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1901ref. 003361Oakland CA: Tribune Print 1901. First Edition. Good. First edition; 6 3/4 x 5 1/4; pp. 1 2-15 1; olive wraps printed and ruled in black and illustrated with a vignette to front wrap and a map to back wrap; edges of wraps brittle with several closed cuts and chips; in good to very good condition. An early-20th-century publication it was intended as a boost to internal immigration to the Bay Area touting Oakland and Alameda County's beauty and infrastructure - its wine-making history its free library the water frontage and harbor commerce etc. Tribune Print paperback books
1914ref. 302790San Diego Board of Supervisors 1914. 1914. 12mo. Illustrated with 42 halftone photographs; double page map by Schwartz & Ewing. 22 pages including pictorial wrappers. Fine. Soft cover. Fine. San Diego, Board of Supervisors, 1914. paperback books
1908ref. 29873Washington D.C.: G.P.O. 1908. First edition 4to pp. 2 308; folding frontispiece map tables throughout; original brown wrappers with printed paper label on upper cover; front hinge cracked else very good. Detailed summary of the first U.S. census in New York. G.P.O. unknown books
1930ref. 69541Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1930. 8vo pp. 2 54; printed paper selfwrappers; some toning to paper else fine. A list of businesses across the country providing supplies parts hangars metals and services such as photography freight instruction dusting etc. Rice only in OCLC but likely present in other collections under the Aeronautics Bulletin series. Aeronautics Bulletin No. 3. Government Printing Office unknown books
1913ref. 8101Philadelphia; Chicago: Abram Cox Stove Co 1913. Tall octavo 20.4 x 11.4 cm. 80 pages. Illustrated. Index. Printed throughout in black and pale blue. FIRST EDITION. A combination trade catalogue and cookbook produced by Philadelphia's Abram Cox Stove Company. Includes Bills of Fare for winter and summer dinners and advice on setting the table. The recipes are uncredited. The rear of the book includes an envelope pasted down and printed with "Use this pocket for clippings". ~ Internally clean and sound. In publisher's cream-colored oilcloth boards printed in navy blue. Some light adhesion to oilcloth corners slightly rubbed otherwise fine. Scarce. OCLC locates six copies. Abram Cox Stove Co hardcover books
1885ref. 8436New York: Agate Iron Ware Manufacturing Co.; Macgowan & Slipper Printers 30 Beekman Street 1885. Booklet stapled in wrappers 15.5 x 12 cm. 136 pages. Illustrated throughout. Title from cover. Date from page of medals received. Stated "Fourth Edition". There were at least three distinctly different works with this title issued by the corporate author: 1890 72 pages with the Lalance and Grosjean Manufacturing Co name; 1891 32 pages an almanac not a trade catalogue; and this one undated ~136 pages a trade catalogue. Promotional combined trade catalogue and cookbook for Agate Iron Ware Manufacturing Company manufacturers of kitchen ware. Illustrated descriptions of the wares typically two to a page face recipes. The recipes are decidedly Anglo-French not American and they lean towards more elegant fare. Illustrations include the Agate Iron Ware manufacturing plant on front wrapper verso an assortment of medals and awards and an image of a homemaker sitting in her kitchen surrounded by Agate Ware while consulting this cookbook. The front panel bears the printed promotional statement "Compliments of F. A. Walker & Co. Cornhill". In original chromolithograph wrappers decorated in a Japonisme-style. Small stain along bottom edge of text block bit of bumping to the corners. Wrappers worn at corners and with some wear to the bottom of the spine panel. Overall near very good. Agate Iron Ware Manufacturing Co.; Macgowan & Slipper, Printers, 30 Beekman Street unknown books
1881ref. 6797Burlington Vt: The Ferguson Manufacturing Co 1881. Cord-sewn booklet 17.5 x 13 cm. 14 pages including. Illustrated. Date from various testimonials. Trade catalogue advertising the bureau creamery with testimonials price lists and more. An advertisement for the Automatic Milk Faucet also sold by Ferguson and for Wells Richardson and Co. Perfected Butter Color. Very light edge wear otherwise fine. OCLC locates no copies. The Ferguson Manufacturing Co unknown books
1934ref. 7926Burlington Vt: Leader Evaporator Co 1934. Octavo-sized booklet stapled in wrappers 22. x 15.5 cm. 32 pages. Illustrated. Date from testimonial on page 32. A trade catalogue from a manufacturer of maple sugar making equipment and supplies including evaporators gathering tanks sap buckets sap spouts tapping bits gathering pails hydrometers thermometers filters syrup cans pails and cartons. Instructions for sugaring and testimonials from satisfied customers are included. The Leader Evaporator Company was formed in 1988. Some light fading to wrappers otherwise very good. OCLC locates one copy of this earliest of the Leader trade catalogues and a number of copies of various later editions. Leader Evaporator Co unknown books
1938ref. 302789Tall octavo. With 55 halftone photographs; center map 16" x 9" of Riverside County. Fine fresh. 20 pages including red pictorial wrappers. Includes details on the cities of Arlington Banning Beaumont Blythe Coachella Valley Corona Hemet Elsinore Perris Riverside High Grove San Jacinto Nuevo-Lakeview Norco Palm Springs West Riverside Idyllwild and Keen Camp. Riverside County Chamber of Commerce paperback books
1874ref. 69531San Francisco 1874. Paperback. Very Good. 30p. Blue wrapper. 22cm. Small label on corner of front cover. Laid in is a similarly-sized broadsheet titled "Communication from Leland Stanford to the Committee on Corporations of the Senate" which is dated in type Jan. 22 1874. paperback books
ref. 903Birmingham: Deykin & Harrison Ltd. circa 1920 . An octavo bound in the original cloth-backed redpaper over stiff card pictorial cover. This very scarce trade catalogue of 191 pages plus index represents the work of one of the most prestigious manufacturers of domestic metalware in Britain. The firm was established in 1781. This catalogue represents early twentieth century wares shown at Venetian Works Jennens Row Dale End Birmingham. The city of Birmingham well-known as one of the most important centers of metalwork throughout English history contributed a wealth of artisans to the Arts and Crafts period. The "Puritan Pewter" line with it's finely hammered finish was one of the firm's most successful offerings well-illustrated in this catalogue. There is some overall soiling and wear to the binding but it remains a bright sound copy of an elusive trade catalogue. hardcover books
1880ref. 6512East Liverpool Ohio: the company; Simms Steam Print 1880. 16mo single sheet uncut & folded to form 10 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. Net price list of decorated ware with descriptions of Toilet Sets Tea Sets Decorated Ware Covered Jugs Molasses Cans Etc. Knowles Taylor and Knowles was formed in 1870 though its antecedents date to 1854. By the early 1870's the company specialized in Iron Stone China and operated four kilns. One horizontal fold light edgewear with some tiny losses slightly foxed & soiled. Still very good. OCLC locates no copies. [the company]; Simms Steam Print unknown books
1879ref. 106415Pamphlet 8vo cloth covers gilt title on top cover illustrated 80 pp. Some cover and edge wear center margin tears throughout not affecting text or illustrations by pre drilled hole in pamphlet normal aging and browning; otherwise very good. Somewhat scarce brush catalogue from the 1870s. Whiting started making brushes in the 1850s and by 1868 he had a stand-alone brush business that included other family members. The company expanded a great deal and was considered one of the best brush makers by the 1890s. By the time of John Whiting's death in 1892 it was probably the largest manufacturer in the United States. This attractive little catalogue includes an engraving of the Whiting factory and images of the brushes they made. A complete price list is included. books
1910ref. 4742Philadelphia: Bowen Dungen Co. ca 1910. Edition unknown. as issued. A very good copy; cloth speciman torn. sheet. There is a mtd. sample of cloth. An unusual speciman sheet for the millinery trade. The material was intended for use as bows sashes or trimming. Bowen Dungen Co. hardcover books
1866ref. 150031866. TRADE CATALOGUE. The Improved American Hot Air Gas Burning Cooking Stove Patented May 5 1863 . Manufactured by Shear Packard & Co. Albany N. Y. Albany ca. 1866. Cover title 34 2 p. 3 plates 2 folding. Pictorial wrappers. Some soiling and edge chipping dampstain along fore-edge of last several leaves. Details of the stoves followed by many pages of testimonials. The plates depict in considerable detail four large cooking stoves. unknown books
1897ref. 503Holyoke Mass U. S. A.: Dean Steam Pump Company 1897. 8vo. 205 x 135 mm. 8 x 5 ¼ inches. 132 pp. Illustrated throughout with half-tone images and diagrams. Original stiff blue paper wrappers with title printed in gilt on the front cover and company name on rear cover; chipped at head of spine and cracked in lower part of spine sewing of the text block weak call number in white ink on spine; bookplate of the Engineering Societies Library of New York. Dean Steam Pump is one of the most respected brands in its industry. Established after the Civil War the company under various ownerships has produced reliable and industrial grade pumping systems and over time has introduced innovations that have been become standards for the entire trade. In the 19th century the company made the transition from steam to turbine to electric pumps and produced vacuum pumps air pumps circulating pumps etc. for such diverse businesses as maple sugar companies to petroleum refiners. Romaine Guide to American Trade Catalogues p. 297 cites an 1890 edition published from the New York Offices and this edition published in 1897. OCLC only cites one edition published in Indianapolis in 1894 in one copy. George Frederick Gebhardt Steam Power Plant Engineering New York John Wiley 915 p. 618. Dean Steam Pump Company unknown books
1894ref. 43553n.p.: Hartman & Cadick 1894. First editions. Self wrappers. Good to very good. 8 pp. 8 pp. 8 pp. 8vo. The mid-term elections of 1884 were a disaster for the Democrats led by Grover Cleveland. Republicans and Populists in large part due to the efforts of Joseph Weeks Babcock 1850-1909 a Republican Congressman from Wisconsin who helped organize the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee in 1893 and was a major force in routing the Democrats in the 1894 House elections which cost the Democrats 113 of their 218 seats. They are most likely printed by Hartman & Cadick Republican printers. All follow the same format of quoting leading figures and using bold face type. 1: Caption title "If the Laboring Class be to Perish I Say the Whole Nation." A the head of the title: No. 1 - From the Congressional Record. The caption title is from the English Reformer William Cobbett followed by "You cannot reduce the laborer to a state of starvation and degradation without also destroying national prosperity" a quote from Joseph Norton Dolph 1835-1897 Senator from Oregon from one of his many speeches quoted here. OCLC locates only a single copy at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center. A very good copy docketed on front wrapper mail fold. 2: Caption title "The industrial side of the tariff controversy must not be overlooked. The four millions of people who work in our factory system are the most potent factors outside of agriculture in our civilization." - Hon. J. W. Babcock Wisconsin. A the head of the title: Record No. 3. Apparently unrecorded. We could find no copies in OCLC NUC or other reference sources. Chip to front wrapper else very good with docketing stamp. 3: Caption title "When you Rob the Laboring Men of their Employment you Rob the Farmers of their Customers." The quote from the caption title belongs to Charles Curtis 1860-1936 Republican from Kansas who would go on to become Hoover's Vice President. OCLC locates one copy at the Western Reserve Historical Society Library. A good copy browned some minor chipping docketing stamp on front wrapper. [Hartman & Cadick?] unknown books
1927ref. 70728Omaha NE 1927. 7 by 11.2 cm. Printed on light brown stiff card stock with an illustration of the hotel flags flying from the roof. This is the earlier hotel built by the Kitchen brothers not the Art Deco one now standing. unknown books
1923ref. 285832New York: Aueronautical Chamber of Commerce 1923. hardcover. very good-. Illustrated with photographs and design drawings. 8vo pale green cloth bottom edge of front cover and spine are discolored and scuffed. New York: Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America 1923. Aueronautical Chamber of Commerce unknown books
1930ref. 285831New York: Van Nostrand 1930. hardcover. very good. Profusely illustrated with photographs. folding maps and design drawings. 8vo pale green cloth. New York: Van Nostrand 1930. Spine slightly cocked but overall a very good copy. Volume Twelve. Van Nostrand unknown books
1943ref. 41290New York: Brazilian Government Trade Bureau 1943. First edition. Very good copies with light soiling and a few small tears. 4 panels x 2 sides each. 8vo. Two trade brochures for Brazil produced during Word War II. 1. Brazil at a Glance: 8 columns 1 sheet 23 x 40 cm folded to 23 x 10 cm. 2 maps 6 photographs. Dated 1943. OCLC locates one copy at Univ. of Chicago. One copy also at Travel brochure and map collection #6591. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Cornell University Library. 2. What is your I.Q. on Brazil. An Educational quiz based on Official Figures facts and curiosities. 8 columns 1 sheet 23 x 40 cm folded to 23 x 10 cm. 1 mapb4 photographs 100 question yes-no list. No dates but 1941 see Survey Graphic 1941 p 98 for advertisement. None on OCLC. One at Travel brochure and map collection #6591. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Cornell University Library. Brazilian Government Trade Bureau unknown books
1808ref. 681New York: Frank White & Co. 1808. First Edition. orig. blue wrappers. A fair copy with a tide mark throughout. 8vo. A report of several resolutions taken by the party and a speech concerning British interference with American trade and shipping to the continent. S & S # 14858. Frank, White & Co. unknown books
1886ref. 29001127New York: Atlantic Publishing & Engraving of New York 1886. The front cover and first page of the booklet are detached. The title on the front cover is faded and hard to read. General soiling and toning due to age. The bulletin has been folded. The large format memoriam is trimmed on the edges. Two items advertising the memorial of Horace Brigham Claflin who was an American merchant who founded the Bulkley & Claflin Company later after Claflin's death it became known as H. B. Claflin Company. Over the years this bank was acquired many times and is still in existence today under JP Morgan Chase. The first item is apparently from the Dry Goods Bulletin which serves as an memoriam/obituary for Claflin. The front side has an engraving of Claflin as well as his birth and death dates December 18 1811 - November 14 1885. The back side has a description of his life. Measures 14 1/4" x 12 3/4". The second item is a 16 pg booklet done by the New York Chamber of Commerce that is the minutes of the meeting following Claflin's death as well as a biographical sketch of the man. The booklet states that "Mr. Claflin was one of the great merchants which the present century has produced and his life and character present a striking illustration of the maxim 'Act well your part there all the honor lies.' " pg. 3 The meeting end with several resolutions one of which was "the entire community of dry good merchants are called upon to mourn the loss not only of the most eminent member of their profession but also of a true friend." pg. 11 #1 This was accomplished when on the day of his funeral "the wholesale stores and commission houses throughout the dry goods district in New York City closed at noon and business was suspended. That portion of the City usually so active and busy was silent and deserted." pg. 15 The booklet also includes a portrait engraving of Claflin. Black covers. Measures 9 1/4" x 6" This was a dry good business that acted as middlemen between the manufacturers and retailers of dry goods. Additionally he founded the Continental Bank of New York in 1870 along with Jacob H. Schiff Marcellus Hartley Robert L. Cutting and Joseph Seligman. Atlantic Publishing & Engraving of New York unknown books
1904ref. 290421Kinderhook N. Y.: W. S. Kline & Company 1904. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. An illustrated guide to the city of Raleigh North Carolina 1904 depicting various landscapes monuments and local businesses. With photographic illustrations of such places as the local pharmacist birthplace of President Johnson numerous banks and schools and others. Short closed tears to the edges of the covers and a few leaves. Stapled softcover with light red printed paper covers. Very Good binding. W. S. Kline & Company unknown books
1874ref. 27269Portland Maine: Printed by B. Thurston & Co. 1874. First edition. Paper wrappers. Chips to spine and wrappers else a very good copy. 63 pp. 8vo. OCLC shows 5 copies of this edition. Engraving of Portland on the rear wrapper. Printed by B. Thurston & Co. unknown books
