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patent medicine, advertise, advertisement, advertising, anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic, rat, lab rat
Paris, France: Dec-53. An advertising postcard for a patent medicine called Penityrol. It was a synthetic antibiotics created to help combat diseases that are transmitted through the air or to help minimize the possibility of an infection after a surgery. What makes this advertisement extremely charming are the anthropomorphic lab.....
Price: $65.00
Lace paper plates,
texte par Méry. Histoire de la mode par le comte Fœlix.i, texte par Méry. Minéralogie des dames par le comte Fœlix. - Les Parures, fantaisie par Gavarni, texte par Méry. Histoire de la mode par le comte Fœlix. Volume two of two with frontispiece and 15 plates engraved by Geoffroy.....
Price: $450.00
Baby Formula, Nestlé, Advertising Paper Dolls, Marketing Campaigns
France: Nestlé, 1920s. Uncut example of one of the "Poupées Nestlé", a successful paper doll marketing campaign run by Nestlé, hoping that the children who received them would ask their mothers to buy Nestlé baby formula ("Farine Lactée"). Measures approx. 7.75" by 8.25. Lacks the detachable message advertisement from Nestlé.....
Price: $125.00
Baby Formula, Nestlé, Advertising Paper Dolls, Marketing Campaigns
Paris, France: Nestlé, 1920s. Uncut example of one of the "Poupées Nestlé", a successful paper doll marketing campaign run by Nestlé, hoping that the children who received them would ask their mothers to buy Nestlé baby formula ("Farine Lactée"). Measures approx. 7.75" by 8.25. Lacks the detachable message advertisement from.....
Price: $150.00
Baby Formula, Nestlé, Advertising Paper Dolls, Marketing Campaigns
Paris, France: Nestlé, 1920s. Uncut example of one of the "Poupées Nestlé", a successful paper doll marketing campaign run by Nestlé, hoping that the children who received them would ask their mothers to buy Nestlé baby formula ("Farine Lactée"). Measures approx. 7.75" by 8.25. Lacks the detachable message advertisement from.....
Price: $150.00
Baby Formula, Nestlé, Advertising Paper Dolls, Marketing Campaigns
Paris, France: Nestlé, 1920s. Uncut example of one of the "Poupées Nestlé", a successful paper doll marketing campaign run by Nestlé, hoping that the children who received them would ask their mothers to buy Nestlé baby formula ("Farine Lactée"). Measures approx. 7.75" by 8.25. This example is complete and features.....
Price: $150.00
Baby Formula, Nestlé, Advertising Paper Dolls, Marketing Campaigns
Paris, France: Nestlé, 1920s. Uncut example of one of the "Poupées Nestlé", a successful paper doll marketing campaign run by Nestlé, hoping that the children who received them would ask their mothers to buy Nestlé baby formula ("Farine Lactée"). Measures approx. 7.75" by 8.75. Verso blank, appears complete in and.....
Price: $150.00
Snow White, fairy tales, morality, german
Germany: 1930s. A retelling of the classic fairy tale of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. There are color, full page illustrations, beside each page of the story. The drawings are whimsical and charming. Some tape repair. In German. Softcover, 12 pgs. Measures 9" x 7 1/2" Moderate cover wear.....
Price: $45.00
cows, farming, russia
Petersburg, Russia: State Publishing House, 1920. A Soviet Union propaganda poster printed by the State Publishing House the various types of feeds available for cows besides hay. The poster describes a 'feed unit', which refers to the nutritional strength of one pound of a force-feed fodder, which is normal a......
Price: $325.00
spring, seasons, children at play, german, Lungershausen, Ilse Wende-Lungershausen, Lungers, Hausen
1950s. 8 pp (including covers) Litho on board throughout. German language. A 'funny picture book', that tells the story of three children asking when spring will come again. Along with the children are several animals, such as a chicken, a pig, a snail and a beetle. The watercolor illustrations are.....
Price: $85.00
childhood learning, social situations , German language
ca. 1935. 16 unnumbered page picture book with litho on board covers. Full page color illustrations with two line caption beneath each. A German language book depicting children in difficult or unfamiliar social situations and a bit of an explanation as to how to resolve. Bright colors. Measures 11 3/4".....
Price: $55.00
Shadow Theater, Victor Hugo, French Art and Culture, Bastille Day, Cross-Cultural
Paris: Mauclair Dacier, c1903. An ornate, and rather stunning, turn-of-the-century French shadow theater set, housed in a large chromolithographed box (15.5" by 19.75" by 3") depicting the Revue du 14 Juillet … Paris, as well as two smaller scenes of the 1893 Fˆtes Franco-Russes. Underneath the lid, a printed label.....
Price: $4,000.00
Lice, Hair care, Pest Control, Toxins, Strychnine
France: E. Rousseau, 1920s. Uncut paper doll advertising La Vendalice, a highly toxic strychnine-laced shampoo produced for killing lice. The paper doll itself depicts a very chic-looking girl with dark pageboy haircut, along with three outfits and matching hats. Measures 7.5" by 8.5"
Price: $200.00
Concertina Book, The Night Before Christmas, TNBC,
c1900. A 12 fold concertina book. Illustrated wraps. Picture book with rhyming verse, with a storyline similar to The Night Before Christmas. A brown coat St. Nicholas and dwarfs cutting down Christmas trees and driving St. Nicholas' sleigh. Measures 2 1/2" x 3 7/8"
Price: $175.00
clock, time, telling time, tell time, education, educational, german. langers hausen,
1950s. 8 pp. Litho on board throughout. German lnaguage. A book that teaches young children how to read the clock. The cover has a clock on it with movable hands, (missing from the book), so they can change the time. The book takes a group of children through their day.....
Price: $45.00
World War II, WWII, Japan, China, Pacific Theater, Qingdao, Tsingtao), Ch'ing-Tao, target, bomb
Qingdao (Tsingtao), China: [1944]. World War II, WWII, Japan, China, Pacific Theater, Qingdao, Tsingtao), Ch'ing-Tao, target, bomb A World War II allied map depicting strike targets in the Chinese city of Qingdao, located in the Shantung Providence, also called either Tsingtao or Ch'ing-Tao. The city was occupied by the Japanese.....
Price: $550.00
music, musical score, sheet music, lullaby, children's songs, german
Berlin: Deutscher Arbeitersängerbund [German Workers' Singing Association], 1926. 24 pp, Kinder Lieder: Erstes Heft, zwei- und mehrstimmige lieder und Kanons für kleine und große kinder, which roughly translates to: First Edition, two- and three-part songs and canons for young and old children. The front cover is printed in two colors.....
Price: $38.00
elves, fantasy, fairy tales
Mainz: Mainzer Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei. unpaginated. Printed color applied cover over cloth spine, entirely in German, black and white and color illustrations throughout by Fritz Baumgarten. Brownies (elves) took care of all the chores in the town of Cologne while everyone was asleep. 8" x 9 1/2" written in German.....
Price: $35.00
juvenile, poetry, Paris children
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1923. 59 pp. Applied illustrated cover over cloth spine, color illustrations by Barbara Haven Brown. A story of brother and sister, Jean and Jeanette, and their daily routine. A poem begins with the time of day, beginning with eight o'clock and is then followed.....
Price: $50.00
german, music, children songs, folk songs
Germany: [1906]. This book is volume 3 and 4 bound into a single volume. Illustrated by Ernest Liebermann. There are twelve (!2) full-page color illustrtations, five (5) additional half page (and less) color illustrations, as well as numerous black and white illustrations throughout. Inscribed on the front blank end papers.....
Price: $120.00
Movable book, children at play, anthropomorphism
Amsterdam: Mulder & Zoon, 1955. Illustrated paper cover with fold-out die-cut boat attached to the inside of the back cover. The profusely illustrated story book depicts chilldren at place recto and children in water scenes verso. The boat from the back cover an be overlayed on each of the water.....
Price: $150.00
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
French Language, Hand-colored Valentine
[France?]: c.1810. Regency-era Valentine with hand-colored etching of a lovely young lady holding a bouquet of flowers, above what appears to be an original handwritten sonnet: "Ne vous Affligez point sure votre infirmité / Ô beauté singulière! admirable Entrangère..." ("Do not grieve over your infirmity / O singular beauty! admirable.....
Price: $225.00
Little Tom Thumb, Children's Puzzles, H. Jannin, French, Childhood Ephemera
Paris: H. Camus, c. 1870. This six piece wooden puzzle with applied depicts a critical scene in the life of little Tom Thumb. The color lithograph is done by H. Jannin depicts the two parents at a table by a fire with sad expressions, as the caption reveals that the.....
Price: $175.00