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Billhead of I. L. Lyons Wholesale Druggist & Importer, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 3, 1879Billhead of I. L. Lyons Wholesale Druggist & Importer, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 3, 1879

Billhead from I. L. Lyons Wholesale Druggist & Importer, dated November 3, 1879. The business was located at 42 & 44 Camp and 113, 115, 117 Gravier Streets, New Orleans, Louisiana. Isaac Luria Lyons (1837-1923), a Civil War veteran, founded the company in 1866. The company supplied drugstore wares throughout the South, and is also known for its "nectar" syrup, a key ingredient in a New Orleans soda fountain staple.

Bookseller's Broadside: A Sketch of the Life, Last Sickness and Death, of Mrs. Mary Jane Grosvenor (3rd ed.)Bookseller's Broadside: A Sketch of the Life, Last Sickness and Death, of Mrs. Mary Jane Grosvenor (3rd ed.)

Book/bookseller broadside: *A Sketch of the Life, Last Sickness and Death, of Mrs. Mary Jane Grosvenor* (3rd edition). 86 pages, with the last four pages being publisher's advertisements. Published in Baltimore by Coale in 1818. Bound in full tree calf. Features a bookseller's ticket from Benjamin Levy & Company, New Orleans, with text in both French and English. The ticket provides insight into book distribution between the East and Gulf Coasts. Contains an ownership inscription: "Abigail Bates's Book." The book itself is a tribute to the wife of Thomas Grosvenor, a three-term Congressman from New York who later practiced law in Maryland.