rif. 306749Exposition Number 1915. Folding eight-panel brochure 9" x 16". 7 halftone illustrations. Outer panels tinted yellow. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. Covers trolley and rail trips railroads street car rides tenting on the beach hotels and apartments country clubs etc. Includes views of Catalina Island Mount Lowe Incline Mission Play L.A. Country Club Busch Sunken Gardens etc. No Binding. Very Good. Exposition Number, 1915. unknown books

Houle Rare Books & Autographs · Stati Uniti60,00 USD≈ 53,50 €

[Ornamental design, German trade catalogue] No authorship givenABAA

No title. German ornamental metal ornamental devices each hand-crafted.

rif. TK0360no place: no date. 9.5 x 12.75 inches. 40 pages. 145 numbered photographic tinted illustrations each with numerous figures. Original plain black wrappers. With apologies but there is no manufacturer name on this trade catalogue of hand-crafted ornamental 'finishing' pieces such as decorative brasses for a piece of furniture. Many are with motifs from nature leaves flowers. Other ornaments: lions lizards angel wings wheat eagle-heads sun-faces etc. Each figure is numbered with the highest number showing is 3836 ornaments are shown. [no date]. unknown books

Jeff Weber Rare Books · Svizzera60,00 USD≈ 53,50 €

[TECHNOLOGY & INDUSTRY] [TRADE CATALOGUES] [AVIATION] MEANS, JamesABAA

The James Means Control for Flying Machines. Based upon the principle of Mental Automatism

1913rif. 49234Boston: James Means 1913. 12mo 18cm. Staple-bound printed wrappers; 10pp. Trivial external soil else Near Fine. James Means 1855-1920 is best remember as the publisher and editor of the influential Aeronautics Annuals that appeared in 1895-7 providing a clearing-house for the latest trends in aviation engineering and providing a basis for the innovations of Orville and Wilbur Wright. The current publication advertises refinements to Means' simplified control column for which he originally won a patent in 1911. James Means unknown books

Lorne Bair Rare Books · Stati Uniti60,00 USD≈ 53,50 €

LANE MANUFACTURING) Trade CatalogABAA

Wood-Working Machinery

1917rif. 285151Montpelier: Lane 1917. paperback. very good. Illustrations including 2 folding. Oblong 4to printed buff wrappers string tied edgeworn but internally clean. Montpelier Vermont: Lane Manufacturing Company 1917. Foreign edition abridged. Best known for its sawmills the company was founded in 1868. Lane unknown books

Argosy Book Store · Stati Uniti60,00 USD≈ 53,50 €

Snyder, Wilbert F, Bragaw, Charles L, and the US Department of Commerce U SABAA

Achievement in Radio : Seventy years of radio science technology standards and measurement at the National Bureau of Standards.; Special Publication 555

1986rif. 51114Boulder Colorado: National Bureau of Standards U.S. Government Printing Office 1986. Snyder Wilbert F. Charles L. Bragaw and the U.S. Department of Commerce. Achievement in radio: seventy years of radio science technology standards and measurement at the National Bureau of Standards. Special Publication 555. Boulder Colorado: National Bureau of Standards U.S. Government Printing Office 1986. xxxiv 842pp. 280 x 210 mm. Grey cloth red title to front featuring picture of the National Bureau of Standards Boulder Laboratories office U.S. Dept. of Commerce also in red. Red lettering to spine. Bookplate of Richard A. Rhodes II. Tipped to page 687 is a newspaper clipping of an obituary notice for Chester Hall 'Chet' Page 10 August 1996. Opposite to this clipping is an underlined sentence reading "The program was chaired by Dr. Chester H. Page chief of the Electricity Division NBS." Some staining around the edges corners slightly bent. Very good. First Edition. National Bureau of Standards, U.S. Government Printing Office unknown books

Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. · Stati Uniti60,00 USD≈ 53,50 €

Tampa Board of TradeABAA

Tampa for Health Pleasure and Profit.

rif. 61248bdTampa; Tampa Board of Trade n.d. ca. 1909. Oblong octavo color-illustrated self-wrappers stapled 28 pp. Map plan photographs including two panoramas of the waterfront. Very Good; spine is beginning to split at foot. unknown books

Lighthouse Books, ABAA · Stati Uniti60,00 USD≈ 53,50 €

( Art Nouveau Trade Binding) (Edwards, George Wharton)ABAA

TARRY THOU TILL I COME

rif. 1786New York and London: Funk & Wagnalls Company 1901. A stout octavo of 588 pp. color frontispiece and black and white plates by T. de Thulstrup. An exquisite example of a publisher's Art Nouveau binding designed by George Whaton Edwards signed with his initials. Scarlet cloth with cover and spine decorations consisting of Corinthian pillars in astonishly bright heavy gilt and a fern frond in striking olive green. Warmly inscribed and signed by the illustrator on the front free endpaper this is a perfect copy of a boldly handsome volume. hardcover books

Green Gate Farm Antiquarian Books · Stati Uniti65,00 USD≈ 57,96 €

(Matthews Specialties Trade Catalogue)ABAA

MATTHEWS' TELEPHONE LINE CONSTRUCTION BOOK

1908rif. 77578St. Louis Missouri: W. N. Matthews & Brother. Very Good. 1908. Softcover. This book is soft-bound in brown wrappers with black printing on the covers. The covers show a thin line on the upper cover and light wear to the edges and spine-ends. The metal brad binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean with illustrations. . W. N. Matthews & Brother paperback books

Hoffman Books · Stati Uniti65,00 USD≈ 57,96 €

(Trade Catalogue: Mining Machinery)ABAA

Jeffrey M'F'G Co. Engineers Founders and Machinists. Chain Belting Steel Cable Conveyors Labor Saving Appliances

1895rif. 499Columbus Ohio and New York 1895. 8vo. 190 x 128 mm. 7 ½ x 5 inches. 144 pp. Illustrated throughout with half-tone images and diagrams 2 of which are folding. Original printed wrappers a few stains but a sound and attractive copy. Specialty items include elevators drive belts conveyors sprocket wheels and machinery for mining and mill factories. Established in Columbus in 1877 Jeffrey Manufacturing was instrumental in developing the mining and coal industries of eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania. One of its most important products was the "Jeffrey Electric Locomotive" which moved on tracks inside mines and towed tons of rock and saved hours of labor and contributed to mine safety. Not cited in Romaine. This catalogue is one of the few original sources documenting mining equipment produced by the largest industrial plants in Ohio at the end of the nineteenth century. unknown books

De Simone Company, Booksellers · Stati Uniti65,00 USD≈ 57,96 €

[Trade Brochure]ABAA

MERCANTILE HOTEL AND LADIES' AND GENTS' DINING ROOMS 23 SOUTH TENTH STREET.; Directly Opposite the Mercantile Library. The Only Strictly Temperance Hotel in Philadelphia on the European Plan. Coupon Tickets sold at 10 per cent. discount to regular customers. S. R. PARMELEE Prop

1876rif. 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

Bartlebys Books · Stati Uniti65,00 USD≈ 57,96 €

[Trade Card]ABAA

CENTRAL HOUSE MONTGOMERY SQUARE COTTAGE CITY Martha's Vineyard MASS. Conducted on the American and European Plans. Chester Ball Proprietor. Henry W. Eastman Clerk. Open June 14

1880rif. 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

Bartlebys Books · Stati Uniti65,00 USD≈ 57,96 €

[TRADE SHEET] [SCHOVERLING, DALY & GALES]ABAA

Bargain Sheet: Fire Arms Bicycles Lawn Tennis Base-Ball Golf Skates and Athletic Outfits caption title followed by four pages of offerings 292 offerings printed double-column. New York: Schoverling Daly & Gates October 25th 1897. Advertising sale sheet

rif. 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

Bartlebys Books · Stati Uniti65,00 USD≈ 57,96 €

[WARRENTON] [TRADE HANDBILL]ABAA

Special Bulletin from / Jeffries' Drug Store / Warrenton Virginia caption title

1900rif. 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

Bartlebys Books · Stati Uniti65,00 USD≈ 57,96 €

Garlinghouse, L F (Building Homes Trade Catalog)ABAA

SELECTED HOMES

1950rif. 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

Green Gate Farm Antiquarian Books · Stati Uniti65,00 USD≈ 57,96 €

WOMAN'S TRADE UNION LEAGUEABAA

UNION WORKERS!; and BREAD COMSUMERS! Why be slaves of a trust. This label will protect you against Child Labor . Why spend your money for non-union bread The cause of one union is the cause of all

1920rif. 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

Second Life Books Inc · Stati Uniti72,00 USD≈ 64,20 €

[AMERICAN TRADE BINDINGS] [TEMPERANCE] ARTHUR, TS (Timothy Shay) T SABAA

Words of Cheer for the Tempted the Toiling and the Sorrowing

1861rif. 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

Lorne Bair Rare Books · Stati Uniti75,00 USD≈ 66,87 €

[JACKSON] [TRADE CARD]ABAA

Mississippi's New Capitol. / Cornerstone Laid June 3rd 1903. Length 400 Feet; Height 175 Feet; Width 180 Feet; Cost Furnished $1000000 caption beneath photo illustration of the building. "See the New Contractor's Estimate Book - Price $3.50. / At Tucker Printing House / 117 North State Street Jackson Mississippi" blurb above the image

1903rif. 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

Bartlebys Books · Stati Uniti75,00 USD≈ 66,87 €

[Trade Card]ABAA

DELAWARE HOUSE. Lackawaxen PA

1880rif. 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

Bartlebys Books · Stati Uniti75,00 USD≈ 66,87 €

[Trade Card]ABAA

FORD'S HOTEL. Heated Throughout by Steam. Electric lights

1880rif. 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

Bartlebys Books · Stati Uniti75,00 USD≈ 66,87 €

[Trade Card]ABAA

WAUREGAN HOUSE Norwich Conn. C. W. Johnson Proprietor

1880rif. 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

Bartlebys Books · Stati Uniti75,00 USD≈ 66,87 €

[Trade Card] [Wilford Woodruff]ABAA

Valley House

1890rif. 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

Tschanz Rare Books · Stati Uniti75,00 USD≈ 66,87 €

[TRADE CATALOGUE ]LEYNER TRACTOR & MFG COABAA

Leyner Tractor Linapede cover title

rif. 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

Franklin Gilliam :: Rare Books · Stati Uniti75,00 USD≈ 66,87 €

[Trade Catalogue] [Angling]ABAA

Fishing Tackle Catalog: Trout Fresh Water Salmon Giant and Regular Salt Water cover title

1941rif. 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

Bartlebys Books · Stati Uniti75,00 USD≈ 66,87 €

[United States Congress Committee of Commerce and Manufactures]ABAA

Report of the Committee of Commerce & Manufactures on the Petitions of Orchard Cook and Abiel Wood Junr. and of Robert Hooper. 18th December 1797 read and ordered to be re-committed to the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures. 29th December 1797 report made and committed to a committee of the whole House on Wednesday next

1797rif. 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

Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB · Stati Uniti75,00 USD≈ 66,87 €

[United States Congress Committee of Commerce and Manufactures]ABAA

Report of the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures to Whom Was Referred on the 27th of December Last the Petition of Nathaniel Cutter. 8th January 1798 Consideration Postponed Until To-morrow. 10th January 1798 Committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Friday Next

1798rif. 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