One of several editions of this work first published in 1829. All are rare, with OCLC recording just a few copies each of editions published in 1829, 1830 and 1832. Among the tricks included are “to seem to swallow a Long Pudding made of Tin,” “The Card nailed to a....
![[Manuscript maps of a remarkable Alaskan Gold Rush miner]. James E. Girdwood.](/pictures/thumb/4252_1.jpg?v=1506563085)
Three remarkable manuscript maps, evidently by well-known miner James Girdwood, providing detailed representations of his placer mines located on Crow Creek, in Glacier City, Alaska, as well as the topography thereabouts, accompanied by a portrait photograph of Girdwood by noted western photographer Edward Curtis. Following in the footsteps of...
![[Pair of American Scientific Expedition Photo Albums]. Erasmus D. Preston, compiler.](/pictures/thumb/2878_1.jpg?v=1506032700)
A pair of photo albums documenting two US Government sponsored expeditions tracking solar eclipses in the 1880s, compiled by Erasmus D. Preston, a member of both expeditions. The first of these, undertaken in 1883, sailed aboard the USS Hartford to the remote Pacific atoll Caroline Island with the intention of...
A rare, early, and very appealing circus lithograph promoting the equestrian act of Louisa Howard, one of the day’s most highly praised performers, designed and drawn on stone by G.T. Sanford. Louisa Howard, a native of Baltimore, rode in various circuses operated by Rufus Welch, America’s most successful circus...
![N.Y. Vols at Petersburg, Va. [and] Winter Camp of the Third Brigade N Y. Vols. Edwin. H. Shorey, artist.](/pictures/thumb/4055_1.jpg?v=1506519437)
A handsome and vividly detailed pair of eyewitness Civil War watercolors executed by a member of the Third Brigade of the New York Volunteers. Edwin H. Shorey of Utica, New York enlisted as a private on October 5th, 1861 and was mustered into Company “B” of the New York 57th...