A scarce illustrated leaflet advertising the first complete mummy brought to America, which was exhibited to benefit the Massachusetts General Hospital and later toured the eastern seaboard, triggering the phenomenon known as “mummy-mania.” This leaflet, made to accompany the mummy’s exhibition, bears a wood engraving of the sarcophagus exterior and.....
An extraordinary collection of illustrated envelope covers produced during the Civil War, featuring a cornucopia of themes relating to the war and its effect on everyday life, as mounted and bound by an early twentieth century collector. These envelopes feature a remarkably wide range of subjects: American flags; eagles; military.....
The first British edition of the proceedings of the first Continental Congress, “one of the most important documents of the American Revolution” (Reese). These Extracts represent a condensed version of the activity of the Continental Congress’s first session, between September 5th and October 26th, 1774, and it is through them—reprinted.....
A “Revised edition” of Farrar’s map to accompany his Rangeley Lakes guide, here issued separately. This is a much more detailed and expansive map than the map by M.M. Tidd that appeared in the first edition of Farrar’s guide to Rangeley (1876). It extends from Emden, Anson and Starks in.....
A scarce supplement to An Empire Illustrated, a special issue of Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, intended at last in part to promote real estate investment in Texas. This supplement consists mainly of an article entitled “The Lone Star State”—a narrative of a two months’ trip through Texas taken by.....
This appealing and apparently unrecorded broadside advertises hiking excursions up Mt. Tamalpais, some 22 miles north of San Francisco in Marin County, California. “Personally conducted” by one Dawson Mayer, these excursions accommodated up to 60 people and cost $2.50, including a luncheon at the Tavern of Tamalpais. Offered between May.....
Volume 2, No. 1 in this influential series of almanacs containing a variety of tall tales in backwoods dialect, illustrated with wood engravings. This is the fifth Crockett Almanac published in Nashville. The contents include An Unexpected Ride on the Horns of an Elk, Col. Crockett’s Adventure With a Grizzly.....
Volume 2, No. 2 in this celebrated series of almanacs, containing a variety of tall tales in backwoods dialect, illustrated with wood engravings. The contents include The Heroine of Kaintuck; Col. Crockett and the Bear and the Swallows; Gum Swamp Breeding; A Goose Pulling; Severe Courtship; The Way They Travel.....
The text of John 2, in which the water that Jesus turned into wine is brought to the wedding feast, with wood engravings of animals opposite each of nine passages. Each illustration is loosely intended as a “wine label” and all are captioned accordingly, e.g, “elderberry flower,” “dandelion,” “fox grape,”.....
A captivating and very rare satire of the presidential campaign of 1844, employing the popular metaphor of “Up Salt River” to denote political peril or defeat. Whig nominee Henry Clay and his running mate Theodore Frelinghuysen, in their boat Tariff, lead the other candidates in the race up Salt River.....
An account of the infamous Northampton heist; the robbers' treatment of their captives; how they escaped; the losses endured by the bank, etc., complete with a floor plan of the house of the cashier Whittelsey, who was held captive. Dubbed the "greatest burglary on record," on the morning of January.....
An engaging promotional brochure for the brand new town of Chula Vista, with a map of the San Diego Bay region. This very engaging brochure promotes the land, climate, crops, and cost of living in the San Diego Bay area and, particularly, the San Diego Land & Town Company’s newly-built.....
A rare and delightful advertisement for a St. Louis sponge and chamois company issued during the height of the American sponge industry, showing eight boats (three of them flying American flags) and twenty-six nude divers in the process of “sponge fishing.” This engagingly varied print illustrates seemingly all aspects of.....
The first folio Bible printed in America, by the country’s “patriot printer,” Isaiah Thomas. Dubbed “the Baskerville of America” by Benjamin Franklin, Isaiah Thomas issued a folio and a quarto Bible simultaneously, and Wright notes that “The two Thomas Bibles of 1791 were without doubt far in advance of any.....
A handsomely illustrated painting and art supply catalog including products such as China palettes, Tin boxes, Easels, Bronze powders, Putty knives, Vellum cloth, German drawing papers, Chinese Water Closet Paper, Sketch books, Camel’s Hair Mottlers, Badger Hair Blenders, and Red Sable Lettering Pencils. The numerous brushes offered include French Bristle.....
A land promotion broadside advertising transportation via the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway to the company’s land grant and elsewhere. Promising the “shortest and quickest route” to points in Missouri, Arkansas and Texas, this broadside publishes the “liberal rates and allowance of baggage for Seekers of land in.....
An iconic satire of a gold-hunter, published at the height of the California Gold Rush. This scarce print depicts a prospective gold miner as an inappropriately well-dressed man in a knee-length coat, absurdly laden with mining tools, cookware, knives, and food as he walks overland to California along a body.....
The official account of the trial of the Jefferson Borden mutineers, held in the Circuit Court of the United States, District of Massachusetts. In the spring of 1875, the vessel Jefferson Borden—built on the Kennebunk River in Maine—departed from New Orleans and was making way for London under the command.....
A rare lithograph honoring John Mitchell—here dubbed “The Miner’s Champion”—who served as the President of the United Mine Workers of America from 1898–1908, with vignettes of coal mining scenes, including depictions of child labor. This print consists of a central portrait of John Mitchell set against a background of.....
First and only edition of this songster for Lincoln's second campaign, with a portrait on the cover depicting a beardless Lincoln, in spite of the fact that Lincoln had a beard at the time. Included here are eleven campaign songs, among them Shout Aloud For Lincoln, Hurrah! For Lincoln and.....
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A delightful Depression-era board game in the form of a treasure hunt map promoting the Little Orphan Annie radio show and the flavored milk supplement Ovaltine. This fantasy map depicts nine islands, various lands and rocks, vessels, hazards, and a multi-colored course snaking across the map. The players (between one.....
An early issue of this scarce literary periodical featuring writing by Lowell’s female textile workers, many of whom went on to become authors, educators, and suffragist or labor organizers. This February, 1841 issue of The Lowell Offering includes eighteen pieces, including “The Sea of Genius” (a young writer’s conversation with.....
A contemporary manuscript copy of the declaration of intent of the patriots of present-day Portland, Maine to support the Continental Congress and oppose the “evil designs” of Parliament, made in Falmouth (now Portland)—one of the early hotbeds of the American Revolution. Dated more than a year before the Declaration of.....
A scarce and appealing map of Lake Hopatcong showing the various developments that sprang up around this vacation destination for New York city-dwellers. Depicting the lake lying along the border between Morris and Sussex Counties, this detailed and multi-colored map indicates along a forty-five mile shoreline hotels, steamboat landings.....
A rare and early map of the city of Pierre, published eight years after it was founded, and one year before it became the capital of the newly formed state of South Dakota. Founded in 1880, during the Great Dakota Boom of 1878-1887, Pierre began as a ferry landing on.....