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Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. Volume 1. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Volume 3. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. Volume 5. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. Volume 4.

Zustand: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

S. 261 - 326 + 33 S. OBrosch. In engl. Sprache. - Leichte Gbrp., Kapital m. kl. Fehlstelle, gut erhalten. Sprache: englisch.

Photograph albums. Oblong folio. 2 volumes: 401 mounted photographs, 4 3/8 x 2 to 3 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches; 102 mounted photographs, 2 3/4 x 1 7/8 to 3 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches, predominantly of the larger size in both volumes and with nearly all of the images captioned in white. Included are sections dedicated to Pinehurst, North Carolina (75 images), Lake Placid, New York (37), Detroit, Michigan (68), and several other eastern United States locales where Bigelow and his family lived and vacationed, and depictions of the Sound Beach Golf Club of Old Greenwich, Connecticut, in its inaugural year of 1905 (6), the Detroit Country Club in 1905 (4), the Pinehurst Golf Club in 1905 (16, identifying golfers George Low, Sr., Alex Findlay, Andrew Kirkaldy, Alan Lard, and Donald and Alec Ross), photo-essays on the 1906 and 1910 Vanderbilt Cup [Automobile] Races at Westbury, Long Island (13), Dyker Meadow Golf Club in 1907 Brooklyn, New York (6), the White Mountain Express train wreck of 1908 (4), Salisbury Golf Links & Club in 1911 Garden City, New York (6), a 1911 Lake Placid fire department drill (7), and the Ann Arbor and Detroit Golf Clubs in 1915 and 1925 (8). Scattered through the text are images of other golf courses and country club buildings, a baseball game and cricket match, horseback riding, and other outdoor sporting activities, making a total of about 130 in the album (25 per cent of the total). Covers very worn, but images, for the most part, are bright and sharp. Original gilt-stamped suede (rear cover detached, spine eroded, yapped edges chipped) and gilt-stamped brown fabrikoid (tied, original ties replaced). (#6114). Of particular interest is the 75-image section documenting the early days of the Pinehurst development, a photo-essay examining the relatively new golf resort which had opened its first course in 1899 and saw Donald Ross appointed golf pro there in 1900, a position he would hold until his death in 1948, productive decades that would find him designing over 400 courses in the United States; this section of the first album includes, in addition to the 16 images of the golf course and golfers, photographs of the train depot, a "Negro cabin," 'possum hunting, elaborate cottages, the town hall, an African-American with his wagon pulled by the "oldest mule in the state," sand hills, pine stands, and other scenery, quail hunting, the deer park, owl cage, and hennery, the golf club house, and an old turpentine mill. Other sections of the albums picture Bigelow and his family living, vacationing, and participating in various outdoor activities, as they moved from Brooklyn, to Greenwich and Farmington, Connecticut, Long Island, Grosse Point, Michigan, and Philadelphia and visited a wide range of cities and outdoor destinations in the south, middle Atlantic, and upper midwest states. The Vanderbilt cup race was the first major trophy in American auto racing; the inaugural race in 1904 and the next two were held on winding dirt roads in Nassau County, Long Island, suspended for a year, and then held 1908-1910 on the Long Island Motor Parkway, the first specially built racetrack in America. We have not found much information on Bigelow; apparently he studied at Cornell in the 1880s, playing on the baseball team, competed in tennis and golf tournaments around New York in the 1890s and 1900s, and was a member of the Brooklyn Boat Club in the 1910s. Nevertheless, his photograph albums, offered here, provide an expansive look at the leisure activities of the well-to-do in the early decades of the 20th century, especially revealing for the views of American golf courses, clubs, and play just at the time when the wave of professionals from Scotland began to make their presence felt, with improved course design and instruction.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 64 x 103 mm (mount); recto of mount inscribed in ink at top edge: 'William's cottage'; verso with the imprint of 'American and Australian Photographic Company. Melbourne Office, 73 Little Collins St. East'; both print and mount are in excellent condition. The American & Australian Photographic Company was the Melbourne arm of theAmerican & Australasian Photographic Company (note the subtle difference in wording) established in Sydney in 1869 by Beaufoy Merlin. It was run by James P. Lind, who - like Merlin and his assistant Charles Bayliss - specialised in taking outdoor views in carte de visite format, rather than studio portraits. Based on the evidence of Lind's surviving photographs, the bulk of his business - from the late 1860s right up into the 1880s - evidently came from photographing private residences, often with the owners posed outside. The 73 Collins Street East address is the earliest one used by Lind on anAmerican & Australian Photographic Company carte de visite back mark. The back mark is certainly rare, as contemporary Melbourne newspaper advertisements tell us that the firm had its headquarters at this address only in the period 1869-1870. Not only is the present example the only one we have sighted, but its relatively low negative number '3019' indicates it was probably taken in 1869 rather than 1870. Davies & Stanbury (The Mechanical Eye in Australia) were not even aware that the firm was active at such an early date, listing its first address as 63 Bourke Street, from 1871. This intriguing view of a cottage with neatly planted rows of vines would seem to be evidence of small-scale domestic wine production in Victoria in the 1860s. Although the cottage was probably located in the greater Melbourne area, there is also a possibility the photograph was taken in the Beechworth district. A notice in the Ovens and Murray Advertiser(Beechworth),25 September 1869, reported that 'A companyknown as the AmericanandAustralianPhotographicCompany, having offices inMelbourne and Sydney, is about to senda representative to this district'. A few days later, on 30 September 1869, this was followed up by an advertisement in the same paper: 'Will shortly Photograph every House inBeechworth. TheAmericanandAustralianPhotographicCompany.Melbourne Office : 73, Little Collins-street, East.Sydney Office : 4, Barrack-street.'.

No binding. Zustand: good. "To Seymour Halpern / With best wishes for much success, Leo Godowsky Jr. / New York Jan 16st 1931 / And more of them from Leopold D. Mannes". At verso: ink notaion "Sorry that there is no answer to your question." by Leopold Mannes (?) and pencil notaion by other hand. Print Paper Size: 8cm x 14.5cm (Image Size: same). Mount: 11.7x16.3cm. Mount torn at lower margin with autograph, chipped at corners. [aj1510-102739].

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 64 x 105 mm (mount); verso with the pictorial back mark in violet of the American & Australasian Photographic Company, Beaufoy Merlin, Sydney Office, 324 George Street; the print is a little pale but otherwise in very good condition, as is the mount. Beaufoy Merlin specialised in photographing buildings with their owners, occupiers or workers, and he is known to have produced numerous cartes de visite of Sydney schools; see, for example, his carte de visite photograph of St Michaels School, Bourke Street, Darlinghurst (SLNSW, SPF/447) taken around the same time as the photograph we offer here (i.e. the back mark has the 324 George Street address of the American & Australasian Photographic Company). The present photograph is clearly of a private school for girls and young women. We believe there is a strong possibility that it is Queen's College for Young Ladies, Macleay Street, Potts Point, which was founded and run by Henry Montagu.This school was open between 1868 and 1875. Early advertisements in the SMH during 1870 gave the college's address as '143 Macleay Street, Darlinghust Road', later advertisements as '143 Darlinghurst Road' - one street is, of course, a continuation of the other. Henry Neville Montagu, M.A. (Oxon.), Ph.D. (1823-1901) arrived in Sydney in 1860. Hewas employed as English master at several girls' schools including Carlton House, Wynyard Square, prior to establishing Queen's College for Young Ladies at 143 Darlinghurst Road, with his German wife, Theodora Maximilliana Zincken. In this photograph, we believe the bearded gentleman standing on the porch at right (the only male pictured) is Montagu, and that the very upright and stern-looking lady beside him is Theodora. Aside from education, Montagu also had serious interests in journalism and the theatre: he was proprietor and editor of The Sydney Punchfor several years from 1873, and wrote for a number of newspapers as a music and drama critic. He travelled to Brisbane in September 1876 as manager oftheMajeroni Theatrical Company for their season there. He also served as manager and secretary of the Orpheonist Society (a musical society in Stanley Street, Darlinghurst). Much later, in 1881, he was elected foundation president of the Sydney Press Club. Montagu had good business acumen and was something of an entrepreneur when it came to sourcing fee-paying pupils for his exclusive Queen's College in Potts Point. He cast a wide net to attract the attention of wealthy families throughout regional New South Wales, in the hope of enticing them to send their daughters to board at the grand Macleay Street residence. A lengthy advertisement placed in theClarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser (Grafton, NSW), 2 February1869, exemplifies his promotional nous: 'THE SUCCESS THAT HAS FOR NINEYEARS attended Mr. Montagu's tuition at thePRINCIPAL LADIES' SCHOOLS in Sydney,when only giving a comparatively short portion of histime at each academy, will be some guarantee of thethorough education to be imparted to the pupils ofQueen's College, when, as principal tutor, he willdevote his WHOLE TIME AND ENERGIES totheir instruction, to the preparation of their studios,and to the development of their mental capabilities.Parents may rely on their children being WELL GROUNDEDin every branch of a THOROUGHENGLISH EDUCATION, with ELOCUTION,MODERN LANGUAGES, and the variousACCOMPLISHMENTS, under PROFESSORS ofthe highest distinction ; the system of teaching beingadapted lo strengthen the intellectual qualities.The LATIN (as a key to English), FRENCH, andGERMAN LANGUAGES will be included in the regularcourse of study, WITHOUT ADDITIONAL CHARGE. In the latter, the pupils have theadvantage of obtalning (from Mrs. Montagu) the purehigh German idiom and pronunciation. SPECIAL CLASSES are arranged for tho EDUCATION and TRAINING of GOVERNESSES forschools or private families ; and Examiners of the highest scholastic position.

[China n.d. ca. 1927-1928]. Brown simulated alligator cloth covers, 37 x 27.5 cm., black pages, spine ribbon-tied, ca. 400 b.w. photos corner mounted, images very good, sharp and clear images NOT faded,solid,nicely done. V E R Y R A R E ! **** *** **** . . SUPERB PHOTO ALBUM OF THE CHINESE CIVIL WAR: . . Beginning of The Communist Party led led by Mao Tse-tung . . V.S. the Kuomintang [KMT] or Chinese Nationalist Party . Led by Chiang Kai Shek. . The United States Supported the KMT. In this album, we see how the KMT soldiers hosted the American Army in China, using their trains and military bases throughout China. * This unusual album contains 400 original b. w. photographs & and is an historic photographic record of American military deployment showing Dough-boys in China, probably from the U.S. Army's 2nd. Battalion, 15th. infantry, per the flag and insignia found on a group formation photograph. A minority are with written captions, by and large taken by the person who made the album, also enhanced with a small percent of professional Chinese photos, some of which have in-negative captions. * There are ca. 3 or so photos missing else completely filling 32 pages or 64 sides + one on the inside back cover. The inside of the front cover has five attractive period color luggage type adverts from various hotels: Hotel Lankershim & Coast Line Military & Naval Hotel San Francisco, Cal; The Court Hotel, Tientsin North China; Grand Hotel des Wagons Litz; Astor House Hotel Ltd., Tientsin. * The album begins with photos of a Chinese playing a Pi-pa [snake skin banjo], then there are three other photos: first two show a Chinese military camouflage train engine from which a Yank soldier in his campaign hat descends, and a long train of cars with a large howitzer mounted upon one, last shows French [?] troops at parade rest with their rifles and white gloves and crested helmets with anchors [naval or marines] with others in the background with some officers. * The next two pages show Chinese coolies swing a basket from the creek top water a field, a mother suckling her baby with her family at the farm, a large water tower in the wet slums and a group of Doughboys at attention in formation, they wear boots, leggings, chrome World War I type dress helmets, a rifle, back pack with bayonet, cartridge pouch belts with green wool hip-length jackets. The opposite page shows another view of the Chinese military train, a pair of large mounted guns on an armored train car. To the right is a Chinese officer pointing to a large pierced hole in the train with a foreign engineer peering out from the small window. The train sports the Republic of China flag with a Chinese military unit flag painted on the side. Another view shows a group of abandoned Chinese coffins that went to the dogs; a group of soldiers in garrison caps at attention with fixed bayonets as the officers salute someone near the person taking the photo, some Chinese officers also present. * Next 2 pages show Chinese on a wheel barrow, some Japanese women by a pond in Kimono and a group of British troops from their colonial Empire: blacks, Indians, white trumpeter, Chinese, and others with musical instruments all wear white cork-type pith helmets. A group of Japanese officers mugging for the camera. Photos of the railhead and large number of Chinese troops with rifles, and kit at the railway station, some on march carrying their flags others in open box cars with touring cars that are on the move, another of camouflaged armored train cars, one shows a number of foreign soldiers looking out of a train car window, some are with tiny embossed stamp at right corner: "Mei Lee Tien Tsin." * The album continues with a mixture of images of civilian Chinese, Chinese military, their trains, moving air planes, weapons, war refugees in tents, military views of barbed wire fortifications, trenches, machine gunners Russian soldiers, Chinese officers, Chinese air force, funerals, rickshaw pullers, camel trains, captured & wounded prisoners, foreign soldiers at their sand-bagged posts. Photos of the great wall, magnificent Chinese architectural monuments, buildings and pagodas, religious icons, coffins, more coffins, mortars & Chinese junks and a plethora of others. * The American Consulate General's compound in Tientsin, American military band welcoming the newly arrived replacement troops. A large photo group shot of the American officers seated for a memorial photograph, with their Battalion flag proudly posted on the wall where they pose [source of our citation at the top of the unit name]; two buglers are at each outside position, the commander is ram-rod straight and taller than all others seated in the front & center; he and only two others on his sides wear full leather knee boots, probably indicating the highest ranking officers; others are in boots & leggings. * Photos of Doughboys aboard a ship showing the Naval officers with one stunning photo of an American high officer with his Japanese & Chinese counter parts posing for the camera. And a photo of the "Mail Boat Gazun Panama" and a few others of Panama giving credence to the fact that some of these soldiers came from the American East coast via Panama to San Francisco, then on to China. Nice photo of semi-nude Panamanian family, men, women, children. Doughboys at target practice, photos of Chinese poverty, coolies pulling great loads and street vendors. * More showing Chinese life style, street life, horse & bullock carts, and yet more caskets left in the open unburied and abandoned, train cars full of horses, Chinese troops, smoke rising from a burning city, another with "Tian jin" written in Chinese, catholic church, more parading of American soldiers within the Tientsin American Consulate parade grounds, trooping of the colors. And a nice photo of the "U.S. Army Transport Thomas," Chinese junk &c. A U.S. soldier in a necktie, his rifle at fixed bayonet at parade-rest before the Consulate General.