GRAPH BOOKS: PRINTED MATTER FROM RADICAL ART AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS.
FEMINIST HISTORIANS OF MATERIAL CULTURE.

Manolin: Novela Original

Eva Canel, 1891

(Cuban Book History) (Romance) (Women's Readership) First edition of the romance novel by the prolific journalist Eva Canel.

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(Cuban Book History) (Romance) (Women's Readership) First edition of the romance novel by the prolific journalist Eva Canel.



Traços biographicos da heroína brasileira Jovita Alves Feitosa ...

[Feitosa, Jovita Alves], 1865

(Women Soldiers) (War Propaganda) (Brazil) Scarce contemporary bio of a celebrated national heroine of the Paraguayan War.

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(Women Soldiers) (War Propaganda) (Brazil) Scarce contemporary bio of a celebrated national heroine of the Paraguayan War.



La Femme Canon. Chansonnette

Clairville; Auguste de Villebichot, ca. 1878

Comic song inspired by Rossa Matilda Richter, aka Zazel, the first human cannonball.

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Comic song inspired by Rossa Matilda Richter, aka Zazel, the first human cannonball.



Grand Pensionnat de Jeunes Filles. Situation Exceptionelle d’Hygiène & d’Agrément

Institution Belle-Vue, ca. 1895

Promoting a boarding school for girls in a suburb of Paris with fine views of the facilities and students.

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Promoting a boarding school for girls in a suburb of Paris with fine views of the facilities and students.



Advertisement Proof for La Parisienne fin XIXe Siècle

H. Jourdain (Illus.), ca. 1893

Drypoint etching advertisement for a portfolio of fashion etchings.

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Drypoint etching advertisement for a portfolio of fashion etchings.



Rays of Sunlight from South America

Alexander Gardner [and Henry De Witt Moulton], 1865

(Transnationalism) Monumental photographic album incl. 32 rare views of guano production and Chinese prisoner-laborers on the Chincha Islands.

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(Transnationalism) Monumental photographic album incl. 32 rare views of guano production and Chinese prisoner-laborers on the Chincha Islands.



De l’extinction de la prostitution: pétition au Sénat, session de 1865

Jules Meugy, ca. 1865

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Les Maladies Sans Nom. Leur Guréison Faciles et Radicale Conseils aux Medales Désespérés.

Charles-Antoin Richard, [1877]

Anonymous case histories incl. sexual diseases, healed with a precursor to the first syphilis cure, an arsenic compound?

Les Maladies Sans Nom. Leur Guréison Faciles et Radicale Conseils aux Medales Désespérés.close


Anonymous case histories incl. sexual diseases, healed with a precursor to the first syphilis cure, an arsenic compound?



Dealers in Patent Rights, Look To Your Interests!

Lechner & Stump, [1866?]

Rare broadside with striking illustration.

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Rare broadside with striking illustration.



Rosalba Carriera per l’inaugurazione delle sale degli autoritratti nella R. Galleria degli Uffizi

Vittorio Malamani, 1899

First Modern Art Historical Scholarship on Rosalba Carriera

Rosalba Carriera per l’inaugurazione delle sale degli autoritratti nella R. Galleria degli Uffiziclose


First Modern Art Historical Scholarship on Rosalba Carriera



(Sexual Health) Dr. McIntosh’s Natural Uterine Supporter

Dr. McIntosh's Natural Uterine Supporter Company, ca. 1876-1882

Vaginal pessary leaflet.

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Vaginal pessary leaflet.



Presenting tonight the Queen of Pantomime and Statuesque Grace and Beauty, Miss Cora Neilson [...]

[1888]

Broadside featuring actress Cora Neilson as the cross-dressing, cross-ethnic heroine of the colonial fantasy, "French Spy."

Presenting tonight the Queen of Pantomime and Statuesque Grace and Beauty, Miss Cora Neilson [...]close


Broadside featuring actress Cora Neilson as the cross-dressing, cross-ethnic heroine of the colonial fantasy, "French Spy."



Album of late 19th Century Albumen or Gelatin-Silver Prints of Gubbio and Perugia

ca. 1880

Late-19th-century Italian album combining amateur and professional photography.

Album of late 19th Century Albumen or Gelatin-Silver Prints of Gubbio and Perugiaclose


Late-19th-century Italian album combining amateur and professional photography.



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