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188021257New York 1880. Very good condition. Brightly colored trade catalogue with elaborate use of type fonts at the wrapper printed in vivid red yellow blue and green. With a red stamp at front wrapper "For sale by Wm. Moore Poughkeepsie NY". Also a logo at front wrapper of a steer with a bit of a grin within a red circular border. Illlustration of the sack of Royal Bone Phosphate against a back drop of brightly flowering plants at rear wrapper. With text pertaining to the products on offer and illustrations. 6 x 4 1/2" not paginated. unknown
18849686Defiance OH: White & Mains Printers 1884. Unbound. Good binding. Quarto. 4 pp. illus. Bifolium printed on all 4 pages. Wear to the inner margin; soiling; vertical crease from folding; light wear to the extremities. An early advertisement for this company that was around roughly from 1880 to at least 1920. White & Mains, Printers unknown
184433797London: William Clowes and Sons 14 Charing Cross For Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1844. Folio. 13 1/8 x 7 7/8 inches. First edition. a-b2 B-Z4. i-x 1-176. 186 pp. Diplomatic messages with the USA on pages 19-144. One full-page engraved map titled "Route of the Egyptian Army under Ahmed Pasha on a Slaving Expedition February 1843" by Standidge and Co. p. 169. Later black half morocco binding over black cloth with five raised bands forming six compartments on spine with gilt-lettered title in second and fourth compartments and date in sixth with the binder's ticker of Monastery Hill Bindery on back pastedown<br/> <br/> Important documents letters and reports regarding Great Britain's efforts to curtail the African slave trade across the globe including over 100 pages of diplomatic cables with the USA.<br/> <br/> "Class D. Correspondence" referred to diplomatic letters between the Foreign Office and nations that had not signed treaties with Great Britain regarding the slave trade. Every year from 1830 to 1859 this correspondence was presented to both Houses of Parliament and published: this is the annual compendium covering the year 1843. And though the importation of slaves was illegal in the United States at that time there is a considerable amount of American-British interaction. Great Britain had abolished slavery in toto throughout its colonies in 1834 after the passage of the Abolition Act of 1833. It had been home to a powerful abolition movement that held influence in government for some time prior. Great Britain's economy had grew less dependent on slavery than its rivals like the US were and slave revolts on its far-flung colonies had been costly to put down. Those reasons coupled with domestic religious and social sentiment had led the British Empire to take action. Insistent British diplomatic correspondence is included here with other key major powers who had not yet signed on to trying to halt the slave trade. The present work covers contacts with Central America Equator New Granada Peru various consulates in the United States the Barbary States Egypt Turkey Crete Albania and Muscat. Much detail is provided about individual ships involved in the trade. William Clowes and Sons, 14, Charing Cross, For Her Majesty's Stationery Office unknown
187754162Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott 1877. Fourth edition revised. Small octavo 19cm. Publisher's green cloth titled in gilt and decoratively stamped in black on spine and front cover; 275pp; illus; one folding chart; lithographed frontispiece in colors. An exceedingly fresh and clean copy in the original publisher's cloth very near to Fine. Stenciled ink ex-libris of a Geo. M. Bond likely the engineer and inventor George Meade Bond ca 1853-1932 long-time chief engineer for Pratt & Whitney to front pastedown and head of title page. <br /> <br /> A nicely produced treatise-cum-trade catalog for this major producer of industrial machinery illustrated throughout with line engravings. An exceptionally pretty copy appearing almost unread. ROMAINE p.203 for the 3rd edition 1876 "one of the best illustrated catalog-books in the field. J.B. Lippincott unknown
1883145921883. A series of 6 individual collectible cards depicting the story of an owl "husband" who stays out late & faces the wrath of his owl "wife"; with gilt borders and titles beneath each illustration reading "Well I should screech; that Owl man is not home yet" "The house is late what shall I say to the Owl woman" "Been to the club have you I'll see that you have club enough" Take a back seat will I I'll let you know whom I'm glaring at" "It will take a pair of Gold Bracelets and a Seal Skin Sacque to repair the havoc of this unhappy night" and "Owl man and Owl woman Owl maid and Owl bach They are happy once more Tho' they've had many a scratch". With a listing on the back of each card of A & P's Branch Houses in the United States including a separate list for New York City. 3 x 4 1/2 " very good. HKD1125. 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
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
181640803London: Printed for J. M. Richardson Cornhill Opposite the Royal Exchange 1816. 3-28pp. Light scattered foxing. Bound in modern cloth withdrawal stamp on front pastedown; inoffensive faint blindstamp on blank corner of title leaf. Else Very Good.<br /> <br /> Our collation matches that of the bibliographers. The nameless author disclaims any "intention to advocate the revival or regret the abolition of the Slave Trade. . . It is a traffic so objectionable in almost every respect that being abolished for the most part I hope never to see it revived and that every endeavour will be made to realize those advantages which the zeal of the authors of the Abolition has induced them to expect." <br /> However "The passage of the registration bill would constitute an unwarranted interference of the central power in the planters' private affairs" Ragatz. The property right of the West Indian colonists in their slaves is non-negotiable. Slaves comprise "the most valuable property of our colonists." Parliament's interference with "the private rights and private property of our colonists. . . would absolutely and tyrannically deprive the individuals whose property it is proposed to regulate and affect of those constitutional means of redress which all British subjects are entitled to." The pamphlet prints resolutions of West Indian Planters objecting to any such intrusions on their rights.<br /> The anonymous author objects to the African Institution's "representations of the miseries and hardships of slaves and in circulating ignorantly and unguardedly no doubt the most unfounded calumnies on the subject. If these gentlemen were to compare the situation of the Irish peasantry with that of our colonial slaves they would find they were comparing the extreme of wretchedness with comparative comfort."<br /> Ragatz 442. LCP Supp. 1608. Sabin 56509. OCLC records 16 locations worldwide as of March 2025. Printed for J. M. Richardson, Cornhill, Opposite the Royal Exchange unknown
1888175990London.: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1888-9 1895-9 19131915. Ten Parliamentary Reports House of Commons Command Papers 31.8 x 20.5 cm together 215 pp. three black and white maps of Saigon one folding in the reports for 1912 1913 and 1914 original stab-sewn title wrappers top edge gilt previous owner's added manuscript pagination to the top right of each Report in manuscript for the first seven and ink-stamped in the final three in very good condition. Wide-ranging group of Reports for Saigon in the French Colonial Period from 1888 to the first year of World War One. The first seven 19th Century Reports also include Indo-China with coverage of the ongoing "pacification" of Tonkin lengthy notes on French tariffs from the British Consul's point of view and the challenging terrain impeding the conduct of trade in Laos. The Report for 1887 includes a report on casualties from the loss of steamers of the Messageries Maritimes: four British steamers and one German. . Her Majesty's Stationery Office. unknown
189443553n.p.: Hartman & Cadick 1894. First editions. Self wrappers. Good to very good. 8 pp. 8 pp. 8 pp. 8vo. The mid-term elections of 1884 were a disaster for the Democrats led by Grover Cleveland. Republicans and Populists in large part due to the efforts of Joseph Weeks Babcock 1850-1909 a Republican Congressman from Wisconsin who helped organize the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee in 1893 and was a major force in routing the Democrats in the 1894 House elections which cost the Democrats 113 of their 218 seats. They are most likely printed by Hartman & Cadick Republican printers. All follow the same format of quoting leading figures and using bold face type. 1: Caption title "If the Laboring Class be to Perish I Say the Whole Nation." A the head of the title: No. 1 - From the Congressional Record. The caption title is from the English Reformer William Cobbett followed by "You cannot reduce the laborer to a state of starvation and degradation without also destroying national prosperity" a quote from Joseph Norton Dolph 1835-1897 Senator from Oregon from one of his many speeches quoted here. OCLC locates only a single copy at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center. A very good copy docketed on front wrapper mail fold. 2: Caption title "The industrial side of the tariff controversy must not be overlooked. The four millions of people who work in our factory system are the most potent factors outside of agriculture in our civilization." - Hon. J. W. Babcock Wisconsin. A the head of the title: Record No. 3. Apparently unrecorded. We could find no copies in OCLC NUC or other reference sources. Chip to front wrapper else very good with docketing stamp. 3: Caption title "When you Rob the Laboring Men of their Employment you Rob the Farmers of their Customers." The quote from the caption title belongs to Charles Curtis 1860-1936 Republican from Kansas who would go on to become Hoover's Vice President. OCLC locates one copy at the Western Reserve Historical Society Library. A good copy browned some minor chipping docketing stamp on front wrapper. [Hartman & Cadick?] unknown
1813List1947Plymouth 1813. Plymouth Devon England: 21st July 1813. Folio 7 pages 13 1/8 x 8 ¼ inches duty blindstamp small ink stamp to upper inner margin of the first page two seals to the last page signed twice by Galindo. Toned some small repaired tears using reversible archival ph-neutral paper-repair tape very good to near fine. Very Good. An interesting document of privateering in the Peninsular war this ‘Public Instrument of Protest‘ documents a Portuguese captain and crew complaint in detail to an English notary. After sailing from Calcutta to Brazil and then from Rio to just outside of Lisbon their ship the 700-ton ‘Oceano’ was seized and comprehensively ransacked by a French privateer the ‘Lion’ out of Lorient. Most of the crew and passengers were offloaded onto a passing American vessel the ‘Leda’ bound for Lisbon. Meanwhile the ‘Lyon’ escorted her prize towards the nearest French port but before a friendly haven was reached they were both set upon by the brigantine HMS ‘Achates’. The ‘Lyon’ escaped but the ‘Ocean’ was captured by Commander Morrison and the ‘Achetes’. The ’Ocean’ was taken to Plymouth and moored in the Hamoaze. The remaining Portuguese crew who had been forced to remain aboard the ‘Ocean’ by the French got a message to the ‘Ocean’s Master Dn. Ignacio Joze Martins and he and the boatswain made their way to Plymouth as quickly as possible. The sworn statement presented here is in English thanks to the translation given by Francisco Martins d' Magalhaens master of a Portuguese ship “now dwelling in Plymouthâ€<br /> <br /> The ’Oceano’ sailed from Calcutta to Brazil arriving 10th February 1813. She left Rio on 4th April all was plain sailing until the afternoon of the 7th June off the Rock of Lisbon when the ‘Lion’ showed up first under false British colors then French. The fighting was fierce the privateer was driven off once but eventually the ‘Oceano’ was taken. The night of the 7th June was spent by the French ‘conveying everything Moveable and Valuable from the Ocean to the Privateer’. The ‘Leda’ the US vessel landed the majority of the ‘Ocean’s crew including the Master in Lisbon on the evening of the 9th June.Monday 14th June the ‘Lyon’ engaged in a running battle with HMS ‘Achates’ and escaped but the ‘Achates’ did capture the ‘Ocean’. Wednesday 16th June the ‘Ocean’ arrived in Plymouth under the watchful eye of the ‘Achates’. Receiving the crew’s message the Captain of the ‘Ocean’ left Lisbon for Falmouth and then Plymouth arriving on the 20th July. The document was dated 21st July 1813.<br /> <br /> Full transcription available. unknown
18521338Original manuscript. 1852-1854. Folio 38 x 27cm. Full contemporary reverse calf with gilt morocco titles labels to the spine "Rough Sales Book / S & L / B". Marbling to page edges. Marbled endpapers with engraved label for "Baily Brothers Booksellers Stationers Account Book Manufacturers" London to the front pastedown. 172pp. of manuscript text in ink on red-ruled laid paper watermarked "W. King / 1850" followed by c.160pp. blank with a handful of pages torn out following the conclusion of the manuscript text section and another within the text. The majority of entries are in English with some in Spanish mostly written in the same hand. Condition is very good the binding firm with marking to the boards chipping to the head of the spine and a little wear to the extremities. The contents with a 3cm tear to the head of the first text page and two pages partially cut/torn away at the bottom are otherwise in good order. The ledger of a British sales agents operating in Panama during the mid-nineteenth century detailing the importation and sale of a wide variety European and South American goods into the country.</p><p>The manuscript meticulously records the origin city/country importer ship the goods received and sold and the charges entailed for each shipment. A typical entry for example records the arrival of "gunpowder received per "Alexander" and sold on behalf of the Kames Gunpowder Company Glasgow" followed by details of the subsequent purchasers "J. D. Cordova" etc. and the charges/commissions taken by the agent including fees for landing expenses and "carriage to arsenal". </p><p>Many of the entries describe large diverse cargoes combining both essential and luxury goods including: alpacas; chocolate pots; "41 cases of pickles and mustard"; lavender water; rocking chairs; a "copying machine"; cinnamon; scissors razors; bone buttons; horse brushes; compasses; gin; hatchets; bedsteads; looking glasses; children's toys; cloves; muslins; kegs of shot; cups and saucers; tobacco; machetes; claret; playing cards rat traps; "Aqua de Colonia" cologne; silk gloves; saddles; blunderbusses; padlocks; lace; pantaloons; "Jamaica rum"; almonds; vinegar; bonnets; sausages; gold frames; water closets; wash stands; champagne; mosquito nets; and much else besides.</p><p>The origin ports include major European trade centres such as Liverpool and Glasgow but also include many South American ports such as Guayaquil Equador carrying beans cocoa coffee sugar and quinoa amongst other things; Buenaventura Colombia; Callao Peru carrying candlesticks coffee mills and bayonets; Lima Peru "bottled fruits" and cherry cordial; and Valparaiso Chile; as well as San Francisco and New York to the north. The importers themselves are also a mixture of British and Panamanian companies.</p><p>A fascinating detailed insight into Panama's transatlantic and South American trade during the mid-nineteenth century. [Original manuscript]. hardcover
18435977New York City: H. H. Schieffelin & Co 1843. First Thus. Loose Sheet. Loose sheet printed verso and recto measuring just shy of 8 inches x 9.75 inches. Old folds now mellowed but with a nasty closed tear running down the middle of the sheet for 6.5 inches.Now housed in a removable clear archival sleeve with acid-free backing. Included is a handsomely printed handbill 4 x 6 inches for a 1988 lecture on "Victoria Opium and Empire." by Frank. J. Novak M.D. presented at Stanford University's Fairchild Auditorium. Commodities report from the Schieffelin drug firm including the going rate for opium oil. Jacob Schieffelin and his brother founded their drug company in 1794; in 1813 the firm passed to his sons who renamed the firm H. H Schieffelin located at the intersection of John St. and Cliff St. in Lower Manhattan about two blocks from today's South Street Seaport Museum. That firm dissolved in 1848.<p>Other trade goods listed include agricultural produce soaps lucifer matches various gums sulphur asbestos ginger etc. A fine glimpse into daily American life and global trade.</p> . H. H. Schieffelin & Co unknown
18486240St. Louis: W. H. Gray Ed 1848. First Thus. Loose sheet. Very Good. Published Saturday January 1 1848. Sheet folding to four pages each page measuring 9 x 11.25 inches. Printed sheet with autograph address and postal cancellation. With old mailing folds wax seal ghost some smudging and small stains. A well preserved copy. Commodities prices including Turkish opium and annual statement of the business in St. Louis. Now housed in a removable clear archival sleeve with acid-free backing. W. H. Gray, Ed 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
18445316Puebla: Imprenta Antigua en el Portal de las Flores 1844. About very good. 20pp. Original printed wrappers. Light dampstaining and spotting. Even toning. Scarce pamphlet containing rules and regulations for the tribunal that adjudicated commercial and trade disputes in Puebla just prior to the Mexican-American War. The texts articulates the jurisdiction and power of the court its form and function and the responsibilities of its officers and appointees. In attractive printed yellow wrappers; OCLC records this imprint but notes no locations. Imprenta Antigua en el Portal de las Flores 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
186510246Boston: the hotel 1865. Menu printed on silk 30 x 10.5 cm. one leaf printed verso only. Illustrated with an engraving of vignettes of freight transport via ship and train. WITH: Printed envelope 8 x 13 cm. with an engraving. A handsome menu printed on silk for a banquet celebrating the Boards of Trade of the Western Cities given by the City of Boston at the Revere Hotel. Revere House was one of the city's leading hotels hosting guests that included Charles Dickens Jenny Lind and Walt Whitman. Daniel Webster addressed audience from the steps of the portico. The engraving on the envelope depicts the hotel from across Boston's Bowdoin Square. The hotel has had an additional structure added to the previously flat roof. The bill of fare for the Western Boards of Trade included Green Turtle Soup Baked Shad in a Wine Sauce Leg of Southshore Mutton in Caper Sauce Duffield's Ham Pate de Foie and much more. In remarkably fine condition with only the slightest fraying to the edges of the silk. The envelope with an engraving of the Boston's City Hall has some light soil but is near fine. the hotel hardcover
1893171903Z. Takenouchi. 明治 26 1893. Striking black and white wood engraved illustrations 32pp 26.6 x 19.5cm very good copy. This is a fascinating catalogue of Takenouchi Safes from 1893 with detailed illustrations specifications and prices. Takenouchi was the first safe manufacturer in Japan and the business was very successful numbering the Royal Household and major companies amongst their clients. The idea of the business started soon after Yokohama was opened as a trading port. The founder's father an iron monger was asked to repair a British businessman's safe after it was damaged by fire. He learned how effective the safe was in protecting its contents from the fire. Since fires were frequent and hazardous in Japan his son Zenjiro Takenouchi founded the business to produce fireproof safes in Japan. The company obtained numerous patents and had the reputation for safes that were extremely robust and difficult to break-in. This reputation still survives today. <br> <br>The catalogue includes beautiful engravings of the company's shopfront factory and trademarks and of numerous versions of its safes. These show the thick steel doors which were elegantly decorated with distinctively Japanese designs including images of pine trees. The inner drawers of the safes were made of paulonia wood which protects the contents from humidity. The brochure gives specifications and prices weighing scales also illustrated details of the effectiveness of safes letters of appreciation from clients who managed to rescue their valuables from fire hazards and a list of businesses who used their safes. The clients included Mitsui Trading Company branches in China and India and Kanematsu in Sydney. . Z. Takenouchi. unknown
1855List3333Massachusetts New York Maine Pennsylvania and others 1855. Fifty letters with four empty envelopes or covers. Forty-four letters addressed to I.H. Bartlett & Sons: two from the 1830s eight from the 1840s and thirty-four from the 1850s. With five letters addressed to Capt. John C. Blanchard 1838 1839 1844 and 1849 and one to Cumston & Hatch N.d. Overall excellent to Near Fine. Ivory Hovey Bartlett 1794–1871 was a merchant and whale oil seller based in New Bedford Massachusetts. Bartlett moved to New Bedford from Plymouth in 1819 first dealing in grain and later transitioning to general merchandise and whaling.1 Whale oil and spermaceti were widely used in lamps and as lubricant and whalebone baleen was used for structure in items like umbrellas and corsets. In the nineteenth century whaling was the basis of New Bedford’s economy—supporting shipbuilding refineries toolworks and more—making it the wealthiest city in North America at the peak of the industry in the midcentury. Whaling declined in the 1860s with the rise of petroleum which could be both used as a lubricant and distilled into kerosene for lighting.<br /> <br /> Offered here is a collection of letters mainly to Bartlett’s company I.H. Bartlett & Sons with five to Captain John C. Blanchard of Searsport Maine and one to Cumston & Hatch. The latter is unknown; Blanchard was in the cotton and sugar trades sailing between the US Europe and West Indies.<br /> <br /> Letters to Bartlett are mainly from other mercantile firms; they pay bills make purchases discuss oil prices and occasionally complain. For instance Robert Robinson of Portland Maine writes:<br /> <br /> “I have just got 4 Casks of my oil 3 of the last and 1 of the invoice of 30th ult. I cannot understand why my oil should be keep back in this way. Hyde had seven casks by yesterdays Boat the same boat which mine came by it seem’s as if the fates where against this Oil as yesterday boat did not arrive untill late yesterday afternoon and this mornings boat has arrived without the balance there must be something wrong somewhere . I must say I think such neglect should be made known but perhaps it would be better to suffer for fear of the future. I shall not be able to get off any oil untill tomorrow as the oil was not out of the boat untill this morning. it is not thirteen days since that one cask left New Bedford .â€. October 13 1852<br /> <br /> Most of Bartlett’s customers buy whale oil though beef molasses and coal are also discussed but some are interested in whalebone; as are Wright Bros & Co a Philadelphian umbrella manufacturer who write to complain about market speculation:<br /> <br /> “The fact appears to us that speculation and the calculation of holders put the price kept it so high that it considerably lessened consumption – so much so of late that some have been disposed to slide it off below New Bedford rates very quietly.†October 23 1852<br /> <br /> The letters to all parties are generally all business except for two of the five to John Blanchard: one from his wife Caroline Houston and one from fellow Searsport captain David Nickels Jr. 1823–1888 who writes from Bangor:<br /> <br /> “I see by to day’s Mercantile gazette that you are in trouble I can sympathize with you God knows I have had a good share of it since I left the land of Gospel light and liberty as the good people say in their prayers I have been in this place fifteen days you doubtless knew I was chartered by Capt Pendleton to go from Leith to Bangor for a cargo of slates and from here to Boston I sailed from Leith on the 27th of November last for this place I got as far as the Orkney Islands on the 30th of November the wind blowing heavy from the westward and having a pilot belonging to the Orkneys on board I concluded to take the harbour of Longhope and lay till a shift of wind or till it moderated . in spite of all our endeavouring we were driven on shore broke the keel out of her filled as high as the lower deck which was on the 3d of December and on the 22d of March we left the Orkney Islands after having been near four months there When I got here I found the man who was to freight the Barque from here to Boston had neglected to place funds in the hands of the slate agent of this place consequently he refuses to put slates on board of the vessel till he receives funds from Boston .â€. May 13 1849<br /> <br /> Overall a look at the dealings of maritime merchants in the mid-nineteenth century particularly in the critical east coast whaling industry.<br /> <br /> 1 “Death of a Well-Known Merchant†The Standard-Times February 6 1871 2. unknown
184988888Boston: Published by the Family 1849. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Contemporary full gilt-tooled morocco; all edges gilt; 1462pp; engraved frontispiece portrait Edward Rawson and one portrait plate Rebecca Rawson. Binding rubbed at spine and board edges; small loss to leather at crown; scattered foxing somewhat heavier to frontispiece and portrait else a tight Good or better copy. One modern manuscript leaf with added genealogical information laid in by a previous owner. Early ownership signature "E.D. Baird" to front endpaper. <br /> <br /> Uncommon first edition in what would appear to be a presentation binding of this detailed genealogy which includes a brief 12-pp biography of Edward Rawson first Secretary of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. An enlarged second edition was issued in 1875. SABIN 68019. Published by the Family unknown
1860D4923Pennsylvania 1860s-1870s. Hardcover. Very Good. Ledger belonging to Levi Oberholzer manufacturer of cough medicines in Lancaster Pennsylvania. Reverse calf oblong 4to about 9.25-by-7.75 inches; spine stamped: RECEIPTS; contains hundreds of manuscript entries acknowledging payment for materials and ingredients for remedies many with attached revenue stamps plus numerous bank checks payable to Oberholzer's order. Offers a wealth of handwriting specimens and signatures pretty engraved checks and more from Philadelphia Boston and New York as well as smaller cities and towns in the northeastern United States. A nice example of the commerce of the period specific to health medicine and pharmacy. <br/><br/> hardcover
18741606230981xbvkLondon, Burns and Oates, 1874. [xvi] 59 pages. - No binding, paperstrip at spine; 8vo.(ca. 17 x 11,5 cm).
184324188St. Louis: John B. Sarpy 1843. Folio. 2 pp. 12 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches. Docketed on verso fold lines with some separation a few repaired. A manuscript affidavit written by fur magnate John Baptiste Sarpy of Pierre Chouteau & Co. that gives one a granular sense of the difficulities of running a frontier business dependent on mountain men like Jim Bridger and Frapp.<br/> <br/> A remarkable window onto the business dealings of famed mountain man Jim Bridger this signed manuscript affidavit of John B. Sarpy testifies to his actions on behalf of the estate of fellow fur trader Henry Fraeb also known as Frapp who was killed by Indians in the Rocky Mountains. Sarpy who was a partner in the major fur firm Pierre Chouteau &. Co. had worked closely with Frapp and knew him well. In his affidavit he writes about the Chouteau Company's concerns about Jim Bridger Frapp's partner at the time of his demise and the difficulty of getting Bridger to pay his debts. Written in St. Louis Sarpy's affidavit states: "On the 8th day of August last he was appointed . . . administrator of the estate of Henry Fraeb then lately deceased. Said Fraeb had been a trader in the mountains & was at the time of his death in partnership with a man of the name of James Bridger & said Bridger & Fraeb were indebted to the firm of Pierre Chouteau Jr. & Co. & it was feared by the members of said firm that unless some one became the administrator of the said Fraeb the said Bridger might interpose difficulties in the settlement of the accounts existing between them & Bridger & Fraeb & for the purpose of doing justice to themselves as well as to the said Fraeb the said Sarpy applied for letters of administration which were granted to him as above mentioned. The said Bridger has however since this time been here & has settled in full the accounts existing between the firm of Pierre Chouteau Jr. & Co. & the said Bridger & Fraeb. And the said Sarpy says that no property has come into his hands as the administrator of the said Fraeb although it may be that the said Fraeb has property in the mountain country or in the hands of James Bridger his former partner." Though he may have been one of the greatest and most beloved mountain men of all time Jim Bridger was not the best debtor in the world nor did Pierre Chouteau & Co. forget business. John B. Sarpy unknown
