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An Easy Guide to the Constellations, with a Miniature Atlas of the Stars and Key Maps
First edition, undated. 12mo (6 x 4.5 inches); 52pp, [9]. Previous owner's signature to pastedown, J. Rogers, dated Sept. 13, 1856. Very Good+ with slight bowing to the slim volume, resulting in stress to the front joint, beginning to fray at the spine head. Illustrated with...
Physical Exercise Training Manual (Japanese Army Gymnastics)
Wraps, 4.25 x 3 inches. Approx. 178 pages + 10 folding plates/diagrams at rear. Very Good with light general rubbing and wear. A superbly graphic guide to fitness exercises, primarily gymnastics, for military and police. The manual also outlines (and illustrates) real-world applications for the...
PERSPECTOGRAPH (Milton Bradley perspective drawing apparatus)
"Learn to draw easily with a PERSPECTOGRAPH...Twelve sample lessons and over fifty different objects - easily drawn with the new aid for everybody interested in perspective drawing"Springfield, MA: Milton Bradley Co., 1940. First Edition. Very good. Portfolio of 13 plates, 9 x 12 inches, printed...
Economy Method of Writing: Book 8
8.75 x 8.5 inches. Square octavo sleeve with 51 narrow slips printed on both sides and attached with thread at each end. 25 original sheets of ruled paper and stiff card backing in pocket. First "cover" slip printed on blue paper nibbled around the edges...
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"Gilbert's Guide" "Vote For Ross S. Gordon for Commissioner" [Lincoln Highway Distance Finder]
Sale price $60.00 Regular priceMileage table with slide rule for calculating the distance between Philadelphia and the Ohio state line. Stiff card with paper label over metal slide, 2.75 x 3.5 inches. Light general soil, small area of text on the moving guide rubbed away. Scarce! "Gilbert's Guide. Along...
Woman in Health and Sickness: What She Ought to Know for the Exigencies of Daily Life
Pictorial red cloth 12mo; 193 (3)pp. Stated fourth edition, preface dated 1909. Very Good with slight bumping to the corners and spine ends; mild foxing to the outer leaves only. Many typographic and Illustrated ads (including a full plate ad for Pears' Soap) extending through...
Twentieth-century Nottingham lace specimen book with samples extending into the 1960s
A generous twentieth-century sample book representing several decades of the Nottingham lace trade. Assembled in a purpose-made binder, 17 x 9.5 x 4.5 inches, ideal for adding, removing, and generally rearranging pages. 157 total samples, mostly half-page size (~8 x 6 inches). The tallest sample...
1886 - Manuscript spelling quizzes & experimental penmanship
Heavy card wraps with decorative paper lamination and plain label on cover, 6.75 x 4 inches. Edgewear including chipping at the top edge of the rear wrap, rubbing to spine. 40 lines pages; nine with spelling quiz lists signed by other students (the teacher likely...
Fun with Scissors or Paper Pictures (#4371)
Likely a later iteration, ca. 1910-1920. Printed box, 10x13 inches, housing [8]p illustrated instructions, 6 silhouette example sheets, 10 cutout shapes, 1 large red paper sheet and 10 squares each of red, purple, yellow, orange, blue, and green (still in its wrapper!). The box lacks...
The First School Year in Drawing: A Series of Stigmographical Exercises.
Brown embossed cloth hardcover, 7 x 11 inches. [6p], 12 plates. Signature and shorthand on the front pastedown (dated 1880) of James du Shane, then school superintendent in Madison, Indiana. A book of drawing exercises based on the principles of Friedrich Froebel and Johann Pestalozzi...