornaments] 1880s Paris Church Ornament Dealer Chromo Brochure. A lovely chromolithographed brochure issued by an ecclesiastical ornaments firm in paris. Meurire et Cie were located on 9 Place de Madeleine and dealt in crosses, hearts, natural flowers and artificial flowers of bead, porcelain and enamel, flower baskets, church ornaments in gold, silver, ivory, sculpture, communion & marriage gifts, garnitures, and more. Folder. 6”x3.75”. Minor soil. [43415] $85 12. [Corset] 1870s Adjustable Duplex Corset Folding Trade Card. An attractive 1870s folding trade card for the Adjustable Duplex Corset made by the Bortree Manufacturing Company - “The best corset in the world. Perfect in shape, and the most comfortable and durable corset known”. The card shows two young women peeping through a keyhole, with a flap that shares- “The secret out at last - why Mrs. Brown has such a perfect figure”. Folding back the flap reveals the answer, and also Mrs. Brown, in her bedroom, before the mirror, in her undies and Adjustable Duplex Corset. Not as racy as it sounds, except by Victorian standards. Card. 3.25”x5.25” (folded), 4.75”x5.25” (unfolded). Minor soil. [43420] $45 13. [Corset] 1880s Corset & Skirt Supporter Chromolithographed Handbill. A handsome handbill for “Queen Bess Corset and Skirt Supporter”, which was “By far the best corset and skirt supporter ever made and is warranted in every particular, manufactured only by the Worcester Corset Co., Worcester, Mass.”. The back contains a long (long) message “To the Ladies!”, explaining at great length and in excruciating detail, in small type, why this particular corset & skirt supporter will make such a difference in their life, and why this corset & skirt supporter is different from all other corset & skirt supporters. Handbill. 4.5”x8.75”. Minor soil. [43383] $85 14. [Dials] 1890s Newman Clock Company Dial Pattern Sample.