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2015rif. 202075New York: Matthew Marks Gallery 2015. First edition. Hardcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran May 13 through June 20 2015. Features an essay by Briony Fer. Includes 12 figures and 21 color illustrations. A fine copy in cloth boards and in a fine dust jacket and with laid in compliments slip. Matthew Marks Gallery unknown books
1932rif. 012382St. Louis: Wrought Iron Range Co 1932. Soft cover. Trade catalog 1932 version. Blind- ruled black heavy construction paper- like covers stamped in silver and pink measures approx 6" x 8.5" 223 pages. Detailed promotional catalog for the famous kitchen range and the company founded in 1864. Illustrated showing the evolution of the range from models from 1870 to its most current at the time 1933 and all its sectional parts. Text includes installation requirements chimney exhaust etc hundreds of kitchen recipes and lists of institutional installations of the wrought iron range across the US. Worldcat lists copies of trade catalogs for this company from 1881 through 1951; we could find 7 collections with this 1932 edition. We could find no original copies available anywhere only on-demand or new reprint copies. Covers soiled and the side edge of the rear cover has a short closed tear with some attendant loss. Wrought Iron Range Co unknown books
1888rif. 46016N.Y.: Burgoyne Quick Printing Co. 1888. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. Removed from a larger volume rear wrapper lacking minor soiling and browning ownership stamps and page renumbering in red. 17 pp. Sm. 4to. The Iron Mountain Railroad Company of Memphis was part of Jay Gould's extensive network of Railroads later taken over by his son named in this document George Jay Gould 1864-1923 Stamped on front wrapper & first leaf: Property of White & Kemble who'd published "Atlas and Digest of Railroad Mortgages" at the turn of the 20th century. We could locate no copies of this document in OCLC nor in other online sources. Burgoyne Quick Printing Co. unknown books
1968rif. 593627Salvador Bahia Brasil: Fondacao Goncalo Moniz for the Author 1968. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 131pp. Illustrated with a portrait of the author. Text in Portuguese. Oversized French-folded wrappers. Wrappers sunned at the spine and edges and with modest wear and a bit of soil very good or better. The text is fine. Nicely Inscribed to Knopf translator Pamela Bird in Bahia in the year of publication. Laid in is an advertisement for the Museum of Carmo the Carmelite museum Medeiros helped found at the Convent of Carmo where he lived most of his life. A book of religious poetry. The book appears to have been issued in at least three editions from 1968 to 1973 but all editions are very uncommon. OCLC locates three copies of a 1973 edition two of a 1971 edition and a single copy of this first edition at the University of Iowa. Fondac?a?o Goncalo Moniz for the Author unknown books
1856rif. 11228Philadelphia 1856. 4pp folded sheet original printed self wrappers with wrapper title. Light edge wear Very Good. The Statement says the Company can "not be surpassed by any similar one in the state with its facilities for getting coal agricultural produce and the means of sending their productions to the best markets." Its property 2000 acres of land is located in "Clinton county on Fishing and Bald Eagle creeks three miles from Lock Haven." It will manufacture iron lime mineral paint water cement and fire-brick. 383 NUC 0580427 2 locs. records the 1854 Act of Incorporation and By-Laws. FIRST EDITION. Not in Sabin Eberstadt Decker NUC. unknown books
1916rif. 004541Roanoke VA: Virginia Bridge and Iron Company 1916. Very good. Seven covers envelopes - unused n. d. ca 1916; 3 3/4 x 6 1/2; captioned monochrome illustrations from photographs to recto; one with a small cut to bottom edge else overall very minor wear; in very good to near fine condition. Founded in Roanoke in 1888 as the American Bridge Works its name would be changed to the Virginia Bridge and Iron Company in 1893 it would grow into a major structural steel and bridge builder eventually opening branch plants in Memphis and Birmingham and manufacturing hundreds of highway metal truss bridges railroad bridges and commercial building frames across the American South and Mid-Atlantic. A large number of their surviving structures are currently listed on the US National Register of Historic Places NRHP such as High Bridge in Farmville VA larkton Bridge in Nathalie VA the State Highway 23 Bridge at the Clear Fork of the Brazos River in Texas and so on. The current advertising covers featured various projects of the company including the Ocean Steamship Company's terminals in Savannah GA Norfolk and Western Railway Company Coal Pier in Norfolk VA which would evolve into the largest and fastest coal-loading complex in the Northern Hemisphere Mississippi River's Harahan Bridge in Memphis TN etc. Virginia Bridge and Iron Company unknown books
1977rif. 58273NY: Scribner's Sons 1977. First Edition the author first book. 8vo pp.86. Foredge foxed o/w a fine copy in dj. Signed by the author. Laid in is a note from Ferro to poet William Jay Smith: "Mr. Smith I am indebted to you for your kind words and gratified that you enjoyed the book with my very best wishes. Robert Ferro." Summers page 270. from Wikipedia: "Robert Ferro October 21 1941 – July 11 1988 was an American novelist whose semi-autobiographical fiction explored the uneasy integration of homosexuality and traditional American upper middle class values. He died of AIDS a few months after his partner Michael Grumley in 1988 at his father's home in Ho-Ho-Kus New Jersey age 46.35 Grumley and Ferro are buried together under the Ferro-Grumley memorial in Rockland Cemetery Sparkill New York. Following their deaths the Ferro-Grumley Foundation which manages their estate created and endowed the annual Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT fiction in conjunction with Publishing Triangle." Summers notes that Ferro was one of the original members of "The Violet Quill" which came together after the Stonewal Rebellion. l. Scribner's Sons unknown books
1876rif. 25449Portsmouth Ohio: Jas. W. Newman Printer Times Office 1876. 4" x 6.25". 15 1 pp with folding "Diagram List" and manufacturer's Note tipped in after title leaf. Original printed yellow wrappers rear wrap printed in red ink light wear stitched. Folding plate illustrates the patterns available to cut for customers partly printed in red ink. The final page notes that the company was 'built in 1871' and lists the officers: L.C. Robinson Vice-President; G.W. Weyer Secretary; and M.H. Ball Treasurer. Minor wear Very Good. Burgess Steel and Iron Works was named for Charles Burgess the general superintendent and director a native of England who immigrated to the United States in the mid-1860's. Company products were considered superior and won the highest premiums wherever exhibited. Not in Winterthur Romaine Eberstadt Decker. Not located on OCLC. Jas. W. Newman, Printer, Times Office unknown books
1890rif. 32067East Berlin CT: Berlin Iron Bridge Co ca. 1890s. Large broadside 31.75x47cm.; previous mail folds as issued very slightly postally used on verso else a Very Good or Near Fine example. Advertisement issued by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company depicting their "Patent" municipal signboards including information on production materials and a price guide. Text includes extracts from pertinent New England and mid-Atlantic state laws regarding guide boards. Presumably issued sometime after 1888 the laws in Vermont having been approved November 2nd of that year. As of today many of bridges built by the Company can be found on the National Register of Historic Places. One copy catalogued in OCLC as of November 2016 at the Connecticut Historical Society. Berlin Iron Bridge Co unknown books
1970rif. 160429N.p.: N.p. 1970. Vintage borderless oversize color reference photograph from the 1970 film showing actors Jim Brown and Marianna Hill. In 1860s Mexico two men lead a band of Apaches against a fortress said to contain the treasures of Austrian emperor Maximilian. Among the first films to be rated R. Shot on location in Almería Spain. 12 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine lightly curled at the edges. N.p. unknown books
rif. 4929AMERICAN IRON TRADE THE STATE OF THE TRADE AND MANUFACTORY OF IRON IN GREAT-BRITAIN CONSIDERED. London: 1750. 8vo. Disbound. 15 pages. First edition. Sabin 90633; Kress S-1991; Goldsmiths' Library 8504. An interesting anonymous tract largely about the trade in iron from the American colonies. Rare. Kress only records a photo copy. 4929. unknown books
1849rif. 18614Albany: Published for the Convention 1849. 58 2 pp. Disbound with narrow band of wrapper remnant else Very Good. A call by industrialists for protection to the Iron Industry with Erastus Corning and other prominent representatives of the manufacturing interests participating. As the result of the current system's relaxed trade barriers "the poorest qualities of iron are largely introduced to the great injury of the country in place of the more useful and better qualities these being more highly priced." FIRST EDITION. Sabin 35099. Not in Eberstadt Decker. Published for the Convention unknown books
1831rif. 231927Albany 1831. First. hardcover. very good-. Reports of Committees. On the Product and Manufacture of Iron and Steel. 32pp. Bound with: Proceedings of a Convention of Iron Workers Held at Albany N. Y. on the 12th day of Dec. 1849. 58 2pp. 8vo modern red cloth light foxing a few pages slightly underlined in pencil. New York and Albany 1831 1849. First Editions. unknown books
1878rif. 69740Cincinnati Ohio: St. Louis Iron Mountain and Southern Railway Company 1878. Single sheet folded. 32 x 48 cm. Map 26 x 36 cm. Includes rates of fare "in effect May 1st 1878."/ Shows stations along the railroad and connecting lines./ Text on verso: "Eastern Missouri and Arkansas."/ Relief shown by hachures./ Stamped on verso: Henry H. Hannan land agent Swan Creek Ohio. Some erosion at fold affecting some lettering with loss of a few words of text. Map is unaffected. St. Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern Railway Company] unknown books
rif. 218412Paris: Librairie Générale de L'Architecxture et des Travaux Publics Ducher et Cie nd. Missing 6 20 26 30 32 50 83 of 84 plates 2 of plate 22. 2 page of text. 1 vols. Folio. In portfolio. Some foxing to plates else near fine. Missing 6 20 26 30 32 50 83 of 84 plates 2 of plate 22. 2 page of text. 1 vols. Folio. Librairie Générale de L'Architecxture et des Travaux Publics Ducher et Cie unknown books
1837rif. 53481N.p. n.d. 1837. 8vo pp. 36; large folding lithograph frontispiece of the Iron Mountains of Missouri one other full-page map; removed from binding; very good. American Imprints notes 3 editions in 1837: Hartford Philadelphia and Boston. The present edition is not located in American Imprints. Missouri Imprints 197. unknown books
2013rif. 199941Zurich Switzerland: Hauser & Wirth and Xavier Hufkens in association with JRP/Ringier 2013. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Text in English by Briony Fer and Tacita Dean. Includes color illustration of 153 drawings by Roni Horn. A clean near fine copy in orange cloth boards with some light bumping to the top edge of the rear board and to the top right corners and in a near fine dust jacket with some minor wear. Please note that this is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. Hauser & Wirth and Xavier Hufkens in association with JRP/Ringier unknown books
1689rif. 322292Paris: Nicolas De Fer 1689. unbound. Map. Engraving with original hand outline color. Sheet measures 13" x 9.5". Image measures 12.75" x 7.25". This is a lovely 1689 map of Ireland by Nicolas De Fer. Depicts the Emerald Isle in its entirety color coded and subdivided into its four provinces of Ulster Connacht Leinster and Munster. Parts of Scotland the Isle of Man and England and Wales are also visible. Major towns lakes rivers and islands are noted in Ireland and mountains beautifully rendered in profile. The title cartouche represents the Celtic Harp. The map is in good condition with minor toning along the original fold. Original platemark visible. Nicolas de Fer 1646-1720 was a prolific cartographer engraver and publisher who took over the family map business from his mother when she retired in 1687. The business flourished and he gained a great reputation in his lifetime and was appointed 'Geographer to the King' in 1690. This map demonstrates his skill and provides a curious yet alluring mixture of history and geography. Nicolas De Fer unknown books
1750rif. 42149London 1750. 8vo. 6 7/8 x 4 1/4 inches. 15 pp. An abridgement of the Interest of Great Britain in supplying herself with Iron circa 1747. Half red morocco and marble paper boards. Marginal notes trimmed A conflicted call for economic protectionism on the eve of industrial transformation and a snapshot of British iron trade policy in 1750 caught between timber tariffs and transatlantic competition. An important and revealing mid-eighteenth-century pamphlet addressing the British iron industry at a moment of significant economic and technological transition. This work is considered an abridged version of The Interest of Great Britain in Supplying Herself with Iron published circa 1747 and offers a pointed critique of foreign and colonial competition in iron production. The anonymous author provides a rare quantitative estimate of domestic iron output 18000 tons annually and laments the numerous challenges facing British ironmasters including the rising cost and increasing scarcity of timber then still the primary fuel used in smelting. In a notably conflicted argument the tract decries the influx of Swedish iron while expressing even greater alarm over the growth of ironworks in Britain's North American colonies viewing both as threats to the domestic market. Strikingly the pamphlet makes no mention of the use of pit coal i.e. mineral coal in iron manufacturing a technological development that would prove pivotal. This omission is particularly curious given that Lord Dudley had patented the process in 1619 and that Abraham Darby's pioneering use of coke at Coalbrookdale had been underway for over a decade by the time of this publication. The absence of such a reference suggests either a conservative industrial perspective or a lack of awareness of emergent metallurgical practices that would soon transform the industry and pave the way for Britain's dominance during the Industrial Revolution. Referenced by J.R. McCulloch in his A Select Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts on Commerce 1859 who found it "curious" for its data and omissions alike this tract provides not only valuable insight into 18th-century economic policy and protectionist sentiment but also a fascinating snapshot of the iron trade on the cusp of technological upheaval. ESTC T76989; Sabin 90635. McCulloch The Literature of Political Economy 1845. unknown books
1888rif. 13170New York: The South Publishing Co 1888. 40pp. Illustrated. Yellow pictorial wrappers printed in red and blue. Wrappers detached and somewhat worn and soiled. Internally clean. Good condition. A rare pocket-sized and absolutely charming promotional for the industrial center of Sheffield Alabama in the 1880s. The promotional text is interspersed with full-page illustrations printed in either red or blue ink. Three copies in OCLC at the University of Alabama Auburn and the Wisconsin Historical Society Library. The South Publishing Co unknown books
1825rif. BK0190Stockholm Sweden 1825. One large folded commercial sheet written on several panels with integral address panel to Messrs. Brown & Ives Providence Rhode Island endorsed "Pr. Brig Harvest" with Newport "SHIP" marking. Headed "Triplicate. Old folds and light handling wear very good. A commercial letter and account from the Stockholm mercantile house of Kantzow & Biel to Brown & Ives of Providence concerning the execution of a large order for Swedish iron. The firm reports that it is assembling a shipment of arranging its transport while the accounting on another portion of the same sheet records the value of the iron and related charges. The letter reports: "the contents giving us the desired opportunity of confirming you Your order for a Shipmt. of 200 Tons Iron to be ship'd & appointed and convoy which we shall of course prevail the commencement on." The letter dates from a period of rapid expansion in Swedish iron exports to the United States which had displaced Britain as Sweden's most important foreign market for bar iron. Britain had reduced its dependence on Swedish imports while American tariff legislation favored hammered iron from Sweden and Russia over British rolled iron. American demand became particularly important to the Swedish industry in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. The United States purchased approximately three-fifths of Sweden's iron exports in 1822 with mainly American vessels engaged in the trade. The account also records a credit entered July 28 "By your proportion of dividend in payment from the Swedish Government". Brown & Ives had longstanding claims against Sweden arising from American property seized during the Napoleonic Wars including tobacco and rice belonging to the firm taken from the General Hamilton in 1810.1 The Swedish government finally settled the American claims in July 1825 following years of diplomatic representations concerning the confiscation and sale of American property at Stralsund. The credit recorded here appears to represent Brown & Ives's share of that indemnity entered less than two weeks after the settlement was formally concluded on July 16. The correspondence thus brings together two aspects of Swedish-American relations in the immediate postwar period: the expansion of an iron trade increasingly important to Sweden's economy and the settlement of commercial grievances dating back fifteen years. The shift reflected the changing geography of Atlantic commerce as Britain's increasingly mechanized iron industry reduced its dependence on Swedish imports while the rapidly industrializing United States emerged as Sweden's principal customer. However American iron production expanded enough to challenge Sweden's position in the American market particularly beginning in the 1830s and 1840s. 1 Calendar of the Miscellaneous Letters Received by the Department of State Government Printing Office 1897 47. . unknown books
1880rif. 59233St. Louis Mo.: Woodward & Tiernan Printers 1880. Broadsheet 28 3/8 x 15 3/8 inches folded to narrow 8vo recto with 13 panels of promotional text touting Arkansas as an agricultural paradise verso with a map of Arkansas featuring the railway lines and eight panels of promotional text illustrated with two wood engravings with some emphasis on healthful springs and "advantages to poor people." Stamp Agent on rear wrapper. OCLC locates four copies Arkansas-Fayetteville SMU Missouri Yale. Very good. Original illustrated wrappers with red highlighting. 59233. Woodward & Tiernan, Printers unknown books
1875rif. 37686St. Louis: The railway Jno. McKittrick & Co. printers St. Louis 1875. Broadside 21 x 7 inches three paragraphs of promotional material ticket office addresses and fare rates set in many typefaces and sizes including display type and illustrated with a circular bird's-eye view map below the heads. Some old staining mostly in margin; "Henry Hannan Land Agent" stamp else very good. Advertising ticket fares and lands for sale to customers in Ohio Michigan Indiana Illinois and Kentucky. OCLC locates two copies Yale Truman State University. The railway (Jno. McKittrick & Co., printers, St. Louis) unknown books
1869rif. 3723Galveston Tx 1869. Very good. 2pp. on a single folded folio sheet of lined paper with integral blank plus fourteen partially-printed receipts completed in manuscript. Minor dust-soiling creasing and edge wear. A post-Civil War manuscript agreement from Texas with the signatures of twenty-six investors transferring their stock in the Brazos Iron Bridge Company to John Sealy of the Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway Company. Additionally the document is noted and signed on the verso by Sealy transferring those same shares to Thomas W. Peirce. The document is accompanied by fourteen receipts for installment payments on capital stock purchased in the Brazos Iron Bridge Company some of which relates directly to the larger transfer agreement. The Brazos Iron Bridge Company was organized in 1867. Its mission was to construct a railway bridge across the Brazos River. The bridge completed in July 1869 was purchased by the Buffalo Bayou Brazos and Colorado Railway later known as the Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway Company. When the dust settled on the various transactions among the shareholders John Sealy owned a one-eighth interest in the railway company. Sealy moved from Pennsylvania to Galveston in 1846 and became an important early Galveston merchant real estate investor and railroad magnate. unknown books
1880rif. 55682St. Louis: Jno. McKittrick & Co. ca.1880. The Shortest and Quickest Route to Points in Missouri Arkansas and Texas An attractive broadside promotional for the St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern Railway with a large engraving in the center depicting the route from St. Louis through Arkansas and into Texas beneath a train wheel bearing wings about which the motto "Bound for the happy lands" appears all in the center of a circle of stars. A schedule of ticket costs for various routes is included as well as a pitch directed at homesteaders regarding the purchase of government lands. The names of three land agents are listed at bottom - one in Missouri one in Illinois and one in Arkansas. The railway touts their "large grant of lands from the United States Government embracing all varieties of soil and timber adapted to Farming Fruit Growing and Grazing purposes.Immigrants can locate on railroad land in well improved neighborhoods having Roads Mills Churches and Schools and peopled by honest and industrious citizens who will give a cordial welcome to all good people coming among them." Only six copies in OCLC spread over four records located at Yale SMU Michigan the University of Texas at Arlington Truman State and the University of Missouri at St. Louis. Old center horizontal fold small chip to left edge slight wrinkling. Very good. Matted and shrinkwrapped. OCLC 22160865 166641127 702349761 761878887. unknown books
