The Jingle Jangle Rhyme-Book
by Henry Bradford Simmons
New York: Stokes, 1898. Unnumbered. Cloth backed pictorial boardsPrinted on rectos (one side of the paper), whimsical rhymes and imagery each page. Imagery verging on the bizarre e.g. Bridge'ts cooking on Jimmy's hair of fiery red. Measures 8 3/8" x 11 1/4" Inscribed on free endg paper.Edges worn, front cover pulled slightly from backstrip.
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Two Letters from a Mother to Her Child, with integrated naive drawings, August 1929
by Simon
Boston MA, Aug-29. Two whimsical letters from a mother to one of her two daughters, Elizabeth Simon (nicknamed Betty). The first letter mentions a visit to their cousin Ruth, who has two cats on her roof. The missive continues on asking her how here hay fever is doing and if she has had anytime to play with the kitten next door. Lastly it mentions the mother has been so busy that morning that even though it is 11 AM,... Read More
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The Wines of France
by Andre L. Simon
Corbeil, France: Imp. Crete, 1939. Very good. Light toning.. A pocket guide to French wine, "Printed in France, and published by the French Government", presumably for the American tourist trade in France. Provides basic information on how wine is made, an overview of different kinds and regions (e.g. Bordeaux, Champagne), how to boy and handle wine, decanting, glasses, and how to become an effective connoisseur. Single vol. (6.75" by 4"), pp. 32, in original printed wrps, together with... Read More
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Thirty-One (31) Finely Wrought Botanical Paintings Charting Progress of Art Student at Girls' School in Portland, Maine c.1850
by E. Slater
Portland, Maine, 1850. Good to very good. Some toning, dust soiling, short tears or nicks. Sewing a little loose. Minor wear.. A fine group of artwork completed by a student for her lessons at Mrs. L.K. Wells' High School for Misses in Portland, Maine (also referred to as the "Park Street Boarding and Day School for Young Ladies", at 36 Park Street). Subjects offered at the school included modern languages, needle work, music, English, and, of course, art and drawing.... Read More
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Electric Toy Making for Amateurs, including batteries, magnets, motors, miscellaneous toys and dynamo construction. T. O'Conor Sloane Norman W. Henley & Co New York
by T. O'Conor Sloane
New York: Norman W. Henley & Co, 1892. 140 pp. blue cover with silver gilt, fully illustrated. The book describes how to create electric toys. Contains 14 chapters including Permanent Magnets, Electric Bells, and Miscellaneous Receipts and Formulae. Has a preface by author and advertising at end. 7" x 5 1/2" slight wear on cover, tear on inside cove, slight discoloration, inscribed and pencil marks by previous owner.
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Miniature Advertising Fan for W. & J. Sloane
by W. & J. Sloane
New York, New York: Livermore & Knight Co., Providence, Rhode Island, 1890. Very good. Light toning, tassel a little frayed.. A sweet pocket-sized fan advertising antique rugs, carpeting, furniture and related interior decor sold by W. & J. Sloane of New York and San Francisco. Made from five (5) die-cut leaves printed in orange-red, with designs inspired by the Middle East (a popular aesthetic in America at the time). Includes descriptions of their wares, and small images of... Read More
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Practical Instructions in Enamel Painting on Glass, China, Tiles,etc., to which is added full instructions for the manufacture of the vitreous pigments required. Henry James Snell Brodie & Middleton London
by Henry James Snell
London: Brodie & Middleton, 1874. 94 pp. Green embossed gilt cover, has both blank and gold text and images, 12 color plates including frontispiece and some illustration among text. Instructions for painting on glass, china, and tile. Includes how to make and apply stain, firing, types of porcelain, and gilding china. 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" some discoloration, loose spine, slight wear on cover, "Newman, Soho Square" book seller stamp.
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The Leathercraftsman; A textbook on Leatherworks
by W.E. Snyder
Worcestor: Graton & Knight Co, 1936. 176 pp. faux leather wrapper. A treatise on leather working by W. E. Snyder who was the director at Graton & Knight Leathercraft Studios in Massachusetts. In sixteen (16) chapters, complete with B&W photographs, diagrams and line drawings showing patterns and examples of leather work at various stages of completion. As well as an index, and a list of additional references. Covers are leather with gilt-blocked lettering for the title. Interior pages are... Read More
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The Busy Housemaid Paper Dolls
by Good-Will Soap
Lynn, MA: Geo. E. March Co., M.F. Tobin (litho), 1888. Lacking Friday and Saturday dolls. Three (3) are cut-out and constructed.. Two (2) uncut 7" x 4" advertising paper doll sheets and three (3) cut paper dolls from the Busy Housemaid series presented by Good-Will Soap. Beneath the Busy Housemaid title is a list of days and related activities for the Housemaid Monday - Washing Tuesday - Ironing Wednesday - Mending Thursday - Visiting Friday - Cleaning Saturday... Read More
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Naively Dressed Print from Women's Fashion Magazine - High Fashion of the Day
by S.O. Beeton, Publisher
London : Englishwomen's Domestic Magazine, 1864. The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine (EDM) was a magazine published by Samuel Orchart Beeton from 1852 to 1879, with a supplement written by his wife, Mrs. Beeton, between 1859 and 1861: these supplements were later collected as her Book of Household Management. His intention was that it should "tend to the improvement of the intellect". The magazine published articles on middle-class domestic issues, fashion and fiction. . A fashion plate from the January 1864... Read More
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Sunshine Year Book
by Compilers - International Sunshine Society
Los Angeles: Los Angeles Branch of the Sunshine Society, 1908. An unpaginated 8" x 5" booklet. Copyright 1908. Lulu A. Crawford. Cover depicts California Poppies with inset of sun rising over the mountains. The title page reads "Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on. "Twas not given for you alone--Pass it on. Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another's tear, 'Til in heaven and the deed appers--Pass it on. The content is daily inspirations... Read More
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Gilt Morocco Glove Box of Louise Sommer
by Joseph Sommer
Heidelberg, Germany, 1853. Fine; only minor rubbing to extremities.. Fine gilt morocco glove box made for Louise Sommer by Joseph Sommer of Heidelberg. A beautiful example with cream silk and crushed red silk interior. Measures 9.5" by 6.25" by 2"; ticket of Joseph Sommer to interior.
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![1814 Recolections [sic] of the Chase School House, Woodstock, Burned on the night of January 26th, 1883](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/753/878/1664878753.0.l.jpg)
1814 Recolections [sic] of the Chase School House, Woodstock, Burned on the night of January 26th, 1883
by S.P.
Paris, Maine: The Oxford Democrat, 1883. Very good. Minor staining, toning.. An offprint, originally published in the April 3rd, 1883 issue of the Oxford Democrat, of "Recolections [sic] of the Chase School House, Woodstock [Maine]" which burned to the ground on January 26th, 1883. Includes a listing of all of the teachers employed by the school in all of its locations over the years "from its organization in 1814 to the present time" divided by gender. The recollections... Read More
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Original Art - Kitchen Alchemy - Moral: Little Fools will drink too much and Great Fools not at All
by Henry Stahlhut
A 9 1/2" x 14 1/2" black and white drawing on bristol board titled "kitchen alchemy" by bill rhode. Presumed an illustration for an article in Gourmet Magazine. A Moral on the wall reads "Little Fools will drink too much and Great Fools not at All". The illustration depicts an inebriated chef laid out on a counter drinking champagne from the bottom captioned "Umm! Umm! with with a disapproving senior chef warding off the bottle with the caption "Uch!... Read More
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A Friendship Album Belonging to Mary Ann Pratt, Livonia, 19 Oct. 1829
by Mary Ann Pratt Stanley
friendship album, poetry, women's history, motherhood, infant death A friendship album belonging to Mary Ann Pratt (1813- c.1880) who lived in Livonia, NY, dating from 1829-1835. The majority of the album entries are from 1830-1832 and appear to be from her local friends from the surrounding towns of Mt. Morris, and Dansville, NY, though there are a few entries from 1834-1835 after her marriage to Frederick Stanley (c. 1807- c. 1870). The entries mostly consists of poems, with some... Read More
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Armour's Star Frankfurters Links of Goodness - Mechanical Hot Dog Bun
by Armour's Star
1905. The front panel features a drawn colored illustration of men, women, and an automobile waiting in line for Armour's Star Frankfurters. The inside panels features a colored illustration of a pop-up roll revealing a frankfurter inside a bun. Below the pop-up are a few paragraphs promoting the hot dog. The rest of the inside panels are dedicated to six recipes that utilize Star Frankfurters in them. The recipes listed are: Star Frankfurters and Potato Salad, Star Frankfurter Rolls,... Read More
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Address of the Subject of Peace, Delivered at the Odeon, On Sabbath Evening, February 7, 1836. On the Anniversary of the Bowdoin Street Young Men's Peace Society
by Rufus P. Stebbins
Boston, MA: William Peirce, 1936. General wear. Appears to be missing its blue wrappers.. The item is a copy of an address given by Rev. Rufus P. Stebbins, (1810-1885), a member of Harvard Divinity School on the society's first anniversary in 1836. His speech was considered to be an attack against the concept of a "defensive war". That term is defined as a war in which one country is mainly just trying to defend themselves from another, versus... Read More
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Original Art - 4 Dollhouse Rooms, Furniture and Paper Doll Occupants - Dining-Room, Sitting-Room, The Nursery and Bedroom - Arts & Craft Influence
by Harriet Steensen
1910. Light edge wear from handling.. Childhood Architecture, Paper Playthings, Paper Dolls, Pretend Play, Made by HandExecuted in watercolor, pen and ink with pencil narrative and instructions. Each room includes an exterior wall with windows appropriately adorned, furnishing to construct and in three instances the paper doll occupants, including costumes for "sister" who is in the sitting room with her friend. The instructions are comprehensive and the designs intricate. The nursery includes the nurse with baby and one costume. Furnishings... Read More
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Bayerisches Industrie- & Gewerbeblatt (Bavarian Industry and Trade Sheet: weekly periodical with quarterly issues from the committee of the polytechnic association in Munich)
by H. Steinach
Munich: Polytechnic Association, 1888. spine loose, wear on cover, loose pages, . 136 pp. Leather with applied marble cover, stamped Franklin Institute on inside cover, mostly text with illustrations of machines and three tables of European isobars.XX. Jahrgang. Neue Folge.10" x 7"
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Bayerisches Industrie- & Gewerbeblatt (Bavarian Industry and Trade Sheet: weekly periodical with quarterly issues from the committee of the polytechnic association in Munich)
by H. Steinach
Munich: Polytechnic Association, 1887. 186 pp. Leather with applied marble cover, stamped Franklin Institute on inside cover, mostly text with illustrations and plates. XIX. Jahrgang. Neue Folge. 10" x 7" wear on cover,
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Bayerisches Industrie- & Gewerbeblatt (Bavarian Industry and Trade Sheet: weekly periodical with quarterly issues from the committee of the polytechnic association in Munich)
by H. Steinach
Munich: Polytechnic Association, 1888. 136 pp. Leather with applied marble cover, stamped Franklin Institute on inside cover, mostly text with illustrations of machines and three tables of European isobars. XX. Jahrgang. Neue Folge. 10" x 7" spine loose, wear on cover, loose pages,
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Tell It All": The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism. An Autobiography by Mrs. T.B.H. Stenhouse
by Fanny Warn Stenhouse
Hartford, Connecticut: A.D. Worthington & Co, 1875. Good. Some surface wear to binding, toning and spotting, frontispiece loose.. Second edition of an autobiography, with preface by Harriet Beecher Stowe, penned by the wife of an early Mormon leader and missionary. Fanny Warn Stenhouse (1829-1904), was excommunicated from the LDS Church alongside her husband in 1870, after which they both became vocal opponents of Brigham Young and the LDS Church's practice of plural marriage. The book presents a frank... Read More
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Flyer for the The Tabernacle of Witness, An Engraving
by Cora Massie Stephens
St. Louis, MO: W. E. Stephens, 1895. Age toning and crease marks at fold.. A flyer for the sale of "The Tabernacle of Witness", an engraving done by Cora Massie Stephens (1856-1943). The engraving was being sold by William Edward Stephens (1850-1918), Cora's husband and owner of W. E. Stephens & Co. (eventually renamed Stephens Lithographing and Engraving Company). The flyer is divided into two sections. The first section has a black and white print of the engraving,... Read More
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Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751
by Robert Louis Stevenson
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1921. 302 pp. Cloth cover with applied printed paper title, frontispiece, heavily illustrated and decorated by Louis Rhead. An exciting tale of David Balfour, who after his father dies, goes to live with his miserly old uncle. The uncle brings him to the port one day where he proceed to sell the boy. 9 1/4" x 6 1/4" some rubbing on edge of cover, inscribed, ex-libris of previous owner.
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Making Use of Our Birds
by O.A. Stevens
Fargo, North Dakota: North Dakota Agricultural College Extension Service, 1938. Very good. Toned, wrappers loose and chipped.. A late 1930s monograph on ornithology in North Dakota by O.A. Stevens of the North Dakota Agricultural College. The monograph argues birds are essential to agriculture for many reasons, chief among which is that they eat pests and insects associated with crop loss. Bird food, conservation, identification, and migration is discussed. Each species of native bird is discussed at length, describing... Read More
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