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A Gift for Mourners...
Dissuasives from immoderate sorrow; its pleas refuted; and its remedy. (No. 59. To Mourners)Green printed wraps 12mo, 36pp + wraps paginated (1)-4; "40 pages" printed on rear cover. Printer D. Fanshaw was active at ATS until 1846. Good only with wraps stained and split along...
Quilted cigar silks
Quilted cigar silks fashioned in Virginia during the first half of the twentieth century, 17 x 17.5 inches. With muslin backing, decorative hand embroidery over the seams and upholstery trim. Near Fine with minor rubbing/fraying. Brands include Saboroso, Londres, General Worth, Virginia Gentlemen, Renown, Eisenlohr's...
Mise-en-carte woven tulip pattern gouache maquette, France, 1910
Large hand-painted tulip motif "check" or "point paper" pattern for Jacquard woven tapestry, 21 x 25 inches. Wonderfully textured with some variations in toning from age. Dated 1910, France. In Good condition with a large tape repair and manuscript writing on the verso. Several small...
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Ten Commandment Number Cards [numbers 1 & 2]
"The only successful way to teach the Commandments with their numbers. Cut out the figure or sew the outline." 5.5 x 3.75 inches. Perforated and sewn with red and pink thread worn away at the lower right, else VG with light toning. Particularly nice with...
Maxwell’s Plisse Shadings - Parisian and Krinkle Plisse, For the Interior Harmonious
Oblong 8vo, 5.25 x 8 inches. 3 printed leaves and 8 fabric samples. Staplebound with old cloth tape over spine, about Very Good with some mottling to covers, short closed snags at the bottom edge of the paper leaves and cover. Wonderfully textured, with a...
Lex-O-Gram
“The Fascinating New Word Game.” Complete with 72 cards, including 16 red prefix cards, 32 green root cards, 16 yellow suffix cards, 6 blue word-ending cards and 2 "Joker" cards of Latin and Greek prefixes. Derivations and basic meanings are given in the corners of...
The Little Designer (4539)
An updated take on slate drawing cards, children are instructed to use the grid to copy drawings that progress from basic linework to geometric shapes, natural and representational forms. Like slate cards, the instructions printed on the underside of the lid emphasize the “inexhaustible” nature...
Opera House To-Night: Closing Recital by Miss George and Class in Elocution and Delsarte (Michigan, 1896)
(Central Michigan, ca. 1895-1898). Broadside, 10.5 x 4.5 inches. With a band of sunning at the top edge and old creases, VG+. Handsome typography and interesting squiggly dividers. The exact date and location are unknown, but the program includes a handful of distinctive names, such...
Game of Anagrams (Milton Bradley #4150)
Box with lid, 6 x 4.25 x 1 inches. With original 4p instruction booklet. The cover illustration of a teacher ringing a bell almost has a likeness to Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, who opened the first English-language kindergarten and hugely influenced Milton Bradley in promoting kindergarten...
Kansas child's book full of 90+ airplane and automobile drawings
Clothbound hardcover ledger book, 12.25 x 7.5 inches in Good condition. Based on the dates of the advertisements and models of planes and cars, the notebook appears to be from the 1930s. Only a first name, “John” appears in the book—we presume it to be...