![A True Picture and Story of Two Brethern borne in Genoa in Italie, 1620, the one called Lazaz, the other John Baptist, both at this present living, and to be seene in the Strand at London, 1637. Decemb.6. [title repeated in Latin].](/pictures/thumb/3985_1.jpg?v=1497468528)
Apparently the only known copy of this fascinating, illustrated broadside depicting and interpreting two asymmetrically-conjoined Italian brothers—one “perfect” and the other a “monstrum horrendum” whose ill-formed body protrudes laterally from his brother’s abdomen—and advertising an opportunity to see this wondrous pair “in the Strand at London” in December of 1637...
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...
![Francklin [Benjamin Franklin]. Charles Philippe Amedée Vanloo, engraver, Pierre Michel, after. Alix.](/pictures/thumb/3570_1.jpg?v=1475011523)
A handsome aquatint portrait of Benjamin Franklin, based on a painting by French portraitist Charles Phillipe Vanloo. In this captivating portrait print, engraver Pierre Michel Alix appealed to Revolutionary sentiment by replacing the sumptuous fur collar and cloak worn by Franklin in Vanloo’s painting with a simple gray coat...