New York: New York Herald, 1872. Map dimensions: 11 ¼ x 9 ½.” Newspaper sheet size: 22 x 15. A wonderfully historic map accompanying a long story in the New York Herald recounting the newspaper-sponsored search for Dr. Livingstone. The headlines for the story are memorable: “LIVINGSTONE. / Herald Special..... More
![Item #3777 Jabberwocky Re-versed and other Guinness Versions. [with] Alice Aforethought. Guinness...](https://bickerstaffs.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3777.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1679010758)
Dublin: 1935, 1938, [1952] and 1959. Various illustrators, designers and printers. A grouping of four delightful pamphlets featuring “parodies, imitations of verses and scenes from Alice in Wonderland and Alice through the Looking Glass.” These richly-imaginative and handsomely-illustrated booklets are from the series of promotional pieces distributed to physicians in..... More
Springfield, Mass: Art Photo Company [manufacturer]. 1932. 3 ½ x 5 ¼.”. An early eclipse-viewing apparatus on the occasion of the August 31, 1932 eclipse of the sun which crossed New England. The cardboard viewer has eye holes covered by a “Non-inflammable Filter.” The printed envelope for the “scope” features..... More
![Item #3671 United States. [Title on Box:] The Silent Teacher! Wiggin's Sectional Geography of...](https://bickerstaffs.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3671.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1600561163)
New Haven, NY. U.S. Map Company. [ca. 1870s.]. Maps soiled and rubbed with very minor surface loss. One small piece, Vermont, is noticeably darker than the others and may be a facsimile. New archival box with original (and stained) label affixed. Overall, good. Assembled size: 11 3/4 x 17 1/2..... More
[Buckstown, ME]: [A.H. Holland], [1812.]. Sheet size: 17 ¾ x 9.” Woodcut dimensions: 2 ½ x 3 ½.”. This is a rare broadside by a remarkably talented 19th century Maine clergyman. Jonathan Fisher (1768-1847) served as the pastor of the Blue Hill Congregational Church in Maine for 41 years..... More
Littleton, NH: C. Everett Parker, ca. 1920s. About 7 x 9 ½” on 8 ½ x 11” sheets. This group of six White Mountains views of “The Eastern Playground of America” is designated “Series One” on the original envelope. The views are: • The Mt. Washington Hotel from the..... More
![Item #3685 Anno Regni Annae Reginae... [caption title:] An Act for the Preservation of White and...](https://bickerstaffs.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3685.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1516129995)
Lomdon. Printed by the Assigns of Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills, deceased... 1711. Disbound. This Act of Parliament made it illegal to harvest trees that were "fit for masts, not being the property of any private person" in many of the North American colonies. The fine for felling such a...... More
[Freeport, Maine, assumed.]: Circa 1800. Approximately 14 x 10." A nicely accomplished, though primitive, family register of the Seward and Eleanor Porter family. Two colorful plants with birds in their top branches fill the sides of the register. At the top hover two angel-like figures, one bearing an hour glass..... More
Np. Nd, mid 20th century. A clever and interesting party invitation which obviously had meaning to the original recipient but leaves us with nothing but our imaginations to go on. In addition to the short poem, we have the Isle of Woman, No Man’s Land, the Channel of Mud, the..... More
No place. United Air Lines, 1938. Page size: 10 ½ x 9 ¾.”. Closely following the vibe of Ruth Taylor's popular Our U.S.A., A Gay Geography, this delightful inflight souvenir from United Air Lines seeks to connect the passengers in the spiffy DC-3 airliner with the countryside below. The booklet..... More
[Amsterdam?]: Cacao van Houten. [1910.]. The Dutch chocolatier Conraad van Houten was a pioneer in the mass production of finely ground cocoa; his groundbreaking process was introduced in 1828. In the mid-1870s, colorful trade cards became a major marketing tool. Chocolate makers around the world, including van Houten, embraced the..... More
New York: Currier and Ives, 1883. This very attractive trade card for the Boston and Bangor Steamship Company features a delightful scene of the steamship Penobscot underway with other sailing craft and a lighthouse providing nautical accents. The reverse of the card provides a narrative format sailing timetable of the..... More
