(TRADE CARD)

Davis Vertical Feed Sewing Machine

Cleveland: Johns & Co Lith, n.y. [ca. 1880]. Single, heavy stock card. 4½" X 3". Charming late 19th century trade card. Near fine. Black and white recto depicts two nearly identical side-by-side scenes: at left a woman seated in a Victorian parlor sews by candlelight, straining to see the work in her lap while a cloud above her head indicates she dreams of sitting comfortably in front of a proper tabletop newfangled sewing machine; at right a women sits in front of just such a machine -- domestic bliss! Verso is blank. .

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(TRADE CARD)

The Diamond Dyes. Only 10 Cents

Buffalo: Gies & Co. n.y. [ca. 1880]. Single heavy stock card. 4 3/4" X 3½". Very good. Full color lithography recto shows young children leaving school, saying to other children, "Say, boys, see the Inks we have made. Prof. Smith said the DIAMOND DYES made the best Inks, and told us to make our own, and so we have. You can get any color, and one ten cent package makes a pint of the nicest ink." Fine-print text on verso touts the quality, method, list of colors, etc. .

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Sonstige Stichworte: TRADE CARD" "STOVES

(TRADE CARD)

Yes on Condition That You Buy Me a "Domestic" with New Wood Work and Attachments

Orlando, FL, W.G. White, n.y. Single heavy stock card. 4 3/4" X 3". Very good. Full color lithography recto shows a fancy Victorian parlor with a man on one knee having just proposed to a seated young lady, whose reply appears above. At right a putto stands tiptoe on a chair to reach the crank-style telephone, into whose mouthpiece he says, "Hello send a 'Domestic' quick." Blank verso bears oval name/address of general merchandise store cited above, inkstamped in purple. Undated, but circa 1890. What's a "Domestic"? Not a clue. .

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(TRADE CARD -- New York City)

The Great East River Suspension Bridge Connecting the Cities of New York & Brooklyn

N.p. [Lynn, MA]: Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, n.y. [ca. 1883]. Single heavy stock card. 4" X 2½". Very good. Mild bit of minor soiling. Steel-engraving on recto depicts a broad view of this then-state-of-the-art suspension bridge -- and of course suspended along the underside of the main horizontal bridge, at center of the card, is a long vast billboard reading "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound." Numerous sailboats, a large paddlewheeler, tugboats, etc. fill the bay. Below the caption near the lower edge is a three-line text listing the bridge's statistics: span, cable size, width, tower height and so on. The all-text verso touts the virtues of this patent medicine, "a Positive Cure For all those painful Complaints and Weaknesses so common to our best female population. It will cure entirely the worst form of Female Complaints, all Ovarian troubles, Inflammation and Ulceration, Falling and Displacements, and the consequent Spinal Weakness, and is particularly adapted to the Change of Life." A nice example of this well-known card from the most famous patent medicine producer of the 19th century -- likely produced in the very year of her death (she was born 1819). .

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(TRADE CARD -- Corsets)

Balls Health Preserving Corset Is the Best in the World

Chicago: Chicago Corset Co. n.y. [ca. 1880s]. Single heavy stock card. 3" X 4 3/4". Very good. Mild bit of quite minor soiling. Color lithograph on recto depicts a Victorian parlor with a white-haired granny seated reading the "Morning News" featuring the headline cited above. One child clutching a book sits next to her, another stands behind her reading over her shoulder, and two white puppies are seated by her feet -- the picture of domestic bliss. The all-text verso proclaims "Guarantee," which states: "Any Lady purchasing one of BALL's Coiled Spring Elastic Section CORSETS can return it, after wearing it three weeks, to the dealer from whom it was bought, if not found Perfectly Satisfactory in Every Respect.." This colorful card has been handsomely free-floated against a blue matte and framed in a ½" ornate gilt frame (overall dimensions 5¼" X 7") with a copy of the all-text verso mounted on the back of the frame. .

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(DICKENS, Charles)

The Old Curiosity Shop, in Which Miss Lotta Will Appear in the Characters of "Little Nell" and the "Marchioness.

London, Opera Comique Theatre, n.y. Small 4to. Stiff blue stock. (4pp). Very good. Faint edgewear, with several small edge tears along bottom. Very scarce program for this unusual stage version of "The Old Curiosity Shop" featuring the famed American actress Carlotta Crabtree (1847-1924). In 1884 Charles Dickens Jr. (1837-96), the eldest child of Charles Dickens, made this stage adaptation. Front page features a decorative border (advertising "Epps's (Grateful Comforting) Cocoa") within which is announced that "Mr. HARRY JACKSON has much pleasure in announcing that he has arranged with Mr. CHARLES DICKENS for an entirely New Adaptation of his Father's novel" and show times and prices appear, ranging from the Gallery at one shilling up to Private Boxes at one, two and three guineas. Inner pages list the full cast and spell out each act and scene. Fourth page consists of pictorial advertisements for such products as Brinsmead Pianos, Murray's American Caramels, Barrett's Patent Screw Stoppered Bottes and others. Though not dated, this performance took place on March 3, 1884. .

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DOUD, Earle, and ROBIN, Alen

Welcome to the Lbj Ranch!" the Robin-Doud Comedy Interviews

N.p. Capitol Records, 1968. 4to. Stiff color pictorial sleeve with album. Fine/near fine. W 2423. Sleeve front explains: "The taped voices you hear on this album are the actual voices of the people being interviewed.. and at some time they gave these answers -- but never ever ever to these questions!.

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Sonstige Stichworte: LYNDON B. JOHNSON

(FARMERS AND MECHANICS BANK -- Philadelphia -- Check)

Farmers and Mechanics Bank

Printed check, 6" X 2½", Philadelphia, PA, n.y. [ca. 1810]. Fine. Boldly printed in black on high-quality laid paper, this blank check was issued by this Philly institution founded in 1809. In the early part of the 19th century a number of lending institutions arose to serve the needs of various trades. At top center a steel-engraved decorative scroll surrounds an oval image containing farming and foundry implements (visible are a plow, wheat shafts, iron working tools) and standard text with blanks to be filled in: "Philadelphia, [blank] 181[blank]," "PAY to [blank] or Bearer," and so on. Decorative border at left and top margins. A lovely relic of this early Philadelphia blank printed during its earliest years. .

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(BELL & GOULD -- LEGAL FORM)

Article of Agreement...

New York, Bell & Gould, n.y. Folio (13½" X 8"). 2pp (4pp lettersheet). Very good. Single light horizontal fold, else bright and nice. Handsome condition blank legal form published by this noted early 19th century publisher of legal blanks; at the death of one of the sons of company founder Alexander Gould in 1884, "The American Stationer" noted, "Legal forms bearing its imprint are known from one end of the country to another." This particular form, printed on pale blue stock typical of the 1850s, is an "Article of Co-partnership," and consists of boilerplate text with blank areas meant to be filled in by hand. Interesting example from one of the leading lights in the legal form field of the day. .

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(CANADIAN-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP)

Anglo Saxon. One Tongue. One Purpose

N.p. N.p. 1898. Patriotic envelope. 16mo (6" X 3½"). Near fine. Cachet at left shows crossed U.S.A. and Canadian flags printed in red and blue, with the phrase "Anglo Saxon" above them and "One Tongue. One Purpose." below them. Between the flags above appear the scales of justice, captioned "Justice. / Copyright / 1898." This envelope was never stamped but address portion bears the printed address of The New York News Company in New York City. Unusual. .

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(BOOKPLATE ART). "V.G.

Original Bookplate Proof

Proof copy of the lineoleum-block custom bookplate, 4" X 6½" (framed to 5" X 7¼"), n.p. n.y. Fine. Handsome proof pull of this rectangular (rounded corners) striking example by a talented practitioner known only by the tiny "V.G." initials, an ornate image noting "Ex Libris / Arnold Larsen" in crossing banners and other typical bibliophilic features, a rose-clutching hand, etc. Larsen died around 1990, and while this proof is not dated it likely dates from the 1960s. Tastefully and simply single-matted in cream and framed in a simple ½" black frame. Arnold Larsen was not a famed bookman, but anyone who frequented the fondly-remembered rare books department at Marshall Field's in downtown Chicago knew him. A sharp example of bookplate art. .

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(CIVIL WAR -- JO DAVIESS COUNTY -- HANDBILL)

Programme. Third Annual Reunion, Jo Daviess County Soldiers' & Sailors' Association, Warren, ILL. , Sept. 1 and 2, 1885

Warren, IL, Jo Daviess County Soldiers' & Sailors' Association, 1885. Handbill (or small broadside). 5" X 10½". Very good. Milld overall wear and light age toning, several folds. About a month and a half after General Grant's death, this regional military association from northwest Illinois whose county seat, Galena, became the Union hero's adopted hometown, held their third annual reunion. The 45th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, known as the "Washburn Lead Mine Regiment," was formed in Galena in 1861 and saw much action before being mustered out in 1865; many Jo Daviess County men also joined the 96th Illinois Infantry Regiment, organized in 1862 and mustered out in 1865. Within a simple ruled border, this handbill lists events for the "First Day" ("Army dinner, and a general good time.. Dress Parade.. Grand Banquet.." with numerous toasts from officers and others associated with the service, and best of all "Each speaker limited to five minutes) and the "Second Day" (including a Grand Review, Business Meeting of Association, Picnic Dinner, Annual Address by Gen. J.C. Smith and others, closing with a "Rousing Camp Fire"). Rarely seen and an attractive copy. .

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(POSTAL HISTORY)

Collection of U.S. Postal Cancellations

Hardcover. Folio (14½" X 11"). Grey cloth, front board bearing large ornate "ALBUM" in gilt and extensive black and gilt decorations, with small color plate at lower right. (31pp), (55pp blank). Very good overall. Binding rather edgeworn and rubbed, but tight and sound; text leaves heavy, age toned thick stock typical of Victorian album leaves, with some showing more age toning. Fascinating Victorian album with about 23 pages' worth of tipped-in content amongst the first 31 pages, the final 55 pages being blank. For the most part this is a collection of U.S. postal cancellations clipped off envelopes -- approximately 555 total: Eight pages bear about 63 per page and three pages contain a dozen or more each. Most date from the early to mid-1880s from communities large and small across the U.S. with a bit of concentration in the Midwest (especially Illinois and Iowa). Many of these small towns likely no longer exist. One bizarre page bears a delightfully weird Joseph Cornellesque montage featuring periodical cutouts of a large Uncle Sam figure in color, the U.S. Capital building in the background, as he manipulates like a puppet master a strange array of presidents, ships and assorted miniscule tracery all clipped from U.S. postage stamps (see image). Two pages bear an assortment of eclectic printed return address envelope portions ("Engineer, Office, U.S. Army," "Union R.R. and Transportation Co." "Patrons of Husbandry State Grange of Illinois," "Chief Engineer's Office Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railroad," etc.) A scattering of five pages bear small numbers of mounted U.S. and foreign stamps. This unique album came from the collection of Alfred N. Abbott (1862-1929), a noted Illinois state representative (1899-1903, 1911-15), farmer, president of the Illinois State Farmers' Institute and Deputy Commissioner of the Illinois Commission to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition -- and two pages bear checks and other receipts made out to him, such as an 1890 Union Stock Yards of Chicago receipt and a 1916 check from the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Company. (Alfred's father was Asa McFarland Abbott (1820-89), pioneering Illinois farmer of note whose home was a well-documented Underground Railroad site; his niece was Olive Oatman of the Oatman Massacre fame, whose family left their neighboring farmstead to travel westward and were murdered by Native Americans, she and her sister being held captive; in 1857 she co-authored the bestselling "Life Among the Indians," one of the best-known Indian captivity narratives.). .

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(GENERAL ORDERS -- CIVIL WAR -- E.A. HITCHCOCK)

General Orders, No. 187

Washington, DC, Adjutant General's Office, War Department, 1862. Handbill. 12mo. Near fine. A superb, bright General Order briefly noting that "Major General E.A. Hitchcock.. is detailed as Commissioner for the Exchange of Prisoners of War" -- a position he held until the war's end. Signed at the conclusion in type by Assistant Adjutant General E.D. Townsend. Accompanied by a Civil War-era 6" X 9" heavy stock steel-engraved head-and-shoulders portrait of Hitchcock in uniform. Very good. Mild age toning and bit of faint foxing. .

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(LINCOLN, Abraham)

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

Chicago, Rand McNally & Company, 1970. Folio (24" X 18", folds down to 6" X 9"). Heavy stock beige. Very good. Original mailing folds, else bright and nice, without edgewear. This promotional poster issued by Disabled American Veterans features numerous color artist renderings chronicling Lincoln's life from "Birth in Kentucky" to "The Last Full Measure," each with descriptive paragraph beneath each image. Verso features facsimile of the Gettysburg Address in Lincoln's hand in actual size at center, surrounded by text of same in eight different languages (each printed in a different color). Caption above them all reads, "The immortal words of Abraham Lincoln at the Gettysburg battlefield, November 19, 1863, on the occasion of the dedication of the National Military Cemetery. These classic remarks have, in the intervening century, become accepted throughout the world as the greatest affirmation of our democratic form of government. -- RALPH G. NEWMAN" -- and alongside this an original signature of Newman on a 3½" X 3/4" slip has been affixed. Ralph G. Newman (1912-98) was the famed founder of Chicago's notable Abraham Lincoln Book Shop. .

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