![3735831] Catalogue of the Paintings, Marble and Plaster Statuary and Engravings Comprised in the...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage-req.png?auto=webp)
Scarce 1841 catalogue from the Boston Museum and Gallery of Fine Arts on Tremont Street, issued the same year the institution opened under the proprietorship..... Read More about Catalogue of the Paintings, Marble and Plaster Statuary and Engravings Comprised in the...
![3735401] An Abridgment of “The Jockey Club, or a Sketch of the Manners of the Age.” In Three...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735401.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1758831455)
First abridged edition in America, “copied from the eleventh [London] edition.” The Jockey Club lampooned the excesses, intrigues, and manners of late Georgian society through..... Read More about An Abridgment of “The Jockey Club, or a Sketch of the Manners of the Age.” In Three Parts
![3735344] A War Experience and Other Stories by F.A. Becher. F A. Becher](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735344.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1753218735)
Apparently the first and only edition, A War Experience and Other Stories was published in Boston in 1898 by the Writer Publishing Company, the firm..... Read More about A War Experience and Other Stories by F.A. Becher
![3733320] Ca. 1890s photograph of women workers at S.N. Gaut & Co., Boston Bakers. Commercial...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733320.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1720307722)
Two women in aprons pose on the steps of S.N. Gaut & Co., Bakers of Boston. Established in 1840 with five locations, the bakery sold..... Read More about Ca. 1890s photograph of women workers at S.N. Gaut & Co., Boston Bakers
![3731167] An Account of the Late Dreadful Earthquake and Fire, Which destroyed the City of Lisbon,...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731167.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1721772431)
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...
![3731940] French Baby Fund Festival Exhibition. Liberty Cottage. Boston Common. [opening lines]. Anon](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731940.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1721772431)
“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
![3732009] 1872–1873 promotional ephemera for Cassie and Victoria Foster, The Fairy Sisters....](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3732009.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1559076278)
A record of the brief, exploited lives of the Fairy Sisters, diminutive performers touted as the world’s smallest persons, who toured New England in 1872..... Read More about 1872–1873 promotional ephemera for Cassie and Victoria Foster, The Fairy Sisters
![3731859] [Trade Catalogs:] Reproductions of Antique Fittings [and] Reproductions of Antique...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731859.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1654367573)
American antiques dealer Israel Sack, Inc. was founded in Boston in 1903 as a furniture repair business. As their antiques business thrived, they started to..... Read More about Trade Catalogs:] Reproductions of Antique Fittings [and] Reproductions of Antique Fittings....
![3731453] Doctor J. Flagg, Respectfully acquaints the ladies and Gentlemen of this town, that he...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731453.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1711727772)
A superb artifact from the nascent years of American dentistry, this unrecorded late 18th Massachusetts handbill advertises the dentistry services of Josiah Flagg (b. 1763..... Read More about Doctor J. Flagg, Respectfully acquaints the ladies and Gentlemen of this town, that he continues...
![3730317] Description of the Grand Historical Picture of Belshazzar’s Feast Painted by...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3730317.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1619217494)
Description of American painter Washington Allston’s (1779–1843) masterpiece, Belshazzar’s Feast, a monumental 12 x 16-foot historical painting begun in 1817 and left unfinished at his..... Read More about Description of the Grand Historical Picture of Belshazzar’s Feast Painted by Washington...
![3728524] A.H. Shipman & Perry Mason — Scroll Saw Catalogs & Patterns, 1877–1881 Archive](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3728524.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1624380672)
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 A.H. Shipman & Perry Mason — Scroll Saw Catalogs & Patterns, 1877–1881 Archive
![3726653] Boston Saxophone Orchestra. Abdon Laus, Director using Buescher True Tone Saxophones....](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3726653.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1706666282)
Excellent circa 1920s photograph of the Boston Symphony Orchestra advertising Buescher True Tone Saxophones: In late 1924, the first bassoonist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra..... Read More about Boston Saxophone Orchestra. Abdon Laus, Director using Buescher True Tone Saxophones
![3726200] Died Jan. 17th, 1837 — Mrs. Elizabeth Coolidge, Aged 60 Years. [Elizabeth Bulfinch...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3726200.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1530631311)
An apparently unrecorded funeral memorial to Elizabeth Bulfinch Coolidge (1777–1837), sister to American architect, Charles Bulfinch. Elizabeth Coolidge was the daughter of Thomas Bulfinch and..... Read More about Died Jan. 17th, 1837 — Mrs. Elizabeth Coolidge, Aged 60 Years. [Elizabeth Bulfinch Coolidge,...
