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1914réf. 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
1955réf. 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
1909réf. 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
1901réf. 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
1896réf. 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
1930réf. 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
1925réf. 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
1877réf. 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
1856réf. 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
1802réf. 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
1714réf. 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
1904réf. 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
1870réf. List3887654359St. Paul Minnesota 1870. Carte de visite measuring 2 ½ x 4 inches captioned "Levee View-City of Saint Paul. / Whitney & Zimmeram Photographers St. Paul Minn. Excellent. A carte de visite photograph of steamboats on the levee in St. Paul Minnesota on the Mississippi River. By the time of Minnesota statehood in 1858 its Upper and Lower Levees together were one of the busiest ports in the country though activity was slowed by the 1862 Dakota War.1 The photograph is attributed to Whitney & Zimmerman. Joel E. Whitney 1822-d. born in Maine was the first photographer in St. Paul known for his portraits of Minnesota volunteers in the Civil War and of Indigenous Minnesotans.2 Charles A. Zimmerman 1844-1909 was a French-born photographer who immigrated to the US in 1848. The two worked as partners in the 1860s and 1870s and are together best known for their series of views of Minnehaha Falls.3 1 Joe Lepsche "The Upper Levee: Memories of Its People And Its Place in St. Paul History" Ramsey County History 33 no. 1 Spring 1998:18-21. 2 "Joel Emmons Whitney" The Autry Museum of the American West accessed May 28 2026 https://collections.theautry.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exerequest=record;id=PE65213;type=701. 3 "Charles A. Zimmerman" Smithsonian American Art Museum accessed May 28 2026 https://americanart.si.edu/artist/charles-zimmerman-7133. unknown books
1825réf. 10255New Hastings; Fulham 1825. Engraved illustrated trade card 10 x 14 cm. image area with full margins. A trade card advertisement for baths in New Hastings on the southeast coast of England. The fine view is that of an elegant two-story brick building with a few genteel couples strolling in the foreground. Prices are given for hot baths cold baths showers and servants. The engraving is signed "J. Rouse Drawing Master Fulham. "James Rouse fl. 1815 - 1830. Rouse illustrated several plate books. One An Illustrated Account of the Campaign in the Netherlands 1816-17 with George Cruikshank; and also Hypermyriorama of Sussex 1824 with eighteen colored plates; and Beauties and Antiquities of Sussex 1825. Fine. unknown books
1869réf. 42317New York: Crichton & Co. Steam Book and Job Printers 1869. 32pp. Stitched in original printed wrappers illustrated with pictures of the Hot Engine. Laid in on tissue paper is a "sectional view" with explanations. Several illustrations and testimonials with a "History of the Caloric Engine." Several pencil notes. Near Fine. The Introduction asserts "obvious and substantial advantages over any other power ever used in its simplicity of construction perfect reliability uniformity of power and action freedom from noise entire safety little attention required and great economy in operating." This rare item is the earliest and probably the first trade catalog issued by the Company. OCLC 609841510 2- NYHS Duke as of July 2026. Not in Winterthur or Romaine. Crichton & Co., Steam Book and Job Printers unknown books
1908réf. 70267Salem OR: Statesman Pub. Co. printers 1908. Oblong illustrated paper wrappers. 15.5 cm. x 23 cm. 32 pp. photo illustrations. Promotional. Very good. OCLC: WA State Univ. Univ. of CA-Berkeley. Statesman Pub. Co., printers unknown books
réf. 173028TRADE CATALOGUE. Societe Anonyme des Matieres Colorantes et Produits Chimiques de Saint-Denis. Accordion of 6 leaves containing a total of 108 mounted thread samples. 8vo 185 x 105 mm folded 185 x 656 mm unfolded publisher's boards. Paris Societe Anonyme des Matieres Colorantes et Produits Chimiques de Saint-Denis n.d. An attractive work on dyeing in accordion style which adds to its appeal. It is rare with no listing on OCLC. hardcover books
1751réf. 41756London: n.p. 1751. Modern marbled paper-covered boards. Minor wear to extremities browning to title page edge wear to last leaf still a near fine copy. 1 57 1 pp. Folio. "Very rare and valuable. It contains an Appendix of Premiums paid by the Irish Linen Board" Higgs Bibliography of Economics p.8. An important source document. There is also a 28 page edition. OCLC locates only four complete copies of this separate issue: Yale Amer. Textile Museum Univ. Mass. Univ. Minn. and nine of the 28 page extract. Kress 5155. Higgs 54. Goldsmiths'-Kress 08612.1. n.p. hardcover books
1849réf. List3334New York City 1849. Eight letters. Overall excellent. A small collection of letters to Boston-based grocers Silas Pierce & Co. sent from New York by steamboat with notes on covers or stamps reading “Boat Mail” or “Steam Boat Mail”. Five of the letters are from Wyckoff & Scrymser which was likely owned by a member or members of the prominent New York Wyckoff family the Scrymser surname first appears in the Wyckoff family history in 18411. Wyckoff & Scrimser discuss sweet and red wine prices “opperations in Trent” likely Trento Italy delayed shipments and issues with products; for instance: “The Harmony has not yet made her appearance neither the Aselia the non arrival of the latter is very perplexing but we see no remedy for it. . Annexed please find the sales of the Raisins amount Nett proceeds to your Co Nine Thousand One Hundred Seventy Four 06/100 Dollars which we hope may be found correct and satisfactory. There were a number of the parcels that were sold from the wharf but rejected which we were obliged to and store that the objections might not be known &c. The half boxes . did not have any external appearance of damage and could onky be known by opening. We rather congratulated ourselves that we have got off so well with this fruit as we had strong fears of the result.” December 29 1843 Also discussing business with Italy is a letter from Wm. A Lüs on behalf of Ferd. Baller & Co. of Messina which traded in citrus fruit: “The principal object of my friends is to introduce their Brand favorably into your market & their efforts to do this will alone be sufficient to secure you a superior article of fruit & other Goods; . they are also in the position of obtaining any other Sicilian produce at the most advantageous terms while at Messina or Palermo through their agent there.” August 30 1849 Demand for citrus products was high as it had been discovered late in the 18th century that citrus prevented and cured scurvy. Demand was so great in fact that some researchers partly credit the citrus trade with creating the Sicilian mafia.2 A letter from the Bank of Commerce in New York discusses credit and lastly Joseph Knowles possibly of the Massachusetts-based Thomas Knowles & Company sends an intriguing note: “Your favor of the 26th inst is rec’d For the intimations therein contained I cannot feel too highly flattered — Trusting that the above Jacob Little Co’s check on Messrs Gilbert & Sons for Three hundred eighty nine dollars $389 may remove all scruples – I would request that the shoes be shipped in good order by first sailing packet for New York”. October 27 1840 This is plausibly related to the investor and stock speculator Jacob Little 1794–1865 known for his short-selling tactics and generally considered as Knowles suggests unscrupulous.3 Of interest to researchers of mercantile history in the northeast and steamboat mail. 1 Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Streeter Eds. The Wyckoff Family in America: A Genealogy The Tuttle Company 1934: 310. 2 Arcangelo Dimico Alessia Isopi and Ola Olsson “Origins of the Sicilian Mafia: The Market for Lemons” The Journal of Economic History 77 no. 4 December 2017: 1083–1115. 3 “The Convertible Bonds: How Jacob Little Manipulated Matters Years Ago” The New York Times February 23 1882. unknown books
1910réf. 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 books
1910réf. 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 books
1920réf. 67766Louisville KY: Kentucky Wagon Mfg. Co 1920. Oblong 8vo 14 x 23 cm. 20 pp. "Title" leaf and 19 full-page color plates of custom bodies with descriptions and specifications; extra plate of one of the bodies verso unprinted laid in. A rare trade catalogue with beautiful color plates. Apparently not recorded on OCLC. Original illustrated wrappers stapled. Very good. Kentucky Wagon Mfg. Co unknown books
1913réf. 3341BUNGALOW HOMES TRADE CATALOG. Los Angeles Investment Co. 1913 Extremely scarce trade catalog of home designs for California. Oblong octavo in pictorial color wrappers. Stated Twelfth Bungalow Book Edition 1913. This is a well used copy but complete. Creased well thumbed stray pencil marks light scribblings some pages soiled two signatures on the title page but wonderful. 92 pages with an illustration of each house apparently as built with an accompanying floor plan with measurements. Many interior shots as well. Virtually all are Arts and Crafts bungalow style homes that fill so many streets in the L. A. area. Indispensable to the restoration architect a modern builder or just a small house enthusiast. Los Angeles Investment Co. paperback books
réf. 186271. CENTRAL SCIENTIFIC CO. Laboratory Apparatus and supplies. Catalog H-501. Chicago: Central Scientific Company 1950. iv 516 pp. 2. CENTRAL SCIENTIFIC CO. Laboratory Apparatus and supplies. Catalog C No. 227. Chicago: Central Scientific Company 1917. 779 pp. 3. REDMAN SCIENTIFIC CO. Laboratory Apparatus and supplies. Catalog H-461. San Francisco: Redman Scientific Company 1946. viii 492 1 pp. Chemistry chemicals health and hygiene apparatus bacteriology and blood testing natural sciences agriculture biology botany and zoology chemical and atomic physics radioactivity and luminescence physics. 4. H.S. MARTIN & COMPANY Scientific glassware. Catalog 48. Evanston Illinois: H.S. Martin & Company 1946. xii 345 1 pp. Glassware for all scientific endeavors including burets distillation flasks gas analysis stopcocks and thermometers among other items. 5. FISHER SCIENTIFIC COMPANY Fisher’s chemical index for chemical biological metallurgical laboratories. Pittsburgh: Fisher Scientific Company 1935. iv 235 1 pp. unknown books
réf. 2831Manchester: The Company 1937. . Folio navy-blue cloth covered three-hole lbinder No other copy located. This company was founded by Isidore Frankenburg a native of Krakow Poland who emigrated to the Uniited Kingdom settling in Salford on the outskirts of Manchester in the 1860s. His first venture in the field of waterproof clothing was gaitors. He moved onto other forms of clothing and became a very real competitor to the eponymous Macintosh now spelt Mackintosh because his method of proofing did not smell . Frankenberg became a very successful manufacturer and philanthropist he was an alderman and later Mayor of Salford and was active in many local charities. Folio three-hole navy blue cloth covered binder with gilt title on front with stamped figure of a woman in raincoat at center. [Manchester: The Company, 1937]. hardcover books
