Rarities
Rarities
Every now and then an item of exceptional quality and rarity is found. These items will be featured here. To purchase simply contact us directly.
“The Long Hidden Friend”
Written by:
Johann Georg Hohman, near Meading, in Alsace Taunschip, Berks Eaunty, Pennsylvania.
Printed for the Berber 1820.
For your consideration we offer “The Long Hidden Friend” by Johann Georg Hohman. Printed in 1820. It is in the original German. Considered by many to be the first American grimoire. It is a compilation of cures and protections for many dangers and ailments. Excellent condition for age. More picture available on request as well as price .
An important piece of cultural history. Many of the cures were pulled from an even earlier text “the little book of the Gypsies”. Powwow, magic, folk healing
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1849 Girls Handwriting Journal
We are pleased to show you this handwritten journal. A wonderful find dated 1849. Written by Hellen M. Covell while at Mrs. J. H. Browns?Browers? school in Dorchester.
44 pages all legible and handwritten - most likely transcribed from her elocution book. Several different works are sampled from.
The story of the hunchback Cano
Translation of Paulina
“Passes the First of England”
“My life is like the summer rose” - Richard Henry Wilde
“Memories” - John Greenleaf Whittier
“Footsteps of Angels” - Longfellow
“The Departed”
“A Dirge”
“Our Souls Are United” - Anon
“Old Haunts” - M.F. Tupper
“Jephtha’s Daughter” - Nathaniel Parker Willis
“The Family Meeting” - Charles Sprague
“The Religious Cottage” - D. Huntington
“To a Departed Friend” - Opie?
“Aspirations” - Margaret M. Davidson
“Solitude” - Henry Kirk White
“The Death of the Flowers” - William Cullen Bryant
“Monody On the Death of Grace Darling” - Mrs. C.B. Wilson
“Song of the Shirt” - Thomas Hood
“Pity”
“The Song of Seventy” - Martin Farquhar Tupper
“The Song of Sixteen” - Martin Farquhar Tupper
