On New Years’ Day, 1812, the diarist arrives in Liverpool after a thirty-one day sail from New York City on the sloop Orbit. Upon arriving... Read More about Diary kept by an American Quaker Merchant during a Journey to Great Britain from January 1st,...
Eight items, some identified as the output of The Hebrew Christian Mission: 1. Who is a Jew? 2. Is the Jew the Cause of Trouble... Read More about Eight Ca. 1940s American Judaica Tracts: Who Is a Jew? Is the Jew the Cause of Trouble in the...
Inventory or catalog of a library or collection of books specialized in works by ancient authors, histories and accounts of voyages. The inventory was undertaken... Read More about 1781 quittance De Geury 432. 1778 mandat a quite Daubert 379. 1777 marche avec Guery 300...
Unusually early, nineteenth-century manuscript cattle earmark record from Ohio. The manuscript describes and illustrates 40 earmarks, notches or slits cut into the ears of farm... Read More about A Book of Records of the Ear Marks and Brands of Cattle &c. Belonging to the Inhabitants of...
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No copies found in OCLC, a 19th-century Manheim, Pennsylvania rarity. At hand, an ephemeral, and possibly unknown publication of the by-laws for the Pennsylvania firefighters..... Read More about By-Laws of the Star Fire Engine and Hose No. 1, of the Borough of Manheim [Pennsylvania
Diminutive tintype portrait of a man, with delicately hand-tinted cheeks and lips, mounted in a leather book-form case. The case housing the tintype is decorated... Read More about C. Late 1850s Ninth-Plate Tintype Portrait of a Man with Hand-Tinting; mounted within a Gilt...
This original photograph shows the New St. Charles Hotel in San Bernardino, California, circa 1888–1895, on a bright, sunlit day. When studied with care, a.... Read More about C.1888–1895 Original Boudoir Card Photograph of the New St. Charles Hotel in San Bernardino,...
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Unlisted in OCLC, an apparently unrecorded pamphlet devoted to the property definitions of Christ Church Hospital in Philadelphia. “Christ Church Hospital, located at Forty-Ninth Street..... Read More about Christ Church Hospital in Philadelphia:] Brief of Title to all that certain Lot or Square of...
Unrecorded eighteenth century polemical broadside in the tradition satirist Ned Ward or the mock poem Hudibras. While the present broadside includes only a few lines... Read More about Cut for Cut, the Rubber Rubb’d, Nonsense for Nonsense, or, Dicko-Don-Quacko And his Methodist...
I am uneasy in my mind continually: there seems to be in decision, a want of stern unbending integrity of purpose; and yet a desire..... Read More about Diary for 1844 kept by a Young Man in Albany and Troy, New York starting a Business and...
An anonymous cheap throwaway filled with titillation and bawdy humor, often in the form of two single-panel captioned cartoons to a page. In one, a.... Read More about Latest Edition. Parisian Frolics. Photos. Jokes. Scenes. And How!
![The Mysterious Assassin; Or, Nick Carter’s Slender Clew [within:] Nick Carter Library. Anon](/pictures/thumb/3727910_1.jpg?v=1541452178)
Rare; OCLC returns no copies. Here is Nick Carter foiling an assassin. The startling illustration shows private detective Nick Carter in disguise and his identically... Read More about The Mysterious Assassin; Or, Nick Carter’s Slender Clew [within:] Nick Carter Library
![Occupations and Trades:] Constitution and By-Laws of Philanthropic Lodge, No. 15, Independent...](/pictures/thumb/3726619_1.jpg?v=1548263354)
Ephemeral and unrecorded mid-19th century mark publication of the By-Laws and Constitution of a benevolent Pennsylvania fraternal organization. A most interesting section within is between..... Read More about Occupations and Trades:] Constitution and By-Laws of Philanthropic Lodge, No. 15, Independent...
Very scarce heavily illustrated Victorian children’s picture book issued for the Christmas holiday trade. A three-quarter-page engraving illustrates each page, beneath which is a poetical..... Read More about The Original Chatterbox Picture Gallery, Pictures and Verse for Little Folks
A variant issue from McDade 1013.¹ Sensational account of the 1872 murder in Baltimore of Winfield S. Goss by his bother-in-law, William Udderzook. Or was... Read More about The Udderzook Mystery! Containing a Detailed and Accurate Account of the Life of the Murderer,...
Gouache painting ca. 1898 showing Uncle Sam declaring War against Spain, i.e. The Spanish-American War. American war vessels with large gun emplacements, and tall smokestacks... Read More about War I Say [caption title of Spanish-American War-Era Uncle Sam Painting
