![3731167] An Account of the Late Dreadful Earthquake and Fire, Which destroyed the City of Lisbon,...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731167_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&v=1684375632)
Partly-untrimmed. First American edition of this eyewitness account of this terrible disaster on All Saints Day, November 1, 1755 that shook perspective views in the..... Read More about An Account of the Late Dreadful Earthquake and Fire, Which destroyed the City of Lisbon, The...
![3733009] [Association Copy] West Point Life: An Anonymous Communication, Read Before a Public...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733009_2.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&v=1674689658)
Entirely in verse, West Point Life: An Anonymous Communication, Read Before a Public Meeting of the Dialectic Society… “details the intense social life at West..... Read More about Association Copy] West Point Life: An Anonymous Communication, Read Before a Public Meeting of...
![3733001] A Brief History of the Revolution, with a Sketch of the Life of Captain John Hewson:...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage-req.png)
Philadelphian John Hewson (1745–1821) has been described as the first calico printer in America. He served during the Revolution and was captured near Burlington, New..... Read More about A Brief History of the Revolution, with a Sketch of the Life of Captain John Hewson: Including...
![3730908] The Children in the Wood. An Affecting Tale. Anon](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3730908_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&v=1632596707)
Popularly known as the story of the Babes in the Wood, is the subject of an old ballad and oft-reprinted as a chapbook for children..... Read More about The Children in the Wood. An Affecting Tale
![3726504] [Christ Church Hospital in Philadelphia:] Brief of Title to all that certain Lot or...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3726504_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&v=1534362398)
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...
![3731482] [Court of King Arthur] The History of Tarquin and Lancelot du Lake. Anon](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731482_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&v=1684370168)
An unrecorded 18th century broadside commemorating Sir Lancelot du Lake and Sir Tarquin’s hand-to-hand combat battle. The sheet was sold to tourists at Tamworth Castle..... Read More about Court of King Arthur] The History of Tarquin and Lancelot du Lake
![146304] Cut for Cut, the Rubber Rubb’d, Nonsense for Nonsense, or, Dicko-Don-Quacko And his...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/146304_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&v=1654297602)
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...
![145927] [Diary for 1844 kept by a Young Man in Albany and Troy, New York starting a Business and...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/145927_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&v=1658765139)
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...
![3732744] Federal Hi-Way Silent-Nite Homes. [cover title]. Anon](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3732744_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&v=1675872385)
Motorist’s pocket, state-by-state directory of restaurants, hotels, and roadside motor courts plus select private homes open to tourists. The guide was sponsored by a trade..... Read More about Federal Hi-Way Silent-Nite Homes. [cover title
![3731940] French Baby Fund Festival Exhibition. Liberty Cottage. Boston Common. [opening lines]. Anon](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731940_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&v=1664409554)
“Our Fathers are Fighting in France.” A rare and unrecorded first World War photo-illustrated broadside documenting a little-known display of Franco-American friendship. Across America, various..... Read More about French Baby Fund Festival Exhibition. Liberty Cottage. Boston Common. [opening lines
![3731946] God is Love. [Mid-19th c. printed silk valentine]. Anon](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731946_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&v=1654301170)
The Lord’s Prayer is printed here within a heart placed within a decorative printed border. An embossed sheet of note paper describes the gifting of..... Read More about God is Love. [Mid-19th c. printed silk valentine
![3730121] History of the Battle of Gettysburg. Presented, with the compliments of the City Hotel,...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3730121_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&v=1616019037)
Scarce guidebook—similar to a like-titled guidebook (OCLC 14103425, [4] cc.)—but this variant published to promote Gettysburg’s City Hotel, owned by John E. Hughes. The inside..... Read More about History of the Battle of Gettysburg. Presented, with the compliments of the City Hotel, to guests...
![3728894] I wish you would tell me Sir what you do mean By drawing this figure that looks like a...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3728894_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&v=1572888609)
Extraordinary, complex American millenarian spiritual folk art drawing embodying the Adventist religious beliefs of William Miller (1782–1849) and his followers and illustrating the claim of..... Read More about I wish you would tell me Sir what you do mean By drawing this figure that looks like a chain...
![145237] [Illuminated, German-Language Manuscript Taufschein Fraktur:] A Christian Baptismal Wish:...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/145237_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&v=1597437264)
Curious crudely-executed folk art, dated 1818, a German-language taufschein or baptismal certificate illuminated with ink and pencil decorations. Fitting for a baptismal wish, the manuscript..... Read More about Illuminated, German-Language Manuscript Taufschein Fraktur:] A Christian Baptismal Wish: I’ve...
First edition, privately-printed, and a presentation copy. The entertaining and slightly hubristic biography of Simeon Brownell (b. 1821), a revolver-toting anti-slavery activist, Underground Railroad conductor..... Read More about The Life-Story of Simeon Brownell, A Man Who Has Played a Prominent Part in the History of His Time
![3724701] [Nineteenth-Century Watercolor Portrait of Woman holding a Letter]. Anon](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3724701_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&v=1590179125)
Attractive mid-19th century watercolor portrait of a woman seated at a table or writing desk and holding a letter. Her face, coiffure, and lace-trimmed, black..... Read More about Nineteenth-Century Watercolor Portrait of Woman holding a Letter
![3726619] [Occupations and Trades:] Constitution and By-Laws of Philanthropic Lodge, No. 15,...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3726619_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&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...
![3731978] Our Big Book. [Dick and Jane]. Anon](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731978_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&v=1669651578)
Rare. Our Big Book is catalogued by Princeton as a Dick and Jane precursor; a series of wall charts issued ca. 1920. The stories are..... Read More about Our Big Book. [Dick and Jane
![3729194] Paying the Southern War Claims [caption title]. Anon](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3729194.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&v=1580949172)
This rare, anonymous broadside is an attack in 1876 upon Governor Samuel J. Tilden, the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, by excerpting from Southern newspapers from..... Read More about Paying the Southern War Claims [caption title
![3728902] War I Say [caption title of Spanish-American War-Era Uncle Sam Painting]. Anon](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3728902_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&v=1572374122)
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
