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37077Boston: The Barta Press n. d. 1st printing ca 1920. No copies found on OCLC. Brown paper wrappers stapled. BOOK Of MOTOR CARS. Stanley Motor Carriage Co. Newton Massachusetts U.S.A. Wrapper title. Light wear. 2 stamps of "W. G. Thuman / Stanley Steam Cars / 230 E. Channel St. / Stockton Calif." Prior owner signature at top of front wrapper. Line 1cm wide of paper remnants across inside rear wrapper. Withal a VG copy. 24 pp. 8 photographic images of Stanley vehicles 6 of the 7 passenger model; 1 of the 5 passenger Touring Car & 1 of the 4 passenger Coupe. 8vo. 9" x 6" <br/><br/> The Barta Press unknown books
40538Milwaukee n. d. 1st printing ca 1922-23. No copies found on OCLC. Printed brown paper wrappers stapled. Modest wear. VG. 28 pp. Illustrated primarily from b/w photographs. 10-1/2" x 8-1/2" <br/><br/> 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
33507Milwaukee Wis: Felix Birr & Company n. d. Ca pre-WWII. Embossed grey stiff-stock paper wrappers cord-tie. Geneal age-toning with light overall wear to wrappers. A VG copy with samples tending to Nr Fine - Fine. Unpaginated though 32 pp. Each page with 1 - 4 envelope/card samples with tissue guards between facing pages. 57 samples total primarily Christmas greetings. Price information also tipped-in opposite. Oblong format: 9-7/8" x 12-3/4" <br/><br/>Felix Birr & Company the oldest engraved stationery business in Wisconson founded in 1907 still in existence today and still as a family-run firm. Felix Birr & Company unknown books
37490TRADE CARD T.H. WEBSTER TEACHER OF ARCHITECTURE PERSPECTIVE &. London: circa 1810. Engraved card. 2 5/8 x 3 7/8 inches. Webster 1772-1844 revised John Imison's Elements of Science and Art in 1808 On the blank verso he has added his address: No. 6 Clipstone Street. unknown books
189149359Boston: Daniel Gunn & Co. Printers 1891. 1st Printing. Not in Romaine though see p. 96 for 4 later beginning 1896 Master & Wells catalogues / lists. Red paper wrappers printed in black. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Modest wear & soiling a VG copy. 81 pp inside rear wrapper paginated as p. 81. Inside front wrapper as frontispiece. 16mo. 5-9/16" x 3-1/2" <br/><br/>A very comprehensive offering of things that sparkle and/or go boom. from "Small Chinese Fire Crackers" Box $1.75. P. 68 to "An Exhibition Collection Large Work Fire-work Exhibition Collection No. 12 A Town or City Exhibit. $200. . An excellent selection of high grade material and is suitable for a town city or club exhibit." p. 60. <br /> <br />While other years of Masten & Wells catalogues are represented on OCLC we find no holding of this 1891 printing. Daniel Gunn & Co., Printers unknown books
188932786Pittsburgh PA 1889. Not in Romaine. Blue cloth binding with black stamped lettering. Beveled edges. Volume professionally recased. 390 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. <br/><br/> hardcover books
33689Philadelphia: Ware Bros. Company n. d. Ca 1890s. Not in Romaine. Stapled quires. Lacks wrappers. Faint stain in upper right of first couple/three leaves. Wrapper remnants along spine. Carriage No. 145 with "Doctor's carriage" noted in pencil underneath. Withal a useful VG copy. 68 pp. 60 large b/w illustrations of divers carriages; 5 images of sleighs. 9-1/2" x 8" <br/><br/>Rare trade catalogue from the hey-day of polite horse-powered travel- OCLC records no copies & only two total from this manufacturer both from the early 20th C. Ware Bros. Company 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
1774WRCAM51552Paris 1774. Broadside 20 1/4 x 16 1/4 inches. Folded with three small holes along fold lines otherwise very good. A French chart detailing export and import figures for British trade with its American island colonies from 1697 to 1773 using amounts in both pounds sterling and livres tournois gathered from parliamentary reports and calculations by Charles Whitworth financial statistician and Member of Parliament for constituencies in Cornwall and Somerset from 1747 to 1778. Extremely scarce with only one copy recorded in OCLC. unknown books
19155864Philadelphia Pa: The Company 1915. Booklet 23 x 14.5 cm. 60 pages. Illustrated. Index. Trade catalogue of a supplier of ice cream making equipment from freezers and mixers to scoops waffle cone irons molds and and milk-shake mixers. There are even "special wood soled shoes for ice cream makers". The wrapper indicates the firm was founded in 1864. Tiny bit of edgewear to printed brick colored wrappers otherwise fine. Scarce. OCLC locates three copies; though founded in 1864 the firm is not represented in Romaine. The Company unknown books
19236133New York: Wood & Selick Inc. Hudson Duane & Thomas Streets 1923. Quarto 28 x 25 cm. 76 pages. Index. Profusely illustrated. Lacking the separate price list. Publication date from the UC Davis copy which includes a price list dated March 15th 1923. ~ FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. A trade catalogue of supplies and machinery for the ice cream trade including everything a small business might need to outfit an ice cream parlor including ice cream machines electric fudge warmers also good for bullion! ice cream pails trowels scoops spoons ladles straws soda glasses sundae cups chairs tables and other shop furniture. The firm of Wood & Selick was formed in 1880 and became a significant supplier of ingredients equipment and machinery for the baking confectionery and ice cream industries. They also were well known for a side business as the producers of W&S Cough Drops. Business was so good that the firm commissioned a new seven story brick warehouse at the corner of Duane and Hudson Streets in what is now known as New York's Tribeca the handsome Babcock & Morgan building was recently home to David Bouley's eponymous restaurant. Light soiling to publisher's wrappers otherwise near fine. Scarce. OCLC locates two copies UC Davis and UVA's Small Collection. Wood & Selick, Inc., Hudson Duane & Thomas Streets unknown books
19302430Milano 1930. Oblong folio 18 pages illustrated throughout. Stapled and string-bound typographic wrappers. General catalogue of moulds for pastry ice-cream chocolate and related machinery. Very good in printed wrappers. OCLC locates no copies. unknown books
19082921New York & Chicago 1908. Thick quarto. 12 issues of this professional journal for the ice trade. Profusely illustrated with ads for all business connected to the trade. Contents include articles on large scale refrigeration installations various technical matters regional association activities trade conventions etc. Text block very good but three quarter brown morocco binding is split at the hinges and quite rubbed. Scarce in the trade. unknown books
19203344<p>A fine copy of a rare trade catalogue issued by the Trenton Potteries Company. Decorative wrappers bound in dos-a-dos style tied with two silk twists one olive green one ochre. "Bathrooms of Character" has 40 pages beautifully illustrated with plans for creating a stylish bathroom. The cover design features a background in olive green squares outlined in white suggesting tiles with title letters in a raised white Arts and Crafts font. Embellishments of "tiles" with soft ochre stylized irises and foliage complete the handsome composition. The pamplet's counterpart "Porcelain Fixtures For Kitchen and Laundry" has 31 pages also nicely illustrated. Its cover design is identical to that of the bathroom pamphlet reversing the use of colors with ochre squares outlined in white and the iris designs executed in olive green. The text presents a wide array of superior qualities of the products including "Your Maid Will Find Cleaning Easy". It attests to shared contemporary frustrations "Every woman has had experience with the "servant problem". Dimensions and prices are included. This is the sixth edition of a booklet that was updated beginning circa 1914. Advertisements for the brochures were carried by some of the most prestigious periodicals of the day including House Beautiful Country Life and The Fra. Very scarce indeed particularly in fine condition and retaining the original postal envelope addressed in this case to "Gladys Drinkwater 1124 St. Vincent Street Utica N.Y." The envelope has a pencil date of 10/21/21 as well as the original three cent purple George Washington stamp canceled.</p> Trenton Pottery Co. paperback books
191539973Detroit Mich: Maxwell Motor Company 1915. 1st printing. Printed paper wrappers stapled 1915 - Peach; Service - Grey. Original buff paper mailing envelope. Minor wear & soiling. A VG set. Unpaginated though 40 & 24 pp respectively. Each booklet fully illustrated. 5-7/16" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/>Maxwell - Briscoe Motor Company formed ca 1904 was named after its founders Jonathan Dixon Maxwell who earlier had worked for Oldsmobile and the Briscoe Brothers Metalworks with Benjamin Briscoe President of the company in 1907. OCLC shows 2 holdings of this specific Maxwell catalogue. Rare in the trade. Maxwell Motor Company unknown books
1825WRCAM38259New York: Corrected and published by Edmund M. Blunt 1825. 4196pp. plus 20pp. of advertisements. Tall narrow octavo. Contemporary calf gilt morocco label. Hinges cracked boards worn. Tanned scattered foxing. Fair. First edition under this title of this perennially popular and relied-upon guide for figuring the weight of packages and casks based on their depth and breadth. The work was originally published in 1816 but was found to be so full of errors that it was republished in this "corrected" edition under a new title in 1825. Blunt was also the publisher of the essential navigation guide THE AMERICAN COAST PILOT. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 19773. Corrected and published by Edmund M. Blunt hardcover books
36376North Tonawanda New York n. d. Ca 1911. Deep red paper wrappers printed in green & black stapled. Modest wear. A VG copy. 47 1 pp. Printed on glossy stock. Customer testimonials last 10 pages. Price list laid-in. Profusely illustrated in b&w. Oblong format: 6" x 9" <br/><br/>Rare early trade catalogue from this premier manufacturer of wooden boats. We find no copies recorded on OCLC. unknown books
188133597Syracuse N.Y.: Journal Print 1881. 1st edition thus Romaine p. 3. Printed self-wrappers sewn. Vignette of the factory to front wrapper. Rear wrapper with advert touting Standard Oil as a customer. General wear with stain to upper text block corner. Spine paper shows wear & shipping. Foxing to wrappers. Withal an About VG copy. 35 pp. Pp 21 - 35 are testimonials from satisfied customers across the eastern half of the nation. Illustrated with 19 cuts of 7 presses & associated ancillary equipment. 8vo. <br/><br/> Journal Print unknown books
184945044Boston: Ruggles Nourse Mason & Co 1849. 1st Printing. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Faint fold-lines. Very Good. Single sheet broadside leaflet. Illustrated with 6 cuts of the various size wrenches. 9-7/8" x 7-5/8" <br/><br/>Rare advertising broadside for this wrench "acknowledged to be the most convenient efficient and strongest now made and having been long in use and fully proved are most favorably known among our mechanics manufactureres and dealers." Ruggles, Nourse, Mason & Co unknown books
1920381Map Western Canada <i>The Canadian West. Compiled from Government Maps and Revised to January 1920. Presented with the Compliments of the Canadian Bank of Commerce. </i>44 cm x 120 cm color lithographed map prepared for the Canadian Bank of Commerce 1920. Folded creased as expected after a century only three small fold separations without loss of text or image. Printed on good paper still crisp and fresh. The size prevents this seller taking a panoramic photograph. Condition fine as noted above. Canadian Bank of Commerce books
1933871221933. TRADE CATALOG - BABY PRAMS AND FURNITURE. COMPAGNIE LYONNAISE DE CONSTRUCTION DE VOITUES ET JOUETS D'ENFANTS; Lyon. Les Voitures d'Enfants - Les Meuble Lacques. Album No. 1. Lyon: The Company 1933. Oblong quarto printed wrappers; 68 pp. illustrated throughout. Art deco prams weighty looking "landaus" and smaller "cabs" in a range of high modern styles followed by strollers fabricated of either metal some of which are collapsible or wood some cribs and cradles and suites of decorated lacquer furniture for children. unknown books
187740877New York: C. Jourgensen Printer 1877. 1st printing Romaine p. 113. Original printed yellow paper wrappers. Slight roll to spine. Average wear & soiling with unobtrusive evidence of damping in top margin. Front wrapper top corner with modern paper reinforcement to verso. Withal a respectable Very Good copy. 158 2 blank pp. Profusely illustrated with cuts. 8vo. 9" x 5-3/4" <br/><br/> C. Jourgensen, Printer unknown books
189936006Homer N.Y. 1899. Ca 1890s. Not in Romaine. Pale blue printed wrappers. Mild wear & soiling to wrappers. A VG copy. 77 3 blank pp. 75 drawn b/w illustrations of divers styles of carriages. Oblong format: 3-3/4" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/>Rare trade catalogue from the hay-day of polite horse-powered travel- not in Romaine though see p. 78 for other catalogues by this firm. OCLC records no copies institutionally held. unknown books
