![3733559] One Dozen Tower’s Anti-Nervousness Penholders for Sale by Booksellers and Stationers...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage-req.png?auto=webp)
An unusual Victorian American penmanship item, a trade card (identical text on both sides; 3¾ x 7¼ inches) laid into its illustrated box (worn, heavily..... Read More about One Dozen Tower’s Anti-Nervousness Penholders for Sale by Booksellers and Stationers Everywhere...
![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&auto=webp&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...
![3732811] The Rendition of Anthony Burns. Its Causes and Consequences. A Discourse on Christian...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3732811_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1675120003)
First edition of The Rendition of Anthony Burns, a sermon given by Boston’s Transcendentalist an abolitionist preacher, James Freeman Clarke. Clarke’s anti-slavery speech proved popular..... Read More about The Rendition of Anthony Burns. Its Causes and Consequences. A Discourse on Christian Politics,...
![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&auto=webp&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
![3732009] [The Fairy Sisters. Midget Performers Cassie and Victoria Foster, ca. 1872–1873...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3732009_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1659034749)
An ephemeral record of the brief, exploited lives of the Fairy Sisters, two diminutive performers often touted as the smallest persons in the world. The..... Read More about The Fairy Sisters. Midget Performers Cassie and Victoria Foster, ca. 1872–1873 Promotional...
![3731868] The Regulations Lately Made concerning the Colonies, and the Taxes Imposed upon Them,...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731868_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1652926216)
First edition. Boston stamp tax collector Andrew Oliver’s copy; signed on title-page. Andrew Oliver (1706–1774) was the brother-in-law of Thomas Hutchinson, Massachusetts’ colonial governor. Oliver..... Read More about The Regulations Lately Made concerning the Colonies, and the Taxes Imposed upon Them, considered
![3731859] [Trade Catalogs:] Reproductions of Antique Fittings [and] Reproductions of Antique...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731859_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1654369617)
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....
![3730317] Description of the Grand Historical Picture of Belshazzar’s Feast Painted by...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3730317_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1619699169)
Description of American painter Washington Allston’s masterpiece, Belshazzar’s Feast, a monumental 12 x 16-foot historical painting begun in 1817 and left unfinished at his death..... Read More about Description of the Grand Historical Picture of Belshazzar’s Feast Painted by Washington...
![3728524] [C. 1877–1881 Scroll Saw Group: Trade Catalog, Chromolithographic Trade Cards, and...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3728524_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1624381421)
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...
![3726653] Boston Saxophone Orchestra. Abdon Laus, Director using Buescher True Tone Saxophones....](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3726653_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1534362434)
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
![3724871] 1838 Letter of Boston lawyer Charles G. Loring to Connecticut shipowner Charles P....](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3724871_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1642543470)
1838 letter from Boston lawyer Charles G. Loring (1794–1867) to his client, Stonington, Connecticut shipowner and businessman Charles P. Williams concerning the legal matter of..... Read More about 1838 Letter of Boston lawyer Charles G. Loring to Connecticut shipowner Charles P. Williams...
![3726200] Died Jan. 17th, 1837 — Mrs. Elizabeth Coolidge, Aged 60 Years. [Elizabeth Bulfinch...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3726200_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1534362341)
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,...
![3725062] 1832 Autograph Letter Signed from Perez Morton, Revolutionary War patriot and Boston...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3725062_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1534362299)
About 75 words, an autograph letter signed from Revolutionary War patriot and Boston lawyer Perez Morton (1751–1837) written to Colonel James T.[recothick] Austin (1784–1870). Austin..... Read More about 1832 Autograph Letter Signed from Perez Morton, Revolutionary War patriot and Boston Lawyer, to...
