Philadelphia Rare Books and Manuscripts: The Featured Book Archive

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The “ Featured Book” Archive

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• All-ENGRAVED – Beautifully Bound – A Remarkable BCP •
• Menasseh ben Israel from His Own Press •
• Philadelphia SODA FOUNTAINS to Die For! •
• “Sleeping Beauty in the Wood” – A Childproof Clothbook •
• A PAIR of Portas — Two 17th-Century Italian Illustrated Books •
• Advice & Instruction for the '50s “HOST with the Most” •
• Mrs. Browning in a Blue & Gold “Dress” •
• A Painted & Illuminated MEXICAN Manuscript (1614–20) •
• John Adams on Constitutions – The History & Nature of Governments •
• Caribbean Territories – The U.S., Canada, California – A Fold-Out Map & 28 Plates •
• Get Cured or Get Clean? – Choose “Druggs” or Soap •
• TWO “Best-Sellers” – Cookery & “Domestic Medicine” •
• Audubon's Quadrupeds – Beautifully Bound – A Particularly Lovely Set •
• An Elegant “Arabian Nights” – Illustrated •
• Jack – The Magic Beanstalk – The Printing Office •
• Johnson's Dictionary – The Last Edition Revised by Him •
• MUSHROOMS •
• French, Fancy, Fun – La Fontaine, A Fine Set! •
• The Federal Gazette & Philadelphia Evening Post •
• The RENAISSANCE Reads & Enjoys Pictures Too – A German Caesar, Illustrated •
• A Choice Arte mexicana – Multiple “Firsts” Represented •
• The Wounds & Mysteries of Christ – The Shroud of Turin •
• The New World's FIRST Aesop in Greek •
• Musaeum Kircherianum – A Great Museum Now Lost •
• Just in Time for Valentine's Day? – The “Bad Sex” Collection •
• A Famous Anti-Hobbesian Utopia •
• The First Crockett “Almanack” – The Alamo Issue •
• The Weigel Bible (ALL ENGRAVED) •
• “It's my Cousin, M'am” & “The Cats Did It” •
• Educating the Deaf – A Signing Plate Present •
• Fancy Dress for Fancy Balls •
• Guerilla Warfare for America (1775) •
• “JS's” Bible – His “Advent” Prayer – A Binding Mistake? •
• This Looks Just Like It Ought to Look •
• English Cookery, 1792 – A Perfect Science? •
• Classic “Pictorial” Americana – “A Rich Quarry of Historic Wealth” •
• Independence Summer Here – Local Life Goes On •
• Cuisine de l’amour – A Special Copy •
• The Mad Maria Railroad – A Manuscript •
• Dombey & Son – Dickens Extra-Illustrated & Beautifully Bound by Riviere •
• Las Siete Partidas – Landmark Spanish Law – Folio & Handsome •
• A Broadside – A “Gentleman” Highwayman •
• Birds of the Bible – American Lithography – A Swell Binding •
• Native American Languages, Customs, Origins – Les Grandes Questions •
• American Humor, 1882 – Suppressed Chapters?! •
• A Manual for Zorro? – Illustrated Swordsmanship •
• Culinary, Commercial, & Military Science – Appert •
• A French-German-English Dance of Death •
• An Easter Pilgrimage Illustrated – 15 Plates, 9 Folding •
• Milton – A Lovely Set •
• Petrarch – A Volume That's Its Own Printing-History Footnote •
• Inflammatory Religious Cartoons – 18th-Century Style •
• “Tom Raw” – Calcutta Cut-Up •
• The Musical Entertainer – A STUNNING COPY •
• The Renaissance Physician •
• Champagne! •
• Featured for the Fourth of July •
• Frontinus on Aqueducts – 15 Plates •
• American BANKING in the 1920's – A 59-Volume “Snapshot” •
• A Lady's Lovely Testament – An Embroidered Dos-�-Dos Binding •
• Kate Douglas Wiggin – The Birds' Christmas Carol •
• Our Beasts •
• The Saw in History •
• ILLUMINATED – ILLUSTRATED – A 16th-Century NEW WORLD Manuscript •
• “Youthful Recreations” – Swinging, Trap Ball, I Spie, & Bait-the-Bear •
• The Anchor & Dolphin's FIRST Appearance – The First Aldine DANTE •
• LAO-TZU •
• The Factory Girl – An American Quartet •
• Victorian Gothic Revival – Papier Mâché Binding •
• A Special English Buffon – 100+ Plates Handcolored •
• FASCINATION •
• A Valentine for a Valentine •
• The Aztec Calendar Stone – 1792 •
• A Dissertation Defense 1754 – Haman & Mordecai – A Ferrara Broadside •
• An American Cultural Landmark – The Met's FIRST Presentation •
• A PA-German Woodcut Broadside – Handcolored Roads to Heaven & Hell •
• O'Beaglaoich's English–Irish Dictionary •
• A Splendid German, Pre-Luther Illustrated Bible •
• A Thick 18th-Century Lutheran Hymnal – The Tunes in Manuscript •
• A Long Lost, UNPUBLISHED NovoHispanic Play – Arriola •
• Coffee Coffee Coffee Coffee Coffee •
• Herburt – POLAND •
• An American SAMPLE Book – Multiple “Pitches” to Lucky Children •
• Harris's Giant Technical Lexicon •
• CHANTING (Enchanting) •
• Fontanus – The Grand Turk's Seige •
• An Illustrated English Aesop •
• Current Affairs – Ampere •
• Women's Rights & Abolition – A Chapman-Dall Association Copy •
• A German-American “Sabbath” Broadside •
• Elleanor Eldridge's Story •
• “Edinburgh Gothic” •
• A Carta in the Romantic Tradition – Both Illustrated & Illuminated •
• Robert Owen – Socialism “Preached” in Dublin, 1823 •
• Tiny Worlds Revealed – Van Leeuwenhoek •
• A Vérard Book of Hours Fragment – Printed on Vellum & Illuminated •
• Miss Stratton's Methodist Memory Book – Tiverton to Rarotonga •
• “You and I” •
• Spanish Villancicos – A Collection •
• A “Thumb” Bible – Providence & Provenance •
• A Ladies' Emblem Book – The Moveable Parts ALL Present •
• A Magnificent Incunable – A Spanish “Fifteener” •
• Christmas Every Day – Thanksgiving in November •
• An American “Family Heirloom” Bible, 1858 •
• Two by Bentham •
• Mathematics – A Blind Alley •
• Mrs. Gore's “Snowstorm” •
• How the Ancients Treated Their Dead – Porcacchi •
• An American Cantata for Women's Voices – 1841 •
• A Torquemada – The “Livy of Mexico” •

• A Christmas / New Year's Gift Book •

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