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Life Among the Shakers

By: N/A

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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Little Henry and His Bird with Original Engravings.

By: N/A

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New London, John R. Bolles: 1853

Seller ID: 001610

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good

7 pp, plus title and text on rear of wraps. Illustrations on every text page colored naively in red, green and yellow. Tiny hole bored through pamphlet by text with a letter lost per page, but easy to figure out the incomplete words. Otherwise, typical light soiling, with illustrations rather clean. Soiling to cover.
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The Traveller's Story; or The Village Bar-Room. Third Series.--No. 6

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Kiggins & Kellogg:

Seller ID: 001631

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa late 1850s. 12vo. 4.5 inches tall. 16 pp. With a few woodcut illustrations. A children's story about the evils of alcohol. A precursor, in its way, from our own time's anti-drug literature. Soiling on the green wraps.
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The Language of Flowers, Poetically Expressed; Being a Complete Flora's Album

By: N/A

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Leavitt & Allen: 1847

Seller ID: 001654

Binding: Blindstamped Cloth

Condition: Good Plus

16mo, 4.75 by 3 inches. 128 pp. With four hand-colored plates. Miniature version of popular anthology/botanical book format. Cloth has soiling. Introduction page has two tape repairs by spine. Some occasional foxing.
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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.

By: N/A

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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Wood's Havesting Machinery Unusual Pinwheel Advertisement together with Its 1871 Catalogue

By: N/A

Price: $275.00

Publisher: Boston, Rand Avery & Co.: 1871

Seller ID: 001933

Circa 1870, re the ad, and 1871 for the catalogue. The cicular advertisement , 11.5 inches in diameter, has eight sliced compartments with captions speaking the general virtues of the companies' products. The illustrations, intended to appeal with light humor caricature, are noteworthy for, among other things, an early depiction of bicycles! The 56 page catalogue from 1871 is not overly scarce, unlike the ad, but is included to provide background for the singular piece of ephemera. The Walter A. Wood Mowing and Reaping Machine Company was around from 1865 to 1924. Fires bedeviled both thi...
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Weisheits Perlen eines Wahnsinnigen. Gesammelte Dichtungen des Verfasser's mit etwa 23 Originalbildern Erste und letzte Auflage

By: N/A

Price: $1,200.00

Publisher: Chicago, 1916

Seller ID: 002239

A handmade illustrated book written in German of uncommon merit both in its cartoonish illustrations and verse. Indeed, the quality of the production begs the question why the author/artist did not attempt to have this published, although the German text, especially in 1916 America, might have not been helpful to such an undertaking. We can infer from his calling this the first and last edition that he did not hold hope or ambition for further dissemination.
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Image for [Victorian Dance Card] Forty-Seventh Annual Ball of the Thistle Benevolent Association at Lyric Hall, Friday Evening, Jan. 10, '79 Music by Professor Wm. Robertson

[Victorian Dance Card] Forty-Seventh Annual Ball of the Thistle Benevolent Association at Lyric Hall, Friday Evening, Jan. 10, '79 Music by Professor Wm. Robertson

By: N/A

Price: $135.00

Publisher: New York presumed, 1879

Seller ID: 002161

Condition: Fine

An ornate dance card decorated with lace, silk ribbon and a chromolithographic die-cut centerpiece and gilt borders on the front cover. The style is very much akin to Valentine's Cards of the period. Within is a four page program listing dances and Supper to be served from 11 to 2 and on the back, the names of officers of the association, all now obscure personages. The Thistle Benevolent Association, which obviously goes back to 1832, was incorporated in 1851 to provide assistance to "the deserving poor". The card is in a fine state of preservation, with the requisite string also ...
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Image for [Victorian Dance Card] Annual Summer-Night's Festival of the James Everard Club, at Terrace Garden, Wenesday Evening, June 7th, '76 Music by Prof. T. H. Joyce

[Victorian Dance Card] Annual Summer-Night's Festival of the James Everard Club, at Terrace Garden, Wenesday Evening, June 7th, '76 Music by Prof. T. H. Joyce

By: N/A

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, T. F. Eagan, printer: 1876

Seller ID: 002162

Condition: Near Fine

A restrained dance card from the U.S. Centennial year with the club's monogram the primary decorative element on the front cover, and "1876" surrounded by calligraphic tracery, appears on the back cover. Within is a four page program listing the order of dances, and on the last page the officers of the club. Nothing otherwise is known about the James Everard Club. The Terrace Garden, where the dance was held, was probably one of the large open-aired restaurants and/or beer halls so popular in New York in the late 19th century. The dance card opens in notepad style with the spine on ...
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Office Boy's Diary

By: N/A

Price: $125.00

Publisher: St. Paul, MN, Brown & Bigelow: 1955

Seller ID: 002201

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Humorous risque brochure from the Mad Men era of office politics and shenanigans. In its 24 pages of racy photographs and none-too-subtle innuendo, we glimpse an office where nice gams, some show of cleavage and a shapely derrier are all a young woman needs for advancement, where everything is about the perks, the outward displays of rank, and who has time for the actual grind? The brochure's tone is really a print-form version of one of those movie shorts from the forties or fifties in which a jovial, all-knowing narrator has a wisecrack or punchline for each of the succession of small mish...
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New York World's Fair 1939

By: N/A

Price: $600.00

Publisher: New York, Lord and Thomas: 1936

Seller ID: 002487

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Large elephantine folio sized book (24 by 19 inches) on plans for the upcoming New York World's Fair, which dazzled crowds with its many futuristic designs and conceptions, introduced to the public television and other then stupendous new inventions, and came as the interwar peace was drawing to a close. The prospectus, for that is what it is, is full of bold Art Deco illustrations, some brightly colored. Perhaps most exciting is the double paged overhead panoramic shot of the entire city and beyond. Unpaginated, 34 pp. The boards are dusty, with edge and corner wear. Otherwise, clean and ...
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Poster for Mills Novelty Company. World's Largest Manufacturer of Coin Operated Machines.

By: N/A

Price: $875.00

Publisher: Chicago,

Seller ID: 002544

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa early 1940s. The Mills Novelty Company was once the world's largest manufacturer of coin operated machines, which include slot machines, jukeboxes and vending machines. The company can trace its origins to the 1880s, and in a vastly different form parts of the company survive to this day, and in fact there is still a business named Mills Novelty Company. Pictured on the poster are six colorful machines: the Silent Bell, the Golden Bell, the Mystery Front Vender, the Mystery Bell, the Extraordinary Front Vender and finally the Gooseneck Skyscraper Vender. Now attractively moun...
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Yalensia

By: N/A

Price: $750.00

Publisher: New Haven, Thomas H. Pease, College Bookstore: 1856 - 1862

Seller ID: 001487

Condition: Very Good

A complicated leatherbound set, consisting of issues of The Yale Literary Magazine (Volumes 21 to 24, 1856 to 1859); a scrapbook (the fifth volume of this set), which is a scrapbook of newspaper clippings from the early 1860s all relating to Yale and compiled, it would appear, by a William H. Anderson; Orations, Poems, &c., which is essentially a sammelband of individually printed speeches, articles, poems and pamphlets from the late 1850s; Miscellany, consisting of three volumes, and this is as the name implies, a sammelband of diverse material, including faculty and student directories, ca...
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A Handbook of New England. 1916. An Annual Publication Sargent's Handbook Series

By: N/A

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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The Home of the Travelers

By: N/A

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Hartford, CT, The Travelers Insurance Company. Printed by the Redfield-Kendrick-Odell Co., Inc., New York: 1921

Seller ID: 003635

Binding: Hardcover. Paper pasted down onto boards. Faux ve

Condition: Near Fine

Folio, 36 by 26.5 cm. 38 pp. A brief history of the insurance giant and a celebration of its new beaux arts tower which dominated the Hartford CT skyline when it was completed. With many charming black and white illustrations of the building. Light wear to the cover. Clean and tight.
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An 1861 Court Order for Children to Support Pauper Parents, [together with] Testimony Relating to the Case

By: N/A

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

By: N/A

Price: $400.00

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

Seller ID: 002910

Binding: Decorated Cloth

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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Student's Arithmetic and Currency Exchange Notebook from the Early American Republic

By: N/A

Price: $175.00

Seller ID: 003154

Binding: Full Leather (Sheep)

Condition: Good

N.d., circa 1800. 34 by 21 cm. 15 leaves, or 30 pages, with pages torn out in the front and back. The cursive writing in the notebook is rendered with a neat, even a calligraphic, hand, and the topic heads are all written calligraphically. The currency conversion computations probably form the most interesting section, and this section helps date the notebook with some precision as in the 1790s or shortly thereafter. French currency, for example, is given as deniars (a misspelling, or perhaps then an alternative spelling, for deniers), sous and "livers", meaning livres. The last...
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[Print] Madison Cottage. Corporal Thompson, Proprietor. Cor Broadway and 23rd Street, New York

By: N/A

Price: $975.00

Seller ID: 003159

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1850. This is a colorized version of a rare New York City print. A copy of this print is in the Museum of the City of New York, but that copy is not hand-colored like this copy. Madison Cottage was a popular road-house located by what is now Madison Square Park, or the intersection of Fifth Avenue, Broadway and 23rd Street, until it was razed in 1853. The road house was the first stop for travelers leaving the city, or the last one before entering. Like many coach stops, it also functioned as a tavern, but it was also a cattle exhibition hall and a popular meeting place for ho...
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Handsome Mid-Nineteenth Century Full Leather Folio and Letter and Office Paper Organizer

By: N/A

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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Category: Americana