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18124628<p>TRADE CATALOGUE - STEEL GOODS. Book of Steel Toys. Birmingham n.p. c.1812. </p><p>A remarkable trade catalogue of steel goods for the household ladies and gentlemen's personal effects gardening tools and instruments for trades and professions. This is a treasure trove of visual information about a vast range of now obsolete tools and the objects required for daily life in the age of Jane Austen: spinet tuning keys muffin toasters cheese tasters sugar hatchets teeth cleaning sets netting vices boot hooks and so on. Particularly fascinating is the distinction between tradesmen's tools and those specifically marketed for amateurs. These are described in the individual engravings as well as in the engraved and letterpress leaf after the index leaf where the contents of 9 oak chests of tools for gentlemen are itemised as well as chests of garden tools turners tools and mahogany chests of tools for cleaning gentlemen's guns. Among the articles listed in the index are 'Lady's hammers' and 'Lady's sets of garden tools' but these do not seem to be the articles engraved on the corresponding plates. </p><p>Engraved trade catalogues of this sort were used by salesmen to solicit orders from retailers. The prices entered in manuscript are selling prices on which the retailer received a discount probably 25% see below. Stamped brass and silverware catalogues turn up from time to time but catalogues of steel goods are much rarer. Unusually too this catalogue is provided with a letterpress index. Normally the engraved leaves would be gathered up in different combinations for individual salesmen hence the plates are numbered in manuscript. In this example they do not exactly follow the printed index so the 'missing' engravings 49 and 50 may never have been present but the presence of stubs suggests that pls. 35–40 which from the index showed corkscrews were once present and have been removed from the volume.</p><p>There is a similar volume in the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County also with a printed index and 51 leaves of plates. There is a printer's imprint W. Tolley and Son on the first plate. This may be the William Tolley engraver and copperplate printer active in Birmingham from before 1790 to 1830. The name of the agent is on a label on the upper cover: 'Muntz & Purden Book no. 29 discount 25%' indicating that the MS prices are retail prices.</p><p><i>Oblong folio 235 x 375mm; letterpress 'Index to book of steel toys' folding letterpress and engraved leaf 'Gentlemen's Tool Chests' and 46 leaves of plates many printed recto and verso from 80 engraved plates. There is a gap in the pagination and stubs between 34 and 41 and these leaves have presumably been removed; pls 49 and 50 are also missing but there are no stubs so may never have been present.</i></p><p><i>Manuscript additions. The index leaf is annotated 'Livre 64456 W&L' this has been varnished over; every item is neatly priced and in some cases additional products are described for example the ice skates 48 shillings plain or 60 shillings hollow ground could be had with leather straps and buckles for another 18 shillings per dozen pl. 70; small marginal tears in first two and last leaf strengthened with tissue on verso; recent half morocco and marbled boards; from the Forschungsinstitut für Geschichte der Zahnheilkunde with stamp on index leaf and several plates. </i></p> n.p. hardcover
1807123522Imprimerie impériale 1807. Paperback. <b>Livre en français</b>. Couverture souple. Broché. 14 x 21 cm. 124 pages. Cahiers cousus. <i>ref. 123522</i> Imprimerie impériale paperback
18826662New York: P.H. Reilly Wood-Cut and Color Printer 25 Rose Street 1882. Quarto 27 x 20.5 cm. 108 4 166 2 pages. Profusely illustrated. Text in two columns. Table of contents at rear. FIRST EDITION. An early – perhaps the first – history of carbonated beverages. Issued together with a trade catalogue for the soda water supply firm of John Matthews of New York an important manufacturer of bottling equipment soda fountains and carbonation apparatus. The fountains get progressively larger and more elaborate and with wonderful names: “The Citadel†“The Horicon†“The Adriatic†“The Fire-Eater†“The Nepenthe†and “The Snow Queenâ€. There I also an outdoor soda fountain “The Street Spaâ€. Also included are the auxiliary equipment of the carbonated water industry like siphon boxes for home delivery of soda water. The historical work and the trade catalogue were issued in celebration of the firm’s 50th Anniversary. Some pencil scribbles to a few pages. Text block shaken; free front endpaper lacking. In publisher’s brown and gilt-decorated green cloth corners rubbed and extremities a bit worn. Better than good. With the ownership signature of “Leopold F. Schmidt Deer Lodge Montana†and a more recent “Olympia Brewing Companyâ€. Very scarce. OCLC records two copies with this pagination Loma Linda Univ. & Hagley Museum and four copies with just 108 pages presumably just the history; Noling Beverage Literature page 104 for the 108 page version. P.H. Reilly, Wood-Cut and Color Printer, 25 Rose Street hardcover
1896List2820Sonora and Groveland CA; Portland OR; and Orange NJ 1896. 8 ½ x 13 ½ inch cash book thirty-two pages with nine loose sheets. Fine. A cash book for an unnamed business selling out of California Oregon and New Jersey in 1896. The book records total merchandise value cash and accounts liabilities individual sales and so on. The business sold a variety of items from raw cloth and furniture to food coffee and tea and soap. Most of the entries are from Sonora; located on California’s Mother Lode Sonora was by 1896 a bustling mining town. unknown
1883236859Kansas City Missouri: Press of Ramsey Millett & Hudson 1883. Illustrated with 2 full-page Engravings. 76 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original wrappers printed in red and black. Vertical crease to front wrap and a few corners previously turned down a few prices realized in pencil. Very good. Illustrated with 2 full-page Engravings. 76 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Over sixty-five Galloway bulls and heifers on the block giving detailed pedigree. With an introduction by Matthews explaining the his interest in the breed. Not in OCLC Press of Ramsey, Millett & Hudson unknown
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
18778323Chicago Il: National Live-Stock Journal Print 1877. Octavo sewn in wrappers 22.7 x 15 cm. 36 pages. Illustrated with six lithographic plates. FIRST EDITION. Joint public auction of short horns with attractive lithographs engraved "on stone by J.R. Page by Clay & Richmond Co. Buffalo N.Y." Text block sound; dampstain to edges of most plates. Wrappers separated and chipped at edges. Still overall near very good. Marginal pencil annotations throughout; auction winners names and prices have been written in for each lot. OCLC locates just one copy UMichigan Clements. National Live-Stock Journal Print unknown
1874181166London: Christie Manson & Woods 1874. A catalogue of 1408 lots several hundred with pencilled hammer prices. The sale which included oils sketches made on the grand tour engravings and pencil sketches made almost 70000 pounds driven by strong buyer interest. Provenance: Stephen C. Massey. Octavo. Original sewn self-wrappers. Sewing now loose chipping and short closed tears outer leaves dust-soiled: very good. unknown
1892285644Brooklyn: E.W. Bliss 1892. hardcover. very good-. Frontispiece pictures of the factory and of international medals won. Many full page & half page illustrations. 389pp. small 8vo flexible blue cloth back cover gently creased; small hole in spine light damp-stains on the bottom margins of a few pages. Brooklyn: E.W. Bliss 1892. Ninth edition.<br/> <br/> Bliss was the premier manufacturer of heavy industrial sheet metal.<br/> <br/> E.W. Bliss unknown
1892MAIN023460IBoston: George Ellis. VG- EX LIB. 1892. hardcover. hardcover. 8vo . 128pp . From the Wright Collection with the bookplate and bar code of the Keene Library x'd out per usual. . George Ellis hardcover
18408144New York: John B. Rey 1840. Broadside 16.5 x 22.3 cm. printed one side only with split fountain roller rainbow. Illustrated. Date range from the range of listings in directories etc. We would be tempted to call this a trade card but for the thin stock it is printed on more fit to be pasted up than handed out. Described as a "manufacturer of cordials bitters essences syrups rock candy sweetmeats brandy fruits sweet plain and fancy chocolate prepared cocoa cocoa paste vermicelli maccaroni catsups sauces extracts etc. John B. Rey was located at 31 & 33 Burling Slip" Doggett's New-York City Directory for 1848-49 page 340; earlier listings were just "33 Burling Slip". At the time of the Directory's publication seven chocolate makers were listed. John B. Rey's operation was taking advantage of the rapid industrialization of the chocolate making process as this card depicts two pieces of large machinery - a melangeur right and a cacao press - that would have been driven by steam notice the belt drives in the image. Burling Slip was just north of South Street and the South Street Seaport with its famous fish market. Although the printer is not credited this is a noteworthy piece of promotional printing as it displays the split fountain or rainbow roller process of printing multiple colors simultaneously in this case a mirrored red green and blue. A few light creases from folding; some light soiling or foxing. Still near very good and very handsome. Rare. Unrecorded. OCLC records no copies. John B. Rey unknown
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
188336090Atlanta 1883. Broadside 5-3/8" x 8-1/2". Very Good. unknown
187421611874. Softcover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. Stockton CA. 1874; Indepent Print Pub. near fine condition bound in paperback; 64 pages; cover lightly soiled; Stockton California Local History paperback
185253853London Harrison and Son 1852. Folio. In contemporary half cloth with the original blue printed front wrapper pasted on to front board. Light wear to extremities Small stamp to front board and two small paper labels pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Internally very fine and clean. ix 1 372 pp. <br/><br/><em>The Rare British parliamentary papers and correspondence with local agents on the slave trade. </em> hardcover
185053852London Harrison and Son 1850. Folio. In contemporary half cloth with the original blue printed front wrapper pasted on to front board. Light wear to extremities Small stamp to front board and two small paper labels pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Internally very fine and clean. x 306 pp. <br/><br/><em>The Rare British parliamentary papers and correspondence with local agents on the slave trade. </em> hardcover
185153844London Harrison and Son 1851. Folio. In contemporary half cloth with the original blue printed front wrapper pasted on to front board. Wear to extremities and front hindge a bit weak. One small stamp to front board and two small paper labels pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Internally very fine and clean. xxiii 1 886 pp. 1 folded map. <br/><br/><em>The Rare British parliamentary papers and correspondence with local agents on the slave trade in Africa Austria Belgium Brazil France Persia Peru Portugal Spain Tripoli Turkey United States and Venezuela containing amongst several other issues a lengthy report from James Hudson Brazil to Palmerston on the bourgeoning sentiments in Brazil towards abandoning the slave trade. An act which Palmerston instructs James Hudson to fight against.Eusébio de Queiróz Act Law 581 of 4 September 1850 ended up criminalizing the maritime slave trade as piracy and imposed other criminal sanctions on the importation of slaves in Brazil. </em> hardcover
185053845London Harrison and Son 1850. Folio. In contemporary half cloth with the original blue printed front wrapper pasted on to front board. Wear to extremities and front hindge a bit weak. One small stamp to front board and two small paper labels pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Internally very fine and clean. xv 1 452 pp. <br/><br/><em>The Rare British parliamentary papers and correspondence with local agents on the slave trade in Africa Brazil Egypt France Nederlands Persia Peru Portugal Sardinia Spain Tripoli Turkey United States and Venezuela. </em> hardcover
185253850London Harrison and Son 1852. Folio. In contemporary half cloth with the original blue printed front wrapper pasted on to front board. Light wear to extremities Small stamp to front board and two small paper labels pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Internally very fine and clean. xviii 913 pp. <br/><br/><em>The Rare British parliamentary papers and correspondence with local agents on the slave trade in Africa Brazil Egypt France Nederlands Persia Peru Portugal Sardinia Spain Tripoli Turkey United States and Venezuela. </em> hardcover
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
1809305411809. Angers De l'Imprimerie des FrÂres Mame et se vend chez Fourier-Mame 1807. Un vol. au format pt in-12 168 x 107 mm de 333 pp. Reliure de l'ÂŽpoque de pleine basane marbrÂŽe havane plats jansÂŽnistes dos lisse ornÂŽ de fleurons dorÂŽs roulettes dorÂŽs piÂce de titre de maroquin ÂŽmeraude titre dorÂŽ tranches saumon. Edition provinciale Angers parue ˆ la date de l'originale parisienne. ''C'est ici la premiÂre fois qu'un texte officiel rÂŽglemente les sociÂŽtÂŽs par actions ˆ savoir la sociÂŽtÂŽ anonyme et la sociÂŽtÂŽ en commandite par actions.'' Coiffes supÂŽrieure arasÂŽe. Petites altÂŽrations superficielles ÂŽparses affectant la reliure. PremiÂre garde partiellement dÂŽsolidarisÂŽe. Quelques rousseurs dans le texte et feuillets parfois lÂŽgÂrement oxydÂŽs. b42961 unknown
1809263861809. A Paris chez Firmin Didot 1807 et 1812. 2 tomes reliÂŽs en un vol. au format in-12 177 x 104 mm de xii - 180 pp. ; 199 pp. ; 62 pp. et 11 ff. n.fol. Reliure de l'ÂŽpoque de demi-veau glacÂŽ fauve ˆ petits coins dos lisse ornÂŽ de filets gras dorÂŽs filets en pointillÂŽs dorÂŽs roulettes dorÂŽes larges fleurons romantiques dorÂŽes titre dorÂŽ tranches jaspÂŽes. Ensemble complet de ses deux tomes ; ici reliÂŽs en un volume. Le second est millÂŽsimÂŽ 1807 ; date de l'ÂŽdition originale. Angles ÂŽlimÂŽs. Papier lÂŽgÂrement oxydÂŽ. Rares et discrÂtes rousseurs dans les corps d'ouvrages. Inversion par le reliure des feuillets liminaires du second volume. Du reste belle condition. Peu courant. b42961 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
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
1890106522<p>Chromolithograph advertising and promotion cards various sizes from 3 ¼" x 3 ¼" to 6" x 8". Normal aging a little browning on reverse text on reverse of one card basically gone. A couple of colorful little girl and flower cards one an advertisement for Magic Yeast indicating E.W. Gillett as manufacturer. Fairly colorful lot. </p>
