Denver CO: Wm. Ainsworth 2151 Lawrence St. 1898. Oblong 8vo. 24 pp. Text illustrations & diagrams throughout. Pink-coloured printed softcovers cover art of assayers scale on front and back covers minor shelfwear minor tidemark to upper fore-edges slight sunning still VG- copy w/ original printed mailing envelope addressed to Joe Seliger 1868-1947 former stenographer secretary and metalworker for Honeyman Hardware Co. Portland OR. First edition of this very rare catalogue detailing the precision balances for mineral assayers manufacturers chemists jewelers and pulp paper makers. Ainsworth 1850-1917 began as a fine watchmaker steam engineer toolmaker and distiller who moved to Denver in 1877 where he initially began working for A.B. Ingols Jewelry. By the 1880s he was operating a jewelry store repairing balance scales for miners and assayers because at the time these were produced in England and required months of turnaround time for them to be shipped back and repaired prior to Ainsworth. Ainsworth developed his own excellent balance as presented in this catalogue which featured a shortened balance beam speeding up the assaying process and were much preferred by Western assay offices and miners. He continued to operate as a watchmaker and clock repairer but by 1895 began producing Brunton’s newly patented Pocket Transit which together with the balances proved to be a very successful combination with his first Catalogues A & B depicting both products issued in 1898. The company would continue to grow after his death and would be purchased by Xavier Science Corporation and now owned by the Denver Instrument Company. No copies located in Worldcat; See: John Shannon & Geraldine Shannon The Assay Balance: Its Evolution and the History of the Companies That Made Them -- William Ainsworth Robert A. Paselk Scientific Instrument Museum Humboldt State Univ. Dept. of Chemistry 1999. Wm. Ainsworth, 2151 Lawrence St., paperback
Lisbon Portugal: CTT Correios de Portugal Post Office Collectors’ Club 1997. 4to. 151 21 pp. Colour frontisp. colour photos & colour plates throughout 8 mint un-circulated comemmorative stamps facing p. 7 1 proof stamp numered mounted on half-title. Red publisher’s cloth white & red lettering colour photo mounted front cover NF copy. First edition No. 3263 of this fine work celebrating astronomical and scientific navigation instruments from the 15th and 16th centuries. The author illustrated and details night dials astrolabes sun dials hour glasses mariner’s compasses cross-staffs Davis Quadrants slide rules chronometers barometers and more. A substantial section has been included on terrestrial and celestial globes. CTT Correios de Portugal, Post Office Collectors’ Club, hardcover
Jena: Carl Zeiss 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Large slim octavo 27cm.; publisher's brown cloth over blue textured paper upper cover lettered in gilt; 4122pp.; steel-engraved text illus. throughout. Boards a bit rubbed and slightly bowed small spot of glue residue at top fore-edge corner of upper cover original gilt quite dulled though Parisian distributor's gilt-lettered cancel still brilliant contemporary American ownership inscriptions to front endpapers. Overall Very Good internally fine. Quite an attractive and uncommon trade catalog issued by the still-extant microscope manufacturer. This issue not separately catalogued in OCLC COPAC or KVK as of January 2020. Carl Zeiss hardcover
Chicago IL: E.H. Sargent & Co. ca. 1910. Tall 8vo. 335 1 pp. Text illustrations & diagrams throughout. Olive-green publisher’s cloth gilt lettering on front cover & spine minor edgewear rubbing wear to upper fore-edge front cover minor bumping to corners still G copy. First edition of this very rare original catalogue detailing the precision balances for mineral assayers manufacturers chemists jewelers and pulp paper makers together with a broad range of laboratory equipment polariscopes chemicals burners laboratory furniture and more. Ezekiel Sargent began selling assaying and prospecting equipment to gold prospectors passing through Chicago on their way West to the California Gold Rush in 1849 and continued to prosper and expand even through the 1871 Chicago fire. Eventually the Company would merge with Welch Scientific Co. in 1968 becoming the leading supplier of science education products in the United States. E.H. Sargent & Co., hardcover
New York: F.W. Devoe & Co. 1885. 8vo. 6 264 pp. Engravd frntsp. 100s of woodcut engravd illusts. & diagrams. Embssd green cloth silver dividers on frnt cvr burgundy lettrng gilt lettrng spine bk cvr mnr bmpng to crnrs edgewear still a VG copy. First edition of this nicely illustrated catalogue of mathematical and scientific instruments including ellipsographs pantographs hand levels pocket levels sextants transits astronomical theodolites telescopes map cases and more. Also there are substantial sections on continuous profile books portfolios and many other items of interest for cartographers and engineers surveying railroad routes. Of particular interest are the substantial catalogues of art architecture and scientific books as well as architectural models. F.W. Devoe & Co., hardcover
Jena: Carl Zeiss 1895. First Edition. Large slim octavo 27cm.; publisher's brown cloth over blue textured paper upper cover lettered in gilt; 4122pp.; steel-engraved text illus. throughout. Boards a bit rubbed and slightly bowed small spot of glue residue at top fore-edge corner of upper cover original gilt quite dulled though Parisian distributor's gilt-lettered cancel still brilliant contemporary American ownership inscriptions to front endpapers. Overall Very Good internally fine. Quite an attractive and uncommon trade catalog issued by the still-extant microscope manufacturer. This issue not separately catalogued in OCLC COPAC or KVK as of January 2020. Carl Zeiss unknown books
Livingston NJ: Magnus Organ Corporation 1959. Soft Cover. Very Good-/No Jacket. 26 pp. Stapled wraps are tight. Cover shows light rubbing and edgewear. Text is tight clean and unmarked Magnus Organ Corporation paperback
<p>Standard 1906. This piece is written for piano without lyrics. The shows a couple standing on a river bank with a paddllewheel steamer in the background. It is in shades of greeny black. The music is starting to separate at the top and bottom . The front cover is creased on the bottom of the left side. In great shape for its' age. First. Unbound. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.</p> Standard paperback