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1920ref. 3344A fine copy of a rare trade catalogue issued by the Trenton Potteries Company. Decorative wrappers bound in dos-a-dos style tied with two silk twists one olive green one ochre. "Bathrooms of Character" has 40 pages beautifully illustrated with plans for creating a stylish bathroom. The cover design features a background in olive green squares outlined in white suggesting tiles with title letters in a raised white Arts and Crafts font. Embellishments of "tiles" with soft ochre stylized irises and foliage complete the handsome composition. The pamplet's counterpart "Porcelain Fixtures For Kitchen and Laundry" has 31 pages also nicely illustrated. Its cover design is identical to that of the bathroom pamphlet reversing the use of colors with ochre squares outlined in white and the iris designs executed in olive green. The text presents a wide array of superior qualities of the products including "Your Maid Will Find Cleaning Easy". It attests to shared contemporary frustrations "Every woman has had experience with the "servant problem". Dimensions and prices are included. This is the sixth edition of a booklet that was updated beginning circa 1914. Advertisements for the brochures were carried by some of the most prestigious periodicals of the day including House Beautiful Country Life and The Fra. Very scarce indeed particularly in fine condition and retaining the original postal envelope addressed in this case to "Gladys Drinkwater 1124 St. Vincent Street Utica N.Y." The envelope has a pencil date of 10/21/21 as well as the original three cent purple George Washington stamp canceled. Trenton Pottery Co. paperback books
1822ref. 38089Washington. 1822. This Senate documents prints the memorial from America's foremost learned society asserting that that any tax on imported books is "detrimental to the progress of knowledge" and asking that those duties be suspended. The memorials written by Peter Duponceau and R.M. Patterson review the policies of other governments toward duties on imported books providing a useful survey of the tax policies of the major European powers. OCLC and American imprints together locate only five copies at Yale the University of Virginia the New York Law Institute the Library of Congress and Princeton. Scarce. Dbd. most leaves loose. Old stain in upper half throughout. Good. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 11000. OCLC 23248452. unknown books
1774ref. 51552Paris 1774. France Tracks British Trade with the American Colonies A French chart detailing export and import figures for British trade with its American island colonies from 1697 to 1773 using amounts in both pounds sterling and livres tournois gathered from parliamentary reports and calculations by Charles Whitworth financial statistician and Member of Parliament for constituencies in Cornwall and Somerset from 1747 to 1778. Extremely scarce with only one copy recorded in OCLC. Folded with three small holes along fold lines otherwise very good. unknown books
1866ref. BK0123Smyrna Turkey 1866. Autograph commercial letter signed by Cousinery & Fils to Lanman & Kemp New York. Stampless folded letter carried by the Messageries Maritimes steamer Volga departing Smyrna November 9 and arriving at Marseille November 14. Blue oval Cousinery & Fils handstamp and circular "MARSEILLE À LYON" traveling-post-office transit mark dated November 16 on the reverse; black circular "NEW YORK / 45 / DEC / 61 / NOTES" December 3 arrival marking on the front assessing forty-five cents in depreciated United States notes equivalent to the thirty-cent gold rate; manuscript "18" debit marking also apparently miscalculated. 1 pp. 8 x 10 ¼ inches. Old folds; light wear; fine to very fine. A commercial letter documenting the export of Ottoman opium from Smyrna to the United States. Cousinery & Fils confirm the purchase and shipment of five cases for the New York drug firm Lanman & Kemp invoiced at 84360 piastres and balanced through a £671 draft on London. The merchants describe the Smyrna opium market as being in a "state of dullness" with little demand and only limited sales of old and new drugs. They nevertheless report rumors that a Dutch company had ordered another 150 baskets which might strengthen prices. Responding to instructions from New York they agree to suspend purchases for one month and cancel two intended November shipments. A memorandum on the reverse records recent shipments aboard the steamers Sardis and Sidore and calculates a total of 380 cases of opium sent to the United States during 1866. A concise record of the nineteenth-century opium trade connecting Ottoman producers European financial intermediaries and the American pharmaceutical market. . unknown books
1877ref. 54162Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott 1877. Fourth edition revised. Small octavo 19cm. Publisher's green cloth titled in gilt and decoratively stamped in black on spine and front cover; 275pp; illus; one folding chart; lithographed frontispiece in colors. An exceedingly fresh and clean copy in the original publisher's cloth very near to Fine. Stenciled ink ex-libris of a Geo. M. Bond likely the engineer and inventor George Meade Bond ca 1853-1932 long-time chief engineer for Pratt & Whitney to front pastedown and head of title page. A nicely produced treatise-cum-trade catalog for this major producer of industrial machinery illustrated throughout with line engravings. An exceptionally pretty copy appearing almost unread. ROMAINE p.203 for the 3rd edition 1876 "one of the best illustrated catalog-books in the field. J.B. Lippincott unknown books
1915ref. 5864Philadelphia Pa: The Company 1915. Booklet 23 x 14.5 cm. 60 pages. Illustrated. Index. Trade catalogue of a supplier of ice cream making equipment from freezers and mixers to scoops waffle cone irons molds and milk-shake mixers. There are even "special wood soled shoes for ice cream makers". The wrapper indicates the firm was founded in 1864. Tiny bit of edgewear to printed brick colored wrappers otherwise fine. Scarce. OCLC locates three copies; though founded in 1864 the firm is not represented in Romaine. The Company unknown books
1923ref. 6133New York: Wood & Selick Inc. Hudson Duane & Thomas Streets 1923. Quarto 28 x 25 cm. 76 pages. Index. Profusely illustrated. Lacking the separate price list. Publication date from the UC Davis copy which includes a price list dated March 15th 1923. ~ FIRST & ONLY EDITION. A trade catalogue of supplies and machinery for the ice cream trade including everything a small business might need to outfit an ice cream parlor including ice cream machines electric fudge warmers also good for bullion! ice cream pails trowels scoops spoons ladles straws soda glasses sundae cups chairs tables and other shop furniture. The firm of Wood & Selick was formed in 1880 and became a significant supplier of ingredients equipment and machinery for the baking confectionery and ice cream industries. They also were well known for a side business as the producers of W&S Cough Drops. Business was so good that the firm commissioned a new seven story brick warehouse at the corner of Duane and Hudson Streets in what is now known as New York’s Tribeca the handsome Babcock & Morgan building was recently home to David Bouley’s eponymous restaurant. Light soiling to publisher’s wrappers otherwise near fine. Scarce. OCLC locates two copies UC Davis and UVA’s Small Collection. Wood & Selick, Inc., Hudson Duane & Thomas Streets unknown books
1930ref. 2430Milano 1930. Oblong folio 18 pages illustrated throughout. Stapled and string-bound typographic wrappers. General catalogue of moulds for pastry ice-cream gelato chocolate and related machinery. Very good in printed wrappers. OCLC locates no copies. unknown books
1902ref. 9077Pittsburgh Pa: Published by Standard Sanitary M'f'g Co.; Chasmar-Winchell Press 1902. Quarto-sized cord-bound booklet 22 x 18 cm. 54 2 pages. Illustrated. Printed throughout in red and black. Awards page gilt printed and blind-stamped. The second trade catalogue issued by Pittsburgh's Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Company. The prior year the company issued their first catalogue with the same pagination. The catalogue begins with images of complete bathrooms with each element specified. The later part of the catalogue lists individual elements with dimensions and prices. Standard Sanitary worked with Chasmar-Winchell Press to design this and their other elegant catalogues. Internally fine. Original wrapper printed in black and brown has one small adhesion mark. Otherwise near fine. OCLC locates no copies of this and three copies of the 1901 printing; not in Romaine. Published by Standard Sanitary M'f'g Co.; Chasmar-Winchell Press unknown books
1825ref. 38259New York: Corrected and published by Edmund M. Blunt 1825. First edition under this title of this perennially popular and relied-upon guide for figuring the weight of packages and casks based on their depth and breadth. The work was originally published in 1816 but was found to be so full of errors that it was republished in this "corrected" edition under a new title in 1825. Blunt was also the publisher of the essential navigation guide THE AMERICAN COAST PILOT. 4196pp. plus 20pp. of advertisements. Tall narrow octavo. Contemporary calf gilt morocco label. Hinges cracked boards worn. Tanned scattered foxing. Fair. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 19773. hardcover books
1875ref. 5042York PA: E J Evans Co. ca 1875. First Edition. As issued. Very good. 4to 4 pp. Folded sheet; printed on a thin glazed paper. A large format nursery and seed catalogue. Evans' catalog is primarily devoted to trees and berries of all kinds.The last page lists the offerings in the ornamental department. Absent from Romaine. E J Evans Co. unknown books
1896ref. List2820Sonora and Groveland CA; Portland OR; and Orange NJ 1896. 8 ½ x 13 ½ inch cash book thirty-two pages with nine loose sheets. Fine. A cash book for an unnamed business selling out of California Oregon and New Jersey in 1896. The book records total merchandise value cash and accounts liabilities individual sales and so on. The business sold a variety of items from raw cloth and furniture to food coffee and tea and soap. Most of the entries are from Sonora; located on California’s Mother Lode Sonora was by 1896 a bustling mining town. unknown books
1853ref. BK0069Glasgow Scotland 1853. Autograph letter signed for John & Robert Tennent by G. R. Tennent to D. Gibb & Co. San Francisco. Received by the steamer Winfield Scott September 20 1853. 1 p. 8 ½ x 10 ½ inches. Light wear; very good. A Gold Rush commercial letter documenting the movement and valuation of California gold within the transatlantic financial system. Writing from Glasgow to the San Francisco firm of D. Gibb & Co. John & Robert Tennent acknowledge a remittance of gold dust valued at $5092 and explain why the transaction produced a poorer return than a conventional bill of exchange. The specie had been sold in London for £1001 12s. 6d. The firm then added sixty days' interest and deducted marine insurance in order to compare the net proceeds with the value of a draft. Their calculation left a balance of £15 18s. 6d. in their favor which they instructed the California merchants to include in their next remittance: "Referring to your remittance of gold dust we regret to inform you that as it was unauthorized on our part we presume that you cannot object to our placing the proceeds to your Credit under deduction of the difference between such proceeds and a remittance by Bill." The letter also records £174 9s. 7d. in freight payable at San Francisco on goods shipped aboard the Kate and refers to an enclosed summary of exports sent to California during the month of July. A concise but useful account of the practical economics of Gold Rush remittances showing the comparison between specie and bills of exchange together with the costs of interest insurance freight and transatlantic shipment. . unknown books
1914ref. 8876Paris: Imprimerie de la Samaritaine 1914. Booklet stapled in wrappers 24 x 15.5 cm. 15 pages. Illustrated throughout. Text in French. FIRST EDITION. A small trade catalogue featuring aprons of every type offered by Paris' famous Samaritaine department store. The aprons are divided into men's and women's. Women's aprons include those for trade kitchen nurse and baker. For men the aprons include those for gardener valet military grocer wine merchant chef doctor and veterinarian. Small aprons for valet boys and dining room boys are also included. Illustrated wrappers with 2 cm. stamp on front panel "Collection Debuisson Paris". Mme Roxane Debuisson 1927-2018 assembled one of the great collections of materials related to the history of Paris. Much of it resides at Stanford University though some was sold at Drouot in March of 2019. Pages lightly age-toned otherwise fine. Near fine. OCLC locates no copies. Imprimerie de la Samaritaine unknown books
1955ref. 9360Minneapolis Minn: the company 1955. Quarto-sized booklet in wrappers in a three-hole brad binding 29 x 22.5 cm. 249 4 pages. Illustrated throughout. Printed on various stocks some illustrated with color and two leaves at the end with color samples. A sizable trade catalogue from the Minneapolis-based bar supply company servicing drinking establishments restaurants hotels etc. Sections include direct draw bars direct draw tap boxes ice cube makers refrigeration and refrigerating machinery reach-in coolers freeze chests walk-in coolers glass washers glasses bar rails fans faucets taps regulators picnic pumps keg bumpers chairs bar stools booths counters back bars costumers sand urns and more. One of four order blanks at rear has been removed; "received" stamp to title page; small sticker with file number to front panel of wrapper. In textured black wrappers printed in red white and pale blue. Some rubbing to extremities otherwise very good. OCLC locates no copies; and one copy of a smaller 1949 catalogue Hagley Museum. the company unknown books
1909ref. 8265Prague: Vydra & Bohuslav 1909. Tall quarto 31 x 17 cm. 216 8 pages. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts and photographic reproductions. Index. FIRST EDITION. A combination trade catalogue and recipe collection both for confectioners gingerbread makers and candy manufacturers. The catalog contains illustrations of different types of ice cream spoons scoops ice cream molds molds for marzipan molds for small pastries and packing and ornamental paper and also all of the equipment large and small for fine cake and confection work. Decorative elements are included such as small gnomes. The recipes at the rear are credited to J. Reimann editor of the Austrian Confectioner's journal. In the front matter and again at the rear the company states that this will be the last large-format catalogue they will issue and that price updates will be offered in the future so this illustrated catalogue should be held for future reference. ~ Internally clean and bright. Original gray linen decorated and titled in black and white with an attractive image of a young confectioner presiding over a stand mixer while holding an elaborate sugar sculpture on a tray. The catalogue appears to have lived on a kitchen shelf with perhaps a book and a canister upon it as there is a dark stain smoke which has made a rectangle and circle design on the front panel. Otherwise very good or better. Scarce. OCLC locates no copies of any catalogue of this firm. Vydra & Bohuslav unknown books
1901ref. 8982Salisbury N.C.: Our Own Print the company 1901. Booklet stapled in wrappers 15.5 x 13.4 cm. 17 pages. Illustrated throughout. Fore-corners rounded. Original mailing envelope. Date estimate from date of the exit of "Messrs. Key & Co." of Statesville from the distilling industry which was 1899-1901 see page 4. A descriptive price list or trade catalogue of the various whiskies produced by the D.R. Arey Distilling Company of Salisbury North Carolina. A somewhat detailed description of the company's distilling and aging processes precede "Our Wholesale House" which they had acquired from Key & Co. The remainder of the catalogue is the price list of spirits with illustrations. Dougal or Dugal 1856-1922 built his distillery from the mountain still on up and his career was spent staying ahead of Prohibitions shifting borders. North Carolina ushered in Prohibition early in 1908 Arey moved north to Virginia just across the border. In publisher's illustrated wrapper printed in black. Near fine. Also present is the original mailing envelope stamped and canceled though the date remains unreadable. The envelope is a bit soiled and edgeworn. Our Own Print (the company) unknown books
1896ref. 4969New York: Bartlett & Company The Orr Press 1896. Octavo 20.5 x 14 cm. 97 pages. Date derived from Water Street address on title page. An extensively illustrated trade catalogue of heating furnaces and cooking ranges. Before the 1830s gravity hot-air furnaces were produced according to the specifications of individual buildings. The first mass-market manufacturer in the United States was Richardson & Boynton established in 1837 and in business for more than a century thereafter. The company survived the competitive surge in home heating manufacturers in the decades after the Civil War Fuller & Warren of Troy for instance also advertised as "the oldest house in the trade" introducing innovations in fuel source efficiency flue design cleaning access and model size – to say nothing of aesthetic appeal – at a surprising rate. The foundries and shop buildings occupied a double block in Red Hook Brooklyn; corporate offices 232-234-236 Water Street were across the Brooklyn Bridge in Manhattan. By the 1890s Richardson & Boynton were advertising themselves as manufacturers of multiple designs of furnaces fireplace heaters laundry water heaters cooking ranges stoves and kitchen appurtenances such as kettles urns pastry ovens and steam tables. Owing ostensibly to climbing tunnage and wharfage costs the entire operation decamped to Dover New Jersey in February 1896. Elaborate illustrations with equally elaborate cutaways; specification charts. A bit of chipping to head and foot of wrapper at spine otherwise very good in two-toned brown wrappers with gilt decoration. Pages clean and bright. Scarce. OCLC locates three copies of all other Richardson & Boynton cataloguesbut none of this issue; Romaine page 363 for other issues. Bartlett & Company, The Orr Press unknown books
1930ref. 2431Vicenza 1930. Oblong octavo-sized cord-bound wrappers with 14 pages illustrated throughout. Sales catalogue for cork for the storage of ice cream and automatic distributors for cones and spoons. Very good in printed wrappers. OCLC locates no copies. unknown books
1925ref. 7016Milwaukee: the company 1925. Trade catalogue bound with three brass fasteners 28 x 22.5 cm. forty-two original color-printed cellophane or polyethylene food wrappers mostly for meat bacon or sausage or candy products. Brand names and designs vary greatly. Some of the samples bare the Milprint Protecto-Pack or Millprint Econo-Wrap slug. "Milprint Inc. was founded by the brothers Max T. "Popsy" Heller and William "Billy" Heller as the Milwaukee Printing Company in 1899. Beginning in 1908 they succeeded in developing printing techniques for flexible media used in commercial packaging at first glassine paper and then cellophane foil and polyethylene. The Heller brothers were able to get in at the beginnings of the mass marketing of consumer goods when individually sealed wrappings implied safety and purity. Their paper wrappings practically made the individual nickel candy bar possible and the firm dominated the candy wrapper market at an early date. Its in-house artists and designers advised clients on the most effective way to package their products. The Heller brothers also developed "Trans-Vision" a means of depicting complex objects in peel-away layers on transparent film whose most common use was probably depicting the anatomy of the human body in textbooks. William Heller sold Milprint to Philip Morris Incorporated in 1957" Hagley Museum Finding aid for the Leonard Walton collection of Milprint materials. Some leaves at the rear show signs that some samples were removed and some adhesive corner marks to leaves otherwise in remarkable condition for a collection of cellophane meat and candy wrappers with all samples bright and clean. Rare. OCLC locates no copies and the Hagley finding aid was for us unclear on the presence of this catalogue. the company paperback books
1877ref. 8323Chicago Il: National Live-Stock Journal Print 1877. Octavo sewn in wrappers 22.7 x 15 cm. 36 pages. Illustrated with six lithographic plates. FIRST EDITION. Joint public auction of short horns with attractive lithographs engraved "on stone by J.R. Page by Clay & Richmond Co. Buffalo N.Y." Text block sound; dampstain to edges of most plates. Wrappers separated and chipped at edges. Still overall near very good. Marginal pencil annotations throughout; auction winners names and prices have been written in for each lot. OCLC locates just one copy UMichigan Clements. National Live-Stock Journal Print unknown books
1856ref. 64451Fond du Lac Wis: Herald Print 1856. Broadside. 25.5 x 20 cm. Printed on blue paper text within an ornamental border signed in type at conclusion of text by C.K. Morrill & Co. of Lowell Mass dated June 12th 1855. Old fold lines but no wear. Not in Wisconsin Imprints Inventory and not found on OCLC. There are only a handful of separate Fond du Lac imprints before 1855 the most notable being a History of the County of Fond du Lac 1854. The weekly Fountain City Herald was published from 1852 to 1856. Herald Print unknown books
1802ref. 354336Washington 1802. 4pp. Dbd. Contemporary manuscript page inscription and early stain in upper outer corner not affecting text. Minor foxing and offsetting. Good. 4pp. Dbd. Congressional report calling for government encouragement of infant industries by allowing certain raw materials to be imported free of duty while imposing a 20% duty on imported fur hats brushes stone ware printing types saddles cannon ball and glass ware and other duties on gun powder cordage soap candles of tallow window glass and iron. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 3412 unknown books
1714ref. 21230London 1714. Broadsheet. 1p. plus printed docket title on verso. Disbound. Small folio. Early folds and early stab holes in left margin. Mild foxing. An early British petitionary leaflet calling for greater enforcement of customs laws for imported goods. The author charges that most consignments of foreign goods are now being made to "Naturalized Foreigners and Unfreemen" who are not under the same obligations as Freemen who state in their oath "not to Colour of Cover the Goods of Aliens." If "no Remedey be given" it is argued "all Persons will be discouraged from taking their Freedoms and few will be left of Substance to perform the necessary Service in the Government of London." The document is among the earliest examples of lobbying literature which first began proliferating during the major changes in British government in the mid-1710s. ESTC records four copies at the British Library Oxford the National Library of Wales and the California State Library. Hanson 1980. unknown books
1904ref. 21281Los Angeles: Out West Company 1904. Extensive Photographic Illustrations of Southern California Circa 1900 An impressive and beautifully illustrated viewbook of Los Angeles and neighboring communities in Southern California. The nicely produced photographic illustrations depict the stately residences gardens parks beaches public buildings etc. of the just emerging giant city of Los Angeles. Includes a large folding panorama of the downtown business district as it appeared in 1904. Also many images of Catalina Island Santa Monica San Diego Pasadena grape harvesting the Sylmar olive ranch orange orchards etc. 4pp. plus ninety-nine photographic plates two folding. Oblong quarto 11 x 8 inches. Original blind-stamped flexible leather binding with original stitching. Front cover stamped with California poppy design in the Arts & Crafts style. Front flyleaf detached else very good. hardcover books
