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Phoenix Electric Telephone Company. 1894 - 1899

1899réf. 22050New York: Cameron & Bulkley 1899. Very good condition. Scarce large broadside from an early competitor to the American Telegraph and Telephone Company in New York City AT& T aimed at the independent telephone exchange manager and offering a free trial of the electric telephone patented by the company June 2nd 1896. Alexander Graham Bell made the first long distance phone call on August 10 1876 from his home in Brantford Ontario to his assistant located ten miles away. By 1878 Bell had set up the first telephone exchange in New Haven Connecticut was the home of the first telephone exchange which was established in 1878; connections were made between Boston Massachusetts and New York City by 1884. In 1885 American Telegraph and Telephone Company AT&T was formed; it dominated telephone communications for the next 100 years. Bell employees were instructed to bad mouth the U.S. telephone system to drive down stock prices of its competitors facilitating for Bell's acquisition George W. Sutton an independent inventor is named here both for the development of the Sutton microphone filed April 14 1896 and the Self Restoring drop patent May 17 1898. Sutton one of the best known independent telephone manufacturers in the east installed 100 lines in Columbia South Carolina and 700 each in Poughkeepsie and Newburgh NY. Central panel with offset printed illustrations of standing female nude with light emanating from her hands titled "Electricity Enlightening the World". At the top panel: "To the Independent Exchange manager"; around the central engraving topics include: about telephones in general about transmitters about switchboards self restoring drop patent and cut of calling key. Lower central is a picture of the Phoenix Company headquarters in New York at 93 Washington Street. 22 x 28". Some cracking on folds otherwise very good condition. Not recorded in OCLC. Cameron & Bulkley hardcover

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A Complete Guide to Landlords Tenants and Lodgers Being a.

1802réf. 751091802. Unrecorded imprint. Unrecorded imprint. A Rare Unrecorded Printing of a Popular Georgian Guide to Tenancy Law Sutton Robert. A Complete Guide to Landlords Tenants and Lodgers Being a Methodical Arrangement of the Whole Law as it Now Stands Respecting the Taking or Letting Lands Houses Or Apartments Giving Warning Or Notices to Quit; Ejecting Seizing for Rent Repairs &c. With Forms of Leases Agreements Assignments Surrenders Notices Receipts for Rent &c. In a Great Variety of Situations Whether as Lessor Lessee Or Tenant at Will Communicated in an Easy and Familiar Manner. Including Ample Introductions for Landlords to Conduct Themselves Legally and Securely Towards Their Tenants; And to Enable Tenants to Guard Against Encroaching Landlords. With Clear and Practical Directions for Making a Distress for Rent &c. With All the New Adjudged Cases and Acts of Parliament Down to 1802. London: Printed by W. Stratford for J. Stratford 1802. iv 108 pp. Octavo 8-1/4" x 4-3/4". Recent quarter calf over marbled boards blind fillets to calf edges lettering piece and gilt fillets and date to spine endpapers renewed. Light fading to spine light toning to interior light foxing and soiling in a few places. $450. Fourth Stated Edition. Written for a popular lay audience by barrister Robert Sutton this work served as an essential accessible handbook during a period of rapid urbanization in Georgian Britain. As the preface dramatically asserts "three fourths of the Inhabitants of Great Britain are composed of Landlords Tenants and Lodgers." By the turn of the nineteenth century lodging had become ubiquitous across British society-present in an estimated one-eighth of all households-creating widespread legal anxiety over leases unpaid rent distraint of goods and property damage. Sutton's manual offered a balanced practical toolkit for both parties: advising landlords on legal eviction and distraint procedures while warning tenants against "encroaching landlords" and predatory rent practices. It includes a generous appendix of workable legal instruments including standard forms for leases notices to quit assignment of tenancies and rental receipts. First published around 1796 the work's immense utility proved enduring going through at least eleven editions by 1821. Despite its commercial success survival rates for physical copies o. unknown