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BOOK1009
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Free Trade, A Curse, Protection A Blessing 1888
Economic antique HC book, The Tariff In A Nutshell, an economic view of the question by Joseph Barbiere and a supplement speech by House of Representatives Pennsylvania Honorable HON. Robert M. Yardley PLUS a few newspaper poem clippings. Rare historic look back at protectionism from a time when an average man made $400 a year.
Circa: 1888
Size: 9 1/2" x 6" 132 Pages
Publisher: J.B. Lippincott
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PYRO1001
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Pyrography Flemish Art Co. Booklet 1910
Antique Edwardian paperback booklet Pyrography, A Complete Course Of Instruction by Flemish Art Company Bush Terminal N.Y.
Pyrographic Art Carving aka Poker Art decorative wood burning.
Circa: 1910
Publisher: Flemish Art Company Bush Terminal New York
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QSD288
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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 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.
Circa: 1903
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M53
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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
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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.
Circa: 1907
Publisher: Walter L. Pyle M.D.
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