43 interesting and unusual items dealing with fervent Protestants, including 27 unusual items relating to anti-Catholic sentiments or responses to same.
42 interesting and uncommon items dealing in murder and mayhem and destruction both natural and unnatural: murders, prairie fires, vindictive snowfalls, Romantic deaths, a young girl in the coal pits, the romance of the Rosenbergs, glances at funeral practices and other perhaps morbid preoccupations.
An online-only illustrated catalog, 31 items that are either remarkable objects or animated by a remarkable subject--including verses against the anti-Biblical practice of beard shaving, an impecunious accordion owner in 1850, and a covert flash novel of 1845.
An online-only illustrated catalog. 33 items to demonstrate the proposition that daily life presents small instances of wonder: A kitten saves a family from a fire. Images in sawdust and resin hold images on glass. The patient application of postage stamps is the medium of an artist who once sent the Smithsonian a nail found in the stomach of a hog.
37 interesting items by or about people who undertake to get things done--one burial yes, but also sex, medicine, crime, and communication with the dead.
25 unusual and interesting items somehow made by hand or for the hand, ranging from an 1877 manuscript account of labor unrest in Chicago to washcloth quintuplets.
<p>Or, Prolegomena to the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. This illustrated online-only list collects 31 items largely dealing with the myriad manifold attractions of unregulated medicine or hinting in some way at the perils of food adulteration, with forays into later questions of public health or popular medical reform.</p>
An online-only illustrated catalog, 21 interesting and uncommon items relating in some way to American religious thought, from a scarce early Brooklyn anti-Catholic pamphlet to prophetic revelation of the secret pact made by the first President Bush with UFO demons.
25 recent arrivals that embody some idea of interesting people or remarkable places. The people range from America’s foremost early lion tamer to a stalwart Philadelphia fireman, or from an early two-fisted Portland free-thought divorce lawyer to a 19th century railroad man and proto-Gershon Legman. The places cover such far-flung locales as homes for disabled Civil War veterans to the Delaware river set ablaze by an inventor in hopes of pecuniary gain, or from the biblical beauties of the commercial quarter of Hobart, Oklahoma to the distant missionary presses of Calcutta and New Zealand. (Even the romance of backwoods “Pittburgo” in 1761 is conjured up in a curious fictitious imprint.)
This catalogue collects arrivals hailing from the long tail of American religion, ingenious schemes, Utopian thought, radical and reactionaries, neglected literature, popular entertainments, and Hippocratic pursuits turned to a profit, the whole tending toward books, pamphlets and ephemera from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
<p>An illustrated online-only list of 20 objects of high and low culture that somehow embody a number of the preoccupations of this bookselling concern: race in America, sex and/or eugenics, popular medicine, the American endeavor of making a quick buck, and a fine work from a brilliant 19th century outsider poet-artist.</p>
