New York: Jaques & Brother, 1852. Sheet music with hand-colored lithographic front cover. 4 pages. Front and back covers detached. Showing some light staining and foxing. In very good condition. Sheet music for solo piano, William Dressler's "Fort Hamilton Polka Redowa, Respectfully Dedicated to Miss Jane Anna Fellows". The image on the front cover shows two steamships, two small sailboats, and a three masted tall ship on the water in front to Fort Hamilton near Bay Ridge in Brooklyn... More

London: G. Nicol, 1796. View. Engraving with modern hand coloring. Image measures 11.25" x 17.25". From Sir George Staunton's "An authentic account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China" More

London: Ben. Brooks, 1839. View (set of four). Aquatint with original hand coloring. Each page measures 14" x 16". Beautiful set of four aquatints depicting the first steeple-chase race on record. Plate I is titled "Ipswich, the Watering-place behind the Barracks", Plate II "The large field near Biles's Corner", Plate III "The last field near Nacton Heath" and Plate IV "Nacton Church and Village". Unusual for depicting night scenes, these four plates were published in "A Monthly Chronicle of The..... More

Minneapolis. Original poster mounted on linen. Measures 80" x 40 3/4" This vibrant oversize World War I poster shows an illustration of an open chest labeled "Minneapolis" with a sign reading "Give Your Share" on the inside lid. Below the chest reads "60 Funds (Local and War Relief) In One". Folded as issued. In good condition, with some chipping and cracking along fold lines. Beautiful colors. Hard to find. See 294712 for alternate version. More

American Airlines, 1945. Color lithograph. Image measures 24" x 36", mounted to 38.75" x 26.75" canvas. In very good condition. Image shows American Airlines employees encircling a globe that shows new US and European flight routes. More

Vienna: 1809. Broadside. Printed in Vienna at the Government Palace, July 12, 1809. Measures 14" x 15.25". Bilingual broadside in French and German posted during Napoleon's second occupation of Vienna. The notice demands that the population contribute their subsistence and housing to the French occupying forces. It is interesting to note that a version of this Broadside currently housed in the permanent collection of the University of California at Berkeley appears on the internet in French only. Fine condition... More

New York: Carey Show Print. Poster. Page measures 85 1/2" x 40". This large scale World War I poster features patriotic red, white, and blue fonts to underscore its message. The Friars and the Lambs, two organizations operating at the time of the War (and still today), participated in fundraising contests for the United War Work Campaign or UWWR. That 1918 campaign was charged with raising $170,000,000 to help demobilize the army and maintain morale in the final few years..... More

London. Tinted lithograph. Image measures 12.5" x 16.75". In this print, a young and old fallow buck lay in a grassy field, with the young buck, distinguishable by his spots, resting his head on the stomach of the older deer. Fallow deer are native to Europe, and the sight is one that would not have been uncommon in the countryside of England, where the print was likely published circa 1840. The deer's antlers and fur have been rendered with exquisite..... More

Very scarce unsigned original black and white photograph, c. 1915, from a cabinet card image, c. 1894, approx. 4" x 7", a full-body image of the boxer wearing black leotards with a white belt- with flat laced-up boxing shoes, striking a bear knuckle pose. Condition: Image cropped from when used for publication - but complete in itself; minor surface creasing with a clip at the top left-hand corner. Vintage fountain pen identification in an unknown hand cleanly written at bottom..... More

Chicago: Temple Litho. Poster. Offset lithograph. Page measures 26.5" x 40.5". Circus poster from the 1920s with lively elephants. The Haag Brothers were circus organizers in the Midwest during the first decades of the 20th century. Their "Haag Railroad Show" ran from 1894 to 1938. Repairs to edges but otherwise bright and clean. More

Washington, D.C. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1942. Original poster. Color lithograph. 22 x 16.75 inches. World War II government issued War Bonds poster. The text and borders are colored in patriotic red, white and blue. Images in the poster are photogravure technique showing a mechanic working on a car superimposed on an image of a soldier holding a rifle. Very good condition. More

Original poster. Image measures 28 1/8" x 21 1/2" This original World War I-era poster includes a message in Slovak, warning against speculators and urging people not to sell their bonds or stamps. An English language version of this poster was published, reading "Don't Let Swindlers Persuade You to Part with Your Liberty Bonds or War Savings Stamps". Similar posters were published in Italian, Hebrew/Yiddish, Russian, and Polish. This poster includes the additional line 'Pozor na Spekulantov', which translates to..... More