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18872083002116206242Agricultural Affairs Bureau Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce 1887. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 5 Agricultural Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce paperback
189252794Denver: Denver Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade 1892. 1892. 9" x 6" in pictorial wrappers. 128 pp. Illustrations. 2 folding maps each 6" x 9." Index. List of members of the Chamber and Board of Trade complete with addresses. Replete with information on the economy of Denver and Colorado including agriculture mining ranching trade railroads buildings cultural benefits and the general state of the region. This published report reflects the positive outlook for Denver's future put forward by the Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade. It not only gives summary details for the progress made in 1891 but also specifically states that the information and illustrations in the booklet are designed to attract potential businesses and residents to move to Colorado. One of the fold-out maps is of the City of Denver; the other is a map of the United States showing Denver as a central railroad / transportation hub for anything or anyone going in any direction. Portion of text block has been separated from the staples and some minor soiling to wrappers along with light creasing and light wear to the extremities. An attractive and highly informative publication. Denver Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade, 1892. unknown
1809305411809. Angers De l'Imprimerie des FrÂres Mame et se vend chez Fourier-Mame 1807. Un vol. au format pt in-12 168 x 107 mm de 333 pp. Reliure de l'ÂŽpoque de pleine basane marbrÂŽe havane plats jansÂŽnistes dos lisse ornÂŽ de fleurons dorÂŽs roulettes dorÂŽs piÂce de titre de maroquin ÂŽmeraude titre dorÂŽ tranches saumon. Edition provinciale Angers parue ˆ la date de l'originale parisienne. ''C'est ici la premiÂre fois qu'un texte officiel rÂŽglemente les sociÂŽtÂŽs par actions ˆ savoir la sociÂŽtÂŽ anonyme et la sociÂŽtÂŽ en commandite par actions.'' Coiffes supÂŽrieure arasÂŽe. Petites altÂŽrations superficielles ÂŽparses affectant la reliure. PremiÂre garde partiellement dÂŽsolidarisÂŽe. Quelques rousseurs dans le texte et feuillets parfois lÂŽgÂrement oxydÂŽs. b42961 unknown
1864AQ28474Boston: Printed by John Wilson and Son 1864. 49pp 1. Original publisher's blind-stamped dark green cloth lettered in gilt to spine and upper board T.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Armorial bookplate of Esher to FEP very occasional light spotting. A tribute to American financier Joshua Bates 1788-1864 from a selection of Boston merchants including both the record of an in-person assembly and a selection of letters penned in his memory. Bates who founded the Boston Public Library in 1852 donated 30000 volumes to the institution with the main hall being named in his honour. . First edition. 8vo. Printed by John Wilson and Son hardcover
1874181166London: Christie Manson & Woods 1874. A catalogue of 1408 lots several hundred with pencilled hammer prices. The sale which included oils sketches made on the grand tour engravings and pencil sketches made almost 70000 pounds driven by strong buyer interest. Provenance: Stephen C. Massey. Octavo. Original sewn self-wrappers. Sewing now loose chipping and short closed tears outer leaves dust-soiled: very good. unknown
189076420San Bernardino: Greene & Wastell ca. 1890. Each card is lithographed in colors on stiff stock and measures 6 x 11 inches. All bear the image of a famous American with the exception of the Shakespeare card a portrait of each a view of their residence a quote attributed to them and a facsimile of their signature. The subjects are Thomas Jefferson John Greenleaf Whittier Abraham Lincoln and William Shakespeare. The Whittier card has a tiny bit of the upper left corner absent hard to discern but on the whole they are bright fresh and clean.The firm as quite a successful one in the early history of San Bernardino; ""This firm by their indomitable pluck and enterprise have built up a trade during the past two years thatis second to none in the city. They opened up in business in San Bernardino in October 1889 in one-half of the store they now occupy in the post office block. Business grew at such a rapid rate that they soon had to obtain possession of the other half of the store which they succeeded in doing. When they enlarged their store a large stock of new goods was added to the already magnificent stock. They now have about $35000 stock on hand of the finest goods in the clothing and dry goods line in the state" San Bernardino Courier January 1 1892. Sadly we cannot determine who the printer was. Greene & Wastell hardcover
1896List2820Sonora and Groveland CA; Portland OR; and Orange NJ 1896. 8 ½ x 13 ½ inch cash book thirty-two pages with nine loose sheets. Fine. A cash book for an unnamed business selling out of California Oregon and New Jersey in 1896. The book records total merchandise value cash and accounts liabilities individual sales and so on. The business sold a variety of items from raw cloth and furniture to food coffee and tea and soap. Most of the entries are from Sonora; located on California’s Mother Lode Sonora was by 1896 a bustling mining town. unknown
188947211Chicago: Baldwin Calcutt & Co. 1889. 1889. First edition. 11-3/4" x 9-1/4" pictorial blue-green linen wrappers with faded title stamped in gilt on front cover along with a faded picture of Mount Tacoma. 97 1pp. plus frontispiece. 7 plates. Tissue guards. Illustrations. Maps. Advertisements. Double column text. Much information and illustrations to include climate logging minerals its rapid growth the great Northern Pacific Railroad the Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Tacoma's wealth the vast and magnificent forests its fisheries hops and hop-picking along with descriptions of various prominent people. Includes sections on the Tacoma Cedar Lumber Co. and The St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. Gig Harbor Lumber Co. and Link's Planing Mills; real estate land development and real estate agents including the Lombard Investment Co. Pinkham & Walker E.N. Ouimette with many illustrations of Tacoma residences and homes; the growing steel industry with companies like the Standard Iron Works shipping banking and much more. Finely illustrated throughout by various prominent artists. Images include horses hauling logs a view of Pacific Avenue public buildings various businesses schools churches residences hotels views at and near east Tacoma views of American Lake railroad scenes etc. Portraits include "The Executive Committee of the Chamber of Congress" "Representative Men of Tacoma" "Some Prominent Bankers of Tacoma" etc. Full-page map entitled "Northern Pacific Railroad And Connections." Light foxing and soiling to some pages. Wrappers lightly soiled and scraped with 1" x 1/4" chip to head of front cover as well as one small chip to top portion of spine and with light wear to extremities. Very good. Excellent land promotion view of Tacoma Washington published the year that Washington became a state. Baldwin, Calcutt & Co., 1889. unknown
18778323Chicago Il: National Live-Stock Journal Print 1877. Octavo sewn in wrappers 22.7 x 15 cm. 36 pages. Illustrated with six lithographic plates. FIRST EDITION. Joint public auction of short horns with attractive lithographs engraved "on stone by J.R. Page by Clay & Richmond Co. Buffalo N.Y." Text block sound; dampstain to edges of most plates. Wrappers separated and chipped at edges. Still overall near very good. Marginal pencil annotations throughout; auction winners names and prices have been written in for each lot. OCLC locates just one copy UMichigan Clements. National Live-Stock Journal Print unknown
18964969New York: Bartlett & Company The Orr Press 1896. Octavo 20.5 x 14 cm. 97 pages. Date derived from Water Street address on title page. An extensively illustrated trade catalogue of heating furnaces and cooking ranges. Before the 1830s gravity hot-air furnaces were produced according to the specifications of individual buildings. The first mass-market manufacturer in the United States was Richardson & Boynton established in 1837 and in business for more than a century thereafter. The company survived the competitive surge in home heating manufacturers in the decades after the Civil War Fuller & Warren of Troy for instance also advertised as "the oldest house in the trade" introducing innovations in fuel source efficiency flue design cleaning access and model size – to say nothing of aesthetic appeal – at a surprising rate. The foundries and shop buildings occupied a double block in Red Hook Brooklyn; corporate offices 232-234-236 Water Street were across the Brooklyn Bridge in Manhattan. By the 1890s Richardson & Boynton were advertising themselves as manufacturers of multiple designs of furnaces fireplace heaters laundry water heaters cooking ranges stoves and kitchen appurtenances such as kettles urns pastry ovens and steam tables. Owing ostensibly to climbing tunnage and wharfage costs the entire operation decamped to Dover New Jersey in February 1896. Elaborate illustrations with equally elaborate cutaways; specification charts. A bit of chipping to head and foot of wrapper at spine otherwise very good in two-toned brown wrappers with gilt decoration. Pages clean and bright. Scarce. OCLC locates three copies of all other Richardson & Boynton cataloguesbut none of this issue; Romaine page 363 for other issues. Bartlett & Company, The Orr Press unknown
188731477New York Jan. 8 1887. 1887. Very good. - Over 75 words penned on both sides of an 8 inch high by 5 inch wide sheet of A.A. Low's personal 31 Burling Slip buff white stationery with attached blank leaf. In his letter addressed to Mr. Davenport at the Garfield Building which was also one of the buildings which A.A. Low developed in Brooklyn Low mentions the possibility of naming the building located at 186 Remsen Street which would house the Franklin Trust Company after that institution: "I have asked Mr. ____ if it would suit him or it will not to have the edifice called 'The Franklin Building'". Signed "Respectfully yours A.A. Low". Folded for mailing with some minor creases to the left edge. Remnants of paper adhere to the edge of the verso of the blank leaf. Very good. <p>The American entrepreneur businessman and philanthropist Abiel Abbot Low 1811-1893 made his fortune from the China trade. His company A.A. Low & Brothers imported teas porcelain and silks from China and Japan. His firm was originally housed on Fletcher Street in New York City. It moved to new quarters the A.A. Low building which he erected on John street in 1849-50. Once established in New York Low went on to invest in numerous other ventures including the first Atlantic cable and the Nickel Plate Railroad.<p>Among A.A. Low's speculative investments were the Garfield Building as well as financial institutions such as the Dime Savings Bank and the Title Guarantee & Trust Company. Another of his projects the Franklin Building is a seven and a half story Romanesque Revival Building. While most were later replaced by taller skyscrapers The Franklin Building which was completed in 1887 by the architectural firm of the Parfitt Brothers survives as one of the oldest buildings in the district. New York, Jan. 8, 1887. unknown
1882H7835Pittsburgh: Wm. G. Johnston 1882. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo mauve cloth with gilt titles on front cover 164 pp with fine Otto Krebs lithograph 40.5 x 9 inches: Bird's Eye View of Pittsburgh and Allegheny dated 1871. RARE: few original copies in OCLC. Lithograph has one tiny repair to a 2-inch split at one of the folds p. 10 has small stain and abrasion else a very nice clean copy. Wm. G. Johnston hardcover
1886280892London : Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode 1886. First Edition. Softcover. Good paperback copies only; edges somewhat slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall despite minor wear and tear. Physical description; 2 volumes ; 34 cm. Contents; pt. 1 Minutes of evidence and appendix -- pt. 2. Appendix. Subjects; Great Britain -- Economic conditions. Financial crises -- Great Britain. Economic history. London : Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode paperback
1807123522Imprimerie impériale 1807. Paperback. <b>Livre en français</b>. Couverture souple. Broché. 14 x 21 cm. 124 pages. Cahiers cousus. <i>ref. 123522</i> Imprimerie impériale paperback
186985507h<p>London: Illustrated London News 1869. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Half-year run bound in early half-leather over pebbled cloth boards. Some edge-wear and bumping to covers; small paper label painted over to upper spine. Edges toned and old library bookplate and marks to front and rear endpapers. Front hinge nearly exposed internally at endpaper but still firm. Otherwise clean tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome volume and internally unusually bright and clean. Superb illustrations.</p> Illustrated London News hardcover
1802354336Washington 1802. 4pp. Dbd. Contemporary manuscript page inscription and early stain in upper outer corner not affecting text. Minor foxing and offsetting. Good. 4pp. Dbd. Congressional report calling for government encouragement of infant industries by allowing certain raw materials to be imported free of duty while imposing a 20% duty on imported fur hats brushes stone ware printing types saddles cannon ball and glass ware and other duties on gun powder cordage soap candles of tallow window glass and iron. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 3412 unknown
184575952Paris: D.Guilmard 1845. First edition Oblong quarto 10 x 7 inches. Title page plus the complete complement of 123 full page lithographs of French furniture. Although not stated in OCLC. this cops copy has 5 bis plates for no. 22 and one bis plate for no. 66. Publisher's blind ruled brown cloth gilt gilt cover lettering. marbled endpapers From hinge nicely repaired but still with a chip to the loer gutter margin of the marled endpapers. The text block is quite clean. A handsome copy of a wonderful trace catalog.There were 3 or 4 editions of this catalog and the only way of telling the difference is by the plate count which has by far the most number of plates. And this copy has even more as no cataloger have ever mentioned the bis plates. Only 5 of this edition located by OCLC all with no mention of any bis plates. "Little is known about the life of the Parisian publisher of Le Garde-meuble Désiré Guilmard c. 1810-c.1885 except that he founded the publishing firm of D. Guilmard in 1839. Because his name appears as the "delineator" of the majority of the furniture plates in Le Garde-meuble many historians presumed he was a furniture designer. However he is not known to have had a furniture shop nor are there any signed examples of his furniture extant. We do know that Guilmard was closely connected to the Parisian design community and through his numerous publications see below became an influential purveyor of taste. He was also an exceptionally able businessman who promoted French furniture and design during a fifty-year period of rapidly changing taste" Smithsonian. D.Guilmard hardcover
182510255New Hastings; Fulham 1825. Engraved illustrated trade card 10 x 14 cm. image area with full margins. A trade card advertisement for baths in New Hastings on the southeast coast of England. The fine view is that of an elegant two-story brick building with a few genteel couples strolling in the foreground. Prices are given for hot baths cold baths showers and servants. The engraving is signed "J. Rouse Drawing Master Fulham. "James Rouse fl. 1815 - 1830. Rouse illustrated several plate books. One An Illustrated Account of the Campaign in the Netherlands 1816-17 with George Cruikshank; and also Hypermyriorama of Sussex 1824 with eighteen colored plates; and Beauties and Antiquities of Sussex 1825. Fine. unknown
1849List3334New York City 1849. Eight letters. Overall excellent. A small collection of letters to Boston-based grocers Silas Pierce & Co. sent from New York by steamboat with notes on covers or stamps reading “Boat Mail†or “Steam Boat Mailâ€. Five of the letters are from Wyckoff & Scrymser which was likely owned by a member or members of the prominent New York Wyckoff family the Scrymser surname first appears in the Wyckoff family history in 18411. Wyckoff & Scrimser discuss sweet and red wine prices “opperations in Trent†likely Trento Italy delayed shipments and issues with products; for instance:<br /> <br /> “The Harmony has not yet made her appearance neither the Aselia the non arrival of the latter is very perplexing but we see no remedy for it. . Annexed please find the sales of the Raisins amount Nett proceeds to your Co Nine Thousand One Hundred Seventy Four 06/100 Dollars which we hope may be found correct and satisfactory. There were a number of the parcels that were sold from the wharf but rejected which we were obliged to and store that the objections might not be known &c. The half boxes . did not have any external appearance of damage and could onky be known by opening. We rather congratulated ourselves that we have got off so well with this fruit as we had strong fears of the result.†December 29 1843<br /> <br /> Also discussing business with Italy is a letter from Wm. A Lüs on behalf of Ferd. Baller & Co. of Messina which traded in citrus fruit:<br /> <br /> “The principal object of my friends is to introduce their Brand favorably into your market & their efforts to do this will alone be sufficient to secure you a superior article of fruit & other Goods; . they are also in the position of obtaining any other Sicilian produce at the most advantageous terms while at Messina or Palermo through their agent there.†August 30 1849<br /> <br /> Demand for citrus products was high as it had been discovered late in the 18th century that citrus prevented and cured scurvy. Demand was so great in fact that some researchers partly credit the citrus trade with creating the Sicilian mafia.2<br /> <br /> A letter from the Bank of Commerce in New York discusses credit and lastly Joseph Knowles possibly of the Massachusetts-based Thomas Knowles & Company sends an intriguing note:<br /> <br /> “Your favor of the 26th inst is rec’d For the intimations therein contained I cannot feel too highly flattered — Trusting that the above Jacob Little Co’s check on Messrs Gilbert & Sons for Three hundred eighty nine dollars $389 may remove all scruples – I would request that the shoes be shipped in good order by first sailing packet for New Yorkâ€. October 27 1840<br /> <br /> This is plausibly related to the investor and stock speculator Jacob Little 1794–1865 known for his short-selling tactics and generally considered as Knowles suggests unscrupulous.3<br /> <br /> Of interest to researchers of mercantile history in the northeast and steamboat mail.<br /> <br /> 1 Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Streeter Eds. The Wyckoff Family in America: A Genealogy The Tuttle Company 1934: 310.<br /> 2 Arcangelo Dimico Alessia Isopi and Ola Olsson “Origins of the Sicilian Mafia: The Market for Lemons†The Journal of Economic History 77 no. 4 December 2017: 1083–1115.<br /> 3 “The Convertible Bonds: How Jacob Little Manipulated Matters Years Ago†The New York Times February 23 1882. unknown
188076931New York: G. B. Bunnell's Museum ca. 1880. Trade card measuring 7 x 3 3/4 inches. Printed in color one one side with informative text on the verso. Excellent condition of this scarce dime museum trade card.As B. T. Barnum gained a foothold in proper society he gradually let go of his famous American Museum really just a euphemism for a freak show. In 1876 Bunnell a protege of Barnum opened the New American Museum at Broadway and 9th in New York to continue the tradition. He soon lowered his price from a quarter to a dime ad his became the most successful dime museum in the country. Choung Chi Lang along with his wife "by special permission of the Minister of China was one of Bunnell's chief attractions. Lithographed by H. A. Thomas. G. B. Bunnell's Museum unknown
1814List3201Birmingham United Kingdom 1814. Copper medal measuring 1 ½ inches in diameter. Appears Very Fine. A copper medal commemorating the passage of the United Kingdom’s Slave Trade Act 1807 produced for distribution in Sierra Leone. One side depicts a European and an African man shaking hands and reads “WE ARE ALL BRETHREN†and exergue: “SLAVE TRADE ABOLISHED BY GREAT BRITAIN 1807â€. The reverse is inscribed in Arabic and reads translated “Sale of slaves prohibited in 1807 Christian era in the reign of George the Third; verily we are all brothers.†The 1807 act did not abolish slavery but rather criminalized British participation in the African branch of the slave trade; it was enforced by the Royal Navy’s West Africa Squadron in the so-called Blockade of Africa. The squadron was based in Freetown Sierra Leone’s capital and would bring freed people from intercepted slave ships to the city. unknown
18285231Guanajuato: Imprenta del Supremo Gobierno a Cargo del C.J.M. Caranco 1828. Good plus. 229pp. plus folding chart. Disbound. Minor foxing and wear. Apparently unrecorded pamphlet that publishes an early statistical and narrative account of the economical and governmental situation in early Guanajuato. The work was printed four years after the adoption of the federal constitution and the organization of the Mexican states. It furnishes an account of agriculture industry government and haciendas and well as statistics on population and economic production. With one folding chart that depicts rural hacienda and ranch production; an interesting snapshot of the early economic life of the central Mexican state. Not in OCLC. Imprenta del Supremo Gobierno a Cargo del C.J.M. Caranco unknown
18175224Veracruz 1817. Good plus. 230pp. plus folding plate. Disbound. Light staining from removed wrappers. Later ownership inscription at foot of title page. Trimmed close affecting initial page numbers. Light dampstaining and tanning internally. An interesting contemporary tract concerning the fall off in agricultural industrial and mineral production in New Spain during the War for Independence. The author José Maria Quiros was a bureaucrat at the Spanish colonial consulate in Veracruz and is therefore particularly attentive to shipping and exports. A folding chart at the rear prints annual production numbers for products and materials in each of the three categories. A handful of copies in OCLC. unknown
188943737Chicago: Baldwin Calcutt & Co. 1889. 1889. First edition. 12" x 9 1/4" in dark blue-green printed thick boards with title in gilt. 971 pp. Sepia-tinted frontispiece with tissue guard. 7 plates. Over 100 photographic lithographic and woodcut text illustrations with some color-tinted and many full-page illustrations. Maps. Excellent land promotion published the year that Washington became a state. Overview of the state of Washington followed by an overview of the city of Tacoma. The overview of Tacoma is followed by articles about and illustrations of hops hop picking logging and lumber with sections of the Tacoma Cedar Lumber Company and The St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Company Gig Harbor Lumber Company and Link's Planing Mills; real estate land development and real estate agents including the Lombard Investment Company Pinkham & Walker E.N. Ouimette with many illustrations and maps of Tacoma residences and homes; railroads such as the Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway the Great Northern Railway and others; growing steel industry with companies like the Standard Iron Works shipping banking and much more. Illustrations include a birds-eye view of Tacoma views of American Lake several businesses in Tacoma etc. Minor bumping to corners minor chipping and outer hinges just beginning at head and foot of spine. Linen hinge repair at gutter margin of title page. Very good. Baldwin, Calcutt & Co., 1889. hardcover
184932London: J. R. Andrews 1849. Very good copy. 8vo. 215 x 140 mm. 51/2 x 8 1/2 inchesii 10 pp. Original printed paper wrappers. A detailed catalogue of copper and brass good including pots pans kettle and cookware of every kind table ware and cutlery; also fenders fire irons lamps lanterns candle sticks; tin and steel goods japan good and much more. All items priced. Not is OCLC or COPAC. J.. R. Andrews unknown