![Baco Batik Dyes . . . Sample Card No. 65 [cover title]. Bachmeier, Inc Co](/pictures/thumb/14570.jpg?v=1465913973)
New York: Bachmeier & Co., [ca. 1920-1930?]. Original red cloth portfolio, approx. 8-3/4 x 6 inches, gilt lettering, 3 pages text. 151 dyed thread samples enclosed in 5 mounted portfolio of cards that unfold to an approx. 24-inch leaf, with text. An attractive portfolio, with bright samples of direct dyes..... More
[Philadelphia: Philadelphia Game Mfg. Co., 1915]. First edition. Single leaf of letterhead with a printed mimeo letter, approx. 11 x 8.5 inches, with an approx. 7x 6 order form ("1915 Line-Ups Now Ready") and an attached leaflet printed recto and verso (with halftone illus. of the game) measuring approx. 6.25..... More
(Cincinnati: Pulvermacher Galvanic Co., 1879). [but ca. 1891]. A later version of this promotional pamphlet. 8vo, original blue printed wrappers, 30, [8] pages. Illus. On the myriad benefits of this galvanic belt, aimed in large part at male sexual debility and impotence; Pulvermacher was one of the pioneers in this..... More
Boston, June 25, 1877. 2 pages on 1 leaf, approx. 10.5 x 8.25 inches. With the original cover. The business of bourbon in the Gilded Age, a letter on the transfer of notes and sales updates and on getting security from a delinquent New Hampshire customer: "Now in regard to..... More
Hudson, N. Y., February 1876-February 1877. Single lined sheet of letterhead measuring approx. 14 x 8.5 inches, with Chace's account written in legible ink recto and verso and marked as paid in full, March 22, 1877. Per a Columbia County history of 1900, Chace was a Civil War veteran and..... More
Pittsburgh: (Myers, Shinkle, & Co., Printers), 1896. Large 8vo, rebound in stiff wrappers with the original substantial fragments of the worn printed wrappers laid down, with a facsimile long-distance map and a facsimile C.D. & P. telephone ad mounted on the front and rear inside wrappers, 288 pages. An early..... More
(St. Louis: T. Salamonski & Co., 1885). First edition. 12mo, original alligator-texture boards, black lettering, [7], [1] pages. Color fold-out illustrated schematic chart. An ephemeral seven-page introduction to English grammar, with an attractive fold-out illustrated color chart that lays out the relationships of the parts of speech in a wheel..... More
Central Falls, R. I. E. L. Freeman & Co., Printers, [1881]. First edition. Small 8vo, original gilt-printed glazed navy blue wrappers, 44 pages. Illus. Printed slip tipped to the front wrapper, reading in part, "Prices Subject to Change Without Notice . . ." An interesting illustrated trade catalogue, with cuts..... More
Chicago: n. p., August 25th, 1862. First edition. Single leaf printed recto only on blue oiled paper, 10.13 x 7.5 inches. "Alcohol, Linseed Oil and Turpentine are particularly unsettled. If excise duty is to be commenced on September 1st, a number of articles will advance materially." An ephemeral token of..... More
![Radway and His Patrons [wrapper title]. Radway's Ready Relief, Dr. Radway, Co](/pictures/thumb/16359.jpg?v=1465913984)
New York: Dr. Radway & Co., [ca. 1880]. Likely a later issue of this promotional pamphlet. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, 32 pages. Illus. Promotion for Radway's Ready Relief (with its active ingredient sarsaparillian) from a firm established in 1848 by John and Richard G. Radway and carried on by the..... More
Toledo, O. Electro-Chemical Ring Co., [1911]. First edition thus. Unbound brochure, 6 x 3.5 inches, [4] pages. Illus. An attractive little quack promotional pamphlet for a ring purported to draw acid from the blood, here made up entirely of testimonial letters dated 1911 attesting to the efficacy of the ring..... More
Toledo, O. Electro-Chemical Ring Co., 1909. First edition thus. 16mo, original pictorial self-wrappers, 31, [1] pages. Illus. An attractive little quack promotional pamphlet for a ring purported to draw acid from the blood and thus to cure afflictions ranging from diabetes to cancerous tumors to rhinolith—”a stony concretion formed in..... More
(Long Beach, California: Glandualar Products Co.), [ca. 1954]. First edition. Unbound folded brochure, 8.5 x 2.75 inches folded (8.5 x 11 unfolded), [4] pages. Illus. An attractive promotional pamphlet. Premature ejaculation cured with the topical application of Dybutol; Vita-Gland supplements for men over 40 available over the counter. Includes both..... More
![Plain Guide to Spiritualism . . . [caption title]. Spiritualism, William White, Co, Prospectus](/pictures/thumb/18956.jpg?v=1555947536)
Boston: Wm. White & Co., [1863]. First edition. Broadside, 13.5 x 9.75 inches. A fine, detailed, and ephemeral promotional broadside for Uriah Clark’s Plain Guide to Spiritualism, a proposed large octavo volume of superior type, paper, and binding, from the press of the stalwart spiritualist publishers who here make much..... More
London, Ontario and Buffalo, N.Y. Spramotor Co., 1908-1909. First edition. Tall 16mo, original pictorial wrappers in red, green, black and yellow, approx. 8.75 x 3.75 inches, 80 pages. Illus. 4-page unbound brochure for the Horse-Power Spramotor laid in. "Let's talk of Worms, Bugs and Parasites, and how to kill them."..... More
![The Power of Electro-Magnetism [self-wrapper title]. Vit-o-Net Mfg. Co](/pictures/thumb/18306.jpg?v=1515979537)
Chicago: Vit-o-Net Mfg. Co., 1926. First edition. Slim 8vo, original pictorial self-wrappers, 31, [1] pages. Illus. Detailed promotional pamphlet for Vit-o-Net electric magnetic blanket, with numerous vague promises of improved health and a proven track record; includes some detail on the technology of creating electromagnets. Ink autograph note “1929” at..... More
[Richmond, Ind.? n. p., 1882]. First edition. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers printed in red and black, 8 pages. Illus., including a striking full-page view on the inside front wrapper of a Richmond Champion Grain Drill in action. An attractive trade catalogue for this manufacturer of agricultural machinery. The testimonials from..... More
[New York]: Press of Gutenberg, Faust & Schoffer, 1889. First edition. Original printed stiff red wrappers, 9.63 x 6.88 inches, [9] pages. Frontis, illustrations from comical stock cuts. A wonderful and uncommon jeu d’esprit celebrating an Edison patent legal victory, executed as a pastiche of Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”..... More
