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1823PHO-2030Paris, Persan, 1823. in 8, demi-veau rouge, dos lisse orné. Ouvrage illustré de 2 cartes dépliantes et de 4 planches lithographiées en couleurs., quelques rousseurs, coins usagés, coupes frottées, étiquette de la librairie Maisonneuve.
18403105i. Friedrich Georg Wieck]. 6 in 5 Heften in 1 Band. Mit 1 gefalt. Tabelle. Chemnitz, Expedizion des Gewerbeblattes für Sachsen, 1839-1840. 8vo. (20,1 x 11,5 cm). VIII, 52 S.; 2 Bll., S. 53-159; 1 Bl., S. 161-242; 2 Bll., S. 243-306; 2 Bll., S. 307-417, (1 S.). Neuer Pappband.
18516078Nürnberg's Handel und Industrie mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Gegenwart. Nürnberg, C. Geiger, 1851. 8vo. (20,2 x 12,4 cm). 335 S. Marmorierter Halblederband d. Zt. mit handschriftl. Rückenschild.
188312345Paris, E. Plon et Cie, 1883 ; in-4, demi-chagrin maroquiné rouge cerise à coins, dos à nerfs soulignés de filets à froid et dorés, caissons richement décorés et dorés, titre doré, doubles filets dorés sur les plats, tête dorée, non rogné (reliure de l’époque) ; (6), 412 pp. ; 10 planches en héliogravure et 1 carte dépliante en couleurs hors-texte, très nombreuses illustrations in-texte, 17 à pleine page.
190010698Saint-Cloud, Imprimerie Belin Frères, 1900 ; in-8, broché ; 202, (2) pp., 44 planches hors-texte, dont 3 à doubles pages et 3 grands plans dépliants (gares de Paris, de Villeneuve-Saint-Georges et de Marseille).
1827488329Lüneburg, Herold, 1827-35. Insgesamt 804 S. Pappband d. Zeit mit rotem Rückenschild und etwas Rückenvergoldung (berieben, Ecken bestoßen). [2 Warenabbildungen]
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
18423123New Orleans: January 21 1842. About very good. 3pp. on a folded folio sheet. Old folds. Small loss from wax seal affecting a few words on third page. Light wear and soiling. A wandering "woe is me" missive from Charles Penfield to his business partners back home in Massachusetts detailing his numerous misfortunes on a journey by boat to Mexico and thence to New Orleans. He writes: "To tell you of my misfortunes I think you should rather console with me than to sensure sic me however you can write your friends in Baltimore & let them see me &c. First of my troubles I was fined in Mexico as you have the documents to amount of moste 600 dollars with the expenses. Next misfortune was detained in town 22 days to attend to the board 2 dolls. per day horse hire about 25 or 40 dolls. with expenses on the road vessel being 40 miles before the town. Next I took the yellow fever or Mexican fever & as you must expect my bill was high when I went to town. The deaths was 25 a day population of 6000." He goes on to detail freight costs to New Orleans and the other expenses related to the journey writing: "You had better get these papers translated by some Spanish merchant in Boston & make claim on Mr. Brown." He also notes in a post script that the price of freighting cotton to Liverpool is a half penny per pound. A detailed account of the trials and tribulations of uncertain business ventures in antebellum America. January 21 unknown
185161963London: Longman Brown Green and Longmans 1851. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 21cm. Two volumes in brown cloth stamped in blind and gilt; blue and white printed endpapers with publisher's advertisements; xii244pp; vi248pp; 10 tinted lithographs some with hand coloring and 3 black and white lithographs. Errata slip in vol. I following contents. Binder's ticket of Remnant & Edmonds London to rear pastedown of vol. I. Ownership inscriptions of F. J. Young to front endpaper versos. Unfaded and straight frayed at spine ends vol. I with tear to cloth over rear joint and minor perforations to paper over interior hinges vol. II starting split to front joint short tears to cloth over both joints and short 2-in crack to rear hinge; occasional spots of browning but generally clean: Very Good. <br /> <br /> A Royal Naval officer's journals of visits to Dahomey a kingdom located in what is now southern Benin published with an antislavery intent: "It is the object of the author.to illustrate the dreadful slave hunts and ravages the annihiliations and exterminations consequent on this trade; and to bring prominently before the British public the sacred service they are rendering" through their efforts to halt the slave trade p.iv vol.I. NOT IN ABBEY. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans unknown
188785724The Board of Trade of San Jose 1887. Soft cover. Very good/No jacket. Bin 4 Long Case. First issue of quarterly publication with intact fold out map. Heavy wear on jacket some areas chipped away at spine. Binding well intact. Clean. The Board of Trade of San Jose unknown
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 books
180637539Washington D.C.: A. & G. Way Printers 1806. First edition. Removed. A very good copy. 4 pp. 8vo. Discusses whaling and the duty on American oil. Shaw & Shoemaker 11714. A. & G. Way, Printers unknown
180637539Washington D.C.: A. & G. Way Printers 1806. First edition. Removed. A very good copy. 4 pp. 8vo. Discusses whaling and the duty on American oil. Shaw & Shoemaker 11714. A. & G. Way, Printers unknown books
181421038Genève, 1814-1816. Petit in-8 de 67; 40; 22-[2]; 14 pages, cartonnage de papier à la colle brique.
183781991837 demi-bas. violine (ca. 1860). 2 forts in-8, (2ff.), 996pp. & (2ff.), pp. 997 à 2252, imprimé sur 2 col., P. Guillaumin 1837,
1831PHO-1372Paris , Imprimerie Royale , 1831 , in-4 , 230pp. , relié demi veau époque , tranches cailloutées ,ex-libris T.E. Mionnet (numismate ) , cachet ,dos manquant , frottements aux plats , rousseurs éparses.
18633186Paris, Dumoulin (Lyon, Imprimerie Louis Perrin), 1863 ; in-4 ; demi-maroquin à coins aubergine, dos à nerfs, caissons très décorés, titre doré, double filet doré sur les plats, tête dorée (reliure de l’époque) ; X pp., (1) f. de faux-titre, 434 pp., (1) f; marque d’imprimeur, 1 plan et 1 carte dépliants en couleurs.
1840PHO-2219Paris, Fortin, Masson et Cie, 1840 ; 2 volumes in-8 demi-veau, dos à nerfs avec auteur, titre et tomaison, frottements aux plats, 2 coins dénudés, quelques rousseurs.
1872E81704Paris, Imprimerie Nationale 1872 Complet en 2 tomes, reliées en 1 volume: xvi,768 + iv,584 pp., illustré de quelques graphiques + 2 tableaux graphiques dépliantes en couleurs, 32cm., belle reliure cart. marbrée, bon état, rare, E81704
18735912Jahrhunderts bis zur Gegenwart. Hrsg. von der General-Direction (der) Weltausstellung 1873 in Wien. 2 Bände. Mit Holzstich-Vignetten zu Beginn der Kapitel. Wien, W. Braumüller, 1873. 8vo. (22,3 x 14,1 xm). 1: 5 Bl., 558 S., 1 leeres Bl. 2: 4 Bl., 279 S. Grüne Original-Lederbände mit reicher Rückenvergoldung, doppelter goldgeprägter Filete auf beiden Deckeln, ornamentale Eckstücke in den Mittelfeldern sowie Blindprägung auf Rücken, Deckeln u. Innenkanten; dreiseitiger Goldschnitt (Buchbinderei M. Schlöps & Co., Wien).