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1892285644Brooklyn: E.W. Bliss 1892. hardcover. very good-. Frontispiece pictures of the factory and of international medals won. Many full page & half page illustrations. 389pp. small 8vo flexible blue cloth back cover gently creased; small hole in spine light damp-stains on the bottom margins of a few pages. Brooklyn: E.W. Bliss 1892. Ninth edition.<br/> <br/> Bliss was the premier manufacturer of heavy industrial sheet metal.<br/> <br/> E.W. Bliss unknown
188775503Adams MA: L. L. Brown Paper Cp. 1887. Octavo 6 1/2 x 10 inches. 36 leaves of which all but five are actual paper specimens and identified at the top i.e. "Super Royal 54 lb". Publisher's faux morocco red cloth with silver lettering in front. Original hanging ribbon present and in good condition. At first glance this item appears to be in such fine condition that we worried it was a facsimile but it is not. A gorgeous copy.The L. L. Brown Paper Company was founded by Levi Lawrence Brown in 1849. He was born in Adams in 1826 also the birthplace of Susan B. Anthony. After learning the paper trade at the Crane Mills in Dalton Brown started his own business manufacturing high quality ledger paper which he sold in major cities from coast to coast. His fine linen paper was used also for the printing of several of Mark Twain’s books. L. L. Brown Paper Cp. hardcover
189021055New York: C. M. Moseman and Brothers ca:1890. 4th Edition. hard cover. Good/No jacket. http://www.parnassusbooks.com/image/data/books/2019/03/0_img_2256.jpg. New York: C. M. Moseman and Brothers. ND. ca:1890. Fifth edition. 303pp. Folio. Hardcover. Illustrated with thousands of black and white illustrations depicting everything that could have anything to do with horses as well as 11 chromolithographs; The title page 4 double sided advertisements and 6 single sided with tissue guard. The 4 double sided ads have 2 with color only on one side and 2 with color to both sides. Externally the brown cloth boards are worn faded and soiled. The cloth is separating from the boards at the front lower right hand corner and on the rear lower left hand corner. The top spine edge is torn on the right side and the bottom spine edge is frayed and worn. Internally the book is in wonderful condition. The pages are fresh and the color plates are in very good condition. A couple of the tissue guards are torn but still present. There are several pages with very small edge tears to the outside edge as if from turning the pages as the book is folio sized. The binding is tight and the front hinge is fine but the rear hinge has cracked. New York: C. M. Moseman and Brothers hardcover
18801807220002New York: C. M. Moseman and Brother 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Bound in publisher's burgundy cloth. Folio 38 x 27 cm. 304 p. Chromolithographed title and six chromolithographed plates numerous illustrations throughout. Faint damp stain to bottom margin not overly noticeable. Pages stamped "M. Hancher 128 Chambers St. New York City." Michael Hancher. Copiously illustrated trade catalogue of horse tack and related furnishings depicting an incredible selection of harnesses saddles brushes blankets dressings bridles bits gloves and other horse-related accoutrements. The Moseman shop depicted on the first page following the title was located on Chambers Street between Church and West Broadway in New York. <br> This book sold at Christie's Sale 2456 Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts 2011 Lot 176. <br> This is an oversized or heavy book which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. New York: C. M. Moseman and Brother hardcover
18997700London Melhuish's Fetter Lane Holborn Circus London E.C. 1899. 1899 pp. 341-572. Illustrated throughout. 28 cms. Printed cream cloth binding dusty and stained. The contents are clean and tight. Recased with new endpapers. A comprehensive selection of hand tools and machine tools for joinery workshops. Includes some specialist tools for wheelwrights coopers and shipwrights. London, Melhuish's Fetter Lane, Holborn Circus, London, E.C. hardcover
189218107France 1892. Very good condition. Trade card for the most successful cigarette merchant in Egypt Nestor Gianaclis named after the man who founded the Egyptian cigarette industry in 1871 when he set up a factory in the Khairy Pasha palace in Cairo. Gianaclis' cigarettes made with imported Turkish tobacco became so popular with the British officers stationed in Egypt that the company began exporting to the UK and eventually to Europe and the US. With gilt text and gilt highlighted chromolithographic illustrations of 9 medals Bruxelles 1891; Paris Calcutta Toulon and two crests De S. A. le Khedive d'Egypte at the left and at the right "Et de la Cour de S. A. le Prince Heritier de Grece. 2 7/8 x 1 1/2 unknown
189417996Holland 1894. Ephemera. Very good condition. Trade card for the renowned Dutch chocolate maker Van Houten which invented a treatment of cocoa to remove the bitter taste known as "Dutch process" chocolate. The inventions of Van Houten led to the mass production and world wide distribution of chocolate which took place in the nineteenth century. <br /> <br /> The front of the card with color map of Australia showing Western Australia Northern Territory South Australia Queensland New South Wales Victoria and Tasmania. The map shows Coolgardie but not Kalgoorlie. Verso with a dark green Art Deco border and Art Deco text font with data on Australia. Population is listed as 4006000. Below this is the heading "The six British Colonies united to form a Federation are": West Australia South Australia Victoria New South Wales Queensland Tasmania. Statistical information including the square miles and population are given for each of these colonies as well as the capital of each and its population. The number of Aborigines is listed at 230000. 3 7/8 x 3 3/8". Corners very gently rubbed. Not found on Trove. unknown
187017985New York 1870. Very good condition. Full color lithographed catalog page of the New York porcelain importer George F Bassett & Company showing 8 plates with in an "Wild Animal" series decorated with graphics of animals and the alphabet including one of the kangaroo. The company was founded in 1874; it had a factory in Limoges France and imported porcelain from Bohemian and Czechoslovakian factories. <br /> <br /> The plates are decorated primarily in brown and green- animals include tiger leopard stag elephant bear camel & lion. 9 1/4 x 15 3/4". Closed tear lower border lower left margin in the corner missing not affecting illustrated area. Very unusual. unknown