![[John Sartain:] Description of West’s Great Picture, Christ Rejected, Now on Exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts…. John Sartain, 1808–1897, Benjamin West, 1738–1820.](/images/noimage-req.png)
In 1865, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts exhibited American expatriate painter Benjamin West’s monumental oil on canvas Christ Rejected (1814).¹ Taking advantage of its... Read More
![Money Talks. How Others Make Money with the American Magazine. Letters from the Field Force [cover title]. Anon.](/pictures/thumb/3726679_1.jpg?v=1530631730)
The American Magazine was founded in 1906 when the muckraking journalists Ray Stannard Baker, Lincoln Steffens and Ida M. Tarbell left McClure’s magazine to form... Read More
![A Catalogue of French Medical Books to be Supplied by P. Blakiston Son Co. Medical Publishers, Booksellers and Importers [...] Philadelphia [cover title]. Son & Co. P. Blakiston, Presley Blakiston c.1814–1898.](/pictures/thumb/3726525_1.jpg?v=1531245310)
Unusual medical publisher’s trade catalog in the form of a sammelband issued by P. Blakiston, Son & Co. of Philadelphia, publisher of medical, dental, and... Read More
A collection of ten handwritten and one typed letter and five autographed postcards from various nobility; all written to Sir Algernon Edward Aspinall, Secretary of... Read More
Interesting letter on the publication of magazine articles by attorney-turned-journalist and popular writer, John Paul Bocock (1856–1903). A Virginian from a leading family, Bocock earned... Read More
Bright collection of children’s Spanish-language chapbooks published in Madrid by S. Calleja, the firm of innovative Spanish children’s publisher Saturnino Calleja Fernández (1853–1915). Many of... Read More
Unrecorded in OCLC, a de luxe birthday and autograph album published by Henry T. Clauder of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The blank album is in a full... Read More
1817 letter from Washington, D.C. physician and author Thomas Ewell (1785–1826) seeking a loan from a friend at the time of the publication of his... Read More
Lengthy letter by William Garretson, Manager of Circulation for the religious and reform newspaper, The Christian Union. Garrettson here recruits Solomon Snyder as a canvasser... Read More
1841 “Articles of Agreement” or contract between Philadelphia author Rev. John A. Clark of Philadelphia and publishers Washington J. Simon and James K. Simon. (The... Read More
![Philadelphia Phrenological Cabinet. John L. Capen, Successor to Fowler, Wells & Co. [broadside caption title]. John L. Capen, John Lemuel Capen; ca. 1823–1905.](/pictures/thumb/3726309_1.jpg?v=1530631666)
Advertising broadside for the Philadelphia Phrenological Cabinet conducted by John L. Capen (ca. 1823–1905). Capen is described as the successor to the noted New York... Read More
Autograph letter signed by Alvan S. Southworth, travel writer, journalist, and former secretary of the American Geographical Society, to Philadelphia printers and publishers Sherman &... Read More
Brief letter from George Lyman of Wadsworth, Ohio seeking summer employment as a subscription agent for a family newspaper: If you think proper to appoint... 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
10 lines or so, addressed to a Frances Gibbons, Thomas F. De Voe to the latter’s request about “republishing the ‘Market Book’” and notes that... Read More
Raconteur, Orator, Author American soldier and diplomat Horace Porter distinguished himself as a Civil War officer, secretary to General, later U.S. President Grant, and ambassador... Read More
1812 Autograph letter signed by English publisher and author William Stevenson (c.1750–1821). Writing to Davidson Turner Esq. in Yarmouth, Stevenson discusses allowances or discounts upon... Read More
Salesman’s sample book or canvassing book for a popular, illustrated topical history of the United States, Footprints of Four Centuries, The Story of the American... Read More
Three large format photographs depicting the interior showroom and a trade show booth of New York scientific and technology publisher Spon & Chamberlain. The two... Read More
Issued within five years after the inception of the firm in 1854, this publisher/bookseller’s trade catalog presents the entire catalogue of standard works available from... Read More
