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1962349441962. MANASQUAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. MANASQUAN. Compiled By Townspeople For the Diamond Jubilee. Lewiston Maine: Geiger Brothers 1962. Sm. 4to. imitation blue leather stamped in silver. First Edition. Very Good ink name front endpaper. $20.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
35201Manchester: Marsden and Co n. d. Ca late 19th C / early 20th C. Green cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to front cover. A VG copy. 67 1 pp. Illustrated. 7-1/8" x 4-3/4" <br/><br/>A trade catalogue with a detailed parts breakdown for divers feeders manufactured by Hetherington a firm making ". all kinds of Cotton Opening Scutching Carding Preparing Spinning and Doubling Machinery also Engineers' Tools Mill Gearing Hoists etc.". Marsden and Co hardcover books
1906285153Cincinnati: Lukenheimer Company 1906. hardcover. very good-. Comprising Brass and Iron Valves Whistles Cocks Gauges Injectors Lubricators Oil Pumps Oil and Grease Cups. Many Illus. 472pp. 12mo red cloth cloth lightly dampstained otherwise very good. Cincinnati: Lukenheimer Company 1906.<br/><br/> Lukenheimer Company unknown books
183516876Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale 1835. First edition. 1 vols. Folio. Original red morocco-backed red cloth by Delauney with stamp with royal monogram on upper cover. Rubbed upper joint starting head of spine chipped. First edition. 1 vols. Folio. With a notation from John B. Murray that this "was one of 9 volumes presented by His Majesty Louis Phillippe King of the French to John B. Murray New York 1846 and is now given to his nephew Archie Murray June 1872." The last must have donated it to a library as there is a discreet gift notation in gutter following title and a subject heading in upper margin of title written in pencil. A good copy. De L'Imprimerie Royale unknown books
190758405Santa Clara CA: Nace Printing Co 1907. 1 sheet illustrated measuring 29 x 67 cm. folded to 15 x 9 cm. Black lettered and illustrated salmon covers stamped with the name of the Geo. W. Turner Insurance on rear. Panorama photo of Los Gatos as well as photos of individual houses.<br/>OCLC 29281501 - Columbia Univ. Univ. of CA Berkeley and also Davis. <br/><br/> Nace Printing Co unknown books
306749Exposition Number 1915. Folding eight-panel brochure 9" x 16". 7 halftone illustrations. Outer panels tinted yellow. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. Covers trolley and rail trips railroads street car rides tenting on the beach hotels and apartments country clubs etc. Includes views of Catalina Island Mount Lowe Incline Mission Play L.A. Country Club Busch Sunken Gardens etc. No Binding. Very Good. Exposition Number, 1915. unknown books
1970145884Los Angeles: Trade Unionists for Peace 1970. Single 8.5x11 inch sheet mimeographed on one side very good. Invitation to a meeting to discuss the impact of the Vietnam War and Nixon's policies on workers. Also included is a second similar handbill dated March 2 1970. Trade Unionists for Peace unknown books
19123342<p><b>HOME BUILDING BUNGALOW TRADE CATALOG </b> Los Angeles Investment Co. 1912 Oblong octavo 92 pages. This copy is in poor condition missing both front and back covers and likely the last page of text. The book is well used the title page has edge chips and soiling. Internally it is clean and a very suitable working copy. This book has home designs in the Arts and Crafts style about one per page with a black and white picture of the house and a floorplan with measurements prices and descriptions. It is amazing to see so many familiar California style homes pictured with nothing around them! No other houses not many trees it looks like the company built one house to a block took a picture and then sent out the salesmen with this catalog. A scarce item.</p> Los Angeles Investment Co. paperback books
19133341<p><b>BUNGALOW HOMES TRADE CATALOG.</b> Los Angeles Investment Co. 1913 Extremely scarce trade catalog of home designs for California. Oblong octavo in pictorial color wrappers. Stated Twelfth Bungalow Book Edition 1913. This is a well used copy but complete. Creased well thumbed stray pencil marks light scribblings some pages soiled two signatures on the title page but wonderful. 92 pages with an illustration of each house apparently as built with an accompanying floor plan with measurements. Many interior shots as well. Virtually all are Arts and Crafts bungalow style homes that fill so many streets in the L. A. area. Indispensable to the restoration architect a modern builder or just a small house enthusiast. </p> Los Angeles Investment Co. paperback books
19383545Los Angeles: Board of Supervisors of Los Angeles County 1938. Single sheet 23 cm x 81.5 cm printed on both sides that folds to digest size 23 cm x 10 cm Folds as issued. Very good. Los Angeles promotional piece issued by the Chamber of Commerce that contains descriptions of the Los Angeles area that is illustrated with black and white views.<br/><br/>"To the usual pulsating vibrant hum of industry metropolitan Los Angeles adds the unusual climate. This great natural resource stimulates workers and employers alike. Because of the abundance of sunshine and fresh air great factories are free from the necessity of using artificial lighting and heating. This advantage is not only reflected in lower operating costs but in greater happiness and efficiency of employees. Board of Supervisors of Los Angeles County unknown books
1904WRCAM21281Los Angeles: Out West Company 1904. 4pp. plus ninety-nine photographic plates two folding. Oblong quarto 11 x 8 inches. Original blind- stamped flexible leather binding with original stitching. Front cover stamped with California poppy design in the Arts & Crafts style. Front flyleaf detached else very good. An impressive and beautifully illustrated viewbook of Los Angeles and neighboring communities in Southern California. The nicely produced photographic illustrations depict the stately residences gardens parks beaches public buildings etc. of the just emerging giant city of Los Angeles. Includes a large folding panorama of the downtown business district as it appeared in 1904. Also many images of Catalina Island Santa Monica San Diego Pasadena grape harvesting the Sylmar olive ranch orange orchards etc. Out West Company hardcover books
1921WRCAM16131Los Angeles 1921. 32pp. Color photos. Printed wrappers. Minor soiling on wrappers else very good. A charming promotional guide profusely illustrated with contemporary color scenes from the county. Includes an early mention of moving picture studios. unknown books
1934291408New York: Long Island Chamber of Commerce 1934. paperback. very good. Two maps many black-and-white photographs and one woodcut by Henry R. Diamond. 64 pages thin 8vo pictorial wrappers; lightly dust soiled. New York: The Long Island Chamber of Commerce 1934. A very good copy.<br/><br/> Long Island Chamber of Commerce unknown books
175141756London: n.p. 1751. Modern marbled paper-covered boards. Minor wear to extremities browning to title page edge wear to last leaf still a near fine copy. 1 57 1 pp. Folio. "Very rare and valuable. It contains an Appendix of Premiums paid by the Irish Linen Board" Higgs Bibliography of Economics p.8. An important source document. There is also a 28 page edition. OCLC locates only four complete copies of this separate issue: Yale Amer. Textile Museum Univ. Mass. Univ. Minn. and nine of the 28 page extract. Kress 5155. Higgs 54. Goldsmiths'-Kress 08612.1. n.p. hardcover books
19243357<p>Lighting Education Committee 1924 A twenty-four page catalog in original pictorial wrappers. Oblong about 7in x 10 in. Fully illustrated in black and white and half-tone illustrations of interior rooms fixtures doorways etc. The text outlines what lighting is needed for which tasks and rooms. The first page outlines a contest for children to study the book investigate their home and lighting cut pictures out of the fixtures and place them in the rooms illustrated in the catalog. Additionally write an essay of no more than 600 words. This copy is very good with just a couple of creases to the front cover. nothing has been cut out! and is clean and unmarked.</p> Lighting Educational Committee books
1929001228Paris: Librairie Larousse 1929. 1st Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 106 1 pp. 96 plates showing book art of period Art Nouveau or Jugendstil Art Deco Modernist Cubist and assortment of other styles. Some plates in full color others three or four toned yet others b&w. Outstanding review appreciation and study of early twentieth century art book aesthetics as developed internationally with French trends and practice emphasized but some discussion and representation of what was going on elsewhere in Europe. Also a truly rare exposition book. Pages clean except for small stamp of Museum of French Art New York on all plate margins. Light soilage to wraps and typical moderate wear along spine edges. <br/><br/> Librairie Larousse paperback books
18052612Leipzig: E. Z. Steinacker 1805. 3 parts small oblong 4to 178 x 219 mm. 20; 18; "19" recte 20 pp. Each part with half-title only titles supplied on the wrappers. 12 plates of oval hand-colored tinted aquatints by Geissler. Occasional light foxing to text. Publisher's original pale green printed wrappers some wear and creasing sewing loose in part 1.Only Edition a high spot of nineteenth-century German book illustration a fine copy in the rare original wrappers. In impressionistic prose an anonymous author delivers a dozen diverting vignettes of salesmen and their customers at the annual Leipzig trade fair weaving stories around Geissler's masterly hand-colored aquatints. This delightful suite was issued in parts published to coincide with the two 1804 Leipzig fairs at Easter and Michaelmas and the 1805 Easter fair. Together Geissler's aquatints and the text portray fortunetellers a peep show and its barker performing jugglers and musicians Russian dancers Transylvanian and Greek merchants in their native dress shoemakers Jewish clothing vendors processions of horses for sale horse traders and peddlers and fraudsters of every ilk. One of the oldest trade fairs in Europe by the eighteenth century the Leipzig fair had become the main venue for trade with Eastern Europe a perfect artistic subject for Geissler who had spent most of his twenties traveling through Russia and the Ukraine.Geissler's first subject part 1 Scene 1 is a second-hand bookseller. Surrounded by trunks of dusty books and pictures this poorly dressed oddball is a master of patter. His efforts to sell two popular 17th-century prayerbooks Arndt's Paradies-Gärtlein and Michael Cubach's Gebetbuch to a couple of wary customers is rendered verbatim. Other than the fact that the books are recommended for their usefulness the tactics of persuasion have not changed in two centuries. Meanwhile in the background two street urchins "two sons of the Vorstadt poorer outlying areas of town from the Order of the Barefoot" steal a defective copy of a red-bound issue of the Taschenbuch "wishing to return it to precisely the place mentioned in the title" i.e. their pockets. A poor book collector arrives; he is granted credit. This inimitable scene is completed by two more characters a French emigré hoping to find a "La Fontainesque novel" for a few pennies and a poet for hire shown from the back in the aquatint whose tragi-comic portraits are gleaned from their clothing hairstyles and gestures as rendered by Geissler.Equally astute and moving are the portraits of Russians and Eastern Europeans who appear in five scenes. In the final chapter in part 2 the anonymous author - an "unnamed Leipzig man of letters a friend of Geissler's who worked for a Modemagazin fashion magazine probably Baumgartner's" Wustmann p. 23 - quotes Geissler's own description of the wild Russian dancing and singing of the last night of the fair in a moving paean to Slavic soulfullness sharply contrasted with Germanic stiffness.The son of a Leipzig goldsmith and mineral dealer Geissler had trained at the Art Academy there but his major influence was the illustrator Johann Salomo Richter from whom he learned the taste for hand-colored aquatint portraits of the common people and genre scenes of everyday life. Geissler spent 1790 to 1798 in Russia serving as the expedition artist with the German scientist Peter Simon Pallas on his travels in the Caucasus and southern Russia. On his return to Leipzig Geissler published the Pallas works as well as his own illustrated accounts of Russian customs and costumes. Creatively gifted Geissler was also skilled at marketing his works. He established close relations with Leipzig publishers for whom he produced numerous children's books. The present "Scenes from the Leipzig Fair" was his most important publication during the period between his return from Russia and the Napoleonic wars. He later produced illustrated reportages of the Battle of the Nations Völkerschlacht in Leipzig and individual war images for newspapers almanacs and even peep shows. In the US OCLC locates copies at Brown Rice University and University of Wisconsin. Lipperheide 828 DfG 5; G. Wustmann C. G. H. Geissler der Zeichner der Völkerschlacht Leipzig 1912 pp. 23-24 and 115 note 24;; Rümann Die illustrierten deutschen Bücher des 19. Jahrhunderts 1926 504; Thieme Becker 13:351-2. E. Z. Steinacker unknown books
1993224782Pasadena: The Symposium the University and the Committee 1993. 12p 8.5x11 inches information agenda sponsors and co-sponsors participating institutionsregistration form very good newsletter format of nested sheets staple holes at fore edge map of the university on rear panel. A symposium to consider the education policy implications of the North American Free trade Agreement. The Symposium, the University and the Committee unknown books
1838List601Most Latin America 1838. Mostly Latin America 1809 - 1838. Over 150 pieces comprising over 280 pages .5 linear feet. The Massachusetts merchant Captain Eliphalet Smith Jr. 1780-1838 was a merchant trading primarily in Latin America during the Revolutionary Period. Described by the Chilean historian Diego Barros Arana as "an unscrupulous adventurer who saw in the countries struggling for independence nothing more than a field for his speculations" Smith bore witness to many seminal events in the continent's political history. These letters offer first-hand accounts of such events as the Sieges of Cadiz and Montevideo Admiral William Brown's victories in the Argentinian Independence War the Peruvian silver trade Simon Bolivar's arrival in Guayaquil and the battles of Real Felipe Fortress. <br /> <br /> Smith's business correspondence from the period sheds light on the pro-Regency networks active in the Americas during the period as his loyalties - like most merchants - were based on the Spanish Armada's control of trade. The tensions between Smith and the nascent Chilean government came to a head when goods from Smith's ship the Brig Macedonian were seized by Lord Cochrane Vice Admiral of the Chilean Squadron in two separate incidents in 1818 and 1821. The ensuing legal disputes would cast a long shadow over relations between the United States and Chile until the cases were resolved by international tribunal. The collection includes several original documents relating to the episodes including Smith's recollections of the events and several letters to investors describing the confiscated goods. <br /> <br /> Smith's efforts and their tacit support by the U.S. government make him a key figure in early relations between the United States and the new Latin American regimes. In 1822 an agent of the United States State Department acknowledged that "the Brigs Canton and Macedonian were for more than three years constantly violating blockades neutral and belligerent rights and supplying the royalists and flew the Spanish flag." Likewise historian Patricia Marks writes that Smith had business connections with Spanish merchants in Peru and refers to a quote from Viceroy to Peru JoaquÃn de la Pezuela: "Smith and the Macedonian became anathemas to the patriots. San MartÃn is reputed to have said that he did more damage to the cause of liberty than any other man." Historian Joseph Byrne Lockey points out that Smith's actions had greater implications regarding the perception of the United States in revolutionary-era Latin America: "The conduct of Captain Smith supported in so far as it was legal by the government at Washington contributed together with other incidents of a similar sort not a little to the dimming of the earlier impression of the Patriots that the United States would be in the struggle their friend and ally." <br /> <br /> The collection here consists of 153 documents from Smith's estate including letters received by Smith mercantile inventories and holograph copies of letters sent by Smith during the period. Correspondents include Smith's contacts in Latin America and his creditors in the United States. As a collection the documents relay scarce firsthand accounts of several seminal political events and map an extensive network of mercantile contacts and inventories. They are worthy of further research by scholars of the political history of Latin America and Spain and of early United States / Latin American relations as well as scholars of trade between China and Latin America. <br /> <br /> Overall the collection presents an uncommon opportunity to acquire primary source material from Latin America's Revolutionary Period. We find records from the Macedonian and Smith in the Forbes family collection at Harvard as well as some later documents relating to Smith's claims at the University of Virginia Special Collections. We find no publicly held examples of Smith's personal correspondence or papers prior to 1820. A full write-up and inventory is available in our PDF catalog. unknown books
1922303665Bakersfield California Kern County Chamber of Commerce 1922. 1922. 6 panel folding brochure. Illustrated with 10 halftones and one map. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. Includes information on oil and gas wells farming irrigation gold and silver. Rocq 2431 - located only 1 copy. No Binding. Very Good. Bakersfield, California, Kern County Chamber of Commerce [1922]. unknown books
1870WRCAM55334Osage Mission Ks 1870. Hand-drawn and hand-painted watercolor sign on a 14 x 18 3/4-inch sheet of cardstock. Pencil sketch for the same sign on the verso. Small chips at lower corners some light soiling. Very good. A remarkable and very attractive handmade sign for D.B. Gregory's livery stable in Osage Mission Kansas. Undated the style of the sign suggests a date of the 1870s. The center of the sign shows a lovely illustration in profile of a horse pulling a single-rider four-wheeled carriage along a dirt road. The text above the illustration reads "D.B. Gregory & Co." and below: "Livery & Sale Stables / Best Stock / Horse & Buggies / Main Bet. County & Neosho Strs. / Osage Mission Kan." The lettering is in black with blue and purple shadowing and "Osage Mission Kan." is drawn in a very ornate style. The entire sign is decorated with purple watercolor ornamentation. On the verso is a pencil sketch of the horse and the lower half of the carriage likely a preliminary sketch for the finished illustration. <br> <br> David B. Gregory born in 1846 in Iowa established his livery business with his brother in Osage Mission now St. Paul Neosho County Kansas by the early 1870s. An advertisement in the March 23 1873 issue of the OSAGE MISSION TRANSCRIPT describes Gregory's livery as having a "fine and well selected stock of horses and carriages.the best matched teams for style and speed in the city. Saddle horses for ladies and gents a specialty that defy competition." Settlers came to the region around Osage Mission in the 1840s following the founding of nearby Fort Scott in 1842. Osage Mission itself was founded in 1847 by Father John Schoenmakers as a mission to local Indian tribes and then grew into a town in its own right serving as a trading post and gateway for commerce and westward exploration. By the late 1860s it had grown to nearly 900 people with a hotel boarding house saloon stables general store hardware store and blacksmith. <br> <br> A rare significant and informative survival from the American frontier. unknown books
195545170Silver State Press. 1955. Pictorial stapled wraps. . very good. 27.7x21.3 cm. . Silver State Press. paperback books
1955283330Silver State Press. 1955. wraps. very good; closed cut on front. 4to. Silver State Press. paperback books
188537510Meriden CT: Lithograph copyright by J. H. Bufford's Sons 1885. Printed by Horton-Printer 1885. Folding trade card 4 pp. Folded to 3" x 5." Colored in pink and pale green inks. Lithograph of the Washington Monument surrounded by trees and sightseers. The inner pages describe the firm's Clothing Department and Tailoring Department. The rear page describes the Hat Trunk and Furnishing Departments. The description is surrounded by views and descriptions of "Comparative Height of Various Structures in the World." Fine.<br/><br/> The firm was a major clothier in Meriden Connecticut in the late 1800's.<br/>Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica 1555-1977 Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies University of Pennsylvania. [Lithograph copyright by] J. H. Bufford's Sons, 1885. Printed by Horton-Printer unknown books
1999225118San Francisco: Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Northern California / Jetro San Francisco Center 1999. 137p. wraps. Overview of the state for Japanese and Japanese-American businessmen and official visitors. Text in Japanese. Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Northern California / Jetro San Francisco Center unknown books
