New York Antiquarian Book Fair: At the Park Avenue Armory

4 - 7 April 2024

Unknown

Five Early Views of Dutch Flat, California, and Surrounding Environs, 1850s

Salted paper prints (5)

Each 6 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches; mounts 9 x 11 inches
Three identified "Dutch Flat" in pencil mount recto.
Sold
T. E. Hecht, after Fardon, Houseworth, Shew et al.

Album of 19th-Century California Views compiled and printed by the Photographer Treu Ergeben Hecht, c. 1890s-1900s

Photo album; Printing-out-paper, Albumen, and Silver prints (234)

Various sizes, 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 up to 8 x 6 inches
Many with manuscript titles and negative numbers recto; some pages with modern annotations.

Sold
Unknown

Presentation Album Showing Displays of Antiquities and Art Objects at the Exposition Retrospective de Beauvais, France, 1869

Photo album; albumen prints (34)

Each 8 1/4 x 7 inches
Red leather covers with gilt-lettered title.

Daniel / Oliver Gallery - Unknown, Presentation Album Showing Displays of Antiquities and Art Objects at the Exposition Retrospective de Beauvais, France, 1869

Sold

$ 3,750.00
Constant Alexandre Famin

Album Showing the Devastation of the Parisian Suburb of Saint Cloud During the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-71

Photo album; albumen prints (10)

Each approx. 10 x 8 1/2 inches
With Famin's embossed credit print recto, and his signature and manuscript title page recto.
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Bradley and Rulofson

Six Portraits of California Notables, 1870s

Albumen prints (6)

Each 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches
Each with Bradley and Rulofson's backmark verso, some with credit stamp recto; and each with printed or manuscript subject identification recto and / or verso.
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Miguel Noe Jr.; Walton Studio

Six Large Format Photos Related to Pacific Methodist College in Santa Rosa, CA, 1870s

Albumen prints (6)

Each 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches; mounts 11 x 14 inches
Four with letterpress captions and photographer's credit mount recto.

Daniel / Oliver Gallery - Miguel Noe Jr.; Walton Studio, Six Large Format Photos Related to Pacific Methodist College in Santa Rosa, CA, 1870s

Sold

$ 1,200.00
A. W. Ericson; Ericson & Bros

Early, Large-Format Views of the Lumber Industry In and Around Arcata, CA, 1880s

Albumen and printing-out-paper prints (18)

Each approx 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches; mounts 11 x 14 inches, two smaller
With photographer's printed title and credit mount recto, a few with credits in the negative.
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William Henry Jackson

The Loop, near Georgetown, c. 1885

Albumen print

17 x 21 inches; mount larger
Jackson's title and credit in the negative.
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[Mugshot]

Carte-De-Visite Mugshot of an Identified Chinese-American Man Arrested for Hydraulic Mining, 1880s

Albumen print

4 x 2 1/2 inches overall
Subject identification in the negative and affixed paper label verso.
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Isaiah W. Taber

Chinese Vegetable Peddler in San Francisco, 1880s

Albumen print; mount larger

10 x 8 inches
With Taber's title and credit in the negative.

Daniel / Oliver Gallery - Isaiah W. Taber, Chinese Vegetable Peddler in San Francisco, 1880s

Sold

$ 1,000.00
John W. Tollman

Photo of a Group of Chinese American Farm Workers Harvesting Cranberries in Washington State, 1890s

Albumen print

9 x 11 inches overall
With photographer's credit mount recto.
Sold
Unknown

Portrait of Radical California Labor Leader Sigismund Danielwicz, c. 1884

Albumen print

6 x 4 1/4 inches
Annotated verso.
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A. J. Perkins

Corner of Clay and Dupont Streets, Chinatown, San Francisco, 1890s

Printing-out-paper print

Overall 5 x 8 inches
Perkins' credit and location in the negative.

Daniel / Oliver Gallery - A. J. Perkins, Corner of Clay and Dupont Streets, Chinatown, San Francisco, 1890s

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$ 400.00
Charles C. Pierce, attrib.

Street View with a Japanese Fancy Goods Store and Employment Office in Downtown LA, 1890s

Printing-out-paper print

5 x 8 inches

Daniel / Oliver Gallery - Charles C. Pierce, attrib., Street View with a Japanese Fancy Goods Store and Employment Office in Downtown LA, 1890s

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$ 400.00
Aurelius O. Carpenter

Disbound Album with Views around Mendocino County, c. 1882

Albumen prints (20); mounted to 12 album leaves

Each 5 x 7 1/2 inches
Some with manuscript captions to mount recto.

Daniel / Oliver Gallery - Aurelius O. Carpenter, Disbound Album with Views around Mendocino County, c. 1882

Sold

$ 4,000.00
R. J. Waters

Album of California Views from "Waters' Nickel Series", 1890s

Photo album; printing-out-paper prints (45)

Each 3 x 3 3/4 inches
With captions and Waters' credit in the negative.

Daniel / Oliver Gallery - R. J. Waters, Album of California Views from "Waters' Nickel Series", 1890s

Sold

$ 3,200.00
Edward A. Allen

Nevada Insane Asylum, Reno, c. 1882

Albumen print

8 x 10 1/2 inches; mount larger
Paper caption affixed mount recto and photographer's credit stamp mount verso.
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[Del Monte Hotel]

Double-Sided Broadside for the Famed Monterey, CA, Resort, 1890s

Lithograph on pink paper

13 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches
Double-sided.
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C. W. J. Johnson

Views of the Hotel Del Monte, Monterey, CA, 1887

Albumen prints (26)

Each approx. 5 x 8 1/4 inches; mounts 7 x 10 inches
Most with a printed title and Johnson's credit mount recto, some with the credit in the negative.

Daniel / Oliver Gallery - C. W. J. Johnson, Views of the Hotel Del Monte, Monterey, CA, 1887

Sold

$ 3,000.00
G. E. Anderson

Signed Portrait of R. Pitcher Woodward, Author Who Rode a Donkey Named Macaroni Across the Country Because He Lost a Bet, 1897

Printing-out-paper print

4 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches
With photographer's credit recto and Woodward's signature verso.
Sold
Various Photographers

Thick California Travel Album with a Focus on SoCal Missions, 1900s

Silver, cyanotype, platinum, and printing-out-paper prints (approx. 140)

Various sizes, 5 x 7 inches and smaller
Many with captions to album page or in the negative.

Daniel / Oliver Gallery - Various Photographers, Thick California Travel Album with a Focus on SoCal Missions, 1900s

Sold

$ 3,500.00
Emile Levy

French Poster Showing Captain Costentenus "L'Homme Tatoué", 1890s

Color lithograph on paper; linen-backed

24 x 18 inches
Levy's credit and address recto.
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[A. L. Bancroft & Co.]

Cabinet card showing the San Francisco Publishing House decorated in honor of the Triennial Conclave, 1883

Albumen print

7 x 4 1/4 inches overall
Printed description recto.
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Martin Behrman (after Albert Wulzen)

Oakland from Old City Hall, 1879

Silver prints (4)

7 1/4 x 38 inches overall
With photographer's caption, credit, and location identifications in ink.
Printed circa 1910.

Daniel / Oliver Gallery - Martin Behrman (after Albert Wulzen), Oakland from Old City Hall, 1879

Sold

$ 1,250.00
Unknown (possibly I.W. Taber)

View of the Exhibition Hall at the Twenty-Fifth Industrial Exposition of the Mechanics' Institute, San Francisco, 1890

Albumen print

7 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches; mount 10 x 12 inches
Gilt-lettered title embossed recto.
$ 700.00
Reserved
George Prince

Cabinet Card Portrait of Almon Harris Thompson, 2nd in Command of Powell's Second Geographical Expedition, c. 1877

Albumen print

6 1/2 x 4 inches
With photographer's credit mount recto and verso and inverted on print recto. Subject ID in ink and brief bio in pencil mount verso.

Daniel / Oliver Gallery - George Prince, Cabinet Card Portrait of Almon Harris Thompson, 2nd in Command of Powell's Second Geographical Expedition, c. 1877

Sold

$ 500.00
Kaufmann's Studio

Portrait of Robert Brewster Stanton, Commander-in-Chief of the 1889 Stanton Expedition down the Colorado River, c. 1903

Silver print

8 x 6 inches overall
Kaufmann's Pittsburgh blindstamp recto, and manuscript identification verso.

Daniel / Oliver Gallery - Kaufmann's Studio, Portrait of Robert Brewster Stanton, Commander-in-Chief of the 1889 Stanton Expedition down the Colorado River, c. 1903

Sold

$ 500.00
Andrew E. Sande

Dramatic Photo Showing the Aftermath of a Bank Robbery in Denbigh, North Dakota, 1906

Silver print

9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches; mount 14 x 11 inches
With photographer's embossed credit stamp mount recto.
Sold
Unknown

Unusual and highly detailed photo-composite of the Los Angeles Fire Department, c. 1900

Silver print

10 x 8 inches; mount 12 x 10 inches
Identification of the 25 "Engine Companies" in the negative.

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[Jackson Lake Dam]

Group of Photos Documenting Construction of the Teton-Area Project, 1910s

Silver prints (43)

Each 6 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches
A few with manuscript captions verso.
Sold
[Weepah, Nevada]

Five Photos Showing "The Last Gold Rush Town" in the West, 1927

Silver prints (5)

Four approx. 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches, one 8 x 10 inches
With affixed caption and "International Newsreel" stamp verso.
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[Nevada Gold Rush]

Broadside advertising an auto-stage between the Gold Rush towns of Tonopah and Goldfield, NV, 1915

Lithographs on paper (2)

13 x 18 inches overall
Two printed sheets, affixed together verso.
Sold
Edward Steichen

Lake George, 1904

Oil on canvas laid to board

14 x 10 1/4 inches; Frame 18 1/4 x 14 1/4 inches
Signed and dated lower right.
Inscription and small drawing by Steichen, as well as various gallery labels verso.
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[Librairie Spirite]

Five Postcards from a Spiritualist Group in Liege, Belgium, c. 1910

Lithographs on paper (5)

Each 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches
Three with "Federation Sprite" stamp

Daniel / Oliver Gallery - [Librairie Spirite], Five Postcards from a Spiritualist Group in Liege, Belgium, c. 1910

Sold

$ 750.00
Charles Holloway

Collection of Mural Studies for Chicago Buildings, c. 1907

Ink and / or graphite illustration on board (20)

Various sizes, Largest 12 x 20 inches

Daniel / Oliver Gallery - Charles Holloway, Collection of Mural Studies for Chicago Buildings, c. 1907

Sold

$ 1,800.00
Emmanuel Gondouin; Albert Ades and Albert Josipovici

Unique Copy of "Le Livre de Goha le Simple" Custom-Bound with Forty-Five Original Illustrations, c. 1924

Ink on paper (45) and inset gouache covers (2)

1 vol., 310 pp., original paperback in custom binding
Paris, France: Henri Jonquières et Cie, 1924.

Daniel / Oliver Gallery - Emmanuel Gondouin; Albert Ades and Albert Josipovici, Unique Copy of "Le Livre de Goha le Simple" Custom-Bound with Forty-Five Original Illustrations, c. 1924

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$ 7,500.00
[J. W. Gorman]

Diagram and Photograph of a late-19th century Horse-Diving Tank, 1890s

Cyanotype

17 x 16 inches
Title and credit in the negative.
Sold
Melchior Huebinger

Huebinger's Map and Guide for Blue Grass Road: Council Bluffs, Burlington, Ft. Madison, Muscatine, 1912

4 1/2 x 7 inches; 134 pp.

Published by the Iowa Publishing Co., Des Moines.
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Frederick Law Olmstead; Harland Bartholomew; Charles Henry Cheney

Major Traffic Street Plan, Los Angeles, California, 1924

Lithograph on paper

23 x 29 1/2 inches (map); 4 x 6 inches (booklet)
Paper covers.
Sold
Philip S. Cole

Pictorial Mileage Road Book: California Edition, 1915

Illustrated with 2084 small photographs, plus over 250 maps and over 100 photo-advertisements. Blue cloth covers with gilt-lettered title.

9 x 6 inches; 304 pp.
Published by the Motogram Company, Richmond, CA.

Sold
Madolyn Ballantyne

Group of Notebooks of an Art Teacher in Cincinnati, 1920s

Ink, graphite, and gouache on paper

Five notebooks containing hundreds of drawings and prints; three measuring 11 x 14 inches, other two smaller.
Sold
K. Kotani

Poster for American students to join the "Oriental Culture Summer College" in Japan, 1933

Lithograph on paper

25 x 11 1/2 inches
With thin metal tabs to the top and bottom of the sheet.

Daniel / Oliver Gallery - K. Kotani, Poster for American students to join the "Oriental Culture Summer College" in Japan, 1933

Sold

$ 1,250.00
Wy Log Fong

Ten Chinese-American Portraits, 1940s-50s

Pastel on paper (10)

Each approx. 18 x 12 inches
Signed and (most) dated recto.

Daniel / Oliver Gallery - Wy Log Fong, Ten Chinese-American Portraits, 1940s-50s

Sold

$ 3,750.00
[Matchbooks]

Sprawling Collection of Over Three Thousand Matchbook Covers from Chinese-American and Other AAPI Restaurants, 1920s-60s

Various sizes, most 4 1/8 x 1 1/2 inches
Housed in seven 3-ring binders.
Offered in partnership with Auger Down Books

Daniel / Oliver Gallery - [Matchbooks], Sprawling Collection of Over Three Thousand Matchbook Covers from Chinese-American and Other AAPI Restaurants, 1920s-60s

Sold

$ 16,000.00
Julius P. Graham

Presentation Album with views around the "Enchanted Circle" of the Monterey Peninsula, 1930

Photo album; linen-backed silver prints (26)

Each 7 x 9 inches
With affixed caption labels verso.

Daniel / Oliver Gallery - Julius P. Graham, Presentation Album with views around the "Enchanted Circle" of the Monterey Peninsula, 1930

Sold

$ 1,200.00
[Elizabeth Roberts]

Collection of Material Related to a lecture on Robert Scott and his ill-fated Antarctic expedition, c. 1934

Typed and manuscript pages (approx. 100)

Most 11 x 9 inches and smaller

Daniel / Oliver Gallery - [Elizabeth Roberts], Collection of Material Related to a lecture on Robert Scott and his ill-fated Antarctic expedition, c. 1934

Sold

$ 1,000.00
H. K. Sims

Atlas of Los Angeles Real Estate Compiled by "Sims Survey and Service Co.", 1935-36

6 x 4 inches; 40 pp.

Publisher's black 6-ring binder.
Sold
[Shewan-Jones]

Group of Photos Documenting Wine and Brandy Makers in Lodi, CA, 1941

Silver prints (14)

Each 8 x 10 inches
With captions in the negative.
Sold
Ringl + Pit

Bertolt Brecht, 1933

Silver print; printed by Ellen Auerbach, c. 1970s-80s

14 x 11 inches
With the Ringl + Pit hand stamp verso, as well at Stern and Auerbach's signatures and the notation "For David with love, Ellen."

Daniel / Oliver Gallery - Ringl + Pit, Bertolt Brecht, 1933

Sold

$ 3,000.00
Unknown (International News Photo)

Statue of Liberty Silhouetted Against Partial Eclipse of the Sun, 1940

Silver print

8 1.4 x 6 1/2 inches
With affixed caption snipe verso.

Daniel / Oliver Gallery - Unknown (International News Photo), Statue of Liberty Silhouetted Against Partial Eclipse of the Sun, 1940

Sold

$ 250.00
[Lick Observatory]

The Great Nebula in Orion, 1940

Silver print

17 x 14 inches
Printed titled and credit recto.
Sold
Paul B. Gersten

Four photographs of W. Eugene Smith and his New York Studio, 1971

Silver prints (4)

Each 11 x 4 inches; flush mounted
With Gersten's studio label affixed verso.

Sold
Ed Ruscha

Anchovy, 1969

Lithograph on calendered Rives BFK paper

19 x 28 inches
Edition 4/20
Signed, dated, and edition in pencil recto.
Bill Anderson

Exhibition Photos Showing Student Life at Historically-Black Colleges in the South, 1960s

Silver prints (39)

Each approx. 11 x 14 inches
Most flush-mounted; some with affixed overmats.

Daniel / Oliver Gallery - Bill Anderson, Exhibition Photos Showing Student Life at Historically-Black Colleges in the South, 1960s

Sold

$ 4,500.00
[Roberta Flack]

Flyer Advertising the Premiere of the Film "The Legend of John Henry", 1974

Printed flyer

8 1/2 x 11 inches

Daniel / Oliver Gallery - [Roberta Flack], Flyer Advertising the Premiere of the Film "The Legend of John Henry", 1974

Sold

$ 450.00
[New Age]

Large Collection of Printed Matter Related to Numerous Mystical, Metaphysical and Spiritualist Groups in the Midwest and Elsewhere, 1970s

Offset lithographs and Xerox (approx. 200 pieces)

Various sizes, most 11 x 8 1/2 inches
Sold

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