A selection of favorites on the end-of-year shelves.
Thumb O Graphs: We'll Note You in Our Booke of Memory
[autograph books]
Rechenbuch für Volksschulen mit besonderer rücksicht auf das königreich hannover
[bindings, school books, mathematics]
Regular price $185.00
The Arts of Life; and Lessons from Them
[juvenile]
Hand-Book for Home Improvement, Comprising How to Write; How to Talk; How to Behave; How to Do Business. Complete in One Volume.
[Fowler]
Regular price $250.00
Binder of labor and budget allocations for Buffalo, NY Emergency Relief Bureau projects, 1935.
[labor, ephemera]
Regular price $225.00
Nine Art Deco chair designs in gouache
[original art, furniture design]
Boxer, biker, skier: trio of point paper designs for label weaving
[original art, industrial design]
Regular price $150.00
Commonplace book belonging to Griselda Eastwicke Cunningham (1810-1873), granddaughter of the “American Sappho,” Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton.
[made by hand]
Moderne kunstschmiedearbeiten nach entwürfen…
[architecture, ornament]
Regular price $1,450.00
Sammelband of Seven [7] Facetiae or jeux d’esprits published by the “Thief,” William Kidd, London, 1830s.
[humor, publishing]
The Infant's Friend. Or, a selection of lessons for children
[juvenile, chapbooks] (Alexander Anderson)
The Ladies' Philosophy of Love: A Poem, in Four Cantos. Written in 1774.
Stearns, Charles
Regular price $175.00
Album Amicorum (1840s)
[ephemera]
Regular price $265.00
The New Round Game of Moorish Fort
[parlour games]
Regular price $300.00
Flower Sewing Cards (#4227)
Milton Bradley Co.
Game of Funny Conversation Cards (#4054)
The New Instructor, Being the Second Part of the American Spelling-Book
Rhoads, Asa
Regular price $350.00
Sammelband of 8 publications related to Philadelphia-area institutions and prison reform, 1844-1845
[misc]
A Digest of Current Orders and Decisions; With extracts from Army regulations, relating to the Medical Corps of the U.S. Army; compiled under direction of the Surgeon-General.
Greenleaf, Charles R.
An Inquiry Into the Alleged Tendency of the Separation of Convicts, One From the Other, to Produce Disease and Derangement
[prison reform] (Packard, Frederic Adolphus, "A Citizen of Pennsylvania)
Eilers' Sunday School Teachers' Class and Guide Book...
Eilers, A. H. [ephemera]
Regular price $38.00
The House that Jack Built
[juvenile, illustrated] C. Edmonds
A Token for Mourners: Or, the advice of Christ to a distressed mother bewailing the death of her dear and only son wherein the boundaries of sorrow are duly fixed, excesses restrained, the common pleas answered, and divers rules for the support of Gods...
Flavel, John
Eaton's Self-Instructing Counting-Room
Eaton, Wm. H.
Regular price $100.00
A Preservative From The Sins and Follies Of Childhood and Youth (American Tract Society No. 51)
Watts, Isaac; Alexander Anderson (illus.)
Regular price $125.00
Alphabet and Funny Pictures (Cinderella Series)
McLoughlin Bros.
Perversion; or, the Causes and Consequences of Infidelity. A Tale for the Times.
Conybeare, Rev. William John (1815-1857)
Regular price $200.00
1877 album of 40 botanical watercolors
[original art, botanical]
Regular price $625.00
Inskrifningsbok - Swedish military enrollment book.
[Sweden, ephemera]
The Lady's Album of Fancy Work; Consisting of novel, elegant and useful designs in knitting, netting, crochet and embroidery with clear and explicit directions for working the patterns.
[needlework, gift books]
Regular price $500.00
A Text Book of Geometrical Drawing for the Use of Mechanics and Schools, in which the definitions and rules of geometry are familiarly explained...
Minifie, William
Teenage girl's vernacular photo album of multigenerational women in California ca. 1955
[vernacular photography, photo albums, women]
Two tintype portraits of boys with rosy cheeks
[photographs]
Regular price $65.00
The Prang Young Artists Series Book One, Two and Three with Teacher's Manual 1, 2, 3 (6 volumes)
Maxcy, Dr. Mabel; Flossie Kysar, Jennie H. Robertson.
Cabinet card and CDV of two wide-eyed men
Regular price $40.00
Wind mill on the home farm, Sept. 1897 (photograph with visible Aermotor Co., Chicago sign)
[photography, agriculture, advertising]
WWI camouflaged artillery in Koblenz, Germany, June 6 1919
[photography, WWI]
Regular price $85.00
Photographs and price lists for AFCO granite headstones ca. 1956-1964 Anderson-Friberg Co.
[funeral trade, advertising] Anderson-Friberg Co., Inc.
Regular price $55.00
White Oak Milling Co. / Gold Medal Flour advertising barn with horse-drawn wagon, ca. 1908
[photography, architecture, advertising]
Two photographs of men hiding in foliage, ca. 1890-1910
Regular price $75.00