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1876Best.-Nr. 137821876 P., Imprimerie Seringe Frères, s.d. (1876), 1 vol. in-4° (347 x 270) sous cartonnage éditeur pleine percaline verte, encadrements à froid sur les plats, titre avec lettrines ornées dorées sur le plat supérieur, dos muet, de (2) ff. (titre illustré et titre), 53 planches dont 1 dépliante. Angle supérieur du plat supérieur très légèrement taché, petit manque au coin inf. de la planche XXX, excellent état par ailleurs
1908Best.-Nr. 3618Hauptversammlung des Vereins Deutscher Ingenieure. Bezirksverein Dresden. Dresden 1908. 25 Orig.-Photographien im Format ca. 22 x 28 cm. Aufnahme mit Apparaten u. Objektiven der Hüttig AG, Dresden. Kopiert auf "Schwerter-Platino-Mattpapier Chamois" der Vereinigten Fabriken photographischer Papier, Dresden. Jeweils einzeln montiert in Papierumschlag, innen mit Seidenhemdchen, außen mit Bezeichnung u. kurzer Beschreibung. Lose in Orig.-Leinwandmappe mit geprägtem Deckeltitel.
Best.-Nr. 172893NAKAZAWA DYEING FACTORY. Ouchi. Emperor's Palace. 80 silk colour samples mounted on 5 cardboard sheets. 8vo 240 x 140 mm publisher's tied cloth. Kyoto: Nakazawa n.d. An elegant collection of colour samples. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 172893NAKAZAWA DYEING FACTORY. Ouchi. Emperor's Palace. 80 silk colour samples mounted on 5 cardboard sheets. 8vo 240 x 140 mm publisher's tied cloth. Kyoto: Nakazawa n.d. An elegant collection of colour samples. hardcover books
1908Best.-Nr. 2201030038xbvkBlackburn, R. Denham & Co. / Southport, Shackerley Literary Agency; 1908. viii pages incl. foretitlepage, photographic frontispice-plate on glossy paper, titlepage, Dedication, 'Prelude', 'Contents' and prefaces to the first (''Feb. 16th, 1907.'') and this second edition (''Jan. 1st, 1908.''); 92 pages, except the photoplate printed on untrimmed handmade rag-paper throughout. - Publisher's illustrated cardboard-wrapper, titled in red and black, ornamentally framed; 8vo.(ca. 19,5 x 13,5 cm).
1793Best.-Nr. 3897Mit 18 Abb. auf 2 gefalt. gest. Tafeln. Halberstadt, in Kommission in der Buchhandlung der Grossschen Erben, 1793. 8vo. (17,1 x 10,5 cm). Titel, 92 S., 2 Bll. Zwischentitel u. Vorerinnerung, (S. 93)-166, 1 Bl. Inhalt. Einfacher Pappband d. Zt. mit Kiebitzpapierbezug. [3 Warenabbildungen]
Best.-Nr. Z1-M-011-01466H.M.S.O. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Shows some signs of wear but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. H.M.S.O unknown
1707Best.-Nr. 21533Utrecht, G. vande Water, 1707. 4°. Mit Holzschn.-Titelvignette u. 10 gefalt. Kupfertafeln. 6 Bll., 143 (1) S., 6 Bll. - Angeb. - Duverney, Guichard Joseph. Tractatus de organo auditus, continens structuram, usum et morbos omnium auris partium [...] e Gallico Latine versus. Nürnberg, J. M. Spörlin für J. Zieger, 1684. Mit 16 gefalt. Kupfertafeln. 6 Bll., 48 S., Blindgepr. Prgt. d. Zt. mit durchzogenen Bünden u. handschrift. Rückenschild.
1934Best.-Nr. 64509Columbus OH Cleveland OH Portland OR Universal City Los Angeles & Oakland CA: Jaeger Machine Co. Lakewood Engineering Co. M.L. Cohen & Co. General Photographers Arthur M. Prentiss Commercial Photographer Orville Logan Snider Terryfoto W.H. Wolfram Commercial Photographers 1934-1942. Thick oblong 4to. 12 x 9 x 4.5 in. 282 silver gelatin photographs w/ over 80% backed in white or gray linen most w/ typed or stamped captions on versos identifying product about 30% marked by company as “Master Book Print” w/ rubber stamp nearly all stamped w/ Jaeger Machine Co. stamp a few w/ Lakewood Machine Co. Stamp some typescript captions majority either ink or pencil manuscript on versos some typescript captions w/in negatives arranged in reverse chronological order. Contemporary De Luxe Systems Peerless Toplock Sectional Post Binder Style 4 olive-green cloth nickel-plated piano hinges partially covered slide-lock & post system neatly written in drafter’s hand ms title on front cover burgundy-coloured calf corners dustsoiling edgewear rubbing rubbing to corners soot & dustsoiling to thick photo block fore-edges w/ some scuffing edgewear occasional minor closed tears a couple loose a few misbound in reverse or upside down about 30% of the photos with identifying stamps on images still a VG original exemplar. This stupendous factory photo album offers an essential photographic record of the vital role of road building emerging from the Good Roads Movement during the opening decades of the 20th century into the New Deal projects driven by the Roosevelt administration during the Great Depression and aspirations of creating and improving a massive Interstate Highway system. At the end of the 19th century less than 50% of roads within American cities had been paved and the very few highways and turnpikes connecting cities and towns were little more than crushed rock macadam dirt roads or even paths. By the early 1930’s there were many highways but most were in rudimentary condition forced through bottlenecks in every town along the route and all required significant upgrade to strengthen the cement and asphalt add rebar within the underlying roadbeds and special demand for the finisher machines produced by the Jaeger Machine Co. in Columbus and subsidiary Lakewood Machine Co. in Cleveland. Jaeger Machine Co. was originally founded in 1906 by Gehard Jaeger 1874-1959 and specialized in cement mixers roadbuilding equipment and later specialized concrete and cement finisher equipment for roads and airports. The 282 in-house photographs document not only the variety of cement finishers and road forms developed by Jaeger and Jaeger-Lakewood during the 1930’s into World War II but also capture street scenes road crews along with the growing demands in the West especially California. Projects such as road paving for the Bay Bridge project between San Francisco and Oakland CA by the Bates & Rogers Construction Co. of Chicago IL depict them working with Type D Jaeger-Lakewood Finishers the Type D Vibratory Machine and others laying and finishing the road deck from 1935-1937; several photos of the Type D Finisher used by the Pacific Bridge Co. on the Golden Gate Bridge road deck job from 1935-1937 featuring for both photos of the equipment as well as operating on the bridges. Also included are photos of Jaeger Finisher’s laying foundations of the Metropolitan Acqueduct Conduit in the desert East of Los Angeles CA in Mecca Riverside County operated by the Thompson-Starrett Co. firm. In addition there are photos of finishing the bottom concrete conduit for the aqueduct near San Jacinto CA by the Griffith Co. of Los Angeles in 1935. Road construction photos of the Type D Type C and later Type H finishers include those in Fort Knox KY near the Battalion Barracks in 1934; street scenes in and around Columbus OH showing roadbuilding and homes and street scenes in the background 1934-1935; road construction near Portland OR in Feb. 1935; F.P. McElwarath contracting building roads through Rockdale TX in 1934; as well as R.G. Curtis working with Type D Finisher for highway 10 miles east of Long Angles in 1936 along with photos of a Type D Finisher building roads through Minneapolis MN in Sept. 1936. Additional photos depict the Type D operating with new vibratory tube introduced in 1939 Type H Finisher working from 1940-1942 including the construction of airfields at the Muroc Bombing Airbase in Southern California in 1941-1942 now Edwards Air Force Base with the base’s main 15000-foot runway completed by December 1941 in a single pour of concrete using Jaeger finisher’s and roadbuilding equipment. The majority of the photographs are either marked with the T.H. Wolfram photographer’s imprint who appears to have been the major in-house photographer for Jaeger Machine Co. & Lakewood Engineering Co. through the 1930’s and early 1940’s. Theodore Henry Wolfram 1868-1960 began his career as a German-American chemist and photographer before the end of the 19th-Century in Columbus and would work as commercial studio through World War II. Arthur M. Prentiss 1864-1941 worked with Benjamin Gifford 1859-1936 George Weister Company and then Kiser Photo Co. until 1922 when Prentiss became a single professional photographer after acquiring Weister’s Studio and negatives. He specialized in views of the Columbia River Highway. Orville Logan Snider was a noted Southern California photographer best known for his many scenic night shots in and around Los Angeles and Hollywood as well as his movie studio photography from the 2920’s through 1950’s. Although the occasional product catalogues are held by Ohio Historical Assoc. libraries a few institutions including the Smithsonian as well as archival material held by the Columbus Metropolitan Library this cataloguer could locate no similar albums or small collections and/or archives of factory photos for Jaeger or Lakewood Engineering. Jaeger Machine Co., Lakewood Engineering Co., M.L. Cohen & Co., General Photographers, Arthur M. Prentiss, Commercial Photograph hardcover
Best.-Nr. 0081089New York: Wooster Projects 2008. Hardcover. Fine/Slipcase. 2008. Portfolio of 4 cibachrome photographs of Edie Sedgwick by Nat Finkelstein. Each photo signed and numbered by Finkelstein on the blank side. This copy is 1 of 3 artists proofs from a total of only 31 sets produced. Photos in full color and mounted between dibond aluminum and UV acrylic. Each measures 9 x 14 inches. In original black clamshell case. All contents Fine and like new. Published a year before Finkelstein's death. Nat Finkelstein 1933-2009 was a well known photographer who studied under Alexey Brodovitch and was a regular habitue at Andy Warhol's Factory from 1964 to 1967 and in fact was employed by Warhol as the Factory photographer. It is his photographs that mainly illustrated 'Andy Warhol's Index Book' and many of his photographs uncredited were published in Up-Tight the Velvet Underground Story. A rare and beautiful collection. Digital images available upon request. Wooster Projects hardcover
1719Best.-Nr. 61720Brooklyn NY: Brenack Inc. Moving & Shipping Co. Brenack Stevedoring Co. Inc. ca. 1917-1945. Two vols. 4to. 33; 70 leaves unnumbered. of archival mylar sleeves. Preserving 132 original photographs & negatives sized from 2.5 x 3.5 in. up to 8 x 10 in. many of them linen-backed including as well four 7.5 x 9.5 in. silver gelatin photos mounted on 8 x 10 in. studio boards all 4 w/ evidence of having been previously framed w/ old matting residue and mounting glue at fore-edges 2 original negatives; Vol. II’s majority of images are 8 x 10 in. several sized 4 x 6 in. and a few silver print negative prints with most of the images in both vols. bearing photographer’s imprint on verso w/in negative or embossed in lower fore-edge many w/ annotations several w/ typescript explanations occasional minor soiling edgewear some evidence that linen-backed were intended to be held in post-binder salesmen’s sample albums for the Brenack Co.; two TLS dated 1932 and second dated 1943 w/ several negative photo state silver prints to hand out to clients as endorsement letters during World War II. All now preserved in pair of cloth-bound 3-ring binders nearly all images with bright crisp contrast and excellent archive. This factory photo sales archive captures the innovations of Thomas P. Brenack 1882-1961 with his groundbreaking streamlined methods of employing vast warehouse spaces for disassembling packing and shipping of automobiles trucks aircraft and odd-sized industrial equipment overseas out of the Brooklyn NY docks during the opening decades of the 20th Century. Before FedEX UPS and other shipping companies became household names Brenack while working for B.J. Hall & Sons had concluded that the port of New York was so congested with freight awaiting shipment and every stevedoring enterprise overloaded with orders a new freight system was required. Subsequently beginning in 1916 he designed an entirely new system of specialist teams to quickly and efficiently disassemble and package difficult items as well as implementing better cranes upgrading flatbed trucks to carry the large shipping crates along with more systematic flow. Eventually the company developed logistics warehouses with capacity of 40000 tons of freight and entire lumber yards and companies fed the warehouses with supplies sufficient to disassemble and box up to 300 automobiles per day for shipment by sea along with other specialist items such as large amphibian clipper aircraft. Brenack Inc. employed several different commercial photographers including Rudy Arnold 1902-1966 Garcia & Zeuner Inc. Al Hoffmann Photo George W. King Commercial Photographers Union Photo Co. and even the photos of military freight shot by the U.S. Signal Corps. The first archive album opens with photos of a Mack Truck packed into a large crate being hauled by a 1924 Fordson Tractor followed by images of a open stave bed Mack Truck for the Orinoco Oil Company and image of a Mack Truck entirely disassembled and neatly in piles ready to be crated. Further images show Ford touring cars awaiting disassembly nested truck chassis being prepared for boxing along with images of a MACCAR dump truck and early Mack passenger buses. Many of the photos show the staged crates and frames to hold parts carefully boxed freight wooden boxes for M.S. Friede Co. and still more showing piles of boxed parts for shipment to the Soviet Union. Other images depict the vast warehouse floor filled with chain-driven conveyors and wooden crates unspecified drums being loaded into barges; aircraft parts from the Keystone Aviation Co.for the U.S. Navy being loaded into ships; followed by series of photos showing massive Sikorsky boxes 50 feet long being loaded from flatbeds. The second volume opens with images of the Brenack Inc. wooden boxes followed by series of photos capturing the company’s specialized service of shipping aircraft. Images encompass those of the Lockheed Electra fuselage with landing ear down onto the barge “Clermont;” Ford Tri-Motor parts loaded onto deck of a ship; stages of trucks being disassembled; vast piles of crates and boxes in warehouses along with a photo of the E.F. Ryman Lumber Co. yard and truck which was a supplier out of Wilkes-Barre PA. A 1932 letter to Brenack dated April 4 1932 outlines that “The equipment arrived there in very good shape with the exception of one job which had the case broken and showed signs of being roughly handled the lower crank case was cracked on this pumper. . . Everybody down there Bogota was pleased with these jobs.” The TLS is followed by series of photos showing the Mack Truck fire trucks operating and then crated for shipment to Colombia. Many other photos show the loading of several of Sikorsky S-43 “Baby Clippers” being disassembled and shipped which were used primarily for flights in the Caribbean to Cuba and within Latin America. Others depict the Naval versions of the Grumman G-21 Goose flying boars which were 8-seat commuter aircraft. Of particular interest are the several photos including silver prints of original negatives for the famed Martin M-156 “Russian Clipper” which had been rejected by Pan Am as they decided to use the Boeing 314 for the Clipper line in the Asia-San Francisco routes. The M-156 was packed up and shipped to the Soviet Union by Brenack where it flew with Aeroflot in the Soviet Union’s far-East routes under the designation of PS-30 flying until 1944. Also included is an original TLS from the Commanding officer of H.M.S. LST 428 of the British Royal Navy dated June 1st 1943 writing that “With reference to the cradles and securing of two tugs on the deck of this ship. You will be pleased to hear that your work stood the passage excellently and although at times we were rolling 35 degrees each side we hever had to touch any of your gear. . . .” Included in this archive are several photostat copies intended as promotional customer letters to hand out to Defense Dept. officials and other war materiel shippers during World War II. LST-428 was a tank landing ship transferred to the Royal Navy in Feb. 1943 after commissioning as part of Roosevel’s Lend-Lease program during the War and was returned to the US Navy June 10 1946 and decommissioned and scrapped by Oct. 1947. This cataloguer could find no similar archive of photos or even similar individual images in Institutional Collections; See: Germinal for Gravesend Bay The Success of a Brooklyn Boy Brooklyn Daily Eagle May 25 1919 p. 3; NY Marine News Service 1920. Brenack Inc., Moving & Shipping Co., Brenack Stevedoring Co., Inc., hardcover
1924Best.-Nr. 53007Rochester NY: Consolidated Machine Tool Corp. 1924-1953. Two vols. 4to. 147; 131 leaves all w/ 278 silver gelatin photos sized 8.5 x 11 in. all preserved in archival mylar sleeves and nearly all with typed captions dated and often pen & pencil annotations on versos most with hole punches at gutter blank margin from being bound originally in 3-ring factory binders. Uniformly bound in recent black cloth post-binders gilt lettering stamped on covers & spines NF set. This remarkable factory photo archive documents the durable and invaluable machine tools which built American industrial production through the 1920s and the post-World War II era. The Colburn drill presses turning lathes boring machines and boring mills were essential for such companies as Ford Motor Co. Maxwell Motorcar Co. John Deere Oakland Motor Car Co. Delco Light Co. International Harvester Nash Motors Co. Allis Chalmers Manufacturing Co. Caterpillar Tractor Co. Monarch Tractors Co. Hughes Tool Co. of Los Angeles part of Hughes Aviation Westinghouse and so many others. Many of the images show the connecting rods gears bearings engine blocks and other parts manufactured by these massive machines. A large number of the photos in the first volume show machines built and installed for the first National Machine Tool Builders’ Exposition which was held Sept. 19-23 1927 in the Cleveland Auditorium and attracted over 12000 attendees including Henry Ford the Dodge Brothers Durant George Westinghouse and many other automotive and industrial innovators and builders at the time. A number of these machines were also sold to Railroad companies including the Missouri Pacific the International & Great Northern Railway in Palastine TX the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. in Huntington WV and more. The second volume includes Newton duplex milling machines cold saws and hot saws for metal especially aluminum and more. These photos show Newton machines being sold to Dodge Chrysler Buick General Motors Ford Bendix Wright Aeronautical Corp. ALCOA as well as photos showing engine blocks being milled and the internal works of many of the machines. Newton was originally founded in 1880 by Charles C. Newton who specialized as a twist drill manufacturer in Philadelphia and continued to expand operations until merged with Betts Machine Co. and Colburn Machine Tool Co. in 1922 to form the Consolidated Machine Tool Corp. of Rochester NY. Colburn Machine Tool Co. was founded sometime in 1890 by Henry J. Colburn and after his death in 1902 was run by his son Leslie who died in 1918. The Company which maintained a number of machinery patents for drill presses and table saws was merged later with Consolidated in 1922. Consolidated Machine Tool Corp. operated on Blossom Road in Rochester NY producing tools and machinery used in metal and plastics manufacturing. In 1951 they were acquired by the Farrel-Birmingham Co. operating until 1983 when they were sold to the Conlon Corp. See: Directory of American Toolmakers: Early American Industries Association 1999; Betts Machine Co. Manufacturers Index Vintage Machinery 2017; Colburn Machine Tool Co. Franklin PA Manufacturers Index Vintage Machinery 2017. Consolidated Machine Tool Corp., hardcover
1931Best.-Nr. 48849Brooklyn NY: Consolidated Lithographing Corporation 1931-1962. Two vols. Thick oblong elephant folio 24 x 20 x 6 in. 206; 190 pp misnumbered in ink manuscript on corners of each page. With 2375 chromolithograph and colour lithographed cigar labels and cigar box labels most printed with elaborate embossed & gilt borders many with raised lettering & printing ranging in size from 3.25 x 3.5 in. up to 12 x 18 in. outer cigar box wrappers 25 printer’s proof sample pages -- mostly for Doubleday Books and Garden City Press largely 4to and Folio sized 3 Lotos Club menus 30 elaborately printed samples of Christmas wrap for Seagrams Avon Reader’s Digest & Revlon 1 giant Seagrams Christmas promotional banner 5 ft. 9 in. x 4 ft. 3 in. several uncut proof sheets for Paul Jones and Philadelphia Gold Label Whiskey Labels and even game box labels many with extensive manuscript ink annotations indicating lithograph stone No. production run and amount and date printed. Contemporary gray-green buckram over heavy boards rounded leather reinforced corners thick card stock leaves some of the labels creased w/ minor damage some paper-clipped in multiple batches tipped-in to each other minor tears some leaves cropped with samples taken out in which the stones were no longer some labels removed edgewear rubbing to covers still a remarkable set of factory sample catalogues including numerous in-house typed memos printer’s notes and more. These colossal and striking factory sample catalogues for cigar box labels wonderfully display a chromolithographic advertising archive by one of the largest commercial printing firms in the United States from the Great Depression until the Kennedy Administration. Jacob A. Voice formed the Consolidated Lithographing Corporation around 1925 by merging Wm. Steiner & Sons Lithographers the label producing division of American Lithographic Co. in 1929 as well as two other companies. So by 1935 Voice’s company was printing 6500 different labels for over 4000 million cigars. From the 1880s until the 1950s cigar manufacturers were one of the most competitive and lucrative industries in the United States and they employed raised lettering embossing and chromolithography of exceptional quality using printing processes which remained largely unchanged until the mid-20th century when photo-mechanical colour printing largely replaced traditional lithography. These samples provide incredible visual historical records of the cigar-box labels appearing on the ends top and sides of boxes serving as vital advertising display material in cigar stores and with the inner beautifully printed labels on the inside of the lid drawing the attention of the customers. In addition these provide an invaluable cultural archive of the influence of cigars produced from Cuban Puerto Rican and Floridan tobaccos in the 20th century. Over 150 different cigar company labels are preserved in varying states some with special holiday labels others with different colour schemes for varying markets and many over decades showing the changing tastes of the consumer and the advertising art. Included are such companies as Alcazar Judge Wright Ardova Phillies Stetson Wabon Faustino Rubens La Magnitaz Treaty Bond especially striking with images of Napoleon & Jefferson Famous Players White Owl Juan de Fuca White Heather Hauptmann’s National Speaker -- Joe Cannon Havana Ribbon Villa Reina Jockeys Benson & Hedges El Macco La Palina Paramount Admiration -- E. Regensburg & Sons Wm. Penn Panatelas Socrates Muriel Gato Donalda Jose Arango Van Dyck Optimo Dutch Masters Moonshine Crooks and many others. In addition there are product labels included for White Rock Orange Soda Ginger Ale Cola Root Beer Yuban Coffee Prest-of-Flex watch bracelets Champion Prest-o-Slide Buckles Flagstaff Jellys & Preserves Rubinstein & Revlon Cosmetics and much more. Consolidated also served as the colour printers for many of the Doubleday Books published in the 1950s including McCracken Hoofs Claws & Antlers; McCracken Charles Russell; Dare Wright Lonely Doll; Palazzo Don Quixote and many others. The beautifully printed Christmas wraps for cigar companies liquor companies such as Seagrams as well as Rubinstein Avon and Revlon are striking with colour embossing and gold work. The large Seagrams Christmas advertising Banner for 1954 at over 5 feet tall is visually impressive and offers a superb example of mid-Century advertising artwork and printing by Consolidated. The numerous memos blue-lines and proof sheets inserted throughout offer a historical record of how these labels wraps posters and books were produced at the time. See: Rickards Encyclopedia of Ephemera 2000 pp. 94-96; Twyman A history of chromolithography pp. 189-191. Consolidated Lithographing Corporation, paperback
1920Best.-Nr. 61659New York: American Publishing & Engraving Co. J.J. Schultz & Co. 184 William St. Bookbinder ca. 1920-1939. Thick folio. 13 x 19 x 3.5 in. 135 leaves numbered reverse in pencil on versos of last half. on linen with 4274 camera-ready clipart samples all w/ inventory numbers rubber stamped below the image sized approx. 2 x 2 in. throughout arranged in montages of 24 28 32 & 40 per page each carefully mounted some crossed out w/ annotation “Killed” and others worn through at the lower right corner of some leaves while just a few have been removed and in once case clipped from the upper fore-edge of the leaf. Contemporary light gray/beige buckram soiled dampstained wear at fore-edges partially shaken rebacked still a VG- exemplar. An extraordinary printing & engraving firm’s factory sample catalogue for over 4000 of their camera-ready clipart advertisements for subscribing businesses following World War II through the Great Depression and the New Deal programs of President Roosevelt. This superlative archive of images traces Art Deco styles spanning nearly two decades advertising campaigns printing styles fonts and with almost not repeated images offered by American Publishing & Engraving Co. AP&E Co. to their extensive client list. In addition these engravings capture the revolutionary changes in American industry and commerce with nearly 50% devoted to the automobile industry including automobile manufacturers and dealerships accessory suppliers automobile repair public safety from bad driving the fast-growing electric motors and battery industries and more. Ford the Dodge Brothers Buick Studebaker Cadillac Plymouth Auburn Chrysler Essex Auburn-Cord DeSoto Hudson Terraplane and many others all are featured here advertising their service departments features speed and more. A significant portion also reveal the very real needs to wash the cars clean engines repaint the lacquer update the automobile tops replace batteries repair radiators and the always pressing need to maintain safety equipment and tires. Interspersed as well are automobile movers commercial body builders for trucks and commercial delivery vehicles with a significant percentage showing cylinder grinding engine rebuilding boiler repair and other very necessary secondary market needs as metal alloys and tolerances were far less durable with breakdowns an ever pressing problem for the motorist. Public safety notices reflecting the impact of the Progressive Era illustrate the dangers of the automobile with many indicating streetcars potentially hitting stalled cars which had not been repaired properly gridlock automobile accidents from ignoring traffic signals and police traffic officers as well as speeders hitting pedestrians or ignoring motorcycle police traps. Early in the sample illustrations are many reflecting the interest in building large Tudor Revival or Arts & Crafts homes installing electric lighting new furniture stylish clothes & shoes beautiful Oriental carpets and jewelry and watches for young flapper-era women. There are also promotional ads for Art & Stained Leaded Glass windows for homes interior decorators a panoply of beauty products many reflecting the Flapper Era hair and dress styles as well as evolution of the Art Deco lettering. As the AP&E Co. continued to add their sample engravings through the Great Depression not only is there a greater emphasis on repairing automobiles shoes recovering furniture and even repairing mattresses reflecting the belt tightening of the 1930’s but there are also increasing influences of more streamlined automobiles introduction of appliances such as refrigerators appearance of beer ads following the repeal of Prohibition and the fast growing radio industry. American Publishing & Engraving Co. based out of New York was one of a myriad of job printer engraving firms who emerged at the end of the 19th Century and initially specialized in publishing local histories and genealogies for historical societies by subscription typically with illustrations. Although this cataloguer could find no specific trade reference either in contemporary magazines or newspapers they appear to have operated out of the same locations as the Atlantic Publishing & Engraving Co. with some overlap and by the beginning of the 20th Century had largely dispensed with publishing local histories engraved portraits or vanity press projects. Contemporary court cases and other references indicate that they operated a subscription service for businesses advertising art to be run in magazines newspapers pulps or added to trade literature for matchbook covers business flyers etc. and by 1916-1925 were managed by Thomas W. Smith. No similar factory sample collection or published collection located in Worldcat. American Publishing & Engraving Co., J.J. Schultz & Co., 184 William St., Bookbinder, hardcover