THE NEWPORT ANTIQUE BOOKS GALLERY
Antique Books of and about Newport, Rhode Island
and Providence Plantations
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John & Rico's
The Drawing Room of Newport
Item Number NPT 11. From our extensive collection of Newport books, prints and post cards. Titled "Newport The World's Yaching Center" 28 pages, printed around 1930. Mortimer A. Sullivan was the Mayor of Newport At the time of this publication. Photos include: The Constellation, Ida Lewis Yacht Club, The America Yacht, The Enterprise, Was College, Old Colony House, Old Market House, Jewish Synagogue, Hotel Viking, Viking Beach, LaForge, Muenchinger King, Cliff Walk, Fourty Steps, The Cup, The Old Stone Mill, The Casino, Newport Beach, Swiss Village, Cherry, Neck Ocean Drive, Fall River Line Steamship and bi-planes at the Newport Air Port. Size: 6" x 8.5". Condition: front and back cover unattached; 3/4" side edge tear to the last 5 pages including the back cover. Map in color on the back outer cover of the area titled "Narragansett Bay Drive". Price: $50.00.
Description Item Number NPT3. From our extensive collection of Newport Rhode Island books, post cards and Historical Ephemera: A tourist booklet: "Newport Historic Guide (revised)" Compiled by Earl Washburn Illustrated. Size: 6" x 9". Outer paper covers. 103 pages. Drawings and photo illustrate the excellent booklet. Condition: stains to the outer cover and discoloration to many of the interior pages. A useful Newport Rhode Island book. Mr. and Mrs. Washburn at one time owned our building in Newport and Delphine had a book store in our gallery. Price: $40.00.
Item Number NPT 10. From our extensive collection of Newport books, prints and post cards. Titled "Old Newport Verse" Selected and Illustrated by Helena Sturtevant. Helena was a Newport Rhode Island Artist who taught and was a co founder at the Newport Art Association. She was born in 1871 and died in 1946. This book was No. 344 of 500. The Heronshaw Press of Newport was the printer. Copyrighted by Helena in 1936. 32 Pages with verses by George Berkley, Henry W. Longfellow, Bret Harte, Henry Theodore Tuckerman, Julia Ward Howe, John Jerome Rooney, S. Weir Mitchell, Charles Collinds Van Zandt, Latta Griswold, Alan Seegar. 14 Illustrations by Sturtevant. Condition: good condition with a little fading to the cover. Size: 5.5" x 7 7/8". Price: $40.00.
Item Number NPT 12. From our extensive collection of Newport books, prints and post cards. Titled "Historic Newport". Size: 6.25" x 9.25". From the collection of William King Covell April 19, 1947. This is a third printing of this book (1941). Condition: Fading and edge folding to the outer covers. 45 pages including chapters: Historic Newport, White Horse Tavern, The Old Stone Mill, Redwood, Coddington House, Seventh Day Baptist Church, Prescott House, Friends' Meeting House, Old Colony House, Cope and Robinson House, Touro Synagogue, Trinity Church, Ida Lewis Lighthouse, Gull House U.S.S. Constellation, etc. Drawings(9) by E.B. Price and photos (11). Price: $40.00.
Description Item # NPT 14. Titled: "Friend's Meeting House Newport R.I." By T. Sinclair Litho Philadelphia; Mid 19th century. Size: 11" x 15.75". Condition: Not good: large hole in lower middle right; holes in the left margin; small hole in the sky; staining and paper fragility in the sky. It is a rare print however. The meeting house still stands in Newport but looks a little different now. It actually looks better in this print than in person. Price: $50.00.
Item # NPT 15. A set of 5 Glass Plate Negatives on the Interior of Trinity Church in Newport Rhode Island. Size: 5.5' x 7". Condition: good: thought there are a few minor scratches to the emulsion. The lines in the photos are from a slide display device in our office. One plate has a slight nick to the edge outside the image. Age: pre 1940, but I don't know how much earlier than that. Price: $50.00 the set.
Item # NPT 16. A single Glass Plate Negative showing the Harbor waterfront of Newport Rhode Island showing also I believe Goat Island. Size: 5" x 7". Condition: good. The lines in the photos are from a slide display device in our office.Age: pre 1940, but I don't know how much earlier than that. Price: $35.00.
# A 1. "Fifty Famous Painters": an exhibition at the Newport Art Association / 1938. Paperback: so fading to the cover. Some pencil marks inside. The exhibition took place August 5 to the 21, 1939. Sponsored by among others: Mrs. John Jacob Astor, Miss Alice Brayton, Mrs. Maud Howe Elliott, Mrs. Michael M. van Beuren, Mrs. Conelius Vanderbilt, Miss Edith Wetmore, Mrs. Sheldon Whitehouse,etc., etc., etc. 8 black and white photos of paintings by Boudin, Winslow Homer, Alexander James, Toulouse-Lautrec. Other artists exhibited included: Benton, Corot, Degas, Dufy, Fantin-Latour, Kuhn, Lafarge, Luks, Modigliani, Picasse, Prendergast, Redon, Renoir, Ryder, Sargent, Seurat, Whistler, and Wood. This collection today would be the art 'backbone' of any medium size museum ! Price: $20.00.
# A 2. "What I saw and heard in Panama: A.D. 1930 - 1931" by Maud Howe Elliott. "All the proceeds of the sale for the Greek War Relief" Paperback, excellent condition. 25 pages. Price: $15.00.
# A 3. "American Historical Oration" by B. L. Hénin; "The Help of the French Nation during the American Revolution - 1780" from an event that took place in Newport, July 14, 1928; reprinted 1929. Paperback. Good condition: pencil writing on the cover. 13 Pages. Price: $15.00.
# A 4. "Re-Dedication of the Monument to Jean Baptiste Donathien De Vimeur Count de Rochambeau / Marshal of France / 1725 - 1807 / Commander-in-Chief of the French Army at the Siege of Yorktown-October 19, 1781." This paperback documented the dedication of July fourth 1940 in Newport, Rhode Island. Paper back program of 9 pages. Good condition. Price: $20.00.
# A 5. "Redwood Papers: A Bicentennial Collection" Edited by Lorraine Dexter and Alan Pryce Jones.The Redwood Library and Athenaeum, Newport, Rhode Island 1976. Excellent condition: hard cover with paper cover. 139 pages. Price: $25.00.
# A 6. "Historic Newport" by the Newport Chamber of Commerce - 1933. Paperback: 61 pages. An E.B. Price wood block of The Brick Market on the cover. Designed and written by Herbert A. Lawton. Edge fading to the cover and minor interior foxing. Many photos and wood blocks. Price: $60.00.
# A 8. "Rochambeau Monument and Foreign Propaganda" by Perry Belmont. A paperback of 31 pages printed in 1939. Excellent condition. Price: $20.00.
# A 10. "The Newporter" dated 1952. A small thin paperback dated July 25, 1952 promoting Newport with lots of ads and some tourist information. Wood block of the Wanton-Lyman Hazard House on the cover. 22 pages. The cover had a mail address feature so that the entire book could be "mailed to a friend" for 3 cents. Excellent condition: Price: $20.00.
# A 11. "Redwood Library and Athenæum: Addresses Commemorating its 200th Anniversary 1757-1947" Paperback, excellent condition. 32 pages, dated September 4, 1947. Printed by The Akerman-Standard Press, Providence. Price $20.00.
# A 12. "The Colony House" by Frank H. Swan. This paperback brochure was produced to go with the 1931 Calendar. Miss Helena Sturtevant created the cover etching and is mentioned in the 18 page booklet. Nice condition. Price: $15.00.
# A 13. "One Hundred years of the Savings Bank of Newport / 1819-1919". "Glimpses at the Past of an Old Town together with Brief Accounts of Some of the Men who have filled a part in the Bank's History and in the Town Affairs." Hard back, no paper cover, 48 pages: cover slightly bowed. Price: $50.00.
# A 34. " When Rochambeau Stepped Ashore" by Arthur Tuckerman, written in 1955. A paperback, 24 pages. A few picutres and engravings. The subject of the book deals with " A Reconstruction of Life in Newport in 1780." The cover drawing by Edith Ballinger Price. Good condition: metal staple rust staining at the binding. Price: $25.00.
# A 36. "Historic Newport" by the Newport Chamber of Commerce - 1933. Paperback: 61 pages. An E.B. Price woodblock of The Brick Market on the cover. Designed and written by Herbert A. Lawton. Tears to the cover and the woodblock was torn, re-attached with scotch tape with noticeable staining. Many photos and wood blocks. Price: $35.00.
# A 37."Once upon a Time
in Rhode Island" by Katherine Pyle. Illustrated by Helen B. Mason. Copyright by
the Society of Colonial Dames in Rhode Island 1914. A hard cover in fair
condition: broken spine. Printed by Country Life Press Doubleday Page and Co.
Garden City, NY. No paper cover. 205 pages. Price: $40.00. 
# A 38. "Once upon a Time in Rhode Island" by Katherine Pyle. Illustrated by Helen B. Mason. Copyright by the Society of Colonial Dames in Rhode Island 1914. A hard cover in good condition. Printed by Country Life Press Doubleday Page and Co. Garden City, NY. No paper cover. 205 pages. Price: $40.00.
# A 41. "Reminiscences of Newport" by George Champlin Mason. Illustrated. Published by Charles E. Hammett, Jr. Newport, R.I. 1884. 407 pages. Cover in poor condition and broken spine. Price: $135.00.
# A 42. " The Re-Union Newport 1884" by Frank G. Harris. Hard cover in good condition. It is a " History of the Re-Union of the Sons and Daughters of Newport, R.I.,July4, 1884", printed by Davis & Pitman, 1885. Price: $150.00.
# A 43. "Re-Union of the Sons and Daughters of Newport, RI", August 23, 1859. By George C. Mason. Printed by Fred. A. Pratt & Co., City Printers, 1859. Embossed hard cover, good condition, 297 pages. An important and rare volume. Price: $165.00.
# A 44. "Sermon on Channing" "Preached at Newport, July 15, 1883 on the Dedication of the Memorial Window, Representing a Sower going forth to Sow." By James Freeman Clarke. Paperback, 20 pages. Slight tear to the front cover. One etching of the window. Price: $15.00.
# A 45. " A Discourse" by Rufus Ellis: Minister of the First Church, Boston given at Channing Memorial Church on Sunday morning July 8, 1883. A paperback of the sermon : 15 pages. Torn cover and inner page; cover staining. Fair condition. A photo gravure of the church window being dedicated. Price: $15.00.
# A 46. "Charter and By Laws of the Channing Memorial Church of Newport, Rhode Island". Published by Davis & Pitman, 207 Thames Street, Newport, RI, 1884. Paperback; 15 pages. Good condition. Price: $20.00.
# A 47. "Charter and By Laws of the Channing Memorial Church of Newport, Rhode Island". Published by Daily News Job Print: 1889. Paperback; 22 pages: lists members of the congregation. Cover in poor condition. Price: $20.00.
# A. 48. Two pamphlets: "Unitarian Beginnings in Newport" and "Getting Something for Nothing". Both paperbacks are Sermons preached by the Reverend William Safford Jones in the Channing memorial Church, Newport, Rhode Island. The first was on October 23, 1910 and the other was on December 17, 1911. Fair condition. Price $10.00 for the pair.
# A 50. " The Tourist Guide to Providence,R.I. and the Shore Resorts of Narragansett Bay" Paper back, not dated (1980's ?). Includes information about: Providence, Newport, Watch Hill, Block Island, Narragansett Pier and Cottage City. Published by John F. Murphy, General News Agent, N.Y., N.H. & H. R.R., Eastern District, Highland Division South Terminal Station, Boston, Mass. This wonderful tourist guide is not numbered but has over 150 pages of picutres, tips and descriptions of its destination points. Produced by a Rail Road Company and probably sold in Rail Road Stations. Good condition. Price: $100.00.
# A 52. "Verba Crucis" by T. Calvin McCelland, minister of United Church of Newport 1902. Published by Thomas Y. Crowell and Company, New York MDCCCII. A hard cover book.Very good condition. No paper cover. Price: $50.00.
# A 53. "Rhode Island Arbor Day: May 10, 1918; Trees and Thrift".You realize how much times really have changed when you read this paperback book. Issued by the Commissioner of Public Schools: State of Rhode Island for the "Observance of Arbor Day in the Schools of Rhode Island." 32 pages. In good condition. Contains: song, poems, stories, tree questions: " How many kinds of pussies are there on the willow? Ans. - two." Very good condition. Price: $40.00.
# A 55. "A Guide and Map to Newport" by Gabriel Weis / 1916. A paperback. Address listed is: 124 Bellevue Avenue, Newport and 489 Fifth Avenue, New York. 24 pages and does have a list of 'Cottages' at the end. Contains a decent fold out map. Picture of The Stone Tower on the cover. Price: $40.00.
# A 56. "Newport County Pathfinder: The Official Guide Book of the City of Newport" Copyright 1928 by the Newport Publishing Co. Printed by Reminton Ward, Newport, R.I. Paperback. There is a drawing of an Indian on the cover pointing to a animal skin map showing Newport at the end of Aquidneck Island. 70 pages. Torn cover. Good fold out map and a post card to mail to the Newport Publishing Co. telling them how useful (of not useful) the guide book was while you were in Newport. Price: $35.00.
# A 60. " Newport Scenes from America's Premier City of Cultured Beauth and of Romance" c. 1924. A paperback of about 40 pages filled with printed drawings by George Williamson, engravings by Horatio G. Wood and was printed by Remington Ward. Good condition; a rare volume. Price: $85.00.
# A 61. " Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the United Spanish Was Veterans of Rhode Island: 1923". Held at the U. S. Naval Training Station - Newport, R.I. - July 13, 14, 15, 1923 by The Department of Rhode Island Sidney D. Harvey, Historian. Hard cover in good condition. 62 pages. The Gladding Print, Newport, R.I. April 1925. Price: $35.00
# A 62. " Rhode Island Day" Chicago, October 5, 1893. From The World's Colombian Exposition. Hard cover in poor condition: missing outer spine. Attachment inside: "With Compliments of D. Russell Brown" ( Signature)Governor of Rhode Island. A rare volume: 80 pages, 1 engraving. Price: $150.00.
# A 64. " Newport Tower" by Philip Ainsworth Means. 1942. Hard back in fair condition: no paper cover and wear to the gilt cover decoration; 344 pages. Price: $125.00.
# A 68. "State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations at the End of the Century: A History". In three volumes. Edited by Edward Field, A.B. The Mason Publishing Company / Boston & Syracuse 1902. Each volume over 600 pages. No paper covers. Good condition. Price for the three volumes: $125.00.
# A 69. "The Old Stone Bank History of Rhode Island" Volume IV Published in Commemoration of the one hundred and twenty-fifth Anniversary of the founding of the Providence Institution for Savings. Published in 1944. Cloth cover. Good condition. Price: $35.00.
# A 70. "The Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Formation of the First Baptist Church in Providence, Rhode Island, Sunday, April 28, 1889" Paper back, poor condition: loose and torn cover. Printed by: The Providence Press: Snow & Farnham, Printers. 37 Custom House Street. 1889. 121 pages. Price: $65.00.
# A 71. "The Annmary Brown Memorial" " A limited edition of six hundred copies of The Annmary Brown Memorial has been printed in the observance of the 500th Anniversary of the Invention of Printing for Eugene A. Clauss by the Akerman-Standard Co., Providence, R.I. in December, Nineteen Hundred and Forty" This is No. 363. 27 pages. Good condition, no paper cover. Price: $20.00.
# A 73. " The Early History of Rhode Island: an Historical Discourse, on the Civil and Religious Affairs of the Colony of Rhode Island" by John Callender, M.A. By Romeo Elton. D.D., Third Edition Printed in Boston: Thomas H Webb & Company. New-York: Bartlett & Welford. Leeds, England: John Heaton. 1843. Cover in poor condition: outer spine cover missing. 270 pages. Price: $100.00.This volume has been sold.
# A 74. " The Book of Rhode Island" Distributed by Rhode Island State Bureau of Information in Cooperation with Rhode Island Conference of Business Associations Compilers and Publishers; 1930. Hard cover in good condition: some staining on the opening pages. 299 pages. Price: $85.00.
# A 75. "Inventory of the Church Archives of Rhode Island: Society of Friends". Historical Records Survey / Works Progress Administration / Providence, Rhode Island. Printed May 1939. Paper back in good condition. 80 pages. Price: $50.00.
# A 76. " Commemorazione di Mrs. Julia Ward Howe" Avv. Domenico O. Romano. Pubblicate Dal Circolo Italo-Americano in Memoria Del Defunto. Tipografia: G. Malgeri, 99 Cottage Street, - E. Boston. Mass. About a dozen pages: paperback: good condition. Dated: XX Novembre, MXMX. Price: $100.00.
# A 77. " A Memoir of Harriet Ware, First Superintendent of the Children's Home, in the City of Providence". Providence by George H. Whitney: 1850. Printed in Boston: Thurston, Torry & Company, Printers, 31 Devonshire Street. Hardcover in good condition: 151 pages. Price: $100.00.
# A 78. "Block Island Lore and Legends" by Ethel Colt Ritchie. Published by F. Norman Associates / Box 374 / Block Island, R.I. Printed by Midland Press, West Orange, N.J. Printed in 1955. Paper back with stiff cover: good condition; 93 pages. Price: $45.00.
# A 79. " The Old Stone Bank History of Rhode Island" Volume III. Published by Providence Institution for Savings. Written by John Williams Haley: "The Rhode Island Historian". Printed in 1939. Hard cover: no paper cover; good condition. Price: $35.00.
# A 80. " History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations" by Samuel Greene Arnold. Fourth Edition, in two volumes. Printed in Providence, R.I., Preston & Rounds, 1899. Hardcover: no paper covers. Good condition. Price: $85.00.
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