An appealing promotional brochure for a visit to a Maine north woods paradise during the age of the grand hotel. Here indeed is a veritable elysium for the recreation seeker–for the man or woman who would hunt big game, capture fighting great fish, enjoy the sport of canoeing, essay mountain...
An rare silk broadside announcing the celebration of the U. S. Centennial aboard the excursion steamer “Plymouth Rock,” in Shanghai, China. The day long program included a “Salute of One Hundred Guns at Sunrise,” a “national Salute at 12 Meridian,” a reading of the Declaration of Independence by O. B....
Illustrated brochure for the Cody Road into Yellowstone via the Burlington Route of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy lines. “Have you ever heard of the Cody Road into Yellowstone Park?” This brochure is happy to educate. Text and photographs “Along the Road” offer something of a guided tour of...
An unrecorded broadside account of events surrounding John Brown’s insurrection, as reported in Richmond on the day of Colonel Robert E. Lee’s arrival in Harper’s Ferry. Under a collection of headlines, including: “THE VERY LATEST”; “INSURGENTS IN THE MOUNTAINS”; "GOV. WISE AND COMPANY F PASSED THE RELAY HOUSE"; “THE...
A rare and visually striking broadside advertising a tactics book for Zouave soldiers at the outset of the Civil War. This bold and patriotically colored poster advertises an 1861 edition of The Zouave's Light Infantry Tactics, by J. H. DeWitt and revised by John M. Gosline. DeWitt was a member...
One of two handkerchiefs celebrating the character of George Washington that were printed simultaneously at the Germantown Print Works in the first decade of the 19th century. The text consists of what is likely the earliest appearance in verse form of Parson Weems’ famous tale of Washington and the...
The second state of this almanac printed in Worcester during the Revolutionary War, of particular interest for the map of New York and vicinity that appears on the cover/title page. Published some four months after the defeat of Washington’s forces in the Battle of Long Island and the subsequent...
An railway brochure and map issued in the midst of the Great Dakota Boom. A folding brochure with 8 panels of promotional text and 5 panels of railroad time tables advertising not only its “Low Rates to Settlers and Land Hunters” but also the fact that it “Runs More Through...
An official printing of an 1845 treaty, concluded and ratified under President James K. Polk, relating to the Creek lands in Florida, rectifying a treaty of 1833 which grouped the Creeks and Seminoles together and misled the Creeks with regard to the lands they would be given. The result was...
![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 splendid copy of a rare handkerchief printing of the Declaration of Independence. The text of the Declaration is followed by the names of the signers, the text of John Adams’ letter of 5 July 1776 celebrating the Declaration; the dates of the treaty of Peace between Great Britain...
A poster advertising Stetson’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, advising the public to “Wait for the Big Show” rather than patronizing the falsely advertising “parasites” who were apparently attempting to capitalize on Stetson’s imminent appearance in town. A sheet attached to the bottom of the broadside announces a performance date of Monday...
A rare broadside printing of an eloquent paean to George Washington by an anonymous author. The text reads in part: “History and tradition are explored in vain for a parallel to his character. In the annals of modern greatness, he stands alone; and the noblest names of antiquity, lose...
The first separate printing and first separate facsimile of Lincoln’s famed autobiographical sketch, originally composed in response to a request from his friend Jesse Fell, printed with a brief account by Fell of the circumstances under which it was written and extracts from a few of Lincoln’s speeches. Lincoln...
A rare Federal-era broadside order regulating the delivery and distribution of fuel and straw for heat and bedding to US army personnel at coastal garrisons. Signed in ink by James McHenry, Secretary of War under George Washington (and later John Adams). Earlier in his career McHenry served as a secretary...
An extraordinary survival and a large-scale tour-de-force of multi-color broadside printing in the 1850s, here employed to promote various patent medicines offered by J. S. Spear of Boston, mounted on linen and wooden rollers in the style of a wall map. While various articles and papers by American medical professionals...