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1 sheet 23 x 15 cm. The program consisted of the Cornell Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Karel Husa, performing Debussy's Prelude: L'Après-midi d'un Faune; Glazunov's Violin Concerto in A Minor with Sheldon Kurland on violin; J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concerto no. 2, featuring Adolf Scherbaum on trumpet, William Browder on flute, Theodore Lowi on oboe, and Sheldon Kurland on violin; Mozart's Symphony no. 31; and an excerpt from Smetana's Ma Vlast. Scherbaum's signature is in blue across the upper part of the program. Trumpeter Adolf Scherbaum played an important role in the revival of the Baroque trumpet. On this program he played the piece with which he was most associated, the second Brandenburg Concerto. The following year Sheldon Kurland moved to Nashville, where he became a session musician who worked on recording sessions for many country music stars. The flute in the Brandenburg was played by prominent mathematician William Browder, who was at the time Cornell University associate professor of mathematics. The oboe was played by Cornell professor of political science Theodore Lowi. In Very Good Condition: one vertical crease through the middle; clean and intact.
1963 Cornell Symphony Orchestra program signed by trumpet soloist Adolf Scherbaum
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University, 1963.
Price: $45.00
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24 p.; 22 cm. (4to) Signatures: [pi]4, B-C4. Half title: Rev. Mr. Bentley's ordination sermon. Old stitching, but not the original stitching. Ink notations on half title. In a different hand, on half title verso: "Matthew & Fearing Burrs Book, 1806." Matthew Burr (1773-1847) and his brother Fearing Burr (1778-1866) of Hingham, Mass., were members of the First Unitarian Church in Hingham, now known as the Old Ship Church. Includes: "The Charge" by the Rev. Joseph Barker of Middleborough, and "The Right Hand of Fellowship" by the Rev. John Briggs, pastor of the church and congregation in Plympton. Shaw & Shoemaker, 9957. Joseph Richardson (1778-1871) graduated from Dartmouth College in 1802 and was ordained in 1806, assigned to the first parish of the Unitarian Church in Hingham. He was a delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1820; served in the state house of representatives and the state senate in the 1820s; and represented Massachusetts in the 20th and 21st Congresses before returning to the ministry. In Very Good Condition: slightly soiled; a few leaves lightly foxed; complete, but with somewhat later stitching. A scarce work by Boston printer Hosea Sprague, with an interesting provenance.
A Sermon, Delivered July 2, 1806. At the ordination of Mr. Joseph Richardson, A.M. to the Pastoral Care of the Church and Congregation of the First Parish in Hingham
Bentley, William
Boston, Mass.: Hosea Sprague, 1806.
Price: $175.00
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1 sheet 20 x 16 cm. Printed in green and silver on beige stock, folded once vertically in the center. This event was described as the "premier appearance at a Philadelphia fraternity dance" of Cab Calloway and his Cotton Club Orchestra. A very scarce Cab Calloway item. In Very Good Condition: starting to separate at each end of vertical fold; lightly creased along upper edge; clean and bright.
Advertising Flyer: St. Patrick's Night Ball, Philadelphia, featuring Cab Calloway and his Cotton Club Orchestra, and Johnny Brown and his Great White Fleet Orchestra, hosted by the Sigma Alpha Pi Fraternity at the Elks Club on March 17
Philadelphia: Joseph Park, 1931.
Price: $85.00
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[28] p.: illustrations; 22 cm. Page count includes wrappers. Front wrapper illustration signed: Clarkson, Phila. Includes articles on the award of the Brandywine Farmers' Club of Chester County, Pennsylvania, to David H. Brownson of Guthrieville the premium for the best four acres of Indian corn; the discovery by Dr. George B. Wood, president of the American Philosophical Society, of a way to save peach trees in Pennsylvania; and the dangers of monoculture. Also includes the almanac for the year and recipes. Incomplete: lacking first leaf after front wrapper and three leaves before back wrapper; otherwise in Good Condition: wrappers are lightly soiled; wrappers partially separated at spine; corners creased; upper corner of front wrapper archivally repaired on inside; staining of lower margin throughout. A scarce copy of a Baer's almanac from the 1870s.
Agricultural Almanac For the Year 1872
Lancaster, Pa.: Printed and sold by John Baer's Sons, 1871.
Price: $7.00
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Title page continues: "With Observations on the cording it, its qualities, and the grievances we lie under by not having sufficient room to cord it in a reasonable time after it has come to market, where more landings may be made, or the present enlarged, &c. &c." 39, [1] p.; 21 cm. (8 inches). Last page contains an advertisement for a weekly literary publication, The Eye, sold at the printer's tookstore. Disbound from a nonce volume. Not in Early American Imprints, 2nd series (Shaw & Shoemaker). A detailed discussion of the use of firewood in the city of Philadelphia and the various city ordinances regulating its sale within the city, signed Another Citizen (p. 34). The printer, John Welwood Scott, started The Religious Remembrancer in 1813, which has been called the first religious weekly published in the United States. He was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1824. Extremely scarce early 19th-century Philadelphia publication. In Very Good- Condition: disbound; scattered foxing, most prominent on title page and last page (advertisement); otherwise clean.
An Address to the Citizens of Philadelphia, Relative to Several Ordinances concerning Fire Wood . . . Calculated to be No Less Useful to the Inhabitants of the Northern Liberties and the District of Southwark
Philadelphia, Pa.: J.W. Scott, 1808.
Price: $125.00
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[20] p.: 50 color cigarette cards; 13 x 19 cm. Covers are included in pagination. Red and green front cover illustration. Covers and pages are light green; outside of covers is printed in dark green. Inside front cover has illustration of a woman and two girls picking wild flowers. Contains Wills cigarette cards numbers 1-50 of the wild flower series (complete). W.D. & H.O. Wills was a branch of the Imperial Tobacco Company. In Very Good- Condition: small stain on front cover; foxing throughout, but heaviest and darkest on the front cover; cigarette cards are unaffected by the foxing. The earliest of the Wills cigarette card wild flower albums.
An Album of Wild Flowers
England: W.D. & H.O. Wills, 1923.
Price: $24.00
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The Edinburgh Geographical Institute; Copyright John Bartholomew & Co. 1 sheet 53 x 76 cm. Color map, dissected and mounted on linen. Light blue paper attached to front and back, when folded, printed in black. Cover title: Bartholomew's Road Map of England and Wales. Small printed label for Edward Stanford, "Geographer to the King," attached to map in lower right-hand corner next to copyright notice of John Bartholomew & Co. Lower caption notes: "Roads specially revised for Touring Cyclists." This map shows the southern part of Wales, containing Pembroke, Carmarthen, Cardigan, Radnor, Brecknock, Glamorgan, and parts of Monmouth and Hereford. In Very Good+ Condition: covers are somewhat soiled, but intact; two linen folds (out of six) just starting to separate from the top edge; otherwise a clean and solid map. An attractive copy of this scarce map from the 1920s showing routes appropriate for drivers and cyclists.
Bartholomew's Four Miles To the Inch Road Map of England and Wales: New Series Sheet 7: Southern Wales
London, Eng.: Edward Stanford, 1926.
Price: $18.00
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1 sheet 18 x 27 cm., intended to be folded once (but never folded), with an engraving of Benjamin Franklin walking on a city street, printed in blue and black. The image is 9.2 x 5.7 cm. "Engraved in 1956 it is here printed for the first time." In Fine Condition: clean and bright.
Benjamin Franklin: A Wood Engraving by John DePol with the Compliments of New York Club of Printing House Craftsmen on the occasion of the 1982 Printing Week Dinner
New York: Malcolm & Hayes, 1982.
Price: $25.00
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[36] p.: woodcut title vignette and illustration, tables; 18 cm. "Printed on the vertical press by D. & S. Neall." Error in imprint: Philadelphia spelled "Pailadelphia." Bound with duplicates of the first two leaves at back. In another issue the corrected spelling Bennett is used. Contains publisher's advertisement for Bennet & Walton's Darby's Universal Gazetteer, as well as for their paper warehouse on last page. Contains the schedule for the Pennsylvania and New Jersey court sessions. Early American Imprints, 2nd series (Shoemaker), 28100; Drake, Almanacs, 11573. In Very Good Condition: removed from a nonce volume; foxing.
Bennet & Walton's Almanack, for the Year of our Lord 1828: Being Bissextile, or Leap Year: Carefully Calculated for the Latitude and Meridian of Philadelphia
Cramer, Joseph
Philadelphia, Pa.: Bennet & Walton, 1827.
Price: $35.00
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[48] p.: woodcut title vignette and illustration, tables; 18 cm. Publisher's advertisement on last page. Although Sharp is named as the calculator of this issue, the calendar pages and the eclipse predictions (except for changes at the head and foot of the former) are offprints from Bailey's Rittenhouse Almanac for 1815 (Philadelphia: Lydia R. Bailey) calculated by William Collom. Sharp's name has, apparently unintentionally, been retained on the title page by Bennett & Walton from previous editions. Includes a poem by Henry Cogswell Knight, "The Orphan Benighted," and the poem "The Kitten," here published anonymously but written by Joanna Baillie. Also contains the schedule for the Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware court sessions. Early American Imprints, 2nd series (Shaw & Shoemaker), 30849; Drake, Almanacs, 11039. In Good+ Condition: removed from a nonce volume; old dampstaining; chipping to top edge and fore-edge of first leaf; otherwise a clean and solid copy. Bennett & Walton published an almanac annually from 1811 to 1820, but copies are very scarce.
Bennett & Walton's Almanac, for the Year of our Lord 1815, Being the Third After Leap Year: Calculated by Joshua Sharp
Collom, William
Philadelphia, Pa.: Bennett & Walton, 1814.
Price: $35.00
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36 p.: wood-engraved title vignette of astrological symbols; 18 cm. Includes monthly deaths of adults and children in Philadelphia during 1814 (p. 3), "Medical Receipts for the cure of cancers" (p. 28), the schedule for Pennsylvania courts, and the distance between post towns from Maine to Georgia. Early Am. Imprints, 2nd ser. (Shaw & Shoemaker), 34131; Drake, Almanacs, 11081. In Good Condition: removed from a nonce volume; last leaf detached but present; lower corners of first leaf lacking without loss of text; foxing. Almanacs by Bioren are very scarce.
Bioren's Town and Country Almanack, for the Year of our Lord 1816; Being Bissextile, or Leap Year
Collom, William
Philadelphia, Pa.: John Bioren, 1815.
Price: $30.00
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24 p.: illustrated advertisements; 20 cm. Stapled program printed in black and orange with "Lyric & Adelphi Theatres" on front cover. The program for "Blossom Time" at the Lyric Theatre beginning Mon., Oct. 23, 1922. Book and lyrics by Dorothy Donnelly; music from melodies of Franz Schubert and H. Berle adapted by Sigmund Romberg; under the personal direction of J.J. Shubert. Featuring Olga Cook, Zoe Barnett, Ann Milburn, Marion Barton, Ethel Branden, Emmie Niclas, Howard Marsh, Bertram Peacock and others. With ads for many Philadelphia businesses, including several ads for automobiles, the Daniels and the Jordan. In Very Good Condition: covers are lightly soiled; pages are clean and tight.
Blossom Time Playbill 1922 Philadelphia Lyric Theatre [book and lyrics by Dorothy Donnelly; music from melodies of Franz Schubert and H. Berle adapted by Sigmund Romberg]
Philadelphia, Pa.: Lyric Theatre, 1922.
Price: $9.50
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80 p.: illustrations; 26 cm. Paperbound with color photographs on both covers. Includes black-and-white photographs of garden and lawn tools, and color photographs of flowers, fruits, and vegetables. In Very Good Condition: edges of covers slightly creased; starting to separate along spine; pages are clean and bright. A scarce 1940s garden catalog.
Breck's Garden Book for 1947
Boston: Joseph Breck and Sons, 1947.
Price: $10.00
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24 p.: illustrated advertisements; 20 cm. Stapled program printed in black and green with "Lyric & Adelphi Theatres" on front cover. The program for "Buddies" starring Donald Brian, Peggy Wood, and Ralph Morgan at the Lyric Theatre beginning Mon., Jan. 17, 1921. A comedy by George V. Hobart; lyrics and music by B.C. Hilliam. With ads for many Philadelphia businesses, including the Jordan Playboy (an automobile produced by Petersen Motors); Mrs. Ethel Evans, psychic palmist; the Czecho-Slovak Orchestra at the Arcadia Cafe and Debney's Syncopated Orchestra at the St. James Hotel; and the reopening of the Florence Cowanova studio. In Very Good Condition: covers are slightly soiled; one light vertical crease throughout; 1/2-cm. tear from fore-edge of front cover; pages are clean and tight.
Buddies Playbill 1921 Philadelphia Lyric Theatre [by George V. Hobart; lyrics and music by B.C. Hilliam]
Philadelphia, Pa.: Lyric Theatre, 1921.
Price: $8.50
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34 p.: tissue-guarded frontispiece view of the school; 22 cm. Light purple wrappers printed in brown. Front wrapper title, title page, and each page of text within a decorative border. The frontispiece was printed by Maverick, Stephan & Co., Fulton, N.Y. The catalog was printed by Courier Print, Georgetown, Washington, D.C. First page of text identifies the school as the Ladies' Academy of the Visitation, founded in 1799. Includes a schedule of fees, and an alphabetical list of the pupils enrolled for the 1874-75 academic year, with state of residence. The program for graduation on June 25, 1875, is also given. In Good+ Condition: wrapper is soiled and dampstained; wrapper starting to separate from each end of spine; light crease in upper corner throughout; frontispiece and last leaf are dampstained; otherwise pages are clean and tight.
Catalogue of Pupils of the Georgetown Academy of the Visitation, B.V.M., for the Academic Year 1874-75
Georgetown, [Washington] D.C.: Georgetown Academy of the Visitation, 1875.
Price: $25.00
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5 typescript leaves in blue folded cover stamped "May 17 1915." Charles Muehlhauser died intestate on Dec. 24, 1874, leaving his widow, Mary Muehlhauser, and seven children. Mary Muehlhauser died on 3 April 1915 and by this document her remaining heirs released the dower righst to four tracts of land in Upper Salford Township, Montgomery County, Pa., to Jacob B. Kline. Signed on May 15, 1915, by Hattie R. Reiff, Allen G. Reiff, William F. Dannehower, William F. Muehlhauser, Alfred F. Muehlhauser, Morris F. Muehlhauser, William D. Rowland, Katharine H. Fox, and T. Darl Buckwalter. Embossed stamp of Katherine H. Fox, the notary public, on the last leaf. In Near Fine Condition: very slightly soiled.
Charles Muehlhauser Estate Release of Dower 1915 to Jacob B. Kline
1915.
Price: $12.50
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"Published by Chas. F. Cheffins, 9 Southampton Buildings, Holborn. And W.S. Orr & Co. Paternoster Row. Also by Wareing Webb, Castle Street, Liverpool." 1 map: handcolored engraved map; dissected and mounted on linen; 126 x 96 cm., folded to 20 x 13 cm. Scale: 10 miles to 1 inch. Front cover is blind-stamped cloth board; back cover is stiffened marbled paper. Small circular label for William Lipton Ltd. on back cover. In Good Condition: linen has separated along several folds, but no sections are entirely detached; some old repairs on the back; clean and bright. A very scarce mid-19th-century railway map.
Cheffins's Map of the Railways in Great Britain: From the Ordnance Surveys
Cheffins, Charles F.
London: Chas. F. Cheffins, 1848.
Price: $235.00
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"In Northern Ireland" is a lithograph based on a drawing made by DePol in 1944. Lacks date of publication; the date 1971 is from an exhibition of DePol's work at Georgetown University Library. In Fine Condition: clean and bright.
Christmas/New Year's Card with Illustrations by John DePol: In Northern Ireland, 1944
DePol, John
New York: Security-Columbian Banknote Company / Pandick Press, 1971.
Price: $7.50
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"Carefully calculated for the Latitude and Meridian of Philadelphia." [36] p.: wood-engraved title vignette and illustration of astrological signs; 18 cm. Publisher's advertisements on last two pages. Embossed oval stamp on first leaf for the Rittenhouse Club, Philadelphia. Four-digit number written in ink at foot of third page. Error in printing at foot of fifth page. Each month's page has a short poem about a bird at the foot. Contains a poem by Selleck Osborn, "The Faithful Negro Boy," and the schedule for Pennsylvania courts. Early American Imprints, 959; Drake, Almanacs, 11715. In Very Good- Condition: removed from a nonce volume; foxing; otherwise clean and tight.
Columbian Almanac for the Year 1831: Being the Third after Bissextile or Leap Year
Collom, William
Philadelphia, Pa.: Joseph M'Dowell, 1830.
Price: $30.00
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"Carefully calculated for the Latitude and Meridian of Philadelphia." [36] p.: wood-engraved title vignette and illustration of astrological signs; 19 cm. Publisher's advertisements on last two pages. Contains a humorous poem, "Schuylkill Navigation," about the Schuylkill Canal, built by the Schuylkill Navigation Company, which was chartered in 1815. Also the schedule for Pennsylvania courts. Shoemaker, 32775; Drake, 11626. In Fair Condition: removed from a nonce volume; lacking lower half of last leaf; chipping and small tears to first and last leaves, with archival repairs; foxing.
Columbian Almanac, for the Year 1829: Being the First after Bissextile, or Leap Year
Collom, William
Philadelphia, Pa.: Joseph M'Dowell, 1828.
Price: $28.00
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