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Manuscripts, Documents, Ephemera

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An archive of Victorian home-made Valentines

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A fine Book of Hours from the Zwolle "Sarijs Group," bound in Amsterdam by Albertus Magnus (SOLD)

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Building an Iron Ship: 19th-century calligraphic manuscript in a curious maritime binding

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African Americans depicted on Gombaults Caustic Balsam

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U.S. Army WWII religious kit for Jewish soldiers (now in the American Jewish Historical Society NYC)

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Panzer A.G. (Berlin 1903) - Art Nouveau Trade Catalogue of Museum Exhibition Cases

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Photograph from the Panzer A.G. 1903 Trade Catalogue, showing an extremely early book exhibition

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Documents and ephemera are of the greatest interest to historians of civilization, as they represent unsynthesized artifacts of human culture. We have numerous ephemeral items in stock, from the trivial to the sublime - and we are actively seeking more. Music ephemera is extremely interesting to us: for instance we have a significant archive of Tchaikovsky materials from Estonia (show above) as well as original Sex Pistols posters designed by Jamie Reid.

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An actual Victorian printer's block which depicts Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

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Chopin's "Trois Noctures" 1834, 1st Edition, ANNOTATED BY CHOPIN for his student Mme Chertier (SOLD)

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A unique archive of early Thread

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Beckett's scathing diatribe against the production was added to this program guide (1 p. mimeograph)