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1920réf. 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 books
1940réf. 6854New York: the company 1940. Oblong metal ribbon-bound book 14.5 x 22.5 cm. 41 12 pages. Illustrated. Images of product on rectos with descriptive text on versos. A salesman's promotional catalogue for the “Quality Group” line of spirits from Park & Tilford including Harvey’s Sherries Marie Brizzard and champagnes and wines from Heidsieck Beaulieu Vineyards Blanchy Martel & Co. Booths Sanderson and a number of spirits under the Park & Tilford brand. The text descriptions contain more technical information than is usually found in promotional materials of this time. Bound in textured black card stock with the corporate name stamped in silver. Some light creasing to the edges of the wrappers otherwise fine. OCLC locates no copies. the company unknown books
1935réf. 56552Bridgeport CT: Parker Gun Works Remington Arms Co. 1935. Trade catalogue issued shortly after Parker was purchased by Remington Arms. Oblong 4to. 34 1 pp. Describes the company's shotguns most illustrated in the descriptive text; also includes recommendations and specifications. Illustrated from photographs line drawings. Recorded on OCLC but without locations. Original claret stamped tan spiral-bound wrappers. Very good. 2855. Parker Gun Works, Remington Arms Co.) unknown books
1870réf. 5448York PA: E J Evans ca. 1870. Edition Unknown. As issued - cover title. Fine. 4to 4 pp. one leaf insert on yellow paper printed recto only. The catalog is not illustrated. A handsome closely printed nursery catalog with a single sheet laid in insert printed on yellow paper listing small fruits including at least 25 grape varieties and flowering bulbs. The 4 page catalog lists vegetables. Unlocated. E J Evans unknown books
1929réf. 4088Baltimore: Julien P Friez & Sons 1929. First Edition. Original printed wrappers. A very good copy with docketed date stamp on the frt. wrapper. 8vo. Each of the instruments is illustrated. 138 pp. An uncommon scientific instrument catalogue that contains a number of obscure and desirable instruments e.g. a "nephoscope". Each of the instruments or installation of instruments is fully described with occ. theoretical explanations. The catalogue is accompanied by a separately issued price list. The firm ran a large facility and the Belfort Observatory located at Baltimore and Central Ave. in Baltimore. An interesting catalogue. Julien P Friez & Sons unknown books
1892réf. 11065Pittsburgh: Ollendorf Prtd. by J Eichbaum 1892. Edition Unknown. Original publisher's cloth. Good with some wear and staining to the binding; internally very good. 8vo 310 pp. The text is heavily illustrated throughout. A comprehensive wholesale catalog of all kinds of luxury furnishings for the household almost half the catalog is given over to clocks and watches. Absent from Romaine and Mc Kinstry. Ollendorf (Prtd. by J Eichbaum) hardcover books
1969réf. 164201969. Federal Trade Commission Decisions. Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1915-1969. Hardcover. Vols. 1 1915 9 13 to 15 17 19 21 to 31 34 37 39 to 41 44 to 46 50 to 53 56 59 63 64 70 72 73 75 84 87. Together 40 books. Eight 8 feet shelf space. Ex-library with stamps else very good. $250. unknown books
réf. 37490TRADE CARD T.H. WEBSTER TEACHER OF ARCHITECTURE PERSPECTIVE &. London: circa 1810. Engraved card. 2 5/8 x 3 7/8 inches. Webster 1772-1844 revised John Imison's Elements of Science and Art in 1808. On the blank verso he has added his address: No. 6 Clipstone Street. unknown books
1857réf. 70300Mobile AL: J. E. DuMont & Co 1857. Printed circular letter on blue paper 11 ¼ x 9 ¼ text entirely in French. A periodic report from the company offering its assessment of the cotton market with statistics showing number of bales shipped from various ports New Orleans Mobile Atlantic States Texas and Florida and with comparisons between 1856-57 and 1857-58 through September of each year; this report notes improvements in the financial situation from its previous report translation: "as money is more abundant our banks have been able to expand their operations and thus facilitate cotton transactions" despite "frequent and considerable fluctuations in prices during the month the market having been depressed by notices from Europe." The only reference we have found for J. E. DuMont & Co. is an 1859 partnership dissolution suit filed in Mobile's Chancery Court that describes the company as a "general and commission-merchant in Mobile"; the case eventually found its way to the Alabama Supreme Court. Addressed verso of integral leaf to Messrs. J. & C. Heydecker in New York old fold lines else very good. J. E. DuMont & Co unknown books
1877réf. 66772Jacksonville FL: St. Johns River Nursery & Grass Bouquet Manufactory 1877. Trade card 5 ½ x 4 1/8 inches with mounted photograph 3 5/8 x 2 5/8 inches; two tiny white spots in upper left corner of background. St. Johns River Nursery was owned by Alexander Henry. Very good. St. Johns River Nursery & Grass Bouquet Manufactory unknown books
1850réf. 67747Louisville KY: The company Hull's Print Louisville 1850. Trade catalogue. 4to. Three-pages each with longs lists of goods in the various categories mentioned in the title e.g. more than 150 items listed under Drugs and Medicines; "Feathers Ginseng Beeswax Flaxseed and other Country Produce taken in exchange for goods or in payment of debts due us." Verso of integral leaf used for address with a Louisville postmark and "Paid / 1" hand-stamp this example addressed to W.A. Hine a merchant in Athens Alabama. This company not represented in Romaine. Apparently not recorded on OCLC. Folded old light tideline. Very good. The company (Hull's Print, Louisville) unknown books
1897réf. 67767Louisville KY: Courier-Journal Job Printing Co. for the company 1897. Trade catalogue "with illustrations of leading styles of farm wagons." Oblong 8vo 5 ¾ x 8 inches. 32 pp. Illustrations from wood engravings of the wagons and photographs plates; the photographic images picture southern African Americans at work and leisure and employ racist captions "Pickaninny Dance" etc. The photographs from which these half-tones were taken were made by Russell Brothers Anniston Alabama. This company not represented in Romaine. OCLC locates six copies Yale Berea Kentucky Duke Oberlin Tennessee. Original illustrated blue and yellow-stamped wrappers rubbed stapled. Very good. Courier-Journal Job Printing Co. (for the company) unknown books
1920réf. 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
1822réf. 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
1774réf. 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
1866réf. 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
1877réf. 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
1915réf. 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
1923réf. 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
1930réf. 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
1902réf. 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
1825réf. 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
1875réf. 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
1896réf. 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
1853réf. 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
