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Tiffany & Co., History of New York City, Delmonico's, Gastronomy and Fine Dining
New York, New York: Tiffany & Co., 1901. Commemorative menu (7.25" by 9.5") and seating plan booklet (8" by 5.75") for the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York's 133rd Annual Banquet, held at Delmonico's in 1901. Both are housed in the original Tiffany box (9.75" by 7.75".....
Price: $225.00
Tiffany & Co., History of New York City, Waldorf Astoria, Gastronomy and Fine Dining
New York, New York: Tiffany & Co., 1902. An exquisitely produced menu and seating plan, in original box (10" by 8" by 0.5"), designed by Tiffany & Co. for a banquet held at the Waldorf Astoria. Hosted by the Chamber of Commerce, the event was held "in honor of the.....
Price: $275.00
Romanticism, Original Verse, Arctic Exploration, Abbeys
England: 1817-1841. "And here's a Wilderness ---- of strange But gay Confusion-----"inscibed on applied card with deeply embossed border decoration applied on marbled front endpaper An exceptional commonplace book belonging to a gentleman between 1817 and 1841, containing what appears to be largely original verse, pencil and ink drawings, and.....
Price: $1,700.00
Composition Books, History, School Subjects, Women's Suffrage , ABAA-RBMS-2023
Ohio: 1860s. Composition book of Augustus W. Clark (1849-1932), with approx. 24 pages filled with one to two page entries. The title page includes a newspaper snippet announcing her death on June 28, 1932. The entries range in subject, including history (Mary Queen of Scots, the Catacombs of Rome, Julius.....
Price: $425.00
Genealogy, Drawing, Friendship Albums
United States: c.1846-c.1970. A small family archive comprised of ten (10) items: one album, two drawing books, a photographic portrait, and several pieces of miscellaneous ephemera related to the related Harmon and Peck families, dating from c.1836 to c.1970. Highlights include: the c.1836 friendship album of Miss Cornelia Harmon (1819-1898).....
Price: $425.00
princeton letters, west point letters, manuscript, historical memorabilia
Seven (7) different letters written by Tillotson to his close friend cadet Thorne. The letters are newsy in nature and written in an engaging style. He refers to various individuals by their full names with explicit details on their carrying-ons. Gouveuneur Tillotson antics and lack of interest in school became.....
Price: $525.00
program, New Hampshire National Guard, NHNG, bald eagle, american flag
Concord, NH: E.A. Wright, Phila (engraver), February 24, 1892. A dance card for Company E, 3d Regiment of the New Hampshire National Guard's (NHNG) exhibition and prize drill which took place at the White's Opera House in Concord, NH in 1892. The Order of Dance lists the fourteen (14) dances.....
Price: $165.00
military attire, officer ranks,
Berlin: H. Toussaint, n.d. c1890. A 30 page fold-out panorama or concertina book Stamped cloth with black title and silver Imperial eagle. Full color lithograph images detailing Imperial military uniforms identified by service, rank and location. Book measures 7 ¼” x 5 ¼”. Linen backed except first page. Wear. Strong.....
Price: $225.00
Cutwork, Devotional, Made by Hand, Watercolor, Scherenschnitte, Canivet
A 4 1/2" x 2 1/2" delicate hand made paper devotional or "Nun Cut" Flaming hearts surrounded by roses and thorns Verse reads " O God ... will Again. Vivid watercolor decoration with gold and green border decoration. Reverse is blank.
Price: $350.00
politics, government, state government, tammany hall, budget, corruption
New York: [1871-1872]. A political flyer condemning the corruption by the Democratic Party, and more specifically the Tammany Hall and its Grand Sachem, William M. Tweed (1823-1878). Tammany Hall, alternately called the Tammany Society, Society of St. Tammany, the Sons of St. Tammany, or the Colombian Order, was a political.....
Price: $150.00
Menu, Historical Memorabilia, Berlin Conference, African Division
Hotel Brunswick: February 10,1884. A 4" x 5" heavy card menu. The front depict a watercolor caricature of a woman holding a "separation" banner on an applied die-cut card surrounded by pink silk fringe. The reverse is the menu printed in gold ink. The starter is "Sorbet a l'Africaine." The.....
Price: $125.00
tissue paper, paper products, crafts
New Haven, CT: Northrop, The Art Dealer, 1886. 16 pp. staple booklet. Yellow wraps.. Instructs the reader on how to make various tissue paper flowers or other items such as tissue paper lamp shades. Instructions on making Tulip, White, Jasmine and Fuchsia. The last few pages of the booklet have.....
Price: $75.00
Dudley, MA, Bemis house
MA: c. 1880. Eight (8) mounted photographs of the Phineas Bemis House in Dudley, Mass. Although the photographs use "Old House in Dudley", images appear to be from the Phineas Bemis house which was destroyed in 2005. One mentions it is the "South Room in the Dudley home", another "North.....
Price: $450.00
Made by Hand, Original Artwork, Folk Art, Watercolor, Women
United States: c1900. An elegant and well-heeled Edwardian paper doll rendered in original ink pen and watercolor, together with nine (9) accompanying dresses and six (6) matching hats. A young girl's dream paper doll, she is dressed in her blue ribbon-lined undergarments and has her golden locks pulled back into.....
Price: $325.00
Bibles] [religion
Springfield: G. & C. Merriam, 1844. 1115 pp, 856 for the Old Testament and 259 for the New Testament. Red gilt and blind stamped hard cover, illustrations and 6 plates (2 of which are frontispieces for each testament), three chambers on spine, gilt stamp of praying woman on front and.....
Price: $80.00
Engraving, White House,
A 6" x 6 1/4" label reading The White House Washington with an engraving of the White House. Perishable Flowers. Keep from frost and extreme heat printed at the base. Reverse is blank. Used for sending flowers from the White House Florist. Established in the 1850s. In 1858 the New.....
Price: $85.00
advertisement, printing, posters
New York: C S Pratt, October 1895. Charles Pratt was an early promoter of the poster arts in the United States. He had a store in New York City and in the fall of 1895 he arranged the first ever exhibition of artistic posters from American printers and published. The.....
Price: $100.00
Children's Illustrations, Perrault, Adaptations, Morals and Cautionary Tales
London, England: Darton and Co., 1840s. A scarce edition of fairy tales in verse for children with hand-stenciled illustrations, published by Darton and Co. It features adaptations of the following tales: Little Red Riding Hood; Blue Beard; Cinderella; Little Thumb and the Ogre; Puss in Boots; Whittington and His Cat;.....
Price: $100.00
Adventurer, Naturalist, Filmmaker, Social History, Africa
1930-1939. A collection of 15 various press photos from 1930-1939 from New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco papers. The photos focus primarily on Osa, but include some of the fatal plane crash of Martin. Seven (7) of the photos show Osa on excursions with animals, natives and scenery. All.....
Price: $225.00
cutwork paper, scherenschnitte, canivet, made by hand, folk art
A 7 1/4" cut paper parrot mounted on a 10" x 8 1/4" backing sheet. The body is constructed of scallop cuts and pinprick while the layered feathers with fine cut tendrils along both edges of each feather. The blades of grass and flowers are all cut from a single.....
Price: $950.00
Fashion and Costume, Woman as Influencers, Silk, Gibson Girl, Language of Color
New York & Paris: M. C. Migel & Co., 1908. 8 french-fold pp. with silk screened crane on wraps. The paper for the cover is laid paper with chain lines. The paper for the booklet is more of a washi paper with chain lines. All quite striking. The booklet describes.....
Price: $150.00
Drunk Driving, Voting Issues, Local Elections, Alcohol and Temperance
Waterville, Maine: F.W. Smith, c.1938. "VOTE THE DRINKING DRIVER DOWN--Vote 'NO' on liquor in September" is the message to Maine voters in this confrontational poster. The cartoon graphic shows a disheveled man hurtling down the road towards the viewer, tossing a liquor bottle behind him, with a license plate that.....
Price: $225.00
Early United States Prohibition, Anti-Prohibition Efforts, Social Welfare
The Voice (Prohibition Paper), c. 1888. 16pp. An attempt to rebuke the idea of prohibition through the use of quotes that support the ineffectiveness of it. Starting with a passage from "The Voice" which was the prohibition newspaper, the argument against prohibition, and the inability to enforce it, is briefly.....
Price: $85.00
religion, Fourth of July
New York: American Tract Society, n.d. 36 pp. Printed soft cover, hand sewn binding, illustrations. Two inscriptions dated 1829 and 1830. Two women, Kitty Potter and Sally Milman, talking of what they will see on the Fourth of July. Sally uses her religious teachings to point out the wrongs that.....
Price: $40.00