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Chicago and New York: [J. L. Taylor], 1920.
Collection of 18 beautiful advertising mailers for men's clothing made by J. L. Taylor, a subsidiary of the International Tailoring Company.
These colorful advertising mailers range in size from 4" x 6.5" folded to 13.25" x 14.25" unfolded. All are tri-folds, leporellos, posters, or pamphlets. Many have die-cuts, lift-the-flaps, cut-outs, etc. All have gone through the mail; most are franked with 1-cent green Franklin stamps (in use from 1908-1922) with Chicago or New York City pre-cancels. Minor wear. The J. L. Taylor - International Tailoring Company was a large men's clothing supplier in the early 1900s with major offices and production facilities in Chicago and New York. The company did not sell directly to customers. Instead, it provided department stores and tailors with large swatch/sample books. After customers picked out styles and fabrics, on-site tailors would take measurements and forward them to the company where the clothing was made. The… Read More

Washington, DC, 1857. Envelope or Cover. Very good. This handbill advertisement measures approximately 8" x 10 and is printed on light blue paper. Its accompanying mailing envelope is addressed "To the Heirs of Mrs. Ruth Bullard." The envelope is franked with a straddle copy of a one-cent blue Franklin stamp (Scott #24) that a previous owner has identified as coming from plate position 100L8. The stamp is tied to the cover with and indistinct circular postmark. Both advertisement and envelope are in nice shape. The advertisement has mailing folds and is loosely mounted to thin cardstock; the adhesive is likely water soluble and the handbill could probably be removed with minimal if any damage. The federal government provided bounty land for those who served in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, and Indian wars between 1775 and 1855. It was first offered as an incentive to serve in the military and later as a reward for service. The land could be claimed by veterans or their… Read More

Cincinnati: Caleb Clark Book & Job Printer, 1865. Wraps. Very good. Complete 24-page pamphlet. Sound binding. Removed from a sammelband so a little rough along the left edge. Minor soiling to the cover, otherwise in nice shape. In 1780, before Kentucky was a state, the Virginia Assembly (perhaps prodded by Governor Thomas Jefferson) chartered Transylvania Seminary, then affiliated with the Episcopal Church, as the first college west of the Allegheny Mountains. It began in a log cabin in Boyle County and moved to Lexington in 1789. Ten years later, it changed its name to Transylvania University. By 1818, it included a medical school, a law school, a divinity school, and a college of arts and sciences. About the same time, Bacon College of Georgetown was established and it soon changed its name to Kentucky University. At the end of the Civil War, both Kentucky University and Transylvania University were in dire financial straits, and the state legislature approved a merger in hopes of solving… Read More

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1952. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Szyk, Arthur. 4to. Four-volume set (two volumes of text/illustrations plus two volumes of notes), Limited edition, #309 of 1500. 60 multi-color illustrations. Black linen covers with gilt decoration. Housed in two black slipcases. Includes the original advertisement and newsletter. Sound bindings with intact hinges. Slight foxing to edges of the text blocks on two volumes. Almost no wear to the covers; the gold decorations are bright, fresh, and unrubbed which is quite the exception for this set. The slip cases have some minor wear at their corners. Burton's definitive translation of 65 of the 1001 stories told by Scheherazade the Sultaness to divert Shahryar the Sultan from executing her as he had previously done to hundreds of his other wives. Coupled with the marvelous illustrations of Arthur Szyk.

Rome: Medici Oriental Press, 1591. Disbound. Very good. This 20 x 30.4 cm (approximately 8" x 12") leaf is from Arba'at Anajil Yasu' al-Masih Sayyidina al-Muquddasah. Sacrosancta quatuor Iesu Christi D. N. Evangelia (The Four Gospels of Jesus Christ). Faint dampstain at top margin. Includes an attractive woodcut illustration (5" x 4") of Luke 7:11-17, Jesus raising of the son of the widow of Nain. In 1584, with the endorsement of Pope Gregory XIII, the Orientalist Giovanni Battista Raimondi, founded the Medici Oriental Press in Rome, which published books in Arabic, Syriac, Hebrew, Ethiopic and Persian in an attempt to spread the Gospel throughout the East. This book was published in two versions in 1591. One, in Arabic only text was printed for evangelical use in the east. The other was printed in both Arabic and Latin and intended also to be used as a teaching vehicle for Europeans scholars to learn Arabic. Both were filled with illustrations, and those that depicted God created discontent with… Read More

New York: For D.T. Valentine's Manual for 1861 by Geo Haywood, 1861. Disbound. Very good. The hand-colored, lithographed map image measures 22" x 16.5" and has a 7/8" margin at top, a 5/8" margin on the right and bottom, and a 1/8" margin along most of the left edge where it had been trimmed when bound into David T. Valentine's Manual of the Common Council of the City of New York. It is oriented with north to the right. Hachures show relief, and military units are depicted in red and blue. The map was said to have been "copied from an original map kindly loaned to the compiler by Mr. A. Suart." There is some light toning along the binding folds and sheet edges. Some of the folds have short splits. There is a small (1/4") hole above the 's' in "Hudson's" and a ¾" closed tear at the left edge of the Hudson River. On 16 November 1776, the Hessian General Wilhelm von Knyphausen and his army of 8,000 German mercenaries and British regulars attacked Fort Washington (now the location of Bennet Park… Read More

Belmont Farm, Leesburg, Virginia, 1915. Good to Very Good. This archive is of items related to Ferguson and his family. It consists of An unframed 1860 debating team oval plaque is 12" x 14". It is titled "Addisonian Contestants March 8, 1860 / Allegheny City College" and filled with calligraphic scrollwork. Each of its four oval albumin photographs measure 2.5" x 3.5" of the Debater, Essayest (J. S. Ferguson), Delaimer, and Orator. The photographs have faded; there is a crease at the top, and it is lightly soiled and toned. A circa 1900 opalotype (milk glass photograph) of a young Anna Louis Ferguson (daughter of J. S. Ferguson) roughly cut into a 2" x 3" oval that is attached to a metal hanger and has a neatly-cut protective glass cover. Its frame is missing. The opalotype is in nice shape with an accompanying note reads, "Mrs. Wm Rogers . . . who many years ago restored Belmont for a summer home." 20 scrapbook pages ranging from 1883 to 1914 and contain articles, clippings, and obituaries.… Read More