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1876réf. 70731Philadelphia PA 1876. Single sheet folded to 12 x 8 cm. Front page advertises the hotel and includes an illustration of the building the three other pages contain "Parmelee's Condensed Guide" to the Centennial Buildings open from May 10 to Nov. 10 1876 and "reached direct by cars on Walnut Market Arch Vine and Girard Ave." with cars running every minute. Scattered pen markings. unknown books
1880réf. 70726Martha's Vineyard MA 1880. 6 x 9.5 cm. printed in black in various sizes and styles of type on white stiff card stock. unknown books
réf. 688404to 31 cm. Bi-folium printed on pink paper. Listed as net sale prices all well below listed "retail" prices are 31 hammerless shotguns 40 hammer guns 22 rifles 40 lots of cartridges 1000 per lot 38 lots of bullets 100 or 1000 per lot 50 lots of primed shells and paper shells and wads and 25 lots of loading tools the remaining 45 lots fall in the other categories mentioned in the title. "Offered to the trade at prices that will make them move." OCLC locates a number of similar sales instruments for the company 1890s-1920s but not this one. Old fold lines as for mailing else very good. unknown books
1900réf. 70853Warrenton VA: Joseph A. Jeffries 1900. Small broadside 9 ½ x 6 inches printing a long advertising statement for the store "Restore your health keep your health and add to your comfort by placing your orders where you may be assured they will be conscientiously filled" signed in type at the end "Joseph A. Jeffries Practical Pharmacist. Jeffries 1840-1919 served in the 17th Virginia during the Civil War and ran the pharmacy under his own name 1877-1908. Apparently not recorded on OCLC. Old central fold else very good. Joseph A. Jeffries unknown books
1950réf. 3353L. F. Garlinghouse Topeka KS Circa 1950. This is a trade catalog of homes to build profusely illustrated with photographs and floor plans with measurements. The catalog is 40 pages with a house design on each page. Cost estimates range from $3300 to over $8000. A few penciled notes and figures below some of the houses but overall a fine copy with no wear the text clean and bright. Many modest bungalows but also quite a few large substantial brick and stone houses. L. F. Garlinghouse Col paperback books
1920réf. 32212NY: Woman's Trade Union League 1920. 9 x 12 in. sheet folded into four pages with text and cartoons calling on union members to suppor the bread makers union. Nice for display. Little krinkled verygood. Woman's Trade Union League unknown books
1861réf. 87508Philadelphia: H.C. Peck & Theo. Bliss 1861. Later edition first published 1856. 12mo 18cm. Publisher's full morocco elaborately embossed with gilt titles and matching gilt devices to front and rear boards; all edges gilt; 300pp; frontispiece engraved extra-title and 4 inserted leaves of plates; 4pp publisher's catalog bound in at end of text. Mild overall rubbing with some softness to leather at head and heel; top edge gilt slightly oxidized; still a sound Very Good copy in a quite lovely mid-19th c. gift binding. Early pencil gift inscription to a Mary F. Sisson dated 1854. A religious and temperance miscellany mostly short moral tales with a few verse works interspersed. T.S. Arthur 1809-1885 is best-remembered for his hugely popular temperance trace Ten Nights in A Bar-Room and What I Saw There 1854 but he was an incredibly prolific writer churning out more than 100 titles between 1840 and the early 1880s. For the current work see WRIGHT II:150 recording one copy of an 1856 edition by the current publisher and another the same year from a Chicago publisher. H.C. Peck & Theo. Bliss unknown books
1903réf. 69158Jackson MS: Tucker Printing House 1903. Illustrated trade card 5 3/8 x 7 inches verso printing a captioned photo illustration of the "Historic Old Capitol." Thick card stock a little soiling. Very good. Tucker Printing House unknown books
1880réf. 70729F. J. Holbert Agent and Manager 1880. 8.2 x 13.7 cm. Printed in black with an illustration of the hotel and small boats floating on a lake in the foreground on pink stiff card stock. Verso prints the hotel's amenities including boating bathing and fishing on the Delaware River all a mere four hours' ride from New York City via rail. F. J. Holbert, Agent and Manager unknown books
1880réf. 70727Richmond VA: A. J. Ford Owner and Proprietor 1880. 8 by 11.2 cm. Printed in black with an illustration of the hotel on green stiff card stock. Verso describes "this splendid new hotel. situated in the heart of the city" and lists many places of interest for the visitor in and around Richmond. Differs slightly from others we've had stating rates reduced to $2.50 and $3.00 per day and offering a few more post Civil War era tombs in Hollywood Cemetery to visit. Slight edge wear. A. J. Ford, Owner and Proprietor unknown books
1880réf. 707301880. 6.5 x 10.5 cm. Illustration of the hotel on one side brief text including proprietor's name on verso printed on off-white stiff card stock. Abraham Lincoln gave a speech in Norwich in 1860 and stayed in the Wauregan. unknown books
1890réf. 8657Salt Lake City 1890. Trade card 8 cm x 11.5 cm printed on both sides. Near fine. Trade card for Salt Lake City's Valley House which was located at the corner of South Temple and West Temple the present-day site of Abravanel Hall. The building was originally constructed by Wilford Woodruff upon his arrival to the valley in 1847. It was converted into the Valley House Hotel in the 1870s before being demolished in 1915 to erect the Bamberger Bus Depot. The reverse prints 'Information for Tourists' which contains a brief description of the Temple Block the Salt Lake Theatre ZCMI Fort Douglas and other points of interest. unknown books
réf. 2473Denver Co.: The Company 1919. . 4to buff wrappers front pictorial printed in black and darker beige No holdings in OCLC for this company but its forerunner J. George Leyner is represented in 3 holdings . Denver, Co.: The Company], [1919]. unknown books
1941réf. 59614New York: William Mills & Son 1941. Catalogue No. 141. 12mo. 80 pp. Profusely illustrated. Offers a full-range of fly fishing tackle including tarpon flies and some other saltwater goods "anglers' supplies exclusively all grades." Very good. Original printed rust wrappers a little stained stapled. #6927. William Mills & Son unknown books
1797réf. 43741Philadelphia: Printed by William Ross 1797. First edition. Removed. Very good mostly unopened uncut untrimmed copy minor browning at lower edge. 3 226-232 2 pp. 8vo. Evans dated it both 1797 and 1798. two petitions both concerning a waving of taxes on spirits the Orchard Cook and Abiel Wood case claiming the ship was wrecked on an island and the cost of recovering the cargo exceeded the cost of the mechandise and that their insurance had lapsed. In the second case Hooper claimed he was lax in filing papers for re-shipping a cargo overseas. Wisely both were declined as the committee felt the government is not in the business of insuring that a business is successful and well run. Ah to return to those days. Orchard Cook 1763-1819 and Abiel Wood 1772-1834 had a better idea. They both became U.S. Representatives from Massachusetts. OCLC locates eight copies. Evans 33015. Evans 34753. ESTCW15017. [Printed by William Ross] unknown books
1798réf. 43744Philadelphia 1798. First edition. Removed. A very good copy lightly soiled and edge worn. 4 pp. 8vo. Nathaniel Cutter wanted relief from being re-taxed on goods that left Massachusetts where he had paid tax and then returned to the same port with the same goods because he was harrassed by the British and French and turned away in the Dominican Republic. The committee wisely wrote: "Your Committee however cannot find any good reason for relieving him against consequences of a risque which every exporter ought to calculate for himself." Cutter would continue to take risks suppling the French in Saint-Domingue and a claim was allowed him in 1803 by the American Commission in Paris for unpaid costs by the French See Greg H. Williams: The French Assault on American Shipping 1793-1813: A History p. 154. Evans 34754. ESTCW25464. unknown books
1939réf. 158Washington DC: United States Government Printing OFfice 1939. Second Edition. Cloth. Very good. Inserted maps and charts fold-out: Index Map: Coast and Geodetic Survey Charts 1939; U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Inside Route Key West to Rio Grande No. 1 1936 Florida and Gulf of Mexico; No. 2 1936 Gulf of Mexico: Sabine Pass to St. George Sound; No. 3 1936 Gulf of Mexico: coast of Texas. 8vo; vi 397pp; pale green buckram over board with black decorative border and title to front cover and spine stamped in black seal of Department of Commerce to back cover; purple stamp of Hydrographic Office Navy to front free endpaper; errata and updates with tipped in corrections at page; light green edges; light foxing to edges and cover light soiling to cover lightly cocked forward; binding tight maps all present and clean; very good. United States Government Printing OFfice unknown books
1929réf. 262849Baltimore: Baltimore Association of Commerce 1929. First. paperback. very good-. folding map photo Illus. 66pp. 8vo pr. wrs. wrappers sunned near spine two small tears to wrappers. Baltimore: Export and Import Bureau Baltimore Association of Commerce 1929. Contains extensive survey of the port and its activities along with many economic statistics. Baltimore Association of Commerce unknown books
réf. 78100San Jose CA & Cleveland Ohio: Bean Spray Pump Co. Very Good. N.D. Softcover. Catalog is soft-bound in brown wrappers with red blue and black printing/embossing on the upper cover. The staple binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean with illustrations. 48 illustratead crisp bright pages. . Bean Spray Pump Co. paperback books
1912réf. dacs1345Gainesville: A Pepper Production 1912. 16mo stiff green printed wrappers stapled 16 pp. Photos. Fine. A Pepper Production, [1912]. unknown books
1860réf. 27356Boston: Committee of the Boston Board of Trade on Immigration 1860. First edition. Removed. A very good clean bright copy with mail folds. Unpaged 1 pp. Sm. 4to. A letter from the Committee of the Boston Board of Trade on immigration informing its members that it has a "favorable opportunity of supplying employers in all branches of manufactures trade agriculture mining domestic services etc. with such help as they require. of a superior class of skilled labor from Great Britain." Committee of the Boston Board of Trade on Immigration unknown books
1968réf. 27644New York: New York Chamber of Commerce 1968. First edition. Illustrated paper wrappers. Tiny nick else a fine copy. 48 pp. Illus. with color and b/w photos. Sm. 4to. OCLC shows only 6 copies. New York Chamber of Commerce unknown books
1960réf. 17659Boston: Massachusetts Department of Commerce 1960. Color pictorial folding map. Near Fine. A richly illustrated mid-century Massachusetts travel map by Ernest Dudley Chase blending tourism promotion with pictorial cartographic design. Issued by the Massachusetts Department of Commerce around 1960 this vibrant folding travel map presents the Bay State as a year-round destination through detailed pictorial cartography by Ernest Dudley Chase. Equal parts guide souvenir and promotional artifact it reflects the optimism and visual clarity of postwar American state tourism design. Physical Description: Color pictorial map printed on a single sheet folding to approximately 8.5 × 5.5 inches and opening to 33.5 × 21.25 inches approx. 51 × 82 cm. Illustrated throughout with labeled vignettes pictorial index to points of interest mileage table covered bridge index beach directory calendar of events and state forests and parks. Includes inset map of Greater Boston and extensive color halftone illustrations on the verso. Printed form designation: Form 97 50M-9-60-928745. Condition: Paper clean and supple with bright color retention throughout. Text and imagery crisp and fully legible. Minimal handling wear and a faint even age-toning consistent with paper stock. No tears stains or losses observed. First state tourism issue. Scarcity Note: Examples survive but well-preserved copies with strong color and no structural issues are increasingly difficult to locate. Maps by Ernest Dudley Chase remain actively collected within the pictorial cartography field. This map exemplifies Ernest Dudley Chase's mature style characterized by densely composed yet legible illustrations that balance informational clarity with visual charm. Towns landmarks recreational areas and historic sites are rendered through small carefully captioned scenes that invite close inspection. The design functions both as a navigational aid and as a narrative portrait of Massachusetts presenting history leisure and modern infrastructure as a cohesive cultural identity. --- Contextual / Historical Significance: Produced during the postwar expansion of domestic tourism the map reflects a broader effort by American states to promote regional identity through graphic design. Chase's work occupies a key position within mid-20th-century pictorial cartography bridging traditional mapmaking with illustration and popular graphic culture. Subjects: Massachusetts Tourism State-Sponsored Travel Promotion Mid-Century Graphic Design Illustrated Maps Ernest Dudley Chase New England Cultural History Pictorial Cartography Travel Ephemera Americana. Bibliographic References: "A Meticulous Maker of Maps" biographical study of Ernest Dudley Chase OCLC/WorldCat listings for Ernest Dudley Chase pictorial maps and state tourism publications. Massachusetts Department of Commerce unknown books
1842réf. 27637New York: J. P. Wright Printer 1842. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. Lacking the printed wrappers else a very good or better bright copy. 11 pp. 8vo. The Chamber argues for a "discriminating duty on foreign imports" as opposed to direct taxation to raise the funds needed by the Federal government. Presented at the 2nd session of the 27th Congress. OCLC locates two copies: Library Company of Philadelphia and Boston Atheneum. Sabin 54161. Amer. Imprints 423608. J. P. Wright, Printer unknown books
1971réf. 85213Manila: Bureau of Printing 1971. Hardcover. Good. 3 vols. frontises each section separately numbered. Contemporary blue boards with original wrappers for the various parts bound in. 29 cm. Corners bumped. Advance Report No. 48 is not present -- we don't know which Province is missing in this set. We assume that these volumes were compiled from separately issued Advance Reports. Bureau of Printing hardcover books
