![MANUSCRIPT] [MEDICAL] Notebook of a Navy Corpsman in San Francisco During the Spanish Flu...](/pictures/thumb/2127.jpg?v=1585769825)
San Francisco: 1918. Ring_bound. 152 pages. 21 x 15 cm. Partially illustrated, hand written record of Navy Corpsman Adolf William Reimers, who was stationed on Goat Island (a.k.a. Yerba Buena Island) during the peak of the Spanish Flu epidemic. The notebook appears to be the author's record of various classes..... More
![NATIVE AMERICAN] [MICHIGAN] [FISHING] Commercial Cabinet Card. Allan Fanjoy, Photographer](/pictures/thumb/2102.jpg?v=1583271903)
Sault St. Marie, Michigan: The Riverside Photo Gallery - Allan Fanjoy, c. 1897. Cards. 21.5 x 13.5 cm. Photo mounted on cabinet card with printed address and photo studio signature. Verso features promotional photo illustrations of Sault St. Marie as well as photo of the Proprietor, Allan Fanjoy. Featuring members..... More
Paris: Vada Retro, 1992. First French Edition. Hardcover. 35 x 28 cm. Text in French. Spiral bound aluminum stamped and die cut covers with serial number embossed on lower edge of rear panel as issued. Original mylar sleeve neatly opened, with audio CD in unopened mylar sleeve, and bound in..... More
![DOMESTIC SCIENCE] The Ladies' Indispensable Companion and Housekeepers' Guide, published with...](/pictures/thumb/2093.jpg?v=1582151614)
New York: H. Dayton, 1858. Hardcover. 126 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Similar to earlier edition Ladies' Indispensable Assistant (1852) but with some medical updates and insights into vaccinations. Text provides guidance to recognize various illnesses with treatments with 14 pages listing the medical properties of plants. The Ladies' Domestic..... More
![BROADSIDE] [WOMEN] [TEXAS] Reward - Missing - Mrs. Maggie Corbett and four children](/pictures/thumb/2087.jpg?v=1582066744)
Galveston, Texas: 1905. 21 x 15 cm. Large photographic image of Maggie Corbett below headline. In 1905 Maggie Corbett took her four children, most notably, her "well built" 14 year old daughter and left her husband and home. It seems archaic that a reward was offered for a woman who..... More
![AFRICAN AMERICAN] [DREAM BOOK] Dreams Come True!; Picture Stories of Famous People How to Tell...](/pictures/thumb/2081.jpg?v=1581356856)
New York: Black and White Company, 1940's. Staplebound Wraps. Unpaginated. 17 x 12 cm. Over 30 black and white pages, illustrated by prominent African-American Chicago newspaper cartoonist, George L. Lee. Contains What Dreams Mean along with narratives and illustrations of famous African-Americans such as Booker T. Washington, Dr. George Washington..... More
![PHOTOGRAPHY] [DAIRY] Kosher Dairy Store](/pictures/thumb/2063.jpg?v=1579709944)
Glossy pictorial cover. 35 x 28 cm. Black and white photo depicting shopkeeper in front of his Kosher Dairy shop. More
![AGRICULTURE] [HAWAII] The Kingdom That Grew Out Of A Little Boy's Garden. Marion Mason Hale](/pictures/thumb/2050.jpg?v=1576696077)
San Francisco: Hawaiian Pineapple Company, 1930. Fifth Printing. Staplebound. 55 pages. 15.5 x 9 cm. A folkloric account of James Drummond Dole's climb to become the "Pineapple King". Narrative takes the reader through the early days of planting, canning, and role in the company's success to pack and ship pineapple..... More
![WINE] Bacchus on the Wing; A wine merchant's travelogue. Harry Waugh](/pictures/thumb/1314.jpg?v=1576596008)
London: Wine & Spirit Publications Ltd., 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. 203 pages. 22 x 14 cm. Waugh was a revered and influential member of the British wine trade and an early champion of California wine. Presentation on front free end paper - "To Bob & bottie, From the first chance..... More
![MEDICINE] [WOMEN] [ABNORMALITIES] On the Nature of Various Substances Formed in and Discharged...](/pictures/thumb/2040.jpg?v=1576089244)
London: John Churchill, 1858. Sewn binding. 7 pages. 22 x 14 cm. Bound together with: Account of the History and Dissection of a Case of malformation of the Urinary Bladder, with Remarks - A. Melville M'Whinnie, 8 pages, London: Wilson & Ogilvy. An uncommon pamphlet on gynecology, with illustrations examining..... More
San Francisco: Synergistic Press, 1979. First Edition. Paperback. 72 pages. 28.5 x 22 cm. Introduced by M.F.K. Fisher. Presentation copy, signed by Fisher to wife of local judge. Clancy's reminiscence of Paris' Gare de Lyon, 24 line drawings plus photographed ephemera from the French train station. Covers lightly soiled. More
![CLOTHING MANUFACTURING] [BUSINESS] [LAW] Shirt Collar Patent](/pictures/thumb/1933.jpg?v=1576791723)
Newark, NJ: 1917-1919. 13 pages. 4 pages from Delpark Inc., a NY-based clothing company seeking a patent to manufacture a new shirt collar. Contacting a solicitor to investigate the patents of its creator. Delpark seeks, in these documents, to purchase the collar's patent from the inventor, Edward J. Quigley, and..... More
![HANDMADE] [MANUSCRIPT] [COOKING] Recipe Binder; with personal ephemera](/pictures/thumb/1931.jpg?v=1576791026)
Connecticut/California: 1940's-1960's. Cards. 21 pages. 25.5 x 17.5 cm. Handcrafted recipes book made up of decorated envelopes. Each envelope is decorated with pasted-on photos of food items which are labeled, and filled with recipes. Both handwritten recipes and recipes cut from magazine, periodicals, and food packaging. Some envelopes empty. Front..... More