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Gouache. Decorative designs. Purple, white and black. Created on card stamped - Francis Clivio & C. with logo. Design size 4 3/4" x 6 1/4" and Card size 6" x 8 3/4"
Price: $288.00
Dual Language Edition,Biography,History of Little People
Montreal, Canada: c.1929. A promotional booklet for a tourist destination in Montreal called "The New Famous Midgets Palace", which served as a living museum to display to the public the Count and Countess Philippe Nicol. Philippe Nicol (1881-1940) made his name and fortune as a circus performer, and was known.....
Price: $175.00
ABAA-FALL-2026,Autograph,Engrossing
Concord, New Hampshire: 1863-1865. An autograph album with nearly every page has been filled, dating from 1863 to 1865, including a dedication page beginning with a definition: "Autograph: a person's own handwriting". Includes nice examples of neat penmanship with the occasional sentiment sprinkled throughout. The main location listed is Concord.....
Price: $325.00
Children's Serials
Elgin, Illinois: David C. Cook Publishing Co., 1893. Vol. 16, Nos. 26, 35, 38, and 40 of "Dew Drops", a charming illustrated children's newspaper issued weekly in the late 19th century and well into the early 20th century. These issues were published in June 1893, and each start with a......
Price: $225.00
propaganda, CDU
Heidelberg: Winter-Offset, 1940s. A 16 1/2" x 24 1/2" campaign/propaganda poster depicting a group of workers from all walks of life. It is captioned "Christian-Democratic Union, our goal Common building our home- We want all Germans unite to the work of peace! Elect the C. D. U:" Von Der Mil.....
Price: $350.00
Engineering,Steam Engines,Technological Innovation
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Philadelphia Engineering Works, Limited, c.1890. Three (3) items advertising the Corliss Engine, an improved steam engine debuted at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia by its creator, George Henry Corliss. The engine was viewed as a major breakthrough and improvement on previous steam engines, and went on to.....
Price: $175.00
Imported Goods,Exoticism and Imperialism in Mercantile History
United States: 1880s. Printed handbill advertising "Corrosive Desemia, or Perfumed Nut", a nut imported from South America to the United States by "Wm. McClellan". Uses imperialist rhetoric and exoticism to appeal to American consumers, touting the nut as a miraculous find previously hidden to civilization: "I have the honor to.....
Price: $225.00
Cut Paper, Paper Doll Clothing
1860s. A set of eight (8) handmade paper mantels and shawls for paper dolls. Materials used include chromolithographed paper, embossed paper, paper hand-painted with watercolor or ink, and metallic gold paper for details. Each is tri-fold to wrap around the doll. One of the mantles has been folded in half.....
Price: $250.00
Naturopathy,Alternative Medicine
Butler, New Jersey: Benedict Lust, M.D, c.1920. A brief pamphlet, reprinted from a May 1915 issue of "The Naturopath Magazine", promoting a fascinating alternative medicine idea that simple control of thought can have health, spiritual, and mental benefits. Published by Benedict Lust (1872-1945), a German-American doctor and founder of "Naturopathy".....
Price: $150.00
Campers and Trailers,The American Family Road Trip
Chicago, Illinois: Gilkie Camp Trailer Co., c.1930. Illustrated advertisement for the Gilkie Camp Trailer, offering American families "Comforts and Convenience" during camping trips, while also being collapsible to be easily and compactly towed behind the family car. Folding pamphlet measuring approx. 6.25" by 3" folded, with illustrations of the product.....
Price: $150.00
Child and Family Nutrition in Wartime,Rations,WWII
[Los Angeles, California]: Southern Counties Gas Company, c.1944. A nutrition guide for American housewives, offering tips and tricks for nourishing the family during the Second World War. Published "as a wartime service with compliments of Southern Counties Gas Company", and issued at a time when wartime rations were in full.....
Price: $225.00
Childhood Development, Pedagogy
Snowhegan, ME: c1950. An array of materials used by a first grade teacher including series of mimeographed work sheets (tests) to to develop Motor Skills, Motor Control, Reversals, Rhyming Words, Riddles in Rhyme, Visual Discrimination, Spatial Relationships, Completion, Identifying Opposites, and more. Some with index cards attached with hand written.....
Price: $350.00
Liturgy of the Hours
United States: c.1900. A c.1900 hand-lettered broadside charting one individual's personalized prayer schedule, akin to a Liturgy of the Hours. It is divided into two sections. The first gives a different letter-- perhaps corresponding to a section of the user's religious text-- to be used during one of seven periods.....
Price: $150.00
French Card Game,Original Artwork
France: 1860s. An elegantly rendered 19th-century French handmade card game with fine original gouache artwork, comprised of sixty (60) cards. Most likely a homemade variation of a "Memory" or "Keep Your Temper" style game where the object is to make the most matches or tricks. There are twelve (12) different.....
Price: $625.00
Literary Poster, The Boston Sunday Herald, Women
Boston, MA: The Boston Sunday Herald, [1895]. A 19" x 12" poster promoting The Boston Sunday Herald newspaper. It depicts a serious looking young woman holding a book. Reverse is blank.
Price: $250.00
Vacation Brochures,Lake Champlain, American Travel and Tourism
Port Henry, New York: Lake Shore Cottages, c.1940. Printed vacation brochure advertising the Lake Shore Cottages, "A Summer Paradise" located on the shore of Lake Champlain near Port Henry, New York. Major selling points appear to be outdoor recreation, fresh milk supplied from a local dairy farm, "Sanitary Plumbing", refrigerators.....
Price: $150.00
Ornithology, Feathers, Turkeys, Fowl , ABAA-RBMS-2023
Meyersdale, Pennsylvania: Bird Bros, 1915. Letter on illustrated letterhead advertising Giant Bronze Turkeys by Bird Bros, acknowledging receipt of a customer's order and enclosing samples of turkey feathers for the customer's consideration in lieu of younger turkeys which had been already sold. The five feathers have been carefully inserted onto.....
Price: $325.00
Songsters,Family Medicines,Women's Health and Medicine,Patent Medicines
Chattanooga, Tennessee: The Chattanooga Medicine Co., c.1880. A scarce pocket-sized songster advertising patent medicines sold by the Chattanooga Medicine Company, for the treatment and prevention of common family illnesses ranging from coughs and colds to rheumatism and "female diseases" (e.g. painful or delayed menstruation). Note the way in which the.....
Price: $150.00
![Item #24002711 Madame Le May's French Formula [for] Antiseptic Vaginal Suppositories](https://eclectibles.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/24002711_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1717079071)
History of Women's Health
Missoula, Montana: Garden City Drug Co., 1913. Printed directions sheet for "Madame Le May's French Formula", a brand of "antiseptic vaginal suppositories" marketed to women as a panacea for all female ailments including: "Leucorrhea, Gonorrhea, Prolapsus, or Falling of the Womb, Inflammation, Congestion, Anteversion, Retroversion, Dropsy of the Womb, Ulceration.....
Price: $150.00
Anti-Women's Suffrage,Gender Roles,Anti-Socialism
Chicago, Illinois: Illinois Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, 1911. An anti-women's suffrage bulletin issued by the Illinois Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage in June 1911. The bulletin focuses chiefly on what it perceives as the great threat of Socialism, which is to uproot the social order by destroying the family.....
Price: $300.00
Tobacco Marketing, Celebrities and Historical Figures, Biographies, Chromolithography
Park Place, New York: Knapp & Company, 1890s. A complete set of 48 absolutely charming miniature chromolithographed biographies, published as part of an advertising campaign for Duke Brand Cigarettes. Each was issued in a box of cigarettes in a "collect-them-all"-type marketing ploy. The complete set here includes 7 women and.....
Price: $3,500.00
Women's Fashion
Boston, Massachusetts: H. Methot, 1899. Illustrated trade catalog for H. Methot, "French Feather Dresser", whose services include dying, cleaning, and curling ostrich feather for women's hats. The booklet offers advice for mailing feathers, different styles of curling, and urges customers to "never throw old feathers away", as they may be.....
Price: $200.00
Made by Hand, Fashion, Design
c1920s. What appears to be a complete handmade paper pattern for a kimono complete with hand penciled design for embroidery or appliqué that includes scenes of a violent sea, sea serpents, herons flying above a sailing vessel and more. Proposed colors have been penciled on the pattern. The back piece.....
Price: $250.00
History of "The Pill" and Reproductive Rights
United States: Late 1960s-1980. A small gathering of emphemera related to the history of "The Pill" between the late 1960s and 1980, including: a set of three (3) compacts previously filled with a month each of birth control pills from 1980; one (1) printed booklet with instructions for taking "Ortho-Novum.....
Price: $325.00