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18969751Maine: Board of Trade Gardiner Maine. Good. 1896. Hardcover. Minimum signs of ex-library - see image. Bookplate on inside front cover. ; Photomechanical reproductions of photographs of Gardiner Maine accompanied by a descriptive text. Includes street views and images of local railways dams industries churches schools waterworks steamboats and the surrounding countryside. Scarce copy at this price. ; Ex-Library; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 112 pages . Board of Trade, Gardiner, Maine hardcover
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
182418594London: Hatchard and Sons 1824. Disbound 41pp. First and last leaves lightly dusted and worn else Very Good. <br /> <br /> 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. <br /> FIRST EDITION. Ragatz 249. Hatchard and Sons unknown
188599671Columbus OH 1885. Half Leather. Fair with no dust jacket. This large and heavy book will require extra postage please inquire. leading edge of leather spine splitting about 2/3 of the way up. corners worn. ; 6 x 9 unknown
189157457Dunkerque Paul Michel no year but not earlier than 1891. Large8vo. In contemporary half cloth with the original front wrapper pasted on to front board. Stamp to front board and to title-page. 28 6 pp folded map of the harbour. hardcover
186475172London: 'sold by Messrs. Barclay & Sons .' 1864. Hardcover. Very Good. London 'sold by Messrs. Barclay & Sons .' 1864 seventh edition enlarged and revised according to the British Pharmacopoeia 1864. Octavo iv 293 13 including 8 blank ruled pages. Original half calf and cloth; cloth a little marked; leather a little rubbed mainly at the extremities; endpapers adjacent blank leaves and the first and last leaves of text foxed; tiny stain to the leading edge and margin of the first ten leaves; a very good copy with the contemporary rubber stamp of C.B. Hill Pharmaceutical Chemist 128 Rundle Street Adelaide on two early blanks. For the first 123 double-page openings the left-hand page contains an alphabetical list of drugs; pages 234-291 contain lists of sundries arranged alphabetically by broad subject headings such as bandages oils sauces soaps and varnish. Very few prices have been filled in. 'sold by Messrs. Barclay & Sons ...' hardcover
18561319512New York: The Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 316 pages; Fair; bound in brown cloth spine has gilt lettering front and back covers have embossing; binding has significant wear along the sides of the spine with tearing cracking and minor detachment throughout has severe damage at the top and bottom of the spine with large chunks missing at both ends has heavy discoloration has wear along the top and bottom edges with minor fraying and bumping on the fore edge corners front cover has pen markings; pages have heavy age toning have crinkling and minor detachment in several locations contains several fold out graphs;. 1319512. Special Collections - Downstairs. The Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York hardcover
1897006216G.P.O 1897-01-01. Very Good. G.P.O unknown
1862007412Saint-Etienne France: Imprimerie de Mme Ve Theolier Aine et Cie 1862. 1st ed. . Hardcover. G-VG for Age and Genre. 16.5 Cms x 25 Cms. Pprinted front wrapper79 pp.unf.chart rear issue wrapper missing; bound in red cloth with dark stippled cloth spine region 3 additional endpapers front & back heraldic crest label Mark Dineley to front pastedown; label faintly offset to facing endpaper front bound-in wrapper darkened rubbed and slightly chipped to outer edge and slightly less so to top and bottom faint pencil note to top above the French gift inscription to a Monsieur Carle last part of this illegible or beyond my ability to translate bottom corners pp.5/6 7/8 creased some ink smudges to the pp.6-7 opening marginal linesa marginalium to opening pp.40/41 final unfolding table of arms manufacture at Saint-Etienne since 1819 in good condition outer edge of final leaf browned and s little chipped since edges are uncut there is fairly frequent dustiness to outer slivers of fore-edges. Covers unworn and generally clean but a few minor spots. This is a report on the 1862 Great Exhibition in London by delegates/ authors as named of the Saint Etienne Chamber of Commerce where the 'Manufacture Imperielle' was based. I have identified one 2014 reprint of an 1877 84 pp. edition ascribed to a Eugene Ory as author but this name does not appear here unsurprisingly since his birth-date is given as 1845 nor is there mention of the unfolding chart. Clearly extremely scarce. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range. <br/> <br/> Imprimerie de Mme Ve Theolier Aine et Cie hardcover
1899796A22London: Spottiswoode & Co. 1899. Leather. Good. 11" by 8.5". Not Stated . An early printing of this book of International Code of Signals with coloured illustrations. An early printing of this work dated 1899 from the same copy held at the National Trust Libraries on Jisc. With a publisher's slip bound in with the volume stating 'This edition of the International Code of Signals will come into use on 1st January 1901 .' A revised edition of the of the original 1857 International Signal Book which at the time failed to meet the requirements of the Mercantile Marine. This volume comprises a more updated copy of the international system of signals and codes for use by vessels to communicate important messages concerning the safety of navigation and related matters. Structured in two parts: Part I with instructions on how to signal including how to make alphabetical spelling signals and numeral signals and Part II on distant signals including the fixed semaphore for coast use. Illustrated with twelve full page coloured plates of flags as well as numerous other illustrations in text. With numerous leaves of advertisements. In the original publisher's quarter morocco binding over cloth covered boards. Externally rather worn with some shelf wear and chipping to the extremities of the boards rubbing to the spine and boards with some minor losses to the cloth of the boards and a touch of edge wear. General light soiling to the boards and spine. Internally firmly bound. The pages are clean with a touch of age toning to the protruding title indexes as usual and to the first and last few leaves. Illustrated with twelve full page coloured plates of flags as well as numerous other illustrations in text. With numerous leaves of advertisements. Good Spottiswoode & Co. hardcover
1894975F3London: The London Chamber of Commerce 1894 . First edition. Leather. Very Good. 9" by 6". Not Stated. A very scarce and beautifully bound volume of thanks from the London Chamber of Commerce to their treasurer George Sandeman signed by the president of the society and chairman of the council. A really rare item in the London Chamber of Commerce's striking full morocco binding with watered silk endpapers and gilt dentelles.This is a commemorative volume produced by the Chamber to formally record and present an expression of gratitude to Albert G Sandeman for his work as Treasurer to the Chamber.Elegantly bound and signed by the president Albert Pollet chairman of the council W. H. Williams and secretary Kennie B. Murray it reflects the Chamber"s civic and mercantile culture in late Victorian London where ceremonial resolutions addresses and votes of thanks were preserved as tokens of esteem. In the publisher's original full morocco binding. Light rubbing to back strip otherwise externally excellent. Watered silk endpapers and gilt dentelles. Internally text block somewhat tenderly held. Pages clean and bright. Very Good The London Chamber of Commerce hardcover
1898127356Nottingham: The Raleigh Cycle Co. Ltd 1898. Fair. Nottingham The Raleigh Cycle Co. Ltd. 1898. Oblong octavo 16 pages with numerous illustrations 10 pages each contain a large illustration and detailed information about individual models of bicycles two of them tandems. Saddle-stapled as issued; rusted staples no longer present resulting in minor stains and trifling loss; some marks and light stains throughout but generally inoffensive; a decent copy. The recto of each leaf is ink-stamped 'J. Mullins. Manufacturer & Importer of Bicycles 84 Pirie St Adelaide. Branch at Commercial Road Port Adelaide'. Retail prices for all but the tandem models are added in ink: they range from just over £20 to £32. To put these figures into perspective on Saturday 19 February 1898 'The Advertiser' classifieds offered for sale a four-room cottage 'with paved yard shed &c.' in Adelaide itself for £200 and a house with 'five rooms verandahs &c.' in inner-suburban Stepney for £300. The Raleigh Cycle Co., Ltd unknown
1900E12833Wwilmington DE: George A. Wolf 1900. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. A tight near fine example. touch of wear at the extremiies and a couple small light stains front board. Internally fine and clean. Very scarce.Small folio in lime green cloth hardcovers decorated in black and gilt. Title page printed in red and black. 93 pp. with index. Folding double page sepia photographic double panorama of the City of Trenton photographed from the top of the Washington Battle Monument. Illustrated throughout with photographs of public officials places of interest fire department Bordentown Military Institute reproductions and illustrated adverts fro Trenton industrial companies such as iron and cable works including Roebling the rubber industry potteries including a color tinted full page from the Maddock Pottert Co.'s Lamberton Works Morris & Willmore Anchor Pottery Keystone and American Porcelain Works; and other industries including the renton Brewing Co. Trenton Watch Co. <br/><br/> George A. Wolf hardcover
1802354332Washington 1802. 4pp. Dbd. Contemporary manuscript page inscription and early stain in upper outer corner throughout affecting some text. Minor foxing and offsetting. Good. 4pp. Dbd. Report on a House resolution that Thomas K. Jones a Boston wine merchant would receive drawback for Malaga wine he reshipped despite having added brandy for preservation. Shaw & Shoemaker locate two copies; OCLC locates none. Rare. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 3406. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 3406 <br/><br/> unknown
1893E22904Richmond VA: George W. Englehardt 1893. First edition. Softcover. Good. First edition 1893 date on title and copyright pages . Octavo inprinted illustrated stiff wrappers. 315 pp. with index. Advertsing inside and rear wrap back cover is ad for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. Profusely illustrated with photographs portraits and engravings of notable sights scenes places and people. Covers text block edges and spine are soiled but the interior is generally clean with an occasional foxed spot. Any edition of this guide to Richmond is uncommon but the first is quite rare. George W. Englehardt unknown
184988888Boston: Published by the Family 1849. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Contemporary full gilt-tooled morocco; all edges gilt; 1462pp; engraved frontispiece portrait Edward Rawson and one portrait plate Rebecca Rawson. Binding rubbed at spine and board edges; small loss to leather at crown; scattered foxing somewhat heavier to frontispiece and portrait else a tight Good or better copy. One modern manuscript leaf with added genealogical information laid in by a previous owner. Early ownership signature "E.D. Baird" to front endpaper. <br /> <br /> Uncommon first edition in what would appear to be a presentation binding of this detailed genealogy which includes a brief 12-pp biography of Edward Rawson first Secretary of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. An enlarged second edition was issued in 1875. SABIN 68019. Published by the Family unknown
188521256Des Moines Iowa: Racine Seeder Co 1885. Fine. Pristine folding memorandum and calendar in beautifully illustrated 3-panel wrapper printed in dark blue with highly ornate type fonts and decorative elements at the center panel. The right hand panel with 2 circular engraved vignettes depicting the Strowbridge Sower compared with sewing seed by hand "the old way the hardest work on the farm". On the interior the two side panels with additional engraved vignettes including a bird's eye view of the factory in Racine and a calendar with each month printed at the left hand page and text pertaining to the Strowbridge Sower at the right hand page. Text includes testimonials diagrams or cuts of the working parts of the sower salaries of US officers useful construction information and US population by state or territory. Opened measures 10 x 6 1/4". Very bright and clean. Racine Seeder Co unknown
188920251211001<p>This Book is in Excellent Condition particularly for its age but is conservatively graded in Good Condition as I never grade Ex-Library Books in better than Good Condition. Ex-Library from a University Library but with Few Library Markings: just a Very Old Label on the Spine a Bookplate on the Inside Front Cover and a Couple of Embossed Library Stamps in the Interior. The Hardcover Boards No Dust Jacket as issued have Very Light Rubbing to the Surface and along the Edges but retains Sharp Corners and Bright Copper-Gilt Lettering with No Tears Creases Stains or Any Major Damage. The Binding is Strong and Intact. The Interior is Clean and Unmarked other than the aforementioned Library Markings of course with No Writing Highlighting or Underlining and has No Tears Creases Stains Mold or Any Major Damage. The Page Edges have Very Light Soiling but No Remainder Mark Foxing Stains or Other Major Damage. If Not for the Library Markings this Book could be graded in Like New Condition and is in remarkable condition for a book from 1889.</p><p><strong>Description</strong></p><p>Dedicatory Exercises at the Opening of the New Building of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce and Merchants' Exchange; January 29 and 30 1889 was printed by the Commercial Gazette Job Rooms in 1889. This Book is a Hardcover measuring 6.25"" x 9.625"" with 223 pages.</p><p>The Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce Building is considered the last design of architect Henry Hobson Richardson. He was working on the design when he died in 1886 and it was finished by his successor firm of Shepley Rutan and Coolidge. The building burned in 1911. Some of the stonework was salvaged and eventually assembled into a memorial to Richardson in Cincinnati's Burnet Woods.</p><p>This book is a program for the dedication of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce Building held on January 29 and 30 1889.</p><p>The contents of this book are:</p><p>Officers of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce<br />Boards of Real Estate Managers<br />Clerical Force<br />Committees on Dedication<br />Delegates from Commercial Bodies<br />Programme of Promenade Concert<br />Programme of Dedicatory Exercises<br />The Builders<br />Introduction<br />The Promenade Concert<br />The Dedication<br />The Prayer<br />Delivery and Reception of the Keys<br />The Dedicatory Hymn<br />The Oration by General Edward F. Noyes<br />Welcome by the Mayor<br />Congratulations from New York The City of the Lake The Southwest The Mississippi Valley The Central South and The Old Dominion<br />Letters of Regret from noted individuals unable to attend the dedication<br />The Excursion<br />The Banquet divided into: Toast-master's Greeting I. The Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce II. The Northwest III. The South IV. The West V. New York VI. Chicago VII. Baltimore and VIII. St. Louis</p><p>There is one plate an illustrated frontispiece of Richardson's Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce Building. The book is otherwise unillustrated. Includes a tipped-in presentation slip stating "Compliments of Sidney D. Maxwell Superintendent."</p> Commercial Gazette Job Rooms
18906584London: I. J. & Co 1890. First Thus. Hardcover. Good. Folio. Unpaginated. Filled with line drawings of mirror or painting frame models offered by I. J. & Co. Bound in brick-red cloth elaborately blindstamped with gilt lettering on front board. Preliminaries foxed. With edge-wear; corners worn. A customer has identified several models for rooms at a house being furnished each with prices in pencil i.e. "Mr. Singer's room £ 8.8.0" "Study £ 12" "South Room £ 7.15" or "Nursery £ 6.0.0." We've posited 1890 as the publication date based on paper type image reproduction and binding; that date is mere educated guess. A scarce trade catalog consisting mostly of frames for mirrors and paintings each designated with a model number. Searches of auction records and library holdings revealed no copies of this title nor reference to the manufacturer I. J. & Co. Rare. I. J. & Co hardcover
187162250Hartford CT: Columbian Book Co. 1871. 8vo. xxi 1 23-602 pp. plus 4 pp. publisher’s ads. Steel-engraved frontisp. with numerous woodcut engravings & illustrations. Plum-coloured publisher’s cloth gilt bear stamped on front cover title lettering embossed in blind on spine minor foxing to frontisp. minor sunning & wear to spine edgewear slight uniform interior toning still a VG- copy. Second printing of this informative work gathered from the author’s first-hand interviews with early settlers and mountain men of the Pacific Northwest including Joe Meek William Henry Gray and others. Much of the work was actually written in the house of noted Oregon pioneer & author Belle W. Cooke who describes how she was “often reading the manuscript to my father and mother for comment.†Victor herself notes after publication that some of the historical facts regarding Marcus Whitman his efforts in the Oregon Country and the massacre orally related to her by Gray needed to have been checked more carefully. Victor d. 1902 was the primary author for the Bancroft histories of Oregon Washington and the Northwest Coast as well as a noted author of poetry and literature. See Powers History of Oregon Literature pp. 282 305-309 Graff 4477 1870 ed. Columbian Book Co., hardcover
1900070462Hendersonville North Carolina / Buffalo N.Y: Hendersonville Board of Trade; The Doulas Publishing Company and The Hammond Press No Date Listed; Circa Early 1900. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Illustrated. RARE. BOOKLET ON HENDERSONVILLE EARLY 1900s. Title page reads "The Most Picturesque Section of The Over Hills of Ottary to Those Who Seek Health Pleasure or Profit We Would Commend the Careful Perusal of this Souvenir Booklet". This fascinating booklet contains no publish date but the date on a map of downtown is dated 1907. The paper cardstock cover is in textured brown paper with gold and black lettering and ornamentation on the cover. Bound by two staples at the spine. Contents include an overview of Hendersonville distances to points of interest in and around Hendersonville from the courthouse prominent points in view from Hendersonville "Friendly and Church Societies" and a directory of hotels and boarding houses. Heavily illustrated with many pictures of Hendersonville and various landmarks during the early 20th century in black and white. Unpaginated. 30 pages. <br><br>CONDITION: Overall VG. Mild wear and in very nice condition for its age in a paperback. Light crease down the center. Completely unmarked with no foxing. A marvelous rare copy with a pictorial history of Hendersonville. Hendersonville Board of Trade; The Doulas Publishing Company and The Hammond Press paperback
18936177Montreal: The Gazette Printing Company 1893. First edition . Very Good. 23 cm; 225 pages and 20 half-tone plates 3 maps two of them folding. Extra half-tone printed title page. Bound in brown pebbled cloth. Slight fray at head; front free endleaf loose else unblemished and in very good condition! Signature of Dugald MacDonald on title page. <br /><br />Valuable reference for the development of commerce in Montreal from the earliest times to the end of the 19th century. The Gazette Printing Company hardcover
188334041St. Paul: Pioneer Press Company 1883. 1883. First edition. First edition. 8vo. 9" X 5 1/2" printed wrappers 61 pp. plus 7 pp. of advertising fold-out frontispiece handsome view of the state capitol inside front and rear covers are advertisements as is the rear cover illustrated with engraved plates membership roster of Chamber of Commerce members. There are 13 full-page plates of buildings in St. Paul including the Pioneer Press building Union Depot the retail district on Third Street Custom House & Post Office and others. Many subjects are discussed in the report including street pavements the fire department sanitation building ordinance the boom in St. Paul's economy the wholesale trade manufacturing the banks the railroad system river business real estate future growth opportunities etc. Covers lightly soiled tiny closed tear to fore-edge of front cover tiny dent to bottom edge of rear cover else an internally clean square copy in overall near fine condition. Pioneer Press Company, 1883. unknown
189028106New York. Howard Lockwood & Co. Publishers. 1890 1890. Hardcover. 8vo 23.5cm 266xlpp. ads some illustrated and some printed on extra stock paper original pebbled green cloth gilt titles on spine & front gilt illustrated ad on rear board a fine copy sgc Extensive lists including "Paper Mills in the Dominion of Canada in Operation" and "List of Paper Mills in the Dominion of Canada Classified According to Goods Made". A number of the advertisements include examples of paper used. The sixteenth annual edition. New York. Howard Lockwood & Co., Publishers. 1890 hardcover
1887102171n.p.: Winnipeg Board of Trade and the Brandon Board of Trade nd c1887. Softcover. good to very good. 1st Edition. 17pp. Small octavo in original orange wrappers. Not illustrated. good to very good Peel 1033. 1887 Winnipeg Board of Trade and the Brandon Board of Trade paperback