Religion
religion, Death, Religious aspects, Immortality, poem, poetry, verse, lady jane grey, lady jane dudley, nine day queen,
Portland: Oliver L Sanborn, 1839. Edward Young was an English poet from the 18th century, whose most well-known poem was "Night-Thoughts." Although Night Thoughts is long and disconnected poem, it abounds in brilliant isolated passages and it found an enormous amount of success. It was eventually translated into French, German.....
Price: $65.00
missions, California, Native Americans, historical memorabilia, a few good books, social & cultural, religion
San Francisco, CA: I. N. Choynski, 1875. A short book that glorifies the "Padres", the priests, who came over with the Spaniards and set up Missions in the New World. The book specifically deals with the missions built in California, and how their influence has waned since it was ceded.....
Price: $150.00
religion, periodicals, childhood ephemera, social welfare, advertising, missionary
Nashville, TN: Executive Committee of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, August 1896 896. A single-fold pamphlet announceing a subscription contest for the publication. The contest was for children and aimed at finding new subscribers for the periodical, and was most likely an insert in the August 1896 issue of.....
Price: $50.00
Women, Methuselah, Biblical figure, Maxims
New York: Frederick A Stokes Company, 1907. 108 pp. with applied litho covers. Illustrations, decorations and cover design by Louis D. Fancher. The book is a humorous rendition, in scriptural verse, of the great patriarch's views on the wiles of women. There are four charming color illustrations, along with red.....
Price: $40.00
religion, christ, shakers, theology, revelation, church
Preston, OH: 1900. 56 pgs, brown wrappers. Henry B. Bear was a Millerite - a person who believed in William Miller's teachings that Second Advent of Christ was coming in 1843-1844. Bear became disenchanted with Millers teachers and eventually joined the Ohio Shaker Community. He published this book to spread.....
Price: $350.00
correspondence, business history, letterhead, slate, quarry, industry, billhead, religion, sunday school, charity, American Sunday School Union
Slate Hill, PA: Susquehanna Slate, February 1859. The item is two letters addressed to Reverend Benjamin William Chidlaw written on a finely illustrated circular. The letters are written on a single page, which has been folded in half, with the first letter written on the inside fold and the second.....
Price: $85.00
Bible history, juvenile literature, sunday school, Biblical events, Women as authors, thumb bibles
New Haven, CT: Durrie and Peck, 1853. 192 pp. Decorated cloth binding, with gilt edges. 48 woodcut engravings. Miniature book. The book starts off with a note from the author herself to the readers: "In this tiny book, my dear little friends will find a great many pictures drawn from.....
Price: $65.00
religion, missionaries, lumber camps, advertisements, Social Welfare
Superior, WI: Lake Superior System of Missions, Nov-00. Four promotional fundraising items providing information on the mission. The first item is a printed on letterhead from Nason, describing his mission and specifically requesting help for the upcoming 1900-1901 winter campaign to the logging camps, as well as some of the.....
Price: $175.00
religion, periodical, missionary, social welfare, Seventh-Day Adventist, nursing
Nashville, TN: Southern Publishing Association (Seventh-Day Adventist), 15-Oct-38. The Watchman Magazine was started in 1905 and was published on a monthly basis by a group of Seventh-Day Adventists, with the only exception being the month of October, when an annual magazine was issued in addition to the monthly one. This.....
Price: $75.00
John W. Wanamaker, religion, education
Philadelphia, PA: Bethany's Presbyterian Church, October 23, 1874. A stock share certificate for the fundraising campaign for the enlargement of "Bethany Building" where the Bethany School and church were located. A part of this campaign was that with the payment of one dollar, an individual was given a share in.....
Price: $85.00
missions, Jews, travel
New Haven: Durrie and Peck, 1830. 384 pp. Leather cover, fold out map at back of book depicting "part of Turkey with Greece" with and inset of "Plan of Constantinople", dedication page to the "Members of the Boston Female Seminary, for the Promotion of Christianity among the Jews", second edition.....
Price: $150.00
social & cultural, classes and movements, women's work, women's history, religion, Ngoi-Mani Mission, Belgian Congo
Ngoimani, DR Congo: Ngoi-Mani Mission, 1932. The annual report of the women's work being done at the Ngoi-Mani Mission, which was located in a small valley by the name of Ngoimani just north of a town called Mwanza in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It should be noted that in.....
Price: $90.00
religion, juvenile, chap books
New York: Anson D.F. Randolph, 1860. 16 pp. Printed soft cover, full text, originally printed in The Mother's Journal. The religious story of sweet little three year old Antoinette who befriends Loose Ben, the sixteen year old slouching, dirty fire-maker at the Nelson Hotel. Antoinette asks Ben if she loves.....
Price: $50.00
Education, Religion, Women's History
Kinsey, Henry County, ALA: 1901. An 11" x 8 1/2" letter sheet with a large image from a photograph of the exterior of the Mallalieu Seminary, Kinsey, Henry County, Alabama. The adjacent narrative provides information on the school, it's fees and affiliation to the "Emeline S. Hamien Industrial Home of.....
Price: $75.00
religion, peddlers
Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union, c. 1830. 69 pp. Applied marble paper cover, cloth spine, illustrations. A story of meeting a man who told some friends about God. Their personalities are altered. Describes the emotional and physical changes they go through. 6" x 3 1/4" wear on cover, one corner.....
Price: $25.00
education, women, nurse, sanitarium, Seventh-Day Adventist
Melrose, MA: 1905. A three page invite for the graduating class of 1905 for the New England Sanitarium, Training School for Missionary Nurses. Located along the border between the two Massachusetts towns of Stoneham and Melrose, the sanitarium and nursing school were apart of a Seventh-Day Adventist Church. The sanitarium.....
Price: $55.00
protest, march, was, political rally,
New York: 6-May-84. A poster advertising the "March for Soviet Jewry" that took place in New York on May 6, 1984, otherwise known as Solidarity Sunday. The purpose of the political march was for the people of New York, including the Jewish people of New York to show their support.....
Price: $100.00
viewbook, saco river, white mountains, summer resort, camp, sunday school, Chautauqua indians
New York, NY: The Outlook Company, [1910]. Fryeburg-on-th-Saco was a summer resort open from July 1st to October 1st in Fryeburg, ME. While technically it was a summer resort, it was a particular resort that is hard to accurately define. This is something the place recognizes itself, and indeed starts.....
Price: $85.00
children's books, morality, religion
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, Printed By Gilbert and Rivington, 18,511,869. "Printed under the direction of the committee of general literature and education, appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge". 18 pages, bound in yellow paper wrapper with decorative border; "Class 1" printed in the bottom right corner.....
Price: $30.00
religion, chap books, Sophie "The Scrubwoman" Lichtenfels
New Jersey: Bible,Book and Tract Rooms, 1902. 14 pp. Printed soft cover, stapled. A Telegram message by Sophie, delivered at Hamburg, New Jersey, March 2, 1902. Reported by Pastor H.J. Roberts, copyrighted by Sophie Lichtenfels. Written in a German accent, "De Lord has given me a telegram to deliver to.....
Price: $45.00
hyms
Chittenango, N.Y. 1845. Red textured cover, interfoliata. Compiled by Thomas Houston and Alfred Bellamy, Printed by John Dow. A collection of 122 hymns "appropriate for social and family worship." Headings include Invitations of the Gospel, Christian Acts and Exercises, Missions, and Family Worship. Interfoliata is torn from another book with.....
Price: $45.00
election (theology), predestination
Brookfield: E.&G. Merriam, 1831. 32 pp. soft cover with string tied spine. Second edition of Fisk's Discourse based on predestination and election. 9 1/2" x 6" edges worn, staining and toning, tears on edges but no text is lost.
Price: $25.00
religion, Evangelical Christianity, sermons, classes & movements, temperance. sports & sporting, baseball, baseball player
Fort Wayne, IN: E. A. K. Hackett, 1914. A printed copy of the sermon, "Get on the Water Wagon" by Rev. William Ashley Sunday (1862-1935). Perhaps better known as Billy Sunday, he was an American baseball player, who played as an outfielder in the National League, who later became one.....
Price: $175.00
Prohibition, alcohol, food & wine, religion, government, election, politics, classes & movements
Chicago, IL: Christian Century Press, Nov-30. An informational pamphlet containing two articles, "Modified Prohibition" and "Dry Thoughts on Election Day" first printed in the November 5, 1930 and the November 12, 1930 issues of The Christian Century respectively. The first article argues for a less stringent approach to alcohol than.....
Price: $125.00