Illustrated Birthday Book of American Poets1881 gift book illustrated with portraits of American poets and containing verses. Its for logging the birthdays of loved ones: Numerous entries and some pressed flowers. Yes Poe is included! Condition is very good with bumped corners.

Excellent condition

though it’s missing one leaf on the side

Very strange

single vintage bookend made of green tooled leather and featuring the profile of Dante Alighieri

theatrical producer Lou Walters- father of Barbara Walters- bought it and gave it a New Orleans Latin Quarter theme

This vintage brass paperweight depicts one of my favorite religious sculptures: The incorrupt body of St

Get a jumpstart on your own collection with this mid-19th century carte de visite

it’s not always easy or possible to say definitively whether or not you’re looking at mourning clothes & accessories or just ordinary black

but it would have been acceptable to use

though it’s very nice to have a silver example for a change

” used to adjourn meetings or gatherings

Fabulous antique plaster sculpture hand portrait