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19123345<p>J.E. Gilleland New Cambria MIssouri 1912 This is an original 18 page catalog issued for Spring and Summer of 1912 covering rugs carpets linoleums curtains draperies shades mattings etc. It is shown as catalog "B" on the cover. The catalog is oblong about 6in x 9in and is profusely illustrated in color and black and white. Great period photos and samples of patterns in use in the early 20th century. Staples rusted with a few leaves detached but otherwise very clean and near fine with virtually no wear. Included is the original envelope. Scarce</p> J. E. Gilleland paperback
583San Jose: San Jose Chamber of Commerce circa 1905. Pages 32 pp.16mo. Paper covers bound with staples at spine. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Color printed covers. Small withdrawal stamp from Yale on interior page margin. Very good condition. San Jose: San Jose Chamber of Commerce (circa 1905.) unknown
1920025488Seattle: Seattle Chamber of Commerce and Commercial Club. Approx 32 pages. Full of illustrations from the 1920's. The chamber was trying to entice settlers into the area. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 10" Tall . VG Plus or Better. Pictorial Pamphlet. 2nd Edition of May 1920. 1920. Seattle Chamber of Commerce and Commercial Club unknown
4aa677Blattgröße 455 x 347 cm. Russisch untertitelt fleckig. unknown
1867ST20572Hamilton Scotland: W. Naismith 1867. FIRST EDITION. 168 x 106 mm. 6 1/2 x 4 1/4". vii 183 pp. <br/> In the very rare original green paper wrappers. Spine cocked wrappers somewhat soiled spine with paper beginning to lift along the bottom inch of the rear joint other minor exterior defects but the volume solid and internally in excellent condition. QUITE A GOOD COPY of a fragile inexpensively produced volume one would expect to find in shambles.<br/> <br/> Told in the form of letters drawn from the author's actual correspondence as well as his contemporary journals this first-hand account by a young sailor of the transatlantic slave trade in the years 1800-04 brings those horrific voyages vividly to life. At the same time the author writing in direct unvarnished prose makes it clear he is at least as much an observer of difficult sea life in general as he is concerned with the abolition of a great evil. In the preface Robinson 1786-1875 explains his reasons for publishing this record of his time aboard a slave ship: "I have heard so many gross misstatements respecting West Indian slavery and the horrors of the 'Middle Passage' that I formed the resolution should time be allowed me to give the result of my own experience . . . in order to disabuse the minds of many well-meaning people." He is rightly aware that some readers may be offended by unconvincing apology in an account encumbered with naïveté : "It is doubtless the opinion of many that I put myself into a wrong position and incurred blame and obloquy by entering into this obnoxious trade at all. It may be so; I will not dispute the matter. I certainly did not feel myself comfortable or at home in the service. But let it be remembered in my favour that the trade was then a lawful one; whilst at the same time I was induced to enter it by what is called an accidental circumstance . . . and an irresistible desire for a seafaring life so completely carried me away that it became a matter of perfect indifference to me where the ship went if not to the bottom provided I was aboard of her--or in what trade engaged if not a pirate." As indicated the letters originating in various ports in England West Africa and the West Indies depict a harsh life at sea for all involved but most especially for the wretches who made up the ship's cargo. An accident on board nearly cost Robinson his foot and ended his career at sea just a year before in his words "the united voice of a generous and philanthropic people" passed the Emancipation Bill into law ending British participation in the slave trade. The phrasing here makes it clear our narrator had his heart mostly in the right place. This is a very rare book which is not surprising for a pocket-sized work from a provincial press near Glasgow issued in insubstantial paper wrappers. OCLC records just two copies in libraries both in the UK while RBH and ABSA seem to list no copies at auction except the present one. W. Naismith unknown
1858ZB377700Washington: 1858. 4 pp issued as 35th Congress 1st Session SRC 285; light chipping at spine now in self wrappers complete but good only; the open sea may be a common highway for the world but British armed vessels may not interfere with ships flying the American flag under the pretext of suppressing the slave trade or for any other reason Great Britain must be made to understand this and the Senate is ready to fully support the President in sending a naval force to the Gulf of Mexico to protect American commerce in those infested seas. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Washington: unknown
534Southern Pacific Co. & Chamber of Commerce Stockton Cal. 1901. 11� x 9� unfolded. Single sheet of stiff card stock folded in half. 1/2 left blank with ruled lines for addressing as a postcard. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Advertising San Joaquin County Cal. and Stockton. Minor soiling. In very good condition. Southern Pacific Co. & Chamber of Commerce, Stockton, Cal. 1901. unknown
28779n.p. Sunset Press c. 1930. Pages 16 pp.9� x 16� unfolded. Stapled at spine. Printed paper covers folded. Illustrated with black & white photos and large map. Center two-page spread map of the Central Valley from Lodi to Bakersfield showing the remnants of Tulare Lake. Very good condition. (n.p.) Sunset Press c. 1930. unknown
20122090502113717980Not Available 2012. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
1800100005<p>1800. Small card on normal paper measuring c. 10 x 7 cm. for this dealer in mirrors from Aachen. Text in French and German in a decorative border. No date late 18th/early 19th century</p>
180074375Lewiston ME: A. Thompson 1800. Large business card measuring 4 7/8 x 3 1/2 inches. Printed on pink paper it advertises Pitcher and E. E. Pomeroy a jeweler both of Lewiston. There is a window on the right and there is another card attached via a brad on the back of the pink card. Above the window we read "Our Next President" and below we read "If Not Your Choice Turn the Bottom Card Around." A portrait of Jas. A. Garfield is in the window but if one turns the rear card around the portrait is of his adversary W. S. Hancock. There are further printed ads on the rear card. Some aging but a very good example of this clever form of advertising. A. Thompson unknown
1775100006<p>1775. Small card c. 6 x 9cm. Text in Dutch in a decorative border with handwritten note at the bottom. A couple of small pinholes at the top. De Ruth will teach a.o. French and will lodge people.</p>
1927250121New York: William Edwin Rudge 1927. First Edition. One of 50 copies specially bound with a double-page frontispiece color reproduction of a trade card for a Mitchell & Crosdale Philadelphia dealer in Sperm Whale Lard & Tanners Oils Candes Rice & c. of Whale killing. XLIV plates uncut. 25 pages of text. 1 vols. 4to. Bound in quarter vellum and patterned boards. Very Fine in remains of original glassine. First Edition. One of 50 copies specially bound with a double-page frontispiece color reproduction of a trade card for a Mitchell & Crosdale Philadelphia dealer in Sperm Whale Lard & Tanners Oils Candes Rice & c. of Whale killing. XLIV plates uncut. 25 pages of text. 1 vols. 4to. William Edwin Rudge 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
1800100009<p>1800. Card c. 16 x 95 cm. Text in Dutch within a decorative border. It seems that there were more cards printed on the same sheet as the border at the bottom is different and the ones at the sides seem to continue.</p>
1870102423Trade card no place no date but circa 1870. Size: 11 x 14 cm. Printed on paper. small defect on the top margin. <br /><br />Charming trade card. One side shows a picture in black and white of four happy girls in the four seasons wearing shoes suitable to the weather and the details about where to obtain to shoes. The other side shows a picture of two children standing on the beach in colour with the text "Sister - tell me what do the wild waves say" Silver tipped shoes only for children at play! Birch Bark - Chromo no. 1. I have dated this from another version of this card for Edward T. Merill a shoe dealer in Portland Maine.
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
191076765Antwerp: Liebig 1910-1935. Each set is comprised of six brightly colored cards measuring 4 5/8 x 2 3/4 inches. Each set bears a collective title as well as information about each craft on each card. The collective titles are; La Navigation Aerienne; La Conquete de L'Air; La Conquete de L'Air II-Les Plus Lordes que L'Air. The cards depict all the seminal events in the history of flight both lighter and heavier than air and bear detailed descriptive text on the rectos French. One card with an 1/8 inch abrasion else all very bright and without bends or creases. Liebig unknown
191574635Birmingham England: Benton and Stone Ltd. 1915. First edition. Oblong octavo 9 1/2 x 6 inches. 4 68 pp. Printed on glassy paper and with high quality illustrations of parts on every page. Publisher's brown wrappers front cover with raised gilt lettering and a motoring design in green Very good condition.The trademark for this firm was "Enots" and that is prominently featured on the front cover. They were a major supplier for almost all manufacturers of motorcycle cars and planes built in England and on the Continent. There is a general letter laid in on company stationery. Also tipped in is a slip announcing that due to the "unsettled conditions prevailing" that they cannot promise to abide by the pricing. The company was located on Bracebridge Street in Birmingham. The Norton Motor Cycle company was located on the same street and it used many Enots products. One of the most interesting products offered herein are are motorcycle mascots. These are metallic figurines much like hood ornaments for automobiles except they were mounted on top of early motorcycle petrol caps. Benton and Stone Ltd. unknown
191976463San Francisco: Redwoods Manufacturing Company 1919 & 1926. First editions. Octavo. 112 1; 95 1 pp. Numerous photographic illustrations. Publisher's pictorial wrappers. Catalogue XI has been punched for a three-ring binder. splotch to from cover of Catalogue X. Very good and quite scarce. OCLC only locates one instance of each catalog and both are at the California State Library their copy of Catalogue X is lacking pp. 35-46. Very good.Remco Redwood Pipe Company was known for using old-growth redwood timber in its Redwood piping manufacturing. Using massive amounts of redwood in their pipes and the pipes were lauded as they were large-diameter lightweight and durable. They were used primarily used for municipal water systems irrigation and industrial purposes. With the growing power of the environmentalist movement the use of old-growth redwood was seen as a cardinal sin rightly so and they eventually bowed to public pressure and ceased manufacturing their pipes. Greg King the author of Ghost Forest relates this ironic tidbit; " “I point first to Wiggington Creed. Creed a powerful Bay Area attorney married into the Hooper clan who were the world’s biggest redwood merchants. After the death of the most powerful brother in 1916 Creed inherited his assets which included lumber. In 1919 he also became one of the five founding directors of Save the Redwoods League. The following year he wrote the League’s articles of incorporation and bylaws. And at the same time he accepted the president’s position at PG&E. Now PG&E was the world’s largest consumer of stave redwood pipes at that time. The largest producer of those stave pipes was the Redwood Manufacturers Company or Remco. And Wiggington Creed was president of that…†Redwoods Manufacturing Company unknown
19407766New York: Arthur Beir & Co. Very Good. 1940. Hard Cover. Trade Catalogue Folio 178 pp VG in metal spiral-bound laminated printed boards with cloth spine moderate soiling & wear to covers; tips quite worn; clean internally. An uncommon and amazing mid-century trade catalog with brightly colored patterned fabric swatches tipped in on nearly every page ranging from 1 to 14 swatches per page. A few of the swatches have been removed with a few strays laid-in at rear but no more than 5% of the hundreds of fabric samples presented here. . Arthur Beir & Co. hardcover
188276605Zurich: Orell Fussli ca. 1882. First edition. Oblong quarto 11 x 8 inches. the book consists entirely of 23 finely executed and very expensively printed tinted lithographs of the company’s various factories and offices in Europe and England. Each lithograph is printed on thick clay paper and bound to a stub. Publisher’s red cloth with beveled edges bevels blind stamped in an Etruscan key pattern front cover with elaborate gilt lettering faux moire silk endpapers. A very good copy of an important and very scarce item. OCLC locates 2 copies but one is an online resource and the other gives no location conceivably making this the the only known copy.Gail Borden invented condensed milk during the time af the Civil war and it was a huge success. Unlike regular milk it was portable over great distances had a very long shelf life and it was safe. Two brothers George and Charles Page from Illinois one of whom came into contact with condensed milk as a soldier in the civil war sought to emulate this success by opening a condensed milk factory is Switzerland a place renown for it’s dairy industry to supply the European market with condensed milk. They named it the Anglo-Swiss company as their target market was Great Britain. But they were successful beyond their dreams and by 1891 it had 12 factories across Europe and the US that exported worldwide. Anglo Swiss then expanded into the USA by purchasing its first factory in Middletown New York and its second around 1889 then the largest condensed milk factory in the world in the Page brothers' home town of Dixon Illinois. This book was likely printed as a celebration for the companies newly opened North American factories. It must have had a very small print run due to its luxurious production and was perhaps only given to large shareholders. At the same time as Page brothers were introducing condensed milt to Europe a young German pharmacist by the same of Henri Nestle had developed and was producing a viable powdered milk product that was used as a substitute for breast milk. He too was extremely successful. The competition between the companies was fierce. From the company's website -- "Nestlé Company’s history began in 1866 with the establishment of the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company by two US brothers Charles and George Page. Using plentiful supplies of fresh milk in Switzerland they applied knowledge gained in their homeland to establish Europe’s first condensed milk production facility in Cham. They began supplying the product under the Milkmaid brand to Europe’s industrial towns marketing it as a safe long-lasting alternative to fresh milk. In 1905 Henri Nestle’s company merged with Anglo-Swiss to form what is now known as the Nestlé Group." Nestle still produces condensed milk under the Milkmaid brand to this day. Orell Fussli hardcover
2433<p>Oblong 4to. original pictorial wrappers. A desirable and unusual trade catalog of antique mantelpieces that were removed from grand houses. A fine copy.</p> paperback
191076606Paris-Londres: Établissement Bachelot c. 1910. Folio 33x25 cm. Spine blue cloth covers grey cardboard some light spots. On frontcover printed in silver 'Biberon Robert'. The 4 folded leaves tog. 16 pages tied up with a red cord. Printed in red and black. The16 pages: p. i-ii: "Conditions de vente" p. iii title p. iv: "L'emploi du biberon" "Nettoyage" "Du lait" p. v-xv: 11 plates with numerous illustrations in nice colors on a lightblue background p. xvi: with a charming circular illustration in 2 colours. - Plate 1. Biberons sans tube. - Plate 2. Stérilisateurs. - Plate 3-10. Articles en caoutchouc. - Plate 11. Sucettes Tire-lait. -- Carefully printed .- Nice copy. Établissement Bachelot hardcover
1892504Chicago Ill. U. S. A.: Thomas Kane & Company 1892. Oblong 8vo. 195 x 270 mm. 7 ½ x 11 inches. 43 pp. Illustrated throughout with lithographs many full-page images of launches and boating equipment. Bound in original green paper wrappers title on front cover vignette of a sailing launch on the back cover. Very good copy. Well-illustrated catalogue of launches and boiler engines produced in Racine Wisconsin by the Thomas Kane & Company who maintained a salesroom in Chicago. The company won a first prize for their steam boat launches sail boats and row boats at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. This catalogue issued the previous year illustrates many of the launches and boats that were part of the exposition and competition. Romaine Guide to American Trade Catalogues p. 66 listing catalogues for the years 1880 1885 and 1893. Outing an Illustrated Monthly Magazine of Sport Travel and Recreation. New York Vol. XXIV 1894 p. lxix. OCLC cites copies at Harvard and SMU. Thomas Kane & Company unknown
