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The Official American Textile Directory (1909-10)
The Official American Textile Directory: containing reports of all the textile manufacturing establishments in the United States and Canada, together with the Yarn Trade Index and lists of concerns in lines of business selling to or buying from textile mills 1909-10 Hardcover cloth 8vo, 674pp....
Unspecified book of alphabets
Unidentified publication in supplied wraps with repaired tears throughout the volume. Originally found in Portugal, estimated to be ca. 1920-40s. 28 pages of monogram letters and designs for embroidery. A few full names include Siri, Greta, Rut, Hedvig. A charming little mystery reflecting the wide...
A Phrenological Chart of the Character and Talents of Miss Mary E. Shaw
No place, no date. Late 1880s-early 1890s based on evidence of Campbell’s active years. [6] leaves with 11 manuscript pages of writing, 10 x 8 inches. Stitched along the spine; Fair condition with a 2x4" loss gnawed from the bottom edge of the last leaf,...
Touch and Guess: A game, a book, of things to touch from pith to lead
One of 1000 copies. Faux-book designed box, 9.5 x 7.5 x 1.75 inches. Pictorial panels mounted to buckram-covered boards and a flocked applique to the front panel; toggle closure. Very Good with light rubbing and soil to box, especially around the edges. With a folded...
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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...
Specimens of Melvina Townsend’s work in the Kindergarten School, 1893 & 1894, 5 & 6 years of age…
Manuscript caption title: “Specimens of Melvina Townsend’s work in the Kindergarten School, 1893 & 1894. 5 and 6 years of age…Miss Julia Taylor, Teacher.” In a typical period scrap book album, 12.5 x 10 inches, with decorative embossed covers and 30 album leaves. Very Good...
Japanese Silk Dye Specimens, Catalog of 60 Swatches
Cloth hardcover, 9 x 5.5 inches. 6 panels with 5 100-momme silk swatches inlaid on each side, 60 examples in total. No date, but binding appears ca. 1940s. A catalog of colors and indications for dyeing 100 momme silk with pigments derived from ginseng and...
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...
Illustrated manuscript by a 15-year-old orphan at the Monastery of St. Claire in Aurillac, France
M'tère de Ste Claire d'Aurillac. Résumé des exercices de la 4ème classe. Lucie Darses, enfant de Marie. 1899. Aurillac, France: Made by hand, 1899. Oblong quarto, 14 x 9 inches. Hardcover, black embossed paper boards backed in green calfskin. 23 manuscript leaves, amateurishly bound with some...