An account of the hippopotamus Bucheet, who was captured as a calf on the White Nile and sold to an American showman, accompanied by accounts of Obaysch, a hippo presented to the British Zoological Society by Queen Elizabeth, who had received him as a gift from the Viceroy of Egypt.....
A rare and charming French “blow book” or trick book consisting of nine alternating scenes, eight of which are hand-colored. Each scene in this volume comprises two plates facing each other: two young women and a girl opposite two men (one blowing smoke into the other’s face); a large-headed dandy.....
An entertaining account of cowboy, army scout and Wild West performer Lone Star Harry, including a thrilling cattle-drive narrative and instructions on gun-fighting technique; likely distributed as a Wild-West Show souvenir for Harry’s gun-toting act. Featuring a wood engraving of Lone Star Harry on the front wrapper, this pamphlet begins.....
First edition in book form of this delightful satire of the mad rush to the Crystal Palace exhibition of 1851, with plates by Cruikshank and text by social critic Henry Mayhew.