Architecture
Mobile Homes, Do-It-Yourself
Saginaw, Michigan: Mershon & Morley, 1900. Printed bifolium advertisement (8.5" by 5.5") for "Portable Houses" produced by Mershon & Morley of Saginaw, Michigan. First leaf features a printed testimonial letter from a happy customer, promoting the ease of the structure's assembly; the second leaf features an illustration of the fully.....
Price: $115.00
Metallurgy, Decorative Wire Work
[Boston, Massachusetts]: Oliver Whyte & Co., c.1890. Handbill advertising decorative wire window guards for "stores, dwellings, school-houses, &c." as well as "ornamental patterns for Bank and Office railings", wire netting and cloths. Two illustrated examples of the products on offer are featured towards the head of the handbill. Measures 8.5".....
Price: $150.00
lettersheet, Eastman place, engraving, manor
Poughkeepsie, NY: [1880]. A single fold unused lettersheet with a black and white illustration depicting the Eastman Place, the home of Harvey G. Eastman (1832-1878) in Poughkeepsie, NY. The image shows a the house in the distance, surrounded by manicured grounds and large trees. There is a stone walkway that.....
Price: $60.00
Architecture of Childhood, Pretend Play
Pittsburgh PA: William G. Johnston Company, 1920s. A die-cut litho on heavy card stock home with a quasi-tudor style. Complete in a glassine sleeve with directions for building affixed to the sleeve. Besides the pieces for the house includes a 2 1/2" figure; Gretchen to be cut-out and stood next.....
Price: $125.00
Advertising and Promotion, Architecture
Hartford, CT: Kellogg & Bulkeley. Lith, [1871]. An 11 2/4" x 9 1/4" plan for the Fenwick Hall, a Victorian wood frame hotel in Old Saybrook CT. It depicts an illustration of the exterior of the hotel and the plan of First Floor including a dining room and grand salon.....
Price: $100.00
Architecture, History of architecture, Prospectuses and advertisements
New York, New York: Bruno Hessling, Publisher, 1890s. Illustrated bifolium prospectus (10.75" by 7") for the Third Revised Edition of Meyer's Handbook of Ornament, first published in 1892 by Bruno Hessling. The book is described here as "A Grammar of Art Industrial and Architectural Designing in all its Branches for.....
Price: $175.00
Punch out, paper dolls, doll house, uncut
USA: Lowe Publishing, 1962. A 19" x 12" punch out litho on heavy stock book with 8 double sided color pages. When constructed the house measures 15" x 8"x 13" with 4 large rooms, 2 floors with a staircase, completely furnished, carpeted and decorated. The instructions are on the inside.....
Price: $95.00
Pittsburgh PA: William G. Johnston Company, 1920s. A die-cut litho on heavy card stock home with a cottagestyle. Complete in a glassine sleeve with directions for building affixed to the sleeve. Besides the pieces for the house includes two (2) 2 1/2" figure; Rita and Bobby to be cut-out and.....
Price: $125.00
History of Connecticut, Real Estate and Land Development
Clinton, Connecticut: Stannard & Chapman, c.1900. A rare booklet advertising seaside homes in Clinton, Connecticut, a shoreline destination on Long Island Sound. Includes a description of opportunities for recreation and relaxation in the area (such as digging for clams, sailing, and picking berries), details about the cottages for sale, a......
Price: $325.00
Metalworking, Bent Iron, Price List
New York, New York: Venetian Iron Co. A printed prospectus promoting the art of bent iron work to amateurs, offering an upcoming catalogue from the Venetian Bent Iron Company with related tools and equipment for sale. The amateur needs no special skills, save the ability to read, and the designs.....
Price: $275.00
apartments, housing, advertisement, floor plans, architecture, urban development, promotion
St. Louis, MO: Neighborhood Gardens Apartments, [1935]. This single fold pamphlet advertises for the Neighborhood Gardens which is an apartment complex located in St. Louis that was first built in 1935, and is still an existence today. The front page of this pamphlet lists eighteen (18) reasons why someone would.....
Price: $85.00
Women's Clubs, Americans in London, Social History
London: c. 1924. The guide to the American Women's Club of London house gives a quick view into their work and the space. 16 pages. The first two pages give an overview of the facilities, cost, as well as a brief description of the American Women's Club philanthropic activities. The.....
Price: $75.00
Architecture, Domestic, correspondence, 1st edition
Boston: James R Osgood and Company, 1874. 314 page book, with gilt stamped covers, 1st edition. The book compiles forty-three (43) letters between an architect and his friends. These letters "are composed of hints and suggestions relating to to building of homes... [and] aim to give practical information to those.....
Price: $65.00
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
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
Real Estate, Land Development, History of Brooklyn
Brooklyn, New York: c1911. A window into the ever-shifting built landscape in Brooklyn, New York, in the first half of the twentieth century: an illustrated circular advertising the sale of a large building at the southwest corner of Schenectady Avenue and Herkimer Street in Stuyvesant Heights, circa 1911, owned by.....
Price: $135.00
industrial, building & Trades, real estate, Land development, advertising, warehouse, property
Philadelphia, PA: [1916]. A real estate advertisement for an industrial property, owned by the Western Warehouse Company, in Chicago, IL. The property for sale was "about 45,000 Square Feet in the Block Between Carroll Avenue and the Chicago River; North La Salle Street and Wells Street". It also had "siding.....
Price: $125.00