Constance Fenimore Woolson's Nineteenth Century Essays
Wayne State University Press, 2001. New and still shrink wrapped.
New Arrivals
Practical Sanitary and Economic Cooking Adapted to Persons of Moderate and Small Means. The Lomb Prize Essay
Rochester: American Public Health Association, 1890. 190 pp. Binding moderately faded, corners bumped and most of the rear free end paper has been removed.
The Eagle Carriage Co. Manufacturers of Pony Vehicles and Harness
Cincinnati: The Eagle Carriage Co., circa 1910. 56 pp. Very good condition with light soiling to the wraps and corners bumped. This also includes a tipped-in price list.
Warning to Minors! An Act of Assembly Making it a Misdemeanor for any Minor to Knowingly and Falsely Represent Himself to be of Full Age for the Purpose of Obtaining Intoxicating Liquors
1912. Broadside. 8" x 10". Staining along the edges but otherwise in good condition. Formerly framed. The loose backing board from the frame has a note in ink indicating this piece was printed in 1912 and hung in the Beersville Hotel in 1912.
The Rail-road Chares Game
c.1830. 12 cards in box with directions. An unusual railroad game in English, French and German. Each card represents a business that has been altered by the construction of railroads in Europe and counsels the only way to survive is to speculate in railroad stocks. Complete with cards and directions.....
Final Notes on Witchcraft in Massachusetts: A Summary Vindication of the Laws and Liberties Concerning Attainders with Corruption of Blood, escheats, Forfeitures for Crime, and Pardon of Offenders.
New York: Printed for the Author, 1885. 120 pp. Wraps chipped and soiled. A scarce pamphlet reviewing colonial laws on witchcraft.
Lodges of Assinaboine Indians
Fargo: F. Jay Haynes, circa 1880. Avery good and clear image of a Assinaboine Native American encampment. Haynes was an important photographer in the Yellowstone area.
Three examples of 19th Century Tickets
1860-1867. Three lottery tickets for the Grand Consolidated Lottery, Mechanics Art Union, and the International Joint Stock Company. Good condition and very attractive designs.
Arrest photograph of Clara Zacker
New York: circa 1907. Zacker was a twenty-four-year-old housekeeper in New York City and was accused of stealing from her employer. Good condition in storage envelope and a clipping on the case.
Tamburlaine and Other Verses
Hillacre: 1917. 41 pp. Uncut. Dust jacket lightly worn and faded. Waldo Pierce's copy with his bookplate and a note signed "Waldo" laid into the front. Reed was an active American Communist who died in Russia in 1920.
E.J. Neale & Co. Mount Lebanon, N.Y. Shaker Cloak
Mount Lebanon, NY: The Shakers, circa 1910. Silk bookmark mounted on cardstock. The Shakers order a large quantity of these but for some reason never distributed them. Good condition but top edge of the silk bookmark is glued to the cardstock.
Letters to Married Women, on Nursing and Management of Children
London: C. and G. Kearsley, 1792. 239 pp. Very ggod in full calf. Binding sound. Minor stains and foxing. Has a bookplate of Lord Sinclair with an ink inscription to his daughter.
Hints Towards Forming the Character of a Young Princess
London: T. Cadell, 1805. 329, 403 pp. Good in full calf with hinges starting to crack, occasional foxing, remnants of small labels on the front covers.
Calligraphy notebook belonging to John Bedlam (1789-1814) of Dorchester, Massachusetts who was the son of furniture maker Stephen Bedlam
Dorchester, MA: 1800-1801. [32] pp. Fair condition withs oiling, corners dog-eared. 2 pages lacking that contain the months Sept.-Dec. As a young man Bedlam travelled to Argentina and remained there until his death in 1814.
Public Sale. Thomas & Sons, Auctioneers. Beautiful Locations for Country Seats. 4 Valuable Lots 50 Acres, Abington Township, Montgomery Co....
Philadelphia: Gustavus V. Town, 1856. Broadside. 12" x 18". Good with folds. Not examined out of the frame.
Training Personnel. Federal Bureau of Investigation U.S. Department of Justice
Washington: The Washington Star, 1935. 25 pp. Good condition. Reprinted from The Washington Star. An illustrated guide to FBI training.
College of Physicians and Surgeons, Medical Department of Columbia College, City of New York
New York: 1883-84. 8 medical School lecture tickets for courses taken by Jay Humphreys at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Medical Department of Columbia Collage, City of New York Session of 1883-84. 8 cards for classes in Pathology, Physiology, Chemistry, Anatomy, Obstetrics, Matriculation Ticket, General Ticket, Surgery. Good condition.....
Trade card for C.A. Nolcini & Co. Druggist, Boston, Massachusetts
Trade card for Nolconi & Co. who specialized in supply medical products for sailing ships. Good with soiling and a charming folk-art painting on the reverse of a boy fishing. Circa 1850's.
Landreths''Seeds American Grown, 1898
Philadelphia: D. Landreth & Sons, 1898. 64 pp. Good condition with decorative color wraps. Illustrated in black and white. Some wear to the spine.
Two Real photographic Postcards of the Alfred, Maine Shaker Village
Alfred, ME: The Shaker, c.1915. Two postcards of the Alfred Maine Shaker village. The bottom image pictures the Church Family showing the 3rd dwelling house recently finished to replace the 2nd dwelling which had burned to the ground. The top image pictures the Second or Gathering Family which was where.....
The Nature and Character of the True Church of Christ Proved by Plain Evidences...
1850. 93 pp. Wraps soiled but otherwise in good condition. John Dunlavy of one of the most important Shaker theologians. Richmond 521, Ericson 2636.
The story of Shakerism
East Canterbury: Shakers, 1907. 16 pp. Good condition. The first edition of this often-republished introduction to Shaker life and beliefs. Richmond 684, Ericson 3307.
In Love With A T-Man
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1937. 251 pp. Very good condition in jacket. A reprint with great graphics on the dust jacket. This is a novel about a woman who falls in love with a Treasury Department agent who is on the trail of a counterfeiting agent.
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Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose [with] Letters from a Father to His Son, on Various Topics, Relative to Literature and the Conduct of Life by John Aikin
London: J. Johnson, 1792, 1796. 266, 348 pp. 2 titles in matching bindings. Very good with light wear to the bindings with minor loss to the head and tail of the spines. John Aikin was a doctor who devoted much of his life to writing and worked in conjunction with.....
Memorials of Prison Life
Cincinnati: L. Swormstedt & A. Poe, 1856. 354 pp. Binding rubbed, interior foxed and light damp staining. Finley was a Methodist minister who was raised on the Ohio frontier. He ministered to the Wyandot tribe and later was the minister at the Ohio state penitentiary for four years. He describes.....