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150146178Nuremberg: Anton Koberger 1501. Cf. Proctor 10958; ISTC ib00605000. A modern full calf binding executed in period style with brass bosses at each corner & center boss in each board. Modern leather strap clasp. Red edgestain. Binding - Fine. Imperfect textblock lacking the initial gathering and two leaves Zz1 & Zz6. Extensive period annotations throughout/some marginal paper restoration to numerous leaves especially H3 no loss & lower portion of 8. Some annotations affected by trimming. 1 cm closed tear to bottom edge of S2 T1; top of Qq5; bit of paper loss to Tt5 & Xx1 lower margin no text affected. Texblock overall with a nod to the missing leaves Very Good. Folio: a8 b - z6 A - Zz6 8. R4 missigned Q4. Text block trimmed at some juncture not us with current leaf size: ~ 28.6 cm x 18.8 cm. Rubricated / modest illumination of initial paragraph letters. Binding: 11-1/2" x 8" <br/><br/>"Anton Koberger was the German goldsmith printer and publisher who printed and published the Nuremberg Chronicle a landmark of incunabula and was a successful bookseller of works from other printers. He established in 1470 the first printing house in Nuremberg" from which sprang a number of editions of the Biblia Latina first appearing in 1475 with this reputedly the last with the Koberger name. Anton Koberger hardcover books
186953665London: John Camden Hotten 1869. First Edition. First printing. Quarto 29cm. Publisher's quarter morocco over glazed boards; brown coated endpapers; xxi8032pp. Mild external rubbing primarily to board corners and spine ends; scattered faint foxing within; Very Good in the original publisher's binding. <br/><br/>A well-printed facsimile on thick paper with a substantial introduction and end-notes by Rae. John Camden Hotten unknown 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
296443Calcutta: DIPT printing. Pocket map. Lithograph. 33 1/2 x 23 inches. In very good condition. Lined.<br/><br/> Beautiful large map of Calcutta with 3 inset boxes; Postal Zonal numbers 7 References to temples and telegraph offices and a list of 238 important places.<br/><br/> DIPT printing unknown books
1976238872Detroit: the Union 1976. Thirteen issues of the single-sheet bulletin mostly 8.5x11 some 8.5x14 inches. Fold creases some issues unevenly toned one with heavy wear to bottom edge. Issues present are vol. 22 nos. 9 10; vol. 23 nos. 3 6 7/8 9-12; vol. 24 nos. 1-5. the Union 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
1953WRCLIT53045Cambridge: At the University Press 1953. Gilt cloth. Frontis and fifteen plates. First edition. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with small patch of darkening at top edge. An important survey of design and printing methods from 1694. At the University Press hardcover 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
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
19101934031910-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Signed on title page by Capt. John C. Calhoun Calhoun's grandson of the same name addressed to Capt. W. G. Roule. Green cloth boards are clean except for some sticker residue around spine. Endpaper has a split of 3-4 inches at front and back hinge binding is otherwise good. Ex-library from The State newspaper collection with a couple of stamps and bookplate residue on endpaper. Corners and edges are scuffed. HB TNOS HS hardcover books
1914011443Columbus Ohio: Columbus Lithograph Company. Good. 1914. Hardcover. Linen-backed bound pocket map that unfolds to 32" x 28". Fold splits and light soil with the folds held together by the linen webbing. Brown boards with gilt imprint rubbed corners and edges. A Railroad Map of Ohio Published by the State color-coded and with a detailed train title illustration. ; 8 1/2" x 4" . Columbus Lithograph Company hardcover books
1940WAS44770Unnumbered pages 10 x 10 ½ inches stiff wrappers with plastic spiral binding markings in blue ink drawn on inside front cover. <br /><br /><br />Manufacturer of printing inks published this technical guide to help printers select the proper paper and ink to reproduce Kodachrome transparencies and "similar types of direct color photography". Fuchs & Lang paperback books
190256590London 1902. 14 x 13-1/2 printed in colors blue purple brown yellow & green. The text and portrait of the King and Queen Alexandra are in blue inside a multi-colored floral border. Some wrinkled at the folds other wise fine. A remarkable survival. Fragile. "On the occasion of the Thanksgiving Service at St. Paul's on Sunday their Majesties will drive along Victoria Street the Embankment and Ludgate Hill returning by Holborn Street Oxford Street Hyde Park and Constitution Hill. 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
39734COLOR PRINTING--AMERICAN THE IRIS; AN ILLUMINATED SOUVENIR FOR MDCCCLII. Philadelphia: Lippincott Grambo 1852. Large 8vo. Publisher's gilt red clot all edges gilt. 298 pages including 12 full-page chromolithographic plates. First edition. The book is comprised of text by Mary Eastman and accompanying illustrations from drawings of her husband Captain Eastman made during his nine years in military stationed among the Indian tribes in and around Fort Snelling in Minnesota. The illustrations were printed in color by Peter S. Duval of Philadelphia. John S. Hart the book's editor proudly announced that each print was printed in ten colors overprinting some to produce varied effects. The book is a bright copy with some sporadic as usual. Spine professionally repaired. unknown books
36698COLOR PRINTING--AMERICAN THE IRIS; AN ILLUMINATED SOUVENIR FOR MDCCCLII. Philadelphia: Lippincott Grambo 1852. Large 8vo. Publisher's heavily gilt full-morocco all edges gilt. 298 pages including 12 full-page chromolithographic plates. First edition. The book is comprised of text by Mary Eastman and accompanying illustrations from drawings of her husband Captain Eastman made during his nine years in military stationed among the Indian tribes in and around Fort Snelling in Minnesota. The illustrations were printed in color by Peter S. Duval of Philadelphia. John S. Hart the book's editor proudly announced that each print was printed in ten colors overprinting some to produce varied effects. The book is an extremely bright copy with some sporadic as usual. The base the front hinge is starting to show the slightest signs of cracking. This is first copy we have handled at the Bookpress in nearly thirty years of dealing with color printing books. unknown books
37459COLOR PRINTING CHRISTLICHES GEDENKBUCH. St. Louis: Eden Publishing House circa 1900. 8vo. Chromolithographic cloth binding all edges gilt. Unpaginated with 12 chromolithographic plates and a other pages with a pictorial border of flowers and nature scenes printed in brown ink. First edition. A stunningly fine copy with raised flowers on the spine and front board. Eac month begins with a piece of biblical verse with a chromolithographic border German text printed in several colors and gold. Rare. We could not find a c cited by OCLC. The publication was meant for daily reflection on the bible. unknown books
1856D12674London: Dean & Son 1856. Paperback. Fair. Original stitched illustrated wraps; 8vo 243x167mm; with 7 colored lithographs one double-page alternately printed on the recto or verso with some blank pages in between. Publisher's ads printed on rear cover. Covers lightly chipped along the edges with small stains at spine tips from old tape repairs. Some dusty finger-smudges but overall internally not so bad. Scarce. OCLC locates just 4 copies. All the trappings of highfalutin human Western weddings -- except that when fine monkeys get married they travel by pug-pulled carriage. <br/><br/> Dean & Son paperback books
35708COLOR PRINTING PICTURES AND SONGS FOR THE LITTLE ONES AT HOME. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons 1865. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. 16 leaves printed on one side only with 15 color plates. First edition. This is a very nice example of color printing by Thomas Nelson who used a transfer lithography method very similar to Baxter's color printing technique In it Nelson transferred the images from steel engravings as opposed to Baxte taking his images from wood blocks. Then Nelson used oil based colors to pri the image as did Baxter producing very bright and vivid colors. The color images in this book are quite small 1 1/2 x 1 3/4 inches and are pasted on pages all printed in brown ink with gold borders and vignettes that surround the color plates. Some sporadic foxing and slight cover discoloration but a good example of a seldom seen Victorian method of color printing. 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
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
270136Philadelphia: Carriage Monthly Engravings and Printing House. Original poster. Color lithograph. 51.5 x 35 inches.<br/><br/> Unusual advertising poster is dated to circa 1891 features light carriages harnesses and sleighs manufactured by J. H. Birch. Issued by the Carriage Monthly Engraving and Printing House in Philadelphia PA the poster shows some of the products manufactured by J. H. Birch in Burlington N.J. These also include horse clothings blankets robes whips saddles bridles and everything pertaining to the road track and stable. The poster features 26 illustrations of horses and 4 images of goats with the various products advertised. Also contains detailed text explaining each product featured terms and other interesting information. On the top of the poster J. H. Birch boldly claims "I carry in stock all I advertise and more too". Another amusing note at bottom right reads "This is the largest Harness Chart ever published in the world and consequently cost me large amount of money and you will confer a favor by hanging it in a conspicuous place."<br><br>The poster is in good condition with some edge loss along top and bottom edges and minor wear along original folds. Minor loss at some fold intersections. Lined on canvas. Toning near top right corner.<br/><br/> Carriage Monthly Engravings and Printing House unknown books
1925WRCLIT35487Cambridge: Bowes & Bowes 1925. Linen and boards. Light offsetting else very good. One of fifty copies made up of sets of sheets remaining without letter press from the 150 copies originally printed of each for the individual issues of the facsimiles published in 1886. The three works reproduced printed in 1521-2 were the first second and eighth Cambridge imprints. Bowes & Bowes hardcover books
192845379Los Angeles: Printed at the Abbey San Encino at Garvanza Oldtown by Clyde Browne Master Printer 1928. 1st Edition "for Private Distribution". Original marooon cloth spine over drab boards printed in red. Shelf-wear with staining to boards. Board showing at tips. Offest to free eps. About Very Good. 47 1 blank pp. Illustrated with 3 b/w half-tone portraits. 8vo.10-1/8" x 6-5/8" <br/><br/> Printed at the Abbey San Encino at Garvanza Oldtown, by Clyde Browne, Master Printer 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
