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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Auburn, NY: K. Vail & Co., Editors and Proprietors, 1872. The January 18, 1872 edition of the Auburn Daily Bulletin newspaper. Atlas Folio (very large dimensions), folded newsprint, four pages. In protective laminate plastic. Very Good condition, with folds, age toning, and a few micro-chips at the folds, not materially affecting print. See partial scan (reflection in scan caused by the protective plastic). Leph.…

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Its Aim to Amuse Enertain and Instruct. Engraved masthead. Her Happy Day A Charming Story of Medicine and Marriage - Two Open Letters from a Chicago Girl, 26 pgs. articles, poems, illustrations aimed at women. Very Rare Maine Woman's newspaper. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Folio. Two volumes. Quarter leather, grey cloth boards. Boards worn to extremities. 416; Illustrated. Cockling and damp staining to cloth. Long tears to several pages, some chipping, foxing and staining. Vol. one has damp stain to tail edge. A very good complete set of Scientific American Magazine for 1890.…

This is a complete bound edition of 26 consecutive weekly issues, Volume III (July-Dec, 1860) including lovely illustrated frontispiece page. Each issue contains 16 pages of useful information, and from 5 to 10 original engravings of new inventions and discoveries, with Patent Claims and Notes & Queries. (One interesting patent noted on page 356 is that of president-elect Abrabam Lincoln*s Apparatus for Buoying Vessels, illustrated.) Great piece of American science history, clean and tight. 10 x 13-1/2, 414 pp, indexes (of Illustrations, Miscellany, & Patent Claims), b/s illustrations throughout. VeryGood unmarked contents in Good marbled boards with black spine and corners; lower 3 in of backstrip missing, edgewear. Oversize Hardcover in marbled boards with black spine & corners, no jacket. …

Original single issue of Richmond, Virginia newspaper and Confederate imprint. Large single printed broadsheet with numbered pages (uncut at top edges of pages 1/2 and 7/8 adjoining pages 3/4 and 5/6 respectively). Folded in fourths (at center vertical and horizontal) with strong crease lines; short tearing at and slight paper loss at folded corner which occurs approximately at center of publication. Full unfolded dimensions of 83.5cm x L 58.5cm but when folded to intended eight-sheet the top, bottom, and fore-edges are uneven so that its folded dimensions are H 42.75cm x L 30.5cm at highest and widest. Modest foxing and some slight soiling and toning; past owner's pencil signature at fore-edge margin of page 7. Front page features b/w top banner city-view as well as b/w portrait and accompanying biographical essay regarding Brigadier General Alfred Holt Colquitt. Literary essays and articles; several advertisements on page 8 along with political cartoon titled "Running the Blockade." Serial entry of Chapters XXIII-XXV of "Paddy McGann; or The Demon of the Stump" by W. Gilmore Simms. Masthead on page 2 provides date (presumably misprinted) as Saturday, May 2, 1863 whereas page 1 title specifies Saturday, May 9, 1863. A good+ copy of a scarce Confederate newspaper and wartime Richmond imprint which was intended as a Southern version of Harper's Weekly. THE SOUTHERN ILLUSTRATED NEWS published its inaugural issue September 13, 1862 and its last on September 3, 1865.…