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The very scarce color version. REDUCED to $1250.00

(Chromolithograph) Destruction of San Francisco by Earthquake and Fire, April 18th, 1906, 12.5 x 35.5 in. Panoramic view of the city in flames after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake struck, with 13 places identified.

$1,250

A fascination collection of European Ephemera.

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Curation & Design: Fabien Barral (Mr. Cup)

Ephemera - a collection in 3 volumes (2022), a collection of letterheads, invoices, business cards, envelopes, identity papers, ferrotypes, Tax stamps, bearer bonds, staged photos, cabinet cards, product catalogs and much more

$275

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Octavo Valentine with stamped envelope

$160

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Guinness publicity booklet, "A Guiness Sportfolio"

$175

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Father Tuck's Toy Rockers Modeling Book

$500

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c.1931 Wooden Money Tenino Washington Chamber Commerce Pamphlet

$300

A vintage educational pull-down zoological chart.

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By an unknown zoological illustrator

A domestic cat deconstructed, A rare classroom anatomical illustration

$500

German Dornier DoX Flight Card

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German Dornier DOX Flight Card

$275

1856 Bank Note - Commercial Bank of New Jersey

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Commercial Bank of New Jersey

1856 $2.00 Commercial Bank of New Jersey Bank Note

$80 $100 or less

1861 East Haddam Bank Note $1.00

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East Haddam Bank

1861 $1.00 Bank Note - East Haddam, CT

$100 $100 or less

The Bank of Watenshaw Bank Note

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Bank of Washtenaw - $1.00 Note)

Bank of Watenshaw 1834 $1,00 Bank Note

$60 $100 or less

Beginning of the Wabash Railroad

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1873 – Broadsheet showing the routes of the Toledo, Wabash & Western Railway on one side and advertising a bond sale to fund the purchase of steel track rails on the other

$250

1814 Land Deed Pennsylvania

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Bethel Township Pennsylvania 1814 Deed

$65 $100 or less

Washington DC Plate Printers Union Book

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Plate Printers & Engravers Union 1955 Convention Book

$135

Atelier Bachroitz Art Deco Fashion Print

$100 $100 or less

METALWARE & STAMPED TIN

64772 [METALWORK -- TINWARE & METAL CONTAINERS].

Atlantic Stamping Company July-August-September [Catalogue].

$100 $100 or less

FIRST SUV

64487 [AUTOMOBILES -- WILLYS JEEP STATION SEDAN]. [WIELAND, Arthur J.]

The ‘Jeep’ Station Sedan: a distinctive new 6-cylinder car designed by Willys-Overland to match the pattern of modern family living. [Dealer’s showroom brochure].

$95 $100 or less

NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR & PULLMAN

64361 [NEW YORK WORLD’S FAIR -- PULLMAN RAILROAD CARS].

Welcome to the New York World’s Fair and the Pullman Exhibit.

$85 $100 or less

AUTOMOBILE RACING -- PHOTO

64414 [AUTOMOBILES -- RENAULT].

A day at the races in style! [A wonderful Brass Era boudoir sized albumen photograph capturing a flock of well dressed racegoers grouped around their 1912 Renault Victoria, and similar stately, automobiles stretching behind].

$100 $100 or less

AUTOMOBILES -- CHANDLER MOTORS

64496 [AUTOMOBILES -- CHANDLER/CLEVELAND MOTORS CO. PHOTO].

Joe when he worked at Chandler Motors Co. 1919 [One original silver gelatin photograph of a garage with several Brass Era automobiles parked including one Chevrolet with bow-tie radiator emblem, peaking out in the center of the photo].

$100 $100 or less

FOOD & DRINK -- DAIRY CO-OP PHOTO

63182 [DAIRY -- ARCHITECTURE]. [WICKS, John E. (Architect). & SCHMAND, Charles C.]

[One large studio silver gelatin photograph of the Lower Columbia Cooperative Dairy Association building on 9th Street in downtown Astoria, OR with dairy coop members and workers spread, out before the building in the fore-ground].

$100 $100 or less

FOOD & DRINK -- KELLOGG'S VEGETARIAN DIET

63763 [FOOD & DRINK - VEGETARIANISM]. [KELLOGG, John Harvey].

Modern menus and recipes for your health: Battle Creek Health Foods. . . .

$100 $100 or less

KC BAKING POWDER COOKERY

64676 [FOOD & DRINK -- COOKERY]. HILL, Janet MacKenzie.

The cook’s book: containing a talk on baking powder -- useful cooking hints. . . .

$75 $100 or less

MEAT CURING BROCHURE

64704 [FOOD & DRINK -- MEAT CURING SPICES].

Meat curing made easy, and a new way to make sausage.

$100 $100 or less

CHINESE-AMERICAN RESTAURANT HONOLULU MENU

64749 [CHINESE-AMERICAN MENU -- HAWAII]. [CHONG, Lee Wong (Owner).]

Lan Ting Chop Suey House: master of Chinese cuisine. . . .

$100 $100 or less

VARGA JANTZEN PIN-UP COUNTER DISPLAY

64743 [FASHION -- JANTZEN SUNTAN PIN-UP]. VARGA. [VARGAS, Alberto (Artist).]

Here’s Jan: Jantzen’s wonderful new year-round cream. Soothes, smooths, softens. Protects the skin in sun -- wind -- snow. Promotes a healthy outdoor look. Its greaseless. [Original large pin-up, counter display for Jantzen suntan lotion.

$400

Leaf Book - With Two Original Chaucer Leaves

Muscatine, Charles (1920-2010)

THE BOOK OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER, AN ACCOUNT OF THE PUBLICATION OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER'S WORKS FROM THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY TO MODERN TIMES

SOLD

SILENT MOVIE PHOTOGRAPHS -- KALEM MOVING PICTURES

64622 [SILENT MOVIES -- PHOTOGRAPHS]. [MARION, Frank (Marketing Manager), LONG, Samuel (Pres.).

[A fascinating group of nine original photographs capturing filming on location in Louisiana, and Christmas Party activities from the Kalem Moving Picture Company in 1906].

SOLD

ASTRONAUT JOHN GLENN AT SEATTLE WORLD'S FAIR 1962

64539 [SPACE PROGRAM -- SEATTLE WORLD’S FAIR]. GLENN, John H.

Second National Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Space Banquet, Olympic Hotel, May 10, 1962 [Menu & Program]; Astronaut John H. Glenn orbits the Earth for America, February 20, 1962;, Steps to the Moon. . . . [poster/map].

$850

1755 New York Sheriffs writ

Clear Everitt High Sheriff

a legal document from 1755

$200

Illus Schenectady, NY Interurban Brochure w/Map

Schenectady Railway Company

Trolley Trips / Hudson-Mohawk Valleys / Schenectady Railway Company, circa 1909, With Illustrations from Photos and a Colored 2-Page Map of the Schenectady Railway and Connections

$50 $100 or less

A Curious Relic

Muriel Spark

A Lock of Her Hair, Cut and Given to Derek Stanford

SOLD

Art Deco Program

Programma Del Cinema & Della Musica

$65 $100 or less

French Invitation.

$90 $100 or less

Fil a L'Ancre Thread Label featuring sailor

$60 $100 or less

Friendship memento with a lock of hair

$80 $100 or less

Automobile

Early de Dion BovTon Menu

$50 $100 or less

Octavo Valentine

$70 $100 or less

Biscuits Lefevre-Utile 1896 calendar

$40 $100 or less

Devil looking over the feast

Unused Menu - Gluttony

$55 $100 or less

Exercise device for relief of pain

Exhilaration by means of Vibration

$100 $100 or less

Exposition 1855 Universelle

A. Regnard, Rue du Temple, No.200 advertising trade card

$75 $100 or less

Set of 6 Bensdorp Cocoa trade cards showing parlor games

$75 $100 or less

A PLAYWRIGHT'S VERDICT ON TIME ITSELF

Shaw, George Bernard (1856–1950)

George Bernard Shaw — Autograph Response on Calendar Reform, 1922, GEORGE BERNARD SHAW'S SIGNED 1922 RESPONSE TO W. ARNOLD'S PROPOSAL IN BANK HOLIDAYS FIXED: FATHER TIME INTERVIEWED.

$425

WHEN HOLLYWOOD DICTATED STYLE.

[Studio Photographers]

Three Hollywood Studio Fashion Publicity Photographs with Wardrobe Descriptions, c.1936, HOLLYWOOD FASHION ON PARADE — Film Stars, Original Studio Photography & 1930s Style

$80 $100 or less

Angel and baby Jesus

Mechanical Christmas greeting

Mechanical Trade Card - A Christmas Box

$65 $100 or less

3D Souvenir

Card with seaside view opens to show 5 layers of festive scene

$200

Novelty 3D die-cut table with floral arrangements

$120

6 pairs of animals from Tuck's Noah's Arc die-cut series

$300

Watches, Horology

J. Parish Stelle

The American Watchmaker and Jeweler

$250

Hotel de L'Europe, Boulogne Sur Mer

$150

Wrought Iron manufacturer

Belgian "Porcelain" Trade Card for Emile Devigne

$135

The Presidential Race

Perry Reaper and Perry Mower trade card urging you to vote

$250

Schuttler & Hotz

$175

Champion Single Reaper

$125

Buckeye Mower & Buckeye Down Binder

$125

Flexible Flyer Mechanical Card

$130

Civil War Confederacy

Jeff Davis, on the Last "Platform" of the Southern Confeder"ass"y envelope

$250

Skeleton riding watchworks like a bike

Lancaster Watch trade card

$200

Wannamaker & Son Civil War advertisement

$350

Darwin Christmas Card

Halloween skeleton

Die-cut Santa

Santa riding white horse laden with gifts scrap

$180

Catalogue of Northern Grown Tested Seeds 1891

$175

Paper Specimens

THE AVANT GARDE LETTERHEAD

$150

Palaemon Press

NORTHERN LIGHTS

$825

Book Club of California

THE LETTERS OF WESTERN AUTHORS

$700

Tacoma, WA Co's 1926 Illustrated Hardware Catalog

Hunt & Mottel Co.

Catalog No. 8 Hunt & Mottet Co. / Tacoma, Washington / Wholesale Hardware, 1926, Containing Sections on General Hardware, Hand Tools, Kitchen & Cooking Ware, Household Furnishings, Sporting Goods, Auto Accessories

SOLD

Scarce 1909 Montana Publication re Its Resources

J. H. Hall, Commissioner

Montana, 1909 Publication Extolling Montana's Resources and Opportunities for Growth, in General and County by County

$125

Guidebook to Boston Region by Trolley & Street Rwy

Passenger Department, Bay State Street Railway Co.

Trips by Trolley Along Bay State Street Railway Co. Lines and Connections, 1912, With Text Accompanied by Strip Maps, a Color Centerfold Map, and Illustrations from Photographs

$45 $100 or less

kodak corporation

Kodak Corporation

kodak stock certificate, kodak booklet

SOLD

Three wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg.

Fritz Eichenberg

Lincoln portrait - WW II - Season's Greetings, An interesting provenance

$450

Santa holding all kinds of toys and holding up Japanese lantern Scrap

$175

9 Copperplate engravings from Gymnastics For Youth

$200

1966 Wes Wilson / Bill Graham Fillmore handbills.

Wes Wilson for Bill Graham's Fillmore Auditorium

Five original 1966 Concert Handbills, Iconic psychedelic graphic design

$950

A Sonorous Friend of Muir and Roosevelt

(LECTURE ANNOUNCEMENT) KELLOGG, [Charles]

Kellogg, the Bird Man, Will Lecture in Nevins Memorial Hall. Mon., Dec. 9, 1907. Wonderful Bird-tone Reproductions. Moving Pictures.

$125

1928 Red Cross Florida Disaster Benefit Program

Portland (Oregon) Firemen and Combined Theatres

FLORIDA, a Benefit Program for American Red Cross 1928 Florida and West Indies Hurricane Disaster Relief Fund, Held in Portland, Oregon Under the Auspices of Portland Firemen and Combined Theatres

$35 $100 or less

World War I peace through victory!

Comité de l'Union

À tous les Français" (To all the French people), A demand for total victory, accountability, and security guarantees so that the fallen soldiers’ sacrifice is not betrayed.

$275

French WW I/ interwar campaign against alcoholism.

National League Against Alcoholism (Ligue National Contre l'Alcoolisme)

Let's mobilize against the enemy from within! (Mobilisons!.. Contre l'ennemi... del'intérieur!!!), A large and rare example of French letterpress printed ephemera pertaining to the early 20th century history of the French Temperance movement.

$250

U.S. Postal Service Scrapbook, circa 1936-1942

Lawrence H. Hering, USPS Employee

Scrapbook of Cartoons, Clippings and Articles Relating to the Activities & History of the U.S. Postal Service, Compiled circa 1936-1942, Over 200 Pieces, Plus a Signed Presentation Photograph of James A. Farley, U.S. Postmaster General (1933-1940)

SOLD

Rare Illus Prospectus, Daly Alaska Mines Co., 1922

Weir Brothers & Co.

Prospectus, with Maps, for the Daly Alaska Mines Co., Salmon River, Alaska, 1922, Illustrated with Photographs and Maps, Including a Colored Fold-out Map of the Daly Creek Mining Site

$75 $100 or less

B&O RR Illus Guide to Wash., D.C. & Environs, 1892

Charles O. Scull, holder of copyright

Guide to Washington Presented with the Compliments of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., 1892, 52-page Illustrated Guide to What to See and Where to Go When Visiting the Nation's Capital and Environs

$40 $100 or less

Anglican - Presbyterian Theology Discourse 1798

[William] Smith (1754-1821)

Doctor Smith's Answer to Mr. Blatchford's Letter, 1798, Expressing Dr. Smith's Theological Reasoning About the Issues of Church Governance, the Validity of Presbyterian Ordination, and the Authority of Bishops and Presbyters

$40 $100 or less

RARE MLK FUNERAL FLAG WITH EYEWITNESS PROVENANCE

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Service Flag

SOLD

Cushings Manual

Cushing's Manual

$25 $100 or less

Biedermeier Valentine

$225

"A Trifle Towards Housekeeping"

Moveable mini envelope quarto Valentine with mailing envelope

$380

Tucker Automobile

Preston Tucker

Tucker Automobile Company Stock Certificate and Photos of Car

$615

Exposition Ticket

US International Exposition 1876

$30 $100 or less

1901 Calendar

E. P. Dutton & Co.

Pansies for Thought, Four die-cut panels

$45 $100 or less

Prohibition

Prohibition - Prescription for Alcohol as Medicine

$30 $100 or less

Cigar Box Label

Spirit of St. Louis Cigar Box Label

$20 $100 or less

Purifying Copperheads

Unlisted

Circa 1864 – A satirical broadside recommending that Copperheads undergo a purification process before voting in the 1864 presidential election

SOLD

Express Mail Stamp FD

$9.35 Special Stamp First Day on USPS Souvenir Page

$50 $100 or less

Manufacturer Woman's Medical Remedy Products

Dr. J. B.Lynas & Sons , Assorted Papers

$18 $100 or less

Revenue

Distillery Warehouse IRS Certificates

$30 $100 or less

Chauffer License Metal Pin

Chauffeur Licensed Pin

$25 $100 or less

I.R.S. 1873 Tax Form

I.R.S. 1873 Tobacco Tax Form

$18 $100 or less

I.R.S. 1884 Tax Form

I.R.S. 1884 Retail Liquor Dealer Tax Form

$18 $100 or less

Sunoco NY Road Map

Sunoco NY 1950 Historical Road Map

$20 $100 or less

1800's Georgetown Promissory Notes

Promissory Notes, Georgetown (Wahington DC )

$50 $100 or less

Racist Christmas Ad for a Michigan Hotel

Allen James Rowe

1938 - An elaborate racist hotel advertisement in pidgin English

$100 $100 or less

Fireworks Price List

New York & Pennsylvania Fireworks Company

1936 - Fireworks company advertising price list

$100 $100 or less

Selling Bibles to the Odd Fellows

F. H. Butler & Company

1852 - Promotional broadsheet advertising the sale of Bibles for displaly upon International Order of Odd Fellows altars

$100 $100 or less

Hats, Caps, and Furs in New York City

Swift, Hurlbut, & Company

1851 – An impressive multicolor two-page broadsheet for one of the preeminent hat companies in New York

$400

An Eccentric Navy Chaplain Sells his Books

Edward C. Bittinger

1849 – Documents related to the sale of books to an important Philadelphia book firm by a prominent, but odd, Navy Chaplain at Sing Sing, New York

$150

The Virginia Militia Defends Richmond

Edmund Taylor and George Turner

1814 – Two pages from the 2nd Virginia Regiment’s orderly book kept while stationed at Camp Holly Springs in defense of Richmond

$1,500

The Wisconsin Band's Trip to the Rose Bowl

Wally Degner

1959-1960 – Archive of material related to the University of Wisconsin Marching Band's trip to and participation in the 1960 Rose Bowl festivities

$750

A Tribute to Missionary Nurses

Unlisted

1900 - “The Nurse in the Foreign Field”

$150

The "Know-Nothings" Declare their Platform

The American Party

1854 – A broadsheet promoting the American Party (the Know Nothings) that includes its American Principles and the American Party Platform

$1,000