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189320760Chicago: Metcalf Stationery Company 1893. First Edition. 16 pp in original stapled wrappers. Delicate condition with a 1/4 x 1.5 inch chip missing from all pages in the volume not affecting text and an additional chip to the front wrapper. A scarce and detailed guide to the many features of the Moorish Palace at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. These included a palm garden "enhanced by groups of Arabs" a replica of the Alhambra a harem a labyrinth a cave a "monster kaleidoscope" and an extensive wax museum. The guide describes 60 figures and scenes appearing in the museum among them the Lincoln assasintation the fountain of youth Christ and the Samartian Martin Luther Sleeping Beauty Shakespeare Mozart Queen Victoria Pope Leo XIII Napoleon and George Washington. A separate room contained a diorama of the execution of Marie Antoinette which used the actual scaffold and guillotine that did the deed. Metcalf Stationery Company unknown books
1894218762Chicago: W. B. Conkey 1894. paperback. good. 217 photo Illus. Oblong 16mo pr. wrs. wrappers detached and chipped some margins and wrappers dampstained spine worn. Chicago: W. B. Conkey 1894.<br/><br/> Views of buildings scenes and people of the exposition. The plates are complete and bright.<br/><br/> W. B. Conkey unknown books
189050922NY: Radtke Lauckner & Co 1890. Single sheet 10 3/8 x8 inches with a copper etching of a rustic cabin on a lake with a sail boat in the background. In holograph on the lower margin is " At Brennan & Davis' Monday & Tuesday Apr 20th & 21st." Faint foxing else very good. The firm of Radtke Lauckner & Co. were publishers and importers of etchings engravings and photographs located at 6 East 18th Street New York during the 1890's. Apparently they arranged traveling exhibitions of their wares at various locations; this elaborate invitation was for a showing at Brennan & Davis' a jewelry stationary and book store in Bradford Pennsylvania. <br/><br/> Radtke, Lauckner & Co unknown books
