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1881réf. 6797Burlington Vt: The Ferguson Manufacturing Co 1881. Cord-sewn booklet 17.5 x 13 cm. 14 pages including. Illustrated. Date from various testimonials. Trade catalogue advertising the bureau creamery with testimonials price lists and more. An advertisement for the Automatic Milk Faucet also sold by Ferguson and for Wells Richardson and Co. Perfected Butter Color. Very light edge wear otherwise fine. OCLC locates no copies. The Ferguson Manufacturing Co unknown books
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
1880réf. 6512East Liverpool Ohio: the company; Simms Steam Print 1880. 16mo single sheet uncut & folded to form 10 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. Net price list of decorated ware with descriptions of Toilet Sets Tea Sets Decorated Ware Covered Jugs Molasses Cans Etc. Knowles Taylor and Knowles was formed in 1870 though its antecedents date to 1854. By the early 1870's the company specialized in Iron Stone China and operated four kilns. One horizontal fold light edgewear with some tiny losses slightly foxed & soiled. Still very good. OCLC locates no copies. [the company]; Simms Steam Print 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
1910réf. 3344Brooklyn: A. Johnson Machine Works 1910. Octavo 68 pages. Illustrations throughout. FIRST EDITION. Trade catalogue featuring machines for manufacturing of crown corks crowning machines machines for manufacturing of corks and cork discs machines for screw caps and special machines which include a friction capping machine automatic rotary cap spinning machine single head cap spinning machine and an automatic rotary screw cap capping machine. Each item includes detailed rendering as well as description mechanical and output details. In brown wrappers secured with brads quite bruised and worn. Text edges worn with slight foxing throughout. Title page marked up company address lined-out and amended in pen also with pencil marks. Otherwise good. OCLC locates just one copy at the Smithsonian. A. Johnson Machine Works 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
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
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
1915réf. 9940Montreal P.Q.: Seagrams; Montreal Lithographing Company Limited 1915. Booklet stapled in wrappers 15 x 8 cm. 35 1 pages. Illustrated in color throughout. Typographic border in blue throughout. Wrappers illustrated by Paul Caron signed in the illustration. Text in French. FIRST EDITION. A wholesale catalogue of spirits from the Seagrams Corp. marketed to the French-speakers presumably of Quebec Province. Fifteen spirits - a few gins and otherwise whiskeys - are featured including Usher's Green Stripe Peter Dawson Golden Wedding: American Pure Rye Old Mull: Fine Mellow Whiskey and others. Most recipes are accompanied by two cocktail recipes. Slightest edgewear to edges of wrappers otherwise fine. Scarce. OCLC locates one copy National Gallery of Canada. Seagrams; Montreal Lithographing Company, Limited unknown books
1934réf. 7926Burlington Vt: Leader Evaporator Co 1934. Octavo-sized booklet stapled in wrappers 22. x 15.5 cm. 32 pages. Illustrated. Date from testimonial on page 32. A trade catalogue from a manufacturer of maple sugar making equipment and supplies including evaporators gathering tanks sap buckets sap spouts tapping bits gathering pails hydrometers thermometers filters syrup cans pails and cartons. Instructions for sugaring and testimonials from satisfied customers are included. The Leader Evaporator Company was formed in 1988. Some light fading to wrappers otherwise very good. OCLC locates one copy of this earliest of the Leader trade catalogues and a number of copies of various later editions. Leader Evaporator Co 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
1920réf. 6136Silver Creek New York: Huntley Manufacturing Co 1920. Booklet 23 x cm. 43 pages. Index. Illustrated. Trade catalogue with descriptions of equipment for the milling and processing of peanuts including dimensions and capacities. A single page is dedicated to each piece of equipment with an illustration and technical specs. Fine in stapled publisher’s printed tan wrappers. OCLC locates eight copies. Huntley Manufacturing Co unknown books
1950réf. 5503N.p.: Ministerstvo Pishevoy Promishlennocti 1950. Octavo-sized accordion fold 25 x 18 cm. 24 pages. Illustrated with seventeen color plates by C.B. Popov. FIRST EDITION. A trade catalogue of Russian liquors issued by the Russian Ministry of Food. The spirits are of all types with a wide range of vodkas but also a rich variety of cordials brandies and dessert liqueurs. The handsome color plates all stand out for their single color backgrounds and the printing process would appear to have been a hybrid combining photolithography and lithography and then colored. Whatever one makes of the Soviet cultural landscape in general it did attain high standards in some fields and in a modest way this trade catalogue is a proud reflection of its aesthetic achievement. Clean and bright within. Textured wrappers with debossed copper lettering and gilt ruling; lightly soiled and with wear and some separation at spine. Good. OCLC locates no copies. Ministerstvo Pishevoy Promishlennocti unknown 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
1925réf. 6884Decatur Ill.; Fort Wayne Ind: the company; The General Printing Corp 1925. Folio x cm. 24 pages. Illustrated throughout and with a color illustrated title page. Printed throughout in green and black ink. An attractively printed trade catalogue for the Combination Soda Fountain Company founded in 1898 with the introduction of the “Iceless” soda water machine. The company further expanded in 1919 with the purchase of the Wise Soda Apparatus Company of Ohio. The catalogue depicts and provides information for various scale soda water set-ups both counter and wall type as well as a few pages of smaller equipment and accessories. A bit or edgewear to the decorated stiff wrappers printed in black green brown and gold otherwise fine. With the ownership label of the Robert A. Wright & Co. “Complete Store Equipment” of Pittsburgh. No publications of the company are located by OCLC. the company; The General Printing Corp unknown books
1882réf. 6662New York: P.H. Reilly Wood-Cut and Color Printer 25 Rose Street 1882. Quarto 27 x 20.5 cm. 108 4 166 2 pages. Profusely illustrated. Text in two columns. Table of contents at rear. FIRST EDITION. An early – perhaps the first – history of carbonated beverages. Issued together with a trade catalogue for the soda water supply firm of John Matthews of New York an important manufacturer of bottling equipment soda fountains and carbonation apparatus. The fountains get progressively larger and more elaborate and with wonderful names: “The Citadel” “The Horicon” “The Adriatic” “The Fire-Eater” “The Nepenthe” and “The Snow Queen”. There I also an outdoor soda fountain “The Street Spa”. Also included are the auxiliary equipment of the carbonated water industry like siphon boxes for home delivery of soda water. The historical work and the trade catalogue were issued in celebration of the firm’s 50th Anniversary. Some pencil scribbles to a few pages. Text block shaken; free front endpaper lacking. In publisher’s brown and gilt-decorated green cloth corners rubbed and extremities a bit worn. Better than good. With the ownership signature of “Leopold F. Schmidt Deer Lodge Montana” and a more recent “Olympia Brewing Company”. Very scarce. OCLC records two copies with this pagination Loma Linda Univ. & Hagley Museum and four copies with just 108 pages presumably just the history; Noling Beverage Literature page 104 for the 108 page version. P.H. Reilly, Wood-Cut and Color Printer, 25 Rose Street hardcover 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
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
1935réf. 6267Lyon: Brachet & Richard; Imprimerie Leon Sezanne 1935. Velour post-bound catalogue 21.5 x 17 cm. unpaginated. Illustrated. Printed throughout in red and black. FIRST EDITION. Trade catalogue of gas and coal stoves and heating appliances. Attractive Art Deco-style design throughout with red velour stiff wrappers debosed and titled in gold. Unrecorded. OCLC locates no copies. Brachet & Richard; [Imprimerie Leon Sezanne unknown books
1879réf. 106415Pamphlet 8vo cloth covers gilt title on top cover illustrated 80 pp. Some cover and edge wear center margin tears throughout not affecting text or illustrations by pre drilled hole in pamphlet normal aging and browning; otherwise very good. Somewhat scarce brush catalogue from the 1870s. Whiting started making brushes in the 1850s and by 1868 he had a stand-alone brush business that included other family members. The company expanded a great deal and was considered one of the best brush makers by the 1890s. By the time of John Whiting's death in 1892 it was probably the largest manufacturer in the United States. This attractive little catalogue includes an engraving of the Whiting factory and images of the brushes they made. A complete price list is included. books
1920réf. 4801Barcelona: Orfebres de Espana Sociedad Anonima 1920. Tall brad-bound trade catalogue 23 leaves printed rectos only. Trade catalogue of flatware illustrated in various patterns. Some wear to the printed card-stock wrappers otherwise very good. Scarce. OCLC locates no copies. Orfebres de Espana, Sociedad Anonima unknown books
1877réf. 54690Indianapolis IN: Indianapolis Journal Co 1877. Trade catalogue. 8vo. 32 pp. 4-page inserted price list dated March 1877. Profusely illustrated with seven black and white wood-engraved plates four large black and white illustrations in text and five striking folding chromolithograph plates. Original printed green wrappers foxed. Very good. A scarce catalogue of heavy agricultural machinery with five brilliantly colored folding plates chromolithographed by Chandler Indianapolis depicting the "double canvass separator Hasselman separator oscillator thresher agricultural engine and the Eagle horse power." Romaine records nothing from this firm. OCLC locates several items from this firm but nothing before 1883. 1219. Indianapolis Journal Co unknown books
1922réf. 51133Fitchburg MA: Iver Johnson's Arms & Cycle Works 1922. Trade catalogue. 12mo. 20 pp. Illustrated. Original printed wrappers very soiled spine worn corners chipped stapled; spine partly separated but a good copy. Iver Johnson's Arms & Cycle Works unknown books
