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1833123235Small slim 4to. Paris: Techener 1833. Small slim 4to32ff printed in black letter on vellum woodcut illustration on t/p. Original full orange morocco backstrip gilt black label modern quarter red morocco box bookplate of Robert Hoe. A fine copy with some fading to the boards. § Unique copy printed on vellum Hoe's copy with his bookplate of this first facsimile reprint of the extremely rare French edition of 1530. This was one of several tales printed in the sixteenth century as a collection itself of the utmost rarity. We have not located a single copy in the US. Techener hardcover books
1864228980Mobile Alabama: S.H. Goetzel; Farrow & Bennett Printers 1864. First edition in English. 4 vols. 8vo. Printed wallpaper wrappers worn and fragile; back wrapper of Vol. II missing. In blue cloth drop-box. First edition in English. 4 vols. 8vo. In Wallpaper Wrappers. Rare and telling example of printing in the confederacy toward the end of the war when paper was so scarce the publisher was forced to use wallpaper taken from Southern homes for the wrappers. Parrish 6437; Crandall M.L. Confederate imprints 3106 S.H. Goetzel; Farrow & Bennett, Printers unknown books
182628188Boston: various imprints but mostly published by the Society 1826-1941 1826. Some wear and chipping to the broadsides; overall in very good condition. 12 items several of which once belonged to the Society viz: Jefferson's Clark's "Address Delivered at the Anniversary Celebration of the Franklin Typographical Society January 17th 1826;" "The Proceedings at the Printers' Festival Held by the Franklin Typographical Society January 15 1848;" a small scrapbook of 30 leaves with newspaper clippings and manuscript annotations chronicling the activities of the Society; menus and proceedings from their annual dinners honoring Benjamin Franklin etc. A detailed description is available. An interesting small archive of material that chronicles the life of a benevolent society devoted to printers in and around Boston. The Franklin Typographical Society was active from its founding in 1824 well into the 20th century. Isaiah Thomas was an honorary member. In 1899 its membership numbered 500 but by the second decade of the 20th century it was in gradual decline which parallels the decline of the printing trades in general. <br/><br/> Boston: various imprints but mostly published by the Society, 1826-1941 unknown books
183027456Boston: Boston Chemical Printing Company 1830. 12" x 11" broadside poem printed on white cotton cloth in two columns. A decorative rectangular border surrounds the poem. The inside border is surrounded by twenty vignettes in oval borders. Vignettes include animals such as a fox and an owl as well as scenes such as a soldier leading an army a king holding his scepter a face in the clouds blowing wind at the trees. Spotted at lower left corner and another light spot. Very Good. <br/><br/> This poem is a dialogue between Charles and Father concerning the reformation of Neighbor Joe a former drunk who would curse and beat his wife and children. He told Father that through the example of his eldest daughter Emeline a student in the Sabbath School and follower of the Bible he was able to ask God for forgiveness and change his wicked ways.<br/>OCLC 30730589 4- AAS Mass. Hist. Soc. Yale Brown as of December 2018. Benes Textiles in New England II page 200. Boston Chemical Printing Company unknown books
185148314San Francisco / New York: "Gregory's United States & California Express" 280 Montgomery Street / Thompson & Hitchcock 149 Pearl Street 1851. Shiny dark blue paper covers with gilt stamped lettering stapled. Buff paper mailing envelope. Wrapper insides: front instructions for use; rear 2 estimonials dated 1851 from the Panama Star newspaper. Unused Nr Fine with an envelope in similar condition. Unpaginated blank pages. 4-3/4" x 2-7/8" <br/><br/>From the inside of the front cover: "Gregory's California Express. This line one of the oldest established in the business dispatch messengers BY EVERY STEAMER leaving New-York and San Francisco in charge of Letters Parcels Packages Gold Dust and valuables for distribution throughout the United States and California. If possible letters should be directed to the care of mercantile houses or well-known residents in San Francisco or other parts of California by which means their earlier delivery may be insured. Letters directed simply to 'California' or 'at the mines' will not be forwarded as little probability exists of their reacing the persons so vaguely addressed." From the rear cover: "The Central Office of this Express is located in the throughly fire-proof building corner of Montgomery and Merchant Streets San Francisco from which the proprietor Daily dispatches Expresses by steamboat to all parts of the Mines and to Portland Oregon and Honolulu Sandwich Islands on the arrival of ecah steamer with packages from the States." A rare Gold Rush survivor documenting the 'letter & dispatch' business of the era. "Gregory's United States & California Express," 280 Montgomery Street / Thompson & Hitchcock, 149 Pearl St unknown books
1819SS321-001Various: Various 1918-1955. Hardcover. Very Good. For an itemized list of the items in this lot please inquire. Condition Very Good to Good. The Courier-Journal newspaper began publication in Louisville Kentucky in 1868 - the last run of the Courier-Journal newspaper was Sunday February 28 2021; the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company printing facilities closed for good on March 4th 2021. The material offered here is dated 1918 through circa 1955 and includes technical material used by apprentices and compositors working in the composition and press rooms of the Courier-Journal Job Printing Co. Included are 6 volumes of the Typographic Technical Series For Apprentices Part VI Nos. 32-40 out of series Chicago IL: Published by the Committee on Education United Typothetae of America 1918. All copies with the bookplate "Property of Courier-Journal Job Printing Co. For EMPLOYES' sic Use Only Return to Superintendent's Office" in a handsome Art Nouveau design on the front paste-down. This educational material demonstrates that the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company was unionized at least from the beginning of the twentieth-century and highlights the power and influence of typographers who were among the most educated economically mobile wage laborers in the United States and who were represented in every major urban center in the newspaper industry; the typographic unions won a 48-hour work week in 1897 and a standard wage scale throughout the newspaper industry; as an example of the power of the typographers unions in the 1930s the International Typographical Union introduced the 40-hour work week across the industry which spread to other unions and has sinse been codified across the labor sector by federal legislation; the typographers occupied an important if ambiguous place in the development of American labor history in as much as American labor was never successful in uniting all laborers together in one force but tended organize within industries. This grouping tends to focus on the tools of the trade including type specimens and catalogs of process inks issued in the 1920s and 1930s; Courier-Journal typographers left notes to themselves in these catalogs indicating material they felt needed representation in the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company's shops. Something of an outlier in this grouping is an accordion-fold volume of photographs of printing equipment available for use in the 1950s by the competing print shop The Standard Printing Company Incorporated of Louisville Kentucky. Most likely a salesman's dummy to show potential clients that The Standard Printing Company had the latest printing equipment and the most prestigious customers this undated circa 1955 without imprint accordion-fold photo-archive of printing equipment shows the most modern print shop of the 1950s. The earliest book printed by the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company was issued in 1884. An interesting article by Chris Kenning in the Louisville Courier Journal March 11 2021 gave some valuable insights into the history of the newspaper the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company and the challenges to the newspaper business and printing in general in the United States with the advent of desktop computers and the rise of the internet. While the Kenning article did not touch much on the time period 1918-1955 there are still interesting stories to tell about the printing industry in America the place of printing in the American labor movement and printing technology in the first half of the twentieth century that can be told using the materials offered here as visual aids. With the sale of the Courier-Journal to the Gannett Co. Inc in 1986 the road to the shut down of the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company was opened. Now the Courier-Journal newspaper will be printed in Indianapolis IN. The current print circulation of the paper is now under 60000 while the Courier Journal's digital journalism garners 4.5 million monthly visitors to their website. Media consolidation has been made possible with the internet's ability to distribute news on a minute-by-minute basis making regional newspapers printed on paper a redundancy. The Cincinnati Enquirer the Lexington Herald-Leader the Bowling Green Daily News are all regional newspapers that will no longer be produced locally after having been produced in Louisville by the presses of the Courier-Journal. This consolidation of the newspaper industry means the loss of 102 Louisville jobs including printing press operators mailroom and transportation jobs that have been lost to the relocation of the press work to Indianapolis. Various hardcover books
184765229Paris: Imprimerie Royale 1847. publisher's printed boards later linen drop box. Type Specimens. 4to. publisher's printed boards later linen drop box. ii 65 pages. First edition. Audin 14 Updike II p.327 Burke 596. Presents typographic specimens from the Imprimerie Royale in more than thirty languages including ancient Egyptian Chinese Armenian Syriac Arabic Mongol Tibetan Russian Runic Anglo-Saxon German Fraktur Javanese and Gujarati. The two-page comparative table of Roman types shows those used by the Press from 1640 to 1846 with one font attributed to Garamont and others engraved by Grandjean and Alexandre Luce Firmin Didot Jacquemin and Legrand. Updike calls this "one of the most enlightening documents about French typeface in existence." Some minor wear at foot spine and upper tips. Imprimerie Royale unknown books
1847109513Paris: Imprimerie Royale 1847. original publisher's printed paper covered boards. Type Specimens. 4to. original publisher's printed paper covered boards. iv 65 pages. First edition. Audin 14 Updike II p.327 Burke 596. Presents typographic specimens from the Imprimerie Royale in more than thirty languages including ancient Egyptian Chinese Armenian Syriac Arabic Mongol Tibetan Russian Runic Anglo-Saxon German Fraktur Javanese and Gujarati. The two-page comparative table of Roman types shows those used by the Press from 1640 to 1846 with one font attributed to Garamont and others engraved by Grandjean and Alexandre Luce Firmin Didot Jacquemin and Legrand. Updike calls this "one of the most enlightening documents about French typeface in existence." With hand-written presentation at top of half-title by M. Saint Georges Director of the Imprimerie Royale and officer of the Legion d'honneur to a major in the Imperial Guard of the Sultan on 30 October 1850. Top of spine rubbed; corners of boards rubbed and scuffed at edges. Cover slight sun fading. Ownership inscription on title page. Imprimerie Royale unknown books
181123306Oyster Bay Long Island New York: Not Published 1811. Collection includes 17 separate documents all of which reference this court case regarding the petitioner Alexander Peacock an insolvent debtor from Oyster Bay Queens County Long Island NY; appearing before Cary F. Dunn Jr. first judge of the court of common pleas County of Queens; Peacock was ".conforming himself to the directions of the act entitled 'An act for the benefit of insolvent debtors and their creditors'."; the first document partially printed titled No. 1 Petition has been notarized with the blindstamp at top of E. Ely Notary and is addressed to Judge Dunn; the next is the proof of residence deposed and signed by John B. Hicks & the judge; the following is an Account of Creditors a long list of over 30 names and including individuals living in New York Philadelphia and New Jersey the debts amounting to $ 5468.00; next is an accounting of the 6 suits and judgements brought against Mr. Peacock including that of Joseph C. Hornblower of Newark NJ James King and Archibald McKellar of the City of New York and others; the next document is an inventory of the estate of Peacock with a list of 15 people who have notes outstanding owed to him including Benjamin Smith Gilbert Robertson & Co. David R. Floyd Jones Luther Hildreth a Mr. Sibbsone of England Capt. Jones of the United States Vessel Revenge and Louis Jones a Colored man totalling $ 5647.62 - the back of this sheet gives a list of the "Body Clothing Beds & Bedding." Peacock being fairly well-dressed and provided for; other documents here include the Oath certifying the amounts owed; a certification of copies of the documents by James Fairlie Clerk of the Supreme Court; a legal agreement & acknowledgment from Peacock to meet with creditors at the house of Joseph Roe innkeeper in the Village of Jamaica; also is the "Order for Advertisement" document signed by Judge Dunn requesting that the notice of the meeting be published ".in the paper printed by the printer to the State and in the Columbian and Long island Star for six weeks successively requiring his creditors to appear before me at the House of Joseph Roe."; attached here are the printed papers completed in manuscript attesting to the publication of the notice to publicize by the judge from Charles Holt printer of the Columbian and counter-signed by James Campbell Master in Chancery and tipped-on is a printed copy of the actual advertisement as it appeared in the newspaper; with a similar notice from Solomon Allen printer of the Albany Register another from Alden Spooner printer of the Long Island Star both of these also with their samples of notice tipped-on; with a notice signed by the judge assigning all of Peacock's properties excepting his bedding & clothing to his creditors; and an attesting witness of the judge's assignment signed by Edward Parker; with a certifying document with original seals of Peacock's main creditors receiving conveyance of his estate as assignees in satisfaction of the debts signed by Edward Parker John B. Hicks and Christian Truss as witnesses signed & sealed by Wm. Wright David Findlay and Wm. Crow with the verso attested to by the judge; with a notice of oath-taking of Wright & Findlay to uphold the decision of the court; and a similar oath by Wm. Crow and signed by Judge Dunn; each page is signed by Alexander Peacock; originally these were all sealed or adhered to each other at the top of the sheets to make one continuous 'case' of materials - some of the old glue has given way and now there is separation of the pages; varying sizes from 6 3/4" x 8" to 8 1/2" x 13 1/2" size sheets; most of the paper of very good quality chain-laid some with the paper makers' watermark; some edge tips wear and chipping to edges some darkening and old fold lines; in very good condition overall and a collection offering a glimpse of the process for relieving debt in this case substantial especially useful for outlining the entire process under the law in the early days of the American Republic; interesting legal history documentation. Noteworthy individuals mentioned in this case are: Joseph Coerten Hornblower 1777 - 1864 American lawyer and jurist from Belleville New Jersey Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court; Alden Spooner 1783-1848 who ".has the distinction of being a printer in two Long Island towns Sag Harbor and Brooklyn. It was natural that he chose to be a printer as his father Judah Paddock Spooner was the pioneer printer of Vermont and his uncle Timothy Green was a printer in New London Connecticut." Spooner also started Brooklyn's first daily newspaper Doggett Long Island Printing; Judge Carey Dunn Jr. Revolutionary War veteran; Commodore Jacob Nicholas Jones 1768 - 1850 officer in the United States Navy during the Quasi-War with France the First Barbary War and the Second Barbary War and the War of 1812. Manuscript. Not Bound. Good. Not Published Paperback books
1865WRCAM54141Mound City Il 1865. 1p. Two older tape stains else clean. Very good. A rare U.S. Mississippi Squadron Special Order from Rear Admiral Samuel Lee on the Flag Ship Tempest passing along a confidential telegraph order from Gideon Welles Secretary of the Navy. Admiral Lee conveys the order that "the utmost vigilance should be exercised on the Mississippi River especially the lower portion of it to prevent the carrying across of plunder and property in the hands of Jeff Davis and his Cabinet and also to seize their persons." Davis and other Confederate leaders had fled Richmond and the oncoming Union Army; they had hoped to find sanctuary outside the United States. At one point they hoped to cross the South and reach Mexico. Davis his family and entourage were captured in Georgia on May 10. unknown books
187027000105Chicago 1870s-1890s. Extensive information on growers and producers and the networks required to feed America at the time. The assumption of Chicago for the first journals is based on the bookseller labels in the journals and the accompanying letterhead. The Boston location was determined by reference to Boston based individuals in the journal and the address on the accompanying envelopes. All of these materials were found in one location without further information. A collection of five journals for Fruit Vegetable Butter and Egg Shipper Journals from the 1870s-1890s. The four larger format journals are most likely from Chicago detailing the various farms from which they received their product. Four of the journals list out each farm and their location and are believed to be from the 1870s-80s. They are accompanied by a letterhead for J. C. Wallace Commission Merchant Jobber and Shipper in Foreign and Domestic Fruits Nuts Produce etc. Chicago 1875. The titles of these four journals are: "Early Fruit and Vegetable Shippers No. 3 Bermuda Veg. Shippers" "Butter and Eggs" "Shippers of Early and Late Potatoes" and "Shippers of Blueberries Blackberries Raspberries Huckleberries Gooseberries Whortleberries Snowberries Dewberries Currants Cherries and Winter Green Berries and Elderberries". Each of these journals is approximately 120 pages long with an alphabet index tab on the side. The shippers are organized alphabetically by last name followed by their location. With the exception of the "Early Fruit and Vegetable" journal which also includes locations in Bermuda all the farming locations are from various towns all over the United States. Often within each letter there are subcategories mostly references to either 'early' or 'late' seasonal shipments. However the Berry Journal is also subdivided by individual berry type all of which were listed in the title of the journal and the Butter and Egg Journal which has the subcategories of Butter and Eggs Creamery Butter Roll Butter and Pickled Eggs. The locations are predominantly Midwest and southern states including Illinois Michigan Tennessee Louisiana Kentucky Florida Mississippi Arkansas etc. Butter and eggs journal also includes Missouri Wisconsin and Iowa. Black leather covers measure 13" x 8". The fifth fruit journal is a smaller ledger with a variety of information in it. It starts with a list approximately 37 pages long of shippers of fruits and vegetables. It is most likely from the Boston area from the late 1890s. This journal was accompanied by envelopes from the New England Fruit & Produce Co. The is an average of 8 shippers listed on each page which includes their names and locations as well as the exact items they are shipping. Such as peaches asparagus tomatoes grapes melons onions or pears. The next 24 pages of the ledger lists the sales from September 20 1897 to October 9th 1897. These daily sales lists are either detailed list of each product sold that day or a more simple list which simply totals the amount of cash sales for that day. Measures 11 3/4" x 5 1/4". <br/><br/> hardcover books
189820127Paris: Imprimerie de Vaugirard 1898. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. decorated in color Art Nouveau portfolio. Fine. 27 x 21 cm. Twelve separate full-page color plates printed on glossy stock by prominent and less known Belle Epoque artists depict a variety of scenes some sporting and military but balance more characteristic of each artist's style. such as the charming five singing children by Boutet de Monvel. A month by month list of artists follows January through December respectively: Henri Boutet de Monvel Leon Sabattier Maurice Orange E. De Monzaigle Paul Destez Felicien De Myrbach Reichan Leon L'Hermitte A. Parys Emile Caran d'Ache Leopold Kowalski and Luc-Olivier Merson. Each plate with two holes at upper margin as issued for silk ties no longer present. Issued as a promotion for a leading chain of clothing shops in Paris Lyon Marseille and five other French cities. Interior and covers almost as new. Imprimerie de Vaugirard unknown books
18759365Paris: Ve. A. Morel 1875. First edition. 20 chromolithographic plates 5 uncolored architectural views. 1 vols. Folio. Half red morocco. Some rubbing and chipping with head of spine missing corners repaired with red cloth not unattractive. 2 Photographs of Sainte Chapelle loosely inserted paste marks to front free endpaper. Text and plates bright. First edition. 20 chromolithographic plates 5 uncolored architectural views. 1 vols. Folio. Beautiful Chromolithographs of Church Ornamentation. Very fine plates by Lemercier of Paris. Ve. A. Morel unknown books
1881WRCAM13937On board the U.S.S. Trenton European Station 1881. Two pamphlets. 12; 16pp. 12mo. Fastened with bronze tack. Slight staining else good. A curious little pair of imprints printed on a U.S. Navy shipboard press sometime not long after the Civil War. The first the INSPECTION. pamphlet describes what an inspector should look for and contains the colophon "From the Press of U.S. Flagship Trenton European Station." The second pamphlet which describes the equipment to be carried on boats contains no colophon but is identical to the first in style and makeup and was found with the first pamphlet so it seems reasonable to assume that it is a product of the same press. unknown books
1871295Washington: Government Printing Office 1871. 4to. 290 x 230 mm. 11 1/2 x 9 inches. 4 205 pp. Illustrated with 7 chromolithographic plates 6 micro photographs and one lithograph. Bound in contemporary pebbled morocco spine and tips over marbled paper boards; edges rubbed but a sound and attractive copy. First illustrated edition; the text was published in an abbreviated form in 1869. This report was initiated by an outbreak of disease in a large number of Texas cattle that had been shipped north and landed in Cairo Illinois. The disease quickly spread and a government response was requested through the House of Representatives. A team lead by the English Professor of Veterinary Medicine James Gamgee and the botanists H. W. Ravenel of South Carolina traveled to Texas to find the origins of the diseased live stock. In an attempt to better illustrate their findings of the impact of the disease on the lungs spleens hearts and kidneys they employed the latest technology of chromolithographic printing and micro photography to produce highly legible detailed images of damaged organs. The color printed plates and photographs were produced in Baltimore by the Hoen & Co Chromolithographers and they demonstrate the use of color printing for medical research. 295. Government Printing Office unknown books
182631107Alnwick: Printed by M. Smith 1826. Some wrinkling fold lines & light soiling. A VG copy. One sheet printed recto only. Title printed in outline lettering. Quote from Shakespeare under the title. Text double column. 22 stanzas of 4 lines each. 10-3/4" x 8-5/8" <br/><br/>A printed ballad detailing the merits of the 4 candidates in the 1826 Northumberland parliamentary election: Henry George Viscount Howick; Matthew Bell; Henry Thomas Liddell & Thomas Wentworth Beaumont. Scarce item; no copies located on OCLC with only 1 copy located in the major on-line databases: The British Library. Printed by M. Smith unknown books
185937005San Francisco: Published for Maguires' Opera House T. Maguire Proprietor Commercial Steam Presses 129 Sansome street 1859. 1st printing thus. Original publisher's printed green paper wrappers sewn. Music-themed adverts to rear wrapper & inner front wrapper. Average wear & soiling. Light foxing. A VG copy. 24 pp. 12mo. 6-15/16" x 4-3/16" <br/><br/>"Ernani is an operatic dramma lirico in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play Hernani by Victor Hugo. The first production took place at La Fenice Theatre Venice on 9 March 1844." Its US premier was in New York 1847. This performance starred Mr Henry Squires in the role of Ernani. Not in Greenwood though see #1189 for another 1859 edition of the ERNANI libretto. OCLC records just 3 institutional holdings of this edition. Rare. Published for Maguires' Opera House, T. Maguire, Proprietor [Commercial Steam Presses, 129 Sansome street] unknown books
181137526Reading PA: Johann Ritter 1811. 1st printing American Imprints 22488; Arndt & Eck 1865. OCLC records 6 holding institutions. Period quarter-leather binding with paste-paper wrapped boards. Wear to board edges. Top board beginning to detach in lower two-thirds of joint. Ffep nearly detached. Period pos to ffep and mss note affixed to front paste-down. Text paper browned & stained. A Good complete copy of this uncommon product from Ritter's prolific press. 104 2 pp. 12mo. 5-3/4" x 3-1/2" <br/><br/> Johann Ritter hardcover books
185335557San Francisco: Printed for the Academy by F. A. Bonnard 1853. 1st printing Cowan II p. 93; Greenwood 379. Printed self-wrappers sewn. Age-toning to paper. Stain to top margin. A VG copy. 8 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/>Per Cowan "The first announcement of the Academy other than in the press." Printed for the Academy by F. A. Bonnard unknown books
189743316East Aurora New York: The Roycroft Printing Shop 1897. 120 1 colophon pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original red cloth backed mustard boards uncut. Slight rubbing at tips minor soiling of spine some browning to text. Inscribed on ffep "For Mr. Frank W. Noxon with all good wishes from Elbert Hubbard". A very good copy. 120 1 colophon pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed by Elbert Hubbard. Ransome p. 405 no. 8 The Roycroft Printing Shop unknown books
1833WRCLIT23992La Haye: Imprimerie d'Etat 1833. 61pp. plus four plates 3 folding. Octavo. Contemporary boards. Lower third of text lightly damp marked some tears or nicks at fore-edge one folding plate has a clean tear with no losses spine split. Withal a good untrimmed copy. First edition. Parallel texts and title pages in French and Dutch. An important survey of the early experiments in the proto- stereotyping processes with descriptions of examples and facsimile plates. Imprimerie d'Etat hardcover books
187124439New York NY: Johnson Fry & Co. 1871. Twenty - two images including the plates titled: Conrad and Medora dated 1867; the illustrated title page for 1871 'Byron & Moore Gallery'; and the images Kaled; Olympia; Gulmare; Rich and Rare engraved by Buttre after Fisher; Thou art not false but thou art fickle; Laura; Angiolina; Haidee; Medora; Leila; The Coming Step Buttre after Ward; Zelica Buttre after A. de Valentine; The Irish Girl Buttre after A. Elmore; Young Jessica Rice & Buttre after Ward; Parisina; Azim and Zelica Buttre after Corbould; Witch of the Alps; The Peri Bannister after Meadows; Maid of Athens; Don Juan and Haidee. Each image titled below; several with a verse from the relevant poem. The plates printed one side only on heavy paper stock and interleaved with plain paper guards. Previous owner name on front endpaper. Approximately 9" x 11 1/2" size; bound in gray-green decoratively blind-stamped cloth titled "Specimen" on front cover the back cover with the publisher name and address. Boards detached with edge and tips wear top cover stained spine covering gone. A few images with a little spotting in the margins and with evidence of being somewhat crudely edge-trimmed; generally the plates very clean and in very good condition an interesting specimen illustration book from this publisher. Specimen Book. Hard Cover. Good. Johnson Fry & Co. Hardcover books
187135576San Francisco: Alta California Printing House 1871. Modest wear with faint hotizontal fold lines to center. A VG example. 1 sheet printed recto only. 11-1/8" x 5-1/4" <br/><br/> Alta California Printing House unknown books
1848116Firenze ; Roma: Presso Pietro Ducci; Tipografia degli Ajani 1848. Together two pamphlets. 8vo. 31 pp.; 43 pp. Original wrappers; disbound. Two rare pamphlets on the regulation of printing in Florence and Rome during the critical period of popular unrest that was sweeping across Europe during the 1840's. The first pamphlet by Giuseppe Silvestri examines two recent articles of law that have an impact on the publication of religious information by the ecclesiastical authorities of Florence. The second deals more directly with the limitations placed on local printers in Rome and the restrictions and fines that accompany newly passed legislation. Although these two titles are cited in ICCU 9 and 6 copies only there are not copies cited in either NUC or OCLC. 116. Presso Pietro Ducci; Tipografia degli Ajani unknown books
185841639Boston: Boston Museum 1858. Buff printed paper. Moderate wear to edges some age-toning. Withal a VG example. Single broadsheet printed recto only. Decoratively engraved border. 18-1/2" x 6-3/8" <br/><br/>Not found on OCLC rare. (Boston Museum] unknown books
