Search Results: Titles starting with B from The Personal Navigator

Newark, NJ: The Prudential Insurance Co. of America, ca. 1919. 10 x 15 cm. Guidance for mothers: Register your baby; use Silver nitrate at birth; Nurse your baby--cow's milk is for the calf; Nurse every 3 hours; Keep milk on ice; boil everything. Paper booklet, staples rusted. Cover loose. Fair. . Catalogs: Scientific/Educational/Women's.

Boston, MA: D. Lothrop and Co, 1892. 20 x 25 cm. Christmas issue: A Christmas Gift, other children's stories on 8 pp. of heavy paper. Ads for D. Lothrop books, patent medicine, sewing machines, etc. Design on cover shows circle with astrology symbols in elaborate design with cherubs; in center is a child kissing a girl. Design by Edmund H. Garrett (?), 1883. Paper periodical, good. . Catalogs: Children/Advertising.

Boston, MA: D. Lothrop Co, 1891. 20 x 25 cm. Frontispiece engraving shows little girl ""Feeding the Coltie."" Stories for Children: Hickory, Dickory, Dock; The Voyage of the Waterlily; The Explanation about Johnny. Ads for Ferris Good Sense Corset Waist;Hood's Sarsaparilla; Prizes for boys who'll go out and get more subscribers.W. Baker & Co. Breakfast Cocoa. Eagle Brand Condensed Milk. Paper periodical, cover worn at edges, spine shows partial tear,good. . Catalogs: Children's.

Jersey City, NJ: Reed & Carnrick, �1902. 11 x 16 cm. Booklet tells mothers how to care for newborns, with many pages about disease, menus, and advertisements for Carnrick's Lacto-Preparata, Soluble Food, and Zymocide. Paper booklet with picture of girl on cover. Cover creased and worn, spinefold frayed. P.6 has data about baby filled in. good. . Catalogs: Scientific/Educational/Advertising.

Washington, DC: United States Department of Agriculture, 1922. 14 x 23 cm. Booklet written by Assistant in Home Demonstration Work, Office of Extension Work South. Yeast breads; quick or hot breads; Pastry; cookies. Paper booklet . Catalogs: Cookbooks.

Rand McNally Co, ca. 1918. Fascinating map shows Balkans with new state of Jugoslavia; Czechoslovakia, East Galicia Plebiscite, Dardanelles and Bosporus under international control. Paper map in folder, torn near top fold w/ old tape repair, tears at some corner folds, pencil route from Bukarest to Constantinople.Poor condition. . Catalogs: Maps.

Lausanne, C.H: Librairie Payot, ca. 1939. 65 x 88 cm. Colored map shows Balkans, Hungary, Greece, Yugoslavia, Rumania. Germany includes Austria, Levant includes Lebanon and Palestine. Paper map, some folds worn, paper tape repairs to some folds, poor. . Catalogs: Maps.

New York, NY: The Book Shop, 155 w. 23rd. St, 1908. 12 x18 cm. "And all men kill the thing theylove, by all let this be heard, some do it with a bitter look, some with a flattering word, the coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a sword."" Paper booklet, cover sunfaded. Very good. . Catalogs: Poetry.

Indianapolis, IN: U.S. Bank Note Co, 1911. 13 x 19 cm. Explains origin of The Year One; lots of jokes; Queer antarctic birds; banking practices. See Robbie joke on p.5. Paper pamphlet, string holder, good. . Catalogs: Reference/Ephemera/Humor.

Chicago, IL: T.S. Denison & Co, 1903. 12 x 18 cm. Sensational drama begins in a village home in New Jersey with Lucy the maid and Ike, with a Dutch accent. In comes Blinkey, all bloody from a fight, remarks about the United States ""goin' round de whole world wid a chip on its shoulder."" Philip Templeton is really Philip Brandon, the Bank Cashier. There's a shot, a fire, and a robbery, and an unexpected event. Ike, Blinkey and Lucy end up happy. Paper booklet, some parts in script marked with pencil, name ""Elmer R. Cheney"" written on cover. Cover spine frayed, chi missing, poor. . Catalogs: Fiction/Play.

Boston, MA: D.C. Heath and Company, 1902. 11 x 16 cm. Classic play by Beaumarchais, in French. Cloth on board. Front and back pastedowns and endpages filled with French words and their English meanings. Some pencil notes in text. Binding very good. Reading copy. . Catalogs: Literature/French.

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, New York State Veterinary College, 1946. 28 x 22 cm. Many photos show Chorioptic Scabies of Cattle, Psoroptic Scabies, Sarcoptic Mange, Demodectic Mange, Stephanofilariasis, Lousiness or Pediculosis. Paper booklet, 2 x 2 cm tar-like stain on front cover, otherwise very good. . Catalogs: Farming/Educational.

Warren, PA: The Bashlin Co, ca. 1925. 10 x 23 cm. Pamphlet shows cutaway drawing of Bashlin faucet on front panel, then contains listing of buildings in AZ, CA, CO, CT, ID, MA, MI, MO, MT, NM, NY, OH, OK, TX, UT, WA and WY. Includes Luhrs Bldg. in Phoenix, School for Deaf and Blind in Colorado Springs, Norwich Hospital for the Insane in CT, Manhattan Lunch in Rochester, NY, Caxton Building in Cleveland, and Adolphus Hotel in Dallas. Pamphlet contains designation of Special Representative W.J. Hyland Mfg. Co., Springfield, MA. Paper brochure, very good. . Catalogs: Advertising.

Basle, Switzerland: Herm. Doser, 1924. 10.5 x 14 cm. Little booklet, in German, lists of streets, churches, post offices, postage rates, transportation timetables, fold-out map (very brittle, folds torn) with plans for theatre seating on reverse. Paper booklet with fold-out map of city. Booklet fair condition, but fold-out map is brittle and folds torn, very poor. . Catalogs: Travel.

Lynn, MA: Bates & Foss, 1925. 7.5 x 11.3 cm. Advertising piece features six steel sewing needles, two large, and 1925 calendar. Needles are ""Peerless Elliptic Large Eye Sharps."" Cover shows picture of attractive young woman. Paper booklet with steel needles inside. Pencil marking on cover, and numbers written on inside front panel. Fair. . Catalogs: Advertising/women's.

1889. 13 x 19 cm. Unique poetry cuts a wide swath of learning in a small, un-cut booklet. Includes reference to a rare marine plant named after a correspondent of Darwin's. This is the Word, feed of wind, the thought-gyvers preach-- Numskulls so brittle, one could brain with a fan, Who scatters the white-wheat, barn smut, chaff and bran...The purpose and moral of this jingle-crambo--Cant unhouse, unfrock, malus animal show, Wash, penny-wheep, ""cooly examine"" bewray, Megalos Anthropus, duty, courtesy pay. L'Envoi. Evolution, Creation, age-stirp, loam-clod, Protogenes Haeckel, progenitor toad? Several more stanzas. Paper booklet, uncut, lightly soiled, good. . Catalogs: Poetry.

Milan, Italy: Ente Nazionale Industrie Turistiche, ca. 1938. 11 x 22 cm. Travel brochure in English, aimed at British travelers. Describes Agnano, Ravello, Amalfi, Positano, Ravello, Posillipo, Vesuvius. Paper folded pamphlet, very good. . Catalogs: Travel/Italy.

Baytown, TX: Baytown Fire Department, 1977. 21 x 27 cm. Book dedicated to Firechief L.V. Bailey (retired),for 30 years service in Baytown. Fire Department Highlights for 1976. Chief is V.H. McBride. Paper booklet, very good. . Catalogs: Printed Matter.

Syracuse, NY: E.M. Johnston, �1937. 11 x 15 cm. Spirited little lesson for salesmen: The acid test of a salesman is how many orders he gets. If an order is pluckable by being a boob, then I say Be a Boob. Paper booklet, very good. . Catalogs: Educational.

Boston, MA: Beacon Publishing Co, 1886. 46 x 60 cm. "Mr. Edward Solomons is not having a nice time in London, where he is jailed to await his trial for bigamy."" Social comments, sermons, sprightly humor; the comings and goings of Boston's elite. Newspaper, edges frayed, folds starting to tear, fair. . Catalogs: Humor/History.