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1937réf. 45077Roma: Printed by Pizzi & Pizio for ENIT 1937. First edition. Softcover. fair to g. Folio 16 x 12 3/4". Unpaginated. 18pp. Original decorative wrappers with gold-embossed Fascist standard and lettering to front cover as well as gilt lettering to back cover. Published in 1937 by the Italian National Agency for Tourism "Visions of Imperial Rome" is filled with stunning photogravures of Rome depicting the following views: Via dell'Impero the Roman Fora and the Colosseum; Via del Circo Massimo; Via del Mare and the Theatre of Marcellus; the Colosseum and its interior; the Capitol and the Statue of Marcus Aurelius on the Capitol; The Quirinal and the Fountain of Castor and Pollux with a detail of the fountain; Detail of the Fountain of the Rivers by Bernini in Piazza Navona; the Trevi Fountain; The Pines at Villa Borghese; Correggio's "Danae" Borghese Gallery; the Pincio; the Pincian Gardens; "Paolina Borghese" by Canova Borghese Gallery; St. Peter's Square and Interior of St. Peter's; Bernini's Colonnades; the Fountains in St. Peter's Square; Michelangelo's "Moses" San Pietro in Vincoli; Michelangelo's "Last Judgment" in the Sistine Chapel; Detail of the "Incendio del Borgo" by Raphael in the Vatican. The book opens with a large photogravure of Mussolini in uniform wearing a helmet and with fasces in the background. Book block detached from wrappers. Light damp stain to lower part of front cover and the first six pages. Wrappers partly soiled / darkened along edges rubbed slightly creased with sporadic minor chipping. Wrappers in overall fair to good- interior in good- to good condition. Printed by Pizzi & Pizio for ENIT unknown books
1832réf. 16639Np. 1832. Rare tariff pamphlet focusing on the evils of free trade. Includes excerpts from Alexander Hamilton's manufactures report and a speech by Calhoun defending the tariff. The NUC locates only one copy at Union College. Later calf-backed marbled boards. Light tanning. Very good. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 12521. hardcover books
réf. 13396DOCUMENTS DECORATIFS BEAUX-ARTS INDUSTRIE INDUSTRIES D'ART. MONOGRAPHIE DE L'HOTEL DU MINISTERE DU TRAVAIL. Paris: Armand Guerinet n.d. Folio. Portfolio. 73 plates. First edition. A photographic record of the l'Hotel du Ministere du Travail showing decorations interior and exterior views. Lacking plates 74 and 75 plates slightly yellowed and cockled. unknown books
1909réf. List1921London 1909. Silver gelatin prints measuring 5 ½ x 4 ½ inches. Editorial marks to verso one marginal tear else about fine with fine contrast very good plus overall. Fine. Western shows particularly Buffalo Bill's which ran in Earls Court for several years were highly influential in introducing the British public to American Indian culture often in highly fictionalized form. After the Buffalo Bill show ceased performing in London others followed including the The Golden West and American U.S.A. industries exhibition of 1909. Offered here are three photographs of American Indian children from the exhibition who were likely part of the show's 'Red Man Spectacle." They are likely Oglala. The show featured a reenactment of an entirely fictitious event called the "Black Hawk Massacre in Colorado" and some veterans of Cody's shows including Red Shirt Lone Bear and Painted Horse were among the performers. The three children pictured here are named Little Holy Flower Hold His Hand and Come in Camp. A note to a verso says the pictures were taken concurrently with the Franco-British Exposition which continued for several years in various iterations beginning in 1908. We find one variant image from this shoot otherwise no record of these images which may have been taken by the Brown Brothers firm or possibly ended up in their possession from another photographer. unknown books
réf. 71688Poster. Very Good Minus. Poster measuring 15" wide by 19" tall. Surface lightly creased. Several small losses from the edges. With a number of paper repairs backing the edge tears. "Won't you please go away and let me dream / Of Wasatch Dairy Milk and Richest Cream." A vintage poster featuring the artwork of Maud Tousey Fangel 1881-1968 known for child portrait and magazine illustration. unknown books
1979réf. 013766Baiwan Village Beijing: China Architecture & Building Press 1979. Presumed First Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Stiff glossy paper covers measures 10.25 inches 26 cm x 14.5 inches 37 cm with 22 architectural drawings almost all full page and mainly in full color. We could find no record of this publication outside of China. The text is entirely in Chinese. The Google translation of the text on the fifth photograph is as follows: "Architectural drawing is an important means for architectural designers to express their design intentions explore design plans and improve their artistic accomplishments. In their design practice many architectural designers have drawn a large number of architectural drawings and they also often do architectural sketches. This album is selected from the drawings sent to our agency by many architectural designers and art workers across the country. After our agency issued a notice to collect architectural drawings in March this year many architectural designers and teachers from the Department of Architecture of colleges and universities responded enthusiastically and sent more than 1700 works. Our agency invited relevant experts to form an architectural painting selection committee to evaluate these works. The selection committee was composed of the following comrades: Bai Zuomin Qi Kang Zhu Ying Hua Yiyu Du Rujian Wu Liangyong He Zhenqiang Zhang Kaiji Zhong Xunzheng Xi Xiaopeng Huang Yuanqiang Peng Yigang and Dai Nianci. After repeated evaluation more than 200 excellent works were selected. When selecting the proportion of the number of works of each type of painting was appropriately considered. This album will be published on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. We hope that this album can reflect the great achievements of my country's socialist construction from one aspect and at the same time we also hope that this album can play a role in exchanging architectural painting techniques and improving the artistic quality of architectural designers. Editorial Department of China Architecture & Building Press September 1978 China Architecture & Building Press unknown books
1934réf. 157936Milwaukee WI: Alloy Products 1934. Vintage sales sampler created by Alloy Products Corporation of Milwaukee Wisconsin housing 45 linen-backed photographs of various pressure vessels and pressure as well as technical illustrations and images of fabrication elements. Six photographs bear photographer stamps on the versos and most of the photographs include a "shipped to" date among the technical information on the versos dating from 1929-1934. The photographs capture eight tanker trucks five unmounted tanks for truck or rail four rail-mounted tanks three fabrication photographs nineteen various self-standing pressure vessels and pressure tanks and six coils and parts. Founded in 1929 Alloy Products Corporation manufactured various pressure vessels and pressure tanks predominantly used for dairy and other food and beverage industries. Detailed information on photograph versos includes dimensions materials fabrication techniques and various other technical specifications as well as the client for whom it was built. Among the client companies represented in the sampler are Anheuser-Busch Borden's Milk Bowman Dairy Blue Moon Cheese Products Brockway Motor Truck Canada Dry Ginger Ale Carnation Kentucky Color and Chemical Company Libby McNeill and Libby Liberty Trucking Company Miller High Life Nestle's Milk Products Rexford Paper Sunshine Dairy United Milk Products and Van Camp Packing among others. Photographs: 7.5 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine overall. Housed in a Very Good plus binder measuring 11.5 x 8 inches. Alloy Products unknown books
1858réf. 38668Providence: Knowles Anthony & Co. Printers 1858. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. A good copy with chipped spine front wrapper detached edges toned contents clean and bright. 131 pp. 8vo. Provides great detail on agricultural and industrial activity in Rhode Island was well as reviews of technology and agricultural methods. Some biographies. Knowles, Anthony & Co., Printers unknown books
1855réf. 38667Providence: Knowles Anthony & Co. Printers 1855. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. A very good copy with small chips and creases to front wrapper spine worn contents bright. xvi 135 pp. 8vo. Includes: ""The Agricultural Wealth of Rhode Island and the Duties it imposes upon her Citizens. An Address before the Rhode-Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry and the Rhode-Island Horticultural Society at their Fifth Industrial Exhibition in Providence; Delivered September 14 1854 by Rev. William Clift Stonington Ct." with a separate title page. Provides great detail on agricultural and industrial activity in Rhode Island was well as reviews of technology and agricultural methods. Some biographies. William Clift 1817-1890 Amherst graduate pastor of the Stonington Congregational church rote much on agriculture and "was a bold and valiant enemy of rum and tobacco." Sabin 70736n. Knowles, Anthony & Co., Printers unknown books
1859réf. 38669Providence: Knowles Anthony & Co. Printers 1859. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. A fair copy lacking rear wrapper and last 16 pages of biographies edge worn chipped bottom fore edge corner for first several leaves wrappers lightly soiled and toned. 182 of 199 pp. 8vo. Provides great detail on agricultural and industrial activity in Rhode Island was well as reviews of technology and agricultural methods. Some biographies. Sabin 70736n. Knowles, Anthony & Co., Printers unknown books
1882réf. 34833La Paz: Imprenta de la Libertad 1882. First edition. Cloth. Title page with chip to top inner edge and neat label with name inked out shallow rough area on fore edge of last few leaves otherwise a very good copy. i 97 1 iii pp. 4to. Bolivian tariffs. Scarce. OCLC shows no copies for this year but Univ. Texas holds similar volumes for 1879 and 1890 and Univ. Illinois has 1894. Parreño sale 70. Imprenta de la Libertad hardcover books
1959réf. 32549Tokyo: Japan Travel Bureau 1959. Seventh edition. Cloth. A very good copy with wear along the rear joint; one map with small tear one repaired else remainder near fine. lxv 1015 pp. Illus. with 32 color and b/w maps 28 of which are folding. 16mo. Japan Travel Bureau hardcover books
1883réf. 27291New York: New York Association for the Protection of American Industry 1883. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good copy with nicks on the spine small chips to the wrappers some edgewear mildly creased leaves clean. 70 pp. 8vo. New York Association for the Protection of American Industry Document no. 2. Peter Cooper's opening remarks could have been written today: "The advocates of free trade . are trying to persuade . people that it is for our interest to buy from other countries all the manufactures that they have to offer. These advocates of free trade propose that our mechanics shall either work at the starvation wages of foreign laborers or be forced to abandon their trades." Other speeches on free trade including William Dodge William Evarts Dexter Hawkins and Cyrus Hamlin President of Middlebury College on the blight of free trade. The ojectives of the New York Association for the Protection of American Industry was: "1. To disseminate ideas favorable to just protection of manufactures. 2. The development protection and advancement of the various industries of the United States. 3. The restoration and development of ocean navigation in American-built ships sufficient for the exigencies of trade commerce and manufactures and for the advantage and safety of the country. 4. The security of the comfort and improvement of workmen and—by encouraging allowances or pensions after long-continued service in important establishments—of their support in old age." New York Association for the Protection of American Industry unknown books
1890réf. 199073London: The Association 1890. Hardcover. Poor Boards are heavily bumped/edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; spine strip is heavily chipped and peeling; textblock edges are heavily toned/scuffed/smudged; boards are very loose; textblock is cracked; marginalia is present; interior is clean with occasional smudging/foxing. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine; xvi 2 485 pp. [The Association] hardcover books
1879réf. List2997Big Spring Virginia 1879. Handbill measuring 8 ¾ x 11 ¾ inches. Marginal damage especially to top; marked in pencil at top left; very good. A handbill describing a process for curing tobacco patented in 1879 by John W. Barnett of Big Spring a town in northern Virginia. Tobacco has long been a hugely important cash crop in the region; in 1860 Virginia was the top tobacco producer in the United States by a large margin. During the Civil War production in Virginia dropped precipitously and bounced back slowly but surely over the next decades.1 Barnett goes into great detail specifying exact times and temperatures for the process; for instance for the first twelve hours the fires should be renewed every two hours and twenty-four minutes. The process involves using water around the fires which slows the curing process. We find six copies of this handbill on OCLC. 1 Benjamin William Arnold “History of the Tobacco Industry in Virginia from 1860 to 1894” in Johns Hopkins University Studies in History and Political Science Fifteenth Series ed. Herbert B. Adams The Johns Hopkins Press 1897 9–85. unknown books
réf. List3132Montevideo Uruguay N.d. Photo album with thirty-six captioned photos measuring 6 ¾ x 9 ¼ inches mounted on heavy cardstock. Album embossed “INDUSTRIA LANERA DEL URUGUAY S.A. / ILDU / MONTEVIDEO URUGUAY”. Photos with fine contrast two missing; slight wear to mounts and album; else Near Fine. Industria Lanera del Uruguay is a Montevideo-based wool manufacturing company that was founded in 1933. Offered here is a photo album likely from the late 1950s to mid-1960s showcasing ILDU’s high-tech factory—an introductory page from the album claims that ILDU had “a policy of yearly replacements” of equipment to keep “abreast of all technological improvements”. The photos which are all captioned document the worsted wool manufacturing process from sorting and scouring to dyeing and weaving; the laboratories that test the product’s moisture level tensile strength and so on; and the luxurious “sample room” where gentlemen examine the finished product while relaxing in leather armchairs. Textiles especially wool made up a large percent of the Uruguayan manufacturing sector before 1960. Though manufacturing was slow to start because of a small population and political instability in the country and because so much of the country’s open space was taken up with ranching there was a massive boom in wool manufacturing in particular between the 1930s and 1950s.1 ILDU was one of the largest worsted wool companies in the ‘30s and is still operational today. Of interest to historians of South America’s manufacturing history. 1 Magdalena Bertino “La industria textil uruguaya 1900–1960” América Latina en la historia económica 31 June 2009: 99–126. unknown books
1886réf. List3133Baltimore Maryland: Jno. S. Bridges & Co. Printers 1886. Trifold booklet measuring 3 ½ x 6 ¼ inches folded with notebook and short almanac inside; two pages with notes. A booklet made for the Patapsco Guano Company of Baltimore Maryland printed in 1886. The exterior of the booklet features three attractive lithographs by A. Hoen & Co. with the lithograph on the back of the booklet showing Patapsco’s manufacturing plant at Fell’s Point. Inside is a miniature almanac with notebook pages two of which have been written on. Guano was invaluable as a source of nitrogen for fertilizer and gunpowder. Guano export was a pillar of economic development supporting a stable economy in Peru in the mid-19th century and driving American annexation of numerous islands in the Pacific and Caribbean under the Guano Islands Act of 1856. For its part the Patapsco Company was involved in a Supreme Court case in 1898 in which it contested the inspection charge of twenty-five cents per ton for fertilizers. Not too long after in the early 20th century a method for extracting nitrogen from air was discovered and guano’s importance declined. Jno. S. Bridges & Co., Printers unknown books
1787réf. 4368Lisbon: press of the Royal Academy of Sciences 1787. Narrow 4to 209 x 118 mm. 8 xiii 3 175 pages. Title-leaf fol. 2 present in duplicate. Folding engraved plate of a mechanical silk loom; titles with woodcut arms of the Portuguese Royal Academy of Sciences woodcut and typographic headpieces occasional slight discoloration small wormtrack in the folding plate. Contemporary cat’s-paw polished sheep covers with gilt border spine in six gold-tooled compartments the second gilt lettered edges gilt and gauffered recased endpapers renewed defect in top spine compartment a dozen small wormholes. Provenance: António Romão dos Passos 1866-1951 signature in ink Antonio Passos / agronomo or Anto R. Passos scrawled across both titles the first with price note and on six text leaves. Only edition of a comprehensive overview of the Portuguese silk industry by the judicial magistrate of the Moncorvo district and author of several works on political economy and history of law. José Antonio de Sá d. 1819 a native of Bragança was an important proponent of modernization of the industry and later served as director of the Royal Silk Factory Real Fábrica das Sedas founded in 1802 in Lisbon. He was one of the earliest members of the Academia Real das Sciencias of Lisbon. Silkworms were raised in Portugal as early as the 13th century. Sericulture and silk production were concentrated in the northeastern province of Trás-os-Montes its largest center being the city of Bragança which from the 15th to 17th century was known throughout Europe for its luxurious velvets. Because of the lack of government support for industry frequent wars and above all the persecutions of the Inquisition which decimated an industry in all sectors of which Jews or converted Jews cristãos-novos played a major role Portuguese silk production suffered from intermittent crises and was even periodically decimated. Starting in the 1770s efforts to revive the industry began to have an effect: “By the end of the 18th century the Trás-os-Montes silk industry had dragged itself out of the crisis that had begun in 1750-1755 coinciding with the last incursion of the Inquisition into Bragança and embarked upon a period of great development accompanying the industrial expansion that was then taking place not only in that particular region but throughout the Portuguese kingdom. After the Inquisition’s systematic persecution of businessmen weavers and throwers had finally come to an end the continuity and expansion of the silk industry seemed to be a viable prospect. In the last two decades of the 18th century a remarkable process of modernization took place thanks to the efforts of the businessmen involved in this economic activity such as António José Lopes Fernandes who installed 200 silk looms in Bragança magistrates such as José António de Sá and Pereira de Barros and politicians such as Martinho de Melo e Castro and Rodrigo de Sousa Coutinho the latter being the Portuguese ambassador to Piedmont Italy. These efforts included the adoption of Piedmontese methods and techniques namely the organzine mill and the spinning-jenny the most advanced ones at that time in Europe in an operation led by experts coming to Portugal from that Italian region.” Sousa p. 6 Sá’s work is in three parts. The first part comprises an overview of the history of silk production starting with Antiquity and summaries of the industry and government policies toward it in other countries followed by a detailed recommendation with responses to projected objections that the Portuguese government undertake a campaign to plant mulberry trees and promote the industry generally. Part two is a treatise on the silkworm and part three a technical survey of “the art of silk spinning.” Explained in the text pp. 142-148 is the letter- and number-keyed engraving of a rather fanciful machine showing a vat for softening the cocoons heating on the left from which a thread-unwinding mechanism feeds a loom on the right. The reason for the duplicated title-leaf in this copy is not clear. Perhaps one functioned as an upper wrapper — but as both titles are preceded by a half-title that appears unlikely. The book collector Antonio Romão dos Passos b. February 28 1866 was an engineer and agronomist. Other books from his library all on practical subjects are recorded; four are digitized by the Biblioteca Nacional Digital de Portugal. One a treatise on hemp has a similar indelicately scrawled signature across the title. OCLC gives six US locations. Innocencio Diccionario bibliographico portuguez IV: 246 no. 2658; Kress Luso-Brazilian Economic Literature Before 1850 p. 4. Cf. F. Sousa “The Silk Industry In Trás-Os-Montes During The Ancient Regime” E Journal of Portuguese History Vol. 3 no. 2 Winter 2005 digitized. press of the Royal Academy of Sciences unknown books
1992réf. 27825Edison NJ: SPEX Industries Inc 1992. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. First Edition. 118 pages plus price list laid in. Printed pictorial wrappers. A sound copy but read with spine creasing. Wraps. "Much more that just another catalogue the Handbook is our way of sharing the knowledge we've acquired over the years in the handling and preparation of many types of samples for many types of spectroscopic analyses." preface Includes the Price List effective January 2 1992. SPEX Industries, Inc unknown books
1963réf. 295235Tokyo: Japan Travel Bureau 1963. hardcover. very good. More than 20 maps most folding. lxxxiii 1015 pages 12mo red flexible boards; lightly rubbed. Tokyo: Japan Travel Bureau 1963. A very good copy. Japan Travel Bureau unknown books
1923réf. 106953New York 1923. hardcover. 80 plates. 16 pages of text. 4to cloth-backed pictorial boards. New York 1923. unknown books
1927réf. 68776Salt Lake City UT: Porte Publishing Company 1927. First Porte Publishing edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 153pp. Duodecimo 19 cm 1/4 tan woven cloth with pale greenish-gray paper over boards. Light soiling to the boards. Underlying boards exposed occasionally along the edges. Pages tanned. Reprinted from The Inland Printer. Fiction depicting the printing industry. Roy Trewin Porte 1876-1936 was heavily interested in the field of printing and publishing. "His Porte's mastery of printing and his knowledge of cost finding led to his appointment as secretary and cost expert of the Commercial Printers’ organization in Cincinnati Ohio. In this role he traveled widely as a lecturer on the topic of printing costs. In July 1916 Porte found himself in Salt Lake City Utah to assume the position of secretary of the Ben Franklin Club. One year later he published the first edition of the Price List which later became well-known as the Franklin Printing Catalog. The success of the Price List was immediate and in 1924 the Porte Publishing Company was established to continue publishing the catalog." - J. Willard Marriott Library University of Utah Blog. Porte Publishing Company hardcover books
1912réf. 242248Barcelona: Camara Oficial de Industria de Barcelona 1912. Pamphlet. 46p. wraps 5.25x8.25 inches wraps worn spine sunned pages lightly toned else very good condition. Text in Spanish. Guide to rules of the Chamber of Commerce of Barcelona. Camara Oficial de Industria de Barcelona unknown books
1941réf. 171098New York: National Coat and Suit Industry Recovery Board 1941. Pamphlet. 60p. stapled wraps 6x9 inches ILGWU stamp on title page edges mildly toned else very good condition. National Coat and Suit Industry Recovery Board unknown books
1966réf. 127129Honolulu: Institute of Advanced Projects East-West Center 1966. Paperback. 63 57p. wraps 8.5x11 inches rubberstamp of the American Academy of Asian Studies. Edges foxed. Occasional papers of research translations translation series no. 18. Institute of Advanced Projects, East-West Center paperback books
