Travel &Tourism
industry, cotton, tourism, business
Montgomery, Alabama: Brown Printing Company, c1900. 36 pp, staple booklet. This short book details the history, people and culture of Montgomery, the capital of Alabama. The book starts off briefly describing the city's location, population, health, water supply and climate. Next it continues onto several landmarks of the city, such.....
Price: $95.00
social & cultural, religion, missionary work, charity, China, military history, WWII, Second Sino-Japanese War
New York, NY: The Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, 1940. The booklet is a compilation of information provided by missionaries in China through letters, missionary reports, historical material, and missionary radio broadcasts. It has been divided up into ten sections: 'From.....
Price: $150.00
sanitarium, health resort, sulfur springs, mineral springs, hydrotherapy
Chicago, IL: Wm H Gallo & Son, Printers, [1910]. A brochure for the Crane Sanitarium located in Elmhurst, IL, and founded by Milo A. Crane. The slogan of this sanitarium was "The place where sick people get well and the tired ones rest." The sanitarium sourced its water supply from.....
Price: $115.00
Children of the World, International Friendship, European Heritage
United States. Dorothy K. Weeblow, 1951. A charming interactive children's book emphasizing international friendship and cultural heritage. The story revolves around six children from European countries (England, France, Italy, Holland, Switzerland, and Norway) who are traveling across the Atlantic on an ocean liner. The young reader is asked to help.....
Price: $125.00
USA: 1951. Spiral bound litho on heavy paper covers. The book begins with six children from different lands boarding the ship. The children are actual die-cut 5 1/4" children dressed in regional attire from England, France, Italy, Holland, Switzerland and Norway. The objective is to insert the appropriate child in.....
Price: $95.00
California, tourism, travel, San Francisco, farallon island
New York: Charles Scribner's Son, 1910. 219 pp, green gilt stamped cloth over board covers with applied litho. B&W illustrations and plates, 68 in total. This is a travel tourism book for the state of California. The author asserts that "California possesses many of the charms that we are accustomed.....
Price: $110.00
Railroads, Wood Engraving, Sanitariums, Springs and Healing Waters, Scenic Views
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Jas. W. Nagle, 1880. A Victorian tourist's guide to the lakes of central and western New York, notable for its over sixty (60) sweeping wood-engraved scenic views and maps of the region, most of which are half or full-page. The guide is broken into eight major sections, each.....
Price: $250.00
Borego Desert, Woodcuts
1938: Ward Ritchie Press, Los Angeles. 64 pp. illustrated paper covered boards. A humerous history of the Borego Desert. There are twenty (20) chapters with titles like "Gold is Where You Find It", "Music and Booze", "Petrified Pete". There are also thirty-six (36) B&W woodcuts (including the two on the.....
Price: $60.00
Sacramento City and County, Agriculture, Sacramento Bee,
Sacramento, CA: H. S. Crocker Co., 1894. 196pp. Soft covers. Cover and title page illustrations by S.F. Photo Eng. Co. Large format book with images from photographs throughout both in-text and full page. Fold-out 22" x 18" agricultural map showing uses of the soil in 1894. Crops included Orchards, Vineyards.....
Price: $275.00
Juvenile fiction. Conduct of life, Voyages and travels, Adventure, Sisters, National characteristics, world cultures,
Boston: Lee & Shepard Publisher, 1892. A 162 paginated book tells the story of seven young girls, each representing seven different nationalities in order to showcase how different people around the world have different mannerism and customs. The book is divided into six parts: Agoonack, and Her Sail Upon the.....
Price: $20.00
historical memorabilia, advertising, travel & tourism, Newton
Newton, MA: Newtonville Library Association, INC, 1939. A short booklet advertising the town of Newton, MA, both to tourists and potential new citizens. The majority of the booklet features a historical sketch of the town which delves into the different time periods in the town's history, often providing printed black.....
Price: $150.00
art, architecture, Italy
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1887. 584 pp. Cloth hard cover with two volumes of the Stones of Venice, architectural illustrations. Volume 1, 434 pp. Volume 2, 150 pp. Both volumes bound in one book, features Italian architecture and stone work. 8" x 5 1/4" wear on cover, inscribed.
Price: $45.00
letterhead, hotel, resort, mineral baths
Rockbridge Alum Springs, VA: Rockbridge Alum Springs, August 16, 1891. A letter by Joniah Allen written on Rockbridge Alum Springs Grand Hotel Stationary. The hotel was a mountain resort know for its "celebrated waters", or more actually the mineral water found there. The top right of the page has a......
Price: $55.00
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
hand colored, Pompeii, fresco, artwork, pochoir
1891. A souvenir album of Pompeii, featuring 15 hand finished Pochoir illustrations and one water color paintings of the frescos or tiling found in the ruins of Pompeii. The illustrations feature a variety of Roman and Greek Mythology and culture, such as Poseidon riding in his chariot, peacocks and sea.....
Price: $2,500.00
Cuba, Tropical Beer, Travel & Tourism
Cuba: [1930]. A large format fold-out promotional brochure for "Tropical Beer' and Cuba. The cover is an illustration a lighthouse, palm trees, smokestacks and water. It is captioned "Welcome to Cuba - Tropical Beer". The back cover lists places of interest in Havana with a vignette of an image from.....
Price: $325.00
scrapbook, travel and tourism, history, isles of shoal, star island, ephemera
Boston, MA: Beacon Press, Inc., 1936. The scrapbook is actually a copy of “The Story of the Isles of Shoals : an address first delivered on Star Island, July 15, 1916, upon the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Unitarian summer meetings and repeated on the thirtieth anniversary in.....
Price: $250.00
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
childhood, family, family relations, hand drawn, illustrations, summer, riding, horseback ridding, summer vacation
Boston MA: Aug-29. Two whimsical letters from a mother to one of her two daughters, Elizabeth Simon (nicknamed Betty). The first letter mentions a visit to their cousin Ruth, who has two cats on her roof. The missive continues on asking her how here hay fever is doing and if.....
Price: $95.00
History of the Midwest, Journalism, Everyday Life
Oshkosh, Wisconsin: The Globe Printing Co., 1914. A charismatic assemblage of candid photographs documenting the lives of ordinary individuals in Oskkosh, Wisconsin, in 1914. The project was spearheaded by news boys at the OshKosh Northwestern, and includes over twenty (20)photographs by Edgar W. Viall. Important buildings and scenes such as.....
Price: $250.00
Nantucket, Social Customs, manners and customs
Doubleday, Page & Co., 1907. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1907. Good +. Walter Tittle. 82 unpaginated pages. Applied litho on cloth. Tells the story of the first tea party on Nantucket in 1745 when Cousin Nate Wenworth returned from his voyage to China and had brought home some.....
Price: $25.00
diet, hay diet, diet, sanatorium, health, weight, spa
Mount Pocono, PA: Pocono Haven, 1936. An 8 page booklet advertising "The Hay Way to Health", otherwise known as the Hay diet created by Dr. William Howard Hay (1866-1940). Hay was an American physician who was the owner and director of Pocono Haven, a sanatorium in Pennsylvania. The booklet describes.....
Price: $90.00
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum, Historical Memorabilia
Judd & Detweiler, 1887. 94 pp. Tan wraps. Begins with the floor plans for both the museum and institution. This is followed by an overview of the history and founder of the Smithsonian and some of its early secretaries. This is followed by an overview of the National Museum with.....
Price: $350.00
North Pole, Concertina
New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1914. Litho on board concertina or accordion book. The front side has sixteen illustrations with a story caption at the base. The reverse includes a two page pictorial map of the Polar Region followed by 14 pp. of text. Letterpress by Lionel Fable. Measures.....
Price: $350.00