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1910réf. 47274Grand Rapids MI: Alabastine Company 1910. Very Good . Grand Rapids MI: Alabastine Company ca. 1910 Small octavo 15cm; side-stapled pamphlet in illustrated card wrappers; 24pp.; illus. throughout with color samples to pp. 20 and 22 offsetting. A Very Good or better example. Rear wrapper states that Alabastine paint can be purchased at Smith's Drug Store in Winamac Indiana. A funny little catalog which poses the question "Are you good looking" or have your walls overpowered you in your own home Essential reading for the image-minded homemaker who wants to look incredible in her "reddish tan dining room" painted with Alabastine products. Alabastine Company unknown books
1904réf. 290421Kinderhook N. Y.: W. S. Kline & Company 1904. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. An illustrated guide to the city of Raleigh North Carolina 1904 depicting various landscapes monuments and local businesses. With photographic illustrations of such places as the local pharmacist birthplace of President Johnson numerous banks and schools and others. Short closed tears to the edges of the covers and a few leaves. Stapled softcover with light red printed paper covers. Very Good binding. W. S. Kline & Company unknown books
1930réf. 21583Basle Switzerland: J.R. Geigy S.A. 1930. Very Good. Basle Switzerland: J.R. Geigy S.A. 1930. Octavo 24cm.; publisher's grey blind-embossed cloth upper cover and spine lettered in white; 444pp.; two-hundred and thirty-six 236 wool samples mounted throughout. Boards slightly warped with light soiling rear cover and textblock fore-edge a bit foxed else Very Good contents bright and sound. Catalog of dye samples issued by the venerable Swiss chemical company of J.R. Geigy founded ca. 1758 by Johann Rudolf. Shortly after this volume was issued the company entered the pharmaceutical business eventually merging with Ciba AG in 1971 to form Ciba-Geigy. The present work issued for the company's customers "to guide them in the use and about the properties of our wool colours.It has been our aim to make this little work as short and at the same time as lucid as possible." The opening pages provide instructions in using their product including the dissolving of dyestuffs before use. The bulk of the work organized into tables separated by wool sample beginning with a short and vivid description "cheapest greenish yellow"; "the Erioglaucines fastest to light"; "of good evenness and particularly well suited for navy blues". These are followed by instructions in dyeing cotton wool or silk degrees of fastness to shrinking discharging properties etc. OCLC lists a number of similar titles as of December 2021 none matching pagination of this edition. J.R. Geigy S.A. unknown books
1943réf. TB31945Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1943. Ninth Edition of 1943. Very good in light green cloth covered boards with black text on the spine and front board. A small quarto of 10 by 7 inches with the cloth on the spine faded stains on the front and rear boards and a prior owner's name on the first free end page. Without a dust jacket. 466 pages of text and illustrated with 5 fold-out charts. Government Printing Office hardcover books
1943réf. TB22103Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1943. First Edition. First printing Good in stapled heavy paper covers with a stapled and braided cord binding. The corners of the covers are heavily worn creased and chipped and show mild dampness staining. The title page shows a column of numbers in ink and a number of the pages in the body of the text have folded corners. Nevertheless all pages are present. A small quarto containing 82 pages of text illustrated with line drawings and cartoons. Government Printing Office unknown books
1885réf. 10383New York: the company; L.E. Neuman & Co. Lith 1885. Trade card 15.5 x 8.7 cm. Recto is a chromolithograph printed in red black and gold; verso printed in black. A trade card advertising the G.H. Mumm Champagne imported by Fred'k de Bary & Co. located at the time at 43 & 44 Warren Street in New York City. The card lists the comparative quantities of champagnes brought into the United States by various importers. G.H. Mumm & Co. tops the list at 24322 cases. Near fine. the company]; L.E. Neuman & Co., Lith unknown books
1860réf. 717Philadelphia 1860. Book. Sm. 8v illustrated title wrappers. Pp. 47. Wrapper printed in red and black. Minor marginal wear; very good. unknown books
1948réf. 178755Washington: Chamber of Commerce of the United States 1948. Pamphlet. 56p. stapled wraps 6x9 inches wraps lightly toned along stapled edge else very good condition. Includes an appendix with lists of both communist and anti-communist periodicals pamphlets and books. Chamber of Commerce of the United States unknown books
1796réf. 5074Mexico City: May 13 1796. About very good. Broadside 17 x 12.25 inches. Old fold lines. Slight separation and loss at center fold slightly affecting a few letters. Minor wear else. Proclamation made by the Viceroy of New Spain authorizing trade between Cuba and the United States. The Caribbean was in tumult in the 1790s with Toussaint L'Ouverture overthrowing the French colonial government and outlawing slavery. Likewise in Cuba there was a similar revolt against slavery demanding abolition and equality -- both revolutions were of substantial concern to slaveholders in the American South. Specifically the present decree mentions flour and other vital foodstuffs as a measure against shortages in Cuba intended to prevent further trouble. "Para precaver la escasez de viveres y con especialidad de harinas que verosimilmente causaria la guerra concedio El Rey Permiso por Real Orden de 25 Junio de 93. para que los Anglo-Americanos.pudiesen conducirlos a la Havana pagando los derechos los puertos habilitados de España." The Viceroy at the time was Don Miguel de la Grua Talamanca de Carini y Branciforte First Marques de Branciforte. The Marques was notoriously corrupt even for colonial Spain having gained position through marriage to the Prime Minister's sister. He made sure to make some profit on everything that passed through his hands including taking advantage of the war in Cuba to remove the French from their lands and sell them to his benefit. A rare and interesting decree. We locate a single copy in OCLC at the University of Minnesota. May 13 unknown books
1941réf. S6601Washington D.C.:: U.S. Government Printing Office 1941. 1941. 232 x 150 mm. 419-990 pp. Printed wrappers; extremities faded spine worn. Very good. Part 2 only. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1941. 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
1843réf. 41470New Orleans 1843. Printed folio sheet folded to 4 pp each page 9-1/4" x 11-1/4." Printed on recto of first leaf only interior pages blank addressed in ink on last page to Captain J. Keyes Florence Alabama. Old folds address page worn. Blank hole where seal was broken no text affected. Text clean. Very Good. The head of the firm Maunsel White of New Orleans was an energetic Irish immigrant. He married the daughter of a wealthy Creole merchant allied with Andrew Jackson. Wikipedia says "White maintained a lifelong friendship with Jackson for whom he served as a cotton factor from 1826 until Jackson's death in 1845." White carefully delivers hopeful but cautious news to his clients. He celebrates "the marvellous increase in the growth" of cotton "resulting in a crop larger by far than any that has preceded it." However "the next crop will show a considerable falling off. From the onset the season opened unfavorably" because of rains and other weather problems. But "new and extensive channels of trade infused fresh vigor and life into the manufacturing districts of Great Britain." The Letter demonstrates the importance of the South's commercial connection with England. He reminds his customers of "a subject of great importance and one which cannot be too frequently impressed upon your mind; we mean the picking and ginning of the staple the necessity of which is sometimes lost sight of in the desire of sending Cotton early to market." This necessity of course would be met with slave labor. We do not locate this printed letter on OCLC as of November 2025 although OCLC records several items relating to Maunsel White: a letter from Andrew Jackson to White in 1842; the firm's business records at the University of North Carolina; and a similar letter on the cotton trade from 1841 at the Library of Congress OCLC 1284917506. unknown books
1788réf. 41603London: Printed and Sold by John Nichols. 1788. Folio. Pages 253-265 1 blank pp as issued. Caption title as issued. Disbound with some loosening else Very Good. "Numb. 29." printed in left corner at head of title. The matters include "A Petition of the Inhabitants of the Borough of Helstgon in the County Cornwall; and also A Petition of the Mayor Aldermen Burgesses and other Inhabitants of the Town of Shrewsbury: Were severally presented to the House and read; representing the present State of the African Slave Trade as being sent State of the African Slave Trade as being contrary to the Principles of Justice Humanity good Policy and Religion; and submitting the same to the Consideration of the House." This is an early protest against the continuation of the African Slave Trade. Printed and Sold by John Nichols... unknown books
1816réf. 40803London: Printed for J. M. Richardson Cornhill Opposite the Royal Exchange 1816. 3-28pp. Light scattered foxing. Bound in modern cloth withdrawal stamp on front pastedown; inoffensive faint blindstamp on blank corner of title leaf. Else Very Good. Our collation matches that of the bibliographers. The nameless author disclaims any "intention to advocate the revival or regret the abolition of the Slave Trade. . . It is a traffic so objectionable in almost every respect that being abolished for the most part I hope never to see it revived and that every endeavour will be made to realize those advantages which the zeal of the authors of the Abolition has induced them to expect." However "The passage of the registration bill would constitute an unwarranted interference of the central power in the planters' private affairs" Ragatz. The property right of the West Indian colonists in their slaves is non-negotiable. Slaves comprise "the most valuable property of our colonists." Parliament's interference with "the private rights and private property of our colonists. . . would absolutely and tyrannically deprive the individuals whose property it is proposed to regulate and affect of those constitutional means of redress which all British subjects are entitled to." The pamphlet prints resolutions of West Indian Planters objecting to any such intrusions on their rights. The anonymous author objects to the African Institution's "representations of the miseries and hardships of slaves and in circulating ignorantly and unguardedly no doubt the most unfounded calumnies on the subject. If these gentlemen were to compare the situation of the Irish peasantry with that of our colonial slaves they would find they were comparing the extreme of wretchedness with comparative comfort." Ragatz 442. LCP Supp. 1608. Sabin 56509. OCLC records 16 locations worldwide as of March 2025. Printed for J. M. Richardson, Cornhill, Opposite the Royal Exchange unknown books
1788réf. 39695London: Printed and Sold by John Nichols. 1788. Folio. Pages 313-316 2 as issued. Disbound else Very Good. "Numb. 36." printed in left corner at head of title. The matters include "A Petition of the Aldermen Burgesses and Inhabitants of the Town of Wokingham in the Counties of Berks and Wilts. . . representing the present State of the African Slave Trade as being contrary to the Principles of Justice Humanity good Policy and Religion; and submitting the same to the Consideration of the House." The reception of a Report concerning the regulation of Trade between the North American Colonies and the West India Islands and "the Countries belonging to the United States of America" is noted. This is an early protest against the continuation of the African Slave Trade. Printed and Sold by John Nichols... unknown books
1884réf. 36091Atlanta 1884. Broadside 6" x 9-3/8". Fine. A new firm was birthed by J.M. McCombs F.M. McCombs and George Taylor of Boston "under the firm name of McCombs Taylor & Co. and will continue the business of the Atlanta Machine Works in all its various branches. Our Mr. Taylor who will have charge of the Mechanical Department of our works is an inventor of Machinery Draftsman and Mechanical Engineer of over twenty years experience. We are prepared to build Engines and Boilers Gold Mills Pulleys Shafting and Hangings Switch Stands and Railroad Castings Elevators and Hoisting Machines Steam Pumps." and other stuff too. unknown books
1883réf. 36090Atlanta 1883. Broadside 5-3/8" x 8-1/2". Very Good. unknown books
1869réf. 28703Trenton N.J.: Printed at the True American Office 1869. 3.75" x 5.5". Original printed gold-colored wrappers stitched. 11 1 blank pp. Light wrapper wear Very Good. OCLC 55187463 1- Rutgers as of 3/12. Printed at the True American Office unknown books
1850réf. 402831st Cong. 2d Sess.: SED6. 1850. 43pp disbound light scattered foxing and wear. Very Good. On the misuse of the American flag in the African-Brazilian slave trade. The United States is "mortified" at this practice; the U.S. consul includes eye-witness reports. SED6. unknown books
1846réf. 402129th Cong. 1st Sess.: SD377. 1846. 248pp disbound light fox. Very Good. A detailed review of "the state of things on the coast of Africa" the activities of England in "checking the African slave trade" and the roadblocks to establishing a treaty with the U.S. in that regard. British board-and-search tactics so reminiscent of the objectionable practice that helped bring on the War of 1812 were a major obstacle to such a treaty. SD377. unknown books
1824réf. 18594London: Hatchard and Sons 1824. Disbound 41pp. First and last leaves lightly dusted and worn else Very Good. The author argues that "notwithstanding the preferential duty rate of 10s. per hundredweight enjoyed by West Indian sugar as against East Indian the latter could be entered for internal consumption so as to afford a large profit to importers. It would be a most advantageous speculation for young men of good character and with small capital native or European to embark in the manufacture of sugar in Bengal." Ragatz. FIRST EDITION. Ragatz 249. Hatchard and Sons unknown books
1904réf. 72724Atlanta: Byrd Printing Company 1904. Paperback. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 40pp. Light blue wraps with red title on the front cover. Light wear to wraps. A good complete example. Byrd Printing Company paperback books
1904réf. 72696Atlanta: Byrd Printing Company 1904. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 40pp. Edges sunned with a short split at the bottom of the spine else very good in publisher's blue wraps lettered in red. Byrd Printing Company paperback books
1901réf. 72016Denver CO: The Smith-Brooks Printing Co 1901. Fourth edition. Paperback. Very Good. 40pp. 24mo 15.5 cm; illustrated wraps. Thirty-three illustrations printed throughout. Folded map tipped-in at the rear measures approximately 14" x 15" sheet / 12.25" x 14" printed map area and border and is in Very Good condition. Booklet covers show some very light dust soiling and staining. Corners and edges of the covers are bumped and lightly creased. Else clean and sharp. Charming souvenir booklet/tourist guide and map for Idaho Springs Colorado. "The Idaho Springs Chamber of Commerce offers this booklet as a souvenir of Idaho Springs believing that it will prove of interest to those seeking health recreation or gold mining investment. It tells of the wealth of its gold mines of the invigorating powers of its Mineral Springs and of the attractive scenic splendor of the Rocky Mountains which surround the town. This issue as a fourth edition will complete for free distribution eighty thousand copies of the booklet. The Smith-Brooks Printing Co paperback books
1890réf. 24064Chicago: Unique. ca1890. Bolted stainless steel clamp needed to support the weight of the contents. Overall very good; some of the photographs are faded to various degrees otherwise rich crisp images most likely contact prints from a view camera negative. Oblong folio. Album 2.5" x 15.5" x 11.5"; photographs 13.75" x 11"; containing 129 albumen or early silver bromide original photographs mounted on to cloth backing along with several blueprints; a handful of additional photographs are laid in with a paper wrap. Most of the images are uncredited though about six have the photographer's stamps on the back. Album cover stamped in gilt with the name of the firm. Small silver plaque affixed to the center of the cover with the name E F Steck engraved upon it. Steck was the superintendent of the company. The inside front cover is marked #1. Exhaustive catalog documenting firefighting equipment used during the waning days of the horse-drawn fire truck era with photographs of various fire pumps hook and ladder trucks fire extinguishers fire grenades water nozzles etc. and two blueprints showing the inner workings of a carbonic acid chemical engine pump and extinguisher. Probably a unique prototype to hold all of the original photographs taken of the company's inventory. Photographs depict an array of trucks and apparatus including several views of the same product used by fire companies from across the country including Massachusetts Pennsylvania New York Chicago Los Angeles and Oregon. While the majority of the images show unmanned trucks and apparatus against a white canvas background there are some photographs taken on the street in front of fire stations or with firefighters to show scale or in action shots notably one image depicting nine men on a ladder reaching to the top of a five-story building and firefighters shooting water at smoldering buildings. A few images capture civilians usually on the periphery or looking out windows. The first 80 photographs in the album have red and white number labels on the reverse. The following 27 photographs are not numbered but are titled and listed by the manufacturer's style type; there are 13 styles and between one and three photographs of each style. The next 20 photographs feature a variety of apparatus and the last two depict fire extinguisher products. Unique. unknown books
