Proceedings of the Iowa Park and Forestry Association. Third Annual Meeting Des Moines, Iowa, December 7th & 8th, 1903
Iowa City, Iowa: Published by the Association, 1904. 8vo, printed brown wrappers. Frontis., xiii, [3], 173 pp., 9 plates; a few uncut pages. A volume of minutes, reports, tributes, and papers on a variety of Iowa park and forestry subjects. Public works advocate Philip M. Grappo, credited with establishing the library and park in Burlington, Iowa among other efforts, is the subject of the frontispiece portrait and is lauded in the President's address and "Necrology." The papers published herein... Read More
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![[An extensive collection of illustrated Civil War envelope covers produced in the North.] Envelopes of the Civil War [spine-title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/919/100/1503100919.0.l.jpg)
[An extensive collection of illustrated Civil War envelope covers produced in the North.] Envelopes of the Civil War [spine-title]
[U.S., 1861-1865.]. Folio (15" x 11.5"), full red leather with gilt title and rules at spine, spine recently renewed. 380 excised envelope covers mounted on 183 leaves. Two covers addressed; one envelope with period manuscript illustrations by the recipient or the sender. CONDITION: Very good, moderate wear to covers; envelopes very good, occasional light wear. An extraordinary collection of illustrated envelope covers produced during the Civil War, featuring a cornucopia of themes relating to the war and its effect... Read More
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![James W Moor House. Hartland, Maine. [Photograph]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/203/138/1547138203.0.l.jpg)
James W Moor House. Hartland, Maine. [Photograph]
Hartland, Maine: [ca 1910]. Warm-toned silver print photograph, 4.25" x 6.5", on 8" x 9.75" paperboard mount; pencil and pen notations and typed label affixed with clear tape on verso: "Miss Helen M. Smith, Hartland, Maine." CONDITION: Good+, lightly faded, two small chips with loss at top and bottom right corners; mount chipped with loss at bottom left corner. A richly toned photograph of the James Moor house, later the Scott-Webb Memorial Hospital, in Hartland, Maine. According to the... Read More
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The Merchants and Bankers' Almanac for 1867
New York: Office of the Bankers' Magazine, and Statistical Register, 1867. Hardcover. 8vo (9.25" x 5.75"), gilt brown cloth. 176 pp. CONDITION: Good, covers faded, rear hinge cracked.
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Map of Sedalia, Mo., and Adjacent Lands
Sedalia, Mo.: Morey & Crawford Real Estate and Loan Agents; Printed by J. West Goodwin, Printer and Engraver, [1887?]. Map printed partly in color, 30.5” x 24”. An unrecorded real estate promotion map for the town of Sedalia, Missouri and vicinity, located at the junction of the Missouri Pacific R.R. and the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railway, and situated roughly half way between St. Louis and Kansas City. This attractive map depicts Sedalia highlighted in several colors, which... Read More
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Go Ahead!!" The Crockett Almanac 1839. Containing Adventures, Exploits, Sprees & Scrapes in the West, & Life and Manners in the Backwoods
Nashville, Tennessee: Published by Ben Harding, [1838]. 8vo, illustrated self wrappers, stitched, disbound from sammelband. 35, [1] pp., 13 full-page and 7 smaller wood engravings. CONDITION: Good, light dampstain to lower right corners throughout, occasional spotting, light creasing, recently re-sewn. Volume 2, No. 1 in this influential series of almanacs containing a variety of tall tales in backwoods dialect, illustrated with wood engravings. This is the fifth Crockett Almanac published in Nashville. The contents include An Unexpected Ride on... Read More
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Price List of Ottomans & Hassocks, manufactured by the American Ottoman & Hassock Company, 110 Leonard St., New York
New York: Russell Brothers, printers, [circa 1880]. 32mo (14 cm), printed gray wrappers. 18 pp. including inner wrappers, numerous b&w illus. A appealing little trade catalog for upholstered ottomans and hassocks; includes slipper-box and diamond ottomans, a church hassock, and walnut blacking cases for shining shoes. CONDITION: Good with bumped, creased last page and back wrapper.
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![[Brownfield and Hiram, Maine Area Photo Album; Wadsworth and Clemons families.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/483/385/1384385483.0.l.jpg)
[Brownfield and Hiram, Maine Area Photo Album; Wadsworth and Clemons families.]
[Brownfield, Hiram, Maine, ca. 1900.]. 12mo photo album, green cloth. 52 original photographs using a variety of cameras and print techniques (silver, cyanotype etc), ranging from 1.5" to 4.25" x 6", manuscript captions accompany the majority of images. This photo album is likely from the Wadsworth and Clemons families of Hiram, Maine-families that are likely descendants of Peleg Wadsworth (1748-1829) (grandfather of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow), and John Clemons-both early settlers of Hiram, Maine.Beginning with views of Wadsworth Farm... Read More
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![[Photograph Album Compiled by a French Missionary in China.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/137/036/1387036137.0.l.jpg)
[Photograph Album Compiled by a French Missionary in China.]
[Shanghai and Vicinity, circa 1890-1932]. Oblong folio, morocco spine. 67 mounted and loose photographs on 7 leaves, albumen prints, bromide prints, silver prints, and other mediums, ranging from 8 cm x 5 cm to 22 cm x 30 cm; average size approx. 12 cm x 9 cm; 3 postcards. CONDITION: Album covers and spine good, photos generally good, a few loose, others nearly so, a few creased at corners and/or edges, most photos trimmed at corners to fit in... Read More
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![Specimens of Printing Types Made at Bruce's New York Type Foundry [with supplements 1-5]; [bound with] De Vinne, Theo. L.: The Invention of Printing. A collection of Facts and Opinions...Illustrated With Fac-Similes of Early Types and Wood-cuts](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/922/338/1549338922.0.l.jpg)
Specimens of Printing Types Made at Bruce's New York Type Foundry [with supplements 1-5]; [bound with] De Vinne, Theo. L.: The Invention of Printing. A collection of Facts and Opinions...Illustrated With Fac-Similes of Early Types and Wood-cuts
New York: George Bruce's Son, 1878. 1883. 1884. 1885. 1886. 1887. Hardcover. Small folio (12" x 9.5"), later red library buckram with gilt title at spine and "Franklin Institute" blind stamped at upper cover. Frontis.; Supplements: 353-376 pp.; Specimens of Printing Types: 352 pp.; The Invention of Printing: 168 pp. CONDITION: Very good; blind-stamp and perforated stamp of Franklin Institute on general title page; blind-stamp, perforated stamp, and offsetting from portrait to 1st Supplement title page, occasional inconspicuous blind-stamps... Read More
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The Independent Gold Hunter on His Way to California. I Neither Borrow Nor Lend
New York and Hartford: Kellogg & Comstock; Buffalo, NY: Ensign & Thayer, 12 Exchange St., [ca. 1849]. Hand-colored lithograph, 12.5" x 8.5" plus margins. CONDITION: Good, light wear and soiling. An iconic satire of a gold-hunter, published at the height of the California Gold Rush. This scarce print depicts a prospective gold miner as an inappropriately well-dressed man in a knee-length coat, absurdly laden with mining tools, cookware, knives, and food as he walks overland to California along a... Read More
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Faneuil Hall, Boston photo
[circa 1880's]. 6" x 4" albumen print photograph, on 8.25 x 10" mount, manuscript title. A fine view of Faneuil Hall in Boston, surrounded by a cobbled square with awnings off the first floor, and street activity with four covered wagons, horse and carts, buggies, and crowded sidewalk in background. CONDITION: Good tonality, light toning on image and mount.
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Catalogue of Clydesdale Horses, Property of J. & C. Huston, Importers and Breeders, Blandinsville, Ill
Bloomington: The Pantagraph Stock-Printing Establishment, 1883. Softcover. 8vo (9" x 6"), printed blue wrappers. 30 pp., 2 lithographic illus. CONDITION: Good, covers toned with some soiling, some browning to title page, occasional old folds. Includes a "History of the Clydesdale horse" by James M. Hyatt and a descriptive list of various stallions and mares.
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Extracts From the Votes and Proceedings of the American Continental Congress, Held at Philadelphia, on the Fifth of September, 1774 Containing, The bill of Rights, a List of Grievances, Occasional Resolves, the Association, and Address to the People of Great-Britain, and a Memorial to the Inhabitants of the British American Colonies. Published by Order of Congress
Philadelphia Printed. London: Reprinted for J. Almon, Opposite Burlington House, Picadilly, 1774. 8vo (8" x 4.75"). [ii, title leaf], 82, 2 pp. pub. ads. Removed from sammelband, with remnant of binding at spine. CONDITION: Very good, light foxing to first and last few leaves, later pencil annotation to title page, minor puncture at center and loss at lower margin of first leaves, no affect to text. The first British edition of the proceedings of the first Continental Congress, "one... Read More
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Seven Falls and South Cheyenne Canon
Colorado Springs, Colo.: The Seven Falls Company, [ca. 1925]. Color brochure. 1 sheet, 12.5" x 7", folded to 3.5" x 6.25", 4 panels printed on both sides, decorative orange front and back panels, 5 color illus., one b&w map. Colorful brochure inviting tourists to visit the most picturesque and awe-inspiring spot in Pikes Peak region: Seven Falls and and Seven Falls Canon. One could climb the Stairway to Inspiration Point, just beyond the grave of Helen Hunt Jackson,... Read More
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Butcher shop during the Christmas season
[ca 1906]. Original photograph (6" x 8"), on black paperboard (10" x 12"). A fine photograph of a sparkling clean butcher shop decorated for Christmas, with two butchers and likely the owner posing amidst sides of beef, lamb and pork, a vase of roses and festoons of ribbons. One decoration contains the date 1906. CONDITION: Good, bit of foxing at edges of image, good contrast, paperboard worn at edges.
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![Saline and Gage Counties, Nebraska. 50,000 Acres of Land For Sale…[recto] Map of Saline County, Neb. And Other Parts of Lancaster & Gage Counties…[verso]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/891/502/1626502891.0.l.jpg)
Saline and Gage Counties, Nebraska. 50,000 Acres of Land For Sale…[recto] Map of Saline County, Neb. And Other Parts of Lancaster & Gage Counties…[verso]
Lincoln, Neb.: Burlington & Missouri River Railroad, [ca. 1878]. Printed broadsheet, 17.5” x 18”, text and engraving on one side, map with text on the other. Engraving 3.25” x 7”, map 13” x 16.5” plus margins. CONDITION: Very good, old folds, some darkening to text, map clear. An apparently unrecorded broadsheet advertising the sale of “good lands on Most Favorable Terms” in Saline and Gage Counties, Nebraska, with a map showing the available plots. Text on the recto of... Read More
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Chickamauga-A Famous Battlefield: September 19th and 20th, 1863
Chattanooga: Southern Railway System, [c. 1910]. 8vo brochure, folded into 9" x 4", outer panels in color. 28 panels plus inside back cover, numerous b&w illus., 1 7" x 7" color map, 1 8.5" x 16" color map. An impressive brochure and itinerary for Southern Railway System tour of the Battle of Chickamauga battlefield with five routes noted through Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia to Chattanooga. Includes detailed accounts of various aspects of the battle (corresponding to segments of the... Read More
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National Republican. Grant and Wilson Campaign Song-Book
Washington D.C.: The Union Republican Congressional Committee; Gibson Brothers, printers, 1872. 24mo (5.75" x 3.75"), printed wrappers. 96 pp. CONDITION: Good, one chip to margin of the front-cover, some cracking to spine; sewing coming loose, contents bright and clean, one word effaced on page 1. A scarce collection of political songs promoting the 1872 Republican Party ticket. Set to tunes of then-popular songs such as "Yankee Doodle" and others, these songs variously touch upon Grant and Wilson's campaign... Read More
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Souvenir in Affectionate Remembrance of the…S. S. “Titanic.”
8 York Place, Strand, [London]: S. Burgess, [ca. 1912]. Illustrated souvenir tissue with floral border in red and purple 14.125” x 15”. CONDITION: Good, foxed and slightly creased, chip at lower right corner with no loss to decorative floral border. This illustrated tissue paper souvenir honors the “Captain, Mates, Crew, & Passengers who lost their lives by the foundering of the world’s largest liner, S. S. ‘Titanic’”, and is illustrated with an image of the ship “Whilst on Her... Read More
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Special 1896 Catalogue, E. No. 57, of Buggies, Surreys, Phaetons, Spring Wagons, Carts, Road Wagons, Harness, Saddles, etc., etc.
158 to 164 W. Van Buren Street, Chicago, ILL: Cash Buyers' Union, 1896. 8vo, printed pink wrappers. 128 pp., numerous b&w illus. An excellent carriage catalog offering buggies, surreys, wagons, saddles, harnesses, etc. Issued by Cash Buyers' Union Manufacturers who promise high-quality vehicles and harnesses at wholesale prices since they cut out the middleman, don't employ salesmen, and only accept cash. "The man who buys with cash will get the utmost that his money will buy, and he... Read More
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The New Map of Great Shanghai
[Shanghai?, circa 1930]. Color printed map, 20.5" x 28.75" plus margins. A bilingual map of the city of Shanghai, printed in Japanese and English, showing the heart of the city, bissected by the Whangpoo (Huangpu) River. Many wharves, streets and green spaces are identified in English, while many other features are in Japanese only, including the keys on the bottom right and marginal glosses on the left. An extensive "green zone" near the race track in the upper right... Read More
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1892-3 Illustrated Montreal, The Metropolis of Canada. Its romantic history, its beautiful scenery, its grand institutions, its present greatness, its future splendor
Pub. John McConnif, Ticket Agent, Montreal. Hardcover. Oblong 4to, maroon blind stamped cloth spine with pictorial paper over boards. 99 pp., numerous b&w illus. CONDITION: Good. Cover rubbed at extremities.
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![[Bay State Wheel Co. Photograph]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/491/385/1384385491.0.l.jpg)
[Bay State Wheel Co. Photograph]
Lynn, Mass.: [ca. 1875]. Albumen photograph, 4.5" x 6.6" plus margins, mounted on a cut-down broadside on card stock. An appealing shot of the Bay State Wheel Co.'s four-story curved brick building and employees, situated on the corner of Western Ave and Federal Street in Lynn, Massachusetts. Posing in front of the building with the wagon wheel products are a variety of workers, some in aprons, others in vests and white shirts, one lady at the center, two parked... Read More
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The Complete Angler, or Contemplative Man's Recreation: being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing. In Two Parts: the first written by Mr. Izaak Walton, the second by Charles Cotton, Esq. with the Lives of the Authors: and notes, historical, supplementary, and explanatory, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. and the present editor
London: printed for Samuel Bagster, in the Strand, by R. Watts, at Broxbourne, on the River Lea, Herts, 1815. Hardcover. 8vo, modern three-quarters green morocco with marbled paper over boards, t.e.g., gilt spine with image of leaping fish, raised bands, 5 compartments, mottled endpapers. [1-11] 514 pp., 50 engravings,some full-page. Bagster's second edition (so stated). CONDITION: Very good, staining on fore-edge, browning on front flyleaf, age-toning and foxing throughout. Handsome edition.
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