Peace Manual War and It's Remedies 1847 Pre Civil War peace movement book, The Peace Manual, War And it's Remedies, Boston American Peace Society 1847 by George C. Beckwith.
Early Victorian anti war Massachusetts minister, Beckwith born 1800, died 1870 was the editor of The Advocate of Peace magazine.
Peace societies were popular movements in England, Netherlands, France, Italy, with the American Society created in 1828.
Wisdom then, wisdom now, this is a rare pre Hippie antiquarian treatise.

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Size: 6" x 4" 250 pg. +
Publisher: Boston American Peace Society  

Nursing S. Virginia Levis M.S.N. 1901 Late Victorian Nurse treatise Nursing, Penn Publishing Company Philadelphia.
Exceptional antique Medical hard cover book by S. Virginia Levis M.S.N.
Easily read text in common language.
Size: Hardcover 225 Pages
 

Zeppelin Student Airship Original Notebook 1934 Zeppelin Airship Training School personal notebook of F.E. Nowak RM2C with hand drawn and colored entries dated 1934.
Rigid and free balloon, Hydrogen and Helium plant, blimps, early winged aircraft, international code, plus details and hand drawn sketches of famous air ships of the day.
Golden age flying in a pre Hindenburg world.
Rare lighter then air flight history.
 

Dream Book Bridal Superstitions Dr Pierce Woman Wedding Rare Fortune telling Dream booklet by Dr.VM Pierce.
Featuring the Invalid Hotel Buffalo New York,
this 34 page antique paper treatise offers amazing insight into tales of fishwife lore.
Publisher: Dr Pierce  

San Francisco Earthquake Before and After Antique Book Set 2 RARE antiquarian books! San Francisco, A city Of Ruins, by T.P.S. Publishing Alameda California 1906 and San Francisco by Cunningham, Curtis and Welch San Francisco California 1903. Two very different soft cover booklets.

The first,shows the devastation the fire and earthquake brought to the city on the bay, with explicit photos of the horrific damage. Smashed buildings, lost souls,tent cities, ruins and ruined lives. One easily pictures the remains of fire bombed Dresden Germany or the Atomic bomb ravaged Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

The second book string bound scrapbook style is inscribed, Xmas 1903, some of the buildings before the earth quake. It shows a happier time, with China Town, Sea Lions, majestic buildings, port and maritime scenes.

Each book is in good condition and contains dozens of rare antique images of the this historic event.

Both books stand in sharp contrast, a before and after. Empire and natural disaster, act of man, act of God.
 

Women Of History Lydia Pinkham Medicine Cure Book Few male medical men understood or even sympathized with the " Women's Problem " in Victorian times. Pinkham and her Vegetable Compound
 

Personal Hygiene Walter L. Pyle M.D. 1907 A manual of Personal Hygiene proper living upon a physiologic basis with D.H. Bergey, J.W. Courtney M.D. George Howard Fox M.D. E. Fletcher Ingals M.D. B. Alexander Randall M.D. G.N. Stewart M.D. Chares G. Stockto M.D.. Published by W.B. Saunders company London Philadelpha. Hard cover over 450 pages.
Publisher: Walter L. Pyle M.D.  

McCall's Sewing Book Giant Size Huge 310 page sewing book from Random House 1968.
Publisher: McCall's