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Published by Forgotten Books, 2018
ISBN 10: 133352322XISBN 13: 9781333523220
Seller: PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.
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Published by Forgotten Books, 2018
ISBN 10: 0666036969ISBN 13: 9780666036964
Seller: PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.
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Publication Date: 2023
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, India
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LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1888 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 52 Language: English.
Publication Date: 2023
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, India
Book Print on Demand
LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1889 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 80 Language: English.
Published by Sausalito, Windgate Press, 2004
ISBN 10: 091526921XISBN 13: 9780915269211
Seller: Pallas Books Antiquarian Booksellers, Leiden, Netherlands
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cloth, dustjacket, large 4to oblong 168 pp., ca. 200 ills. famous photographer of California in the late 19th century; street views, architecture, city life, lanscapes, ships, harbour; very good condition.
Published by San Francisco, CA: I. W. Taber, [1894]., 1894
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
Condition: Good. B&W Photograph mounted on board, 7 x 9.75 inches. Good with losses at corners of photograph and board, minor abrasions to surface of photograph, marginal tears, else VG. Taber had moved his studio to 121 Post St. in San Francisco by this time.
Published by Oval photograph, 3 inches tall, pasted to white card stock with "Taber" printed in script, tissue guard, both tipped in to a grey folder, 4 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches, with a "Taber" monograph in gilt with the motto "Virtus Sola Nobilitas". Miss Scamman has signed the back of the folder: "Loving greetings, Edith Scamman, Nov. 1904, 1904
Seller: Up-Country Letters, Gardnerville, NV, U.S.A.
Signed
Oval photograph, 3 inches tall, pasted to white card stock with "Taber" printed in script, tissue guard, both tipped in to a grey folder, 4 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches, with a "Taber" monograph in gilt with the motto "Virtus Sola Nobilitas". Miss Scamman has signed the back of the folder: "Loving greetings, Edith Scamman, Nov. 1904". Miss Scamman (1882-1967), from Saco, Maine, became interested in botany after taking courses from M.L. Fernald at Radcliffe in 1935. She made several collecting trips to Alaska on behalf of the Gray Herbarium at Harvard, eventually depositing about 5000 specimens there. She published Ferns and Fern Allies of New Hampshire in 1947. The science building at the Thornton Academy in Saco is named for her. I.W. Taber set up shop in San Francisco in 1871. He retired in 1906 when the earthquake destroyed his shop and all his negatives. Offsetting from the image through the tissue guard to the inside cover, creating a ghostly effect. lower fore-corner of the front cover slightly toned, but a Fine specimen.
Published by Taber, [San Francisco], 1890
Seller: Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB, East Jewett, NY, U.S.A.
White card mount. 9 x 7.5 inch image on x 10 x 8 inch card. Albumen photograph. "6359 State Capitol, Sacramento, Cal." in negative at lower edge. Isaiah West Taber (1830-1912) bounced between the east and west coasts as a youth. After opening his first studio in Syracuse, New York, he returned to California where he eventually established the "Taber Gallery" at No. 12 Montgomery Street in 1871. His business was quite successful with a stock of over 30,000 Western views, though many were the unacknowledged works of others. When the San Francisco earthquake led to the destruction of his vast collection, his business folded. This image is not at Berkeley nor on Calisphere, but is similar to "The Capitol, Sacramento, Cal. B 2369," (at Berkeley)except this image is taken closer to the entrance, with people in the distance at the steps, and provides a more powerful view. Very good, very faint fading, mainly to the sky.
Published by San Francisco, 1890
Seller: Carpe Diem Fine Books, ABAA, Monterey, CA, U.S.A.
Original black & white photograph of "Elisabeth Porter Gilbert, Grannie" (handwritten on verso), printed on heavy cream cardstock (5" x 4") with bevelled edges; "Taber S.F" blindstamped in lower right corner. The Taber name and business address of 121 Post Street, San Francisco stamped on verso. Lower left corner lightly bumped; list spotting. Elisabeth Porter Gilbert was borni in 1869 (maiden name Elisabeth Porter Russel) and died in 1949 in Carmel, CA. She was married to Charles Ransom Gilbert. Ms. Gilbert is a striking young woman in the photograph so it most likely was taken circa 1890.
Seller: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
San Francisco: I. W. Taber & Co., n.d. [circa 1880-1890]. Original photograph, 7 5/8 x 9 5/8", b&w albumen print, mounted on board. Original board is delicate and chipping along the edges; good. § Original photo from San Francisco I. W. Taber & Co., at 26 Montgomery Street, marked B 2598. Taber is known for his commercial photographs and albums of California, though many of his photos of Yosemite were reproduced from the photos of Carleton Watkins, whose studio he took over after it was lost to creditors. He lost his own studio, gallery, and negative collection in the 1906 earthquake, thus ending his career.
Published by San Francisco Taber
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
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Condition: very good. Original cabinet card view of San Franciisco, Ca. Mounted on studio card. Light rubbing. very good Original albumen view of San Francisco prior to the 1906 Earthquake. Taber photo. B 1802.
Published by Taber Photo, San Francisco, 1890
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
25x32 cm (9 3/4 x 12 1/2 inches); on a thin paper mount, matted, 36.4x43 cm (14 1/2 x 17 inches). The Geysers is the world's largest geothermal field. It spans an area of around thirty square miles in Sonoma, Lake and Mendocino counties, approximately 72 miles north of San Francisco, centered in the area of Geyser Canyon and Cobb Mountain. Unlike most geothermal resources, The Geysers is a dry steam field which mainly produces superheated steam. The Geysers were first seen by European Americans and named in 1847 during John Frémont's survey of the Sierra Mountains and the Great Basin by William Bell Elliot who called the area "The Geysers," although the geothermal features were not technically geysers, but fumaroles. Between 1848 and 1854, Archibald C. Godwin developed The Geysers into a spa named The Geysers Resort Hotel, which attracted tourists including Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt and Mark Twain. The resort declined in popularity in the mid 1880s, and rebranded itself to appeal to lower-income people. The first geothermal wells drilled in Geyser Canyon were the first in the Western Hemisphere. The first power plant at the Geysers was privately developed by the owner of The Geysers Resort and opened in 1921, producing 250 kilowatts of power to light the resort. Today, The Geysers draws steam from more than 350 wells and produced 20% of California's renewable energy in 2019. A stunning scene that only a large size print like this one does justice. (#167127).
Published by Taber, [San Francisco, 1896
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
19.7x27.8 cm, (oblong large octavo), pp. [1-2] 3-96, illustrations, original cream wrappers printed in gold, red cloth tape spine. First edition. An elaborate souvenir book commemorating the opening of the new Cliff House and the adjoining Sutro Baths, illustrated throughout with photographs by I. W. Taber and advertisements on facing pages for local businesses, most connected in some way with the Sutro project. The old Cliff House, a San Francisco destination opened in 1863, was destroyed by fire 25 December 1894. The Cliff House was rebuilt by Adolph Sutro (1830-1898), entrepreneur, philanthropist, and enormously popular Mayor of San Francisco (1894-1896), who also built the Sutro Baths on a small beach inlet below it. The Sutro Baths, opened to the public on 14 March 1986, was the world's largest indoor swimming pool establishment. The baths struggled for years, mostly due to high operating and maintenance costs. A fire in 1966 destroyed the building while it was being demolished. Both the Cliff House and the former baths site are now a part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, operated by the United States National Park Service. A major pictorial record of a world famous San Francisco entertainment complex made by the most prominent San Francisco photographer of the period. Rocq (1970) 12407. Wrappers dusty, short tear in front wrapper repaired, a very good copy. (#166861).
Published by H. S. Crocker Co., San Francisco, 1894
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
26.5x35.3 cm (10 1/4 x14 inches) (oblong folio), 15 parts, each 16 pages, profusely illustrated, original mustard wrappers printed in black, stapled. First edition. A complete set of the "Monarch" souvenir of the California Midwinter Fair. The photographs depict both the fair itself, and scenes throughout the state. The fair, held in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, was extremely successful: it made money while promoting winter travel to the Golden State. "The plan of the work is to present a series of photographic views of the Midwinter Fair, interspersed with select views of the natural wonders of the State . The descriptions of California Scenes . which treat of places outside of San Francisco, were written by J. M. Hutchings, the 'Father of the Yosemite'" (wrapper copy). All but one part (# 14) has at least one photograph of the Sierra Nevada, mostly scenes in Yosemite Valley. There are several photographs of Lake Tahoe and one photograph of the High Sierra taken by Theodore H. Solomons. Each part has a double-page panoramic photograph at the center. Several of these are stunning images, but the most spectacular photographs are Taber's photographs of the Midwinter Fair after dark illuminated by electric light. And, in case you wondered why "Monarch" is part of the title, "Monarch" is the Examiner's mascot, a stuffed Grizzly Bear exhibited as part of the 'Forty-nine Mining Camp, one of the more popular venues at the fair. "The California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894 was the state's first international event and as such, was a landmark in her history. Purposely held in winter, it showcased the glorious climate of the Golden State and followed on the heels of the vastly successful World's Columbian Exhibition held in Chicago in 1893 . The fair did much to attract visitors to California . To document this major event, fair organizers chose Isaiah Taber as official photographer . Documenting the entire evolution of the fair, Taber took pictures from beginning to end, from the grading of the site to the finished environment. Taber's splendid views show the event in all its glory, from its architectural playfulness to its exotic attractions and are noteworthy for their clarity and composition. Realizing that the fair was ephemeral, Taber made his photographs the permanent record of the event . The Midwinter Fair was extremely successful and had a lasting impact not only in San Francisco but also in the state's southern realm . San Francisco was host to another international event two decades after the Midwinter Fair: in 1914, one of the most important events in California history took place there -- the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Although the PPIE was larger and grander that its predecessor, its heritage may be traced to the pioneering Midwinter Fair of 1894" (Victoria Dailey, California's First International Exposition: The Midwinter Fair of 1894). Kruska, Hutchings 108. Rocq 11359. Not in Cowan (1933; 1964). A fine copy. This book is uncommon in the original parts, especially in nice condition. This is a spectacular copy and is rare thus. By the way, the subscription price of $24 per year was serious money in 1894, so the number of subscribers to the parts issue was probably not huge. (#167050).
Published by Taber, [San Francisco, 1896
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
19.7x27.8 cm, (oblong large octavo), pp. [1-2] 3-96, illustrations, original cream wrappers printed in gold, brown cloth tape spine. First edition. An elaborate souvenir book commemorating the opening of the new Cliff House and the adjoining Sutro Baths, illustrated throughout with photographs by I. W. Taber and advertisements on facing pages for local businesses, most connected in some way with the Sutro project. The old Cliff House, a San Francisco destination opened in 1863, was destroyed by fire 25 December 1894. The Cliff House was rebuilt by Adolph Sutro (1830-1898), entrepreneur, philanthropist, and enormously popular Mayor of San Francisco (1894-1896), who also built the Sutro Baths on a small beach inlet below it. The Sutro Baths, opened to the public on 14 March 1986, was the world's largest indoor swimming pool establishment. The baths struggled for years, mostly due to high operating and maintenance costs. A fire in 1966 destroyed the building while it was being demolished. Both the Cliff House and the former baths site are now a part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, operated by the United States National Park Service. A major pictorial record of a world famous San Francisco entertainment complex made by the most prominent San Francisco photographer of the period. Rocq (1970) 12407. Wrappers dusty, several spots on front cover, a very good copy. Provenance: Marilyn Blaisdell Collection. (#167055).
Published by Taber Photo., San Francisco, 1885
Seller: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Two albumen prints, each approximately 7¾ x 9½ inches and mounted on card stock 11½ x 14 inches. Images a bit faded. Mounts lightly soiled and wavy. Upper left corner of mount of second image with a small chip. Overall very good. Two photographs of elegant Chinese restaurants in pre-earthquake San Francisco Chinatown, likely taken in the mid-1880s. The first photograph depicts the Woey Sin Low restaurant's third-floor balcony, looking past hanging glass lanterns and an ornately carved wooden window onto the corner of Dupont and Clay Streets. In front of the restaurant, a hanging banner reads "Baobàn jiuxí," advertising that the establishment can host and arrange banquets. The second photograph has been identified as the grand dining room at another restaurant just around the corner on Washington Street, called Bun Sun Low. After a fire in 1885, Bun Sun Low's dining room was renovated into the dramatic space pictured here, with hanging chandeliers and lanterns, and intricate carvings adorning the doors, windows, walls, and even ceiling. Despite the caption, some uncertainty exists as to the identification of this second photograph - a different image of what is clearly the same room is held at the New York Public Library, which states that the restaurant in the image was located on Dupont Street rather than Washington, suggesting it may in fact be a lower floor dining room of the Woey Sin Low restaurant depicted in the previous photo. Both restaurants were long- running fixtures of Chinatown, in operation from the 1870s and present in Langley's directories from the 1880s. As neither establishment survived the earthquake and subsequent fires of 1906, it may not be possible to definitively identify the restaurant shown in the interior view. Both images were published by the prolific photography company of Isaiah West Taber, which is the source of many wonderful, if often dubiously attributed, pre-earthquake images of San Francisco. The catastrophe that leveled these beautiful restaurants was equally disastrous for Taber - his entire considerable stock of photo negatives was destroyed in the same event. An interior and exterior glimpse at some of the finest Chinese dining San Francisco had to offer in the Gilded Age, as well as evidence of the interest in the activities and aesthetics of Chinatown held by many Americans.
Published by Taber Photo., San Francisco, 1892
Seller: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Albumen print, 9½ x 7¾ inches (27½ x 19½ cm). Mounted on larger piece of card stock, 14 x 11½ inches (35½ x 29½ cm) overall. The image bright and crisp. Mount a bit foxed, minor scuffing. Very good plus. A striking candid photograph of the entrance to an underground opium den in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. A searingly bright camera flash has illuminated the dark room, revealing a two-level structure with barred internal windows and signs posted in Chinese on or near heavy wooden doors. A Chinese man looks at the photographer in confusion, evidently startled by the bright magnesium flash, and another man walks away from the camera towards the entrance. The photograph, copyrighted by the prolific San Francisco Taber Photograph Company, is subtitled "Approach to an underground Opium Den; Chinaman astonished at the Flash-light. No. 7." This print is of a larger size than the cabinet card prints of Taber's that are usually encountered. Curiously enough, this photograph is one of several used to illustrate a rather dubious article printed in an early volume of George Newnes' The Wide World Magazine. This photograph, along with a number of others taken by Taber (or more likely one of his uncredited photographers) on the same visit to an opium den, appears in an article titled "How the Opium Fiends were Fought with the Camera." The article purports to describe a photographic raid spearheaded by a "party of resolute missionaries, despairing of combating the slave and opium dens in the Chinese quarter by ordinary means" on a den of deceit and villainy, culminating in a raging fire and pitch-black brawl. While a tall tale, it seems likely the truth is somewhat more banal - a different photograph in the series held at the Bancroft and dated 1892 suggests that the photo series was simply purchased from Taber for this sensational 1900 article from across the Atlantic. "In 1871 [Isaiah West Taber] opened his own studio and photographic publishing company and was soon operating a successful portrait, landscape, and urban photography business.In 1876 he acquired the negatives of the bankrupt photographer Carleton Watkins and subsequently published many of them under his own imprint. Taber's negatives were destroyed in the San Francisco fire and earthquake of 1906" - Margolis & Sandweiss. A peculiar photo of Chinatown's (literal) underground at the end of the 19th century, published by one of San Francisco's most prolific 19th-century photographers. Henry W. Canfield, "How the Opium Fiends were Fought with the Camera" in The Wide World Magazine, Vol. V (London: George Newnes, 1900). pp.187-91. MARGOLIS & SANDWEISS, TO DELIGHT THE EYE 20 (ref). OCLC 43699965 (Photo No. 6 in the series).
Publication Date: 1886
Seller: Globus Rare Books & Archives, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Condition: None. Oblong Quarto album ca. 18x28 cm (7x11 in). 23 card stock leaves. With 46 mounted albumen photos from ca. 12,5x20 cm (4 ¾ x 8 in) to ca. 9,5x19,5 cm (3 ¾ x 7 ½ in). Over thirty photos signed and/or captioned and/or numbered or dated in negative. About thirty photos with period ink captions in English on the mounts. Period ink noted on the inner side of the front board: "April to September 1886. Mr. & Mrs. Franklin Smith; Mr. & Mrs. Elmer F. Smith." Period brown full sheep from the Isaiah Taber's studio, expertly rebacked using the original boards. Gilt-lettered title "Photographs, Taber Phot., S.F." on the front board; the inner sides of both boards with moire paper; all edges gilt. Several mounts with minor chipping on extremities, the first and the last leaves with minor losses of the outer layer of paper, not affecting the images, a couple of photos mildly faded, but overall a very good album of rare interesting photos. Attractive album with large early photos of California and Utah, taken by the prominent local studios of Isaiah Taber, Charles Wallace Johnson and Charles Savage, including rare images of Chinatowns in Monterey, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and portraits of Apache and Quechan Native Americans. The photos were apparently collected during an American family's trip in April-September, 1886 (see the inscription on the inner side of the front board). The album opens with about a dozen photos of Monterey and its environs by Charles Wallace Johnson (three images are unsigned but attributed to him), showing a panorama of the Monterey Bay "from Gen. Fremont's old fort," the grounds of Hotel del Monte (general view, tennis courts, a cactus in the "Arizona garden," "interior of Bathhouse," dated in negative "Sept. 6th & 5"), a street in Monterey Chinatown with the locals sitting at their doorsteps, "Old California State House in Monterey, used for a school house, Oldest Government Building in California," "Old Adobe building used for a time as Barracks, Monterey," adobe building of "the first jail," "Midway Point showing cypress trees," "exterior of Carmel Mission near Monterey," and "Old Custom House, Monterey." Nineteen photos by a prominent San Francisco photographer Isaiah Taber show: "Veranda, Hotel del Monte," "Lake and Ornamental Grounds, Hotel del Monte," "The oldest building in Monterey (Adobe), over 100 years old," "Old Adobe building at Monterey, occupied by Gen. Fremont's Soldiers during the Mexican War," "General Fremont's Headquarters during the Mexican War, Monterey," "Cypress tree near Cypress Drive," "Midway Point," "Interior View of Carmel Mission, est. 1770," "Big Trees, Felton, Santa Cruz Co.," "Beach Drive from Cliff House," "View of Cliff House from the Ocean." Six Taber's photos of San Francisco include the views of "Mrs. Mark Hopkins and Gov. Stanford Mansions," "Court, Palace Hotel," "Bazaar in Chinatown," "The Entry ? Chinese Theatre," "Chinese Grand Restaurant," and "Mission Dolores, est. 1776." There are also interesting views of "Los Angeles, Cal. The Chinese Quarter" and "Horton House, W.E. Hadley, Proprietor, San Diego." Also included are five views of Salt Lake City by prominent Utah photographer Charles Roscoe Savage depict "Brigham Young's Grave, S.L. City," "The Eagle Gate near Brigham Young's Residence, Salt Lake City," "Scene nr. Bronco, Truckee Canyon, Southern Pacific Railroad," "Temple Block, Salt Lake City," and "Beehive and Lion House, Salt Lake City." The album also contains two studio photos by A. Frank Randall (1854-1916) ? a portrait of Augustine Virgil (Chief of the Jicarilla Apache Nation) and a portrait of two Apache babies in cradle boards, captioned in manuscript "Apache Papooses" ( the same photo is attributed to Randall by the Huntington Library). There is also an unsigned but numbered studio portrait of a Yuma (Quechan) mother with two toddlers. The album closes with six unsigned albumen studio views of Niagara Falls taken from the American and Canadian sides. Ove.
Published by London: Macmillan & Co., 1897
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. Taber, Isaiah West (illustrator). First Edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-two black and white plates by Isaiah West Taber. First edition, first printing. Publisher's blue cloth stamped in gilt to front board and spine, all edges gilt, black coated endpapers; original off-white dust jacket with boating illustration to front panel, list of Kipling's works to rear panel, lettered in blue. Fine with a tiny bookseller's stamp to front pastedown, exceptionally bright gilt; very good unclipped dust jacket with a bit of thumbsoiling to front panel, some toning to spine, curved closed tear to upper portion of spine, minor chipping to spine ends, a few small closed tears to front and rear panels, and corners lightly chipped. Overall, a gorgeous copy, in its exceptionally scarce first issue jacket. Housed in a custom blue slipcase with folding chemise. Originally published serially in McClure's Magazine beginning in November 1896, Captains Courageous is a story about Harvey Cheyne, the marooned son of a wealthy railroad magnate who is rescued by fishermen off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. After being tossed overboard an ocean liner, Harvey meets Disko Troop, captain of the small fishing boat We're Here, who refuses to take the young man back to port, but agrees to take him on as part of the crew. Over the course of the novel, Harvey befriends the captain's son Dan, who helps the arrogant millionaire develop into a hard-working, honest young man who is self-reliant and content with living simply.