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1910ref. 54930Chicago: Hobart M. Cable Co. ca. 1910. Oblong 8vo. Seven linen-backed silver gelatin photographs of airbrushed images including frontisp. birds-eye view of factory. Preserved in original leather pocket portfolio gilt stamping for Cable Co. on inside pockets rounded corners NF exemplar from the collection of Charles Spurgeon Onderdonk Jr. 1889-1958 son of a Colorado rancher and later manufacturer who became a piano salesman before World War I. First edition thus of this scarce salesman sample photo portfolio for Hobart M. Cable pianos. Founded originally in 1900 in LaPorte Indiana they still used the Cable Co. piano manufacturing factory in Chicago which was also used by Fayette S. Cable and H.D. Cable producing pianos. The Hobart Cable pianos are known for their musical excellence attractive cabinet work and remarkably sweet and pure tone qualities combined with unusual power. The pianos featured in these images include the Style M which was double veneered ivory keys copper wound bass strings and full swinging music desk about 5.5 feet in length; Style C which was also available in Extra Fancy figured mahogany or walnut and featured Poehlman steel music wire; as well as a beautiful Style G Player Piano quite similar to the company Style A. The company remained in business until the mid-1960s were absorbed by Story & Clark Piano Company and later the brand was acquired by the American SeJung Corp. No copies located in Worldcat; See: Hobart M. Cable Bluebook of Pianos 2018; Hobart M. Cable Pianos Total Piano Care 2018. Hobart M. Cable Co., hardcover
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ref. BAY_00_SH_021213McGraw-Hill. Used - Like New. Text block pages boards and binding are pristine dust wrapper is like new. Supporting Bay Area Friends of the Library since 2010. Well packaged and promptly shipped. McGraw-Hill hardcover
1836ref. 55778London: Sold for the Author by Messrs. Troughton and Simms 136 Fleet Street 1836. 8vo. xi 1 118 pp. 10 pp. of tables plus 7 1 pp. catalogue. With numerous woodcut engravings text diagrams illustrations. Quarger-blue publisher’s cloth over gray boards printed label mounted front cover minor edgewear slight bumping to corners minor dustsoiling inner hinges expertly repaired still a VG presentation copy from the author to William Figg 1800-1866 well-known Lewes Sussex surveyor who includes pencil note corrections on last page. Second edition revised of this informative work by the author details the use of the Land Chain Surveying Cross Prismatic Compass Theodolite Spirit Level Sextant Transit Instrument and others. Simms 1803-1865 a surveyor and civil engineer of the Royal Observatory Greenwich and formerly with the Ordnance Survey was the son of William Simms d.1860 scientific instrument maker with Edward Troughton joined the Southern Eastern Railway Company as resident engineer in 1836 and oversaw the construction of the Bletchingley and Saltwood tunnels. Sold, for the Author by Messrs. Troughton and Simms, 136 Fleet Street, hardcover
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1961ref. 36958London: The Holland Press 1961. 3 volumes. Quarto. 357; 383; 160 ccxix pp. Illustrated. In dustjackets. A facsimile of the original edition published in 1876-1878. The Holland Press unknown
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