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Hans Breitmann About Town and Other New Ballads.
 [141333] (AMERICAN HUMOR) Charles Leland.
Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Brothers, (1869). Octavo, 62 pages. First American Edition Orig. pictorial wraps printed in black and red. Uncut, unopened. Upper cover detached with stains, ragged edges, backstrip perished. Title page with a few old stains in margins, a few leaves with outer edges caught with a few small stains, also. Housed in a modest, but very attractive cloth-covered rigid slipcase with author, title and date gilt-stamped to spine panel. [BAL 11565. Jackson, pp. 60-61. - “On this cover was used for the first time the portrait of Hans Breitmann, smoking his German pipe.”] $100
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Now You Can Own a Marmon.
[141164] (AUTO MOBILES) [Marmon Car Company] .
[N.p.]: [The Hollenbach Press], [n.d. ca. 1920’s]. Octavo, oblong. 8 pages. 8 x 10 inches. Printed color wraps. Expert paper restoration to strengthen binding, now, a near fine copy. A wonderful sales pitch brochure, illustrated with half tones from photographs, selling the Marmon “68” from the Jewel Series. Included with this brochure [loosely inserted, as issued] are four oblong color plates, approx. 8" x 10" with superb graphics detailing the Marmon 68 roadster, coupe, sedan and a larger sedan. [Offered with] a 3" x 5" color printed card for the Marmon Philadelphia Company located on Broad Street. $150
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 Silver Thoughts of Great Minds. John Bunyan, Madam Guyon, Jean Nicholas Grou, Thomas ‡ Kempis, and Others.
[141360] (BINDINGS - VICTORIAN - OLD AGE) Louise S. [eymour] Houghton, .
New York: White, Stokes and Allen, 1886. 12 pages, printed on rectos only. First and only edition? 7½" x 6¾ " Stiff card covers with pinked edges, hand-stitched decorative thread binding, an etched [?] graphic of purple flowers in a basket on a 6" x 5" piece of celluloid which is fastened at each corner by thread. The text is printed all in purple. A very good copy with tiny trace of stains to one edge of upper cover. Given the novelty of the original design and execution of this title, a rare survival in this condition. Not on OCLC. The title offers an anthology of verse intended to help the reader think silver thoughts in their silver years. $75
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Austin Hall: or, Conversations Between a Father and His Children, on Subjects of Amusement and Instruction.
[141651] (CHILDREN - INSTRUCTION AND EDUCATION) [Alexander Towar?].
Philadelphia: Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, 1838. Octavo, 242 pages. Second edition, enlarged and improved. Publisher's orig. cloth binding. Illustrated with engravings. Binding faded and with stains, first fly leaf excised, noticeable foxing, a good copy. In fourteen conversations, this instructional work introduces children into the well-mannered world of polite conversation. Based upon selective reading:, the children “...will learn to interweave and connect the subjects of their reading, and will be taught to use that moral lens which forms the light of truth, by the concentration of the most opposite colouring.” The Dwarf Baby who was nursed in a shoe (p. 91) and similar amusements somehow fits into this framwork. OCLC locates three copies of this edition and attributes the engravings to Ezra Atherton and A.J. Mason. First published in London in 1831, all editions appear scarce. American Imprints 48936. $125
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 Dandy's Looking Glass.
[141250] (FASHION - HUMOR) [S. Morrish - Leeds Polytechnic Exhibition] .
: Printed at the Leed's Polytechnic Exhibition, by S. Morrish, of Cheapside, Briggate, [n.d., ca. 1850’s?]. Single quarto sheet printed in gold ink. In two columns, surrounded by an ornamental border. Some edge creases, very good clean condition. Not located. In this item, creatures and victims of fashion are ridiculed in verse, the anonymous author puzzles: “'Twas not an angel from on high, / Else it had wings wherewith to fly; / 'Twas not a demon sent from hell, / Or else a cloven foot would tell; / 'Twas not a man, I'll prove with ease, / Else he was lac'd in woman's stays; / 'Twas not a woman, else I vow / The women wear the breeches now; / It had not tail - yet 'twas no ape, / Although 'twas something like the shape...” $45
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 The Bachelor's Register.
[141182] (HUMOR - SEX STEREOTYPES) [S. Morrish - Leeds Polytechnic Exhibition] .
: , . Printed at the Leed's Polytechnic Exhibition, by S. Morrish, of Cheapside, Briggate. No date, ca. 1850's? Single quarto sheet printed in blue ink. In two columns, surrounded by an elaborate ornamental border. In this item, the years and the moods of a bachelor from ages fifteen to age ninety are humorously discoursed upon. At age fifteen: “Incipient palpitations are manifested towards the young ladies.” By age twenty-two: “Insufferable puppyism now exhibited.” Age 27: “Pays his addresses to another lady, not without hopes of mortifying the first.” Age 32: “Begins to consider personal beauty in a wife not so indispensable as formerly.” Age 38: “Shuns the best part of the female sex, and finds some consolation for his spleen in the society of ladies of easy disposition.” By age fifty-one, the bachelor is much pleased with his housekeeper and new nurse, and succumbing to her control, eventually wills everything to her, dying in her arms. Not located. $50
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 Administrator's Sale. Notice is hereby given, that I will sell at Public Vendue, on the 17th day of October, 1856, at the late residence of Charles Good, later of Washington Township, Marion County...
[141099] (INDIANA - BROADSIDES) Powell Howland, Administrator.
[N.p., poss. Marion County, Indiana] : Sentinel Print., 1856. 6¼ x 9 inches, Broadside. Normal folds, in very good condition. An advertisement for the public sale of household goods. This printed broadside is unusual in that it has been docketed on verso in manuscript to serve as a legal instrument, an affidavit, to verify that copies of the broadside were, in fact, posted to advertise the auction: “C. Good Estate. State of Indiana Marion County. Powell Howland being duly affirmed says that he posted four notices like this within [?] in Washington Township [two indistinct words] on the day of the date hereof affirmed [indistinct word] before me Oct 18 1856. [Indistinct signature and countersigned by a second indistinct signature.]” The sale advertises personal property such as stoves, beds, bedding, a bureau, etc. It is also interesting in that the administrator offers terms of credit for eight months for all sums over three dollars. Powell Howland, Administrator. The Indiana Historical Society holds the papers of Howland, their web site stating: “Powell Howland (1799ñ1878) was born in Saratoga, New York, but moved to northeast Marion County, Indiana, in October 1838, where he purchased a 160-acre farm from Benjamin Johnson. He eventually increased his land holdings to 315 acres and operated several gravel toll road companies. Howland was also politically active, serving as a county commissioner and a representative to the state legislature as a member of the Democratic Party.” Not on OCLC. $150
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Lamentation; over a cow which died, with the hollow horn... [and] On a clergyman's [sic] being presented with a cow by some members of his congregation in less than a week of the death of his own...
[141337] (MANUSCRIPT) [Anon.].
[N.p.]: , [n.d. poss. 18th or early 19th century]. A manuscript fragment. Approx 5 x 8 inches, irregular dimensions; folds, stains, ragged edges, splits along folds. A unique poem on each side, each in a different hand with unique initials of authorship. The “Lamentation” poem, in four four-line stanzas, grieves for a very special cow which died from the hollow horn: “Your sufferings, were beyond belief / It grieved us much to see your pain, / We gladly would have given relief / But all our efforts were in vain. / Our swill you now no more will drink, / Nor of our fodder will you eat, / Nor will you ever give us milk, / Or, fill our barrel, with your meat...” This poem ends by suggesting that the cow died as a sign from God “...because we too much praised our cow.”” The corresponding poem shows the love of the congregation for their cow-less cleric: “Your people love you, for they sighed / And felt each one when your cow died / As though he'd lost his own / Convinced of this you may be now / For they have bought another cow / To make their friendship known...” The clergyman's poem shifts abruptly, praying that the love of the church members will be shared with Jesus Christ, and, mindful of the Apocalypse, that this love might “...correct, reform, amend / And by their works when time shall end, / Be to their Saviour shone...” $50
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Cargo. By The Columbian Insurance Company. [1805 Maritime Insurance Policy for Brig Neptune, Captain Peleg Latham, from Bordeaux to New York, taken out by John Speyer.]
[141220] (MARITIME INSURANCE) [John Speyer] .
: , . [New York] 1805. 20" x 15½" In broadside format, a partly-printed letterpress document with manuscript accomplishments, verso docketed. Signed by Paschal N. Smith as company president and Joseph Lands as secretary. An early 19th century American maritime insurance policy insuring the Brig Neptune from loss for $5,000 at a rate of 4 percent. The Columbia Insurance Company stated they were contended to bear the adventures and perils of their policy-holder's voyage: “...of the seas, men of war, fires, enemies, pirates, rovers, thieves, jettisons, letters of mart and counter-mart, surprisals, takings at sea, arrests, restraints, and detainments of all kings, princes or people, of what nation, condition, or quality soever, baratry of the master and mariners, and all other perils...” Speyer, the policy holder, was a New York businessman. He was appointed by General John Armstrong in 1810 to serve as a commercial agent for the United States in Sweden. In this capacity, he corresponded with James Monroe on Swedish-American relations (Koht, pp. 268-280). Speyer also corresponded with Thomas Jefferson. Former fold lines, very good condition. Not on OCLC. Koht, “Bernadotte and Swedish-American Relations, 1810-1814” in “The Journal of Modern History,” Vol. 16, No. 4 (Dec., 1944). $150
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Cargo. By The New-York Insurance Company. [1803 Maritime Insurance Policy for Brig Neptune, Captain Ingersoll, from New Orleans to New York, taken out by John Speyer.]
[141223] (MARITIME INSURANCE) [John Speyer] .
[New York]: [s.n.], 1803. 20 x 15½ inches. In broadside format, a partly-printed letterpress document with manuscript accomplishments, verso docketed. Former fold lines, near fine condition. Not on OCLC. An early 19th century American maritime insurance policy insuring the Brig Pallas from loss for $5,000 at a rate of 4 percent. The New-York Insurance Company stated they were contended to bear the adventures and perils of their policy-holder's voyage: “...of the seas, men of war, fires, enemies, pirates, rovers, thieves, jettisons, letters of mart and counter mart, surprisals, takings at sea, arrests, restraints, and detainments of all kings, princes or people, of what nation, condition, or quality soever, barratry of the master and mariners, and all other perils...” Speyer, the policy holder, was a New York businessman. He was appointed by General John Armstrong in 1810 to serve as a commercial agent for the United States in Sweden. In this capacity, he corresponded with James Monroe on Swedish-American relations (Koht, pp. 268-280). Speyer also corresponded with Thomas Jefferson. Signed by Charles McEvers Jr. as company representative and Hugh Anderson, as secretary. McEvers Jr. was one of twenty-four stock brokers who became the first New York Stock Exchange members. [Koht, “Bernadotte and Swedish-American Relations, 1810-1814” in “The Journal of Modern History,” Vol. 16, No. 4 (Dec., 1944).] $150
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