Category: Americana

"The Vanderbilt System" for Shippers and Travellers between the Atlantic Seaboard and the West, Northwest and Southwest. 1887

Price: $400.00

Publisher: New York, F. B. Miller : 1887

Seller ID: 002910

Condition: Very Good

Oblong, 22 by 30 cm. [3], 112, [2], 21 pp. Eight photographic plates, including two of the original Grand Central Station, completed in 1871, and the remainder of Niagara Falls, which the New York Central promoted successfully as a tourist destination to augment ticket sales. Many other illustrations of tourist points of interest along the various railroad routes, plus ads with illustrations of hotel accommodations and the like. One folding map of New York State and its railroad lines. The emphasis of the book is on the New York Central, its trunk line and subsidiary lines between New Yo...
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1948 Yale Banner

Price: $175.00

Publisher: : 1948

Seller ID: 006942

Condition: Very Good

Yearbook for George Bush's class, and including his listing as a member of Skull and Bones. 4to. 28 by 20.5 cm. 307 pp. Attractive endpapers with drawing of campus surrounded by vignette illustrations. Condition: slight cocking, or an overhang, front board, over rear. A touch of soil on front cover.
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A Christmas Souvenir

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Brookline, New Hampshire, Congregatioonal Church, Brookline, N.H. : December, 1903

Seller ID: 006148

Binding: Wraps. Stapled.

Condition: Very Good

4to. 27 by 17 cm. 16 pp. Mostly period ads. Scarce piece of ephemera -- no copies on OCLC First Search.
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A Handbook of New England. 1916. An Annual Publication Sargent's Handbook Series

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Boston, Porter E. Sargent : 1916

Seller ID: 003123

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

8vo. 18.5 by 12 cm. 843 pp. Detailed tour guide and town glossary. Also interesting classified ad sections on summer camps, New England schools, famous products of New England, hotels, ferries and steamships. Hard to come by book in its original form. Ex-lib, with markings not obtrusive. Scuffed and soiled binding. Clean within.
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A New Ritual for "Sam" Written By One Connected with The Cincinnati Times, and Updated to Sam's Numerous Friends

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Cincinnati, OH, C. W. Starbuck & Co. Printed at the Cincinnati Dollar Times Office : 1855

Seller ID: 004475

Binding: Wraps. Pamphlet.

Condition: Good

Anti-Catholic Nativist screed. 24mo. 133 by 76 mm. 48 pp. The booklet was purporting to present the ritual for a secretive organization "SAM". In fact, the document is a fiction created to advance the position of the Dollar Times. SAM was probably based on the "Order of the Star Spangled Banner" whose members were known as the "Know Nothings" because the members would assert they knew nothing when asked about the secret order. Since the actual Order was closely aligned with the Dollar Times, what is presented in this document may be very close to the actual rituals. Heavy dampstain on ...
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A Whiff from Hell. "How to Build up the Saloon Business."

Price: $30.00

Seller ID: 004874

Binding: NA

Condition: Very Good

A pro-Prohibition, anti-alcohol card which would have been passed on perhaps on the street by Temperance activists around 1900. N.d., circa 1900, based on the photo of four boys, probably brothers, in a line from youngest to eldest, on one side. The card's point is that the alcohol industry is attempting to seduce young boys into its fold in order to secure a market for their product in the future. On the flip side of the photo is presented a long excerpt from a speech supposedly given at a meeting of teh State Liquor Dealers of Ohio advocating that they do "missionary work" among boys to t...
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Across the Continent Via the Northern Pacific From the Lakes & Mississippi River to the Pacific , Columbia River, Puget Sound & Alaska

Price: $75.00

Publisher: St. Paul, Minnesota, W. C. Riley

Seller ID: 004993

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

N.d., late 19th century. Oblong, 16 by 24 cm. A leporello with 30 panels, full of views of the sights, urban and natural scenery, with a variety of lay-outs per page, with sometimes a single image, other times, several, arranged horizontally and vertically, etc. The printing of the illustrations used a photo lithographic process, and the leaves have a glossiness to them, with here and there arts and crafts period floral decoration in the margins. The boards have mild warping, with cloth loss on the spine. Interior-wise, mostly clean and fresh.
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An 1861 Court Order for Children to Support Pauper Parents, [together with] Testimony Relating to the Case

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Wolf Township, Sycoming County, PA, : 1861

Seller ID: 003647

Condition: Very Good

The documents relate to an area to law that has mostly disappeared, namely, the legal obligation of children towards their parents. The larger of the two documents, both of which relate to the pauperism of the Shavers, gets into the nitty gritty of land ownership and the productivity of the land. Thus this is law that arose in a predominantly agrarian economy, and one in which small town values were at the fore. The documents are both written in long hand, the one with testimony running 12 pages, the order, merely a single leaf.
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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution for the Year Ending June 30, 1897. Report of the U.S. National Museum. Part II.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washington DC, Government Printing Office : 1901

Seller ID: 001737

Binding: Decorated Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Most interestingly a survey of museum history and thinking about the museum in the U.S. at the time. 8vo, 515 pp.
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Battle of Gettysburg and Museum. Corner Market & Tenth Sts., San Francisco The Most Realistic War-scene Ever Produced

Price: $450.00

Publisher: San Francisco, F.R. Brodie & Co

Seller ID: 006799

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good

Scarce, with only known institutional copy at California State, according to OCLC First Search. N.d., circa 1890. 8vo. 23 by 14.5 cm. Unpaginated, 44 pages of content. With testimonials, and also a basic description of the museum rendered in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese. The artwork for the panorama wa spearheaded by a Mr. Austen, a "world-renowned battle artist", who coordinated we are told art specialists from France and Germany working in New York and at the battle scene location. The canvas here wa 400 feet long, 50 feet wide and required four tons of paint. We are al...
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Cyclist's Dictionary Illustrated Compliments of Stokes Mfg. Co. Chicago. Sterling Cycles.

Price: $475.00

Publisher: Chicago, Stokes Mfg. Co. Printer: Van Sicklen, Chicago : 1892

Seller ID: 006857

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good

16mo. 11.5 by 8 cm. 55 pp. Scarce, with one physical copy listed on OCLC First Search, at the Canadian Science and Tech. Museum. In this booklet, bicycle terminology is used as a basis for an illustration that generally has nothing to do with the bicycle object itself. So for "Sweater", depicted is a man besieged by the sun. "Waiting Race" shows a Chinese man seeking to get into the U.S. but blocked by a padlocked door. This latter speaks to a topicality, as well as a Rascist tinge, to a few of the entries. `One of the entries, in fact, is "Races", and here are shown stereotypical image...
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Deck of Western Americana Themed Cards

Price: $200.00

Seller ID: 007165

Binding: NA.

Condition: Very Good

Cards with a sepia toned photo of a Western encampment on the backs, and picture cards with illustrations of Western characters. Jokers with a lariat and bull's horn imagery. Cards somewhat age toned, and with scattered soiling, but mostly clean and appealing. N.d., circa 1930s. Plain box with detached lid, soiling, but mostly present.
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H-Bar-O

Price: $50.00

Seller ID: 004688

Binding: NA

Condition: Very Good

Mid-20th Century card game of the Wild West. Racial stereotyping involved with the Wong Lee character, as a for instance. 31 of 32 cards present. With instructions manual fold-out and mailing envelope. Other than missing card, fine condition.
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Handsome Mid-Nineteenth Century Full Leather Folio and Letter and Office Paper Organizer

Price: $200.00

Seller ID: 003299

Binding: Blindstamped Full Morocco

Condition: Very Good

With inscription from 1856. 35 by 23 cm. Black leather blindstamped and gilt ornamented with typical designs of period. Pockets within for Letters Answered, Unanswered and Notes & Addresses and loosely attached notebook of leaves still entirely blank. The front cover also is backed with a pocket bearing no caption, and this, closed, served as a writing surface. Many separate sheets with tracing of various ornament and occasional written notes dating back to the 19th century and probably done by the original owner of the folio. The folio closed with a flap that folds over the front and has...
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Historical and Biographical Atlas of the New Jersey Coast

Price: $2,000.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Woolman & Rose : 1878

Seller ID: 007249

Binding: Quarter Morocco. Blindstamped and Gilt Stamped C

Condition: Very Good Minus

Folio, 36 by 30 cm. 372 pp. Along with the many maps, some folding, many illustrations of resort hotels, farms, houses, businesses, beaches, a cemetery, horses, carriages, etc. Some of the plates are tinted with color. With or without color, the plates stir a wistful nostalgia for the state when it was not primarily a suburb of New York or Philadelphia, and honky tonk hadn't infected the coastal towns. Text includes New Jersey statistics, a history of the New Jersey coast, the state at large, and the major towns along the coast, biographies of the prominent men from the area, and a misce...
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Image for Illustrated Manuscript of two poems: "To a Woodman's Hut there came one day." and "My Voice is still for War." [From "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" and Addison's "Cato", respectively]

Illustrated Manuscript of two poems: "To a Woodman's Hut there came one day." and "My Voice is still for War." [From "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" and Addison's "Cato", respectively]

Price: $1,750.00

Seller ID: 005421

Binding: Full Pebbled Leather, Blindstamped and Gilt Decora

Condition: Very Good

N.p., but American. N.d., circa 1860. Oblong, 23 by 28.5 cm. Two text leaves, each with one of the poems rendered in full, followed by 66 leaves, each with a mounted sheet onto which is written words from a poem and is drawn in pen and ink an illustration of those words. The illustrations are inspired mostly by the single word or phrase captioned on the sheet, as opposed to the wholeness of the poem, and thus the illustrations don't always fit in with the poem, or have the most nominal relationship to it, but nonetheless, the illustrations are full of charm and fun, and they are really bes...
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It's All in the Draw

Price: $450.00

Seller ID: 005063

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1890s. Oblong, measuring 24 by 14 cm, 9.5 by 5.5 inches. 20 pp, including cover. Full of caricatures of four poker players and their various expressions and reactions to various hands. On facing pages are witty rhymed captions incorporating in the lettering paraphernalia associated with the game of poker. An unusual item that highlights the emotional of this most psychologically complex of card games. On the second to last page is an advertisement for the United States Cartridge Company, and facing it on the last lear is a reproduction of a print showing hunters around a camp...
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Life Among the Shakers

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, Wemple & Company

Seller ID: 001388

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

N.d., circa 1880. 36 pp small brochure, including front and back cover which each feature a color lithograph, one of a child, the other, of a Sunday at Mount Lebanon, New York, where the Shakers had a community (today there is a Shaker Museum there). The account of Mary Carr forms just the springboard for a rambling first person discussion of the Shakers, where they have settled, their philosophy, their customs, their industry, with a particular focus on a panacea product created by a Mrs. Speigel which the Shakers have taken to manufacturing. The narrator of this exegesis is uncredited in...
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Manuscript Broadside with Probably an Original Poem Written with Calligraphy and Fancy Penwork Ornamentation

Price: $750.00

Seller ID: 005430

Binding: NA

Condition: Very Good

N.p., American. N.d., circa 1840s. (The heavy stock paper is watermarked Whatman 1843.) We can not state definitively that the verse was original to whomever wrote it out, but we could find no trace of the poem elsewhere. The elegaic verse begins: "Abby's gone! that pleasant daughter,/ She whose face was lighted up/ At your coming and whose presence/ Added joy to life's full cup." We would guess that the manuscript was inspired by an actual death, and was a gift to the bereaved parent(s). The calligraphy is a beautiful complement to the sentiments expressed. A most unusual and ...
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Memorial Book of the First New York Benevolent Association Organized 1898

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Printer: Mirsky Art Engraving Co., N.Y.C.

Seller ID: 007386

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Near Fine

Intended as a remembrance document for members of what was created almost surely as a Jewish mutual burial society -- these associations were created to assist the indigent and less fortunate pay for a proper funeral. These associations were popular among Jewish greenhorns, or recent immigrants, in particular. As succeeding generations became more prosperous and also lost their intimate connection with the "old neighborhood", such organizations fell out of favor, although we believe there are survivors among them. Notwithstanding the name "First New York Benevolent Association" being sugges...
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Category: Americana