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184965543Cincinnati OH: H.W. Derby & Co 1849. Single sheet printed on blue paper folded. 26 cm. 4 pp. including one page of text 2pp. blank addressed on fourth page to G. & C. Merriam Springfield Mass. with a round stamped red postal mark. Old fold lines a few closed tears else very good. The firm of H.W. Derby & Co. assures the public that the November 15 fire which lately damaged their place of business and destroyed a large portion of their stock will not stop them from filling orders for books stationery and other articles. They have purchased the entire stock of Messrs. Bradley & Anthony who have decided to retire and will move into their store at No. 113 Main Street immediately. Once their building at 145 Main Street is repaired they will return there. Signed in type by H.W. Derby & Co. Cincinnati November 23d 1849. No listings found on OCLC. George and Charles Merriam to whom this copy was addressed were successful book publishers and sellers in Springfield Massachusetts. <br/><br/> H.W. Derby & Co unknown books
1808WRCAM9314New York 1808. 92pp. Dbd. A few leaves foxed dampstain to gutter of a few leaves. Hole in two leaves affecting a few letters of text with a closed tear to another leaf. Good. First American edition. Discussion of trade between America and Great Britain including mention of the West Indies and the problem of smuggling. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 15238. unknown books
188210592Rue D'Orfeuil 3. Chalons-Sur-Marne: F. Thouille 1882. 28 page pamphlet; French text; containing: "Reconnue d'Utilite Publique par Decret du 31 Aout 1863"; giving the history of this society with dates and names of various persons who had written or been involved with the proceedings of the group at back including Archaeology History Agriculture Viniculture Silviculture Belles-Lettres Statistics Sculpture Biographies Medicine Natural History more; appears to be a continuation or summary of the previous histories written concerning the Departement of the Marne; original paper wrap covers; 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" size; some edge tips wear to wraps some dustiness; good condition. . Soft Cover. Good. F. Thouille Paperback books
190048521Canton OH: Worcester Wire Novelty Co N.d. ca 1900. 12mo. Pictorial wrappers; 36pp; illus. Very Good. Catalog of decorative and practical wire goods including letter trays waste paper baskets mouse and rat traps. Worcester Wire Novelty Co unknown books
186019466Davenport Iowa: n. p. ca. 1860-1865. Some light soiling and wear; in very good condition. Trade card printed on glazed white card stock 2.25 x 3.5 inches. An attractive trade card for this homoeopathic doctor in Davenport Iowa advertising the dispensary hours and home address almost certainly for George K. Prince 1801-1865 an English-born physician who appears in the U.S. census in Davenport in 1860 and the local directory in 1863 under physicians. His credentials as listed here are impressive graduate of University of Edinburgh Licentiate of Apothecary's Hall London and a student of the Paris medical school "of thirty-five years standing." A nice bit of job printing design from the Quad Cities. Small bit of hand emendation to his hours. n. p., unknown books
188134419Brooklyn 1881. 1st edition thus and 5th edition overall. Not in Romaine. Period pebbled brown cloth with title lettering gilt stamped to front board. Spine sunned. Modest binding wear. A VG copy. 135 1 blank pp. Frontis of the Bliss & Williams plant. Most presses illustrated with a cut many full-page in size & some folding. Royal 8vo. 10-5/8" x 6-5/8" <br/><br/> hardcover books
187552425Montpelier VT: by the Company 1875. 12mo 19cm. Cloth-backed printed card wrappers; 152pp; includes text figures and full-page illustrations; 3 folding plates including large folding frontispiece. Last leaf and margins of title page slightly browned; mild crease to front wrapper; still a tight Near Fine copy exceptionally well-preserved. Handsome early trade catalog for this Vermont manufacturer containing detailed descriptions of machinery together with testimonials technical specifications lumbering industry statistics etc. Not in Romaine. OCLC notes two locations AAS Vermont Hist. Soc. by the Company unknown books
189348551New York: Sudhaus & Erlenkötter 1893. 1st printing thus. Original pale green glazed paper covers printed in black. Later black cloth spine. General wear & soiling to covers. Some leaves at rear with dog-earred lower corners. Overall Very Good. 4 297 3 pp. Items presented in alphabetical order. Laid-in after p. 14 an advertising leaflet for a "Capital Dry Cell Battery" with mss note in bottom margin: Dz. $42 00/100 Net." Profusely illustrated with each instrument / item depicted. 10" x 6-3/4" <br/><br/> Sudhaus & Erlenkötter hardcover books
1897495Brooklyn N. Y.: M. T. Davidson 1897. Trade Catalogue: Pumps M. T. Davidson. Improved Steam Pumps Pumping Engines and Hydraulic Machinery Air Pumps Condensers Evaporators and Distilling Apparatus. 8vo. 200 x 150 mm. 8 x 6 inches. 2 115 pp. Illustrated throughout. Wanting publisher's wrappers. Romaine Guide to American Trade Catalogues p. 296. M. T. Davidson unknown books
1806WRCAM7294Washington 1806. 72pp. Dbd. Occasional marginal staining and darkening. Top margin shaved affecting some headlines and page numbers. Good. Report concerning foreign trade and taxes. Reprints the 1802 Act of Parliament by which the Crown was to collect a tax on items imported to and exported from Great Britain with a supplementary table. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 11567. unknown books
1900263502Lyon France: J. Bouvard & Cie 20 Rue Lafont 1900. 14 thick card sheets with samples centrally mounted vertically to recto and verso some sheets quite thick to accommodate larger epaulets each with manuscript notations of name size etc. 11-3/4 x 6-3/4 inches. Black cloth album with the printed label of "J. Bouvard et Cie Fabrique de Dorures Soireries Ornaments d'Eglise" to front paste-down. Some wear commensurate with age and use spotting and thumbsoiling apparently complete with all samples backing possibly restored at an early date. 14 thick card sheets with samples centrally mounted vertically to recto and verso some sheets quite thick to accommodate larger epaulets each with manuscript notations of name size etc. 11-3/4 x 6-3/4 inches. This very unusual French sample book contains a large range of epaulets and sequin samples with a few lettering and star samples. J. Bouvard & Cie 20, Rue Lafont unknown books
184932London: J. R. Andrews 1849. Very good copy. 8vo. 215 x 140 mm. 51/2 x 8 1/2 inchesii 10 pp. Original printed paper wrappers. A detailed catalogue of copper and brass good including pots pans kettle and cookware of every kind table ware and cutlery; also fenders fire irons lamps lanterns candle sticks; tin and steel goods japan good and much more. All items priced. Not is OCLC or COPAC. J.. R. Andrews unknown books
1895499Columbus Ohio and New York 1895. 8vo. 190 x 128 mm. 7 ½ x 5 inches. 144 pp. Illustrated throughout with half-tone images and diagrams 2 of which are folding. Original printed wrappers a few stains but a sound and attractive copy. Specialty items include elevators drive belts conveyors sprocket wheels and machinery for mining and mill factories. Established in Columbus in 1877 Jeffrey Manufacturing was instrumental in developing the mining and coal industries of eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania. One of its most important products was the "Jeffrey Electric Locomotive" which moved on tracks inside mines and towed tons of rock and saved hours of labor and contributed to mine safety. Not cited in Romaine. This catalogue is one of the few original sources documenting mining equipment produced by the largest industrial plants in Ohio at the end of the nineteenth century. unknown books
18806512East Liverpool Ohio: the company; Simms Steam Print 1880. 16mo single sheet uncut & folded to form 10 pages; illustrated. Net price list of decorated ware with descriptions of Toilet Sets Tea Sets Decorated Ware Covered Jugs Molasses Cans Etc. Knowles Taylor and Knowles was formed in 1870 though its antecedents date to 1854. By the early 1870's the company specialized in Iron Stone China and operated four kilns. One horizontal fold light edgewear with some tiny losses slightly foxed & soiled. Still very good. OCLC locates no copies. [the company]; Simms Steam Print unknown books
1870315110New York: George Blackie & Co 1870. Woodcut illustrations throughout. 12mo. Publishers pink pictorial wrappers. Woodcut illustrations throughout. 12mo. Includes marked playing cards gambling and magic books magic tricks novelties and all sorts of curiosities and miscellany such as "False Moustaches that cannot be detected when worn" offered by New York wholesale agents George Blackie & Co. George Blackie & Co unknown books
184945044Boston: Ruggles Nourse Mason & Co 1849. 1st Printing. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Faint fold-lines. Very Good. Single sheet broadside leaflet. Illustrated with 6 cuts of the various size wrenches. 9-7/8" x 7-5/8" <br/><br/>Rare advertising broadside for this wrench "acknowledged to be the most convenient efficient and strongest now made and having been long in use and fully proved are most favorably known among our mechanics manufactureres and dealers." Ruggles, Nourse, Mason & Co unknown books
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 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
1820WRCAM41367Washington 1820. 8pp. Dbd. Untrimmed. Stab holes in gutter. Tanned at extremities. Very good. A report from Thomas L. McKenney on the relations between Indian agents and Indians in Mississippi. He recommends forming closer trading bonds with the Indians so that they are less likely to destroy supplies and goods which they are wont to purchase. SHOEMAKER 3860. unknown books
189522164London England: The Cobden Club 1895. 35 pages; the annual meeting of the Club with various speeches and reports; approx. 4 3/4" x 7" size; printed stapled self-wraps; browned paper stock closed tear to back panel; in good condition and interesting late 19th century British political economic & labor history ephemera; The Cobden Club act. 1866 - 1982 British club that was formed by ".a group of exponents and adherents of the ideas of Richard Cobden that originated in Thomas Bayley Potter's proposal in correspondence with John Stuart Mill in 1864 for a political science association in imitation of the successful Social Science Association set up in 1857. The idea it seems had Cobden's blessing and following his death in April 1865 at the suggestion of Thorold Rogers it took his name. The club was formed in May 1866 devoted to the worldwide diffusion of the principles linked with Cobden summarized in its motto Peace free trade and goodwill among nations." A. C. Howe in the DNB. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. The Cobden Club Paperback books
1843WRCAM42012St. Louis 1843. 1p. docketed on verso. Folio. Old fold lines; some separation at folds a few repaired with older archival tape. Quite clean and bright. Good. A remarkable window into the business dealings of famed mountain man Jim Bridger this signed manuscript affidavit of John P. Sarpy testifies to his actions on behalf of the estate of fellow fur trader Henry Fraeb who was killed by Indians in the Rocky Mountains. Sarpy who was a partner in the major firm of Pierre Chouteau & Co. had worked closely with Fraeb and knew him well. In his affidavit he writes about the Chouteau Company's concerns about Jim Bridger Fraeb's partner at the time of his demise and the difficulty of getting Bridger to pay his debts. Dated at St. Louis Sarpy's affidavit states: <br> <br> ".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." <br> <br> Though he may have been one of the greatest and most beloved mountain men of all time Jim Bridger was not the best debt in the world nor did Pierre Chouteau & Co. forget business. unknown books
184324188St. Louis 1843. 1pp. docketed on verso. Folio. Old fold lines; some separation at folds a few repaired with older archival tape. Quite clean and bright. Good. Jim Bridger's bad debts.<br/> <br/>A remarkable window into the business dealings of famed mountain man Jim Bridger this signed manuscript affidavit of John P. Sarpy testifies to his actions on behalf of the estate of fellow fur trader Henry Fraeb who was killed by Indians in the Rocky Mountains. Sarpy who was a partner in the major firm Pierre Chouteau &. Co. had worked closely with Fraeb and knew him well. In his affidavit he writes about the Chouteau Company's concerns about Jim Bridger Fraeb's partner at the time of his demise and the difficulty of getting Bridger to pay his debts. Dated at St. Louis Sarpy's affidavit says that "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 debt in the world nor did Pierre Chouteau & Co. forget business. unknown books
1807WRCAM56123Great Britain 1807. Manuscript written in eight columns on rectos and versos of two quarto sheets. Old folds two smalls spots of light soiling. Accompanied by four leaf typed transcription. Very good. An interesting but unattributed and apparently unpublished manuscript essay with a caption title reading "Loose Memo. Respectg. American Commerce." The gist of the memo is set forth in the first sentence: "The Americans are at all times the best customers of G.B. - in peace they take 1/3 of her manufactured exports - in War much more." In addition to the eager American market for British goods the author notes that British goods are often trans-shipped via America to other markets where Great Britain would not normally have access thanks to America's neutral status: ".you have only to change the name of the manufacturer & the wants of the Colonists will shut their eyes on the origin of the fabric. I have known Liverpool ware ornamented with the Portrait of Geo. III passed as German manufactures." <br> <br> The author notes that while the understandable economic downturn during the Revolution and for several years after the "peace of '83" resulted in some problematic credit relations between the U.S. and the British market much has changed. "The industry & the enterprise of our countrymen aided no doubt by the enjoyment of a neutral position has enabled them to throw off their dependence on the British merchant or manufacturer. They now have a sufficient capital of their own and a very important proportion of their imports are now paid for in ready money or in bills at short sight." The author explains that American merchants are able to export their surpluses of their own production and surplus British goods to the Continental market and transfer that money directly to creditors in Great Britain with an added perk: "The result of this species of trade must be ruinous to France. She is drained of her wealth to enrich & invigorate her enemy." <br> <br> Finally the author provides a specific example of this favored trading relationship with regard cotton. At this time the author estimates that Great Britain imports three- fifths of all cotton from the United States - some 150000 bags of cotton annually weighing 250lbs. each. The U.S. buys back nearly one-third of all cotton goods manufactured in Great Britain yielding a net profit of over £2.5 million to Great Britain. The author adds that this ratio holds for almost all raw materials produced in the United States. <br> <br> This essay was almost certainly written during the earlier part of the Napoleonic Wars; the author cites an 1801 speech by Lord Grenville which helps narrow the date range and it seems unlikely the Embargo Act of 1807 had been passed yet. Regardless the essay promotes Anglo-American trade and cooperation at least insofar as it enriches Britain and cripples France at a time when other forces were driving the two countries toward war. unknown books
188837351n.p.: n.p. 1888. First edition. Self wrappers. About very good edges soiled and chipped mail fold. 4 pp. 8vo. Various excerpts of speeches from members of the House of Representatives during April and May 1888 which highlight the dangers of Free Trade during the 1888 Harrison Cleveland election. OCLC locates three copies: Columbia Rutherford B. Hayes Library and the Wisconsin Historical Society. n.p. unknown books
18857887New York: John Matthews Apparatus Co 1885. Quarto 104 pages. Fully illustrated. A lovely trade catalogue for this important manufacturer of bottling equipment soda fountains and carbonation apparatus. The fountains get progressively larger and more elaborate. Also includes siphon boxes for home delivery of soda water. Edges of wrappers and one or two pages with repair corners bumped. Some soiling throughout. In elaborately decorated printed wrappers. Good. Rare. OCLC locates just one copy in this series; Noling page 283. John Matthews Apparatus Co unknown books
