A collection of unique and interesting scans of early American books and booklets on various subjects.

A Few Interesting Collections of Scans from early American Periodicals

We have prepared each of these bookets as a PDF file, for easy printing on standard size paper.


Mysteries

19th Century Periodical articles about
mysterious subjects:
Relation Of Fairies To Religion
The Mythical Boat
The Magic Flight In Folklore
The Jewish Kabbala
Mystics Among The New England Hills
Zodiacal Symbolism


Price - $6.00


Sacred Flora
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A collection of American periodical articles
on the subject of the folklore and
sacred meanings and uses of plants.


Price - $4.00


Bird Song
s
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A collection of many American 19th Century periodical articles about bird songs and includes music notation for many bird songs.

Price - $5.00

 

Scans of two unique American articles published in the 1800s about hashish.....

 


1. A Hashish House In New York
The Curious Adventures Of A Individual Who
Indulged In A Few Pipefuls Of The Narcotic Hemp


2. Hasheesh And Hasheesh Eaters


Price - $2.50

The Mafiusi of Sicily

Scans of an historic 18 page article about the Mafia
published in 1876


Price - $2.50

 


Native American Music A collection of 19th Century American periodical articles about Native American songs and music, including music notation of many songs and chants. Scans of the articles prepared for easy printing, in a PDF file.
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5 Ebooks about the Folklore, Legends,
Myths, Fairy Stories and Tales
about Music and more...

in both PDF and epub formats

Book #1

Contents
The Legend of Knockgrafton
The Child and the Fiddle
Old Pipes and the Dryad
Story of the Most Wonderful Self-Playing Harp
The Street Musicians
Tiidu The Piper
The Marvelous Musician
Ripple the Water Spirit
Fairy Song
The Piper
The Lad and the Old Lassie’s Song
A Fairy Song
Some Descriptions of Fairy Music
The Fiddler and the Bogle of Bogandoran
The Piper and the Puca
O’Carolan and Other Music Tales
Kate Ellen’s Wake
The Lost Pibroch
The Magic Pipe
The Singing Bird Of Heaven
The Flute
Fairy Music 2
The Flute-Player
The Courageous Flute-Player
The Bremen Town Musicians
The Young Piper
The Sheoques
The Trooping Fairies
Jamie Freel And The Young Lady
The Greedy Old Man
The Fairy Island
The Girl Who Danced With The Fairies
Adventures Of Robin Goodfellow
The Wood-Lady
Swanda the Piper
The Story Of Vox Angelica And Lieblich Gedacht
The Wonderful Musician
The Bird-Fairy Speaks
The Fairies And The Fiddler
The Wonderful Tune
Diarmid Bawn, The Piper
The Divine Musician
David Turton, Musician At Horbury
John Bartendale, The Piper
Medical Powers Of Music
The Promise
The Song That Traveled
The Musician
The Music-Lover
Prelude
A Street Singer
Little Freddy With His Fiddle
The Magic Fiddle
Runes From The Kalewala
The Fiddler In The Fairy Ring
The Player On The Jew’s-Harp
Phantom Music
Phantom Sounds
A man who spent twelve months and a day with the Fairies
Dick the Fiddler and the Fairy Crown-Piece
The Elf Dancers of Cae Caled
Music and Bird Singing heard before Death
The Minstrels Or Musicians of the Sidhe
The Testimony of a Galway Piper
The Celestial Sisters
Story And Song Of The Deathless Voice
Lord Cuttle-Fish Gives A Concert
The Fisherman And The Moon-Maiden
The Three Musical Brothers
The Magic Umbrellas

Book #2


4 chapters, each containing many tales....

Musical Fairies and Their Kinsfolk
Musical Myths and Folk-Lore
Superstitions Concerning Bells
Popular Stories with Musical Traditions

Book #3


Jamie Freel and the Young Lady: A Donegal Tale
Ethna the Bride
A Visit to Fairyland
The Lost Wife of Ballaleece
The Lost Child
The World’s Most Beauteous Damsel
Touching the Elements
The Hunchback of Willow Brake
The Palace in the Rath
Billy Beg, Tom Beg, and the Fairies
A "Verry Volk" Feast
The Midnight Dance
Twelve Dancing Princesses
The Luck of Edenhall
The Giant Finn and Lund's Cathedral
The Story of Tam M'Kechan
Mysel' i' da Mill
Little Anklebone
The Magic Fiddle
The Pixies of Devonshire
The Fairies as Fallen Angel

Book #4
16 musical excerpts from


Book #5
A fifth ebook not about music
but still interesting...

Plants in Fairy Lore and Legend contains 2 extensive chapters with many stories about plants in the legends of fairies.

Plants in Fairy Lore
Plants of the Fairies and Naiades

Purchase

5 Ebooks in both PDF
and epub ebook reader formats

Price - $6.00

Brief biography of the Author:

" A few years back I thought I was past my “best before” date and I needed the spiritual support my grandfather had always given me. My memories of him and his tales form the basis of these stories. Montreal (and Weir in the summers) was my home for about two decades. The stories ended when my grandfather died on August 3, 1960. I was twelve.

Over the years I was able to record two vinyl LPs and two CDs (all my own work) and one LP with other musicians and writers. I earned a bachelor’s degree in education (secondary) and taught for twenty-two years, became an emergency medical responder for six years, a volunteer firefighter for fifteen, and a town councilor for two year"

The music career of TB Murdoch, known to the music world as "Bruce Murdoch" included recording for Elektra Records and performing at many forums and coffee houses during the heyday of the folk revival and the singer/songwriter movement in Greenwich Village during the 1960s that produced Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Peter Paul & Mary, Eric Andersen, Patrick Sky, Phil Ochs and many more. He also performed at the Newport Folk Festival, in Carnegie Hall and recorded an album produced by Richie Havens for his label and an album produced by Radio Canada.
He has recently recorded 2 new collections of his latest songs.

 

"The Grampy Tales and Stories"

 

Unusual Music Patents

A large collection of some very unique and unusual music inventions & patents (with construction details) from early America. Scans of the original patents prepared for easy printing, in a PDF file.
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Price -$5.00

The Baseball Collection



This PDF contains scans of the old original following
publications prepared for easy black and white printing

Baseball Extras

Baseball vs Opera - A Musical Post Card
"Casey At The Bat", one of the early publications of the poem,
with illustrations.
Right Off The Bat and Baseball Ballads - 2 full books of baseball poems and ballads
Baseball ABC - An 1885 children's book using baseball to teach the alphabet, with illustrations.




Baseball Collection
Purchase - $3.00


Unusual, Amazing, Magical,Wonderful
& Often Unexplainable Events
In Early America


The Early American X-Files

Unusual Magic Patents

A large collection of patents for magic, illusion, trick devices etc. (with construction details) from early America. Scans of the original patents prepared for easy printing, in a PDF file.
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Price - $5.00

A Book of Tales
about Leprechauns and Treasure

In PDF and epub formats

About the Leprechaun….
Clever Tom and the Leprechaun
The Leprechaun in the Garden
The Three Leprechauns
The Little Shoe
Dreaming Tim Jarvis
Rent-Day
The Legend of Ballytowtas Castle
The Countess Kathleen O'Shea
The Story of Conn-Eda; or, The Golden Apples of Lough Erne
A Unique Little Tale…
The Altar Cup in Aagerup
Treasure & Magical Plants


$5.00

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Projects using music & sound from
old publications

This is a 60 page book containing simple parlour magic tricks using music and sound, many simple projects using music and sound, and even a section about learning ventriloquism and instructions how to build an "aeolian harp". We gathered these interesting projects from old books, published in the 19th century. We have prepared this as a PDF file, for easy printing on standard size paper.

Here is an example of the first project in the book:

ACOUSTIC RAINBOW

A sounding-plate made of brass, nine inches long and half a line in thickness, covered with a layer of water, may be employed to produce a rainbow in a chamber which admits the sun. On drawing a violin bow strongly across the plate, so as to produce the greatest possible intensity of tone, numerous drops of water fly perpendicularly and laterally upwards. The size of the drops is smaller as the tone is higher. The inner and outer rainbows are very beautifully seen in these ascending and descending drops, when the artificial shower is held opposite to the sun. When the eyes are close to the falling drops, each eye sees its appropriate rainbow; and four rainbows are perceived at the same time, particularly if the floor of the room is of a dark colour. The experiment succeeds best if, when a finger is placed under the middle of the plate, and both of the angular points at one side are supported, the tone is produced at a point of the opposite side, a fourth of its length from one of its angles. An abundant shower of drops is thus obtained.

The contents of the PDF book include:

Acoustic Rainbow
Transmission of Sound
Progress of Sound
Sound Turning Corners
To Tell The Distance of Thunder
Hearing by the Touch
Conversation for the Death
Glass Broken by the Voice
Figures Produced by Sound
Transmitted Vibration
Double Vibration
Champagne and Sound
Music from Palisades
Theory of the "Jews Harp"
Music of the Snail
Tune a Guitar Without Assistance of the Ear
Music From Glass or Metal Rods
Tuning-Fork Flute Player
Musical Bottles
Theory of Whispering
Theory of the Voice
Sound Along a Wall
Sound Made Audible By Night Than By Day
Musical Echo
The Magic Whistle
Hearing with the Teeth
Inexplicable Motion and Sound
The Gong Poker
A Musical Flame
Musical Glasses
The Glass Harmonicon
Musical Tumblers
A Wood Harmonicon
The Pennywhisle and How To Play It
Musical Figures Produced by Sound
Figure Produced By Sound
Visible Vibration
Ventriloquism Made Easy
Ventriloquism and Polyphony
Aeolian Harp Plans

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Price $3.50

International Music
in 19th Century American Periodicals

Scans of the complete articles, including music notation examples. PDFs are all prepared for easy printing on standard size paper.

PDF-1
Chinese Music
Traditional Music of the Spanish Pyrenees
Traditional Music of the French Pyrenees
Holy Week in Seville

PDF-2
Some Japanese Melodies
Ballads and Ballad Music Illustrating Shakespeare
Folk Songs

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Price - $4.00

19th Century American Periodical Articles
About Caricature, Posters and
Master Engravers

Scans of the complete articles, including many high quality contemporary engravings. PDFs are all prepared for easy printing on standard size paper.

 

PDF 1
Contemporary American Caricature

PDF 2
Early Political Caricature in America

PDF 3
American Posters, Past and Present

 

 

 

 

 

PDFs 4 & 5
American Engravers - 1
American Engravers - 2

PDF files contain scanned images of some of the best engravers in the 19th Century American periodicals.



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Price - $4.00

 

For Dog Lovers.....

Scans of many original 19th Century American articles about dogs of all kinds. With some great art and engravings. Prepared as PDF files in an an easy to print standard size format.

Typical Dogs 1

Typical Dogs 2

Toy Dogs



 

Dogs Described And Illustrated

The Coon Dog

 

 

Sporting Dogs

To A Dog's Memory - poem

 

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Price -$5.00

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2 PDF collections of scans of articles about Ireland from original 19th Century American periodicals, with many high quality engravings. Prepared for easy printing on standard size paper.

 

PDF 1
Woman In Early Ireland
Fairies And Druids Of Ireland
The Old Poetic Guild Of Ireland
Poets And Poetry Of Ireland

 


PDF 2
Early Heroes Of Ireland
Irish Kings And Brehons
Pagan Ireland

 


Price - $4.00

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In past centuries, more poets and writers than you might imagine created poems to and about their guitars, and to and about players of guitars. So many poems, in fact that many have the same titles! We have created a PDF with many of these unique poems gathered from quite old books published in the 1800s and early 1900s.

Poems About The Guitar


 

Stories, Tales and Legends
About the Guitar

A collection of stories, lore, legends and humor about the guitar..... We have created a PDF with many of these tales and stories, gathered from quite old books published in the 1800s and early 1900s.

 

Stories About The Guitar


 

 

Rince na h'Eireann

A 48 page book, published in 1907, giving simple and clear diagram instructions for Irish dances, and a list of the tunes to use with the dances.



We have scanned and prepared a PDF file of this entire book for easy and high quality printing on standard size paper.


Price - $3.50

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