California book fairs LA and San Francisco 2026
California book fairs LA and San Francisco 2026
73 items found
Ogawa, K.
Some Japanese Flowers.
Yokohama, Kelly and Walsh, [1896]. Folio (38.2 x 29.3 cm). Title-page; 37 chromocollotype plates, partly finished by hand, each with a printed tissue guard. Original silk covers with floral, full-colour prints on front and rear boards; stab binding with threaded cords. Gilt-speckled endpapers. All edges gilt.
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Palmer, W. [E.]
Memoir of the distinguished Mohawk Indian chief, sachem and warrior. Compiled from the most reliable and authentic records. Including a brief history of the principal events of his life, with an appendix. And portrait.
Brantford Ontario, C. E. Stewart, 1872. 8vo (17.6 x 11.6 cm). 89 pp.; woodcut portrait frontispiece. Original blind, green, laminated wrappers.
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[Paper Peepshow]
Den of Thieves. Bande des voleurs.
[Augsburg, M. Engelbrecht, [ca. 1750]. Six (of seven) large, oblong cardboard sheets (ca. 16.0 x 20.0 cm), with fine hand-colouring, being five cards with delicate cut-outs and one backpanel, together forming a single scene. Rear panel numbered, in print, N. 51 in the lower margin.
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[Paper Peepshow]
Jesus Christ triumphal entry into Jeruzalem.
[Augsburg, M. Engelbrecht, ca. 1740]. Six (of seven) large, oblong cardboard sheets (ca. 16.0 x 20.0 cm), with fine hand-colouring, being five cards with delicate cut-outs and one backpanel, together forming a single scene. Rear panel numbered, in print, N. 51 in the lower margin.
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[Paper Peepshow]
Venetian masked party. Masquerade vénitien.
[Augsburg, M. Engelbrecht, [ca. 1760]. Seven large, oblong cardboard sheets (ca. 16.0 x 20.0 cm), with fine hand-colouring, being six cards with delicate cut-outs and one back panel, together forming a carnivalesque scene.
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[Photography] Album: China and adjacent countries
Photos of China, Thailand and Myanmar.
China, Thailand, Myanmar, ca. 1888. Oblong folio (32.1 x 40.1 cm). 86 stiff cardboard leaves, each with a large, original photo mounted. Average photo size about 21.5 x 27.0 cm)Most photos oblong landscapes, three are very wide panoramas. Contemporary full morocco binding. Spine with four raised, gilt-rolled floral bands; compartments with gilt floral vignettes. Boards gilt-bordered, with bevelled edges. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt.
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[Scissor Art and Lepidochromy]
Les Lépidoptères.
France or Switzerland, ca. 1800. (58.5 x 46.0 cm). 17 leaves, including two title pages (one with a cutout butterfly), 13 with, in total, 316 multicolour paper cutouts of butterflies, and ditto floral borders, and two similar leaves with 138 specimens in lepidochromy. Scissor Art borders. Marbled wrappers.
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Spix, J. [B.] de and J. [G.] Wagler
Serpentum Brasiliensium species novae ou histoire naturelle des espèces nouvelles de serpens, recueillies et observées pendant le voyage dans l'intérieur du Brésil dans les années 1817, 1818, 1819, 1820, exécuté par ordre de sa majesté le roi de Bavière, publiée par Jean de Spix, écrite d'après les notes du voyageur par Jean Wagler.
Monachii [Munich], Franz Seraph Hübschmann, 1824. Folio (34.9 x 27.5 cm). viii, 75 pp.; 28 originally hand-coloured, tissue-guarded, lithographed plates. Contemporary full-grained green calf. Boards with gilt-rolled floral borders, edges gilt and gilt inner dentelles; spine with gilt floral bands, gilt vignettes and two red morocco labels with gilt title and date. Pink pastedowns and endpapers. All edges gilt.
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Tierra del Fuego - Original photos
Feurland S/S "Antonio Delfino". Tierra del Fuego 1929.
Hamburg, Hamburg-South America Line, and private German tourists, 1929. Oblong folio (14.9 x 21.5 cm). Album with printed title page; and 18 cardboard leaves, with 18 professional photos, and 52 excellent amateur photos, all mounted. Original Art Deco full cloth.
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[Trade Catalogue - Aluminium foil]
Aluminium-Folien.
Munich, Metallpapier- Bronzefarben- Blattmetallwerke Aktiengesellschaft München, 1938. Three oblong booklets (8.0 x 14.6 cm; 9.1 x 16.4 cm, and 9.9 x 14.0 cm). Each with a title leaf and in total 39 aluminium foil leaves, each either in silver or gold, one with a different embossing, with brand names and logos (10), the others plain or geometrical patterns (29), and with tissue guards/interleaves with a catalogue numbers. All three stapled, with gilt, embossed covers, two with similar leaf-patterns, the other with a peculiar "fossil" pattern.
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[Trade Catalogue - Aluminium foil]
Aluminium-Folien.
Munich, Metallpapier- Bronzefarben- Blattmetallwerke Aktiengesellschaft München, 1938. One large, square folio catalogue (24.3 x 24.2 cm). Deliberately smaller, removeable title page; translucent blank with stamp "Musterheft No. 114 / 1 November 1938"; 33 aluminium foil leaves (of which 3 folding). Each either in silver or gold, and each with a different embossing. Plain, silver, pitted wrappers.
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[Trade Catalogue - Aluminium foil]
Aluminium-Folien. Die Leuchtende Farbe. [AND] Die zarte, elegante Töning. [AND] Ton in Ton...
Munich, Metallpapier- Bronzefarben- Blattmetallwerke Aktiengesellschaft München, [1936]-1938. Three oblong booklets (11.3x 18.5 cm). Each with a title leaf and in total 108 aluminium foil leaves (44, 32, 32), each either in silver or gold, and each with a different embossing with floral or geometrical patterns - or colour printing, and a catalogue number. All tissue-guarded. Tissue guards with a round hole. Light pink wrappers with red or purple title; one pictorial, with a red glossy rear wrapper.
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[Trade Catalogue - Goldbrokat]
Goldbrokat. Neuheiten 1936. Marke "Exzellenz".
Europe (Germany, Austria, or Switzerland), 1936. Oblong folio (17.6 x 23.0 cm). 129 samples; all gilt-printed with additional colour printing. Marbled softcover. Front cover with gilt title. Bound with brass fasteners.
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[Trade Catalogue - Paper] Sanderson, A. and Sons
Sanderson Packaging Papers. F-range.
Perivale, Arthur Sanderson and Sons, ca. 1960. Oblong folio (18.3 x 24.1 cm). Title leaf, two stiff cards with mounted samples of flock papers (15 and 21 samples respectively), and over 300 full-page decorative paper samples, all with stock identity numbers printed on versos. Publisher's full cloth. Gilt titles on front board and spine.
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Vogel, C. F.
Schmetterlings-Cabinet für Kinder, oder kurze Beschreibung der europäischen Schmetterlinge. Nebst einer Anweisung solche zu fangen, aufzubewahren und aus Raupen zu ziehen. Atlas.
Leipzig, Paul Friedrich Vogel, 1821-1828. Oblong folio (24.3 x 19.5 cm). Calligraphed title "Atlas europaischer Schmetterline für Naturfreunde". 144 originally hand-coloured plates (numbered I-XVI nine times), on 72 leaves; with six more hand-coloured illustrations mounted on the rear board, and several more mounted on plate versos (as well as a few on rectos). Mid-19th-century patterned half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt bands and title.
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