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Catalogue of the Twelfth Exhibition of Paintings in the Athenaeum Gallery. MDCCCXXXVIII.

Boston: John H. Eastburn, printer, [1838] octavo, 8-page pamphlet, original green printed paper wrappers, ex-library, handstamp on first page of text, some minor wear to wrappers, ink stain along top edge of first page of text, otherwise very good.
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Cotoosa Springs Located in Walker Co. Geo. Six miles West of the Tunnel, and Two miles form the W. & A. Rail Road, and Five miles from the East Tenn. & Geo. Rail Road. 436 Miles from Charleston, S.C. – 300 Miles from Augusta Geo. – 405 from Savannah, Geo. – 214 from Macon, Geo. 113 from Atlanta, Geo. – 25 miles from Chattanooga, Tenn. This Beautiful Watering Place, Is now Opened for the Reception of Visitors, and the Accommodations are ample for Five Hundred Persons. The Proprietors Have Spared No Expense to Make this Delightful Place the Saratoga of the South. They Have Secured the Services of a Celebrated German Brass Band, from Charleston, S. C. We say to all who wish to patronize Enterprising Men, and who wish to have a Watering Place in Georgia, second to none in the United States, Go to Cotoosa. If you love to hear good Music, and breathe the Pure Mountain Air, and drink the cool and healing waters of Life. Go to Cotoosa. These Springs possess Medicinal qualities in a remarkable degree, and are of unequalled variety, consisting of Fifty-Two Springs. The Proprietors will give their Personal attention. Mattey, Hickman & M’Donald.

[N.p., n.d. circa 1850] broadside, measuring 14 x 10 ⅜ inches, text printed in blue ink on light blue paper stock, in a variety of type fonts and sizes, illustrated with a cut of the Cotoosa Springs establishment, all within a typographic…
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Harlem Commons Syndicate, 17 and 19 Broadway, New York, May 28, 1887

Printed Circular Letter, 1 sheet, measures 4.75 x 7 inches, with original printed mailing envelope, advertising “Father Columbia’s Co-operatives”, of which Shupe was also a trustee.
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Printed Circular Letter, Signed, for The Independent Telephone Association of the United States of America, Mt. Vernon, Ohio, Jan. 1, 1898

quarto, three pages, sending a membership application to J. W. Richard, Wadsworth, Ohio. Includes a printed Constitution of the newly established Independent Telephone Association of the United States of America, Adopted at Detroit, June 23, 1897. (Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1898, 12mo, 12…
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“The Indian News.” A Meeting of the Proprietors of “The Indian News,” was held on the 22nd December, at the Offices of Mr. Sheriff Rogers, Sir George G. De H. Laurent, Bart., M.P. in the Chair. The Chairman said that they had met to confer upon the state and prospects of a journal which every one connected with India acknowledged to be of high public importance …

[London: 1842] Quarto, two page printed circular letter, printed on a four-page bifolium, with a short autograph letter signed from Leitch Ritchie (1800-1865) the editor of The Indian News, the entire circular sent to a Dr. McKenzie, Journal Office, Shrewsbury.
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“Let ‘Er Go Gallagher!” Twenty-Eighth Annual Parade and Review of the Ithaca Fire Departm’t and Grand Prize Tournament at Ithaca, N.Y., Wednesday, Sept. 7, 1887 Grand Parade, 2 P.M. $ 100 in Cash Prizes Competition Open to the World Steamer Trials and Exhibit of City Water Works! Exhilaration and Illumination in the Evening! The Board of Engineers of the I. F.D. cordially invite the firemen and fire organizations of neighboring communities to attend and participate in the festivities above promulgated. E. E. Robinson, Chief Engineer. H. L. Haskin, 1st Ass’t Engineer. Frank Cole, 2d Asst’t Engineer. For Full Particulars see Small Bills and Newspapers.

Ithaca: Ithaca Journal Job Printer, 1887
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Conditions For The Sale And Shipment Of Lackawanna Coal To New England… Providence, R. I., April 12, 1853; and Autograph Letter Signed, Providence 22, March, 1854 to Messrs. Tileston & Hollingsworth, Boston

folio, printed circular letter and manuscript letter carried on a four-page folding letter sheet, formerly folded, postal markings and stamp on integral address leaf, small marginal defect to printed circular letter, which occurred when opening, else very good.
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Office of the State Grand Council, Philadelphia, September 20th, 1864. To the Officers and Members of Council No. …

Quarto, 4 pages, printed on pale gray paper stock, formerly folded, in very good, very clean condition.
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Proof copy of a printed circular letter, unsigned, undated – which later bore Sargent’s name, dated Washington, June 23, 1858

folio, single sheet, measuring 7 ½ by 12 inches, formerly folded, light damp-stain, else in very good, clean condition.
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Philadelphia Steam Umbrella, Parasol, Parasolette and Patent Walking Cane Umbrella Manufactory, No. 104 Market Street, Jany 1st 1847

[Philadelphia] 1847, quarto, two page illustrated printed promotional circular letter, describing, and illustrating William H. Richardson’s Patent Walking Cane Umbrellas, formerly folded, very good, clean condition.
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