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1916Best.-Nr. 2210162Roanoke VA: Virginia Bridge & Iron Co. 1916. 1st Edition . Flexible leather. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. See photos for condition details. Original flexible leather handbook produced by theVirginia Bridge & Iron Company. Brown leather exterior with gilt to front and spine. Exterior shows edge and corner chips/wear and chipping is also present at top and bottom of spine. Interior binding is good no hinge issues nothing torn or loose. Previous owners name is written on front pastedown and it was also found two more times on interior pages where it was written along the top edge. The blank pages in the back along with the graph paper pages are all handwriting free. Only handwriting found in book were the three signatures in the number 238 written along the page edge of the copyright page. This is the first edition which shows no copyright or print date other than the serial designation of 9-16 September 1916. This is an extremely rare publication with only a few third editions surviving this one being the first. Virginia Bridge & Iron Co. hardcover
1705Best.-Nr. M4627Paris 1705. Very Good. Size : 230x340 mm 9x13.375 Inches Coloring: Hand Colored Category: Maps City Maps; Maps Europe United Kingdom England London unknown
1705Best.-Nr. M4703Paris 1705. Excellent. Size : 250x355 mm 9.875x14 Inches Coloring: Black & White Category: ; Maps Europe Germany unknown
1742Best.-Nr. M4678Paris 1742. Very Good. Size : 575x430 mm 22.625x16.875 Inches Coloring: Original Outline Coloring Category: ; Maps Europe Spain; Maps Europe Portugal unknown
1705Best.-Nr. M5230Paris 1705. Excellent. Size : 225x335 mm 8.875x13.125 Inches Coloring: Hand Colored Category: Maps City Maps; Maps Europe Portugal unknown
1703Best.-Nr. M5175Paris 1703. Excellent. Size : 225x325 mm 8.875x12.75 Inches Coloring: Original Outline Coloring Category: Maps Africa North Egypt; Maps Asia Middle East Arabia unknown
1705Best.-Nr. M6202Paris 1705. Excellent. Notes: An attractive map of the city of Narva besieged by a military encampment. The Battle of Narva was an early battle in the Great Northern War fought in November of 1700. The Swedish army under Charles XII of Sweden defeated a Russian force four times its size commanded by Peter the Great. Narva marked the peak of Swedish power on the continent with Russia eventually gaining decisive victories that were able to end the conflict. Size : 230x325 mm 9x12.75 Inches Coloring: Hand Colored Category: ; Maps Europe Estonia Latvia; Maps City Maps; Maps Military unknown
1694Best.-Nr. M7337Paris: N. de Fer c.1694. Very Good; . Notes: According to Kershaw this map was originally published in "Les Forces De L'Europe" "In August 1690 Sir William Phips left Boston to attack and capture Quebec. Previous military success at Port Royal had given the English an excess of confidence which Phips fully exploited in planning his expedition against Quebec but which quickly evaporated when the under-equipped force discovered the extent of the defenses at Quebec. The operation was disastrous and the English struggled back to Boston losing a number of ships on the way. The battle lines of the English fleet and the details of the French defences were recorded by Villenuve in manuscript form which were subsequently the source of a sequence of printed maps." Kershaw Size : 209x303 mm 8.23x11.93 Inches Coloring: Hand Colored Reference: Kershaw 279 Category: Maps Canada East Quebec Quebec City; Maps City Maps; N. de Fer unknown
1717Best.-Nr. M11008Paris: Chez l'autheur dans l'Isle du Palais sur le Quay de l'Orloge a la Sphere Royale 1717. Very Good. Notes: Beautiful example of the map of the Americas by renowned 17th century French cartographer Nicolas De Fer. Size : 225x337 mm 8.86x13.27 Inches Coloring: Hand Colored Category: Maps North America; Maps South America Countries; Chez l'autheur dans l'Isle du Palais sur le Quay de l'Orloge a la Sphere Royale unknown
1790Best.-Nr. M10223Paris: Chez Desnos 1790. Very Good. Notes: Detailed map of Portugal and western Spain showing Gibraltar region. Size : 580x432 mm 22.83x17.01 Inches Coloring: Original Hand Coloring Category: Maps Europe Portugal; Maps Europe Spain; Chez Desnos unknown
1937Best.-Nr. 234531937. Iron lung transport press archive documenting the movement of respirator-dependent polio patients through rail terminals ships ramps aircraft hospitals and Coast Guard facilities during the years before the Salk vaccine changed American polio care in 1955. The iron lung developed in 1928 by Philip Drinker and Louis Agassiz Shaw kept patients breathing when polio paralyzed the muscles needed for respiration. Fred B. Snite Jr. appears in several views as the nationally followed Chicago patient who contracted polio in China in 1936 and returned to the United States after a highly publicized 9300-mile medical journey. The group is strongest as a record of medical transport itself: nurses in masks uniformed officers attendants ramps crowds and captioned press slips show how survival could depend on coordinated movement as much as bedside treatment. Photo archive of 5 large silver gelatin press photographs approx 8 x 10 inches Chicago Seattle Port Angeles and related transport locations 1937-1951. Snite's respirator is loaded at a Chicago railroad terminal with his head visible through the front window while men adjust the wheeled carriage; another scene places the iron lung at a ship or dockside ramp surrounded by masked nurses uniformed officers and hospital attendants. A Chicago caption dated February 8 1939 reads "Iron Lung Kid and Bride Entrain for South" identifying Snite and his bride leaving for Miami Florida after their winter vacation. Another verso caption dated June 22 1937 describes his return to Chicago after transport from China where he had been stricken. A January 14 1951 Coast Guard caption identifies an iron lung flown from Seattle to Port Angeles to aid Eldon Tetum a 36-year-old logger stricken with polio. Polio epidemics made the iron lung one of the most visible medical machines of the mid-twentieth century especially before vaccination reduced annual cases after 1955. These scenes connect celebrity medical news to emergency public health logistics showing how mechanical respiration required attendants vehicles terminals aircraft and institutional coordination outside the hospital room. Press stamps pasted captions adhesive staining and surface marks visible on versos; images remain strong and readable. Overall in good condition. unknown
1715Best.-Nr. 019811Paris. Very Good. 1715. Map. Lovely engraved map depicting Mexico City in the early 18th century. Map is on a 10 ¾" x 15 ¾" sheet that was taken from Nicolas de Fer's "L'Atlas Curieux" of 1715; no content on verso. Date of map was printed in upper margin along with the sheet number "125" and title; content in French. Hand-coloring is still bright. Map has very light toning to edges but is otherwise clean. This detailed map depicts Mexico City when it was surrounded by water and was linked to the mainland by the famous causeways originally designed by the Aztecs. Also pictured are aqueducts and farms and about 50 locations have been numbered on the map but the key is not present likely printed on another page in the Atlas. A beautiful map. . unknown
1856Best.-Nr. 27974Nueva-York: Imprenta de Hallet 1856. Coal Mining in Mexico A Spanish-language prospectus for an American mining and land company on the Pacific coast of Mexico. Original printed wrappers. Rear wrapper detached spine mostly perished library blindstamp on front wrapper and withdrawal stamp on wrapper interior. Foxed. Good overall. SABIN 48572 note. unknown
1843Best.-Nr. BK0115Jackson Michigan 1843. Broadside 7 ¾ x 10 ½ inches. Single sheet printed in black. Old folds with short separations and small losses at several fold intersections and along the edges with general handling wear good overall. An early Jackson Michigan broadside issued by S. T. Carr offering ten dollars for the return of a wallet lost two days earlier on the road between the tavern of W. H. Monroe in Jackson and the Parma House. Carr describes the missing property in some detail: "A CALF-SKIN WALLET containing about sixty dollars in cash mostly in small bills one thirty dollar note and some papers of no value to any one except the owner. The inside of the wallet was marked S. T. Carr." Carr directed that the wallet be returned to him at Monroe's Exchange promising the reward "and no questions asked." Carr and W. H. Munroe appear together again two years later in the early history of Michigan's iron industry. In July 1845 they were among the Jackson men who organized an association to explore the mineral country south of Lake Superior. That fall Carr Munroe Philo M. Everett and E. S. Rockwell traveled north as an exploring party. Michigan mining histories record that Carr and Rockwell working with an Indigenous guide located the iron outcrop that became the Jackson mine; Carr continued the final search for the outcrop alone. The Jackson association subsequently became the Jackson Mining Company one of the earliest enterprises to develop the Marquette Iron Range.1 1 T. B. Brooks "Geological Survey of Michigan. Upper Peninsula 1869-1873 Accompanied by an Atlas of Maps" Legislature of Michigan and Julius Bien 1873 8. . unknown
1837Best.-Nr. 30091St. Louis 1837. 36pp folding plate frontis full-page map. Institutional rubberstamps at base of title page verso. Original printed wrappers light rubberstamp discard stamp on front wrapper. Otherwise Very Good. "Missouri Imprints Inventory No. 197 cites only one copy. This tract is probably the first description of Iron mines west of the Mississippi. The Iron Mountains were located in St. Francis and Madison Counties. A proposal is made to make iron rails for a railroad from the mountains to the Mississippi" Decker. AII MO 197 1. 37 Decker 214. Not in Eberstadt Soliday Graff. OCLC indicates a number of institutional copies. unknown
Best.-Nr. AQ27281s.i. London: s.n. s.d. c. 1730 3pp 1. Docket title to verso of second leaf. Disbound with slight chipping at gutter and extremities old folds slightly browned to extremities. Wax crayon numeral and ink paginations at head. A rare example of early eighteenth-century lobbying literature composed 'four years since' ironmaster and mintmaster William Wood 1671-1730 began exploiting newly developed methods of producing 'Iron with Oar and Pitcoal in Air-Furnaces' in enormous industrial works at Whitehaven apparently composed to discourage the Government from providing funds for the building of further furnaces near Chelsea high-road. In addition to decrying the quality of the iron produced and 'several notorious Frauds practised' by Wood's operation this work warned of the danger of his somewhat novel company incorporation practices and the possibility of these resulting in 'Stock-Jobbing and the Arts of raising Bubbles'. Rare; ESTC locates a single copy BL. ESTC T20614. Folio. [s.n.], [s.d., c. 1730] unknown
1890Best.-Nr. 502San Francsico California: Pacific Rolling Mill Company 1890. 8vo. 250 x 170 mm. 10 x 7 inches. 100 pp. plus 4 leaves of ruled paper 2 with measurements in manuscript. Illustrated throughout with simple drawings of parts many stenciled with green wash; one plate folding. Bound in limp cloth covered boards title in gilt on front cover; a cloth binding shows some wear to gilt title two pencil drawings on front endpaper; other a very good sound copy. Straight forward price list of iron bar steel rail rolled and forged metal axles nuts bolts washers and dozens of other metal products. There is no introduction about the history of the firm just images of parts prices and a few lines of text describing specifications for some of the more complicated manufacture items. What distinguishes this rare trade catalogue is the design sense of many of the images and the application of stenciled color to highlight the object. The printed form of the parts are in outline and as one pages through the catalogue the images take on an abstract quality. Metal parts become contoured shapes with form being determined only by the light green wash applied to the physical part of the design. Although unintentional I am sure this late 19th century publication replete with many of the characteristics of period book design exhibits a very modernist feel one that is most unusual in publications of this nature. Although called the 7th edition this is only one of three issues of the PRMC's product guide and price list that is known. Organized in 1867 PRMC grew continuously and by 1892 was producing more than 40 thousand tons of iron and steel. "This giant enterprise is so closely identified with the manufacturing interests of the Pacific Coast that there is scarcely a manufacturing firm or corporation on the Coast that does not depend upon its output. The mills are located at Potrero Point in South San Francisco and cover an immense area" Master Hands. Romaine Guide to American Trade Catalogues p. 200 this edition and one from 1886 both known in only one copy each at California Historical Society. OCLC cites an edition from 1885 in one copy at San Francisco Public Library and this edition 1890 also in only one copy at California H. S. See: Master Hands in the Affairs of the Pacific Coast Historical Biographical and Descriptive. A Resumé of the Builders of Our Material Progress. San Francisco: Western Historical Publishing Company 1892 pp. 260. Pacific Rolling Mill Company unknown
1880Best.-Nr. 57333Chicago: Rand McNally & Co. ca. 1880. Folding Rand McNally Map and Promotional for Eastern Texas Missouri and Arkansas A scarce promotional for Missouri and Arkansas published by the St. Louis Iron Mountain and Southern Railway featuring a folding map by Rand McNally & Co. The map shows cities rivers railways and geographical features from eastern Texas through Louisiana Arkansas Missouri Mississippi and parts of Illinois Indiana and Alabama. The Iron Mountain Railway owned a large land grant in the central United States but it was not allowed to sell until the railway was completed; now that time had come and they were advertising it heavily. Some of the attractions promoted in the text include wild game hunting including squirrels resources such as zinc and coal good soil river and rail transportation telegraph service "cheap homes in Missouri and Arkansas" and low property taxes. They also exhort the nervous migrant: "This is the time to have decision of character or the opportunity will be lost to you and to your family forever. The strong-hearted Europeans who settled America did not know what they would reap from planting in strange soils and climates. Why should you hesitate about a country peopled an hundred years and well known Have manhood and come." The authors do not limit their reach to the United States either as they make sure to note after listing their prices that "One dollar in American is equal to about four shillings in English money." Also included is a panel of text with a table describing the climate of Little Rock and a list of instructions to railroad agents. The St. Louis Iron Mountain and Southern Railway originally established to deliver iron ore from Iron Mountain Missouri to St. Louis eventually stretched from eastern Texas through Missouri and Arkansas. In 1883 it was acquired by Jay Gould and in the 1900s merged into the Missouri Pacific and later Union Pacific Railroads. The folksong "Iron Mountain Baby" tells the true story of a Civil War veteran who walking along the railroad collecting building materials discovered a baby who had been apparently thrown from the train in a valise. When the child grew older the railway paid for his education. The Iron Mountain Baby's story became popular around the United States and has been recorded in numerous forms throughout the years including the 2014 stage musical adaptation Bright Star written by musician and comedian Steve Martin. Though the Iron Mountain Railway put out a number of such promotionals in the late 1870s and early 1880s they remain rather scarce; OCLC records this edition focusing on Arkansas and Missouri only at Harvard and the University of Arkansas at Mullins. Old folds. Minor tanning. Slight splitting along some folds and a few cross-folds. Very good. unknown
1705Best.-Nr. M772Paris 1705. Excellent. Notes: This map covers the Gulf of Mexico through Central America and includes parts of Cuba and Jamaica. It extends through Mexico to show the southern tip of Baja California. This is an early map to show the correct location of the Mississippi River delta gleaned from the expeditions of La Salle and Iberville. Two French forts are located: LaSalle's Fort St. Louis in Texas Fortbati en 1685 and another near present-day New Orleans. One of the prominent features in northern Mexico is Les Fameuses Mines de Ste. Barbe the legendary Santa Barbara mines of the Chihuahua-Durango region. Size : 230x335 mm 9x13.125 Inches Coloring: Original Outline Coloring Category: Maps Central America Mexico unknown
1705Best.-Nr. M5280Paris 1705. Excellent. Size : 225x340 mm 8.875x13.375 Inches Coloring: Hand Colored Category: ; Maps Europe Estonia Latvia unknown
Best.-Nr. 1401JC073Nuova Raccolta Colombiana. Introduzioni note e schede di con la collaborazione di Carla Pampolini Laura Monferdini Maria Teresa di Palma. Coordinamento redazionale ed editoriale Gianni Eugenio Viola. Ministero per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali. Comitato Nazionale per le Celebrazioni del V Centenario della Scoperta dellAmerica. Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato. Roma. 1991. De 30x21 cm. com 655 págs. Encadernação do editor em pergaminho rígido com ferros a ouro na lombada e nas pastas e acondicionada em caixa. Profusamente ilustrado com as várias efigies de Colombo com os mapas gravuras desenhos e inscrições da época. Obra impressa em papel de linho filigranado produzido especialmente para esta edição e apresentando marca-de-água com a efigie de Colombo em todos os fólios. Inclui bibliografia e índice. Obra completa pertencente à colecção editada pelo Estado Italiano com o título de Nuova Racolta Colombiana. Tiragem especial de 47/100 exemplares. I-27-E-4 unknown
1950Best.-Nr. 39.184Santander: Proel 1950. 1ª ed. Rústica. 17x24.3. Retrato de Ricardo Zamorano. Dedicatoria autógrafa al poeta santanderino Ignacio Romero Raizábal con un dibujo original y fechada en 1950. Ligeras huellas de óxido en unas pocas páginas pero muy buen ejemplar. Este es el segundo libro de poesía de Hierro. Proel paperback
Best.-Nr. SONG1138035084Used: Good unknown
1996Best.-Nr. 403084California 1996. Hardcover. Near Fine. A Collection of 100 used concert tickets featuring punk new wave and heavy metal bands performing in California from 1983 through 1996. The tickets vary in size from 3” x 2” to 5.25” x 2.5”. All items are near fine with light soiling and a modest amount of creasing except for three torn tickets and 4 tickets stubs from use. The L.A. and Bay Area rock scene started in the late 1970s until new wave and heavy metal bands became the central focus of the 1980s. Some of the bands include: Mötley Crüe Iron Maiden Guns N’ Roses Depeche Mode Fatal Attraction Porno for Pyros Billy Idol Culture Club and others. The tickets span from Los Angeles to San Francisco and cities in between from 26 different venues some of which include The Troubadour Coconut Teaszer The Stone Trocadero Transfer The Metro Cow Palace The Palomino and Filthy McNasty Station. Many of the tickets are bright colors with printed pictures and stamped band logos showing the typographic designs of the time frame. Many bands kicked off their careers in California during this time. Mötley Crüe a popular heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1981 is featured here playing at Oakland stadium on October 10 1987. The band is well known for their heavy make-up shocking clothing high-heeled boots and their abuse of drugs and alcohol. In 1985 the band transitioned to a more glam metal style influencing the heavy metal signature look. Guns N' Roses formed in 1985 in Los Angeles and is featured here playing at the Warfield Theatre on February 5 1988. They are a hard rock band that quickly gained popularity after the release of their debut album “Appetite for Destruction” which has sold over 28 million copies worldwide. The band has been labeled as the "the most dangerous band in the world" due to their rebelliousness and were credited to the rekindling of rock music during a time of dance music and glam metal. 1n 1992 Porno for Pyros formed in Los Angeles as an alternative rock group formed out of Jane’s Addiction. They are featured here playing at the Trocadero Transfer on June 19 1996. Their shows featured props extras and pyrotechnics. The band lasted through the mid-1990s and mixed the sounds of grunge and rock together. In the 1980s California became the melting pot of music genres mixing in punk rock new wave and metal. Certain venues became synonymous with the music genres and bands of that time. The Stone opened in the 1980s and was linked to the Keystone Berkeley and Keystone Palo Alto. It was large enough for a capacity of 700 sold only hard liquor at the bar and attracted an audience with bigger hair bigger shoes and makeup. It featured many local and big name artists in its day and was an important part of the Bay Area rock scene in the 1980s. The Coconut Teaszer operated from the 1980s through the mid-2000s. It hosted bands from all genres and featured a downstairs acoustic bar named “8121”. Sawdust on the dance floor and giant goblets for draft beer were some of the popular trademarks of the venue. One of the notable and peculiar policies of the venue was “no open toe shoes” which was painted on the front door. The Troubadour which is still functioning today opened in 1957. New wave and punk was the main feature for The Troubadour in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Through the 1980’s the venue became synonymous with the heavy metal genre and glam bands during that time. Today The Troubadour is revered as one of Hollywood’s most respected places to see live music. An attractive collection of brightly colored concert tickets featuring popular heavy metal and punk bands from the 1980s through the mid-1990s displaying over a decade of music in California. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 2539Europe: Paris de Fer. N 1705. Copper engraved map of Portugal and part of Spain by Nicholas de Fer from his "Atlas ou Recueil de Cartes Geographiques" Original old full wash colour; verso blank. The map shows the south western part of the Iberian peninsular: Portugal; the Algarve and parts of the kingdoms of Estramadura AndalusiaGrenada Leon and Castille extending down to the straits of Gibraltar. Good dark impression; colours bright; old ink number to upper blank margin; guard attached to upper margin; light diagonal creases towards centre fold other small printers creases/ wrinkles to centrefold; old ink title to verso. Nicholas de Fer 1646 - 1720 was the son of cartographer Antoine de Fer. Nicholas was established as an engraver cartographer and map publisher in Paris. De Fer was a prolific cartographer with over 600 maps and atlases to his credit. De Fer's work though replete with geographical errors earned a large following because of its considerable decorative appeal. In the late 17th century De Fer's fame culminated in his appointment as Geographe de le Dauphin a position that offered him unprecedented access to the most up to date new cartographic information. He would later be appointed Geographe de Roi to the kings of both France and Spain. Pastoureau FER II C 72. Europe Spain & Portugal Portugal Paris de Fer. N 1705 unknown
