This entertaining program promotes the sixteenth season of Hoyt’s “A Texas Steer or Money Makes the Mare Go”—a humorous “collection of saws and incidents” about Texas politics. Act I takes place at “Maverick Brander’s” cattle ranch, while Act II and III are set at the Arlington hotel in Washington county.....
An early promotional pamphlet for a hernial truss, featuring a folding-plate of the patented apparatus and directions for use. A prominent and influential doctor in New York, Amos G. Hull (1775–1835) was a pioneer physician, surgeon and inventor of the “Patent Hinge Truss,” for the treatment of Prolapsus Uteri.....
One of ninety-one copies signed by Huxley, this copy un-numbered; also inscribed by the binder, James Wells, as follows: “For Laurence Lee who has never known ‘an’ erratum from his friend James Wells August 15th 1933.”.
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A rare financial statement of the Illinois Central Railroad Co. with a fine, large railroad map of the entirety of Illinois and portions of Missouri and Indiana. The Illinois Central Railroad Company was established in 1851 as the first land-grant railroad in America. Here the Directors present an end-of-the-year Report.....
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The personal album of Fusako Imoto featuring over 260 photographs chronicling life at the Poston (Camp II) Relocation Center, Arizona, and including photos of other Japanese-American internees at other relocation camps. When approximately 120,000 Japanese-Americans were forcibly relocated at the onset of WWII, it was common for families and communities.....
An Indian Rights Association broadside calling attention to the plight of starving Chippewa people at Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota in 1887. This broadside reprints a letter to the editor by J.B. Harrison of the Indian Rights Association originally published in the Boston Evening Transcript. Harrison, a churchman.....
A classic down-east guide-book in the form of an entertaining narrative of three travelers enjoying the sights along the Boston & Maine Railroad, mixing droll humor with local history and anecdotal details about train and steamship travel in the 1880s. The Latch String refers to an old Yankee.....
A handsome brochure promoting the award-winning Tiger, King of Rakes, as the “Perfect Self-Discharging Sulky Rake,” with a 3” x 5” engraving of the J. W. Stoddard Farm Machinery factory complex on one panel, a 2” x 3” engraving of a farmer perched on the rake being pulled by a......
A scarce run of this long-lived publication targeted at both the Sioux and white Christian readers. Iapi Oaye was begun by Reverend J. P. Williamson in 1871 for the people of the Dakota Mission, which was founded in 1835. It was printed in Chicago until 1883, when it moved.....
A pamphlet advocating for the enlistment of African-Americans in the Union army during the Civil War, citing historical precedent and addressing the bias against their service. This pamphlet opens urgently with the following pronouncement: “We are in the midst of a great war for the existence of free institutions.....
First edition of the first of Jackson’s three reports on the geology of Maine. This copy originally belonged to noted Maine educator John Merrick (1766-1862). Born in Plymouth, Mass., Charles T. Jackson (1805–1880) was a physician and pioneering geologist and mineralogist who played an important role in the emergent state.....
First edition. Inscribed by the author. This is the third of Jackson’s three reports on the geology of Maine. Born in Plymouth, Mass., Charles T. Jackson (1805–1880) was a physician and pioneering geologist and mineralogist who played an important role in the emergent state geological survey movement of his day.....
A set of four dramatic images of Luray caverns, entitled (clockwise from upper left): Throne in Cathedral, Saracen’s Tent; Campbell’s Hall; and Brand’s Cascade.Two of the cavern titles reflect their discovery and early exploration. Local tinsmith Andrew Campbell and nephew Billy discovered the draft of cool air leading to the.....
A delightful volume of trial drawings, many of them satirical, for an illustrated alphabet featuring a variety of humorous and imaginative characters complimenting Johnston’s limericks. The volume begins with two calligraphic frontispieces, one consisting of the phrase “The Envelope” graced by an angelic figure holding a brush and canvas.....
An appealing compendium of rural architecture designs, with estimates for materials, measurement advice and ads, published by Milton George’s agricultural newspaper associated with the Farmer’s Alliance Movement. The thirty house plans include an eight-room cottage designed by Palliser, Palliser & Co. Architects, several barns, a village church, a “Very Cheap.....
Edition limited to 225 copies numbered and signed by Katz. This copy is number 194, and is additionally inscribed to John and Mary Updike, Ipswich, Mass., 1972. With fifteen rubber stamp prints by Robert Creeley, Tom Wesselmann, Red Grooms & Kenneth Koch, Marisol, Robert Indiana, Josef Levi, Gerard Malanga, Allen.....
A poetic eulogy for the murdered student Josie Langmaid, also relating the circumstances of her horrific death as well as a description of the public memorial created for her. On the morning of October 4, 1875, the beautiful 17-year-old Josie Langmaid did not show up for school. When Pembroke.....
An exceptionally rare lithograph depicting The Battle of the Pearl River Forts, also known as the Battle of the Barrier Forts, in late 1856, at the beginning of the Second Opium War. The USS Portsmouth is shown in the center of the river exchanging fire with four forts visible at.....
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A letter from Jackie Kennedy composed shortly after her husband’s election thanking the president of the Shelburne Museum for a gift. In this letter typed on White House stationary, dated December 15, 1961, Jackie thanks J. Watson Webb, Jr., the president of the Shelburne Museum in Vermont, for “the handsome.....
A rare and impressive promotional album advertising twenty-four first-class resorts and hotels located predominately in the Northeast, featuring related postcards offered for sale by the compiler. Accomplishing both promotion and self-promotion, the present album was compiled and assembled by salesman and publisher George W. Ketchum, who maintained offices at.....
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A journal kept by noted Ipswich, Massachusetts minister David T. Kimball during his final year of studies at Harvard University and Harvard Divinity School, and a year of teaching at Phillips Andover Academy. Rev. David Tenney Kimball (1782–1860) was a prominent abolitionist and Pastor of the First Parish in.....
A striking, dramatic program for a historic spectacle produced and directed by Imre Kiralfy for Barnum & Bailey in New York City. Credits for this show are given on page one: music composed by Sgr. Angelo Venanzi of Milan; costumes and accessories by Wilhelm of London; as well as.....
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An engaging manuscript narrative of a California gold rush voyage, including a harrowing account of passage through the Straits of Magellan and lively descriptions of places visited along the way. Theodore H. Klages left Hamilton, Ontario for California on 17 August 1858. The narrative offered here appears to be.....
A spectacular set of engravings after drawings by Salomon Kleiner picturing one of the most extraordinary estates of the eighteenth century, Prince Eugene of Savoy’s Belvedere, in Vienna, designed by Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt, court architect to the Hapsburgs. Residences Memorables comprises a series of engravings published in ten.....
An exceptionally handsome monograph on the work of British illustrator Walter Crane, and still the most authoritative work on the artist. Richly illustrated with chromolithographs, two tipped-in facsimile leaves from the Kelmscott Press edition of The Story of the Glittering Plain, and examples of Crane’s paintings, book illustrations, wallpaper designs.....