Hartford: E.T. Pease & Co., 1854. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Pamphlet, 51 pp, sewn binding, original printed wrappers. Some paper loss to spine and at corners, binding tight, text clean. On March 2, 1854, a recently installed 50-horsepower steam boiler exploded at the railroad-car factory Fales & Gray Car..... (Item #21005)

Fifty-one albumen photographs featuring the monuments of Egypt, ca. 1880. All photos 22.5 x 28 cm (ca. 8.75 x 11 inches) on slightly larger card mounts, housed in a two-piece green cloth case stamped “Aegypten I” in gilt, with four brass-rimmed slots for ribbon ties near the corners of both..... (Item #21923)

Newark, NJ: The Consolidated Illustrating Co., [1896]. 7.5 x 10.5 inches (oblong), in original embossed wrappers. xix, 208 pp, with manu illustrations from photographs. Wrappers have some some staining, chipping to spine; good. An elaborate and relatively uncommon promotional that--in addition to general text on the advantages of settling in..... (Item #21495)

Advertising handbill, approximately 8.5 x 5.5 inches, illustrated with a wonderful (or not, depending on your point of view) image of "A Flea Magnified." Some staining, old folding creases. Joseph Fusch trademarked his Eureka Insect Exterminator--guaranteed to kill fleas, flies, mosquitoes, bed bugs, ants , moths, lice, and cockroaches without..... (Item #21613)

Wausau, WI: G.D. Jones Land Co., [1914]. Large folding brochure printed in black and green, with plat map on one side and extensive text on the other. 9"x 5" when folded; unfolds to 18" x 20". Fair to good condition only: rumpled and has staining, small amount of text obscured..... (Item #21481)

[Kansas City]: T.J. Green & Co. Undated, likely early 20th century. Four cards measuring approximately 2.5 x 4.5 inches, each advertising a differrent residential development in Kansas City: Eaton Place, Forest Park, Melba Park, and Chesterfield Each card has brief promotional text ("fine residence lots," "magnificent view, every lot 2..... (Item #21482)

Hemet Land Company, 1902. Softcover. Very good. 7.5 x 4 inches, 39 pp, with many illustrations from photographs and a folding map titled "Lands of the Hemet Land Co. Situated in Sections...Riverside Co. Cal." Light handling wear, some chipping to edge of last page, some loosening at staples; very good..... (Item #21756)

Milwaukee: Geo. Brunder, [1883]. Softcover. Good. 13 cm (ca. 5"),  pp 110 , [2] (index); original sewn wrappers, with decorative initials and wood-engraved illustrations in the text.  Final leaf (index of songs) and back cover are damaged, with some loss, chipping to corners of front cover; otherwise very good. An uncommon..... (Item #21644)

Austin: University of Texas, 1916. Softcover. Good. 172 pp. Original wrappers present but heavily chipped, front wrapper detached. Binding sound, text unmarked. Old dampstin to lower outer corner of last 65 pp. Relatively scarce report resulting from Texas Governor James E. Ferguson's efforts to have several people he disliked for..... (Item #21463)

Undated, likely mid-1970s. 34 x 25-inch map showing hundreds of small lots for sale in this subdivision in Weed, near Mount Shasta in Siskyou County. Folding creases, one split along a fold, a few minor notations; very good. Development at Lake Shastina began in 1968 and focused on enticing well-heeled..... (Item #21486)

[Concord, NH]: [1918]. Two items -- a handbill or small broadside (11.25" x 6") titled "What's Sauce for the Goose is Sauce for the Gander! Do in 1918 What You Were Urged to do in 1898. Stand by the Administration that is Waging the War!" and a circular (11.25" x...... (Item #21374)

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 144 pp, with folding map and more than 50 illustrations from photographs. Original blue cloth. Binding sound and contents clean, boards lightly bumped at the corners. Signature on front pastedown of Peg Gould, wife of Lawrence M. Gould, who was..... (Item #22018)

Cincinnati: Feicke-Desch Printing Co. Softcover. Very good. Undated, ca. 1912. Oblong 8-1/4 x 5-1/2" brown paper wraps printed in black and copper gilt, with a photo-gravure lozenge depicting the Covington suspension bridge tipped onto the upper wrap; [64} pp, each illustrated with a photograph colored in blue (imitating cyanotype) in..... (Item #20300)