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ref. Q1829None. Very good. Collection of ephemera produced by French furniture and ébéniste supplier Bois & Perrin. 8-page illustrated price sheet for turned legs and finials dated 1934; plus 11 plates with accompanying spec sheets for numbered furniture sets for bedroom living and dining rooms: "Chambre Moderne" designs numbered I.I69-I.I75 dated 1931; "Salle a Manger" 1027 1029 and 1030 dated 1931 and 1029 dated 1933. Armoires buffets tables bed frames etc. Plates have company stamps on the versos. Occasional light soil and tattering to edges Very Good overall. unknown
1812ref. 4628TRADE CATALOGUE - STEEL GOODS. Book of Steel Toys. Birmingham n.p. c.1812. A remarkable trade catalogue of steel goods for the household ladies and gentlemen's personal effects gardening tools and instruments for trades and professions. This is a treasure trove of visual information about a vast range of now obsolete tools and the objects required for daily life in the age of Jane Austen: spinet tuning keys muffin toasters cheese tasters sugar hatchets teeth cleaning sets netting vices boot hooks and so on. Particularly fascinating is the distinction between tradesmen's tools and those specifically marketed for amateurs. These are described in the individual engravings as well as in the engraved and letterpress leaf after the index leaf where the contents of 9 oak chests of tools for gentlemen are itemised as well as chests of garden tools turners tools and mahogany chests of tools for cleaning gentlemen's guns. Among the articles listed in the index are 'Lady's hammers' and 'Lady's sets of garden tools' but these do not seem to be the articles engraved on the corresponding plates. Engraved trade catalogues of this sort were used by salesmen to solicit orders from retailers. The prices entered in manuscript are selling prices on which the retailer received a discount probably 25% see below. Stamped brass and silverware catalogues turn up from time to time but catalogues of steel goods are much rarer. Unusually too this catalogue is provided with a letterpress index. Normally the engraved leaves would be gathered up in different combinations for individual salesmen hence the plates are numbered in manuscript. In this example they do not exactly follow the printed index so the 'missing' engravings 49 and 50 may never have been present but the presence of stubs suggests that pls. 35–40 which from the index showed corkscrews were once present and have been removed from the volume. There is a similar volume in the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County also with a printed index and 51 leaves of plates. There is a printer's imprint W. Tolley and Son on the first plate. This may be the William Tolley engraver and copperplate printer active in Birmingham from before 1790 to 1830. The name of the agent is on a label on the upper cover: 'Muntz & Purden Book no. 29 discount 25%' indicating that the MS prices are retail prices. Oblong folio 235 x 375mm; letterpress 'Index to book of steel toys' folding letterpress and engraved leaf 'Gentlemen's Tool Chests' and 46 leaves of plates many printed recto and verso from 80 engraved plates. There is a gap in the pagination and stubs between 34 and 41 and these leaves have presumably been removed; pls 49 and 50 are also missing but there are no stubs so may never have been present. Manuscript additions. The index leaf is annotated 'Livre 64456 W&L' this has been varnished over; every item is neatly priced and in some cases additional products are described for example the ice skates 48 shillings plain or 60 shillings hollow ground could be had with leather straps and buckles for another 18 shillings per dozen pl. 70; small marginal tears in first two and last leaf strengthened with tissue on verso; recent half morocco and marbled boards; from the Forschungsinstitut für Geschichte der Zahnheilkunde with stamp on index leaf and several plates. n.p. hardcover
ref. 16633Berlin: Brüder Baumann. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Berlin Brüder Baumann No Date but with a 1937 ownership inscription. Octavo viii introduction in English and French xiv 704 pages with approximately 15000 illustrations plus 6 card dividers index tabs a little creased and chipped. Textured black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover ruled in blind on both sides; cloth a little rubbed and slightly worn at the extremities; a very good copy internally excellent. 'After a three years preliminary work we beg to hand you our newest catalogue. It comprises 720 pages with about 15000 pieces which we constantly keep on hand. It is not in our power to furnish you with patterns of all the articles we deal in .' English-language introduction. A substantial German catalogue pertaining to all manner of state-of-the-art office machines. This is copy number 3695 of an unknown print run. A few related pieces of ephemera are loosely inserted. Brüder Baumann hardcover
1955ref. 50419Magnolia Springs AL: Melrose Boat Works 1955. Square 8vo. 27 pp. Illustrated. Includes illustrated descriptions and plans for a variety of cabin cruisers apparently the firm's specialty sailing sloops and runabouts. Not recorded on OCLC. Illustrated silver and orange wrappers stapled; poor quality paper browned but very good. Melrose Boat Works unknown
1882ref. 6662New York: P.H. Reilly Wood-Cut and Color Printer 25 Rose Street 1882. Quarto 27 x 20.5 cm. 108 4 166 2 pages. Profusely illustrated. Text in two columns. Table of contents at rear. FIRST EDITION. An early – perhaps the first – history of carbonated beverages. Issued together with a trade catalogue for the soda water supply firm of John Matthews of New York an important manufacturer of bottling equipment soda fountains and carbonation apparatus. The fountains get progressively larger and more elaborate and with wonderful names: “The Citadel” “The Horicon” “The Adriatic” “The Fire-Eater” “The Nepenthe” and “The Snow Queen”. There I also an outdoor soda fountain “The Street Spa”. Also included are the auxiliary equipment of the carbonated water industry like siphon boxes for home delivery of soda water. The historical work and the trade catalogue were issued in celebration of the firm’s 50th Anniversary. Some pencil scribbles to a few pages. Text block shaken; free front endpaper lacking. In publisher’s brown and gilt-decorated green cloth corners rubbed and extremities a bit worn. Better than good. With the ownership signature of “Leopold F. Schmidt Deer Lodge Montana” and a more recent “Olympia Brewing Company”. Very scarce. OCLC records two copies with this pagination Loma Linda Univ. & Hagley Museum and four copies with just 108 pages presumably just the history; Noling Beverage Literature page 104 for the 108 page version. P.H. Reilly, Wood-Cut and Color Printer, 25 Rose Street hardcover
1927ref. 118679Melbourne: Gippsland & Northern Co-Operative Co. Ltd 1927. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Melbourne Gippsland & Northern Co-Operative Co. Ltd. 1927. Quarto 36 pages with numerous illustrations some from photographs plus text on the covers the index on the inside rear cover and advertisements on two other surfaces. Saddle-stapled two-colour pictorial wrappers slightly marked; staples a little rusty staining slightly the paper nearby; bottom corner a little creased throughout; two light vertical creases throughout presumably where folded for posting; a very good copy. Gippsland & Northern Co-Operative Co. Ltd paperback
1910ref. 3260Sioux City IA: G.H. Jenkinson Company 1910. Oblong folio in wrappers 36 pages. Illustrated. Trade catalogue with a vast array of items for the butcher shop and home manufactured by the G.H. Jenkinson Company including platform scales meat slicers lard presses salt and pepper shakers hotel linens and candy maker supplies among many other things. Over two hundred categories of items outlined in the index. Hole punch through upper left corner for hanging. Near fine condition in publisher's green and orange printed wrappers with brick red cloth spine. OCLC locates just one copy at Iowa State Historical Society; Jenkinson does not appear in Romaine. G.H. Jenkinson Company hardcover
ref. 78996New York NY National Blank Books 1911. 8vo 23.5 x 14.8 cm.liv 192 pp.; numerous full-colour illustrations. Publisher's full cloth. Spine with gilt title; front board with gilt and black printed panel gilt armorial company's devise and gilt number 22; rear board with gilt armorial company's device. Printed endpaper; book block with rounded corners and marbled edges. = A rare excellently preserved catalogue containing endless variety in pass books memorandum books buyers books manuscript books miniature blanks open end memorandum books scrap books counter order books invoice books printed cash books letter copying books trial balance books etc. as well as luxurious half bound and full bound blank books all manufactured by a company in the town of Holyoke Massachusetts known for its paper mills and a sales office in Duane Street Lower Manhattan. "The National Blank Book Company originally began as a small New York City outfit in 1843 known as the J.G Shaw Company named for its founder. The company manufactured quality blank book products on a small scale. As a consequence of the 1873 Wall Street panic Shaw became indebted to Massachusetts papermakers William Whiting of Holyoke and Levi L. Brown of Adams. In 1875 Shaws company reorganized in New York with Whiting and Brown as partners. Shaw withdrew from the firm by 1877 but remained a part of the industry for many years. In 1880 Whiting and Brown officially changed the companys name to National Blank Book. A year later the factory moved to Cabot Street in Holyoke MA. It was not until 1892 that the main offices also moved to Holyoke." Holyoke Library online. 1967 National Blank Book merged with Dennison a similar company to become Dennison-National. In turn in 1990 Dennison-National merged with Avery. Today Avery Dennison is a global materials science and digital identification solutions company. Catalogue unmarked clean the binding excellent with after 115 years just a few very minor signs of handling. hardcover
1920ref. 4801Barcelona: Orfebres de Espana Sociedad Anonima 1920. Tall brad-bound trade catalogue 23 leaves printed rectos only. Trade catalogue of flatware illustrated in various patterns. Some wear to the printed card-stock wrappers otherwise very good. Scarce. OCLC locates no copies. Orfebres de Espana, Sociedad Anonima unknown
1925ref. 145580Melbourne: The Union Manufacturing & Agency Company 1925. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Melbourne The Union Manufacturing & Agency Company circa 1925. Small octavo pages 161-296 as issued with numerous illustrations plus text on the wrappers; an unnumbered 8-page index printed on salmon-pink paper is bound in between pages 288 and 289. Colour-decorated cream title-wrappers with text printed in green on the other three surfaces; trifling signs of age and use; an excellent copy. 'Established 1889' is printed on the front cover; the full page of requests to the customer printed on the verso states that the company has 'built up a very large business during the past 36 years'. The index is in two parts - General Catalogue and Fun Catalogue - and the following note is printed on the last page of the index: 'We publish Two Catalogues one containing our General Stock and the other comprising chiefly Tricks Games Puzzles Amusement Devices and Books. If you have either of these Catalogues and wish us to send you the other please forward six pence'. We have previously handled a copy of the companion General Catalogue which was numbered 33b. Offered with a copy of 'Catalogue No. 34A. The Union Manufacturing & Agency Company Just for Fun Catalogue' issued after the company had 'built up a very large business during the past 40 years' thus circa 1929; as above apart from the pagination - now pages 153-288 - rear wrapper a little scored with slight loss to the top margin of the rear wrapper and the last three leaves; other minor signs of age and use but overall a very good copy. 2 items. [The Union Manufacturing & Agency Company paperback
1938ref. 143190Adelaide: Cyclone Fence & Gate Co. Pty. Ltd 1938. First Edition. Paperback. Adelaide Cyclone Fence & Gate Co. Pty. Ltd. 1938. Octavo 84 pages with hundreds of illustrations including a colour-pictorial title page. Three-colour pictorial textured card covers with an irregular die-cut display window in the front cover exposing part of the title page illustration; slight moisture damage to the bottom corner of the margin of the last eight leaves with slight surface loss to several pages and minimal loss to two corner-tips; a pity as this copy appears to be uncirculated. Gates 'Field Wrought Iron Ornamental' are the most substantial and interesting sections of the catalogue running to more than 28 pages. Fencing is also heavily represented but the contents also include playground equipment tennis nets tree guards and numerous other miscellanea. Cyclone Fence & Gate Co. Pty. Ltd paperback
1911ref. 143192Melbourne: Vacuum Oil Co. Pty. Ltd 1911. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Melbourne Vacuum Oil Co. Pty. Ltd. circa 1911. Tall duodecimo 233 × 102 mm ii 30 4 Buyers' Notes pages with numerous illustrations. Textured wrappers a little marked; a very good copy internally fine. The specialties range from 'Axle Grease Favourite' to 'Vacme Compound Leather Dressing Oil' via Baker's Glucose Crayons numerous Oils including Burning Baking Clutch Floor Dressing Harness Marine Motor Olive Salad and Spraying Perfection Cook Stoves and Heaters and Rayo Lamps and Lanterns. The date is found on page 26 in the discussion on the New Perfection Wick Blue Flame Oil Cook Stove; first introduced in 1907 the '1911 models are supplied with Iron Heater'. Vacuum Oil Co. Pty. Ltd paperback
1904ref. 27708New York: Voight & Williams 1904. First printing. Paperback. Good overall. A trade catalog not located on OCLC with blacksmith supplies. Extra material includes a letterhead note from Voight & Williams on Burden Horse shoes and nails pinned to the lower title page and 2 other printed price lists. Large 4to 139pp including index illustrations and diagrams throughout. Printed stiff paper wrappers spine chipped away covers dusty and loose. Internally bright and clean bar some notes on one of the products page 23. Each page has a red border and their name printed over the page. The illustrations are of farrier's and blacksmith's tools and supplies. Voight & Williams paperback
1928ref. 134179Sydney: Printed by V.S. French & Co 1928. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Sydney Printed by V.S. French & Co. 1928. Small octavo 64 pages. Saddle-stapled decorated wrappers a little tanned; acidic text paper uniformly tanned; minimal signs of age and use; a very good copy. The inkstamp of the local distributor Gladiola Co. Waymouth Street Adelaide is on the front cover. [Printed by] V.S. French & Co paperback
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
1942ref. 128354North Melbourne: Muir's Proprietary Limited 1942. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. North Melbourne Muir's Proprietary Limited circa 1942. Octavo 23 pages with numerous illustrations. Saddle-stapled pictorial wrappers; rusty staples removed but not before they had stained and slightly damaged the adjacent areas of paper; a very good copy. Loosely inserted is the 'Price List. Jan. 16th. 1942' gate-fold 8 pages. 2 items. Muir's Proprietary Limited paperback
1910ref. 10052Milwaukee: H.C. Schranck Co 1910. Oblong octavo 22.5 x 29 cm. 61 pages numbered 969-1030. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. Trade catalogue for H.C. Schrank Co. of Milwaukee a manufacturer and distributor of equipment and supplies for bottlers. The catalogue covers a wide range of equipment from carbonating machines to fillers and bottlers crowning and filling machines cappers water stills and labeling machines. Supplies include wooden boxes for bottles siphon bottles and siphon-related parts bottle brushes faucets taps jars and pots for flavors and syrups copper measures and graduating cups corks and caps aprons boots and finger protectors and much more. Sample labels printed in three colors occupy the center portion of the catalogue. Internally with some light stains and rubbing to edges. Attractively re-bound with new endpapers and the original printed cover inlaid into the new marbled boards. Overall very good. Unrecorded. OCLC locates no copies; not in Romaine or Noling. H.C. Schranck Co hardcover
1930ref. 78627Neenah Wisconsin: Neenah Foundry Company 1930. Wraps. Very good. Illustrated catalog showing a complete line of standard street and sewer castings including cemetery and park castings the Chicago standard manhole cover sidewalk plates inspection hole covers etc. Established as the Aylward Plow Works in 1872 the Neenah Foundry Company continues to manufacture iron castings for the heavy truck agriculture construction and related markets. A major customer over the years is the city of Chicago and Neenah Foundry manholes and other products can be found in all 50 U.S. states and 17 international cities. Booklet 6" x 9": 20 pp. with black-and-white illustrations. Bound with two staples in printed gray paper wrappers. Some mild rubbing with a bit of light spotting to the front panel; otherwise very good. Scarce OCLC locates no holdings. Neenah Foundry Company unknown
1920ref. 6138San Francisco: Danner & Baker Inc 1920. Oblong stapled booklet 23 x 27 cm. 80 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION of this number. A trade catalogue of glassware porcelain and Satsuma pottery from this long running San Francisco dealer in crockery and glassware. Near fine in green- and gilt-titled tan wrappers. Previous owner’s inscription to the from wrapper panel. OCLC locates one record for Catalogue no. 4 but the location is lacking; one copy each of Catalogues no. 3 & 5. Danner & Baker, Inc unknown
1936ref. 97764Tuttlingen: Chiron 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Tuttlingen Chiron circa 1936 see our footnote. Small folio xx xii 563 pages with innumerable illustrations of surgical implements plus unnumbered coloured card section dividers. Half leather and papered boards a little rubbed bumped and lightly worn at the extremities; marginal tears to a few leaves expertly sealed; a very good copy. The text is in German English French and Spanish. Page xviii contains some fine self-promotional copy along with a line illustration of the 'Hindenburg'. 'The airship . an example of today's technical progress for whose construction and complement only the very best was selected is equipped with CHIRON stainless steel instruments'. The airship flew from March 1936 until destroyed by fire 14 months later on May 6 1937 at the end of the first North American transatlantic journey of its second season of service. Provenance: the New Zealand collector and photographic historian Hardwicke Knight 1911-2008 with his 'Hardwicke Albion Press' bookplate on the front pastedown. Chiron hardcover
1924ref. 137304Sheffield: Christopher Johnson & Co 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Sheffield Christopher Johnson & Co. July 1924. Quarto vi pages plus 55 plates numbered between 5 and 93 with seven in colour all printed recto only each with a facing captioned leaf printed verso only and a tipped-in detachable slip printed in red 'Prices shown in this list are subject to 50% discount'. Light-blue papered boards lettered in black a screw-post binder lightly worn and now with minor expert conservation to the joints; a few tidy price changes in red pencil; a very good copy internally in fine condition. The front pastedown bears a small company label number-stamped 243. A superior production with the plates produced 'from photographs'. The contents are mainly numerous examples of kitchen cutlery either with only the knives shown or in canteens. There are eight plates devoted to pocket knives penknives pruning and farmers' knives and hunting knives and daggers. Loosely inserted are some related pieces of ephemera including a four-page supplementary catalogue of 'Acceptable Wedding Presents'. A small quantity. Christopher Johnson & Co hardcover
1950ref. 143191Brunswick: T.N. Chuck Wire Fence & Gate Co. Pty. Ltd 1950. Paperback. Very Good. Brunswick T.N. Chuck Wire Fence & Gate Co. Pty. Ltd. circa early 1950s. Octavo 80 pages with numerous illustrations reproduced mainly from photographs. Colour-pictorial textured card covers a little marked with 'Industrial' written in ink on the front cover; overall an excellent copy. If you've seen one length of Man-proof Industrial Fencing you've seen it all. However the last 32 pages of this catalogue praise the 'Harmonies in Wrought Iron. Chuck Wrought Ironwork harmonises splendidly with modern architecture and when used with artistry adds both character and charm. Whether it be entrance Gates Fly Wire Doors Balustrades or Ornamental Wrought Ironwork for Outdoors the practical yet decorative qualities of Chuck Wrought Iron are unsurpassed'. T.N. Chuck Wire Fence & Gate Co. Pty. Ltd paperback
1939ref. 137293Adelaide: Clarkson Limited 'wholly set up and printed . at The Hassell Press' 1939. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Clarkson Limited 'wholly set up and printed . at The Hassell Press' February 1939. Quarto ii 134 pages with well over 700 illustrations. Pictorial wrappers slightly rubbed; top corner of the entire catalogue lightly bent throughout with dogear creases to a few bottom corners; an excellent copy. Clarkson Limited ('wholly set up and printed ... at The Hassell Press') paperback
1928ref. 26399New York: Craige-Wilson Inc. 1928. Very good condition. Two volumes of this "Ready to Wear - Custom-Quality" clothing catalogue for the Fall & Winter season 1928-29 and Spring & Summer season 1929. These suits were sold through a representative of the National Association of Direct Selling Companies in this case the salesman was E. M. Ames of Skowhegan ME. Fall - 16pp with 2 to 3 samples per page. Spring - 20pp w 3 - 4 samples on every other page. All woolen samples almost all in perfect condition 2 with minor moth damage. Suits priced from $8.75 - $23.50. It's difficult to imagine anyone wearing a wool suit in summer but the samples are here to prove that you could buy them. An added feature on the inside front board is "Perspiration Proof Lining in all suits priced $13.75 and Up!" Unrecorded on OCLC and catalogs not located in a Google search with the exception of an advert in Popular Mechanic March 1927 for "experienced tailoring salesmen - young men's clothing direct to consumer Craige & Wilson Inc. 10 Waverly Pla. N.Y.C." 2 volumes 4to quarter brown cloth and publishers brown papered boards title in darker brown on front board spine with no title. Spine tips a little rubbed a little shaken. Craige-Wilson, Inc. unknown
1929ref. 7485Hartford: Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Co 1929. First Thus. Stiff Printed Wrappers. Very Good. 4to. Pp. 36 2 laid in leaves. Black & white illustrations. Stiff gray paper wraps saddle stapled titles embossed and printed in blue blind embossed border and Rampant Colt. Laid in Retail Price List "PL 11" of January 1930. Laid in announcement of "Two New .22 Caliber Colt Revolvers." Covers minimally stained leaves crisp and bright. A brief history begins "Ninety-three Years of Colt Fire Arms Manufacture" dated from the first revolvers made at Paterson New Jersey in 1836. The new .22 caliber products announced are the Official Police Revolver and Officers' Model Target Revolver. Front cover emblazoned with the company motto" "The Arm of Law and Order". A handsome fresh copy now preserved in a clear archival sleeve with an acid-free backing. Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Co unknown