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New York Virtual Book Fair

Illustrated manuscript by a 15-year-old orphan at the Monastery of St. Claire in Aurillac, France

Illustrated manuscript by a 15-year-old orphan at the Monastery of St. Claire in Aurillac, France

[manuscript, calligraphy]
Atlas to the Coal Flora of Pennsylvania, and of the Carboniferous Formation throughout the United States (plates volume/commonplace book)

Atlas to the Coal Flora of Pennsylvania, and of the Carboniferous Formation throughout the United States (plates volume/commonplace book)

Lesquereux, Leo [commonplace book]
Box 13 Associates Album of Photographs and News Clippings, Cincinnati Fire Department 1930s-1950s

Box 13 Associates Album of Photographs and News Clippings, Cincinnati Fire Department 1930s-1950s

[firefighting, emergency response, disaster photography]
Album de Pliages et de Tissages / Pliage Froebel 1792-1852

Album de Pliages et de Tissages / Pliage Froebel 1792-1852

[Froebel, student work]
Cours de Travail Manuel (Pour les Garçons)

Cours de Travail Manuel (Pour les Garçons)

Planty, A.
Peter Puzzlewig's Comic Round Game of Alliteration (Alliteration; or, a Prime Plan and Merry Method of producing a Plain and Perfect Pronunciation) ABC card game

Peter Puzzlewig's Comic Round Game of Alliteration (Alliteration; or, a Prime Plan and Merry Method of producing a Plain and Perfect Pronunciation) ABC card game

[juvenile, ABC]
Chapman's American Drawing-Book, 3 issues: No. I Primary, No. II Elementary, No. IV Sketching and Studying from Nature

Chapman's American Drawing-Book, 3 issues: No. I Primary, No. II Elementary, No. IV Sketching and Studying from Nature

Chapman, J. G. [John Gadsby]
Ausstech- und Ausnähbilder: Leichte Froebel'sche Handarbeit für Kinder von 3 bis 5 Jahren No. 311/2 Piquage de broderie sur carton, Travaux faciles pour des enfants de 3-5 ans après system Froebel

Ausstech- und Ausnähbilder: Leichte Froebel'sche Handarbeit für Kinder von 3 bis 5 Jahren No. 311/2 Piquage de broderie sur carton, Travaux faciles pour des enfants de 3-5 ans après system Froebel

[kindergarten material, Froebel Gifts]
Detroit Merchants Tailors Traveling Salesman's Briefcase with samples and forms

Detroit Merchants Tailors Traveling Salesman's Briefcase with samples and forms

Haec City / Also Books
1920s Kyoritsu Women's Vocational School Sewing Textbook

1920s Kyoritsu Women's Vocational School Sewing Textbook

[sewing ephemera, vocational training]
Dick's Book of Alphabets Plain and Ornamental: Containing Elegant Ancient And Modern Designs For Plain And Fanciful Alphabets, Numerals And Illuminated Initial Letters For The Use Of Architects, Decorators, Designers, Draughtsmen &c

Dick's Book of Alphabets Plain and Ornamental: Containing Elegant Ancient And Modern Designs For Plain And Fanciful Alphabets, Numerals And Illuminated Initial Letters For The Use Of Architects, Decorators, Designers, Draughtsmen &c

[lettering, alphabets]
Color and Design in the Decorative Arts

Color and Design in the Decorative Arts

Burris-Meyer, Elizabeth
Fruit Sewing Cards (in original box)

Fruit Sewing Cards (in original box)

Milton Bradley Co.
Wind-up ABC picture alphabet in a barrel

Wind-up ABC picture alphabet in a barrel

[educational toy]
Les encolures (examples of neckline hems from French sewing course)

Les encolures (examples of neckline hems from French sewing course)

[sewing ephemera, textiles, student work]
Herbier / 1909 Herbarium with Pressed Flowers and Seaweed Specimens

Herbier / 1909 Herbarium with Pressed Flowers and Seaweed Specimens

[herbarium, botanical ephemera]
Central Lithograph Co. Specimen book of printed papers

Central Lithograph Co. Specimen book of printed papers

[ephemera]
Manual of the Mental Examination of Aliens 1918

Manual of the Mental Examination of Aliens 1918

Treasury Department, United States Public Health Service [psychological testing] [Howard Andrew Knox, Augustus F. Sherman]
A Manual of Useful Studies for the Instruction of Young Persons of Both Sexes, in Families and Schools

A Manual of Useful Studies for the Instruction of Young Persons of Both Sexes, in Families and Schools

Webster, Noah
Ames' Alphabets : adapted to the use of architects, engravers, engineers, artists, sign painters, draughtsmen, &c.

Ames' Alphabets : adapted to the use of architects, engravers, engineers, artists, sign painters, draughtsmen, &c.

Ames, Daniel T.
The Railway Transition Spiral

The Railway Transition Spiral

[blueprints, ephemera]