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188560768Rugby England: Walding 1885. Trade card. 16mo 5 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches. 3 pp. the two interior pages advertise the fox hunting clothier Walding with short testimonial statements all dated 1879 and the rear wrapper advertises and solicits subscriptions for the Hunt Servant's Benevolent Society." "Walding begs to inform Masters of Hounds and Gentlemen much in the saddle that he makes Hunting and Riding Garments his special study and supplies over fifty of the principal Hunts in the Kingdom." Very good. Original chromolithographic illustrated wrapper picturing vignettes from the hunt. #7955. <br/><br/> Walding hardcover books
188134703Providence R.I. 1881. 1st edition thus Romaine p. 189. Original brown cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine & front board. General wear to binding with dampstain to rear board. Hinges starting. Evidence of leaf removal prior to t.p. frontis. A Good copy of a rare trade catalogue no copies on OCLC. 252 pp. Illustrated. 12mo. <br/><br/> hardcover books
187119188New Britain Conn.: George L. Allen 1871. First edition. Some rubbing along the edges of the cords on the joints rear free endpaper just lifting a bit; a nearly fine copy. Small 8vo original gilt-stamped green cloth 70 pages. A compilation of exemplary children in the Bible suitable for younger readers. The gilt-stamped book device to the upper board is especially bright and fetching. Christmas gift inscription dated 1876 on the front free endpaper. George L. Allen, unknown books
188057441Boston MA: G.W. Simmons & Son 1880. Advertising circular. Broadside 14 x 8 1/2 inches. An advertisement featuring a 'heliotype" from a camp-scene line-drawing of two well-attired hunters and a fisherman their day's bag and an African-American attendant all standing by their tent behind them a lake full of ducks and Simmons decoys. The lower two-thirds of the broadside advertises the company's suits with W.H.H. Murray testimonial quoted tents and decoys. Moderate soiling several tiny splits at folds a good copy. Folded as for mailing. #4281. <br/><br/> G.W. Simmons & Son unknown books
189515394Minneapolis MN: Minnesota State Federation of Labor 1895. Blue cloth binding with front board lettered in gilt professionally rebacked. Abt VG boards soiled/dampstain to fore-edge margin in first third of text block/hinges repaired. 128 pp. Errata slip tipped-in prior to title page. Illustrated with woodcuts. 8vo. 6 1/4" x 9 1/8" <br/><br/> Minnesota State Federation of Labor hardcover books
1854WRCAM38220Washington 1854. 42pp. including statistical tables. String-tied gathered signatures. A few fox marks on the first leaves else near fine. Untrimmed. A rare and lengthy report on a proposed treaty between the United States and Great Britain to drop the duty on Canadian coal imported to the United States. The authors of the report claim that importing coal and iron from Canada would free up American labor and capital to concentrate on other industries. This report presents a thorough statistical analysis of the issues involved. Then as now the free trade argument had many detractors but the authors of this paper favor dropping the coal duties. The United States and Great Britain signed a fisheries treaty in 1854 but a provision on dropping the duties on coal was not included. OCLC locates only three copies of this rare report. OCLC 63011174 24462167. unknown books
188448668Rochester N. Y.: Post-Express Print 1884. 1st Printing. Not found in Romaine. Original publisher's pale orange paper covers printed in black. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Modest signs of wear age-toning faint sign of damping to upper textblock corner still overall VG. 36 pp. Adverts illustrated with cuts. 9-1/8" x 5-7/8" <br/><br/>Somewhat uncommon publication documenting periodical publications in the late 19th C. OCLC records holding of 5 different issues in 5 different institutions from 1881 - 1906 No. 58 each in a solitary holding. Post-Express Print unknown books
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
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
188443140London: Whitehead Morris and Lowe Printers 1884. 1st printing thus. Original printed light grey paper wrappers lacks rear wrapper. Age-toning. Unobtrusive paper repair along spine. Very Good. 15 1 pp. 8vo. 8-3/8" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/>No copies found on OCLC. Whitehead, Morris and Lowe, Printers 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
189336600Denver: News Print 1893. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good copy small chips on the corners of the wrappers. 8 pp. 8vo. The Denver Chamber "protests against this circular of the City of Hartford challenges the truth of every assertion of its preambles and asks that those whose judgment may have been affected to examine the actual facts in the premises." OCLC shows only seven copies all but one east of the Mississippi. News Print unknown books
1806WRCAM7294Washington 1806. 72pp. Dbd. Occasional marginal staining and darkening. Top margin shaved affecting some headlines and page numbers. Good. Report concerning foreign trade and taxes. Reprints the 1802 Act of Parliament by which the Crown was to collect a tax on items imported to and exported from Great Britain with a supplementary table. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 11567. unknown books
1809WRCAM7295Washington 1809. 8887pp. Dbd. Very good. James Madison's speech regarding mounting tensions between the U.S. and Britain and France with repercussions from the British attack on the frigate Chesapeake and effects on foreign trade. Prints correspondence from William Pinkney and Robert Smith among others. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 189631888818885. unknown books
186427636New York: John W. Amerman Printer 1864. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. A very good copy light offsetting to front wrapper one initial at top edge mail fold marginal line to one paragraph. 26 pp. 8vo. Reprints Barstow's original argument against the Usury laws Report upon the Usury laws as well as nearly ten years of further reports and memorials questions and answers to criticisms and various appendices. Barstow argues that the current laws restrict trade: "We have for many months witnessed in our city a most grievous pressure on our money market; a pressure almost beyond a parallel for intensity. The cost of raising money has weighed down the energies of many enterprising men. Usury Law restrictions have afforded no alleviation in the hour of need. The very reverse of this has been their result." Scarcer than the initial report. OCLC shows only six copies: NYPL Stanford Law Harvard Brit. Lib. 2 and American Antiquarian Society. John W. Amerman, Printer unknown books
190036847Dayton Ohio 1900. Trade card from "The Station Confectionery Tables for Ladies and Gentlemen." Pink card stock printed with blue inks oblong 4" x 2-1/4." Very Good with the Union Bug of Dayton's Allied Printing Trades Council at the bottom. <br/><br/> Dayton's Union Station opened in 1900. Legal segregation was the norm in most of the Union until passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. unknown books
186019466Davenport Iowa: n. p. ca. 1860-1865. Some light soiling and wear; in very good condition. Trade card printed on glazed white card stock 2.25 x 3.5 inches. An attractive trade card for this homoeopathic doctor in Davenport Iowa advertising the dispensary hours and home address almost certainly for George K. Prince 1801-1865 an English-born physician who appears in the U.S. census in Davenport in 1860 and the local directory in 1863 under physicians. His credentials as listed here are impressive graduate of University of Edinburgh Licentiate of Apothecary's Hall London and a student of the Paris medical school "of thirty-five years standing." A nice bit of job printing design from the Quad Cities. Small bit of hand emendation to his hours. n. p., unknown books
182418594London: Hatchard and Sons 1824. Disbound 41pp. First and last leaves lightly dusted and worn else Very Good. The author argues that "notwithstanding the preferential duty rate of 10s. per hundredweight enjoyed by West Indian sugar as against East Indian the latter could be entered for internal consumption so as to afford a large profit to importers. It would be a most advantageous speculation for young men of good character and with small capital native or European to embark in the manufacture of sugar in Bengal." Ragatz. FIRST EDITION. Ragatz 249. Hatchard and Sons unknown books
1842WRCAM53413Boston 1842. 791pp. Dbd. Light foxing heavier to initial leaves. Good plus. Account of a meeting of a trade association for the Massachusetts shoe industry with minutes speeches and a roll of attendees. With several pages of interesting advertising at the rear for a book on stenography with printed text samples. unknown books
18704889Cleveland OH: H.H. Hatch & Co 1870. Trade card 7 x 12cm. Printed one side in black and gold on pale red card stock. The 1886 Directory Leading Manufacturers and Merchants of the City of Cleveland and Environs describes the firm as follows. "One of the best-known houses in Cleveland is that of H. B. Hatch & Co.' importers and wholesale liquor dealers. This house dates its foundation from 1855 and from that time was continued successfully by the firm of Hillyard & Hatch who were succeeded by Skeels & Hatch then followed Skeels Hatch & Co. who in turn were succeeded by H. H. Hatch & Co. In 1879 the firm was Hatch & Zangerle and in 1885 the present firm of H. B. Hatch & Co. composed of H. B. Hatch and Cass H. Hatch sons of Mr. H. H. Hatch succeeded to the entire business and under their able administration of affairs the trade has been increased and the facilities enlarged so as to meet all demands. The business house is 25x100 feet in extent and is well arranged and contains a large stock and valuable assortment of the finest wines from the vineyards of the most distinguished growers of France and other parts of Europe also choice brandies gins etc. of the firm's own importation and the finest American wines brandies etc. and the choicest old Bourbon and rye whiskies the best made in the land. These goods are all of high standard quality and command the attention of the trade a large business being carried on by the firm with all parts of the States of Ohio New York Massachusetts Vermont Pennsylvania etc. The Messrs. Hatch are both of Cleveland where they were born and brought up and as merchants and useful citizens stand high in commercial and financial circles. Mr. C. H. Hatch is a member of the Royal Arcanum.". Some light discoloration to verso otherwise very good or better. H.H. Hatch & Co unknown books
18921393St. Louis 1892. About very good. 74pp. Oblong octavo. Original illustrated wrappers stapled. Light wear and chipping to spine rear cover with closed tear minor soiling. Minor scattered foxing and offsetting. Handsome illustrated trade catalogue for the firm of P.C. Murphy manufacturers of fine trunks and traveling bags. The work is filled with a wide variety of trunks and suitcases illustrating each with prices listed for available sizes. Choose from barrel top or flat top canvas or leather or imitation etc. Forematter indicates this to be the company's twenty-first annual catalogue and terms for purchase are listed inside the front cover. An ephemeral piece we find single copies of three other years in OCLC but none of the present edition. unknown books