![Valentines:] Accept this little pledge of love, / And love’s request obey… [opening lines of...](/images/noimage-req.png)
Fascinating broadside of Valentine sentiments, printing over 275 poetical quatrains and couplets of romantic love in very small type. Cupid, damsels, “lovely Venus,” future wives..... Read More about Valentines:] Accept this little pledge of love, / And love’s request obey… [opening lines of...
Two circulars. Joseph Henry (1797–1878), first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, autographs the first circular as the Smithsonian’s Librarian and acknowledges receipt of Jared Sparks’..... Read More about 1847 and 1848 Circulars from the Smithsonian Institute to Little & Brown, Booksellers,...
Very good example of this 1846 map—five feet in length—of Philadelphia and its environs printed using the anastatic printing process; the first facsimile of John..... Read More about To the Honourable House of Representatives of the Freemen of Pennsylvania this Map of the City...
Curiously printed, 18th-century partly-printed bond issued by High Sheriff John Potter of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. John Potter became the first sheriff of Cumberland County in..... Read More about 1755 Carlisle, Cumberland County Printed and Manuscript Bond between James McCord and James...
Interesting circular or broadside that announces the dissolution of the printing firm of Hosford & Ketcham and boldly announces the establishment of the firm of..... Read More about Charles F. Ketcham of the Late Firm of Hosford and Ketchman, Stationer, Printer, Lithographer,...
Three related documents signed by wardens of the Port of New Orleans including two partly printed forms, similarly titled, likely printed in New Orleans before..... Read More about Port-Wardens’ Office, New-Orleans… [two partly printed documents likely printed in New...
![Philadelphia Academy of Music, 1873 Program:] Forasmuch as Dyvers Syngynge People…. Academy of...](/pictures/thumb/3726692_1.jpg?v=1534362443)
Delightfully humorous program for a concert of antique music performed at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. Likely getting into the spirit of the nation’s..... Read More about Philadelphia Academy of Music, 1873 Program:] Forasmuch as Dyvers Syngynge People…
![Rhode Island Printing] Woonsocket Patriot and Rhode Island State Register [Advertorial Envelope]....](/pictures/thumb/3726545_1.jpg?v=1534362409)
A busy envelope with various text and type faces to serve not only as a functional method of letter transmittal, but as a mobile advertising..... Read More about Rhode Island Printing] Woonsocket Patriot and Rhode Island State Register [Advertorial Envelope
Packed with information, here is a detailed inventory of the skills and services offered by H.T. Trappit, Engraver of 26 King Street, Commercial Road. Mr..... Read More about Business Trade Card for H.T. Trappitt, Engraver, of 26 King Street, Commercial Road
Electrotyper’s specimen book of thousands of stock illustration cuts suitable for all manner of commercial and job printing. Illustration cuts available from The Commercial Cut..... Read More about Commercial Cut Co., Designers Illustrators Photo-Engravers…New York [cover title
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...
Most nineteenth century trade cards do not bear an imprint. This one does, in this instance, advertising a resort house in popular Lake George, New..... Read More about Trade Card:] 1860s to 1870s Rockwell Bros. Proprietors. Lake House…Lake George, New York
Antebellum broadside outlining the order of exercises for the centennial of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons of South Carolina. The lyrics for two anthems and..... Read More about Order of Exercises for the Festival of St. John the Evangelist, and the Centennial Anniversary of...
