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BROADSIDESThe
Declaration in
Near-Microscopic!
Italic
(A
Baby “Broadside”). United States. Continental
Congress. Broadside,
begins: In Congress, July 4th 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen
United States of America. Boston: L.H. Bridgham, © 1836. [1] p., (14.5 x
11.5 cm; 5.75" x 4.5").
Click
the image for an enlargement.
The signers' facsimile signatures appear below the main italic text and within the decorative border.
Bidwell and WorldCat locate
only
five institutional copies, none
west of Charlottesville, VA.
• Bidwell, “American history in image and text” (Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, v. 98, pt. 2, 1988), 15; Printing the Mind of Man 220 (for first edition). Printed on white-coated card stock. Very Good condition. (28506)
For
an ALL-ENGRAVED BOOK,
How Many? HODS were in a
“Dale” of Coal?[Anderson, Andrew]. Broadside.
Begins: “At Edinburgh, 170....”[Edinburgh, ca. 1700]. Folio (31.4 cm, 12.4"). [1] p.
Only one holding of this item, in Scotland, is reported by ESTC. 
ODE for the End of a
Twelve-Day Celebration Abadiano, Luis, attrib. author. Broadside, begins: Al contemplar que desaparece de la Metropolitana de México la grandiosa y nunca bien ponderada perspectiva, de que por doce dias [desde el 25 de agosto al 7 de Septiembre] hemos gozado, á merced de las actuales dificiles circunstancias, se despide del señor de Santa Teresa y de Maria Santisima de Los Dolores que se venera en la Santa Casa Profesa, uno de los espectadores. Mexico: Imprenta del Ciudadano Alejandro Valdes, [1833?]. Folio (32 x 22 cm; 12.5" x 8.5"). [1] p.
Click the image for an enlargement. We locate only the copy at Brown University.
• As issued. Two circular wormholes, one at the left edge of the sheet and one just touching print within the outer border; pleasantly if not quite perfectly clean, and very handsome. (30389)
Death of a
Bad Hombre Anonymous. Broadside, begins: “Muerte del famoso malhechor Julian Junco.” [Mexico: No publisher/printer, ca. 1849]. Small folio (30.5 cm; 12"). [1] p.
Click the image for an enlargement. Text handsomely printed within a typographic border in double-column format.
RARE: No copy traced via WorldCat, NUC, or the OPAC of the Mexican National Library.
• Not in Sutro. Dog-earing and minor fold tears; a very little light soiling/spotting. A very good copy of a rarity. (30439)
A
Patriotic Hymn Celebrating VENEZUELAN National Independenceby the Author of the National AnthemBello, Andrés. Broadside, begins: “Cancion Patriotica de Caracas.” [Caracas: Gallagher y Lamb, 1810]. Folio (31 cm; 12.25"). 1 p.
Click the image for an enlargement. the premiere of this one, as unknown as that one is famous, is stirring to visualize. Beginning, "Caraqueños, otra época empieza: / De la gloria la senda se abrio," it was sung for the first time by Cayetano Carreño himself and six other voices, the night of 23 April 1810, with the accompaniment of the military orchestra of the "Batallon Veterano." The performance took place below the balcony on which were assembled the members of the Supreme Junta.
That Bello wrote this patriotic song is known, and even the first few lines were recorded for history, but beyond that the text is not recorded and is not found in his Obras completas or, apparently anywhere else.
In addition to the historic collaboration of Bello and Carreño, this fabulous document has the distinction of having been printed by Venezuela’s first press, that of Gallagher and Lamb, which only arrived in Caracas in October of 1808, and was almost certainly printed on 24 April, the day after the hymn was first sung!
This broadside seems to be completely unrecorded. It was unknown to both Medina and Pedro Grases. Searches of NUC, WorldCat, and COPAC fail to find any copy at all, as is the case when searching the OPACs of the national libraries of Venezuela, Colombia, Spain, France, and England.
• Not in Medina, Caracas; not in Grases, Historia de la imprenta en Venezuela; not in Villasana. As issued. Worming in foremargin, repaired. A very good copy. (19202)
“For One Lost Friend a Tear Will Trickle, & a Sigh Ascend”B[ishop], S[amuel]. Broadside, begins: On the late Rev. James Townley, A.M. rector of St. Bennet Gracechurch, London, and head-master of Merchant-Taylors' School. [London]: W. Wilson, printer, no date [1778]. Folio (30.5 cm; 12"). [1] p.
Click the image for an enlargement. Bishop's collected poems were first published in 1796.
Searches of ESTC, WorldCat, NUC Pre-1956, and COPAC findno copies.
• As issued. Old stitching holes in inner margin, one corner turned in, clean. (32757)
“Three Bishops, in Three Bumpers, with Three Cheers”Bishop, Samuel; Mary Bishop; & Mary Palmer Bishop. Broadside, begins: On celebrating the sixtieth birth-day of Kirkes Townley, Esq. July 27, 1776. Addressed to the two and twenty Townleys. No place: No publisher/printer, 1776. Folio (30.5 cm; 12"). [1] p.
Click the image for an enlargement. This birthday poem is signed by Bishop, his sister (Mary), and his wife (Mary Palmer). Bishop's collected poems were first published in 1796.
Searches of ESTC, WorldCat, NUC Pre-1956, and COPAC findno copies.
• As issued. Old stitching holes and uneven edge to inner margin, top cornertip lost. Clean and nice. (32758)
A Volume EXTRA ILLUSTRATED & Then Some! Brown University. Celebration of the one hundreth anniversary of the founding of Brown University, September 6th, 1864. Providence: Sidney S. Rider & Bro., 1865. 4to (26.5 cm; 10.25"). [4] ff., 178 pp., [1] f. 
Click the images for enlargements. the broadside publication of the theses
for the first commencement of the College of Rhode Island
(the first name of Brown University), 19 autograph letters signed, 14 engravings
(views, portraits), 15 photographs (including cartes de visite), eight
clipped signatures, and 5 other items including a partially printed document
from 1738.
A full list of contents is available by clicking here.
The Order of Procession for Iturbide's Coronation Campos y Rivas, Manuel del. Broadsheet. Begins: Orden del acompañamiento desde Palacio á la Santa Iglesia Catedral Metropolitana; y desde esta á su regreso al mismo Palacio en la mañana del dia de la inauguracion, bendicion y coronacion de SS. MM. el Emperador Agustin primero, y su Esposa Ana Maria, Emperatriz del Imperio de Anahuac, arreglado por el Gefe del Ceremonial. Mexico: Impr. Imperial del Sr. Valdes, 1822. Folio. [1] f.
• Sutro 284. One small pin-type wormhole, costing one letter. Very clean and nice. (27251)
"THE PATRIOTIC DEAD" [Collins, William T., & Hanson E. Weaver]. Broadside.
Begins: "Headquarters Grand Army of the Republic, Adjutant General's Office, 411 F Street" Washington, 1870. 12mo (20.3 cm, 8"). [1] f. 
Single-click the image, for an enlargement.• One leaf, printed on one side and creased from folding into six parts. Top left and bottom right corners torn. Tear to lower margin resulting in the loss of one or two words of text. (6336)
Self Defense!Cuadra, J. Emiliano. Broadside. Begins: “Al Publico. En el suplemento á la gaceta oficialdeCosta-Rica número 261, he visto un 'remitido' en que su autor se propone hacer reflecciones sobre las falsificaciones de documentos que se han publicado, por medio de Don Crisanto Medina.” [Leon, Nicaragua]: Imprenta de la Paz, 1864. Folio (32.5 cm; 12.75"). [1] p.
Click the image for an enlargement. Cuadra was a noted lawyer who lived sometimes in Nicaragua and other times in Costa Rica but apparently eventually settled in Costa Rica.
No copy located via WorldCat, NUC, COPAC, CCILA, or Metabase.
• Not in Valenzuela; not in Nicaraguan National Bibliography. Very good condition. (31045)
WHO
Gets the BEER
& Why?(Dunsinnan
vs. Ramsay). Broadside.
Begins: “Information for William Nairn of Dunsinnan, commissar clerk of
Edinburgh, against Mr. David Ramsay writer to the signet....”[Edinburgh,
ca. 1710]. Folio (31.2 cm, 12.35"). [2] pp.
This
is a scarce document, with no copies listed by ESTC, RLIN, OCLC, or NUC Pre-1956.
• In good clean condition, tipped onto a leaf of 19th-century paper; now in a Mylar folder.
Quintessential “Pennsylvania Dutch” — A First & “Fancy”Egelmaan, Charles Frederick, engraver. Broadside Taufschein, begins: “Im Jahr Christi 1[blank space] dey [blank space]um [blank space] Vhr [blank space] wurde [large blank space] ehelich geboren.... “ and completed by an anonymous scrivener. [Reading, PA: C. F. Egelmann, 1814 and later]. Folio (35 x 25.5 cm; 13.75" x 10.125") [1] p.
Click the images for enlargement.the first engraved Taufschein (birth/baptismal certificate), an example of which is offered here. The certificate is for Caroline Buchler, daughter of L.F. and Sara (Wagner) Buchler, born 8 August 1843 in Tamaqua, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The minister is simply identified as Oberfeld.
The cataloguer at the Penn State University library describes its uncolored example: “The form is generally dated ca. 1830, but could have been in use as early as 1814. The lower design depicts Jesus with the disciples, while the upper scene shows Jesus' baptism. The form stretches between two pillars, flanked by columns of smoke, all within line border. Distinctive mix of [stipple] engraving and etching, probably on copper plate, by Egelmann.”
The present copy is handsomely hand-colored with the blanks for names, dates, and places accomplished nicely in red ink in a clear hand.
• Weiser & Heaney, Pennsylvania German Fraktur, 495; Stopp, Printed Birth and Baptismal Certificates of the German Americans, IV, pg. 2784. Excellent repair to a lower area into the image; other repairs to the margins. Bug spotting in lower outer corner. (31977)
EarlyEl Salvador Imprint Nullifying an Appointment El Salvador. Asamblea legislativa. Broadside, begins: “Ministerio general del Gobierno del Estado del Salvador ... La Asamblea legislativa ... decreta. Se declara insubsistente el nombramiento de magistratado par que fue electo el Lic. Atanacio Urritia. San Salvador: No publisher/printer, 1833. Small 8vo. [1] p.
Printing seems to have arrived in El Salvador in 1825, placing this in the first decade of that art there.
Apparently rare: We trace no copy via NUC Pre-1956, WorldCat, CCILA, or METABASE.
• Removed from a nonce volume. A few small holds from insect damage, a few of the few repaired with archival tissue. Old bibliographical notations in pencil in margins. Light waterstaining in upper outer corner. (25791)
Salvadoran Nation Building to
1863El Salvador. A collection of 24 broadsides and other ephemeral publications. San Salvador, Cojutepeque, & elsewhere: Various publishers/printers, 1835–63. Folio and other, smaller formats. Various paginations.
Click the images for enlargements. 
For
Distribution in
Scotland?
— Scarce BROADSIDE(England
— Party Politics).
Broadside. Begins: “Queries. Whether any Parliament ever did better than
this has done...” [Edinburgh?]: J.M., 1710. Folio (30.8 cm, 12.1"). [2]
pp.
Searches
of ESTC, OCLC, RLIN, and NUC
Pre-1956 locate only two copies—one in Scotland,
one in England.
• ESTC T168050. Now in a Mylar folder; edges slightly ragged, repair at lower inner margin just touching letters on one side, small holes in lower center with loss of a few letters. Some letters in header cut off at top due to printer’s error. Tipped onto a blank leaf bearing a watermark of 1826.
(English
Political Broadside). Bluster, Humphrey [pseud.].
Humphrey Bluster’s letter to his father, respecting the Hull election. Hull:
Pr. for the author by W. Ross, [ca. 1818]. Folio (32.5 cm, 12.75"). [1] f.
There were American versions of “Humphrey Bluster” letters; in
1818 two such items respecting the Boston election were printed. At this writing
RLIN, OCLC, and NUC Pre-1956list
no holdings of the present, Anglo Bluster.
• Not in NSTC. On Graham, see: The Dictionary of National Biography, XXII, 328–32. Creased, with corners bent, otherwise good. A few early, lightly inked marginalia.
Napoleon,
AgainFernández,
Manuel. Broadside. Begins: "Ciudadanos.
Es llegado ya el momento en que el heroico pueblo Español...." [Cardona,
1823]. Folio. [1] f.
The five articles go so far as to proclaim that sharing of bad news is treason and
punishable as such.
• One fold.
From the Author of “Little Boy Blue”: Unofficial Printing Field, Eugene. Broadside: “When Willie was a little boy.” No place: No publisher/printer, [ca. 1900?]. 12mo (17.7 cm, 7"). [1] f.
Click the image for an enlargement. • BAL 5768 (for publication history); cf. Thompson. As issued, never bound. Very faint small smudge towards lower edge on recto, darker smudge on (blank) verso, otherwise clean. A nice keepsake for Field lovers or anyone sentimental about childhood facts/foibles. (30678)
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