Lot of 55 half-tone prints from photographs, each ca. 4 x 5 inches, with an image number and printed caption. A few with light edgewear, overall very good or better. The Inter-Allied Games was a multi-sport competition held in the summer of 1919 at the newly constructed Pershing Stadium just..... Item #20769
Philadelphia: J.H. Johnson. Broadside. Very good. Song sheet, 6 x 9.5 in., with wood engraved vignette of a bearded man (king?) removing the hat of a supplicant, decorative border. Undated, possibly late 1850s. Light foxing. A song descrying the ineffectiveness of Philadelphia's city council and the overzealous use of the..... Item #20742
Very good. Original photograph, 4x5.5 inches, mounted on 6x8 inch board with decorative border and printed captions. Credited on the mount to Dexter, McKeesport, PA. Ca. 1900. Doranto was one of several actors in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries regularly performed Chinese impersonations in traveling variety shows. Claiming..... Item #20785
Four photograph albums containing a total of 558 mounted images documenting military training and service in Japan in 1920s and 30s, all in very good condition. Although we acquired these albums together, they appear to have belonged to different people. Most, if not all, were officers. One album has handwritten..... Item #20997
Broadside, 27 x 40 inches, printed in a deep, vibrant red and black. Undated, but ca. 1886. Features captioned images of 24 different wagons, carriages, and buggies, each with a caption briefly describing the model and its specifications. Two text panels describe the materials used for construction (first-class, thoroughly seasoned..... Item #20858
Two large photograph albums containing more than 400 photographs from a prominent sporting family in Edwardian and Interwar Britain. Members of the family played cricket and polo, raised horses, participated in fox hunting and steeplechase events, and visited the estates of similarly inclined members of their class. Major Pascoe William..... Item #20821
1905. Hardcover. Very good. Two albums containing 26 beautiful mounted photographs of yachts and yacht racing in Scotland, with handwritten titles reading “Clyde 1904” and “Clyde 1905.” Images range in size from 3.5 x 5 to 9.25 x 11.25 inches, with most on the larger end. Many are signed “H.W...... Item #20824
Chicago: North American Publishing Company, [1899]. Very good. Publisher's broadsheet prospectus, 21.5 x 15.5 inches, with half-tone photographic illustrations on both sides. Folding creases, a few short tears to top and bottom margins; very good. Advertises "The Book that Twelve Million People Will Want to Read" (because "all the world..... Item #20986
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Hardcover. Very good. Accordion-folded album containing nine original albumen photographs of Madeira, including a four-panel panorama of Funchal. Images measure 6.5 "x 9" and are backed with linen; red cloth album measures 6.75" x 9.5" (oblong). Some fraying to boards, final photograph creased at the edge; all else very good..... Item #19770
New York: United States Lines, 1929. Travel brochure, 9 x 4 inches (folded), with ten panels of text and illustrations from photographs. Rubbing along folds; very good. Promotes the Ibero-American Exposition at Seville and the International Exhibition of Art Industry and Commerce in Barcelona, which could be reached via an..... Item #20914
Boston: Boston Chemical Printing Company. Very good. Undated, but ca. 1835. Handkerchief printed in black on white cotton. 10.25 x 11.25 inches. Text in three columns, decorative border, small illustration at the head of each column. A very good example, with some scattered foxing. Technological developments of the early nineteenth..... Item #20039
Visiting Nurse Association. Very good. Undated (c. 1920s) trade/advertising card for the Visting Nurse Association of New Britain, Connecticut. 3.5 x 6 inches. Light soiling and edgewear, about very good. Text on one side describes what visiting nurses do, including offering in-home care to the sick, advising expectant mothers "on..... Item #20961
Wien: Wohlgemuth, Domjan & Bauml. Softcover. Near fine. Travel brochure. Undated, 1920s. 7 x 4 7/8 inches, 64 pp, with folding map (13 x 17 in.) of Vienna showing tour routes, five full-page birds-eye views of routes outside the city, ads, half-tone photographs. Text in German, French, and English. Cover..... Item #20907
Partially printed document completed in manuscript, recording a $100 bond paid (or pledged) for Sanders Franklin, who has been charged with operation of an illegal distillery. Very good condition, with a two-inch split along one fold. The form used dates from the pre-Statehood (1907) era, and in several places the..... Item #20866
Syracuse, NY: Franklin Automobile Company, 1914. Approximately 6 x 9 inches, 16 pp, with half-tone illustrations in the text. Stapled wrappers. But for a previous owner's ink stamp in purple ink on both the upper wrap and title page, the pamphlet is fine, clean, and bright. Not found in OCLC..... Item #19800
Philadelphia: Thayer, Merriam & Co. Undated, ca. 1889. Publisher's broadsheet prospectus, 9.5 x 12 inches, for "Barnum's Own Book," apparently one of many editions of The Life of Barnum, the World-Renowned Showman, which came out under several different imprints in 1890. Printed on very thin paper, it has old tape..... Item #20775
Washington, D.C. [1850]. Single sheet folded to 10.75 x 8.25 inches with text on two of four pages. Folding creases; very good. An attractive illustrated circular soliciting veterans of the Indian Wars in the Old Northwest (1792, 1795), War of 1812, Seminole Wars (1835-36), and Mexican War to retain Gage's..... Item #20762
Small broadside and cabinet card photo of El-Joseph Robert Raycroft. Undated, but ca. 1905. Broadside measures 5.75 x 12 inches and has some old creases and short tears. Cabinet card is in fine condition and credited to photographer Geo. F. Reil of Chicago. Both of El-Joseph's parents were preachers, and..... Item #20692
New York: 1864. Interesting autograph letter, signed, from William Cullen Bryant (American poet and journalist, 1794-1878) to John Plummer (British journalist and labor agitator, 1831-1914) dated January 7th, 1864. Single sheet, folded once, measuring 5 x 7.75 inches when folded. Near fine, with some faint staining (appears to be old..... Item #18782
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Southern Pacific Railroad, 1924. Softcover. Good. Travel brochure. Cover art, several additional color illustrations, and very nice six-panel panorama at center, all by W.H. Bull. Good only; complete and clean, but worn, detached from staples, some splits starting along folds. Hotels and rates, auto routes, Tonto cliff dwellings, Roosevelt Dam..... Item #20895
Boston: Charles Spear, 1845. Newsprint bifolium (separated at centerfold), 12 x 17.25, pp. [4], printed recto and verso with text and two wood-engraved illustrations. Disbound from a larger volume, large chip missing to upper inner corner of both sheets, resulting small loss of text; fair to good overall. Reasonably well..... Item #19864
New York: Marshall Stillman Association, n.d., but ca. 1920s. Single sheet, 9 x 20 inches + additional flap for folding and mailing, printed on both sides with text and halftone illustrations of boxing and self-defense techniques. Hand-addressed, soiling and creasing at one edge, slit into which the flap would have..... Item #19852
New York: Voluntary Parenthood League. Softcover. Very good. Undated, ca. 1920. 4 pp, ca. 6 x 8 inches, self wrappers. Some old creasing, general handling wear; very good. Social reformer Mary Ware Dennett (1872-1947) founded the Voluntary Parenthood League in 1919. The organization's main goal was to change the Comstock..... Item #20639
Softcover. Very good. Menu and program, 8.5 x 12 inches, [8] pp, in wrappers illustrated with a photo of a bust of Thompson. Light soiling to back cover, light handling wear; very good. Dorothy Thompson (1893-1961) was a prominent American journalist we was early to recognize the dangers posed by..... Item #21085
Boone, IA: Press of W.H. Gallup, [1901]. Softcover. Very good. 16 pp, with many illustrations from photographs. Wrappers printed in red and green, each page with a decorative border in color. Moderate general handling wear. Provides a history of the construction of this railroad bridge, which is "unequalled in the..... Item #20652
