[Rarebooks] F/S Unexpected ephemera finds from an old album / a Philadelphia broadside and bookplates

Garry R Austin austbook at sover.net
Fri May 6 19:21:59 EDT 2016


We offer the following net to all and postpaid at the prices below; 
These were extracted from an old scrap album.

Austin's Antiquarian Books
PO Box 730
Wilmington Vt 05363
802 464-8438
mail at austinsbooks.com

(Broadside Philadelphia) Thomas Shewell By Geo. M. Keim. (Philadelphia: 
Privately printed Tustin & Shewell, c1866).            
                             $95.00
Broadside measures 12.25" x 8"; there is a thin double rule at both top 
and bottom of the piece; it is mounted on an extracted album sheet, else 
very good; There are two iterations of this broadside, this and another 
with the title, "His son, Joseph B. Shewell, late of the firm of Tustin 
& Shewell, died very recently, and we design in our next number to give 
a sketch of the life of that honorable merchant and true gentleman." 
Tustin & Shewell are listed in Philadelphia directories through 1863; 
Joseph B. Shewell is listed through 1866, but not after. We were able to 
locate a copy at the Library Company of Philadelphia.


Over 30 19th century bookplates (with one or two exceptions) Bookplates 
are tipped onto two album pages, some are in color overall condition is 
very good. $75.00
The list follows;

Burgess Circulating Library Ramsgate
J. G. Auner Bookseller And Stationer 333 market St. 4 Doors Below Ninth 
St. Philadelphia (Bookseller's Tag)
Pennsylvania Library Assn. No. 889 By Laws
Arthur W. Clark M.D. "Who Borrow/ Books And Soon Restore/ May Come 
Again/ And Borrow More
Private Library John E. Burton Geneva lake Wis.
Metal School District No 188
Thomas Underwood Syweil Hall No. 101
"Property of the Young Men's Christian Association (Pink)
"Library of the Young Men's Christian Association Lancaster Pa (Yellow)
"Property of the Workingman's Free Circulating Library Lancaster Pa
"A. R. Shreve Library"
"Library of the Eclectic Society" (1846)
"Property of the Mechanic's Library Assn. Lancaster Pa "
Webster Library No. 45
No. 522 From The Library of Washington L. Atlee M. D.
C. J. Middleton Jr. No. 224
St Paul's M. E. Sunday School Library
Sunday School Library of St John's Church
Sunday School of St Paul's Church, Second Street, Columbia
The Library Company Of Philadelphia #26698
St Paul's M. E. Sunday-School Library No. 292
Library of the Delta Chapter of the Fraternity of Delta Psi
Miss Jordan's Circulating Library Lancaster
William Wirt Library And Literary Institute No. 385
School Book #20 Bloomsburg School District With Rules
Henry I Kershaw No.
Wm. Penn Library Bristol Pa No. 658
Hotel Allen Allentown Pa.
Library of the Athenian Society No. 3695
Elizabeth T. Wheless
Westerton's English and Foreign Library St. George's Place Hyde Park Corner
Board of School Commissioners of Baltimore County







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