Tennessee? 1870s. Carte-de-visite photograph measuring 3 ¾ x 2 ⅜ inches on larger mount. Some foxing, very good overall, signed by Knabe as “Proff Knabe” on recto. Gustav Knabe was born in Leipzig and formally educated in music in Germany before emigrating to the United States and serving as a......
New York: D. O’Loughlin, Irish National Publishing House, 1877. First Edition. 8vo, decorative burgundy cloth, 106 pp. An uncommon work of fiction by the prolific religious writer about a banker who loses his way and then finds religion. A quite good copy with a tear to cloth at spine, a......
Philadelphia: 1860s. Album measuring 6 ¼ x 5 ¼ inches. Wear and tearing to binding, images excellent, a few empty spaces in albums though no evidence of removal such as annotations, etc., very good condition overall. With thirteen cartes-de-visite and thirty-four tintypes, most of the CDVs with identifications of Philadelphia.....
Sōkō (San Francisco): Nichi Bei Jijisha, 1958, 1961. Oblong quartos, 545 and 420 pp. Some light wear and creasing, very good. Two editions of the Japanese-American directories published by the Nichi Bei Times in San Francisco, covering the years 1958 and 1961. The directories emphasis is on the communities in.....
New York: Obermuller and Son, 1905. Silver gelatin print, 3 ¾ x 5 ⅜ inches on larger mount. Marie Bayrooty was the only female member of the Bayrooty Brothers Oriental Troupe, who performed on the Barnum and Bailey Circus sideshow. A famous 'whirling dervish,' - as members of the Mevlevi.....
San Francisco: San Francisco Examiner, 1950. Silver press prints, the images measuring 5 3/4x8 1/4 inches and slightly smaller, sheets approximately 7 ¼ x 9 inches. Some light wear, editorial marks to versos, near fine condition overall. Offered here is a series of fourteen photographs taken in a migrant workers’.....
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Baker & Elliot: Philadelphia, 1844. Cloth, appx. 2 ½ x 10 inches. The Philadelphia Prayer Riots, or Nativist Riots, were a series of anti-Catholic riots in Philadelphia in 1844 stemming from anti-Irish sentiment and driven by rumors that the new wave of immigrants were attempting to remove the bible from.....
Mariner's Harbor: Self-Published, 1898. First Edition. The memoirs of Jermiah O’Donovan Rossa, written while he was in exile after leaving Ireland to come to the United States as part of the “Cuba 5.” Besides the autobiographical content, the book also contains sections on Irish culture, the Fenian Movement, and his.....