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Tom Mix Circus and Wild West. One typed and signed full-page letter from Floyd King, manager of Cole Bros. and Clyde Beatty's; dated June 30, 1935. Two blank Tom Mix letterheads (ca. 1930-1939). 215 by 280mm (8 1/2 by 11 inches). One Tom Mix envelope (ca. 1937). Three Tom Mix tickets (1934, 1935 and ca. 1920). Floyd King letter glued on card stock and browning (previously folded).

Tom Mix Collection

Two-page A4 sized signed typewritten letter dated July 30, 1965, on letterhead of Neues Deutschland Editor-in-Chief.

Who’s Who of GDR Journalism

Friedrichstadt Palast Weltstadtvariete

Post-War Berlin Variety Show

Philipp, Lenard. Über Kathodenstrahlen. [On Cathode Rays]

X‑Ray Invention

White, Gerald T. BAPTISM IN OIL. STEPHEN F. PECKHAM IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, 1865-66.

Designed by Ward Ritchie

[Boutet, Claude]. TRAITE DE MIGNATURE, Pour Apprendre Aisment a Peindre Sans Maistre, avec le Secret de Faire les Belles Couleurs, l'Or Bruny, and l'Or en Coquille. Quatrie'me Edition. Reveue, Corrigee and Augmentee par l'Auteur.

With Woodcut of a Pantograph

[Sherer, Joseph Moyle]. NOTES AND REFLECTIONS DURING A RAMBLE IN GERMANY…

A Ramble in Germany

Hamilton, Lady Anne. SECRET HISTORY OF THE COURT OF ENGLAND, FROM THE ACCESSION OF GEORGE THE THIRD TO THE DEATH OF GEORGE THE FOURTH; Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte.

Personal Details of Lady Anne’s Life

Scott, Sir Walter. GUY MANNERING; OR, THE ASTROLOGER. In Three Volumes.

The Astrologer

Fossati, Jean-Antoine-Laurent. MANUEL PRATIQUE DE PHRENOLOGIE ou Physiologie du Cerveau d'Apres les Doctrines de Gall, de Spurzheim, de Combe et des Autres Phrenologistes. 37 Portraits et 6 Figures d'Anatomie, Intercales dans le Texte.

Phrenology Portraits

Bigland, John. AN HISTORICAL DISPLAY OF THE EFFECTS OF PHYSICAL AND MORAL CAUSES ON THE CHARACTER AND CIRCUMSTANCES OF NATIONS: Including a Comparison of the Ancients and Moderns in Regard to Their Intellectual and Social State.

Comparison of the Ancients and Moderns

Ball, Isaac. AN ANALYTICAL VIEW OF THE ANIMAL ECONOMY. Calculated for the Student of Medicine, as Well as Private Gentlemen: Interspersed with Many Allegories and Moral Reflections, Drawn from the Subject, to Awaken the Mind to an Elevated Sense of the Great Author of Nature.

The Animal Economy

Walker, George. CHESS MADE EASY; Intended as a First Book. New Edition.

Handsome Little Chess Book

Taylor, Thomas (translator). POLITICAL FRAGMENTS OF ARCHYTAS, CHARONDAS, ZALEUCUS, AND OTHER ANCIENT PYTHAGOREANS, Preserved by Stobaeus; and Also, Ethical Fragments of Hierocles... Translated from the Greek by Thomas Taylor.

Thomas Taylor, Translator

Helms, Ludvig Verner. PIONEERING IN THE FAR EAST, AND JOURNEYS TO CALIFORNIA IN 1849 AND TO THE WHITE SEA IN 1878. With Illustrations from Original Sketches and Photographs.

Early History of Sarawak and North Borneo

Bynaeus, Anthony. DE CALCEIS HEBRAEORUM Sive Antiquitates Hebraicae Vindicatae...

On Shoes

Camden, William. Britannia sive florentissimorum regnorum, angliae, scotiae, hiberniae, et Insularum adiacentium ex intima antiquitate. Chorographica descriptio. Autore Guilielmo Camdeno. Nunc quarto recognita, and magna accessione post Germanicam editionem adaucta.

Topographical-Historical Description of England

Cassius Dio, Lucius. Dione delle guerre de Romani. Tradotto da M. Nicolo Leoniceno et nuovamente stampato.

History of Rome and Defense of Monarchy

Erasmus, Desiderius. Apophthegmatum ex optimis utrius que linguae scriptoribus per Des. Erasmum Roterod. Collectorum, libri octo. Cum gemino indice, personarum ac rerum, sive sententiarum memorabilium, ab eodem auctore ad calcem operis magna cum diligentia adiectus.

Erasmus in an Early Stamped Binding

Fabri, Johannes. D. Iohannis Fabri, episcopi Viennensis, Sermones fructuosissimi, cu[n]ctis Ecclesiæ catholicæ defensoribus, ac doctrinæ eva[n]gelicæ professoribus, summopere necessarij. De Eucharista. Folio.I. Victoria contra Turcas. Fol[io]. LVI. Patientia. Fol[io]. XCIIII. Baptismo parvulorum contra Anabaptistas. Fol[io]. CXXXIII. Item, Oratio funebris in laudem D. Margaretæ, Ducissæ Austriæ, andc[etera] and co[n]scripta sunt, p[re]cede[n]tib[us] adijciunt[ua] Fo. CXLIII. and CXLVII.

Anti-Turkish and Anti-Mennonite Sermons

Foquelin, Antoine. Anotnij Foquelini Veromandui, In auli Persii Flacci satyras commentarius ad Petrum Ramum, eloquentiæ and philosophiæ Regium Lutetiæ professorem.

Noted Anti-Slavery Advocate’s Copy of Anti-Aristotle Education Reform

Giovio, Paolo. Pauli Iovii Novo Comensis episcopi Nucerini Descriptiones, quotquot extant, regionum atq[ue] locorum. Quibus (ut eius omnia hoc postremo volumine complecteremur) de Piscibus Romanis libellum verè aureum adinnximus.

Descriptions of Ireland, Moscow, and Sea Creatures

[Hotman, François]. Brutum Fulmen Papæ Sixti v. aduersus Henricum Sereniss. Regem Nauarre, and illustrissiumum Henricum Borbonium, Principem Condæum. Una cum protestatione multiplicis nullitatis.

Anti-Pope Polemic with Interesting Reader Marks

Saint Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch. Gloriosi Christi Martyris Ignatii Antiocheni antistitis, Epistolæ undecim. Item una beati Polycarpi martyris epistola, cum argumento Iacobi Fabri Stapulen[sis] in easdem.

Rubbish Published Under Ignatius’s Name

Leoniceno, Nicolo. Nicolai Leoniceni Vicentini, Philosophi and Medici clarissimi, opuscula: quorum catalogum versa pagina indicabit. Per D. Andream Leennium Medicum, à multis quibus scatebant vitijs, repurgata, atque annotatiunculis illustrata.

First Medical Text on Syphilis

Lemnius, Levinus. Di Levino Lennio, medico Zirizeo, Della complessione del corpo humano libri due, Sommamente necessarij à tutti coloro, che studiano alla sanità: Da quali a ciascuno sarà ageuole di conoscere perfettamente la qualità del corpo suo, e i mouimenti dell'animo, and il modo del conseruarsi del tutto sano. Nuouamente di Latino in Volgare...

Famous Jewish Bookdealer’s Copy on the Importance of Blood

Mark the Hermit. Sancti Patris nostri Marci Eremitæ Opuscula qu[a]edam Theologica, qu[a]e in Bibliotheca regia reperta sunt, græcè scripta: Nunc primùm Latino sermoni tradita, per Ioannem Picum, Classium inquisitoriarum in Senatu Parisiensi Præsidem. Cum aliis quibusdam, quorum elenchum habes pagina Epistolam sequente.

Writings of a Turkish Christian Hermit

Oppianus. Oppiani poetae alieuticon, sive de piscibus, Libri quinq[ue] è græco traducti ad Anotnium Imperatorem.

One of the Earliest Monographs on Fish

Sardi, Alessandro. Alexandri Sardi Ferrariensis, De Moribus ac Ritibus gentium Libri III. Nunc primum in lucem editi.

Proto-Ethnography

Sigonio, Carlo. De antiquo iure civium romanorum libri duo. Eiusdem de antiquo iure italiæ libri tres. Ab ipso auctore multis in locis aucti. Index rerum, and verborum copiosissimus.

Early Legal Justification of Colonization

Sleidan, Johann. De Statu religionis et reipublicae, Carolo Quinto, Caesare, Commentarij. Cum Indice luculenetissimo.

First Comprehensive History of the Reformation

Suetonius Tranquillus, Caius. XII Caesares, Et in eos Laevini Torrentii commentarius auctior et emendatior.

Her Book”

Russell, Richard (ed.). A HISTORY OF THE MARLBOROUGH COLLEGE PRESS 1934-1984.

Marlborough College Press

Radbruch, Dr. Gustav. Geburtshülfe und Strafrecht. [Birthing Assistance and Criminal Law]

Abortion Law Guide

Superb collection of drawings used to illustrate designs by the French firm, located at 6, Rue Hippolyte-Lebas, Paris: Maison Speciale d'Habillements Administratifs et Militaire, "Aux Phares de la Bastille".

I’m your Bellboy

[Zacharie, de Lisieux, pere]. SOMNIA SAPIENTIS. Petro Firmiano [pseudo.] Authore.

Anti-Catholic Utopian Satire

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