Arthur's Magazine, 12 issues, 1862, 5x8", 64p. $4.00 each
Monthly family magazine, illustrated, w/ engravings, fashions and projects, fiction, poetry, mother's department, boy's & girl's treasury, housekeeping hints, health, new publications and editor's department; title/date on spine. Associated with Godey's Magazine, sharing art work and articles. Essentially a miniature version for a more middle class audience; no high fashion and generally more practical information. No color.
January, 1862: 2 B&W plates, 6p fashions - morning, home, & carriage cloaks & Zouave jackets; Battlefields of our Fathers, part I (cont. through December), Norman Conquest, the young housekeeper, and health of professional men.
February, 1862: 3 B&W plates, 6p fashions - costumes for carriage, street, & home wear; William I, good bread, winter health, consumption & erect posture.
March, 1862: 2 B&W plates, 4p fashions - 2 home costumes, street costume, dinner & evening dresses; William II, advice to young wive's, don't scold, and eating wisely.
April, 1862: 2 B&W plates, 6p fashions - fancy aprons, infant's robe, promenade costumes; Henry I, Turkish baths, carte de visites, apple fritters and gymnastics.
May, 1862: 2 B&W plates, 5p fashions - cloaks, book marker; Stephen & Maude, Turkish domestic arrangements, remember the needy, and out-door sports.
June, 1862: 6 month index, 2 B&W plates, 5p fashions - basket design, walking sacque, the McClellan cloak, & 2 children's fashions; Henry II, children's toys, yeast cakes, and photograph albums.
July, 1862: 1 B&W plate, 6p fashions - cloak, home dress, crochet fringe; Richard I, home intercourse, weather signs, home gardens, care of the sick, dumb bells, and word squares.
August, 1862: 2 B&W plates, 5p fashions - morning caps, riding dresses; King John, politeness, economy in a family, and chess.
September, 1862: 2 B&W plates, 5p fashions - cloaks, children's costumes; Henry III, American women, be cheerful at meals, and temperature of chambers.
October, 1862: 2 B&W plates, 5p fashions - cloaks, needlework patterns; Edward I, the in-door naturalist, step-mothers, cold boiled fish, and muscular education.
November, 1862: 2 B&W plates, 5p fashions - shawl mantilla, girl's costumes; Edward II, whales, lay by in store, and soldier's health.
December, 1862: 6 month index, 1 B&W plate, 6p fashions - fancy apron, cloak, home costume, comic patchwork; engraving- In Time of War, Edward III, potato cheesecakes, and care of infants.
Floral World and Garden Guide, 1858-9, 8 booklets, 5x8", 72p each, bound as 3-month sets. $4.00 each
Gardening guide printed in London, England, primarily for amateur gardeners; title/date on spine. Began printing in 1858. Filled with recent plant introductions, monthly notes, plant care, both flowers and vegetables; gardening tips, descriptions of greenhouse construction and other gardening devices.
January-March, 1858: Fern cases, laying out a garden, the raspberry, grape vines, town gardens, edgings, annuals, grasses, and strawberries.
April-June, 1858: Drainage, chrysanthemums, leaf skeletons, hybridizing, colours, roses, ivy, and floral pyramids.
July-September, 1858: Garden pots, skeleton leaves, rustic furniture, manures and composts, hoeing and mowing, crop rotation, roses, bedding plants, hyacinths, mushrooms, iron-work, and grape pie.
October-December, 1858: Potatoes, hyacinth forcing, ants, aphids, hedgehogs, conifers, carrots, parsnips, turnips, gooseberries, and fruit-rooms.
January-March, 1859: Year index, beets, mangolds, a cheap greenhouse, roses, orchard houses, Waltonian cases, grafting, cabbage, brussels sprouts, scotch kale, dung-beds and the Smoke Act.
April-June, 1859: Grasses, carrots, balsam, border plant lists, Part Iⅈ a cheap pit, sowing seeds, the onion tribe, metal labels, camellias, chemistry of horticulture, rustic baskets, and cottage adornments.
July-September, 1859: Roses, peas & beans, border plant list, conc., rustic work, chrysanthemums, aphis, housemaid's barrow, and fungi.
October-December, 1859: Asparagus, sea kale, rhubarb, wintering bedding plants, jardinieres & edgings, hyacinths, unfruitful trees, roses, wet soils, small seeds, early radishes, weeds at a premium, and ferns.
Gleason's Pictorial, 4 issues, 1854, 11x17", 16p. $3.50 ea.
(A Drawing Room Companion), illustrated weekly magazine, with travel reports, world news, serial fiction, and poetry
June 10, 1854: John Winthrop, Salisbury, Conn., Constantinople.
September 16, 1854: Harvest, California, Japan, Skerryvore lighthouse.
September 23, 1854: Lake George, dogs, beaver, Harlem River, Sebastopol.
November 25, 1854: Brooklyn Heights, Polynesia, Boston, silk-worms, theatre.
Holden's Dollar Magazine, 1 issue, 1850, 5x8", 62p. $3.50 each
Monthly general magazine, fiction, non-fiction, literary reviews.
March, 1850: Kauterskill Falls; Sara McCalla, Rev. Heroine; women in male attire (but beware, these reformers believed that ladies in trousers signified interest in marriage; after finding a husband, it was back to skirts.)
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 4 issues, 1852-63, 5x8", 144-152p. $8.00 each
Illustrated literary magazine, fiction, current events, literary notices, humorous sketches.
December, 1852: Washington city, Australian gold, eulogy for Daniel Webster.
June, 1863: Indian wars of 1862, quicksilver mines of California, insects injurious to the vine, 2 weeks at Port Royal, war news to 4th of May.
July, 1863: Harrison's campaigns (1812), an American family in Germany, part I, Easter flowers, England in the good old times, coal & petroleum, sign-language, war news to 5th of June.
August, 1863: War of 1812, Harrison & Perry; an American family in Germany, cemeteries, making a will, the Empress Eugenie, war news to 8th of July.
Scientific American, 10 issues, 1848-55, 11x17", 8p each. $2.00 each.
Illustrated technology news, agents for U. S. Patent Office in 1855.
December 23, 1848: California, indigo, flying machines, perpetual motion, electric lights, recipe for knotted walking sticks.
June 23, 1849: Cholera, bread knife, uses of lime, gun cotton power, history of the solar system, animal electricity.
October 19, 1850: Sea serpents, transatlantic cable, American Institute Fair, immoral publications.
December 14, 1850: London Exposition, cotton production, gravity, agriculture, Georgia railroads.
January 6, 1855: Dyeing, nutritious wheat, Paris Exposition, reapers.
February 10, 1855: Dyeing, Newfoundland, London Fair, reapers.
April 14, 1855: Polygraphs, dyeing, spare the birds, electricity, tooth decay.
May 26, 1855: Ironmaking, dyeing, pottery, fire at center of the Earth.
July 28, 1855: Droughts, spiritualism, reaper trials, Paris Exposition, dyeing.
October 20, 1855: Preserving fruit, American Institute Fair, explosives.