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1960Best.-Nr. 84016Cambridge Mass: Macalaster Bicknell 1960. Small Folio. 27.5cm. Publisher's embossed blue cloth titled in black to spine and boards. 914pp. Minor wear to extremities and spine ends some soiling and thumbing in places; internally clean. A very good copy of a large and unwieldy but densely packed trade catalog. A frankly bewildering catalog of lab equipment medical supplies tailor made research materials alembics of any size! and arcane devices undeniably making Macalaster Bicknell "the complete one stop Supply Center for the Industrial Educational Hospital and Public Service Laboratory." A fascinating leftover from the days when mammoth tomes like this would have been frequently referred to and prioritized as the only conduit for obtaining unusual or highly specialized equipment and before the supply chains for such things were stretched somewhat precariously across the globe. Macalaster Bicknell unknown books
1851Best.-Nr. 61963London: Longman Brown Green and Longmans 1851. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 21cm. Two volumes in brown cloth stamped in blind and gilt; blue and white printed endpapers with publisher's advertisements; xii244pp; vi248pp; 10 tinted lithographs some with hand coloring and 3 black and white lithographs. Errata slip in vol. I following contents. Binder's ticket of Remnant & Edmonds London to rear pastedown of vol. I. Ownership inscriptions of F. J. Young to front endpaper versos. Unfaded and straight frayed at spine ends vol. I with tear to cloth over rear joint and minor perforations to paper over interior hinges vol. II starting split to front joint short tears to cloth over both joints and short 2-in crack to rear hinge; occasional spots of browning but generally clean: Very Good. A Royal Naval officer's journals of visits to Dahomey a kingdom located in what is now southern Benin published with an antislavery intent: "It is the object of the author.to illustrate the dreadful slave hunts and ravages the annihiliations and exterminations consequent on this trade; and to bring prominently before the British public the sacred service they are rendering" through their efforts to halt the slave trade p.iv vol.I. NOT IN ABBEY. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans unknown books
1877Best.-Nr. 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
1934Best.-Nr. 56852Dearborn MI: Henry Ford Trade School 1934. Quarto 28cm. Publisher's blue tape cloth-backed pictorial card wrappers; mixed pagination; illustrated throughout. Printed mimeograph. Light wear and a hint of spotting to extremities spine faded front corner bumped contemporary ownership rubberstamp to first page else Very Good or better. With a promotional booklet for the Henry Ford Trade School a combined high school and trade school that trained boys as Ford employees. Henry Ford Trade School unknown books
1917Best.-Nr. 39473Washington DC: GPO 1917. Washington DC: GPO 1917. 4to 484 pp. Our merchant fleet as it existed at the time of the first world war. Scarce. Light cover soiling else very good condition. GPO unknown books
1896Best.-Nr. 39477Washington: GPO 1896. Washington: GPO 1896. 4to. vi 405 pp. Some cover wear. Text clean. GPO unknown books
1806Best.-Nr. 30424Baltimore: Warner & Hanna 1806. Fraught Anglo-American Relations Prior to 1812 This petition one of many from various merchant organizations lobbies the President of the United States and Congress to defend American commerce with Europe in light of British violation of the "neutral rights" occasioned by the early years of the Napoleonic wars. Baltimore merchants were a hotbed of organization for various American subversive enterprises in Latin America and the Caribbean. Dbd. Light uniform browning old library stamp at head of titlepage. Very good. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 10854. KRESS 5070. SABIN 3045. unknown books
1789Best.-Nr. 37445Paris: de l'Imprimerie Royale 1789. French Trade with the United States A very rare decree concerning the trade in wheat and grain between France and the United States. Echeverria and Wilkie records a single copy in a private library OCLC cites copies in Heidelberg the Library and Archives of Canada at NYPL and a copy at Yale Franklin Collection with a variant imprint. Quarto. Moderate tanning particularly at edges leaves slightly separated at fold. A very good copy. ECHEVERRIA & WILKIE 789/44A. OCLC 1426766518 45249572 variant. unknown books
1774Best.-Nr. 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
1814Best.-Nr. 38942London: Printed by R.G. Clarke 1814. England Seeks a Trading Foothold in South America The final settlement between England and Spain at the end of the Napoleonic Wars. An important treaty which guarantees for England most favored nation status in the event of the commerce of Spanish America being opened to foreign trade. Includes an article of agreement regarding the injustice and inhumane nature of the traffic in slaves and a SEPARATE ARTICLE stipulating that the king of Spain not engage in any treaty with France "of the nature not known under the domination of the Family Compact." Printed in English and Spanish. Modern half morocco and marbled boards. Near fine. hardcover books
1789Best.-Nr. 47977Madrid. February 28 1789. Spain Regulates Trade with the Americas This royal decree liberalized the tightly controlled trade between Spain New Spain and the Captaincy of Caracas. The Crown hoped to spur navigation and commerce and lessen the incentive for smuggling. Export duties on goods travelling to the Indies were to be slashed by ten percent but penalties against contraband would still be enforced. Two worm holes very minor soiling else fine. unknown books
1831Best.-Nr. BK0165Salem Massachusetts: Salem Press Palfray Ives Foote & Brown 1831. 78 pp. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers frayed at spine; light dampstaining at margins of a portion of the leaves at rear. Good. An early catalogue of the collections of the East-India Marine Society of Salem recording the maritime journals and objects gathered by Salem captains and merchants during the city's great period of overseas trade. Founded in 1799 by captains and supercargoes who had sailed beyond the Cape of Good Hope or Cape Horn the Society required its members to contribute to a cabinet of "natural and artificial curiosities" the collection from which the present Peabody Essex Museum developed. The Society moved the collection into the newly built East India Marine Hall in 1825 and this expanded catalogue appeared only six years later. The volume includes the Society's act of incorporation bylaws lists of members and officers a catalogue of its manuscript journals of voyages and an extensive catalogue of the museum. The voyage journals occupy pages 33-42 and document Salem voyages to ports throughout Asia and the Indian Ocean; the balance of the catalogue records the ethnographic natural-history and other objects brought home by the Society's members. This was a substantially enlarged successor to the Society's 1821 catalogue which ran to 100 pages; the 1831 edition extends to 178 pages and was followed by a further supplement in 1837. A national bibliography of American library catalogues records copies of the 1831 edition at only a small group of institutional collections.1 1 Robert Singerman American Library Book Catalogues 1801-1874: A National Bibliography Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1996 94. . Salem Press, Palfray, Ives, Foote & Brown unknown books
1870Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 60749Dike was better know as Emilia Lady Dilke. She was a close friend of George Elliot and many contemporary readers immediately recognized her first marriage as a model for Eliot's heroine Dorothea Casaubon in Middlemarch. Her erly writings were on the philosophy of art and she ;later wrote as an art critic. She also wrote on Franch politics and women's trade unionism. She was later involved the Women's Trade Union League. She was also active in the Britosh woman suffrage movement and became secretary of the Oxford branch of the National Society for Woman Suffrage. The letters concern a portrait and travel plans. unknown books
1939Best.-Nr. 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
1965Best.-Nr. 108656Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1965. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good with a large coffee stain around the wrappers and spine. U.S. Government Printing Office unknown books
1785Best.-Nr. 57874Mexico. November 22 1785. Announcing the Compañia Real de Filipinas Regulating Trade with the Philippines A very rare Mexico City printing of the announcement of the creation of the Royal Company of the Philippines by Spanish royal decree in 1785 which regulated and effectively monopolized trade with the Philippines. This copy bears the manuscript rubric of Don Bernardo de Gálvez and signature of his secretary Joseph de Gorraes. Gálvez then Viceroy of New Spain ordered this broadside printed for the reason that "An Establishment so important and of such general interest should be understood and known by all" our translation. The creation of the Royal Company would be particularly relevant to residents of Mexico as most if not all of the trade with the Philippines would come through New Spain. Accompanying the announcement this broadside also prints Articles 1 2 14 21 and 100 of the royal decree which were considered to effectively summarize the purpose and mechanics of the new Company. The articles printed here proclaim that the Company is to enjoy the protection of the Crown for at least twenty-five years establish a fund to back its shares describe how shares and subscriptions could be purchased and organize a general meeting of shareholders. Notably absent from this broadside is the important article of the decree which closed Manila's ports to foreign vessels giving the Company an effective monopoly on all trade between Asia and the Americas. The Royal Company of the Philippines quickly gained vast wealth from this lucrative deal transporting commodities such as indigo coffee sugar spices and cotton across the Pacific. Regardless of its initial success the Company did not endure - the wave of rebellions against Spanish rule in Central and South America in the early 19th century quickly rendered it obsolete and the company was officially dissolved in 1834. A rare broadside announcing this important Royal Decree to the people of the Western Hemisphere; OCLC records only one copy at the Bancroft Library. Broadside printed on two joined sheets of sealed paper 23½ x 17 inches in total. Old folds and light creases a few small worm holes. Very good. OCLC 21747301. unknown books
1866Best.-Nr. 150031866. TRADE CATALOGUE. The Improved American Hot Air Gas Burning Cooking Stove Patented May 5 1863 . Manufactured by Shear Packard & Co. Albany N. Y. Albany ca. 1866. Cover title 34 2 p. 3 plates 2 folding. Pictorial wrappers. Some soiling and edge chipping dampstain along fore-edge of last several leaves. Details of the stoves followed by many pages of testimonials. The plates depict in considerable detail four large cooking stoves. unknown books
1916Best.-Nr. 5551San Francisco: Chamber of Commerce 1916. Pamphlet. 41p. wraps the clerical edges worn with minor edge tears newsprint foldouts browned with some offsetting on facing pages else very good condition. The Chamber of Commerce's attack on union labor in San Francisco using the longshore and culinary strikes along with the preparedness day bombing of 1916 Tom Mooney and Warren Billings were framed for it as a reason to outlaw picketing and implement the open shop. Chamber of Commerce unknown books
1853Best.-Nr. 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
1866Best.-Nr. 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
1825Best.-Nr. BK0190Stockholm Sweden 1825. One large folded commercial sheet written on several panels with integral address panel to Messrs. Brown & Ives Providence Rhode Island endorsed "Pr. Brig Harvest" with Newport "SHIP" marking. Headed "Triplicate. Old folds and light handling wear very good. A commercial letter and account from the Stockholm mercantile house of Kantzow & Biel to Brown & Ives of Providence concerning the execution of a large order for Swedish iron. The firm reports that it is assembling a shipment of arranging its transport while the accounting on another portion of the same sheet records the value of the iron and related charges. The letter reports: "the contents giving us the desired opportunity of confirming you Your order for a Shipmt. of 200 Tons Iron to be ship'd & appointed and convoy which we shall of course prevail the commencement on." The letter dates from a period of rapid expansion in Swedish iron exports to the United States which had displaced Britain as Sweden's most important foreign market for bar iron. Britain had reduced its dependence on Swedish imports while American tariff legislation favored hammered iron from Sweden and Russia over British rolled iron. American demand became particularly important to the Swedish industry in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. The United States purchased approximately three-fifths of Sweden's iron exports in 1822 with mainly American vessels engaged in the trade. The account also records a credit entered July 28 "By your proportion of dividend in payment from the Swedish Government". Brown & Ives had longstanding claims against Sweden arising from American property seized during the Napoleonic Wars including tobacco and rice belonging to the firm taken from the General Hamilton in 1810.1 The Swedish government finally settled the American claims in July 1825 following years of diplomatic representations concerning the confiscation and sale of American property at Stralsund. The credit recorded here appears to represent Brown & Ives's share of that indemnity entered less than two weeks after the settlement was formally concluded on July 16. The correspondence thus brings together two aspects of Swedish-American relations in the immediate postwar period: the expansion of an iron trade increasingly important to Sweden's economy and the settlement of commercial grievances dating back fifteen years. The shift reflected the changing geography of Atlantic commerce as Britain's increasingly mechanized iron industry reduced its dependence on Swedish imports while the rapidly industrializing United States emerged as Sweden's principal customer. However American iron production expanded enough to challenge Sweden's position in the American market particularly beginning in the 1830s and 1840s. 1 Calendar of the Miscellaneous Letters Received by the Department of State Government Printing Office 1897 47. . unknown books
1912Best.-Nr. dacs1345Gainesville: A Pepper Production 1912. 16mo stiff green printed wrappers stapled 16 pp. Photos. Fine. A Pepper Production, [1912]. unknown books
Best.-Nr. acs1132Modern reprint. N.L. Octavo hardcover slick full-color photo. illustrated boards 31 pp. Fine As New. hardcover books
1932Best.-Nr. dacs172DeLand: DeLand Chamber of Commerce 1932. Octavo printed wrappers 32 pp. Photos maps ads. Very Good a few cover smudges. DeLand Chamber of Commerce, 1932. unknown books
