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  •   Verse for Volunteers – “Rhymed Tactics”   •  

  •   Jack – The Magic Beanstalk – The Printing Office  •  

  •   Caribbean Territories – The U.S., Canada, California – A Fold-Out Map & 28 Plates  •  

  •   A Choice Arte mexicana – Multiple “Firsts” Represented  •  

  •   The Wounds & Mysteries of Christ – The Shroud of Turin   •  

  •   Musaeum Kircherianum – A Great Museum Now Lost   •

  •   The Weigel Bible  (ALL ENGRAVED)   •  

  •   The First Crockett “Almanack” – The Alamo Issue   •  

  •   “It's my Cousin, M'am” & “The Cats Did It”   •  

  •   Educating the Deaf – A Signing Plate Present  •  

  •   Fancy Dress for Fancy Balls   •

  •   Guerilla Warfare for America (1775)   •  

  •   “JS's” Bible – His “Advent” Prayer – A Binding Mistake?  •  

  •   This Looks Just Like It Ought to Look  •  

  •   English Cookery, 1792 – A Perfect Science?   •  

  •   Classic “Pictorial” Americana“A Rich Quarry of Historic Wealth”   •  

  •   Independence Summer Here – Local Life Goes On  •  

  •   Cuisine de l’amour – A Special Copy   •  

  •   The Mad Maria Railroad – A Manuscript   •  

  •   Dombey & Son – Dickens Extra-Illustrated & Beautifully Bound by Riviere   •  

  •   A Broadside – A “Gentleman” Highwayman   •  

  •   Birds of the Bible – American Lithography – A Swell Binding   •  

  •   Native American Languages, Customs, Origins – Les Grandes Questions   •  

  •   American Humor, 1882 – Suppressed Chapters?!   •  

  •   A Manual for Zorro? – Illustrated Swordsmanship   •  

  •   Culinary, Commercial, & Military Science – Appert   •  

  •   A French-German-English Dance of Death   •  

  •   An Easter Pilgrimage Illustrated – 15 Plates, 9 Folding   •  

  •   Milton – A Lovely Set   •  

  •   Petrarch – A Volume That's Its Own Printing-History Footnote   •  

  •   Inflammatory Religious Cartoons – 18th-Century Style  •  

  •   “Tom Raw” – Calcutta Cut-Up   •  

  •   The Musical Entertainer – A STUNNING COPY   •  

  •   The Renaissance Physician   •  

  •   Champagne!   •  

  •   Featured for the Fourth of July  •  

  •   Frontinus on Aqueducts – 15 Plates   •  

  •   American BANKING in the 1920's – A 59-Volume “Snapshot”   •  

  •   A Lady's Lovely Testament – An Embroidered Dos-à-Dos Binding   •  

  •   Kate Douglas Wiggin – The Birds' Christmas Carol   •  

  •   Our Beasts   •  

  •   The Saw in History   •  

  •   ILLUMINATED – ILLUSTRATED – A 16th-Century NEW WORLD Manuscript   •  

  •   “Youthful Recreations” – Swinging, Trap Ball, I Spie, & Bait-the-Bear   •  

  •   The Anchor & Dolphin's FIRST Appearance – The First Aldine DANTE   •  

  •   LAO-TZU   •  

  •   The Factory Girl – An American Quartet   •  

  •   Victorian Gothic Revival Papier Mâché Binding   •  

  •   A Special English Buffon – 100+ Plates Handcolored   •  

  •   FASCINATION   •  

  •   A Valentine for a Valentine   •  

  •   The Aztec Calendar Stone – 1792   •  

  •   A Dissertation Defense 1754 – Haman & Mordecai – A Ferrara Broadside   •  

  •   An American Cultural Landmark – The Met's FIRST Presentation   •  

  •   A PA-German Woodcut Broadside – Handcolored Roads to Heaven & Hell   •  

  •   O'Beaglaoich's English–Irish Dictionary   •  

  •   A Splendid German, Pre-Luther Illustrated Bible   •  

  •   A Thick 18th-Century Lutheran Hymnal – The Tunes in Manuscript   •  

  •   A Long Lost, UNPUBLISHED NovoHispanic Play – Arriola   •  

  •   Coffee Coffee Coffee Coffee Coffee   •  

  •   Herburt – POLAND   •  

  •   An American SAMPLE Book – Multiple “Pitches” to Lucky Children   •  

  •   Harris's Giant Technical Lexicon   •  

  •   CHANTING (Enchanting)   •  

  •   Fontanus – The Grand Turk's Seige   •  

  •   An Illustrated English Aesop   •  

  •   Current Affairs – Ampere   •  

  •   Women's Rights & Abolition – A Chapman-Dall Association Copy   •  

  •   A German-American “Sabbath” Broadside   •  

  •   Elleanor Eldridge's Story   •  

  •   “Edinburgh Gothic”   •  

  •   A Carta in the Romantic Tradition – Both Illustrated & Illuminated   •  

  •   Robert Owen – Socialism “Preached” in Dublin, 1823   •  

    •   Tiny Worlds Revealed – Van Leeuwenhoek   •  

  •   A Vérard Book of Hours Fragment – Printed on Vellum & Illuminated   •  

  •   Miss Stratton's Methodist Memory Book – Tiverton to Rarotonga   •  

  •   “You and I”   •  

  •   Spanish Villancicos – A Collection   •  

  •   A “Thumb” Bible – Providence & Provenance   •  

  •   A Ladies' Emblem Book – The Moveable Parts ALL Present   •

  •   A Magnificent Incunable – A Spanish “Fifteener”   •  

  •   Christmas Every Day – Thanksgiving in November   •  

  •   An American “Family Heirloom” Bible, 1858   •

  •   Two by Bentham   •  

  •   Mathematics – A Blind Alley   •  

  •   Mrs. Gore's “Snowstorm”   •  

  •   How the Ancients Treated Their Dead – Porcacchi   •  

  •   An American Cantata for Women's Voices – 1841   •  

  •   A Torquemada – The “Livy of Mexico”   •  

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