Album of Twenty Tinted and Hand-Colored Genre Plates Depicting Rural Life
Paper pastedown on boards. Good Plus. N.d., circa 1850. Oblong, 22 by 34 cm. 20 tinted plates with people and their clothing colored. The album is of the type that a collector would have assembled and had bound at the print shop where he gathered the plates. A number of the plates explicitly depict Italian peasants and fishermen, while others one can tell are of Italians of the day based on dress. But other plates take us to... Read More
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Paints Varnishes and Brushes. Their History Manufacture and Use. Painters, Paperhangers and Glaziers Supplies
Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, 1923. Decorated Cloth. Very Good Plus. 4to. 28.5 by 22 cm. 196 pp. Many color illustrations of ideal houses, interiors, a theater, a schoolroom, a millenary shop, a restaurant, a club, a waiting room; many paint strips; and other color and black and white illustrations as well. The text covers a lot of ground, including company history, how paint is made historically and now; general and technical info on products; etc. This publication... Read More
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![[Metamorphic Card] "We Better Get a new Ford Thru UCC"; Watch the Fords go by. You may buy a Ford yourself thru Universal Credit Company presenting the Only Authorized Ford Finance Plan](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/490/934/867934490.0.m.jpg)
[Metamorphic Card] "We Better Get a new Ford Thru UCC"; Watch the Fords go by. You may buy a Ford yourself thru Universal Credit Company presenting the Only Authorized Ford Finance Plan
Very Good. N.d., circa 1930s. Card is 15 by 10 cm. The V-8 was a car of the 1930s. Universal Credit Company was formed by Ford in 1928, sold in 1933, but probably continued to serve Ford customers afterward. One moves the vertical flap on the front and a message sign appears on the side as the couple and dog. Advertising information on back. Light soiling. Dog figure with flattened crease.
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![[Handkerchief] Egypt. Souvenir The Triple Entente](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/700/333/849333700.0.m.jpg)
[Handkerchief] Egypt. Souvenir The Triple Entente
London: B. Feldman & Co, 1915. NA. Very Good. N.d., circa 1915. A 48 cm square, made with a sheer silk, with lettering and flags in the centerpiece (as opposed to the border) embroidered in, while illustrations along border are not so -- simply color silk thread was used for these. With a distinctive map of the Middle East -- Ottoman territory -- as a centerpiece. The border is decorated with the flags of the Entente members, which... Read More
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The Village Fair Cook Book
Chester County, Pennsylvania: Village Fair Committee. Printed by H. C. Bucher Company, Honey Brook, Pennsylvania, 1924. Very Good. A high society organization's cook book from the Philadelphia area -- Chester County, to be exact. About half the pages are advertisements of businesses in Philadelphia and Chester County, plus a few in other nearby places. Contributors of the recipes are credited. The book kicks off with a recipe for a coffee souffle that came from Grace Coolidge, then first... Read More
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[Fore-edge Painting] The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Translated Out of the Original Tongues. . . . (Two volumes in one)
London: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan. Sold by Longman Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820. Full Morocco. Very Good. Two vertical fore-edge religious paintings, one of the Madonna and infant Jesus, the other, an impaled Jesus. 12mo. 14 by 9 cm. 1119, 343 pp. Rubbing of joints and heavy wear of spine in particular. Blindstamped full morocco, with gilt decoration, still handsome. Light occasional foxing within.
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Colorful Italian Unassembled Paper Doll Clown
1900. N.d., circa 1900. Seven cut-out pieces on a single card sheet, with instructions on the right, a line drawn diagram on the left.
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Bingley's Practical Introduction to Botany; Illustrated by References Under Each Definition to Plants of Easy Access, and by Numerous Figures; Comprising Also a Glossary of Botanic Terms
London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1827. Second edition. Quarter Morocco. Good. 8vo. 104 pp. With 9 hand-colored plates, including the frontis. Foxing of last few text pages, and some scattered elsewhere. Plates gathered in back have light soiling, but mostly offsetting. Dampstain on boards, mostly on upper front. Spine is somewhat dry. Still an attractive, side pocket sized botanical.
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Souvenir Album Ben-Hur Scenes of the Play; Klaw & Erlanger's Production of Gen. Lew Wallace's "Ben-Hur
Buffalo: The Courier Company, 1900. First Edition. Wraps of Light Card. Ribbon tying through stab binding. Very Good. Before the blockkbuster epic movies, most notably the Silent version starring Ramon Novarro and the 1959 Charlton Heston sound remake, there was a stage spectacle produced by the leading producers of the day, Klaw and Erlanger, the team which nearly successfully had a monopoly stranglehold on American theaters in the early 20th Century. All the versions were based on the... Read More
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Album of Animal Photographs, Circa 1930
Hardcover. Cloth. String ties. Very Good. N.d., circa 1930. Oblong, 23.5 by 28.5 cm. 14 large amusing or curious photographs, each with a caption, showing a wide variety of animals at the London Zoo, the Whipanade Zoo, by the docks, a dog show at Olumpia, a farm. Included are turtles, a polar bear, a seal, an antelope, giraffes, terriers, cats and a Golden Retriever, a lamb, a bear, penguins, bulldogs. The tone is one of breezy levity. The... Read More
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Roly Poly Pets
New York: Charles E. Graham & Co. Card. Very Good. Scarce, with no copies located on OCLC FirstSearch. 25 cm tall, Lower round ball part has a diameter of 16 cm. Unpaginated, eight leaves, with illustrations on rectos, text on facing versos. The book proper eccentrically opens from the back vertically. It is, though, the exterior "toy" that is of greatest interest. The lower ball has a weight inside the front cover that enables the "ball" to rock... Read More
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Geschiedenis van Jan Klaassen; Geschenk voor de Jeugd. Met 6 Plaatjes
Utrecht: J.H. van Wees Jr. (not listed in the book itself). First Edition Presumed. Full Morocco. Very Good Plus. N.d., circa 1870. Unpaginated, 12 pp., including wraps which are bound in, followed by 33 leaves, all blank, of card thickness, giving the slender volume some thickness. 18 by 12 cm. Scarce, with only one copy located on OCLC (at the University of Leiden). The plates depict Punch and Judy, with a baby, throwing the infant in the air,... Read More
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Almanach des Dames pour l'An 1823; Almanach Lyrique
Turbingu and Paris: Chez I. G. Cotta; Chez Truettel & Wurtz, 1822. First Edition. Cartonnage, Slipcase. Very Good. 12mo. (13 x 9 cm.) 238 pp. Six engraved plates. Scarce, with only two copies located on OCLC. Soiling on the binding and more on the slipcase. Otherwise, quite clean and tight.
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Minutes of the Committee and First Commission for Detecting Conspiracies - 1776-1778 (Two Volumes)
New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1925. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine. 8vo. 24 by 15 cm. xix, [1], 548, 97 pp. Light wear. A lovely copy.
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Percent-Eze
Des Plaines, Illinois: Robertson Photo-Mechanix, Inc, 1967. Very Good. Complex photo aid pinwheel, 23 cm in diameter, long explanation on top layer made of translucent plastic (celluloid?). Solid plastic base layer. We don't know whether this was given out as a promotional freebie or was a product for sale. We could find no other copies of the thing.
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Philippe Lagautriere
Paris: Apaar. Limited First Edition. Wraps. Fine/Fine. Scarce, with no copies located on OCLC First Search. No. 22 of 100. 12mo. 16 by 11 cm. N.d., circa 2000. Unpaginated, 48 pp. of surrealistic collage plates reflecting the hodgepodge, random mix of modern life. The original illustrations within the plates often have a Liechtenstein, cartoon quality. Ambiguous, ambivalent, intriguing, inscrutable, riveting, disturbing, inviting -- all these adjectives apply. A clean, fresh copy.
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Die Welt in Bildern
Berlin: Cigarettenfabrik Josetti G.m.b.H., 1928. Wraps. Very Good. A more diverse tobacco card album than most other German tobacco card albums of the era. Categories include Dress at the Berliner Presseball of 1927, child movie stars, famous women, German industry magnates (founders of the largest enterprises), tennis stars, winter sports, German movie stars, German authors, German theatrical stars, etc. Either 1927 or 1928. Oblong, 25 by 28.5 cm. 24 pp. Calling for 144 tobacco cards, of which we... Read More
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Miniature Playing Cards from the Mid-Nineteenth Century
A full deck of 52 cards from the Civil War Era. No box.
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Lee Krasner. Recent Paiintings. Marlborough Gallery. April - May 1973
New York: Marlborough Gallery Inc, 1973. Wraps. Fine. Lee Krasner. 4to.
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Chic Parisien. Journal Special Pour Modeles de Paris et Vienne. Atelier Bachwitz. Paris Vienna. Max Grab Fashion Co. Sole Agent for U.S.A. and Canada. New York; Paraissant le 1er de chaque mois. IXieme Annee. American Edition of "Chic Parisien
New York: Max Grab Fashion Co. Josef Eberle, printer, 1907. Wraps. Very Good. Elephantine Folio. 43 by 32 cm. [2 pp. illustrated ads], 8 pp., followed by 11 color plates, two of which are two paged. Excepting the two double paged plates, the plates also have b/w insets of rear views of the gowns being showcased, and on the versos of five of the plates are b/w fashion details and variants. (The other plates are blank on the... Read More
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A Handbook of New England. 1916. An Annual Publication; Sargent's Handbook Series
Boston: Porter E. Sargent, 1916. Cloth. 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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Photo Album with Boards of Irish Black Bog Oak, With Elaborate Relief Decoration, and With Silver Border Framing the Boards
Scotland, 1860. Quarter Morocco. Wooden boards, with Silver Borders, Silver Clasp. Very Good. N.d., mid-19th Century, with many images clearly from the 1860s and 70s, based on the dress. 4to. 31by 25.5 cm. With 23 leaves, each with eight slots for photos, four on each side. The album at present has 160 items, mostly photos, in these slots. The photos are mostly portraits of family members, we presume, with a few images of famous Scots such as Sir... Read More
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Rock People "Marvin Tax
1970. Kitschy fun sculpture made of rock and porcelana, this one depicting a stereotypical accountant of the mid-20th century in total nerdish glory. The shiny figure stands 14 cm, and with wood base, 16 cm.
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Documens Pour Servir a l'Histoire de la Captivite de Napoleon Bonaparte a Sainte-Helene, ou Recueil de Faits Curieux sur la Vie Qu'il Menait, sur la Malade, et sur sa Mort
Paris: Chez Pillet Aine, 1821. Full Calf. Good. No indication. 8vo. 20 by 13 cm. xii, 401, [3] pp. With four hand-colored plates and one black and white folding plate. No crediting of artists or engraver of plates. Calf spine with extensive gilt decoration. Calf is heavily rubbed and some abrasions. Board corners have some curling up. Edges heavily worn. Text block foxed throughout. One positive -- cColor plates do have some intensity of coloring.
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![[Broadside] The Life of a British Sailor Saved by Morrison's Pill. Morrison's Pills for Exportation](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/776/631/1118631776.0.m.jpg)
[Broadside] The Life of a British Sailor Saved by Morrison's Pill. Morrison's Pills for Exportation
London: O. Hodgson. NA. Good. Early use of humor in advertising of a medicine. N.d., late 1830s, according to British Museum. 38 by 27 cm. Hand-colored picture of a jolly shipwrecked sailor, his face ravaged by warts and sitting in what looks like a barrel in the middle of the ocean, a long pony tail trailing off and attracting the glances of smiling fish. The caption: "Never go to sea without a large box of Morrison's Pills they... Read More
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