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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
18641722738th Cong. 1st Sess.: HMD21. 1864. 34pp disbound. Light scattered foxing. Very Good. HMD21. unknown books
1887SKU1025407Government Printing Office 1887. Hardcover. Good. 1887 Hardcover. Good condition- clean binding is loosening but still intact moderate overall wear with corner and edges rubbed through has tanned page edges and foxing on front and back end pages no other marks or notations. lz Government Printing Office hardcover 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
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
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
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
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
189725325Hamden Connecticut: Hamden Card Works 1897. Four black and white printed sides to one large sheet. From the text: ".Remember these are all hidden name cards. The name is printed in the center of the card and the floral ornament can be raised at one end to show the name when desired.We allow a cash commission of 25 per cent on cards sold at these prices or you can select any of the premiums on our List not shown." Each style of card offered is illustrated including showing decorative and fringed border-work and with descriptions of each style; 32 different cards are shown. Including a variety of fancy beveled edge cards gold & silver bevel and colored envelope-style die-cut silk fringed combination packages of cards photo cards and more. Approx. 9" 5/8 x 13 3/4" size; printed on thin newsprint paper stock. Old fold lines edge tips wear few tiny holes; old edge-repairs not in imagery or text; in good condition. First Edition. Not Bound. Good. Hamden Card Works paperback books
18671320027Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1867. Hardcover. Octavo 596 pages; G; fully bound in brown leather spine has embossed lettering; binding has heavy shelf wear with the top and bottom of the spines missing chunks has fraying and bumping on the fore edge corners has streaks and patches of rubbing throughout; pages have age toning and blotching have minor detachment in several locations endpapers have pencil markings; shelved case 1. 1320027. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Government Printing Office hardcover 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
188225246Boston Massachusetts: D. Lothrop & Co. 1882. 12 pages; with black and white illustrations throughout. Advertising books for sale with descriptions prices binding variants if desired. Natural history books by Amanda B.Harris Tennyson poetry travel family-oriented & children's publications including magazines - Wide Awake Babyland Our Little Folks The Pansy; at back is "A Complete list of the Popular "Pansy" Books & lists of other other authors with series titles. Approx. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2" size; printed sewn paper covers with a small illustration. Light edge wear to the wraps little darkened tips chipped back cover with a small discoloration at top margin inner top corner chipped away; in very good condition. First Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. D. Lothrop & Co. paperback 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
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
189936737San Francisco: Independence Print 1899. Light blue stiff-stock paper printed in dark blue ink. Horizontal fold lines. Penned name & address to verso. A VG copy. Single sheet printed recto only. Typographical border. 8-5/16" x 5" <br/><br/>An invitation / handbill of sorts to attend this musical evening. "Admission / Afternoon 25 Cents. Evening 50 Cents." Independence Print unknown 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
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
189941586Sacramento: A. J. Johnston Supt. State Printing 1899. Cloth covered spines black grey and blue over marbled paper covered boards. Handwritten title label pasted to front board of first volume. Moderate wear to bindings rubbing and scuffing. Spines of two volumes loose with gutter-type breaks textblock of volume 3 loose. Some pages torn within volumes some age-toning and rubbing to paper. Withal a Good set. 3 volumes. Unpaginated. Lined paper in pink and black. 2 volumes: 12-1/2" x 7-7/8". 1 volume: 13-3/4" x 8-1/2" <br/><br/>Includes: State of California Public School Register of Alviso District County of Alameda 1899; State of California Public School Register of Niles District County of Alameda 1901; and State of California Teacher's Public School Register of _____ School District County of ______ California 1903 but actually filled out for the 1905 school year. All books are filled out with student names attendance and even schedules in areas. Currently no similar items found for sale in the trade. A. J. Johnston, Supt. State Printing hardcover books
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
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
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
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
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
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
