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Manuscript music book belonging to Daniel Letham

1 music copybook with 153 pieces for violin including polkas, jigs, hornpipes, strathspeys, waltzes, and quadrilles. Book also contains parts with cues for a theatrical…

Music manuscript book belonging to Thomas McFarlane.

1 musical copybook with 65 pieces including many Scotch and Irish fiddle tunes. 1 score (56 unnumbered pages) ; 15 x 24 cm. From the Center for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee…

Music manuscript book belonging to Rosa C. Muhlenberg.

1 musical copybook with 22 pieces including secular songs with piano accompaniment. 1 score (73 unnumbered pages) ; 33 cm. From the American Antiquarian Society

Music manuscript book belonging to Samuel Cheney.

1 musical copybook with 59 pieces for fife. 1 score (45 unnumbered pages) ; 16 x 20 cm. From the Center for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee State University.

Music manuscript book belonging to Polly Elvira Bouchell. No. 1.

1 copybook with 28 pieces including popular songs, hymns, and marches. 1 score (64 unnumbered pages) ; 23 x 29 cm. From the Center for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee State…

The life and work of Lucinda B. Helm : founder of the Woman's parsonage and Home mission society of the M.E. church, South

Book, cloth with stamped decoration and gold lettering, frontispiece

Love is a flower

1 vocal score (5 pages) ; 34 cm For voice and piano. Caption title. Illustrated list t.p.: white with black lettering and border; facsimile of Emmet's signature. List of works…

The love of the shamrock: as sung in "Fritz in Ireland"

1 score (5 pages) ; 36 cm For voice and piano. Caption title. Emmet's Fritz in Ireland, words and music. Illustrated t.p. in white with black and green lettering; border…

Washington, outside and inside : a picture and a narrative of the origin, growth, excellences, abuses, beauties, and personages of our governing city

Book, stamped cloth binding with gold lettering on spine and gold facsimile of author's signature on front cover; frontispiece

The New Normal Mental Arithmetic: A Thorough and Complete Course, By Analysis and Induction.

Small hardback textbook with reddish-brown covers that both have large black ink stains splashed across them. The front cover has the title and author in large black lettering…

An oration delivered on the Fourth of July, 1862, before the municipal authorities of the city of Boston

Pamphlet, stitched in paper wrappers, with printed lettering on cover

Aching hearts waltz

1 score (7 pages) : ill. ; 35 cm For piano. T.p. ill.: decorative white lettering on an orange background. "Respectfully enscribed [sic] to C.M. Faust"--t.p.

In the open : stories of outdoor life

Bound in green cloth with stamped illustration and black lettering on cover and spine; frontispiece

Boys of Bunker academy

Bound in cloth; frontispiece, stamped illustration and orange lettering with black border on cover

I can't stop loving you now : a sentimental ballad / words and music by Erich F. Pohl.

1 study score (5 pages) : ill. ; 18 cm For voice and piano. T.p. ill.: purple and white and decorative lettering surrounding a picture of a woman.

Dance of the demon = Dämonen Tanz : grand galop de concert pour le piano

9 p. of music : ill. T.p. ill.: Dark mountain, dancing demons, lightning-bolt lettering 1888 copyright assigned to Wm. Rohlfing & Co.

Rippling waters: caprice elegante for piano

1 score (7 pages) : ill. ; 35 cm For piano. "To Miss Hattie Steinbrecher, St. Louis, Mo."--T.p. T.p. ill.: red lettering and drawing of a waterfall. "New & favorite piano…

My mother's cradle song / words and music by Clarence Chrisman ; arr. by D. S. De Lisle.

1 score (5 pages) : ill. ; 36 cm For voice and piano. T.p. ill.: stylized red lettering and a picture of composer inset. The season's sweetest song success, now being sung and…

Once in a while : with violin obbligato / Caroline Lowthian ; H.L. D'arcy Jaxone.

1 score (4 p.) : ill. ; 35 cm. For voice and piano with violin obbligato. Caption title. T.p. ill.: decorative border and lettering in blue-gray ink. "March, 1895, edition."

Manuscript music book belonging to M.E. Eames.

1 music copybook with 118 pieces including several reels, hornpipes, marches, waltzes, and quadrilles. 1 score (384 pages) ; 18 x 29 cm. From the Center for Popular Music…

Letterpress copybook, 1879

Includes Geological Survey of Japan: Some Notes on Places of Interest in the Chingoku (122 p.) and Geological Survey of Japan: Continuation of Some Notes on Pieces of Interest…

A geography for beginners

A geography for beginners Author: Stewart, K. J. (Kensey Johns) Year: 1864 Book, stamped cloth binding with gold lettering; frontispiece View on Archive.org

The Coaching Club; 1904

The Coaching Club (1904) by The Coaching Club Subtitle: rules and list of members Published in New York by The Knickerbocker Press and G. P. Putnam's Sons Notes: 14 cm ; 47 p.…

Running the Cuban blockade; Captain Jack; The boy wreckers

Book, cloth binding with black stamped illustration and lettering on cover and spine; frontispiece

A discourse delivered on the Sunday after the disaster of Bull Run, in the North Church, Hartford

Pamphlet, stitched in paper wrappers, with printed lettering on cover

The friendly society.

1 copybook with 28 pieces including hornpipes, quicksteps, and several pieces with parts for various instrument; 1 sheet with 6 pieces has been tucked inside the book. 1 score…

Manuscript music book belonging to Mr. Adelbert Cook. No. 2

1 musical copybook consisting of quadrilles, hornpipes, clogs, and waltzes. 1 score (50 pages); 21 x 30 cm From Center of Popular Music, Middle Tennessee State University

Grafoni Complete Elementary Instructor ( Iven Hitlofi, 1913)

Instructor in Grafoni Shorthand

1915 Maki Family Photo Album

Photo album with brown, soft, textured leather covers. At the bottom of the front cover is the word "Photographs" in gold lettering. All of the pages are loose because the…

Hong Kong Telegraph 1924-07-11

NEW BANK OF CANTON. PORTUGUESE FLIERS. FETED IN HONGKONG. PITMAN'S SHORTHAND. LOCAL SUCCESSES. DAYLIGHT ROBBERY. BAG - SNATCHER GETS AWAY. MR. PAGE'S RURGLAR. LEAGUE TENNIS.…

"Walks about Chicago," and army and miscellaneous sketches

Book, half leather with marbled boards and endpapers, gold lettering and decoration on spine, top edges gilt; folded frontispiece

On the structure and affinities of the genus Monticulipora and its sub-genera, with critical descriptions of illustrative specie

Publisher's lettering: Pal©ozoic corals

Carriage painting; 1911

Carriage painting: a series of practical treatises on the painting of carriages and wagons, embracing full directions for the practical execution of all kinds of carriage and…

Drafting-room practice

Drafting-room system, by H. E. Flanders.--Tracing, lettering and mounting, by I. G. Bayley.--Card index systems, by A. L. Valentine, J. S. Watts and A. B. Howk

The games book for boys and girls : a volume of old and new pastimes, with original illustrations

Bound in original light maroon with colored illustration on upper cover. Lettering in gilt on upper cover and spine. Beveled edges. All edges gilt

Paul the peddler : or, The adventures of a young street merchant

Bound in red cloth; color illustration on paper pasted onto front; faded white lettering to front and spine

Recollections of General Grant : with an account of the presentation of the portraits of Generals Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point

Bound in textured paper wrappers, with printed lettering on cover

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