Source : HRS Ohio 1796 to 1820

Source Title American Imprints Inventory: The WPA Historical Records Survey Project Division of Community Service Programs Work Projects Administration. No. 17. A Check List of Ohio Imprints 1796-1820.
Description This volume of Ohio imprints is based on the field work in thousands of libraries by the staff of the American Imprints Inventory and of the WPA's Historical Records Survey, and is issued as the seventeenth in the series of check lists of the American Imprints Inventory. As the first published list of Ohio imprints, this volume contains a list of Ohio imprints from the onset of printing in the area now known as Ohio through 1820.
Scope of Text This volume contains a total of 590 records of items, other than newspapers and periodicals, which were printed, or which are presumed to have been printed, in Ohio before 1821.

Of the total, 38 are broadsides or broadsheets, leaving 552 which are books or pamphlets. Official publications of the territorial or state government form a large proportion of the total, comprising 123 titles in all. Materials relating to the religious interests of early Ohio account for 176 titles. The political, civic and public life of the community is the topic of 112 titles. Sixty-six of the titles explore the cultural life of early Ohio. Twenty-one titles address education. Forty-five are early Ohio almanacs. Geography, description and travel comprise 18 titles. Six titles are concerned with medicine. Biography is represented by 7 titles. There are 10 popular manuals, or handbooks, on local government and on matters commercial, industrial, legal, and military. History is the predominant subject matter of 9 titles. Twelve titles focus on farming, 7 on crafts and industries, and the remaining 5 on pure science.
Total Records in AED 591
  • Sotheby’s
    Original Film Posters
    10 September 2026
    Sotheby’s, Sep. 10: The Invisible Man (1933). Extremely Rare US Leader Press One Sheet. £20,000 to £26,000.
    Sotheby’s, Sep. 10: You Only Live Twice (1967). Italian Advance Quattro Fogli. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Sotheby’s, Sep. 10: A Dog's Life (1918). Extremely Rare US One Sheet. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, Sep. 10: La Belle et la Bête/Beauty and the Beast (1946). French Style A Grande. £12,000 to £18,000.
    Sotheby’s, Sep. 10: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004). US Lenticular Prototype One Sheet. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Sotheby’s, Sep. 10: Théâtre d’Ombres (1897). Exceptionally Rare French Poster. £8,000 to £12,000.
  • Koller, Sep. 16: FRANZÖSISCHE REVOLUTION - ASSEMBLÉE NATIONALE - Extrait des Procès-Verbaux de L'Assemblée Nationale, Des 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26 Août & premier Octobre 1789.
    Koller, Sep. 16: MOURADJA D'OHSSON, IGNACE. Tableau général de l'Empire Othoman, divisé en deux parties dont l'une comprend la Législation Mahométane, l'autre l'histoire de l'Empire Othoman [... ]
    Koller, Sep. 16: BOTANIK - Blackwell, Elisabeth. A curious herbal, containig five hundred cuts, of the most useful plants, which are now used in the practice of physick.
    Koller, Sep. 16: SCHEUCHZER, JOHANN JAKOB. Physica Sacra. Iconibus Aeneis illustrata procurante & sumtus suppeditante.
    Koller, Sep. 16: HAIMONSKINDER – Eyn schön lustig Geschicht, wie Keyser Carle der groß, vier gebrüder, Hertzog Aymont von Dordons Süne [...]
    Koller, Sep. 16: KRÄUTERBÜCHER - HORTUS SANITATIS - [H]ortus Sanitatis. De herbis et plantis. De animalibus et reptilibus. De avibus et volatilibus. De piscibus et natalibus…
    Koller, Sep. 16: GAUGUIN, PAUL, MALER (1848-1903). Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift und Couvert. An den Künstler und Freund Daniel de Monfreid in Paris.