Bosqui, Edward (20 results)

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LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1871 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: 112 Barnes, William Henry Linow, 1836-1902,Eberle, Robert M,Bosqui, Edward, 1832-1917.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1871 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: 125 Language: English.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1879 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: 384 Language: English.

Hardback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Boards (HB) in decorative cloth. In very good minus condition with rubbing to cover corners, fading to spine and the usual ex-library markings, cards stamps and small label bottom of spine. Inside the book is all clean and bright with nary a mark of smudge. Produced for The Holmes Book Company by the Grabhorn Press in a limited edition of 350 copies. A quality production on heavy, laid paper. 6 full-page plates including color lithograph frontispiece reproduced from Bosqui's "Grapes & Grape Vines of California" the memoirs of Edward Bosqui, charter member of the Bohemian Club, one of the founders of the California Academy of Science, and the man credited with introducing the art of fine printing in California. Interesting insights into pioneer California by a man who came to the state hot on the heels of the Gold Rush. 181 pages.

Reprint of the excessively rare 1904 first edition, with new foreword, introduction and listing of Bosqui imprints by Harold C. Holmes. Signed on the front endpaper by Helen Weber Kennedy, great granddaughter of the founder of Stockton, California. Foreword by Harold C. Holmes. Introduction by Henry R. Wagner. xxvii, 180pp. Colored frontis, 3 facsimiles, 2 plates. Bibliography. Publisher's cloth-backed boards, paper spine label. Spine slightly faded. A fine copy. "Reminiscences of a pioneer printer, who came to California in 1850" (Howes). Bosqui, a native of Montreal, arrived in San Francisco in July of 1850. He obtained employment with the banking firm of Palmer, Cook & Co., grew tired of the routine and headed off for the Josephine Mine at Mariposa. After seeing the elephant, he returned to Palmer & Cook in May of 1851. He got tired of the routine again and left California in December of 1853, only to return to establish California's most famous nineteenth-century printing, bookbinding, and engraving establishment. Bosqui is considered San Francisco's first "fine printer." One if 350 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Now, quite scarce. See Cowan, p.64. [Howes: B-623; Kurutz: 66-b].

Condition: . Limited Edition. Original charcoal-gray cloth and fleur-de-lys patterned boards, quarto (7.25 x 10 inches), xvii, (181) pp., printed paper spine label. 6 full-page plates including color lithograph frontispiece reproduced from Bosqui's "Grapes & Grape Vines of California." Slight fading to cloth, owner name to front free endpaper, else very good. Edward Bosqui (1832-1917) was the Canadian artist and printer who emigrated to San Francisco in 1850 to found the Bosqui Engraving and Printing Company. The firm became the pre-eminent printing house on the West Coast. Bosqui's crowning achievment was the publication in 1877 of "Grapes & Grape Vines of California," a series of 10 large "oleograph" plates now exceedingly rare. Limited to 350 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. Grabhorn Press Bibliography #526.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Foreword by Harold C. Holmes & Introduction by Henry R Wagner. One of 350 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Unnumbered. Prospectus laid in of the Bohemian Club Library Notes. Some writing in pencil at the bottom of the last page of the prospectus. Half black/blue cloth and patterned boards. Some fading to the spine with a paper label. Bottom corners worn through a bit. Light writing in pencil on the front free endpaper and the inside backboard. Reminiscences of a pioneer printer, who came to California in 1850" - Howes #B-623.

[San Francisco: Edward Bosqui, 1877]. San Francisco: John Windle, 1980. Folio, [64] pp. 10 color plates with text. A fine copy in sheets and portfolio as issued. § Limited to 40 copies for sale in sheets; this exact facsimile of the first California ampelography to show the grapes in superb color printing was reissued by San Francisco printers and binders from one of the few extant perfect copies (now at the Lilly Library). The edition was not completed and only 65 sets were released, of which 25 were bound. The numbering of the completed copies was eccentric: this copy is numbered 133."Originally published by the California State Viticultural Association in 1877 and printed by the renowned San Francisco firm of Edward Bosqui and Co., the volume is of paramount importance both in the canon of literature on grapes and vines and in the great tradition of fine printing in San Francisco. Its excellence lines not only in the technically accurate descriptive text but equally in the ten beautiful oleographic color plates after watercolors by Hannah Millard, the first color illustrations of the grapes of California to be published. The book was originally issued in parts for subscribers in a very small edition and even at the time few complete sets are likely to have been assembled. Of those a significant proportion was to be lost or irreparably damaged in the disaster of April 1906" (Prospectus). Only around 12 complete copies are known today in private and institutional collections. Zamorano Select (2010) 34A writes that "in his valuable introduction to the Windle facsimile" Kevin Starr provides historical background for the original edition. "Both as a work on viticulture and as a color-plate book, 'Grapes and Grape Vines of California' was an unprecedented achievement for a California press" as indeed was the facsimile which was so impressive that Harcourt Brace Jovanovich reissued it in a reduced format trade edition that went through two large printings before being remaindered. Bosqui's Grape Vines of 1877 is among the rarest of American color plate books.

[San Francisco: Edward Bosqui, 1877]. San Francisco: John Windle, 1980. Folio, [64] pp. 10 color plates with text. A fine copy in sheets and portfolio as issued. § Limited to 40 copies for sale in sheets (this is copy #131); this exact facsimile of the first California ampelography to show the grapes in superb color printing was reissued by San Francisco printers and binders from one of the few extant perfect copies (now at the Lilly Library). The edition was not completed and only 65 sets were released (of which 25 were bound). "Originally published by the California State Viticultural Association in 1877 and printed by the renowned San Francisco firm of Edward Bosqui and Co., the volume is of paramount importance both in the canon of literature on grapes and vines and in the great tradition of fine printing in San Francisco. Its excellent lines not only in the technically accurate descriptive text but equally in the ten beautiful oleographic color plates after watercolors by Hannah Millard, the first color illustrations of the grapes of California to be published. The book was originally issued in parts for subscribers in a very small edition and even at the time few complete sets are likely to have been assembled. Of those a significant proportion was to be lost or irreparably damaged in the disaster of April 1906. Today only six complete and undamaged copies can be located in both public and private collections nationwide." (Prospectus)Zamorano Select (2010) 34A writes that "in his valuable introduction to the Windle facsimile" Kevin Starr provides historical background for the original edition. "Both as a work on viticulture and as a color-plate book, 'Grapes and Grape Vines of California' was an unprecedented achievement for a California press" as indeed was the facsimile which was so impressive that Harcourt Brace Jovanovich reissued it in a reduced format trade edition that went through two large printings before being remaindered. Bosqui's Grape Vines of 1877 is among the rarest of American color plate books.

[San Francisco: Edward Bosqui, 1877]. San Francisco: John Windle, 1980. Folio, [64] pp. 10 color plates with text. A fine copy in sheets and portfolio as issued. § Limited to 40 copies for sale in sheets; this exact facsimile of the first California ampelography to show the grapes in superb color printing was reissued by San Francisco printers and binders from one of the few extant perfect copies (now at the Lilly Library). The edition was not completed and only 65 sets were released (of which 25 were bound). "Originally published by the California State Viticultural Association in 1877 and printed by the renowned San Francisco firm of Edward Bosqui and Co., the volume is of paramount importance both in the canon of literature on grapes and vines and in the great tradition of fine printing in San Francisco. Its excellent lines not only in the technically accurate descriptive text but equally in the ten beautiful oleographic color plates after watercolors by Hannah Millard, the first color illustrations of the grapes of California to be published. The book was originally issued in parts for subscribers in a very small edition and even at the time few complete sets are likely to have been assembled. Of those a significant proportion was to be lost or irreparably damaged in the disaster of April 1906. Today only six complete and undamaged copies can be located in both public and private collections nationwide." (Prospectus)Zamorano Select (2010) 34A writes that "in his valuable introduction to the Windle facsimile" Kevin Starr provides historical background for the original edition. "Both as a work on viticulture and as a color-plate book, 'Grapes and Grape Vines of California' was an unprecedented achievement for a California press" as indeed was the facsimile which was so impressive that Harcourt Brace Jovanovich reissued it in a reduced format trade edition that went through two large printings before being remaindered. Bosqui's Grape Vines of 1877 is among the rarest of American color plate books.