[Rarebooks] F/S 10 Ephemeral items from recent cataloguing

[Garry R Austin]

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(Death of President Harrison) The Lowell Courier, April 13, 1841; 
Lowell: Leonard Huntress, 1841.            
                                 $125.00
Folio; 17.5" x 13.5"; pp; 4; illustrated masthead & cuts for the 
Shipping and Railroad ads; very good; The Death & Funeral of President 
William Henry Harrison; Tyler succeeds to the Presidency; Also a story 
of a schoolboy who has had his teacher arrested for corporal punishment.

(Shoes) Adolph Meyer & Co. Big Catalogue 4. Boston: Adolph Meyer & Co., 
1900.                                                                 
$30.00
Octavo, (8.75" x 5.75"); pp; 40; illustrated with black and white 
drawings of shoes & boots; original printed decorated paper wrappers; 
Near fine; A wee array of shoes for dress or casual wear. "Our 
Celebrated Warranted Shoes".

Taxi Hack Sign 1877 P. Barnes Hack No. 10; with list of fares. The sign 
states that; "P. Barnes Hack No. 10 List of Fares; On or after this date 
May 14, 1877 this carriage will be run as follows; Adults 50 Cents, 
Children Under 15 yrs, 25 Cents....                          $45.00

Sign measures 6" x 8.5" on salmon colored card stock, Very good.

(Teaching License) Hollis NH. 1858; Hamson D. Evans is qualified to 
teach in the District 
School.                                                            $20.00

(Tourism) The Northfield, East Northfield Massachusetts, Open All The 
Year. (Np: No printer), 1913.                                   $45.00
Octavo; 9.25" x 6.25"; pp; 16; illustrated with black and white 
photographs and a map; original string-tied decorated printed paper 
wrappers lettered in black; Very good; Quite scarce, OCLC locates just 
two copies; Descriptions and views of surrounding attractions; images 
of: The Northfield; French King; The Northfield ferry; Mill Brook dam; 
Northfield Seminary buildings and grounds; The old Northfield Street; 
Frederick Marquand Memorial Hall; Wanamaker Lake.

(Jewelry Catalogue) J. E. Caldwell & Co. The Insignia, National Society 
Daughters Of The American Revolution  Philadelphia: J. E. Caldwell & Co, 
c1918.                                                            $30.00
First edition; octavo, 7.5" x 5"; pp; (20); illustrated with insignia, 
plaques, spoons, etc; original printed decorated paper wrappers; very 
good; Scarce. This Jewelry store opened in 1839 and served Philadelphia 
to just the summer of 2016 when it closed.

(Meggendorfer & Silouettes) Bates, Reed & Cooley. A Souvenir Of The 
F.H.S.S. of 1882. (New York: Max Jaegerhuber for Bates, Reed & Cooley), 
1882.                                             $45.00
Octavo; 10" x 7.25"; pp; 24; illustrated in black and white with 
silouettes, double page "Language of the Fan", cartoons and a colored 
centerfold, "Children's Carnival" by L. Meggendorfer; original printed 
pictorial paper wrappers; wear at extremities else very good; Bates, 
Reed & Cooley was a New York retailer of "stable and fancy dry goods, 
notions and carpets". This piece is unrecorded.

(Broadside) To The Parents, Guardians, Masters and others of School 
District No. 8 in Salem N. H. August 18, 1873; (Mandatory School 
Attendance). Salem No Printer,  1873.                           $45.00
Printed with with black ink measuring 7.75" x 10"; Scarce. Folds 
smoothed, else, very good. This broadside states the law requiring 
mandatory school attendance for children within a certain distance from 
a school. It further elucidates the penalties for violation of the law. 
The broadside is actually signed by Samuel J. Robinson, School Committee 
of Salem N.H.

(Dentistry) E. Clifford Wadsworth D.D.S. Trade Card. New York: Lyon & 
Ames, c1875.                                                        $35.00
Card measures (3.5" x 2.5"); Information is surrounded by a gilt 
decorative border; The office is located at 53 Bedford St. in Brooklyn. 
The verso of the card houses, "Rules For The Care Of The Teeth". 
Wadsworth is profiled in Beecher's, The Eagle And Brooklyn.

(Music) Segarra, Tomas. Musicalische Beylagen zu Don T. Segarra's 
Poesias Populares. Np: No publisher, 1862.                          $25.00
Oblong 16mo, (7" x 9.5"); pp; 51; original printed brown paper wrappers; 
edge wear, front wrapper detached but present, else internally very good;
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