Takadispep Illustrated Circular Card
Cantabria, Spain, 1950. Very good to near-fine. Minor toning.. Illustrated circular card for the Spanish indigestion medication Takadispep, featuring a most charming and clever illustration of a man driving one of the tablets like a steamroller over a large feast. Includes uses for the medication and directions for use on the verso, with stamp and typewritten address. Measures... Read More
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Samoana Fortune Telling Cards
Sonoma, California: Noolcam Company, 1950. Good. Dust soiling, toning. A little water staining to box.. A complete set of "Samoana Fortune Telling Cards", a delightfully kitschy 1950s parlor game created for the American market featuring a pin-up style Samoan woman on the box and claiming to be "founded on South Pacific Native Symbols". This set is complete with... Read More
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Illustrated business card with National Needle Co. Price list on reverse
8.13. Light discoloration on reverse at base.. A 2 3/4" x 4 1/4" illustrated business card for Howe Machine Company in Watertown NY. Artistic printing adorns the front. caption of Cheap, Simple & Durable. The reverse is a price list of sewing machine needles by the dozen and by the 100. Among he more expensive are Wheeler &... Read More
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The Nahant Monthly Review Vol. 1, No. 7
Nahant, Massachusetts: The Nahant Monthly Review, 1903. Very good. Horizontal crease. Water staining, chipping, and short tears. Some minor rust staining from staples.. Vol. 1, No. 7 of the Nahant Monthly Review, a photo-illustrated serial; this is "Special Issue" celebrating the semi-centennial of the town's founding. Includes: a "Sketch of Nahant" by Helen Louise Stetson, including contemporary photos... Read More
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Meinecke Book of the Sick Room" -- Home Nursing on the Eve of WWI with section of Sick Room Supply Catalog
New York, New York: Meinecke & Company, 1914. Good. Toning with light wear and dust soiling to wrappers, a couple chips to spine.. A DIY guide for homemakers to nursing the sick at home, complete with an illustrated trade catalogue of helpful equipment for the sick room sold by Meinecke & Company of New York. Published just before... Read More
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Mary Lee clothes and playthings to cut out: A Cut-Out Doll
1940. May Lee, a brunette with brown eyes, can be an aviator with gear or can dress up in a sailor dress among other outfits. She comes with a punch-out suitcase with her name.Measures 10 1/2" x 9 1/2": Whitman Publishing Co. Illustrated: Florence Winship1941. 1 Doll, 4 costume pages.
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A Farm Yard Story
Boston, Massachusetts: L. Prang & Co, 1865. Very good. Minor toning, small stain on lower wrapper, one small surface tear to lower wrapper. Short open tear to pig panel, loss to one letter only.. A folding accordion-style (leporello) children's book by Prang, featuring a happy host of barnyard animals including chickens, ducks, a horse, pigs, and a night-hawk.... Read More
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A Visit to the Zoological Gardens
Long Lane, Smithfield, London: J.L. Marks, Marks Edition, 1855. Wraps detached but present. Light to moderate wear.. 8 unnumbered leaves. Orange/peach wraps. First and last leaves are paste-downs. Hand colored lithograph illustrations and frontispiece. Advertisements on back cover. Measures 7" by 4.5". Frontispiece depicts birdhouse surrounded by exotic birds. Content includes eagle, vulture, parrot, turkey, adjutant,... Read More
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An Array of Notes of a Mother's trip by train Across America, c1884
1884. An array of snippets and pages detailing a trip a young family took by train in 1884. A mother, family, and their two young children started in Boston and headed west. They stopped in Niagara Falls, Erie Canal, Denver, Salt Lake, Price Canyon, Black Canyon, Chicago, and Washington DC. The journal is written on a variety of papers,... Read More
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Circular - Afternoon Dancing School for Misses and Masters
Medford MA: Prof. Atwood, 1870. A single page 8" x 5" circular announcing Afternoon Dancing School. Presented by Prof. Atwood for his patrons in the Medford (MA) intended for children, a term of fifteen lessons and a Grand Exhibition to instruct in the Art and Etiquette of Ball Room Dancing. Includes terms for the course and cordially invites parents... Read More
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The Good Soldier's Lunch Call
[Los Angeles, California]: Southern Counties Gas Company, 1944. Very good to near-fine.. A nutrition guide for American housewives, offering tips and tricks for nourishing the family during the Second World War. Published "as a wartime service with compliments of Southern Counties Gas Company", and issued at a time when wartime rations were in full effect. Ingredients such as... Read More
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Four (4) Intricate and Fine Early 19th Century Cutwork
Early 19th. century. Near-fine. The occasional crease or tiny tear.. A group of four (4) remarkably intricate and finely-wrought examples of early nineteenth century paper cut work. They have been designed and cut by someone who was evidently quite skilled in the practice. Two of the examples depict trees with long branches waving dramatically in the wind; the... Read More
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Printed Buena Vista Spring Hotel Menu on Lg Watercolor decorated Paper Hand Fan 1894, Asian Motif - Chrysthanthemums
Blue Ridge Mountains, 1894. Minimal Wear. An 8 bamboo blade paper covered fane with a watercolor Asian inspired chrysthanthemum motif. On the left 1/3 of one side of the fan is an applied menu for the Buena Vista Spring Hotel, Franklin Co., PA. It is for Dinner on Sunday, August 5, 1894. Fare includes... Read More
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Brain Food: Steam Cooked Wheat & Barley
New York, New York: The Cereals Manufacturing Co, 1880. Very good. Letter folds. Minor toning, chipping to edges.. Printed advertising bifolium for Steam Cooked Wheat & Barley, marketing it as "brain food" and an important component of health and wellness. Includes a scientific discussion of the food, calling it and its phosphorus content "the physical source of life... Read More
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Invitation - Grosser Masken der New Yorker Sangerrunde
New York City: Heppenheimer & Mauer, 1883. The card lacks about 3/4" at right end; perhaps a ticket "stub" cut off?. A 4 3/4" x 7 1/2" invitation to a German Social Club masked ball held at Teutonia Assembly Rooms in New York City. Held on February 12, 1883 (Lincoln's Birthday). Fine printing and elaborate scene of elegant... Read More
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Archive of New York Farmers Edward C. and Emily Henrotin
Berlin, New York, 1931. A remarkable archive of material belonging to Edward C. (b.1872) and Emily (b.1884) Henrotin, farmers active in Rensselaer County, New York, in the 1920s. Emily was an active conservationist, and one of the first women to be recognized in her field; her husband Edward was equally well-respected in agricultural circles. Correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, and... Read More
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The Jolly Jig-Saw Book - 1939
The Jolly Jig-Saw Book, Packed with Jig-saw Puzzles and Story-rhymes. John Leng & Co., London. 1939. A hardback book that includes five (5) different rhyming verses with a relevant actual jig-saw puzzles as part of the book. Each has a small black and white illustration of the completed puzzle, that the child was encouraged to paint. Includes No Dogs... Read More
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The History of Ann Lively and Her Bible - Make Do cover
[New York]: The American Tract Society, 1850. Good. Toned with dust soiling, short tears. Damage to handmade wrappers.. An illustrated chap book published by the American Tract Society, instructing children in the importance of learning to read and careful study of the Bible. Includes a small wood engraved vignette on each page. What makes this copy notable is... Read More
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Manuscript Cures for Hydrophobia & Cancer
A 10" x 6" page that appears to have been removed from a ledger or journal with two entries that appear to be in different hands. The first is a cure for hydrophobia that entails mixing elecampane root, a puff of madder and a quart of new milk brought to boil in a water bath. This mixture is... Read More
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Taxidermy, Minerals, and Shell Catalogue of Walter F. Webb for the Year 1896
Albion, New York: Walter F. Webb, 1896. Very good. Some staining, short open tear to upper wrapper.. A trade catalogue advertising products for the taxidermist and natural science enthusiast, including tools, stands, glass eyes, displays, paint brushes, and more. Sold by Walter W. Webb, the publisher of "The Museum", a natural science and zoology journal. The second half... Read More
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Promotional Card for Dr. Gluck's Water & Physical Culture Institute and Gymnasium
Chicago, IL: Dr. Gluck's Water & Physical Culture Institute and Gymnasium, 1920. General wear and soiling.. A promotional card for Dr. Gluck's Water & Physical Culture Institute and Gymnasium which provided medicated and plain baths to its patrons. Located in Chicago, the institute promoted itself as place that helps "the weak to grow in strength; the sick to... Read More
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The Household Companion with Illustrations and Descriptions Of Sherwood's Standard White Lustral Wire Ware
Lowell, MA: Woods, Sherwood & Co, 1878. Covers partially detached, binding loose. Edge wear.. A catalogue for items of "wire ware" which essentially means any item in which all or part of the item is made from wire. Some examples of items sold are: tea or coffee stainers, spiral egg beaters, egg stands, tooth brush holder, and dish... Read More
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Handwritten Valentine's Poem with Lock of Hair
N.pl, 1860. Very good. Toning with some spots.. An elegantly written Valentine's poem, enclosed in its original envelope with a small lock of hair. Also includes a gold and white die-cut Victorian scrap depicting a basket of flowers. The hair is light brown with some light gray, and secured together with brown thread/embroidery floss. The poem reads: "This... Read More
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Fine Deeply Embossed Paper Boudoir or Trinket Box with Hidden Message within Rancontre Desire
1820. A polished stock box 2 1/4" in diameter. The light stock box is wrapped in green polished paper with the exception of the top of the box lid which is a deeply embossed red scallop shell. The interior of the box is blank with the exception of a a deeply and intricately embossed scene of two women in... Read More
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Getting a Defense Job
N.pl: Reader Mail, Inc, 1942. Very good. Light toning, dust soiling.. A guide to working in defense jobs for Americans in 1942 looking for a way to support the troops abroad through labor at home. Offers an overview of job training and education, different jobs available (ranging from aviation and engineering to factory work and civil service), and... Read More
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