St. Louis: 1886. Unbound. This letter from the Electric Aurophone Company is dated November 20th, 1886. It was sent from the company headquarters on the St. Louis riverfront to a merchant in Mount Carmel, Illinois. The letter is in nice shape with some light soiling. The electric Aurophone was a.... More about Sales letter from the Electric Aurophone Company promoting Ehrilich’s Patent Electric Aurophone

Paris: Chez G Boun, 1585. Unbound. This leaf (M.CXCI-M.CXCII) measures approximately 8.25” x 12.5” and came from the 1585 printing of Les Oeuvres d’Ambroise . . . Aphorismes. The images are strong. The leaf has some minor soiling and edge-wear. Paré, the French royal surgeon for many years, was the... More about 16th-century leaf with a large illustration showing Galen from Ambroise Paré’s Aphorismes

Paris: Chez G Boun, 1585. Unbound. This leaf (M.XXXIII-M.XXXIIII) measures approximately 8.25” x 12.5” and came from the 1585 printing of Les Oeuvres d’Ambroise . . . Des Monstres. The images are strong. The leaf has some minor soiling and edge-wear. The image on this leaf shows a child born... More about 16th-century leaf with an illustration showing a child born with four arms and four legs from...

Paris: Chez G Boun, 1585. Unbound. This leaf (M.XXVII-M.XXVIII) measures approximately 8.25” x 12.5” and came from the 1585 printing of Les Oeuvres d’Ambroise . . . Des Monstres. The images are strong. The leaf has some minor soiling and edge-wear. The four images on this leaf show (roughly translated... More about 16th-century leaf with four illustrations of conjoined twins and birth defects from Ambroise...

Paris: Chez G Boun, 1585. Unbound. This leaf (M.XXXV-M.XXXVI) measures approximately 8.25” x 12.5” and came from the 1585 printing of Les Oeuvres d’Ambroise . . . Des Monstres. The images are strong. The leaf has some minor soiling and edge-wear. The four images on this leaf show (roughly translated... More about 16th-century leaf with four illustrations of malformed people Ambroise Paré’s Monsters

Paris: Chez G Boun, 1585. Unbound. This leaf (M.XXXVII-M.XXXVIII) measures approximately 8.25” x 12.5” and came from the 1585 printing of Les Oeuvres d’Ambroise . . . Des Monstres. The images are strong. The leaf has some minor soiling and edge-wear. The four images on this leaf show (roughly translated... More about 16th-century leaf with four illustrations showing deformities caused by excessive imagination or...

Paris: Chez G Boun, 1585. Unbound. This leaf (M.XXI-M.XXII) measures approximately 8.25” x 12.5” and came from the 1585 printing of Les Oeuvres d’Ambroise . . . Des Monstres. The images are strong. The leaf has some minor soiling and edge-wear. The three images on this leaf show (roughly translated... More about 16th-century leaf with illustrations of deformed births including a human-headed horse, a child...

Bridgeport, Connecticut: Bridgeport Hospital, 1890. Envelope or Cover. This one-page letter, dated Jun 12 1890, is written on illustrated stationery that features an image of Bridgeport Hospital. P. T. Barnum’s name stands at the top the list of hospital officers as the institution’s “President”. Crosby is identified as the institution’s..... More about One-page letter on illustrated stationery from a prize-winning poulty breeder who served as the...

USAHS Louis A. Milne and Hawaii: 1945. Album. This comb-bound album measures 12” x 9” and contains approximately 225 images and several additional pieces of ephemera. About 170 of the images are vernacular photographs; the remainder are a mix of postcards, professional photographs, and half-tone prints. Most of the snap-shots... More about Photograph album documenting service on the World War II Hospital Ship, USAHS Louis A. Milne

Scenery Hill, Pennsylvania: Dr. B. Clark, 1869. Unbound. This advertising packet for Dr. B. Clark’s Chronic Disease medicine includes a four-page advertising brochure (9” x 12”), a one-page manuscript instruction (8” x 10”) for preparing the “medicine,” a small printed prescription guide (3” x 3.5”), an apparently autographed advertisement for..... More about Quack medicine advertising packet for Dr. Clark, Professor of Anatomical Pathology, and his...

Juneau, Alaska and Portland, Oregon: 1948. Unbound. Two-page typed letter, unsigned. The letter is datelined, “Morningside, Hospital. / Montaville, Station. / Portland, Oregon. / Sept, 23, 1948,” and is in nice shape. Eino Mack was the son of a Finnish emigrant who worked for the Alaska-Juneau Gold Mining Company. Beginning... More about Psychiatric hospital letter from a schizophrenic Alaskan, who murdered his gold-miner father...

New York: Seabury & Johnson, circa 1900. Envelope or Cover. Three all-over chromolithographic Seabury & Johnson advertising covers, all are franked with 2-cent Washington stamps (Scott #279B) tied by New York machine cancellations dated between 1898 and 1901. Faint illustrations of the S&J factory are in the address field of... More about The pinnacle of postal advertising: three end-of-the-19th Century Seabury & Johnson...

Philadelphia, Ann Arbor, Owatonna, and Detroit: 1864-1881. Scrapbook. The album measures 6" x 15.5" and contains approximately 75 pages filled with ledger entries, scores of mostly medically related newspaper clippings, and about 35 ephemeral pieces including business cards, advertisements, printed letters, receipts, prescription blanks, dunning notices, medical society notices, reference... More about Homoeopathic Physician's Commonplace Scrapbook and Ledger