You're bidding on your choice of one or more original antique pre-1900 paper magazine articles which I removed from magazines in my collection. All are nicely illustrated unless noted otherwise. Brief descriptions follow:
THE BEE-PASTURES OF CALIFORNIA: Part 1 of 2. Eight pages by the legendary John Muir. First pg. has slightly uneven edge.
HOMING PIGEONS: Seventeen pages. Left edge curled and a bit rough on first few pages. Remainder with slight left edge upward curling.
UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: Fourteen pages including the frontispiece portrait, otherwise text only.
HARVARD'S BOTANIC GARDEN: Twelve pages.
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ATHLETE: Twenty-one pages.
GLIMPSES OF LINCOLN IN WAR TIME: Eleven pages text only.
THE DECORATION OF THE EXPOSITION: Eighteen pages.
A NEW FLYING MACHINE: Fourteen pages.
FOUR CIVIL WAR ARTICLES:
(1) Stonewall Jackson in Maryland ~ 11 pages including full page map.
(2) Harper's Ferry and Sharpsburg ~ 13 pages.
(3) The invasion of Maryland ~ 7 pages.
(4) Antietam Scenes ~ 4 (text) pages.
OUR COAST GUARD: Fourteen pages (last few have slightly ragged edges).
RACING IN AUSTRALIA: Fourteen pages.
BASE-BALL FOR THE SPECTATOR: Seven pages by Walter Camp.
THE PHYSICAL PROPORTIONS OF THE TYPICAL MAN: Fifteen pages.
BIRDS' EGGS: Six pages.
IN THE WAKE OF BATTLE: Nine pages with a full page portrait of General Robert E. Lee on his horse, Traveler. Also includes the follow-on 'Fighting Farragut Below New Orleans' eleven-page article. Two pages of 'Farragut' have a few faint foxing spots at edges of the pages.
A SUMMER IN ICELAND: Twenty-two pages.
LIVING BALLS: Six pages plus the follow-on ten-page story 'Mr. Wigg's Party on the Kissimmee', which includes a full page A. B. Frost comic 'Shooting Alligators'.
ELECTRICITY IN WAR: Twenty-one pages.
A GERMAN ROME: Twenty pages.
HOW I CROSSED MASAI-LAND: Nineteen pages.
MEXICAN SUPERSTITIONS AND FOLK-LORE: Eleven text pages.
The article(s) will be enclosed in a plastic sheet protector and shipped flat in a manila envelope with cardboard stiffener. Shipping cost is $2.50 via USPS First Class Large Envelope stamped mail, and any additional ones will ship free in same envelope provided that all are paid on one invoice.
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