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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Cresson, W.E. & G.W.Clinton. The Book of Bubbles, a contribution to the New York Fair in aid of the Sanitary Commission. New York, Endicott & Co., March 1864. Oblong 8vo. Iv p + 68 numbered leaves printed on one side only + [3] blank leaves. Engraved title incorporating circular emblem and 68 full-page lithographed illustrations with limerick cap¬tions below. Publisher's green cloth ornamented in blind; dated circular emblem gilt-stamped in centre of front cover; light wear to ends of spine. A book of nonsense with satirical sketches accompanied by limerick verse published on the occasion of the Great Central Fair for the US Sanitary Commission in 1864 for the relief of northern soldiers. Clearly inspired by the first American printing of Edward Lear's A Book of Nonsense, at Philadelphia the previous year, this book reflects the growing fashion and demand for such literature. A dozen of the compositions are political lampoons, five caricatures treat black subjects (4, 42, 47, 52 & 60). The lithographs are executed by Endicott & Co. Illustrations are variously signed: 'B.', 'D.', 'W.E.Cresson', 'Cresson', 'Mrs. Emlen Cres¬son', 'G.W.Clinton', 'G.W.C.'. Some isolated foxing, a few occasional light traces of usage, but generally a good copy.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. 617, [3] pages : illustrations (some color), portrait, color maps ; 45 cm ; OCLC 56519674. LCCN 00005457 LC E715 .L63; Folio; large format book; embossed pictorial dark red cloth with decorative endpapers ; tears to a few pages ; foxed ; damage to spine ; two-page maps ; "A pictorial and Dewcriptive Record of the Cuban Rebellion, the Causes that Involved the United States, and a Complete Narrative of our Conflict with Spain on Land and Sea, supplemented with fullest information respectinv Cuba, Porto Rico, The Philippines and Hawaii, their commerce, climate productions history and people. Embellished with 1500 original illustrations, by the great war artists of Leslie's Weekly, and pictures taken of actual scenes by its corps of correspondents and photographers sent to the front for the purpose, including such world-famous masters of the brush and camera as B. West Clinedinst, C. M. Sheldon, E. N. Blue, G. M. Tracer, H. Cresson Schell, G. W. Peters, Howard Chandler Christy, Charles Broughton, C. McKnight Smith, F. H. Schell, Dan Beard, Dan Smith, Burr McIntosh, James Burton, W. F. Hoffman, S. I. Wilkinson, C. Edward Graham, C. T. Rost, J. C. Hemment, W. H. Rau, J. F.J. Archibald, Edward Wilsman, Miss A. N. Benjamin, and illuminated by a series of double-page colored war maps of Cuba, Porto Rico, the Philippines and Hawaii, and chromatic prints of flags and seals of all nations, medals, signals, and insignia that represent all ranks of officers in the army and navy. Compiled and written directly from the Official Records at Washington, with the endorsement of the President, of the Secretary of War, and of the Commanding Officers of the Army and Navy." ; "This work is sold by subscription only, and will never be for sale in book stores" ; Ownership of Edward Fredrick Deichler (1875-1957), a descendent of pioneers Philip and Maximilian Deichler, enterprising shoemakers and stationers in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In 1905 E. F. Deichler was the proprietor of the Kinzler Shoe Co. , Lancaster, and by 1910 he became the manager of 20th Century Shoe Company, 7 South Market Square, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He also recruited agents to sell tea, coffee, and merchandise in the area. ; 12 ½ x 17 inches ; FAIR. Book. …