Prints Old & Rare

06/10/2025

Join us for a special exhibit on July 26th, 2025 @ The Pacifica Coastside Museum (The Little Brown Church).

Discover the rich history and evolution of Western printmaking in a talk presented by the archivist of Prints Old and Rare, beginning at 12 PM.

View rare antique prints and explore how Western art developed over time. While you’re here, take in a display on Pacifica’s own unique local history.

11/22/2024

11/22/2024

May 7th, 1905 -Collier's The National Weekly

'The more things change, the more they stay the same..'

Caption reads:

-Will It Come To This? If the present rate of immigration continues, we may have to hang out the customary sign. Ten liners arriving at New York, May 7, brought 12,039 immigrants, chiefly Italians. Never before have so many steerage passengers come into the port in a single day.

12/01/2023

Tis the season ! 🎄⛄🔔❄️☃️🎅🌨️🏂❄️

11/13/2023

Prints of Colorado!! 🌵🧡🌄

11/09/2023

It's flu season! Have you gotten your flu shot? 🤧🤒🤢😷😫

11/06/2023

Original, antique maps and prints of Ohio. Looking for maps/prints of a certain location? Check out our website @ printsoldandrare.com to find all your interests! 🗺️📍📖📜❕

11/03/2023

TURKEY SEASON! What are you thankful for? 🦃🍗🍂🍁⛅🧡

10/31/2023

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! 🦴💀🖤🦇🎃👻🧡

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10/27/2023

Who's ready for Halloween? 🦇💀🦴🎃🏮👻🖤🧡

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Image 1: Hypnotism. 1896. “Santanelli & His Subjects Before the Camera.” Picture of subjects demonstrating the “realism of hypnotism” and showing postures such as catalytic state and human woodpile.

Image 2: 1885 Spiritualism in New England. Hand colored engraving from the Oct. 31, 1885 issue of Leslie's Weekly, titled "Spiritualism in New England. An Evening with a Medium in Boston. A Message from Another World." The Spiritualist movement was very popular in the United States during the late 1800s, with many followers believing that ghosts could be contacted through "mediums" who had special powers to talk with the dead.

Image 3: 1906 Sheet Music Cover: Dance of the Demon. Lithographed cover to the sheet music for "Dance of the Demon," by Eduard Holst. Title and author's name are printed in bright red. In the background, demons with pitchforks are dancing gleefully.

Image 4: Reading Tea Leaves. “Cup-Tossing” engraved by C.W. Sharpe showing a young woman having her tea leaves read. Water colored, steel engraving.

Image 5: 1888 Hand colored wood engraving titled, "Spiritualism and Its Delusions -- The Medium, Mme. Anne O'Delia Diss Debar, And Her Methods: Developing A Spirit-Picture." Featured in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper.

Image 6: 1877: Fortune Telling in Bavarian Tyrol (Germany). Hand colored wood engraving from the Feb. 3, 1877 issue of The Graphic, titled "Fortune Telling in the Bavarian Tyrol." Shows a group of people seated around a table listening to an older woman who is reading their fortunes in a deck of cards.

10/24/2023

🗺️🔎📍 Here's a very small portion of our rare, antique map selection. Find your personal special interests and additional unique pieces on our website @ printsoldandrare.com ‼️

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