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Aegri Somnia. Recreations of a Sick Room.
(Ezekiel Bacon, 1776-1870)
Specimens of Melvina Townsend’s work in the Kindergarten School, 1893 & 1894, 5 & 6 years of age…
[kindergarten work]
Regular price $925.00
The Child's Book on Slavery; or, Slavery Made Plain
(William De Loss Love; Horace C. Grosvenor, illus.)
"Kodak Views" 1899-1900 photo album with views of Massachusetts & New England, including Bird's Eye Views from the top of the Bunker Hill Monument and great interior snapshots
[vernacular photography, photo albums, women]
Illustrated manuscript token of remembrance, friendship, and hedged professions of love
[folk art]
Regular price $500.00
Planetary Evolution; or, A New Cosmogony, Being an explanation of planetary growth and life energy, upon the basis of chemical and electrical relations of the elements of nature.
(Thomas Cushman Buddington, 1846-1928)
The Indestructible Picture Alphabet
[juvenile, cloth books, alphabets] "Cousin Daisy"
Regular price $350.00
Cahier de Botanique [album + notebook of specimens, 1901]
[herbarium, botanical notebook]
Regular price $600.00
Willa Helwig's handmade portfolio of crafts and leadership notes for her training to be a Guardian in the Camp Fire Girls (with her certificate)
[made by hand]
Anecdotes for Girls...
Newcomb, Harvey
Regular price $225.00
School Copy Book made and sold by M'Donald & Beeson, Booksellers & Stationers, No. 78 Market Street, Near the Diamond, Pittsburgh.
[original art, drawing education]
Characteristic Indications of Prominent Remedies, for the use of students of materia medica and therapeutics
Hawkes, W[illiam] J. [homeopathy, materia medica]
Mid-Century binder of work in handicraft, including braiding, printing and weaving, with many mounted specimens and instructions for working.
Regular price $400.00
Questions for Self-Examination; Designed Primarily for the Use of Young Persons
[Frederick William Faber]
Philadelphia Textile Institute: Two sets of notes in Fabric Analysis and Weave Formation
[textiles, student work]
Young woman's c.1936 college biology notebooks with unusually broad scope, including lessons in Eugenics, Patent Medicine, Epidemics, Anatomy, Zoology, Nutrition, &c.
[manuscript notebooks, student work]
Regular price $575.00
The Two Ways and the Two Ends; or, The History of Manlius Spencer and Roland Larkin
[habits of youth]
The Schwarzenbach Enterprises
[textile industry]
Regular price $450.00
The Mother's Primer
[juvenile, primers]
The George F. Jowett Progressive Power Method for Attaining Your Muscular He-Man Build (Lessons 1-12, complete)
[physical culture]
Regular price $200.00
Ladies & Gentlemens' Conversation Cards
McLoughlin Bros. [games]
Regular price $275.00
The NOVLART Picture Making Outfit
[games, drawing aids]
Embroidery Cards
Milton Bradley Co.
The New Round Game of Moorish Fort
[games]
Regular price $300.00
Album Amicorum (1840s)
[ephemera]
Frank and the Kite (The Edgeworth Toys)
[juvenile chapbooks] Maria Edgeworth, Alexander Anderson
Book of Chemical Labels and Table of Atomic Weights
Arthur H. Thomas Company
Regular price $175.00
Registering Days (cover title)
[book arts, private press]
Regular price $150.00
The Book of the Child; An attempt to set down what is in the mind of children
How, Frederick Douglas
Catalogue of Elegant Presents Distributed Free to Agents of National Remedy Company (cover title)
[trade catalog, ephemera]
Regular price $125.00
Glocke und Hammer: The Bell and Hammer
Regular price $165.00
A Brief Notice of the Life of Mrs. Hannah Kinney for Twenty Years. By Ward Witham, Her First Husband.
Witham, Ward
Prison Life is Different
Johnston, James A.
Nursery ABC and Simple Speller
[juvenile, alphabets] McLoughlin Bros.
Laurel Economy Method of Writing, Revised Edition Books 2, 3, 4
[penmanship] Miller, Elmer C.
Anatomisch-physiologische Untersuchungen vorzüglich über das Schlagadersystem der Vögel
Barkow, Hans Karl Leopold
The History of John the Orange-Man
"Henry Fielding" (pseud.)
Johnston's Patent Standard Dry Sized Kalsomine and Fresco Paints...
[color chip books & ephemera]
Gold and Silver
A.W.H.; W. H. Thwaites (illus.)
Little Things in Every-Day Life
[gift books, etiquette, moral fortitude]
Regular price $100.00