Collectibles, Original Historical Documents +

Chemistry - 1822. A Grammar of Chemistry. "Adapted to the use of Schools and Private Students, by familiar illustrations and easy experiments, ...

Physiology for Children. By Mrs. Jane Taylor, New York, 1846. 4 1/2 x 5 1/2 , 91 pp., printed yellow boards. "Why are the teeth of the people w...

Phrenology. Or the Doctrine of the Mental Phenomena. By Dr. J.G. Spurzheim. Vol. II "Philosophical Part" (only). Boston, 1835. 6 x 9, 212 ...

Diseases of Women and Children. The Principles of Midwifery..., by Dr. John Burns. New-York, 1839. 5 1/2 x 9 1/2 , 806 pp., index, folding plates. Ful

The Book of Health. A massive tome for the layman, edited by Malcolm Morris, London and N.Y., 1884, covering a wide range of health and medical topics

Map of the World. According to Mercator and "posterity of Noah," presented in two color maps, facing on a 17 1/2 x 22 sheet, by Carey, Phi...

Nevada Territory. Very scarce "Map of Gold Hill Front Lodes on the Comstock Range, N(evada) T(erritory), Surveyed July 1864, by N. Wescoatt, C....

Collection of Maps. Group of five, each attractively matted with clear shrink film: 1) "Seceding States," showing dates of readmittance to...

Florida. Oversize promotional map, 1926, from the era when land sales in Florida were at a fever pitch. 48 x 48, folding, outlined in color. Issued by

Railroad Strip Map. Elongated "Map of the Great Connecting Link of Pacific Railways between Chicago and San Francisco." In ornate cartouch...

Antebellum American Maps. Group of three: Mississippi, South Carolina, and Philadelphia, all 1850, by Thomas Cowperthwait. Each 12 x 16, color, with p

America in the Gilded Age. "Green's Industrial Map of U.S.," Rand McNally, 1881. 8 3/4 x 20 1/2 . Oklahoma shown as "Indian Terri...

Winnebago Indian Chief. "Rattle Snake." Stone lithograph in color, by Lehman & Duval, 1850s, from painting done by artist at treaty me...

Chippeway Indian Chief. "Pe-Schicks-Eh." Stone lithograph in color, by Lehman & Duval, 1850s, from painting done by artist at treaty m...

Indian Pottowattomie Chief. "Me-No-Qhet" in blue smock, feather on head, blanket on shoulder, arrow with arrowhead in hand, and nose ring....

Sweet. Chippeway Indian chief, dressed in shirt, tie, and blue jacket, adorned with single feather and nose ring. Stone lithograph in color, by Lehman

Chief "Pe-Chee-Co." Of Pottowattomie, dressed in several layers of Western clothing, holding walking stick. With white beard. Stone lithog...

Indian Chief "Little Duck." Of Winnebago tribe. Stone lithograph in color, by Lehman & Duval, believed 1850s, from artist's painti...

Portrait of Henry Clay. Dramatic oval chromolithograph portrait of Henry Clay, 13 x 16, in 18 3/4 x 22 original gilded plaster frame, under glass. Imi

Life in "Blackville." Group of eight prints from Harper's Weekly, from their series of life among blacks, which they called "Blac...

Louisiana. Superb Revolutionary War period map of Louisiana, as formerly claimed by France, now containing part of British America to the east, and Sp

Ohio and Indiana. Early map of "The States of Indiana & Ohio, with part of Michigan Territory," c. 1835. 10 x 15. Detailed, finely pri...

Noah's Ark. Delightful chromolithograph of the fabled craft and its cargo, with original wooden rollers, as hung in an old schoolroom or Sunday ...

Famous Leaders & Battle Scenes of the Civil War. Frank Leslie's celebrated illustrated history, with many full- and double-page illustration...

Harper's Weekly. Group of twelve issues: Oct. 4, 1862; June 13, 1863; June 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, Aug. 10, 24, 31, Sept. 7, and 21, 1867. News of Jef...

Harper's Weekly. Nine issues of 1863: May 23, 30, June 27, July 4, 11, 18, 25, Aug. 8 and 22. Gen. Grant on one cover; Chancellorsville, capture...

Harper's Weekly. Six issues of 1864: Jan. 2, April 2, June 25, July 3 and 9, and Aug. 6. With heavy coverage of Grant's and Sherman's ca...

Harper's Weekly. Group of twelve issues, all 1865: May 27, June 3, 10, 24, July 1, 8, 29, Aug. 5, 12, Sept. 2, 9, and 16. Coverage of Lincoln...

Harper's Weekly. Bound volume, Jan. 5 to Dec. 28, 1861, detailing the first year of the Civil War. Filled with pictures and maps, including nume...

Harper's Bazaar. Bound volume, Dec. 7, 1867 to Dec. 26, 1868, covering fashions, patterns, stories, and more. This magazine would become one of ...

Frank Leslie's Illustrated. Group of ten issues, heavily illustrated, including numerous full-page. 1862: Sept. 27, Oct. 4, 11, 25, Nov. 1, 8, 1...

Ballou's Pictorial. Six issues of this Boston competitor of Harper's. 1855: Mar. 10, June 9, July 28, Nov. 24 1856: May 24, Nov. 26. Includi...

Fish, Pickled. Niles' Weekly Register, Baltimore, Apr. 6, 1816. Fascinating variety of the latest news, including letter of William Henry Harris...

Washington State Imprint. Indians of the Western Prairies - Photo-Gravures. Tacoma, Washington, 1901. 7 x 9 oblong, tied with polished cord, 13 leaves

Pittsburgh Imprints. Two early Pittsburgh almanacs: Loomis' No. 6 Magazine Almanac, 1840, Published and sold by Luke Loomis, Agent, No. 92 Wood ...

Antebellum Quaker Journals. Substantial collection of 59 monthly Quaker magazines, The Friends' Library, Philadelphia, 1846-1850, edited by Will...

Anti-Semitic Pulp Book. "The Jim Mace Reciter, or the Gem of Oratory," American News Co., Nassau St., New York, 1870, 4 x 6, 68 pp., color...

Propaganda Magazines. Two issues of Soviet Russia Today, N.Y.C., Mar. and Dec. 1934, 9 1/4 x12 1/4 , (20) pp. ea., heavily illus. Announcing affairs h

Stoneware. Splendid, large group of original, illustrated sales literature of Syracuse (N.Y.) Stoneware Co., 1901, "factories at Akron." I...

Trade Catalogue. Elite Enameled Ware, "Czecho-slovakia," c. 1930. Catalogue of their New York distributor, illustrating kitchen utensils a...

Trade and Travel Catalogues. Group of three: Cownie Glove Co., Des Moines, Iowa, 1898, 16 pp., full page photos with captions on the making of gloves.

Curiosa. Pamphlet for quack medicine to cure a myriad of ailments including baldness. "A Treatise on The Human Hair...with Directions for Prese...