Best.-Nr. 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
1880Best.-Nr. 57441Boston MA: G.W. Simmons & Son 1880. Advertising circular. Broadside 14 x 8 1/2 inches. An advertisement featuring a 'heliotype" from a camp-scene line-drawing of two well-attired hunters and a fisherman their day's bag and an African-American attendant all standing by their tent behind them a lake full of ducks and Simmons decoys. The lower two-thirds of the broadside advertises the company's suits with W.H.H. Murray testimonial quoted tents and decoys. Moderate soiling several tiny splits at folds a good copy. Folded as for mailing. #4281. G.W. Simmons & Son unknown
1880Best.-Nr. 57441Boston MA: G.W. Simmons & Son 1880. Advertising circular. Broadside 14 x 8 1/2 inches. An advertisement featuring a 'heliotype" from a camp-scene line-drawing of two well-attired hunters and a fisherman their day's bag and an African-American attendant all standing by their tent behind them a lake full of ducks and Simmons decoys. The lower two-thirds of the broadside advertises the company's suits with W.H.H. Murray testimonial quoted tents and decoys. Moderate soiling several tiny splits at folds a good copy. Folded as for mailing. #4281. G.W. Simmons & Son unknown books
1923Best.-Nr. 112446Adelaide: Cook's Business Directories SA Company printed by Barclay & Sharland Limited Perth 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Adelaide Cook's Business Directories SA Company printed by Barclay & Sharland Limited Perth 1923. Octavo ii advertisements xl title page indexes additions and alterations x advertisements xxix iii advertisements 344 pages with 9 illustrations from photographs and numerous illustrated advertisements plus advertisements on both sides of the covers the spine and the leading edge. Flush-cut quarter cloth and papered boards; covers cracked in two places but stable and a little worn at the extremities; rear cover a little stained and chipped; signs of age and use; overall a decent copy. Cook's Business Directories (SA) Company (printed by Barclay & Sharland Limited, Perth) hardcover
Best.-Nr. 41548Sands and McDougall. Melbourne. January 1886. 32mo non-paginated. Stiff paper covered one staple binding detached; the interior is in very good condition with some notations by the previous owner in a neat hand as below. This tiny remnant of the past at only 10.5 x 6.5cms provides a fascinationg window into life in Melbourne in the 1860's with Sands and McDougall publishing these minute and fragile mini-diaries for each month of the year. Contained therin are very detailed railway timetables for the state all phases of the moon sunrise and sunset times as well as departure times for the mail services. Each day has a separate page on which one could carefully write any relevant details and along the bottom of each page is a brief advertisement for items and equipment sold by the company who advertised that they were engravers printers and lithographers as well as manufacuring stationers. They were selling a "large and varied new stock" including ladies bags new shapes leather plush and seal photo albums writing desks brief and gladstone bags penholders and books etc. as well as rubber stamps and maths instruments. On Wednesday 6th January 1886 the page confidently proclaims that the P and O Steamer was due. To enhance its charm each vacant page has impossibly tiny handwritten notes in both pen and pencil mostly in long hand relating to a record of the daily expenses such as cigarettes 1/6 drinks 1/6 poor man 2/6 and postage costs. It is in superb condition with the only fault now being a rusted central staple detaching the middle leaf and the external paper covering. Sands and McDougall. Melbourne. January 1886. hardcover
1950Best.-Nr. 112442Adelaide: Universal Business Directories 1950. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Universal Business Directories 1950. Quarto iv two-colour advertisements xxii 482 pages with 2 maps. Two-colour card covers; long tear to the front cover expertly sealed with minimal infill to the bottom left-hand corner; small tidemark to the bottom left-hand corner of the two advertising leaves; spine and edges a little sunned; short sealed tear to the leading edge of the rear cover with short closed tears to the blank leading margin of the last ten leaves; a very good copy basically unread. The towns include Alice Springs and Broken Hill. Universal Business Directories paperback
1952Best.-Nr. 112450Adelaide: Universal Business Directories Australia 1952. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Universal Business Directories Australia 1952. Quarto iv two-colour advertisements xii 306 pages with 5 maps a number of illustrations from photographs and numerous pictorial advertisements. Two-colour card covers with advertisements on all surfaces; spine a little sunned and marked; top corner lightly bumped throughout; small section of the bottom edge sunned; an excellent copy. Universal Business Directories (Australia) paperback
1954Best.-Nr. 112451Adelaide: Universal Business Directories Australia 1954. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Universal Business Directories Australia 1954. Quarto xx 302 pages with 5 maps illustrations from photographs and numerous pictorial advertisements plus a two-colour leaf of advertisements one for Coca-Cola after page 280. Two-colour card covers with advertisements on all surfaces; small light tidemark to the foot of the spine; top corner lightly bumped towards the rear of the book; small section of the bottom edge sunned; an excellent copy. Universal Business Directories (Australia) paperback
1955Best.-Nr. 112439Adelaide: Universal Business Directories Australia 1955. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Universal Business Directories Australia 1955. Quarto viii two-colour advertisements xxxvi 362 pages with 5 maps a number of illustrations from photographs and numerous pictorial advertisements plus an unnumbered eight-page two-colour advertising section after page 338. Two-colour card covers with advertisements on all surfaces; spine very lightly chipped and sunned; small section of the bottom edge sunned; a fine copy. Universal Business Directories (Australia) paperback
1953Best.-Nr. 112455Adelaide: Universal Business Directories Australia 1953. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Universal Business Directories Australia 1953. Quarto ii two-colour advertisements xvi 310 pages with a map and numerous pictorial advertisements. Two-colour card covers with advertisements on all surfaces; spine lightly sunned and marked; small section of the bottom edge sunned; a fine copy. Universal Business Directories (Australia) paperback
1956Best.-Nr. 112449Adelaide: Universal Business Directories Australia 1956. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Universal Business Directories Australia 1956. Quarto viii two-colour advertisements xxxii 410 pages with 6 maps a number of illustrations from photographs and numerous pictorial advertisements plus an unnumbered eight-page two-colour advertising section after page 388. Two-colour card covers with advertisements on all surfaces; spine lightly sunned; small section of the bottom edge sunned; top corner of the front cover and the first third of the book a little bumped; an excellent copy. Universal Business Directories (Australia) paperback
1956Best.-Nr. 112453Adelaide: Universal Business Directories Australia 1956. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Universal Business Directories Australia 1956. Quarto x two-colour advertisements xiv 288 pages with 2 maps and numerous pictorial advertisements plus an unnumbered 8-page section of two-colour advertisements after page 282. Two-colour card covers with advertisements on all surfaces; spine lightly sunned; small section of the bottom edge sunned; a fine copy. Universal Business Directories (Australia) paperback
1955Best.-Nr. 112452Adelaide: Universal Business Directories Australia 1955. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Universal Business Directories Australia 1955. Quarto xii two-colour advertisements xvi 284 pages with a map and numerous pictorial advertisements. Two-colour card covers with advertisements on all surfaces; spine lightly sunned; small section of the bottom edge sunned; a fine copy. Universal Business Directories (Australia) paperback
1952Best.-Nr. 112454Adelaide: Universal Business Directories Australia 1952. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Universal Business Directories Australia 1952. Quarto iv two-colour advertisements xvi 310 pages with 2 maps and numerous pictorial advertisements. Two-colour card covers with advertisements on all surfaces; spine a little sunned and marked and very lightly chipped; small section of the bottom edge sunned; a fine copy. Universal Business Directories (Australia) paperback
1870Best.-Nr. 70089Griffin GA: Shackleford 1870. Business trade label 4 5/8 x 5 ¾ inches employing a number of sizes and styles of type printed on blue-green paper. Broder chipped away on upper and left edges else very good. Shackleford unknown books
Best.-Nr. 688404to 31 cm. Bi-folium printed on pink paper. Listed as net sale prices all well below listed "retail" prices are 31 hammerless shotguns 40 hammer guns 22 rifles 40 lots of cartridges 1000 per lot 38 lots of bullets 100 or 1000 per lot 50 lots of primed shells and paper shells and wads and 25 lots of loading tools the remaining 45 lots fall in the other categories mentioned in the title. "Offered to the trade at prices that will make them move." OCLC locates a number of similar sales instruments for the company 1890s-1920s but not this one. Old fold lines as for mailing else very good. unknown
Best.-Nr. 688404to 31 cm. Bi-folium printed on pink paper. Listed as net sale prices all well below listed "retail" prices are 31 hammerless shotguns 40 hammer guns 22 rifles 40 lots of cartridges 1000 per lot 38 lots of bullets 100 or 1000 per lot 50 lots of primed shells and paper shells and wads and 25 lots of loading tools the remaining 45 lots fall in the other categories mentioned in the title. "Offered to the trade at prices that will make them move." OCLC locates a number of similar sales instruments for the company 1890s-1920s but not this one. Old fold lines as for mailing else very good. unknown books
1900Best.-Nr. 68841Boston MA: William Read & Sons Selling Agents 1900. 8vo. Bifolium advertisement for the gun the title leaf illustrated with an example of the gun the two interior pages describing the gun and operating directions in 11 paragraphs repeating the cover illustration and giving prices "12 gauge only" the verso of the integral leaf with a price list for parts an image from a photograph illustrating them. Illustrated self-wrappers some edgewear very good. William Read & Sons, Selling Agents unknown books
1895Best.-Nr. 21279Spalding St. Lawrence Boat Co. 1895. Very good overall. Sales flyer for the Ogdensburg NY maker of the "Ethelwynn" the winner of the Seawanhaka cup the oldest American yachting trophy that is still active today. The Ethelwynn was a "half rater" approximately 15ft and designed by William Stephens. She defeated the Spruce IV from England. Flyer with two printed photographs of the boats by J. S. Johnson 1895; the second West & Co. Southsea. One vertical fold; a bit bumped at corners tiny chip lower right corner. 10 x 8 Spalding St. Lawrence Boat Co. unknown
1876Best.-Nr. 212711876. Very good condition. Sales flyer for Poughkeepsie NY watch and jewelry dealer printed in black in many type fonts and with an advertisement on the verso for Arundel tinted spectacles early sunglasses. Many different type fonts are printed here advertising watches in gold & silver cases jewelry silver wars and clocks with the ad for the sunglasses on the verso. Arundel spectacles "have the power of arresting the heat-rays of solar or artificial light before entering the eye. They are violet colored yet so constructed that when applied to the eye appear colorless. With a testimonial from Judge T. R. Westbrook Kingston NY. 6 x 12" unknown
1854Best.-Nr. 70354Mobile AL: Mobile Journal of Commerce 1854. 4to 29 cm. Bifolio three pages blank verso of integral leaf employed for addressing. An issue devoted to an "Annual Report of the Market" with three columns of text comparative tables for crops important trade ports in country and abroad a table comparing annual activity in Mobile with seven other southern ports or states a 10-year table of activity in Mobile and much more. Forwarded by Jas. G. Whitaker & Co. to a Providence Rhode Island company. Old fold lines else very good. Mobile Journal of Commerce unknown
1854Best.-Nr. 70354Mobile AL: Mobile Journal of Commerce 1854. 4to 29 cm. Bifolio three pages blank verso of integral leaf employed for addressing. An issue devoted to an "Annual Report of the Market" with three columns of text comparative tables for crops important trade ports in country and abroad a table comparing annual activity in Mobile with seven other southern ports or states a 10-year table of activity in Mobile and much more. Forwarded by Jas. G. Whitaker & Co. to a Providence Rhode Island company. Old fold lines else very good. Mobile Journal of Commerce unknown books
1856Best.-Nr. 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
1872Best.-Nr. 70357Mobile AL: Webster & Wilson Factors 1872. Printed handbill 10 ½ x 8 inches on two columns one dealing with the market in cotton with market statement for Mobile Liverpool and New York the other concerning rthe wholesale grocery and provision market including bacon pork fish whiskey tobacco grain other meats and vegetables hardware naval stores etc. Old fold lines else very good. Webster & Wilson, Factors unknown books
1874Best.-Nr. 70358Mobile AL: R. Moore & Co 1874. Printed handbill 8 ½ x 11 inches two columns one printing "Official Report Cotton Exchange" a report on gold and exchange and latest reports from New York and Liverpool the other a report on wholesale groceries and provisions meats fish coffee "country produce" naval stores tobacco etc. Old fold lines small snag in central fold Very good. R. Moore & Co unknown books