Entertainment & Music
sheet music, musical score, nursery rhymes, hammond
London: Mitchell's Musical Library, 1824. 12 pp. The cover has the title of the item engraved in various scripts. Songs include "Dance Little Baby", "Bye Bye Little Dolly", "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", "Little Miss Kid", "Pretty Flower, Tell Me Why?", and "Who'll Come and Play with Me, Dialogue and Duet".....
Price: $45.00
rounds, sheet music, musical score, flower, season, nature, dance
Paris, France: Sandoz, Jobin and Co., 1904. 10 pp, Cover depicts nine children dancing. The illustration is in color along with some decorative flowers. While the entire works of Oeuvres Enfantines by Jaques-Dalcroze contains a total of 15 rounds, this only has # 626, "La Ronde des Saison Fleuries', which.....
Price: $35.00
Arts and Culture, Scrapbooking, Connecticut College, Performing Arts, Concerts and Plays
New London, Connecticut: c.1925-1937. An expansive scrapbook of over 200 individual pieces of ephemera collected by Ethel Cook (c.1908-2006) while she was a student in New London, Connecticut, in the late 1920s. Types of ephemera include periodical clippings, hotel stationary, printed programs and playbills, club meeting ephemera, song sheets, correspondence.....
Price: $550.00
musical score, sheet music, Cinderella, fairy tale
c1920. 4 pp, dark blue cover with a black line drawing depicting Cinderella by a fire place, with her fairy god mother and three mice. Also in the smoke created by the fire is a small drawing of Cinderella's carriage. The song is Cinderella Waltz, which was also sometimes called.....
Price: $40.00
Military Families,1950s Cocktail Parties
Germany: 1955. A decorating guide for service wives, offering tips and tricks for making the most of their next baby shower, cocktail party, or holiday shindig. First printing, published in Germany, presumably for families stationed abroad. Includes directions for making party favors, place cards, and decorations, featuring lots of crepe.....
Price: $175.00
Tom Thumb, PT Barnum A
152 Nassau St. cor. of Spruce N.Y: Lith. & pub. by N. Currier, 1849. A 13 1/3" x 9" hand colored lithograph depicting a portrait of Tom Thumb standing on a somewhat regal looking chair, with his hands on his hips. The image is surrounded by 13 vignettes of Thumb.....
Price: $1,000.00
Georges Apchain, Woodwind Instruments, Cabart a Paris instruments, Musical Instruments
New York: Frederick W. Binzen & Company, Oct-26. The catalogue offers not only the sale of instruments, but the accessories and necessities in order to care for a variety of types. There is brief instructions for care of woodwind instruments. Following is a wide variety of woodwinds, from different types.....
Price: $95.00
Song sheet, poetry, death, ocean travel, gold mines
Philadelphia: A.W. Auner, 1870s-90s. An eight (8) verse poem/song. Laments of death, ocean travel, gold mines etc. Top and bottom of sheet read A.W. Auner, song publisher & printer, Tenth and Race Sts., Philadelphia, Pa. Measures 7 3/4" x 4 1/2"
Price: $125.00
valley of Chamounix, valley of Chamonix, france, dance, square dancing, sheet music, musical score
London: 1855. 4 pgs, On the cover is a black and white illustration of the Valley of Chamouni (also spelled Chamounix or Chamonix) a valley in esatern France by Mont Blanc. Songs include La Morne au Diable and La Vallee de Chamouny. These songs are meant for dancing,. the quardrille.....
Price: $75.00
song books] [instruction
Cambridge: John Owen, 1845. 38 pp. Applied printed cardboard cover, second edition, sewed binding, music with descriptions and instructions. A music book with preface and note to teachers, first three pages include testimonials in favor of the Singer's First Book. OCLC: 3 (8/29/2016) 5 1/2" x 5" binding loose, wear.....
Price: $25.00
harpsichord, musical score, sheet music, orphan, poverty
Glasgow, Scotland: R Gale, 1805. 1 page, arranged on 2 staves for voice and harpsichord. The song is about an orphaned young boy who sells matches on the street, and the wealthy poplele who walk by him each day. Over three verses the song employs them to "Give a mite.....
Price: $65.00
Confederacy Song Sheet,Civil War
Sheffield Ala. A 10" x 5 1/2" printed song sheet presumably written for reunions of the Confederacy about fighting to free the Southland. It begins "Once more we meet, old comrades, To recount the deeds of the past, We may not, comrades, meet again, For our ranks are thinning fast".....
Price: $250.00
polka, music, dance, musical score, sheet music
Wien, C. A. Spina, 1866. 7 pages, cover has a floral decoration along with the image of six children dancing in a circle. The inside cover contains a list of of other songs published by Johann Strauss and his two brothers Josef and Eduard. In German. Measures 13 1/2" x......
Price: $95.00
nursery rhymes
George Routledge and Sons. Unpagenated. Litho on board covers. Full page illustrations with rhyming verse at base. Collection of Nursery Rhymes. Front free paper detached but present. Hinge is loose but attched. Intact tears last two pages 3in. along back strip. Measures 5" x 7"
Price: $75.00
pianoforte, music, education
1857. A way of learning how to play the piano-forte by L Wardell in which he instructs the player to image a house over the keys. Each key represents a different room or pillar of the house. Wardell claims that "this system has met with astonishing success wherever it has.....
Price: $20.00
peter pan, sheet music, musical score, wendy darling, fantasy, fairy tale, tinker bell
Chicago: Clayton F Summy Co, 1932. 4 pp, the cover depicts Peter Pan dancing with his shadow while playing his pan flute with Tinker Bell flying above him. This piece was a set of four that could be bought separately or together. This sheet music contains only one piece, 'Wendy.....
Price: $55.00
Childhood Ephemera, Silhouettes, Shadow Pictures
England: 1830s. Along with the 25 presumably hand cut shadow pictures ranging ins size from The objective is to show light through the object onto a wall or white surface to show the puppet. This grouping also includes two printed sheets that were cut - one appears to be Admiral.....
Price: $650.00
Raging Canal, P. Morris, Erie Canal, Songster
c1860. The "Raging Canal" was one of many songs that were created in reference to the Erie Canal and the hardships faced when traveling it. Originally written by P. Morris, there is a slightly comic take on what were usually more serious songs. 8" x 5 1/4"
Price: $45.00
Sheet Music, Social History, Illustration Art
London: Boosey & Co., c1870. 11 pp sheet music with illustrated cover depicting revelers at the Carnival. Music within. The back cover lists new dance music available through Boosey & Co.. Measures 14" x 10 1/4. Minor edge wear and toning. Cabinet card covers are detached.
Price: $100.00
Broadside, Playbill, Social History, Popular Culture
National Theatre, New York City: E.G. House, 1838. A 12 .25" x 6 " broadside or playbill promoting a comedy starring the Coopers concluding with a farce titled Advice Gratis! Wednesday Evening, September 12, 1838. Also includes information on future events, pricing information on single appearance to seasonal tickets....
Price: $75.00
C. Lovat Fraser, rhyme sheet
London: The Poetry Bookshop. The Poetry Bookshop, London. Measures 14" x 6 1/2" with top of page stating Rhyme Sheet: (Second Series) and bottom [No. 11]. A poem, Bog Love, written by Shane Leslie is accompanied by two decorations by C. Lovat Fraser. as new.
Price: $28.00
Shakespeare, Stipple Engraving, Theatre
London: The London Printing and Publishing Co., [1860]. A 10 3/4" x 7 1/4" page with 6 1/4" x 4 1/2" stipple engraving. A hand colored engraving from a daguerreotype. Captioned Mr. George Bennett as Othello and Miss Jane Bennett as Desdemona. "OTH: "Come, swear it; damn thyself" OTHELLO Act.....
Price: $325.00
Shakespeare, Stipple Engraving, Theatre
London: The London Printing and Publishing Co., [1860]. A 10 3/4" x 7 1/4" page with 6 1/4" x 4 1/2" stipple engraving. A hand colored engraving from a daguerreotype. Captioned Mrs. Fitzwilliam as Mrs. Page "What! have I 'scap'd love letters in the holiday time of my beauty and.....
Price: $325.00
Walter crane, baby's opera, song book
London: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., 1900. . A Companion to the “Baby’s Opera”. The Tunes Collected & Arranged by L.C. Pictorial covers. Profusely illustrated throughout with full page, in-text and border decorations A song book of thirty-seven (37) nursery songs with words and music. Cupid fleur-de-lys cover design with.....
Price: $125.00