Philadelphia: Engraved by W.O. Geller of London after the painting by Baron Jolly of Brussels. Published by William Jay, Charles Hardenberg and William H. Emerson. 1853. 79 x 104 cm Mezzotint with handcoloring, depicts Benjamin Franklin in a simple Quaker suit set against the finery of the French Court. Some..... More
Chicago: Currier-Boyce. Gray Lith, Co., NY & Chicago, [1906]. Two color lithographs, 51 x 38.5 cm., designed to be used to record family milestones. The "God Bless Our Baby" broadside shows five vignettes of babies and small children around the border, plus a stork carrying a baby, against a gold..... More
Washington, PA: H. F. Ward, Printer, [1878 or 1886]. Broadside advertisement, 63.5 x 48.5 cm., laid down on stiff black card stock. Text in various sizes and styles of type. Small inset image of a horse, 14 x 19 cm., inserted in text. Small holes along folds, else very good..... More
Cinncinnati, [OH]: Ehrgott, Forbinger & Co. Lithogr. 1864. Broadside, approx. 88 x 68 cm. Glazed and framed. A listing, printed in script, of more than 500 army officers by rank, followed by a shorter list of naval officers, enclosed in an elaborate border with a vignette of a patriotic eagle..... More
NY, NY: Endicott & Co. Lith. 57 Beekman, 1880. 61 x 92.5 cm. Color lithograph of a double masted steamship. The Decatur H. Miller sank in 1884 in the lower Craighill Channel just out from Baltimore. Merchants and Miners Transportation Company was founded in Baltimore in 1852 and ceased operations..... More
![Item #68127 THE BIGGEST SHOW OF '52 FALL EDITION [cover title]. African-Americana](https://bartlebysbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/68127.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1696877741)
NP: [Capitol Records?] Designed by Art Harris, [1952]. Glossy printed paper wrappers, stapled. 30.5 cm. 16pp., photo illustrations. The Gale Agency presented this show in 1952 featuring Stan Kenton and his orchestra, Nat "King" Cole, and Sarah Vaughan, all pictured on the front cover. Other performers included Stump and Stumpy..... More
![Item #68159 TAPS [caption title]. Daniel BISHOP](https://bartlebysbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/68159.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1696710970)
Original cartoon drawing, 53 x 49 cm., on stiff card stock, signed by Bishop. Image depicts a large flag, with a single star in the middle [a Communist flag?] drapped over the world, a lone soldier standing on top of the globe playing taps with his trumpet. Remnants of cello..... More
![Item #68158 "HEY DICK, THAT MAN'S HERE AGAIN!" [caption title]. Bill CRAWFORD](https://bartlebysbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/68158.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1696710968)
Original cartoon drawing, 50 x 46.5 cm., on stiff card stock, signed by Crawford. Harold Stassen with a "Dump Nixon!" sign pickets in front of a house with dog on the front porch "speaking" over its shoulder. The porch mat is labeled "Checkers." From Indiana, the artist Bill Crawford graduated..... More
![Item #68157 Oblivious Couple Walking into a sidewalk surveyor and his tripod [title supplied]....](https://bartlebysbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/68157.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1696710967)
New York: For Saturday Evening Post. Original cartoon drawing. 36 x 30 cm., signed by D'alessio. Matted, cartoon attached to mat with paper tape on verso, soiling and spotting to mat. After the stock market crash, D'alessio began selling his drawings to popular illustrated magazines of the time, including the..... More
![Item #68156 CHARLES RUSSELL'S "ROYAL PATE" [caption title]. Horse Racing](https://bartlebysbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/68156.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1696710966)
Jamaica, NY: Mike Sirico Photos, Queens Village, L.I., N.Y., April 28, 1956. 25.5 x 20 cm. Original black & white composite photograph laid down on a pasteboard, matted (remains of cello tape on the mat), showing horses running around a track, #9 [Royal Pate] ahead by several lengths, in the..... More
[Augsburg]: M. Seutter, ca. 1762 ? Small map of the Scandinavian peninsula, 21.5 x 27.5 cm. Contemporary hand coloring, bordered in yellow. Trimmed close to the neat line along bottom margin. More
Two large scrapbooks, 38 x 30 cm., bound in green leather, with gilt stamping on front covers. Over 150 items, including invitations, programs, Christmas cards, thank you notes, etc., many glued down (some with glue residue showing through), some tipped in or laid in loose. Accompanied by approx. 30 black..... More
[1947]. Oblong photo album, bound with a cord at left margin. Brown boards, "Photographs" printed on the front cover. 18.5 x 31 cm. 54 black paper mounting pages with photos, 14 x 10 cm., mounted three to a page, on all but the last page which has only two photos..... More
nd [pre-1877]. Oblong folio, 14 x 21.5 in. [1]- 21; 1-28 pp., rectos only. A total of 49 leaves of plates tabbed in, approx. 400 accomplished original sketches and drawings in red pencil, several to a page, some in outline, some more elegantly shaded and detailed, showing the human form..... More
NY: H. C. Miner Litho Co. Print, [1900]. One large sheet of orange paper, folded to 57 x 41.5 cm., [2] leaves. Light soiling, old fold lines with a few small breaks along folds, some chipping and closed tears to margins. Images of the two promoters appear on the first..... More
![Item #68126 RICHARD WELCH’S LEDGER A. Commencing 1st March 1844. Ending --- [caption title]....](https://bartlebysbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/68126.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1696877737)
[Plaistow, NH: 1844-1857, 1861]. Manuscript ledger. 34 cm. 134 pp. Bound in calf (mottled and rubbed), pages browned and foxed, rear hinge separated. A tabbed alphabetical index of customers occupies the first several pages. A few of the blank pages at the end of the ledger have been used by..... More