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(CALLIGRAPHY.)
“Copied by Felix Mayer / An Inmate of the Lunatic
Asylum, B. I.”
Large manuscript broadside appointment for a doctor at the asylum,
located on Blackwell’s Island, NewYork City. Pen and ink on vellum. 600x500 mm.
NewYork, [1840s]
[250/350]
330
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(CALLIGRAPHY.) Ascoli, Joseph.
French schoolboy’s manuscript work-
book,
each page with elaborate title, carefully executed prose, and a small drawing of the
subject in question. 14 leaves.Thin 4to, contemporary blue cloth. Subjects include France,
Napoleon, the navy, monkeys, insects, Champagne, etc.
[France], (1859)
[200/300]
331
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(CHROMOLITHOGRAPHED CARDS.) L. Prang & Co.
Prang’s Christmas and
New Year’s Cards.
Salesman’s sample catalog containing approximately 200 pieces, sub-
jects include racist humor, sentimental imagery, botanicals, etc. Mounted on thick leaves in
contemporary 4to album, secured with string ties. Boston: Prang, circa 1900
[200/300]
332
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(FASHION—EMBROIDERY.)
Group of seventeen leaves from an embroi-
dery sample album,
along with an early 20th century folio book on Czechoslovakian
folk embroidery, with 34 numbered plates loose in portfolio.The album pages each have at
least 8 samples pasted on.
[United Kingdom?, early 20th century]
[200/300]
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