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188845299Jonesboro Ark: W. L. Robins 1888. 1st Printing. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Light fading to image Very Good. Albumen photograph 6" x 4" on a peach-colored mount rounded corners. Image is vertically oriented showing the two-story brick building with its pediment high above the angled doorway where two men are standing at a street corner. Underneath in blue ink the photograph name & city. Mount: 6-1/2" x 4-1/4" <br/><br/>Verso of the card with the complete financial details of the bank as of Jan. 21 1888. As the verbiage announces "We take great pleasure in calling your attention to a statement of our business at close of same this evening and taking into consideration our tender age of 'seven months' . our success has been unprededented." Jonesboro is found in the northeast part of the state is the county seat of Craighead County and home to Arkansas State. This an uncommon photographic trade card for this newly established bank in the town. W. L. Robins unknown books
184235484London: William Clowes and Sons 1842. xiii 1 blank 325 1 pp. Bound in modern blue wrappers with copy of title page laid down on front wrapper. Lacking half title else Fine.<br/><br/> An indispensable primary source on England's efforts to stamp out the African slave trade. The many diplomatic exchanges are replete with information on the trade between Africa and the West Indies Brazil Cuba and Central America. Details on vessels engaging in the illegal traffic are reported with numerous lists of vessels their flags their captains and numbers of slaves "imported" into western ports. The various disguises and artifices of the slave ships are discussed at length and material on legal proceedings with respect to condemned vessels is recorded. Material on England's Treaty with Texas is printed as well as information on slave trading by ships sailing under the American flag. William Clowes and Sons unknown books
186827263Albany: The Argus Co. Printers 1868. First edition. Paper wrappers. Spine torn at head else a very good copy small nick to front wrapper with a vertical crease running throughout. 56 pp. 8vo. With an early mention of "petroleum" which was just becoming an important product to pass through Albany. Scarce. We could find no copies on OCLC or RLIN. Not in NYPL Baker Smithsonian LOC NYSL. The Argus Co., Printers unknown books
189621325New York and elsewhere 1896. Folio. 14 1/2 x 12 inches. Approximately 350 larger ephemeral items and about 200 small scraps mounted on both pastedowns and recto and verso of 22 leaves. All leaves browned 3 leaves split vertically others with margins chipped some loosely inserted. Original rose-coloured glazed paper-covered boards lower cover blocked in blind and lettered 'Pat. March 76' in blind the upper cover blocked in gilt with three shaped raised panels with gilt borders enclosing chromolithographic images backstrip blocked in gilt corners rounded some fading to upper cover and backstrip inner hinges broken<br/> <br/>A spectacular album with an unusually rich assortment of advertising and trade cards including a selection chromolithographed designs of birds after Audubon.<br/> <br/>Internal evidence suggests that the album was probably assembled by a New York State resident living just south of Rochester - possibly from near Bath Cohocton or Canandaigua the patent date of the album gives a 'now earlier than' date whilst there are a number of dated items amongst the scraps the latest being 1896. Included are a large number of cards issued by local businesses as well as more national concerns like a fine series of six advertising cards for 'Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills" featuring toddlers playing baseball "Tum on ets' p'ay ball"; "See me tech it!"; "Aint dot out!"; "I'se bo'en home"; "I'se dot it!". There are also 33 'Arm & Hammer' bird cards after designs by John James Audubon 13 from the Arm & Hammer Brand / Church & Co. "Beautiful Birds of America" Collectors' Card 1st Series from 1894; the others probably from the second series. unknown books
1806WRCAM30424Baltimore: Warner & Hanna 1806. 49pp. Errata slip laid down in lower margin of last leaf. Dbd. Light uniform browning old library stamp at head of titlepage. Very good. This petition one of many from various merchant organizations lobbies the President of the United States and Congress to defend American commerce with Europe in light of British violation of the "neutral rights" occasioned by the early years of the Napoleonic wars. Baltimore merchants were a hotbed of organization for various American subversive enterprises in Latin America and the Caribbean. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 10854. KRESS 5070. SABIN 3045. Warner & Hanna unknown books
181025380New York City NY: Not Published 1810. One page letter dated New York 18th December 1810 and being given to James Thomson Grocer New York. ".Sir - As I am going to Havannah in the Brig Galen Capt. Annes it is My wish that if any accident Should happen to prevent me returning in the vessel you will See to and take possession of what property of mine may be in her and in case of My Death that by virtue of my power of attorney you collect my estate together as much as in your power and after paying my just and lawful debts remit the remainder to my brother John Gann Goodestone near Wingham County of Kent England. Yours William Gann" Approx. 8" x 13" size; ink handwriting very legible. Light wear dustiness split at one section at old fold lines; in very good condition and interesting early 19th century New York City business history law ephemera. . Manuscript. Not Bound. Good. Not Published paperback books
182524840United States of America: Not Published 1825. 12 ledger style pages loose. Entries all written in a strong legible hand in ink and signed Paul Langdon presumably acting as supercargo on these vessels. Brig Diomede: In account with Paul Langdon ".Disbursements in Charleston as per bills.by My draft on Mrs. Ann Shaipley."; the following three pages with list of disbursements for Diomede at Liverpool October 1825 very detailed including payments for various foods repairs on the brig services from harbor personnel and more and a page on accounts for salt carried cash to Timothy Wiggin & freight discount.Schooner William: at Miragoane Hayti sic with similar payments as above provisions coffee commissions fresh beef yams coffee marketing crew wages duties; with accounts noted to George Moody W.E. Rogers. Schooner Milo: two pages regarding salt & shingles shipped on board charges on account customs cash account totals of Spanish dollars & gold doubloons; sale of sundries shipped by N. & Arthur Folsom and noted at Wilmington Feb 1 1827. Ship Newport: two pages with attached list of 15 names including William E. Putnam Edward A. Bragdon Charles O. Emerson John B. Fernald J.P. Moody Joseph Bragdon Jr. Stephen Grant Henry Hill Frederick Williams Jeremiah Brooks Charles Moody Henry S. Thompson Joseph Sewall Alexander Demuth William H. Sewell at bottom of page is an un-numbered name as if the compiler John B. Tercel. Accounting for cash received of Lindsay & Haven and disbursements for the ship at Charleston paid by Paul Langdon: men employed at the rigging cash for marketing cabin boom knifes & spoons mending timber dogs heaving the ship off stevedores blacksmiths wood "cash paid Woman cook 29 days." advanced wages for Mr. Hill Libby Woodson and "Cash paid for knife for the Italian Sailor" dated July 1835.Miscellaneous: One of the pages headed Elizabeth Sewall with 3-line entries for 1833 & 1835 regarding the payment of services for ".labour & superintending her Farm." during those years; another page with the date of December of 1859 with short entries for the entire month detail weather farming woodcutting & fishing activities some community information names of McIntire Hutchins Lucas Wilson in a somewhat more spidery hand and with a note at the side "All above is from my best recollections." Approx. 8" x 12 1/2" size some light edgewear little spotting;in very good condition; interesting maritime trade history. . Manuscript. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published paperback books
188522190New York: H.C. Long 1885. Colorful bald eagle with scales in its beak arm & hammer anvil tropical scene background embossed raised gilt decorations; lithographed cigar box label not dated; union printing slug & maker name at lower margin; approx. 6 1/2" x 10" size overall; little edgewear; in very good condition. . First Edition. Illustration. Very Good. H.C. Long Paperback books
188436091Atlanta 1884. Broadside 6" x 9-3/8". Fine. <br/><br/> A new firm was birthed by J.M. McCombs F.M. McCombs and George Taylor of Boston "under the firm name of McCombs Taylor & Co. and will continue the business of the Atlanta Machine Works in all its various branches. Our Mr. Taylor who will have charge of the Mechanical Department of our works is an inventor of Machinery Draftsman and Mechanical Engineer of over twenty years experience. We are prepared to build Engines and Boilers Gold Mills Pulleys Shafting and Hangings Switch Stands and Railroad Castings Elevators and Hoisting Machines Steam Pumps." and other stuff too. unknown books
188336090Atlanta 1883. Broadside 5-3/8" x 8-1/2". Very Good. unknown books
1822WRCAM38089Washington 1822. 7pp. Dbd. most leaves loose. Old stain in upper half throughout. Good. This Senate documents prints the memorial from America's foremost learned society asserting that that any tax on imported books is "detrimental to the progress of knowledge" and asking that those duties be suspended. The memorials written by Peter Duponceau and R.M. Patterson review the policies of other governments toward duties on imported books providing a useful survey of the tax policies of the major European powers. OCLC and American imprints together locate only five copies at Yale the University of Virginia the New York Law Institute the Library of Congress and Princeton. Scarce. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 11000. OCLC 23248452. unknown books
186065548Boston MA 1860. Single sheet folded printed on blue paper. 20 cm. 4 pp. One page of text 3pp. blank. Signed in type by George W. Bungay. Old fold lines light stain at right margin not affecting text. Very good. Bungay solicits merchants and manufacturers for business profiles which he has engaged to publish in the Waverley Magazine "a well-known and widely circulated journal printed weekly." which has an immense circulation in New York New England every State in the Confederacy and the British Provinces. The author promises truthful and graphic sketches of the businesses profiled which will be read by a wide audience and be of benefit to their enterprises as a "novel mode of advertising." for the cost of $10 and travel expenses. He lists several businesses he has already profiled approximately 20 many in the Boston area. Interested parties should contact Bungay at his Dental Room 165 Court St. Boston. No listings found on OCLC. George W. Bungay 1818-1892 was a prolific author and compiler of verse songsters biographical collections of politicians etc. often with a temperance theme. <br/><br/> unknown books
185465544Philadelphia PA: Rice & Hart Publishers No. 27 Minor Street 1854. Single sheet folded. 25 cm. 4 pp. text on 2 outer pages only. Old fold lines else very good. Text in two columns printing the notices for this publication from the National Intelligencer of Feb. 11 and the Washington Union of Feb. 4. The contents including the list of portraits and biographies in of each of the four volumes is also listed. OCLC lists two copies of this circular: NY Hist. Soc. and AAS. The "National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans" was published by Rice & Hart in 1854. <br/><br/> Rice & Hart, Publishers, No. 27 Minor Street unknown books
184965543Cincinnati OH: H.W. Derby & Co 1849. Single sheet printed on blue paper folded. 26 cm. 4 pp. including one page of text 2pp. blank addressed on fourth page to G. & C. Merriam Springfield Mass. with a round stamped red postal mark. Old fold lines a few closed tears else very good. The firm of H.W. Derby & Co. assures the public that the November 15 fire which lately damaged their place of business and destroyed a large portion of their stock will not stop them from filling orders for books stationery and other articles. They have purchased the entire stock of Messrs. Bradley & Anthony who have decided to retire and will move into their store at No. 113 Main Street immediately. Once their building at 145 Main Street is repaired they will return there. Signed in type by H.W. Derby & Co. Cincinnati November 23d 1849. No listings found on OCLC. George and Charles Merriam to whom this copy was addressed were successful book publishers and sellers in Springfield Massachusetts. <br/><br/> H.W. Derby & Co unknown books
185965546Boston MA: M.M. Ballou Publisher and Proprietor 1859. Single sheet folded. 25 cm. 4 pp. One page of text 2pp. blank docketed on 4th page in manuscript "Ballou's Pictorial circular Feb. 1 1859." Old fold lines else very good. Signed in type by M.M. Ballou Publisher and Proprietor Boston February 1st 1859. The circular states that Ballou's now in its sixteenth volume is a desirable medium for advertising not only because of its longevity but also because "it is reaching the most available class of the community and . each number of the paper is preserved after reading being regularly bound up every six months so that an advertisement becomes a permanent card." The terms offered were 25 cents per line. No listings found on OCLC. <br/><br/> M.M. Ballou, Publisher and Proprietor unknown books
186765547Washington DC 1867. Small broadside. 20 x 13 cm. Old fold lines some minor rumpling and toning along top margin else very good. Docketed in manuscript on verso. Proposed duties on various kinds of imported books are listed: 20% on English language books printed before 1840; 20% on books in foreign languages not printed in the U.S.; 30 cents per pound on books in English valued at less than $2 and printed since 1840; etc. Signed in type by 14 American publishing houses who agreed to the terms including Harper & Brothers D. Appleton & Co. Little Brown and eleven other well-known American publishers. No listings found on OCLC. <br/><br/> unknown books
188139337San Francisco 1881. Modest wear. A Very Good item. Recto with chromolithographed image of Columbia holding a globe sitting on a pile of books with the Boston Daily Globe newspaper as background. Verso with Bourgoin's business stamp. 4-3/4" x 3-1/16" 12 cm x 7.8 cm. <br/><br/>Scarce production trade card used by late 19th C San Francisco antiquarian bookseller A. Bourgoin who we can document flourished well into the 1890s. unknown books
186027356Boston: Committee of the Boston Board of Trade on Immigration 1860. First edition. Removed. A very good clean bright copy with mail folds. Unpaged 1 pp. Sm. 4to. A letter from the Committee of the Boston Board of Trade on immigration informing its members that it has a "favorable opportunity of supplying employers in all branches of manufactures trade agriculture mining domestic services etc. with such help as they require. of a superior class of skilled labor from Great Britain." Committee of the Boston Board of Trade on Immigration unknown books
1843WRCAM42012St. Louis 1843. 1p. docketed on verso. Folio. Old fold lines; some separation at folds a few repaired with older archival tape. Quite clean and bright. Good. A remarkable window into the business dealings of famed mountain man Jim Bridger this signed manuscript affidavit of John P. Sarpy testifies to his actions on behalf of the estate of fellow fur trader Henry Fraeb who was killed by Indians in the Rocky Mountains. Sarpy who was a partner in the major firm of Pierre Chouteau & Co. had worked closely with Fraeb and knew him well. In his affidavit he writes about the Chouteau Company's concerns about Jim Bridger Fraeb's partner at the time of his demise and the difficulty of getting Bridger to pay his debts. Dated at St. Louis Sarpy's affidavit states: <br> <br> ".on the 8th day of August last he was appointed.administrator of the estate of Henry Fraeb then lately deceased. Said Fraeb had been a trader in the mountains & was at the time of his death in partnership with a man of the name of James Bridger & said Bridger & Fraeb were indebted to the firm of Pierre Chouteau Jr. & Co. & it was feared by the members of said firm that unless some one became the administrator of the said Fraeb the said Bridger might interpose difficulties in the settlement of the accounts existing between them & Bridger & Fraeb. & for the purpose of doing justice to themselves as well as to the said Fraeb the said Sarpy applied for letters of administration which were granted to him as above mentioned. The said Bridger has however since this time been here & has settled in full the accounts existing between the firm of Pierre Chouteau Jr. & Co. & the said Bridger & Fraeb. And the said Sarpy says that no property has come into his hands as the administrator of the said Fraeb although it may be that the said Fraeb has property in the mountain country or in the hands of James Bridger his former partner." <br> <br> Though he may have been one of the greatest and most beloved mountain men of all time Jim Bridger was not the best debt in the world nor did Pierre Chouteau & Co. forget business. unknown books
1816WRCAM39129London: Ordered by the House of Commons to be Printed 1816. 2pp. plus docket title printed on verso of second leaf. Folio. Early horizontal folds. Near fine untrimmed. Official Parliamentary draft printing of a commercial agreement between the United Kingdom and the United States passed just over a year after the signing of the Treaty of Ghent. The convention of commerce establishes that the same import and export duties be applied to goods carried by American and British ships in direct British- American commerce. Duties on and bounties for prize ships and goods are also put on the same terms. This version of the bill would have been printed while the question was being considered by Parliament. Not in Kress or TPL and not listed on OCLC. Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed unknown books
189741312San Francisco: California State Board of Trade 1897. 1st printing. Color illustrated printed paper wrappers. Significant wear to wrappers some scuffing and soiling chipping to edges. Paper age-toned. Withal an About VG example. 152 2 pp. Color frontis b/w intratextual illustrations & folding color map within. 10-1/4" x 6-3/4" <br/><br/>"Early History; Commercial Position; Climate; Scenery; Forests; General Resources; Irrigation; Mining; Agriculture; Horticulture; Olive Culture; Citrus Culture; the Sugar Beet; Raisin Growing; Transportation; Fruit Canning; Dairying; Poultry Raising; Floriculture; Live Stock; Sheep Husbandry; Forage Plants; Education; Religion; Political Status; Immigration; California and the Insane; Lick Observatory; SAn Francisco; Statistical; Gold Production; Land Values." Rare in the trade. California State Board of Trade unknown books
182024296Montreal 1820. Quarto. 3pp. docketed on verso of second sheet. Old folds. Some separation at folds repaired with old tape. Minor paper loss to second leaf affecting a few letters of text. Manuscript letter from the large Montreal merchant house of Desrivieres Blackwood & Co. to the firm of Hamilton & Cummings based in Queenstown Ontario concerning the account of Berthelot & Rolette. The letter includes details of the amounts credited and drafted with the amounts given in both New York and Quebec currency values. With integral address leaf stamped at Montreal. unknown books
1820WRCAM42050Montreal 1820. 3pp. docketed on verso of second sheet. Quarto. Old folds. Some separation at folds repaired with old tape. Minor paper loss to second leaf affecting a few letters of text. Good. Manuscript letter from the large Montreal merchant house of Desrivieres Blackwood & Co. to the firm of Hamilton & Cummings based in Queenstown Ontario concerning the account of Berthelot & Rolette. The letter includes details of the amounts credited and drafted with the amounts given in both New York and Quebec currency values. With integral address leaf stamped at Montreal. unknown books
1883236859Kansas City Missouri: Press of Ramsey Millett & Hudson 1883. Illustrated with 2 full-page Engravings. 76 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original wrappers printed in red and black. Vertical crease to front wrap and a few corners previously turned down a few prices realized in pencil. Very good. Illustrated with 2 full-page Engravings. 76 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Over sixty-five Galloway bulls and heifers on the block giving detailed pedigree. With an introduction by Matthews explaining the his interest in the breed. Not in OCLC Press of Ramsey, Millett & Hudson unknown books
186610295New York 1866. 8vo. 14 pp. <br><br>On the Empire State's participation in the 1867 World's Fair and Universal Exposition. A very scarce report. We trace no copies via WorldCat. Without wrappers. Corners and edges with a little bumping. Outer pages lightly soiled. First page with a few notations in ink and pencil. unknown books
