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Catalogue of the Eden Musée, 55 West 23rd St. Price Ten Cents.
New York: Rich G. Hollaman, 73 Fulton St., 1884. 4to (9.625” x 6.5”), chromolithographic wrappers. 72 pp., alternating text and blank pp. reserved for advertisements, 5 ads, numerous b&w illus. CONDITION: Good, one signature detached, a few very minor chips and tears along extremities, .24” loss at lower-left corner of front wrapper, spine edge curled. A handsome guide to the Eden Musée wax museum, concert hall, and amusement center in New York City. A vivid, theatrical illustration printed by lithographers Mayer, Merkel and Ottmann on the front wrapper depicts a military figure drawing back a curtain to reveal the stately, Second Empire-style museum building. The text includes diagrams and description of the exhibits in each chamber of the “Temple of Art”: the Vestibule, Entrance Hall, Central Hall, Sacred Chamber, The Crypt, and the Concert Hall. The Crypt includes tableaux of a savage Indian scalping; beheadings in Morocco; the French guillotine; cannibals; and curiously, figures of explorers of Africa, such as Stanley, Livingstone and De Brazza. In the center of Concert Hall are figures of U.S. presidents surrounding the Statue of Liberty, with various tableaux and figures set up along the wall; biographies of each figure and tableau. One reads: “Gen. George B. McClellan. This distinguished commander of the War of Secession, was born in Philadelphia on December 3rd, 1826.…[As Commander], he won the great battle of Antietam but did not follow up on his victory. He was again recalled from the command-in-chief, and his career in the war was closed.” Also included are ads for E.R. Durkee’s “desiccated celery” and “Uric Acid,” called “Warner’s Safe Cure” and lauded as “A New King on the Throne.”
Item #5529
Price: $375.00