An unusual nineteenth-century American broadside advertising the raffling in a parlor billiard hall of “Billy Wise,” a trotter horse. We have yet to identify “Billy..... Read More about Raffle for the Young Trotting Horse “Billy Wise” at the Parlor Billiard Hall [Opening lines...
Rare c.1820s “New Edition” of this Southern woman composer’s patriotic composition dedicated to the United States Marine Corps.¹ “Lady of Charleston” Eliza Crawley Murden’s March..... Read More about March Composed & Dedicated to The United States Marine Corps, by A Lady of Charleston
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Author’s presentation copy in a de luxe binding with his albumen portrait photograph (1¾ x 1½ inches) mounted on the leaf opposite title page. A...... Read More about Presentation copy in deluxe binding with author’s photograph] Jottings of a Year’s Sojourn in...
A facsimile edition of the 1929 first edition. Profusely illustrated and with an in-depth history of the potters and potteries specific to this region of..... Read More about The Shenandoah Pottery
Abraham Oakey Hall (1826 – 1898) was elected twice as New York City mayor, on the Tammany Hall ticket, and serving 1869 to 1862. The..... Read More about 1871 Salary Check Autographed by A. Oakley Hall, as New York City mayor, Boss Tweed’s Ring member
Italian-American Achille Onofri, was an acrobat and contortionist who had met trapeze artist Millie Cook in Havana, married her, and then moved to Philadelphia with..... Read More about 1886 American Prison Art by an Italian-American Circus Performer Incarcerated for Murder,...
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1929 pre-Crash stock market investing tips from noted financial adviser A. Vere Shaw (1887–1970). Shaw was “...a founding member of the Investment Counsel Association of..... Read More about 10 Rules for Investors [cover title
Proto-Tide laundry detergent. Magical and astonishing, Perlee’s fluid, by his account, practically washed your clothes for you. The soap wasn’t that magical —one had to..... Read More about Perlee’s Magic, Labor-Saving, Money-Saving, Clothes-Saving, Washing Bleaching and Cleansing...
Original typed manuscript, in two volumes, with modest manuscript emendations and corrections. An unpublished translation of lawyer, philosopher, educator and Puerto Rican independence advocate, Eugenio..... Read More about Constitutional Science. Being the English Version of a work entitled “Lecciones De Derecho...
Legal instrument of protest signed by Alexander H. Arthur, Notary Public for the Office of the Planters’ Bank of the State of Mississippi at Vicksburg..... Read More about United States of America: State of Mississippi, to wit: By This Public Instrument of Protest…
Diverse group of mid-Victorian scroll saw-related material including trade literature, marketing materials, and oversized pattern sheets for creating fretwork designs in the Queen Anne Revival..... Read More about C. 1877–1881 Scroll Saw Group: Trade Catalog, Chromolithographic Trade Cards, and Oversized...
A clever bit of advertising. A.W. Cushman creates an appealing and eye-catching illustrated envelope to earn more business. The envelope’s design program is reminiscent of..... Read More about A.W. Cushman & Company, Dealers in Furniture, Bedding, Paints and Oils, Ellsworth Maine
Very scarce. Color illustrated history of of the firm A.W. Faber Company, international lead pencil, writing slate, and art supplies manufacturers and merchants. The company..... Read More about The Manufactories & Business Houses of the Firm of A. W. Faber, An Historical Sketch....
“Colonists In Bondage tells the paradoxical story of those white men and women who endured servitude as a road to freedom. Voluntarily or involuntarily, they..... Read More about Colonists in Bondage. White Servitude and Convict Labor in America, 1607-1776
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Letters and papers of Abner Woodward (1762–1840), farmer, mail coach operator, Revolutionary War pensioner, and War of 1812 soldier of Ashford, Connecticut and those of..... Read More about 1801–1920, Woodward Family of Connecticut Archive of Letters and Papers
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Delightfully humorous program for a concert of antique music performed at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. Likely getting into the spirit of the nation’s..... Read More about Philadelphia Academy of Music, 1873 Program:] Forasmuch as Dyvers Syngynge People…
Illustrated programme at the New York City Broadway Theatre 1892, an early artifact of the still-extant Actors’ Fund Benefit. The evening’s performance is thoroughly detailed..... Read More about Photographic Souvenir Programme of the Actors’ Fund Benefit at the Broadway Theatre. January...
An exceedingly rare Boston-printed 1756 act of Parliament to significantly enlarge the number of British troops in North America. This act allowed British army recruitment..... Read More about An Act for the better recruiting His Majesty’s Forces on the Continent of America; and for the...
Near miniature American children’s book of prose and poetical fables from Aesop; this copy with 48 hand-colored illustrations. The book was issued by Philadelphia publisher..... Read More about The Little Esop
An 1801 stipple engraving of Benjamin Franklin claimed to have been made after a portrait owned by George Washington. “Hopwood worked for British magazines of..... Read More about Dr. Benjamin Franklin. Engraved by J. Hopwood from an original Picture in the Possession of the...
After Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939), the Czech painter and decorative artist. A lovely color lithographic poster hand reproduced in 1969 by Henri Deschamps, the Mourlot Studio’s..... Read More about Lorenzaccio. Piece en V Actes et un Epilogue D’ Alfred de Musset. Adaptation de M. Armand...
After Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939), the Czech painter and decorative artist. A lovely color lithographic poster hand reproduced in 1969 by Henri Deschamps, the Mourlot Studio’s..... Read More about Tragique Histoire D’Hamlet Prince of Danemark. Sarah Bernhardt. (After) Alphonse Mucha, 1969
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Stipple octagon-shaped engraving signed “N. Cochen del. F. Bolt Sc. 1822” and showing Benjamin Franklin with his iconic glasses and coon skin hat; based on..... Read More about Benj. Franklin. [Benjamin Franklin Portrait Engraving
A classic portrait, engraved in 1777, showing Benjamin Franklin with his iconic glasses and coon skin hat. On Charles Nicolas Cochin’s 1777 portrait, Sellers wrote..... Read More about Benjamin Franklin, born at Boston, the 17th. Any. 1706. Engraved for the Universal Magazine
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin engraved by Robert Pollard (“Pollard sculp.”). Here, the statesman is shown without his iconic glasses, but with his coon skin hat..... Read More about Benjamin Franklin, L.L.D. F.R.S. One of the American Plenipotentiaries at the Court of France....
