[n.p. ca. 1895]. Printed in color with caricatures mocking the appearance and character of three working women. With captions in verse. Some creasing and a few small open tears to edges. Two sheets reinforced with document tape on versos. A few stains to “Made-Up Saleslady.” Pencil signatures of Clementine Allen.....
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. [1926]. First edition. With eight photo plates (frontisportrait of Robinson and seven plates showing her performing or in costume). Early book plate of Mabel A. Ferguson (b. 1878), wife of Arkansas lumber merchant and Ferguson Lumber owner Arthur L. Ferguson (1878 – 1933), to.....
New York: Printed [by Joseph Desnoues] at the Office of the Economical School, 1811. “First American edition, from the eleventh English edition.” The present work was published to benefit the Orphan Asylum Society, which was established in 1806 by Eliza Schuyler Hamilton (1757 – 1854), Isabella Graham, and Joanna Graham.....
Boston: Published by G.W. Cottrell, 1857. First Cottrell edition in this format. Later edition overall: the title-page identifies this work as the fifth edition, though previous editions are inconsistently numbered. The first was published by J. Buffum in 1849. OCLC records only two copies of this edition (AAS and University.....
London: Henry Colburn, 1826. First edition of the final work of Elizabeth Craven (1750 – 1828), published just two years before her death. Craven was no stranger to scandal, particularly for her affair with the Count of Guines, French ambassador to London, and the present work sparked its own social.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1835. First edition. The present work is framed as a conversation between two girls, Ellen and Charlotte, and their mother. It provides an easy-to-understand guide to over half a dozen quite advanced illustration methods, with multiple informative plates representing each method. With color frontispiece and additional.....
Providence, Rhode Island: Snow and Farnham, 1925. First edition. One of only a thousand copies, “the first two hundred of which will be reserved by the Author for her fellow Suffragists.”. With frontisportrait of the author, nearly seventy full-page and half-page photo reproductions and political cartoons. The photo reproductions include.....
Akron: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1910. First edition. 12 chromolithograph plates. All text inside illustrated chromolithograph borders printed in green. Edges rubbed and some dampstaining to boards. Some toning to endpapers and throughout, mostly to margins. Binding a bit shaken but overall a good and very bright copy of a......
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1926. First edition of the author’s first work, which she published shortly before opening her fifth coffeeshop. Offsetting from covers to inside of dust jacket. Light toning to leaves at gutter, but otherwise clean throughout. A very good, bright copy in a very.....
[Washington,D.C.]: United States Army Recruiting Publicity Bureau, 1945. First edition. Full text as follows: “Women…our wounded need your care! You can serve as medical technicians, surgical technicians, and other Army hospital assignments. Join a hospital company. Other assignments available at Army Air Forces, Ground Forces, and Service Forces installations.”. With.....
Columbus, Ohio: I. N. Whiting, 1842. First edition. Volume one discusses the roles of women in history, categorized primarily by the religious makeup of their societies: “Women and their station among the Hebrews,” “of the Ancient Greeks,” “of the Roman Commonwealth and Empire,” “in a savage and semi-civilized state of.....
New York: Published for the Authors, 1854. First edition. Sunning and some soiling to cloth. Tear to front flyleaf repaired with document tape. Tears to a couple leaves a fore-edge, not touching text. Leaves are clean and fresh. A very good, tight, and internally bright copy. Publisher’s blindstamped light brown.....
[Boston: Mary Hemenway School Garden Club, 1918-19. The captions date the photos to 1918 and 1919, with the one invitation dated 1926. This album shows students at work in the garden; the Mary Hemenway School building; the student-run farmer’s market; gardening competitions; and the students’ participation in events like a......
Einstein turned seventy-five on March 14, 1954, and wrote this letter offering thanks for Andermann’s birthday gift of a Vivaldi record. The German text can be translated as follows: “You can rest assured that I have received all your letters including such enclosures. In the last years the mail has.....
Prescott;: Office of the Arizona Miner, Official Paper of the Territory, 1865. First edition. No copy has been sold at auction since 1966. Woodcut of “The Seal of the Territory of Arizona” on the Certificate approved by Richard McCormick, Secretary of the Territory. Binding extremities lightly rubbed. Very minor foxing.....
![Press pass.] The World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago. 1st May to 30th October 1893. Women,...](/pictures/thumb/16938.jpeg?v=1615145649)
New York: American Bank Note Co., 1893. With daily admissions tickets for the duration of the exposition (though Dodd used various tickets throughout the event, and only the unused tickets remain). Also, with a photograph of Dodd pasted into a printed frame on inside of front cover. Some toning and.....
![Broadside]. The Woman’s Bible. Editor Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Carrie Chapman Catt, President of...](/pictures/thumb/16932.jpeg?v=1615145644)
[ n.p.]: n.d., ca. 1920.]. First edition. Probably issued shortly before the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in August of 1920. The latest event mentioned in the broadside occurred in May 1920, when “the women who invaded Connecticut to try to force Governor Holcomb to call a special session, met.....
Paris: Chez Marcilly [Imprimerie de A. Firmin Didot], [n.d., ca. 1820-1840]. First edition. With 11 engraved plates of animals including a lion, a deer, a peacock, a swan, and a goldfinch. Also with an engraving of a bear climbing a tree on title-page. Extremities rubbed and some cracking to hinges.....
[Boston? 1908]. In February 1903, Oregon enacted a law that prohibited women from working in “any mechanical establishment or factory or laundry” for more than ten hours a day. Curt Muller, a laundry owner, was charged in 1905 with requiring his employee, Mrs. E. Gotcher, to work a ten-hour day.....
London: Susan Allix, 1999. One of twenty-two copies, numbered and signed by the author on the colophon. With nineteen intaglio prints (including one two-page print), which are the result of four years of sketch book observation and drawing, platemaking, and reworking the plates. Many have extra hand-coloring on the.....
New York: Published for the Benefit of the Orphan Asylum... 1821. First edition of a work recording the history of the Orphan Asylum Society, New York City’s first private orphanage, in the fifteen years after its founding by Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (1757 – 1854), Isabella Graham, and Joanna Bethune. By.....
London: John Murray, 1836. Third edition, revised by Somerville to “incorporate the most recent research findings” since the publication of the first two editions in 1834 and 1835, respectively (Oxford DNB). One such finding was Somerville’s hypothesis that unexpected changes in the orbit of Uranus may point to the existence.....
[Philadelphia: 1881 ]. First edition. The petition was presented to the Department of Education of the City of Philadelphia on March 8, 1881. Wrappers worn away at spine, though binding holds firm. Dust soiling to wrappers. Contemporary color pencil signature at top margin of front cover. Small open tear to.....
[London:]: Nonesuch Press, 1929. One of 1,200 copies for sale by the Nonesuch Press. Another 400 copies were sold in the United States by Random House. Designed by Francis Meynell and composed by T.W. Hay. The text is taken from the first known edition of Glanvill’s translation (1688). With a......
Los Angeles: The Plantin Press, 1972. One of 140 copies printed by Saul and Lillian Marks. Presentation copy, inscribed by Marks on the colophon. Woodcut device of a compass in brown on the title-page, decorative initial letters in blue-green, second compass device in black on the colophon. Full-page portrait of.....
