Album; Scrapbook (22 results)

Scrapbook. Condition: Good. Scrapbook. Approx. 11.5" x 8". [21] leaves. 24 pages used for pasted down post card scenes, clippings, steamboat schedule, etc. A total of 58 items, mostly picture post cards. Most dates listed are 1928 with one date of 1933. Light wear to the album. Good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Mottled cloth with ornate blindstamped border on boards, "Monograms" stamped in gilt on upper board, a. e. g.; oblong, 6.5-by-9.25 inches; with calligraphic lithograph title-page printed in red, blue, and gilt, and 44 leaves, each with 9 monograms neatly adhered to the verso. N.d., likely early 20th century. Upper board, ffep, title-p., and first four leaves detached. Contents bright and clean. A grand total of 396 monograms, embossed or printed on a variety of papers, in a variety of colors and styles (armorial, royal, illuminated initials). Of great typographical interest, with elaborate lettering employed on quite a few of the specimens collected here. Sold as is.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Marbled paper over boards, red leather backstrip; 4to (about 7.5-by-9.5 inches); approx. pp. 119 (numbered by hand), with articles and images from numerous sources neatly mounted to the recto and verso. Boards scuffed; spine chipped and torn at tips, with gatherings exposed. Contains hundreds of articles on -- and portraits of -- authors, composers, heads of church and state, royalty, and more. This was, at some point, a ledger or journal, as patches of handwriting (numbers and letters) are sometimes visible between the articles or going to the very edge of the page. Our compiler focuses mostly on the arts, though his/her collection of articles does enjoy the occasional notice of the end of a family line ("The Last of the Carlyles") or item of broad social interest (the first female sailor in France). It features Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry Irving, H. R. H. the Prince of Wales, the King and Queen of Siam, the Bishop of Winchester, Lady Clifford, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and many more -- a spectrum of who's who, with an emphasis on the bookish. A bit stuffy, but also a bit curious -- perhaps the work of a student, an avid reader, or (maybe, just maybe) a social climber? Nice and full, almost no negative space.

HARD BACK GREEN. Condition: GOOD. BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS OF PEOPLE, FAMILIES, AND CHILDREN; GENERAL WEAR, RUBBED EXTREMTIIES, SOME LOOSE PHOTOGRAPHS, CLEAN, OVERSIZED REQUIRES ADDITIONAL POSTAGE. Features black & white photos from Atlantic City, TRAYMORE HOTEL, SNOW PILES ON THE BEACH Brigantine, Wildwood NJ. Approx. 120 photos 2" X 3" DATE PUBLISHED: 1920 EDITION:

Condition: Very Good+. Cloth-covered boards, 12 x 10.5 inches; contains 30 grey heavy cardstock leaves. Nicely preserves silver-gelatin photographs (in sepia and b/w, average size is 2 x 4 inches), passenger lists, postcards, telegrams, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, a few manuscript entries, and more, tipped-onto the rectos and versos of every leaf, or laid-in at rear. Boards a bit scuffed, with a scattering of tiny bleached spots. Binding a bit shaken, as expected, as the volume is near-to bursting with keepsakes and treasures. Photographs of landmarks, landscapes, streetscapes, and some wonderful images of the clothing, interior design, and cars of the period. Postcards (mostly b/w, with a few colored) include but are not limited to Stonehenge, Tunbridge Wells, Warwick Castle, Shakespeare s Birthplace, Anne Hathaway s cottage (and lovely garden), Raglan Castle, Gloucester Cathedral, Blarney Castle, a portrait of Lenin, a portrait of Stalin, The Paramount Hotel of New York City. Here and there throughout, this travelogue includes quite a few interesting pamphlets. All of them are clean and legible, though adhered to the scrapbook by their rear covers (and, as such, not removable without causing damage). They are: A guide to The Duke of Cornwall Hotel, Plymouth; The Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Christ; Canterbury: A Handbook for Pilgrims; Guide to the High Rocks One Mile from Royal Tunbridge Wells; A Short Guide to Battle Abbey; A Catalogue of an Exhibition of Original Paintings and Drawings Made to Illustrate Books Published at the Bodley Head, (New Burlington Galleries, 1930); A guide to Compton Wynyates History of Blarney Castle; A Guide to Glebe Hotel, Lakes of Killarney, Ireland; Kate, by Mary McCartie (staple-bound illustrated wraps, printed by The Veritas Company, Dublin); The University Collection of Antiquities Short Guide-Books, I. The Oseberg-Ship and The Oseberg-Room, Oslo: A. W. Broggers, 1930; Authorised Guide to the Tower of London. The final leaf introduces a new cruise, aboard the S. S. George Washington to Hamburg, Southampton and Cherbourg, and Cobh (Queenstown), with a passenger list, menu, and one tiny photograph of the Statue of Liberty. Though no details of this journey are provided, one legend is recorded in manuscript: A one-page telling of "The Seven Sluggards in the Courtyard of the Paula Becher Modersohn House in Boettcherstrasse," in which seven brothers dig a spring because they re too lazy to fetch water from the well, build a dyke around their house because they re too lazy to fend off flood, pave a road because they d rather not dig their wagon out of the mud in general, perform any number of laborious feats so that they can enjoy their laziness in comfort. Some rather brittle newspapers, a love letter (in which a very particular engagement ring is demanded), a few stray postcards and photographs, and manuscript (see below) are laid-in at the rear. Manuscript: 5 folded leaves, comprising 17 pages. Hastily records a series of charms, spells, superstitions, and omens undated, not offering a location. "If you see leaves and dust suddenly rise in a little whorl wind, bless yourself and leave, there is a passage there (i e) the fairies are going by ".

[Women Education] Scrapbook from a young woman studying at Stephens College (Columbia, Missouri) and Kansas State Teachers College, 1921-1943. Filled with 78 original silver gelatin photos and 43 pieces of ephemera, including numerous certificates, two cloth Varsity letters, report cards. 39 pages. Original cream boards with embossed detail to front cover. 10.5 x 13.5 inches. Photos range in size from 2.5 x 2" to 8 x 10". Originally belonged to Mary Jane Hinshaw. Scrapbook documents Hinshaw's life from infancy to adulthood. Hinshaw was an active and popular student. Comes with membership card for Delta Sigma Epsilon Sorority; party invitations and dance cards from Sigma Tau Gamma, Delta Sigma Epsilon, and Alpha Delta. Silver gelatin photos of family, school photos, and a vacation in the western United States with images of sweeping landscapes and dramatic rock formations. In 1941, Hinshaw graduated from a two-year program at Stephens College and began studying at Kansas State teachers College, with coursework in Library studies. Commencement invitation for Stephens College 1941. Report card from Stephens College 1940-1941 with coursework in Survey of English Literature, Intermediate French, English History, Introduction to Psychology, General Sociology, Appreciation of Music, Physical Education, Educational Psychology, and Elementary French Conversation. Three later report cards from Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia (1941-1943) with marks in Teaching, History of Education, American History 1492-1817, Library Administration, Cataloguing and Classification, Reference, Book Selection, Library word with Children, Literature of H.S. Subjects. Comes with one handwritten postcard from a Stephens College classmate who went on to pursue studies at the University of Wisconsin: "I am having a glorious time-It certainly isn't like Stephens much much better." Album begins with Baptism and Birth announcements, and photographs of her as a small child. Class photos of her in elementary to high school. Cutouts and information on Marysville High School, where Mary Jane Hinshaw's father served on the Board of Education. Vibrant green cloth "M" varsity letter, felt Bulldog, and Debate letter. Founded in 1833, Stephens College is the second-oldest female educational establishment that is still a women's college in the United States. The Kansas State Normal School, Emporia was established in March 1863, and it is the third-oldest public university in the state of Kansas. The first class graduated two women; and the in 1977, the college was renamed Emporia State University. Tear with loss above right portrait adhered to first page. 1 page detached. Front hinge is loose. In good to very good condition.

Thick 4to. [116 pp (unpaginated)], comprised of thick beige leaves, 100s of newspaper clippings, ditto copies, printed packets, menus, theatre programs, announcements, permission forms, documents, 17 tipped-in original photographs, drawings in pencil, coloured pencil, paint, corsages (1 orchid, a couple carnations), and much more. Contemporary embossed post binder, brown boards, gilt raised lettering on front cover, bound at gutter margin w/ brown silk braid (some toning, fraying to some samples, minor tears), still a VG piece. This outstanding World War II-era home front scrapbook chronicles the high school and college career of young Patricia Otis (b. 1925), providing an excellent historical document of life in the Pacific Northwest during the 1940s. Patricia Otis appears to have been a remarkable young woman, heavily involved in just about every high school activity, running for Student Body President, cheerleading, drama, school newspaper & yearbook staff, and much more. She includes souvenirs of participation in the Music for America Operetta a patriotic piece held in Newberg in March, 1942 set just after the events of Pearl Harbor; clipping and drawings of Newberg students filling trucks with sand to put out incendiary bombs should be dropped on the Pacific Northwest; War Bond drives held by the Disabled American Veterans in conjunction with the High School and election of Miss Columbia; photos of the Newberg Union football team nicknamed the Douglas Dive-Bombers; clippings about Patricia as Miss Columbia at Veterans ceremony honoring Henry Hopkins who in 1943 was one of the oldest living Civil War Veterans; a list of service men in South Pacific who had been classmates; describes the shortages of photographic paper due to wartime rationing, as well as clippings announcing the christening of the Liberty ship John W. Troy launched at the Oregon Shipyards in 1944 by her roommate Nancy Merki. In addition, there are 100s of notes, drawings, school souvenirs, dance cards, and much more recording everyday high school and college life. The Romig and Otis family had many military veterans, including Patricia Otis' grandfather, Dr. Edward A. Romig (1852-1939), Army Surgeon for the 40th Infantry during the Philippine Insurrection, who settled in Newberg, OR following his discharge from the Army in 1903; and her father, Ralph Grey Otis (1891-1959), served from 1918-1919 as a Corporal in the US Army, Battery D, 27th Artillery, and later operated the family farm in Rex, OR for many decades. See: The Community of Rex, Oregon, In: The West Side, Feb., 2009, pp. 6-8.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Full morocco, stamped in black and gilt on boards and spine; pp. [100], with monograms or sepia albumen photographs tipped onto the recto of nearly every page. Nearly 500 monograms, embossed or printed on a variety of papers, in a variety of colors and styles (armorial, royal, illuminated initials), and arranged in elaborate radial, geometric, and floral patterns -- and on one page arranged on an illustration of a man with a sandwich board, the most whimsical of the groupings. Includes 27 mounted albumen photographs (across 13 leaves, so some of them full-page), usually replicating classical or religious paintings or statues, with a handwritten caption identifying the work and its location. An elegant collection, in excellent condition, just some light off-setting from the adhesive here and there. Spine and upper board darkened, otherwise a very nice binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Contemporary gilt-ruled red morocco; 140 x 180 mm; pp. 154. Each page is filled with monograms and crests, the majority cut from various sources, some hand-drawn. The compiler has on most occasions personalized the assembly of a given page by drawing an object or a design that helps to categorize a group, or family, of crests. A collection of hundreds of monograms, internally colorful and clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Deep green leather, embossed logo of Holsten-Bauerei on front board; 310 x 215 mm; pp. 48, just the last few leaves blank, the rest full colorful beer labels from varieties of European beers (principally German and Danish), along with photographs, ephemera, original artwork, and well wishes and signatures from numerous contributors. Presented to T. W. Hartas, Esq., a "business partner," on the occasion of his returning to London. Spirited, jovial, and handsomely presented. Cheers!.

Decorative paper over boards, cloth backstrip; 8" x 11"; pp. 76, each hosting 4 postcards, and COMPLETELY FULL! A grand total of 304 postcards, in full-color and b/w, offering scenes of Cairo, Paris, Barbados, Manila, Sydney, Tahiti, San Francisco, New Jersey -- and more. Many have postmarks and postage stamps. Cards are "mounted" into slits at their corners, and therefore whole and removable. With laid-in hand-drawn (and illustrated) map, quite toned and worn but very capably carried out, with a journey by sea indiated in red. Hinges cracked, with mull exposed; boards quite scuffed. Contents are in excellent condition, bright and clean (excepting a few flaws in the map), and very, very cool.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Green morocco, ornately stamped in gilt and blind on boards and spine; oblong 8vo (7.75 x 9.75 inches); approx. pp. 80, with tipped-on die-cuts, engravings, and original artwork. Boards a bit scuffed along the edges; front joint split near head of spine; some browning from the adhesive, and a few scuffs where ephemera has been removed, but in excellent condition internally. Includes 25 tipped-on engravings (including one showing a woman with a child on a leash!), 10 die-cuts, 2 original pencil sketches, and 4 original full-color paintings, and one manuscript inscription. Images include landscapes, portraits, and costume. Nice.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Full leather (7-by-9 inches), all edges gilt, in hand-made cloth cover with calligraphic initials and floral motif embroidered on front cover; approx. pp. 200, different color papers, more than half full with autographs, prose, poems, and original artwork by numerous contributors. Cloth cover sunned along spine and edges, otherwise fine. A lovely volume. By turns funny and touching, this album compiled by Miss Elsie Nora Turner (who becomes a Mrs. along the way) includes original pen and ink drawings, watercolors, gouache, two sepia photographs (one including a very early image of a car), and 6 pages of autographs (including one with the heading, "My Wedding Day / June 9, 1909." that is signed by her 4 bridesmaids). The artwork, contributed by friends and family, is invariably adept, ranging from the formal landscape, still life, or portrait, to cartoons (a cat caught in a goldfish bowl, a flamingo at battle with a frog, a man with wings abuzz in a field of lady flowers) -- it is sometimes direct on the page, other times tipped into corner slots (and so removable). A drawing of a bridge blown up by the Boers in 1900 is amongst the artwork. Some contribute poetry, including one in defense of women, and another quotes Longfellow's "Hiawatha." The numerous autographs she collects locate most of her friends and family spread throughout England. Interestingly, we know that Miss Turner was married in 1909. There are no entries dated later than 1909, but there is a "Baby's Catechism" clipped from a newspaper and laid-in. Perhaps, by that time, the Mrs. no longer had the time necessary to compile, document, and contribute to such a careful, spirited volume.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Signed full contemporary morocco, initials "E. P." and date stamped in gilt on front board; 225 x 150 mm; hand-illuminated Edwardian manuscript and photograph album titled, "Book of Memories." Belonging to John Paget, this book is a testament to the domestic pleasures of country life, with photographs of country houses (inside and out), garden and landscape views, children, horses, dogs, and fox hunting scenes. Carefully executed illuminated manuscript pages have been added, along with an occasional watercolor or pastel crayon drawing. Places include Oxon Hoath, Shopwyke House, Mount Pleasant, Leigh Park, Sulby Hall, and others. A little scuffed along joints and edges, otherwise fine. A lavish volume.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Original grey cloth over boards, decorative paste-downs; 195 x 260 mm; pp. 47, with tipped-on typed text, some handwritten annotations and underlines. Extra illustrated with clippings, postcards, original drawings, ephemera, and one photograph. Dedicated to Gertrude Alison Densler. Uniformly toned at edges; gently worn; minor tears. Book commences with the popular Italian tale "Fagiolino" by Elisa Amati, translated by Alan C. Dunn. Containing 26 clipped illustration pasted to leaves, and hand-colored pen and ink drawings, depicting characters from the story. After which, book includes typed poems by William Blake, William Shakespeare, Walter de la Mare, Carl Sandburg; and other original works by the poet are clipped and pasted-in. An original, hand-drawn paper doll with original hats and clothes are secured by decorative pockets. A charming "book of favorites" and a sophisticated compilation; sketches and poems collaged into this album offer a fascinating glimpse into the mind of a young artist and poet.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Original maroon cloth over boards, string ties exposed on spine; 392 x 270 mm; approx. pp. 250, with hand-drawn color illustrations and contemporary fabric samples on nearly every page. Boards a little scuffed. Internally lovely -- handwriting and illustrations are beautifully carried out. Student album on the history and manufacturing of silk.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Half morocco and marbled paper over boards, "T. M. P. / 1845" stamped in gilt on spine; 4to (8.75x11.5 inches). Contains the complete set of 23 hand-colored plates by F. Meyer, illustrating Swiss costume (from "Costumes Suisses en Mignature," Zurich, 1836); 33 hand-colored miniatures views of Switzerland (from "Cinquante Principales Vues Pittoresques en Mignature de la Suisse," Zurich, n.d.); 19 hand-colored miniature views of France and Germany. Plus a few watercolors, aquatints, engraved views fo Vienna, color lithographs of the Crimea, and more. Leaves a bit brittle, with a few detached and neatly laid in; but all images are neatly mounted in the album via slotted corners, and so easy to remove. A nice, bright collection overall, with some light marginal soiling, and just a plate or two a bit foxed or oxidized.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Contemporary full dark green morocco, lavishly stamped in blind and gilt on boards and spine; 4to (210 x 265 mm); approx. pp. 200, nearly full with handwritten poetry and prose, original artwork, albumen photographs, and ephemera -- sometimes adhered to the page, direct on the page, or loosely inserted via corner slots. A little scuffing along spine and edges of boards, else fine. A varied collection of highly skilled original artwork, including 6 paintings en brunelle, 12 in watercolor or gouache, and 7 in black ink wash; plus 11 pencil drawings, 4 sepia albumen photographs (mounted direct to the page, ranging in size from 122x85 to 132x195 mm), about a dozen handwritten contributions of prose and poetry (including one in Spanish), and more than 50 pieces of ephemera. Decades in the making, and with contributions from numerous hands, this is a rich and remarkably accomplished volume -- one wonders if it was perhaps created by a circle of artists. Landscapes and landmarks of England appear in the original artwork (such as a finely detailed drawing of the house where Sir Isaac Newton was born) and photographs (St. Mary's Church; New College from the Gardens), as well as the ephemera (numerous engraved illustrations of castles, neatly clipped from unknown sources). Far-flung locales are also represented: View on the Medina River (pencil drawing), Martaban at Sunrise (beautiful watercolor of Burma), an architectural drawing that suggests India. Prose and poetry contributions, mostly original, offer religious sentiments, thoughts on love and friendship, and a bit of humor (in particular, a piece entitled "Georgy on Shakespeare" argues that the Bard is greatly over-rated). Ephemera includes holiday greetings, numerous illustrations extracted from unknown sources, and the occasional die-cut. Landscapes, birds, flowers -- all the hallmarks of a typical album of the period -- though this one is particularly nice.

Green cloth over flexible boards, "Photographs" stamped in gilt on upper board; 4to; approx. pp. 50, with over 100 mounted postcard-format entries, usually two per page, on both the recto and the verso. Wonderful! Easily one of the nicest albums of this kind that we have had the pleasure of cataloguing. This unique album contains more than 100 dated "diary entries" (out of chronological sequence), each one a hand-made postcard featuring original artwork (including watercolors, pencil sketches, ink drawings, both naive and accomplished), a photograph, a cyanotype, or an image cut from an unknown source (such as a newspaper or magazine). The postcards are created by numerous contributors, and their rich variety is difficult to capture, except to say that they run the gamut of human capability (the sketch artist offers an anthropomorphic chicken, the watercolor painter a peaceful landscape) and personality (sentimental, humorous, sweet, thoughtful). A short list gives you an idea: happy puppies (photograph), ladies in big dresses wading in the surf (photograph), a Rorsarch test (ink, of course), kite (ink drawing), plant specimen, baseball joke (pencil cartoon), a little bird (feather collage), 8 bars of music (ink), Jamaica Plain (cyanotype), bull fight (photograph), boats (photograph), a family portrait in the Adirondacks (photograph). Our compiler must have enlisted far-flung friends for contributions, as images and references hail from Perugia, Brooklyn, Boston, Zermatt Valley, Philadelphia, Avignon, and Arizona.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Mottled black cloth over boards; 4to (8x10 inches); approx. pp. 100, hevy cardstock leaves on cloth stubs, rich with ephemera, either tipped direct to the page, or in corner mounts (and therefore removable). Cloth split along joints, with binding just a little bit shaken. Internally bright and clean -- colors pop! Lavish, varied, and lovely, this album contains intricate die-cuts (mostly botanical motifs, including sprays of flowers, silhouettes of trees), paintings on leaves (floral motif, fruit, Chinese costume), beautiful paintings of birds and flowers, ornately gilt embossed cards, braided human hair, cleverly folded letters (in corner mounts, so you can take them out and marvel), hand-colored engravings (a religious theme, or a landscape or scene), embroidered silk, a menu, hotel cards, and pressed flowers. Well over 100 specimens, all in excellent condition.

[96] ll.A beautiful example of a richly decorated and illustrated album amicorum, a book of poetry and a scrapbook in one. Alba amicorum were a popular and pleasant pastime at this time, as the first sentence of the album immediately makes clear: "Albums are all the rage, and scrap-books too". Although the album contains many poems by various poets, possibly mostly copied by the owner of the album herself, a girl from a noble family, probably Miss van Boetzelaer (?), the album also contains many contributions by others, particularly women. Examples are F. Testa, Adèle B., J. van Winter, H.v.W., A. van der Goes, H.G. v.d. G., J.C. van Beresteyn, H.J.B., C.B., A. de Schwartzenberg et Hohenlansberg, H. Repelaer van Driel, A.G. v. B. en A. de la B. The contributors probably made the drawings and watercolours to accompany their written entries and the owner mounted them in the album herself. Some of the most remarkable among the richly illustrated contributions are a loosely inserted mountain landscape in watercolour by Johannes van Ravenswaay (1815-1849), a bouquet with flowers in gouache by Wilhelma van Boetzelaer (an English teacher at the royal military academy at Breda) and another bouquet by A.J. Taets d'Amerongen née de Boetzelaer. Another beautiful drawing of three hummingbirds is executed in gouache and decorated with gold by Suzette van B., who wrote several contributions for this album. Also beautiful are a still life with fruits drawn by Mimi Stratenus, two gouaches of butterflies on pith paper by C. Bicker Borski and Christine van Berestyn, and gouache paintings of a rose by Elisa Hanbury and a butterfly by Dorothée Palland Sandberg. Also mounted in this album are engraved portraits of William Shakespeare (1564-1616) and Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), probably reflecting the poetic tastes of the album s owner. This album is not only a beautiful example of the alba amicorum culture among noble women, which flourished for centuries, but also a book for a woman made primarily by women, reflecting an important part of the culture of noble women in the first half of the 19th century.Some occasional spotting and browning, and the large number of insertions has overfilled the binding, so that it bulges slightly , but otherwise in good condition. A very interesting album amicorum with many contributions, drawings and prints by women, in a beautiful contemporary binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Morocco backed original cloth; oblong, 380 x 305 mm; contains over 100 drawings of dresses, hats, jackets, and more, done primarily in pen and ink, and colored in pencil or gouache; and highlighted by 5 mounted photographs of a woman modeling different gowns. From the Parisian fashion house Detrois et Cie. Women's garments, shown from the front and back, and professionally presented -- drawings are polished, and nicely detailed and colored. Scuffing along spine and edges of boards; binding a bit shaken.