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The Splendid Victory of the Ericsson Battery Monitor, Disabling the Rebel Battery "Merrimac" 10 Guns, & Steamers Jamestown & Yorktown, in Hampton Roads, March 9th, 1862. [Caption title]. Lithographic image, 21" x 16". Black & white, with red coloring in flags & shell bursts. A fine image.
1862
 

Pacific Hotel. [Caption title]. Colored lithograph, 12" x 12." Light foxing & slight staining. Excellent.
1836
 

The Child's Own Alphabet. [Wrapper title].
1825
 

The Infant's Grammar.
1825
 

The Inhuman Anti Rent Murder, Of Deputy Sheriff Steele, at Andes, Delaware County New York.--Taken from a Drawing made on the Spot... [Caption title & partial text]. Small folio colored lithograph.
1845
 

Bound Volume of Thirty-Seven (37) Pieces of Original American Lithographed Military Sheet Music, Six with Appealing Colored Lithographs, the Remaining Black & White.
1830
 

Six Military and Patriotic Illustrated Songs. Elaborately Colored. In a novel form. Series No. 1. [Wrapper title].
1864
 

The Great Fire of the City of New York, 16 December 1835. Print size: 16" x 20," with substantial margins and appealing coloring.
1836
 

Little Folks Series. The Five Little Pigs. [Colored pictorial wrapper title].
1870
 

BEADLE'S HALF-DIME SINGER'S LIBRARY. Comic and Sentimental Songs of All Nations and Ages. No. 1 - 43 [all].
1878
 

Dissected Map of the United States. [Box cover title].
1887
 

“The Kossuth Hat and the Shortboys on New-Year’s Eve” [Caption title]. Colored lithograph, 7-7/8” X 11-1/8”. Sheet toned, some marginal stains and creases. Good+.
1850
 

Transformation Polka from the Black Crook by Thomas Baker. [Cover title]. Folio. 6 pp., including colored lithograph cover featuring a striking illustration of Mille. [Marie] Bonfanti, performing in “The Black Crook,” executed by Major & Knapp, within an ornamental border. Music only, on pages 3 through 6, engraved throughout. Printed and pictorial front wrap, only (back cover was blank). Small cello tape reinforcement at hinge corners, else an excellent copy.
1867
 

Providence Dyeing, Bleaching & Cal[endaring] Co. William Snow Agent.
1850
 

ANON. Happy Home [Wrapper title].
1850
 

ANON. Stories of Birds. [Caption title].
1847
 

ANON. A Souvenir of Niagara Falls with a Series of Views in Oil Colors, from Photographs Taken on the Spot.
1864
 

ANON. Leaf and Flower Pictures, and How To Make Them.
1857
 

ANON. China in Miniature; Containing Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, Character, and Costumes of the People of that Empire. With Sixteen Colored Engravings (15 present).
1834
 

BADGER, MRS. C. M. Wild Flowers Drawn and Colored from Nature. With an Introduction by Mrs. L.H. Sigourney.
1859
 

BAKER, JOHN. The Resurrection of Jesus Christ. [Caption title]. 24" x 32" plus rollers. Slight marks of wear, but excellent condition; paper applied to contemporary linen.
1835
 

BALL, ISAAC. An Analytical View of the Animal Economy.Calculated for the Students of Medicine, as Well as Private Gentlemen...
1808
 

BARNUM. P.T. Barnum's Car of Neptune. As Seen in the Great Street Pageant. [Caption title (top & bottom of poster)]. 22" x 28". Colored lithograph on paper, mounted to board; small scuffs & gouges. Overall very good. Car of Neptune drawn by eight fine horses.
1875
 

BENECKE, TH. Compose [Zachary Taylor Rally in New York]. Large folio colored lithograph, without letters.
1855
 

BINGHAM, R. M. & CO. R.M. Bingham & Co. Manufacturers of Sleigh and Cutter Woods, Carriage, Hearse, Wagon and Buggy Bodies, Gearings and Bent Work, Rome, N.Y. [Wrapper title].
1880
 

BOILEAU, D. Translat Papyro-Plastics, or the Art of Modelling in Paper; Being an Instructive Amusement for Young Persons of Both Sexes. From the German...Second Edition, Greatly Enlarged and Improved. With Twenty-Two Plates.
1825
 

BOURNE, HERMON. Flores Poetici. The Florist's Manual: Designed as an Introduction to Vegetable Physiology and Systematic Botany, for Cultivators of Flowers. With More Than Eighty Beautifully-Coloured Engravings of Poetic Flowers.
1833
 

BRADFORD, DUNCAN. The Wonders of the Heavens, Being a Popular View of Astronomy...Illustrated by Numerous Maps and Engravings.
1837
 

BRADFORD, JAMES M. Water Witch Schottisch Composed for the Piano. {Music title, p. 3].
1855
 

BRIGGS, CHARLES F. & Homes of American Authors; Comprising Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches, by Various Writers.
1857
 

CATLIN, GEO. Letters and Notes of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians. Qritten During Eight Years' Travel Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America. Two Vols. in One.
1860
 

COXE, JOHN REDMAN. Practical Observations on Vaccination: Or Inoculation for the Cow-Pock. Embellished with a Coloured Engraving...
1802
 

DELAFIELD, JOHN JR. An Inquiry into the Origin of the Antiquities of America. With an Appendix, Containing Notes, and "A View of the Causes of the Superiority of the Men of the Northern Over Those of the Southern Hemisphere." By James Lakey, M.D.
1839
 

DURKEE, SILAS. A Treatise on Gonorrhoea and Syphilis. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. With Eight Colored Illustrations.
1864
 

EARHART, JOHN F. The Color Printer. A Treatise on the Use of Colors in Typographic Printing.
1892
 

EMMETT, DANIEL D. Dixie's Land. [Caption title]. 20.4 x 12.4 cm. At head: Two fine hand-colored minstrel musicians, one seated playing the banjo, the other standing, singing.
1860
 

FALLS, DE WITT C. The Comic Military Alphabet. Army, Navy, National Guard.
1894
 

FISHER, JOHN D. Description of the Distinct, Confluent, and Inoculated Small Pox, Varioloid Disease, Cow Pox, and Chicken Pox.
1829
 

GERSTAECKER, FREDERI Wild Sports in the Far West, Translated from the German. With Eight Crayon Drawings, Executed in Oil Colors, from Designs by Harrison Weir.
1859
 

GOOD, PETER M. Good's Family Flora: and Materia Medica Botanica. Containing the Botanical Analysis, Natural History, and Chemical and Medical Properties of Plants: Illustrated by Colored Engravings, of Original Drawings Taken from Nature. [Wrapper title]. In Ten Issues with Yellow or Brown Printed Wrappers (yellow wrappers printed in black & red). Plates 1-48.
1847
 

GOODRICH, S.G. Peter Parley's Winter Evening Tales.
1833
 

HALL, J. SPARKS. The Book of the Feet: a History of Boots and Shoes, with Illustrations of the Fashions of the Egyptians, Hebrews, Persians, Greeks, and Romans, and the Prevailing Style Throughout Europe...also Hints to Last-Makers, and Remedies for Corns...with a History of Boots and Shoes in the United States...
1847
 

HARRIGAN, EDWARD. The Ten Little Mulligan Guards. [Wrapper title].
1874
 

HOMER, WINSLOW. Proceedings at the Reception and Dinner in Honor of George Peabody, Esq., of London, by the Citizens of the Old Town of Danvers, October 9, 1856. To which is Appended an Historical Sketch of the Peabody Institute...
1856
 

HOMER, WINSLOW. Proceedings at the Reception and Dinner in Honor of George Peabody, Esq., of London, by the Citizens of the Old Town of Danvers, October 9, 1856. To which is Appended an Historical Sketch of the Peabody Institute...
1856
 

HOWITT, MARY. The Spider and the Fly. A Popular Song as sung with rapturous applause by Miss Abby J. Hutchinson. The Words by Jesse Hutchinson, Jr. [!] The Music Arranged and Adapted, by S. O. Dyer. Large colored vignette at head, of roses, the spider & the fly, and Abby Hutchinson with arms crossed. "New Edition" at head.
1847
 

JENNER, EDWARD. An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variole Vaccine, a Disease Discovered in some of the western counties of England...and known by the name of The Cow Pox. From the Second London Edition.
1802
 

KENNEDY, GRACE. Anna Ross; a Story for Children...Third American Edition.
1828
 

L. PRANG & CO. The Great Elm on Boston Common. Destroyed February 15, 1876. Lithograph, L. Prang & Co. Image & Printed Message on Spurr’s Papered Veneer-Wood Made from the Tree, Signed by Samuel C. Cobb, Mayor of Boston. March 31, 1876.
1876
 

LETTS, J. M. A Pictorial View of California; Including a Description of the Panama and Nicaragua Routes.
1853
 

LEWIS, J.O. A Chippeway Squaw and Child. Painted at the treal[!]y du Lac 1826 by J.O. Lewis. [Caption title]. 10" x 7-7/8". Lightly foxed. Colors vivid.
1836
 

LORD, HENRY, Artist. The Capture of Acote Hill and the Sacking of the Village of Chepatchet, by the Brave Rhode Island Algerines, under the Command of the Gallant Colonel Brown. {Lithograph title]. Image size 15-1/4" x 9". Plus full margins, some chipped on top and left side margins. Print contains numbered keys identifying "actions" of six Algerines and their points of activity within Chepachet.
1842
 

LOVECHILD, LAWRENCE. Beauty and the Beast. [Wrapper title].
1855
 

LOWRY, DELVALLE. Conversations on Mineralogy. With Plates, from the Engravings of Mr. and Miss Lowry, from Original Drawings. First American...Edition.
1822
 

MACK, E. General Tom Thumb's Grand Wedding March. [Music only].
1863
 

MAPLESON, T.W. GWILT Pearls of American Poetry Illuminated...
1853
 

MATTSON, MORRIS. The American Vegetable Practice, or a New and Improved Guide to Health, Designed for the Use of Families. In Six Parts. In Two Volumes [in one].
1841
 

McINTOSH, JOHN. The Origin of the North American Indians; with a Faithful Description of Their manners and Customs, Both Civil and Military, Their Religions, Languages, Dress, and Ornaments: Including Various Specimens of Indian Eloquence...New Edition, Improved and Enlarged.
1843
 

MILLSPAUGH, CHARLES American Medicinal Plants; an Illustrated and Descriptive Guide to the American Plants Used as Homoeopathic Remedies: Their History, Preparation, Chemistry, and Physiological Effects. Illustrated by the Author.
1887
 

MOORE, HENRY D. Edit The Winter-Bloom. With Nine Brilliant Illuminations, in Oil Colors.
1850
 

NELSON, THOMAS and S Oil Coloured Views of Newport, R.I. and the Neighbourhood. [Slipcase title].
1870
 

OTIS, GEORGE A. A Report on Amputations at the Hip-Joint in Military Surgery.
1867
 

PALMER, F. & S. Love and the Flowers. [Cover title]. Sentiment album, entirely blank except for six fine colored lithographs by F. & S. Palmer.
1847
 

PALMER, FRANCIS. Flower Tokens.
1847
 

PEABODY, M.M. Engrav "The Unjust Sentence of the Jews against Jesus Christ the Saviour of the World." [Caption title]
1823
 

PEABODY, M.M. Engrav "The Unjust Sentence of the Jews against Jesus Christ the Saviour of the World." [Caption title]
1823
 

PECK, WILLIAM DANDRI Natural History of the Slug Worm.
1799
 

PECK, WILLIAM DANDRI Natural History of the Slug Worm.
1799
 

PETERS, G.S. Printer Geburts und Tauf Schein. [Caption title]. Folio colored broadside, illustrated & with text in German.
1826
 

PETERS, G.S. pub. Die Geschichte Joseph's und seiner Brude....
1835
 

PETERS, G.S. pub. Die Geschichte Joseph's und seiner Brude....
1837
 

PETERS, G.S. pub. The Life of Joseph; a Scripture Narrative. Embellished with Numerous Colored Engravings.
1837
 

PETERS, G.S. pub. Die Geschichte Joseph's und seiner Brude....
1835
 

PETERS, G.S. pub.. Die Geschichte der Kinder im Walde. Mit vielen bunten bildern geziert. [The Story of the Children in the Woods. Illustrated with many colorful pictures.]
1835
 

PRANG, L & Co. Old Warehouse--Dock Square, Boston. Built 1680. Taken Down 1860. M.K. Kipps, del. 11" x 15", fine colored lithograph, in contemporary gilt frame.
1860
 

PRANG, LOUIS & H. MI (The State Arms of the Union.) Title leaf lacking.
1876
 

RICHARDSON, SAMUEL. The History of Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded. A Narrative, Which has its Foundation in Truth, adapted to inculcate on the Minds of both Sexes, the Principles of Virtue and Religion. First American...Edition.
1830
 

SAY, THOMAS. American Entomology, or Descriptions of the Insects of North America. Illustrated by Coloured Figures from Drawings Executed from Nature.
1817
 

SHOBERL, FREDERICK. Persia; Containing a Description of the Country, with an Account of Its Government, Laws and Religion, and of the Character, Manners and Customs, Arts, Amusements, &c. of Its Inhabitants.
1834
 

SLOAN, SAMUEL. American Houses: A Variety of Original Designs for Rural Buildings, Illustrated by Twenty-Six Colored Engravings, with Descriptive References.
1861
 

SQUIER, E.G. Tropical Fibres: Their Production and Economic Extraction.
1861
 

TOULIN, ALFRED F. Most Respectfully Dedicated to President Jefferson Davis. Confederacy March. [Caption title]. (With large oval lithograph from a photograph of Davis, by E. Sachs & Co.
1861
 

TRIMBLE, ISAAC P. A Treatise on the Insect Enemies of Fruit and Fruit Trees. With Numerous Illustrations drawn from Nature, by Hochstein, under the immediate supervision of the Author.
1865
 

WHITE, JAMES T. White's Physiological Manikin.
1889
 

WOOD, J.G. Animate Creation; Popular Edition of "Our Living World," a Natural History Revised and Adapted to American Zoology, by Joseph B. Holder.
1885
 

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