Search Results: Authors starting with P from Eclectibles

1805. Intact tear one overlay. Else fine.. A 3.5" x 3" watercolor bust of a women gazing slightly to the right on 6" x 5 1/4" card stock. Finely detailed face. Inscribed on reverse "Miss Millett with J.P..W's love". This is accompanied by sixteen (16) different overlays of costumes for women of various stations, nationalities and occupations including a Spartan Soldier, a Scot, a Farm women(with the wheat stalks) and a Germanic costume. A few are captioned in pencil and include Cottage Wife, Persian, Inn Page, and Poor Girl (crying into an empty purse). Intricate designs, all with hats. The hats may be adorned with flowers, upswept hair, feathers or ribbons. All fashions slightly naive, yet well executed. The overlay watercolor drawings include head covering, hair and bodice each with a cut-out for the face of the woman. To view images, click: https://photos.app.goo.gl/jhzZtQu6sHkUixqN6.

Berlin, 1857. A 3 3/4" x 6" album. Gilt stamp front and back "Album" on front and the owner's initials "S.A.P" on the back. She received it as a Christmas present. Free end paper inscribed with her name and date and location, which is Berlin, presumably Germany, but written in an English hand. The verso has an embedded Kunstbillet or German/Austrian hand constructed and painted friendship token. A fine mesh backing with delicate gilt border design. Friendship verse at base printed in German, a pair of love birds flank a gilt footed vase with an array of hand painted and applied flowers. A stunning find in an album of this nature. There are only 10 entries but they do tell a story. The first 3 were from Berlin and written in French and dated 1957. The remaining are from the Boston MA area including Jamaica Plains, Cambridge and Roxbury. Most are by women. Additional adornments in the book include a silver lace paper wreath surrounding a signature and an applied linen label depicting a building labeled… Read More

Providence, RI: Paine & Webster, [1860]. Stephen Paine was a manufacture and dealer of scientific items, but more specifically, optical Goods. Opening in 1860, with his partner Mr. Webster, his shop on Westminster St, in Providence, RI, sold spectacles, eyeglasses, opera glasses, and optical glasses, optical goods, and fine jewelry. This particular single-fold trade catalogue for the store lists inventory on a variety of glass thermometers, hydrometers, urinometer, and lactometer. The flyer claims that the store has "one of the largest stocks in New England" and that "especial [sic] attention given to selecting first-class, accurate Thermometers for Mechanical uses." Measures 10" x 8" (unfolded)

New York, New York: American Social Hygiene Association, 1939. Very good. Minor toning, short tear to lower foot of spine, a little rubbed at extremities.. Printed sex education pamphlet distributed by the New Jersey State Department of Health titled "Some Information for Mother". Penned by a man, the book presents itself in the form of a story in which a humble fisherman explains the birds and the bees to a professor's children using exclusively nature metaphors. Presumably, it is meant to be a guide for mothers on how to approach the topic of sex with their young children. It purports to be the ninth printing, with the first in 1914. 16mo (6.25" by 3.5"), pp. 16, with in-text illustrations, stapled in original printed wrappers.

Slate Hill, PA: Susquehanna Slate, 1859. General wear. Missing corner.. The item is two letters addressed to Reverend Benjamin William Chidlaw written on a finely illustrated circular. The letters are written on a single page, which has been folded in half, with the first letter written on the inside fold and the second has been pasted onto the backside. What is perhaps most salient about these letters, is the stationary it is written on. The front of this single fold stationary is from Isaac Parker's business, Susquenhanna Slate which is "Equal to the Best Welsh" and located in Slate Hill, PA. It has a beautiful black and white illustration on the top half of the page which showcases the quarry and excavation equipment used to remove the slate. On the bottom, it provides information on the quarry itself, such as that the slate is used for roofing materials and that they are the go-to slate quarry who provides materials for the US Government for roofing public buildings. In regards to the letters… Read More

Esslingen bei Stuttgart: J. F. Schreiber, 1888. A portion of the left brick archway is lacking. Separations at base where cover attaches to fold-down pop-up. A vibrant triptych of three (3) pop-up scenes including the three Wisemen, passersby, shepherds, sheep, the cattle and an angel holding a palm branch. The actual crib scene and the Star of Bethlehem are part of the background scene. Brick and wooden building tier separates the pop-ups from the manger. The stable on the left houses the cow and hay. There is a seated camel and wiseman pop-up in the foreground The second the manger scene. There is a wiseman atop a richly draped camel on the right. All depicted in four layers. Measures 14" x 31" when standing upright.

Kingsport, TN: Kingsport City Schools, 1953. This is a brochure prepared for parents of children in public schools in Kingsport, Tennessee. It is directed towards the parents who are sending their kids to school for the first time. The brochure is divided up into categories: Rules & Regulations, Visits & Conferences, Health & Safety, Readiness in Subject-matter Areas, Home-School Cooperation, Suggested List of Children's Books, and References of Interest to Parents of School-Beginners. Along with the information presented, there are cartoon line drawings throughout. 26 pp. Illustrated wraps. Measures 8 1/2" x 5 1/2

Chicago: Hamming Publishing Co, 1914. 94 pp. Applied printed color cover, verses by Leonora Pease with vibrant color illustrations by Ella Dolbear Lee. A collection of verses and illustrations of different dolls. Does have stereotyped derogatory comments and images common to the time period. Has dolls including, the little bisque belle, the little jap man, the pickaninny dolls, the calico girl and worsted boy, little eskimo doll, candy mermaid, sailor boy blue, and Chief Zula Lu OCLC: 4 (10/10/2016) 9 3/4" x 8" some wear and staining on cover, inside binding split on title page-all pages are still intact , occasional finger prints on pages, spine material has come off in spots, ex libris sticker over inscription.

New York: Charles Scribner's Son, 1910. 219 pp, green gilt stamped cloth over board covers with applied litho. B&W illustrations and plates, 68 in total. This is a travel tourism book for the state of California. The author asserts that "California possesses many of the charms that we are accustomed to associate only with certain parts of the Old World." The author takes the reader all over California from San Francisco, to the Farallon Islands to the mountains. Illustrated by the author. Measures 9" x 6 1/2" Edge wear due to rubbing, particularly, on back strip. Moderate cover wear. Inscription by previous owner. Cracked hinges.

New York, NY: Harper & Bros, 1895. Excellent. Please note with top margin as accidentally cropped off the image. Margin intact.. 13.5" by 9.5" on light stock depicting Penfield illustration of a modern woman walking through the woods reading Harper's Monthly Magazine. Printed in blue, green and orange. It is promoting the Harper's September 1895 issue. It lists six (6) of issues articles including "Mental Telegraphy Again" by Mark Twain. Reverse is blank.

Chicago, Illinois: The Tribune Company, 1919. Toned with some short tears and nicks to margins.. A grouping of seven (7) "Dolls of All Nations" newspaper sheets, featuring a total of twenty-eight (28) uncut dolls from the series. The series celebrated and fostered international friendship among children following World War I. Each of the dolls here wears the traditional costume or fashion of a particular cultural or ethnic group, and can be cut out and propped up with another piece of paper to play with as a paper doll. The cultures represented in this grouping are: Italian; Greek; Cuban; Swiss; French; Javanese; Hawaiian; Persian; Spanish; Dutch; Canadian; Serbian; Danish; Chilean; Sudanese; Japanese; Egyptian; Cossack; Brazilian; Scotch; Irish; Arabian; Chinese; Mexican; Welsh; Portuguese; and Finnish. Of note is the inclusion of a "Colored" doll, which presumably was meant to represent African-American; interestingly, there would be an American doll later in the series, which highlights the… Read More

New York, NY: McLoughlin Brothers, 1875. Light neck bend.. 8 pp, tells the classic story of Cinderella with a large beautifully colored picture on each page. The back cover lists several other books by the McLoughlin Brothers includinng: "Big Picture Series", "Uncle Ned's Picture Books" and "Ancient Nursery Rhymes." This book has moderate cover and edge wear. The binding has been re-sewn. There are several intact tears, but on the covers and the interior pages. Measures: 9 1/2" x 6 1/2

Boston: Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer Andrews, 1800. First edition. heavy wear.. January, 1800., 1800. 596 pp. Square. Laid paper. Inscribed "Stephen Pease Book price 6/. Significant wear.

Springfield, MA: McLoughlin Bros. Inc., 1936. Corner bumps; otherwise fine.. Norma Whiting. Unpaginated. Applied litho on cloth binding. Illustrated end papers with pigs. In-text three-color anthropomorphic animal images throughout. Stories of Peter the little pig who lived at Folly Farm. These stories were broadcast on Madge Tucker, director of Children's Programs for National Broadcasting Company, Sunday Morning Children's Hours. Content includes Peter Pig Discovers Things, Peter Pig Takes a Prancing Lesson, Petter Pig Meets a Ghost, Mumsy Pig takes a Holiday, A Pig is judged by the way he oinks and much more. Measures 7" x 10".

Chicago, IL: J. J. Spalding & Co, 1872. General stains, toning, and wear due to age. Edge wear to covers, smalls sections are missing along edges. Covers are nearly fully detached. Minor penciling on back cover.. A printed copy of a paper read before the Louisville College of Pharmacy by Conrad Lewis Diehl (1840-1917) during a pharmaceutic meeting at the College. Diehl was a prominent pharmacist of his time, and the paper includes information on how to make some of his more popular and effective elixirs, such as: Elixir of Calisaya Bark, Simple Elixir, Wine of Orange, and Elixir of Pyrophosphate of Iron, Quinia, and Strychnia. 9 pgs. Printed wrappers. String binding. OCLC 1 (February 2021). Measures 9" x 6" The Louisville College of Pharmacy was established in 1870 in Louisville, KY due in large part to Conrad Lewis Diehl (1840-1917) who was known as one of America's most important Pharmacists. Diehl even served as College President for a time. In 1947 it merged with the University of Kentucky, and… Read More

New York: P.J. Cozans, 1856. 16 pages. Wraps. 8 relevant full page hand finished lithograph illustrations. Stereotyped by Vincent L. Dill. Content includes Willy and Frank Too-Late, A Morning on the Ice, A Morning-Ride, Billy's Rabbits, Harry's New Kite, Saturday Afternoon and Jack the Shepherd Boy. Measures 8 3/8" x 6 1/2" Back cover lacking. front cover held in place with tape. Text block/illustrations VG condition.

152 Nassau St. cor. of Spruce N.Y.: Lith. & pub. by N. Currier, 1849. Light to moderate wear. with some light margin toning.. A 13 1/3" x 9" hand colored lithograph depicting a portrait of Tom Thumb standing on a somewhat regal looking chair, with his hands on his hips. The image is surrounded by 13 vignettes of Thumb appearing in various roles from Cupid to Sampson and Hercules. It is captioned "General Tom Thumb, Born in 1837 - 31 Inches and weights, only 25 Pounds from a Daguerreotype by Plumbe. A footer at base reads HAVING BEEN CONNECTED FOR 12 YEARS WITH P.T. BARNUM ESQ. IS NOW TRAVELLING FOR THE SOLE BENEFIT OF HIMSELF. Reverse is blank. The footer at base was obviously a publicity stunt as Tom Thumb remained in Barnum for most of his life. That said Tom Thumb (Charles S. Stratton) was a world renown performer.

Reading, MA, 1887. General wear, fading and toning due to age.. A small booklet which is the catalogue of items sold by Henry W. Plummer, who had a business in Reading, MA where he made and sold a variety of items. According to the catalogue he sold a variety of extracts (flavoring and handkerchief), toilet articles such as powder, combs, and soaps, items meant of the "Gent's Toilet" such as shaving soap and razors, numerous medicines both in tincture and pill form, spices, and lastly several miscellaneous items like dyes, root beet, machine oil, and adhesive plasters. Dated using by first using Plummer's obituary (July 13, 1911), which states that at his time of death he had been in business in Reading, MA for 25 years, and secondly, by a notice in the newspaper (October 21, 1887), which states that the printer of the booklet, L. J. Poore, is going out of business, and as such the booklet dates to circa 1886-1887. 8 pgs. Printed green wrappers. Printer: L. J. Poore, Wilmington, MA. OCLC 0 (February… Read More

New York, New York: American Social Hygiene Association, 1947. Very good.. A revised guide for families, teens and young adults to "Betrothal" (i.e. engagement), emphasizing the importance of the practice for determining whether a couple has made a good marriage match. Describes it as a transition period necessary for emotional maturation. Discourages physical intimacy before marriage in concordance with the social mores of the time, citing consequences such as unexpected pregnancy or "disillusionment with marriage" (p. 13). Declares that "civilization is suffering enough already from lack of any feeling of responsibility" without premarital sex entering the mix. A publication very "of its time". Single vol. (6.25" by 3.5"), pp. 16, stapled in original printed self wrps.

New York: Mark H Newman, 1835. 304pp, leather covers. The full title of this book is 'The Rhetorical reader : Consisting of Instructions for Regulating the Voice, with a Rhetorical Notation, Illustrating Inflection, Emphasis, and Modulation, and a Course of Rhetorical Exercises.' This is the two hundred and twentieth Edition, with an Appendix. Measures 7" x 4 1/2" Leather covers show edge wear and damage due to rubbing, especially on the spine where a piece has separated from the block on the top. Additionally there is a piece of leather missing on the top right corner of the front cover. Interior pages are soiled and tone due to age, with some foxing. The free end paper and fly paper are missing the top right corner. Additionally there is penciling on the end papers.