Household receipt and cooking recipe book distinguished for its chromolithographic covers and its numerous ads for food, medical, and domestic products. That it is also... Read More
Christmas in Boston. This small press book presents approximately six full-page or vignette-styled wood engravings. All support the Christmas theme of the text. Once, Christmas... Read More
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
Fantastic, humorous tale of how Johannes Gutenberg really invented printing. The illustrated booklet was published by Boston printer Albert Hallet to be given away to... Read More
![[With Artifactual Wish Bone:] We Wish You a Merry Christmas. Cha. Lawrence & Co.](/pictures/thumb/3726543_1.jpg?v=1530631714)
Cigars, Christmas, Turkeys, Cherubic Angels, and Wish Bones. Of these are great moments in American advertising clearly seen. Chas. Lawrence Co. is a Boston cigar... Read More
Press card for the Italian-language, Boston newspaper La Notizia, issued to New York City-based journalist Riccardo Cordiferro. “Riccardo Cordiferro” was the pseudonym adopted by Alessandro... Read More
1838 letter from Boston lawyer Charles G. Loring (1794–1867) to his client, shipowner and businessman Charles P. Williams of Stonington, Connecticut, concerning a case being... Read More
![Died Jan. 17th, 1837 — Mrs. Elizabeth Coolidge, Aged 60 Years. [Elizabeth Bulfinch Coolidge, sister of American Architect Charles Bulfinch]. Elizabeth Bulfinch Coolidge; 1777–1837.](/pictures/thumb/3726200_1.jpg?v=1530631657)
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
Autograph letter signed by nineteenth century popular lecturer, Joseph Cook (1838–1901), addressed to Boston publisher James T. Fields. Here, Cook invites Fields to lecture on... Read More
19th-Century Polar Exploration, The Open Polar Sea Polar exploration was interrupted by the American Civil War, 1861 to 1865. Here, in February 1867, Arctic explorer... Read More
This Boston broadside, a fortune-telling broadside, would have been accompanied by two “sensitive leaves” each of which would be a sympathetic barometer to aid in... Read More
Native of Toledo, Ohio, F.J. Scott was the son of wealthy Jesup W. Scott who donated funds to establish in Toledo, Ohio the Toledo Manual... Read More
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
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
Single complete issue that, notably, prints the entire Middlesex Petition to King George III. First issued in Middlesex county, England, the petition warmly supports the... Read More
Charles Taber on his own—and also in partnership with his brother—clearly served the whaling community of New Bedford, Massachusetts as booksellers, stationers, and dealers in... Read More
Signed one month after his fortieth birthday, this attractive portrait photograph of the pioneering African-American lyric tenor, Roland Hayes, is boldly inscribed to Hayes’ first... Read More
