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This auction listing presents a diverse array of rare and historical items, including ephemera, books, maps, and art. Featured is a Theodore Roosevelt National Convention 1912 Silk Ribbon, as well as an 1838 Nathaniel Bowditch eulogy. Additionally, a 1930 Wisconsin road map for RICHMAN BROS. CLOTHES and a collection of five early 20th-century New England travel brochures are offered.
Several trade and art catalogues are available, such as a 1923 STARRETT TOOLS trade catalog and ephemeral art booklets including *The Studio Magazine*. A private printing of Oscar Wegelin’s bibliography, limited to 50 copies, is included, along with a rare songster featuring music by Gena Branscombe and a broadside for the funeral service of Queen Victoria. Other unique pieces are a 1919 fore-edge painting in *The Book of Gems* and a mountain climbing illustrated travel book.
Military and historical ephemera include illustrated plates of Scottish Highlanders in military costume, sheet music with military themes, and a 1937 printing of Francisco De Goya’s *The Disasters of War*. The collection also includes *Civil War 1865 Anderson Prison Account*, *The Christian Private* (1864), and Bill Arp’s *A Side Show of the Southern Side of the War*.
Literary works span several centuries, featuring titles like *The Vicar of Wakefield* (1844), *Moses King’s Pocketbook of Providence R.I.* (1882), *The Aeneid* (1873), *The China Hunters Club* (1878), *Uncle Tom’s Cabin* (1852), and *Thy Will Be Done* from the Eleonora Duse Series of Plays. A variety of travel-related books and guides are also included, such as Baedeker’s guide to Southern France and Butterworth’s *Zigzag Journeys on the Mediterranean*.