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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
1828ZB353133Washington: 1828. 6 pp issued as 20th Congress 1st Session HR 49; light extraction roughness at margin age toning short tears in botton margin good only in self wrappers; when the petitioner's late husband shipped his goods on a American vessel illegally engaged in the slave trade he forfeited all claims to compensation when it was seized in Pensacola by the American Army even though his share of the cargo was not contraband. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Washington: unknown
186187508Philadelphia: H.C. Peck & Theo. Bliss 1861. Later edition first published 1856. 12mo 18cm. Publisher's full morocco elaborately embossed with gilt titles and matching gilt devices to front and rear boards; all edges gilt; 300pp; frontispiece engraved extra-title and 4 inserted leaves of plates; 4pp publisher's catalog bound in at end of text. Mild overall rubbing with some softness to leather at head and heel; top edge gilt slightly oxidized; still a sound Very Good copy in a quite lovely mid-19th c. gift binding. Early pencil gift inscription to a Mary F. Sisson dated 1854. <br /> <br /> A religious and temperance miscellany mostly short moral tales with a few verse works interspersed. T.S. Arthur 1809-1885 is best-remembered for his hugely popular temperance trace Ten Nights in A Bar-Room and What I Saw There 1854 but he was an incredibly prolific writer churning out more than 100 titles between 1840 and the early 1880s. For the current work see WRIGHT II:150 recording one copy of an 1856 edition by the current publisher and another the same year from a Chicago publisher. H.C. Peck & Theo. Bliss unknown
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
188854232Wichita Kansas: Eagle Printing House 1888. 1888. KANSAS. First edition.4to. Original color pictorial wrappers 92 pp. introduction numerous illustrations numerous advertisements mostly printed in double column. This promotional publication by the Wichita Board of Trade was published to counter the "malignant attacks" conducted by "powerful newspapers all over the country" who have "deliberately leveled their batteries at Wichita." The promotional contains an historical overview of Wichita in the cattle trade information on crops and capabilities of Kansas and calls Wichita "The Southwestern Metropolis." Illustrations include street cars telegrams churches private residences and schools. Containing also a directory of wholesale business information on Wichita's railroads and railway connections lists of industrial enterprises the meat packing centers the livestock market and information on taxes and building enterprises. In addition there are numerous advertisements for various businesses in Wichita. Light cosmetic touch-up to the spine and extremities by a master paper conservator else an attractive informational and scarce promotional for Wichita. Housed in a quarter leather and color decorated boards with raised bands and titles stamped in gilt on the spine. Not in Adams Herd. Not in Graff Eberstadt or Howes. OCLC locating only three copies. Considered to be very scarce with only a few known surviving copies. Eagle Printing House, 1888. hardcover
182975517New York: Albert Grosfield Inc. 1829. First edition of this Early Grosfeld catalog. The wholesale price list is 4 pp. and printed on rectos only. The printed paper wrapperstwo brads split to upper spine tell us that Albert Grosfeld's main showroom was on Third Avenuce in New York City but he also had showrooms in Chicago and Los Angele. Is is accompanied by 100 placards showing the furniture on offer. Each card measures 7 5/8 by 9 1/2 inches and bears a photographic illustration of the piece along with a printed description stock number and dimensions As follows: 1111/20150 Adam Satinwood Writing Desk hand-decorated leather top. MADE IN ENGLAND. H. 38". W. 42". D. 23". Very good condition.The company seems to have specilaized in high end reproductions of antique furniture. They survives the Gfreat Depression and mwere quite active in the Mi-Century Modern Movement. Albert Grosfield Inc. hardcover
1877ZB393070Commerce Printing and Publishing House 1877. Volumes 2-8 an uninterrupted run of complete volumes partly bound library markings textually clean & tight price is for the lot. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Commerce Printing and Publishing House unknown
1873002874Washington DC: Published by Order of the Secretary of War 1873. First Edition. Good. Six maps for: Monday February 17 1873 - 11 P. M.; Tuesday February 18 1873 - 7:35 A. M.; Tuesday February 18 1873 - 4:35 P. M.; Wednesday February 19 1873 - 7:35 A. M.; Wednesday February 19 1873 - 4:35 P. M.; Wednesday February 19 1873 - 11 P. M.; 8 3/4 x 11 1/2; relief shown by hachures and gradient tints; small reference table in the lower half of the image; edges brittle with small chips and cuts; overall in good to very good condition. A scarce collection of maps their publication began in January of 1871 with no less than 3 maps being published every day. Samuel Morse's invention of the telegraph had made it possible to easily observe gather and transmit data from different points over the entire country. A small note at the head read: "All observations made at the same moment of actual not local time." Released by the US Army's Signal Service the maps were intented to be primarily used by farmers and merchants. They were published in at least three different sizes and formats the current being one of the smaller ones. These particular maps showed precipitation and wind velocity at various elevation points. Published by Order of the Secretary of War unknown
1897505Dover Kent England: W. J. George 1897. 4to. 285 x 225 mm. 11 x 8 ¾ inches. 24 pp. Illustrated throughout with lithographic images of sporting rifles and equipment. Original green coated paper wrappers title information and images I gold ink on front cover; wrapper edges rubbed with minor tears paper spine rubbed away wrappers nearly detached. Attractively produced gun catalogue issued by one of Great Britain's most storied rifle manufacturers and gunsmith to the Queen. The illustration are highly detailed especially for the various shot guns offered for sale. Jonathan Ulhman. Bibliography of Books on Cartridges or Ammunition International Ammunition Association Inc. p.1. https://cartridgecollectors.org/. W. J. George unknown
180255719New York: Printed and Sold by G. F. Hopkins 1802. First American edition. Leather bound. Very good. 296pp. Octavo 22 cm In a later 3/4 leather binding with brown cloth over boards. New endsheets and flyleaves. The boards are a bit warped. Repair to title and dedication pages. With map present at the front. Wright-Howes M 133. "First crossing of the continent from ocean to ocean by a white man. The narrative portion was prepared for publication by William Combe from Makenzie's notes." - Wright-Howes p. 362. Printed and Sold by G. F. Hopkins unknown
18403417<p><i>Through Russian Waters</i></p><p>RUSSIA - TRADE FORMS. Vice Consolato di Russia. Manifesti cominciando dal 1840. Trapani 1840-49.</p><p>Small folio pp. 196 of pre-printed shipping manifest forms of which 137 completed in ink; contemporary flexible vellum-backed marbled paper boards with ink-lettered label to upper board; corners bumped and spine a little chipped.</p><p>Fine documentation of the maritime trade from the harbour of Trapani in Sicily. The manifest gives bills of lading from January 1840 to March 1849. The pre-printed manifests are completed in ink giving the name of the freight ship and its captain the destination and then details of its freight i.e. type and quantity of merchandise names of senders and recipients.</p><p>Trapani boasts some of Europe's oldest salt marshes and salt extraction has been a major business for centuries which still flourishes to the present day. By the nineteenth century Sicilian sea salt was exported to European countries as far away as Norway and Russia. These shipping manifests document that it was sent to destinations as far afield as Constantinople Abo Stavanger Carlscrona Stockholm Bergen Odessa Reval and Riga.</p><p>Clearly some of the shippers acted on their own account being both captains of the ship and shipper whereas others acted on commission. The shipping routes went through Russian waters which explains the accounts kept by the Russian Vice Consulate.</p>
18872083002116206242Agricultural Affairs Bureau Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce 1887. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 5 Agricultural Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce paperback
183547511Kopenhagen Jens Hostrup Schultz 1835. 4to. 41 pp. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First printing of the second Danish decree to abolish the slave trade. Denmark was the first souvereign state in the world to abandon the slave trade by a decree issued in 1792. This did not mean that the trade was hereby stopped. When France and England in 1831 and 1833 in conventions banned the trade the Danish king Frederik VI issued this decree of 1835 to support these conventions. The decree of 1835 contains a detailed Criminal Law for transport of slaves over the Atlantic.The decree was issued in two forms at the same time one with only Danish text and one with Danish and German paralelltext the version offered. </em> unknown
189417996Holland 1894. Ephemera. Very good condition. Trade card for the renowned Dutch chocolate maker Van Houten which invented a treatment of cocoa to remove the bitter taste known as "Dutch process" chocolate. The inventions of Van Houten led to the mass production and world wide distribution of chocolate which took place in the nineteenth century. <br /> <br /> The front of the card with color map of Australia showing Western Australia Northern Territory South Australia Queensland New South Wales Victoria and Tasmania. The map shows Coolgardie but not Kalgoorlie. Verso with a dark green Art Deco border and Art Deco text font with data on Australia. Population is listed as 4006000. Below this is the heading "The six British Colonies united to form a Federation are": West Australia South Australia Victoria New South Wales Queensland Tasmania. Statistical information including the square miles and population are given for each of these colonies as well as the capital of each and its population. The number of Aborigines is listed at 230000. 3 7/8 x 3 3/8". Corners very gently rubbed. Not found on Trove. unknown
18908657Salt Lake City 1890. Trade card 8 cm x 11.5 cm printed on both sides. Near fine. Trade card for Salt Lake City's Valley House which was located at the corner of South Temple and West Temple the present-day site of Abravanel Hall. The building was originally constructed by Wilford Woodruff upon his arrival to the valley in 1847. It was converted into the Valley House Hotel in the 1870s before being demolished in 1915 to erect the Bamberger Bus Depot. The reverse prints 'Information for Tourists' which contains a brief description of the Temple Block the Salt Lake Theatre ZCMI Fort Douglas and other points of interest. unknown
186427636New York: John W. Amerman Printer 1864. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. A very good copy light offsetting to front wrapper one initial at top edge mail fold marginal line to one paragraph. 26 pp. 8vo. Reprints Barstow's original argument against the Usury laws Report upon the Usury laws as well as nearly ten years of further reports and memorials questions and answers to criticisms and various appendices. Barstow argues that the current laws restrict trade: "We have for many months witnessed in our city a most grievous pressure on our money market; a pressure almost beyond a parallel for intensity. The cost of raising money has weighed down the energies of many enterprising men. Usury Law restrictions have afforded no alleviation in the hour of need. The very reverse of this has been their result." Scarcer than the initial report. OCLC shows only six copies: NYPL Stanford Law Harvard Brit. Lib. 2 and American Antiquarian Society. John W. Amerman, Printer unknown
1858Q1698Philadelphia: W. G. Chittick & Co. 1858. none. Good. Single sheet 10.75 x 8.5 inches printed recto-only. Blue paper with embossed mark in corner. Very Good with short closed tears at the edges of the folds and pinhole abrasion at the intersecting creases light sunning. An exciting variety of fancy goods with exotic French names and international originand domestic cotton products like Beaverteen and Kentucky jeans. <br/><br/> W. G. Chittick & Co. unknown
18999101Cincinnati: C.J. Krehbiel & Co 1899. Octavo in wrappers 19 x 12.5 cm. 122 pages. Thoroughly illustrated with photographs and diagrams numerous plates some folding. FIRST EDITION. The second catalogue of Cincinnati's Triumph Ice Machine Company; the first catalogue of 80 pages was issued the prior year. A detailed and technical catalogue of the refrigeration and refrigerating machinery offered by the firm. Triumph's machinery was instrumental in growing the ability of meat packers fisheries and canners to preserve foodstuffs safe for longer. Clean and sound internally. In publisher's gilt-titled textured cream-colored wrappers with the lightest toning. Near fine. OCLC locates one copy Case Western Reserve; not in Romaine. C.J. Krehbiel & Co unknown
1864AQ28474Boston: Printed by John Wilson and Son 1864. 49pp 1. Original publisher's blind-stamped dark green cloth lettered in gilt to spine and upper board T.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Armorial bookplate of Esher to FEP very occasional light spotting. A tribute to American financier Joshua Bates 1788-1864 from a selection of Boston merchants including both the record of an in-person assembly and a selection of letters penned in his memory. Bates who founded the Boston Public Library in 1852 donated 30000 volumes to the institution with the main hall being named in his honour. . First edition. 8vo. Printed by John Wilson and Son hardcover
188629001127New York: Atlantic Publishing & Engraving of New York 1886. The front cover and first page of the booklet are detached. The title on the front cover is faded and hard to read. General soiling and toning due to age. The bulletin has been folded. The large format memoriam is trimmed on the edges. Two items advertising the memorial of Horace Brigham Claflin who was an American merchant who founded the Bulkley & Claflin Company later after Claflin's death it became known as H. B. Claflin Company. Over the years this bank was acquired many times and is still in existence today under JP Morgan Chase. The first item is apparently from the Dry Goods Bulletin which serves as an memoriam/obituary for Claflin. The front side has an engraving of Claflin as well as his birth and death dates December 18 1811 - November 14 1885. The back side has a description of his life. Measures 14 1/4" x 12 3/4". The second item is a 16 pg booklet done by the New York Chamber of Commerce that is the minutes of the meeting following Claflin's death as well as a biographical sketch of the man. The booklet states that "Mr. Claflin was one of the great merchants which the present century has produced and his life and character present a striking illustration of the maxim 'Act well your part there all the honor lies.' " pg. 3 The meeting end with several resolutions one of which was "the entire community of dry good merchants are called upon to mourn the loss not only of the most eminent member of their profession but also of a true friend." pg. 11 #1 This was accomplished when on the day of his funeral "the wholesale stores and commission houses throughout the dry goods district in New York City closed at noon and business was suspended. That portion of the City usually so active and busy was silent and deserted." pg. 15 The booklet also includes a portrait engraving of Claflin. Black covers. Measures 9 1/4" x 6" This was a dry good business that acted as middlemen between the manufacturers and retailers of dry goods. Additionally he founded the Continental Bank of New York in 1870 along with Jacob H. Schiff Marcellus Hartley Robert L. Cutting and Joseph Seligman. Atlantic Publishing & Engraving of New York unknown
1845ABC_48495Johanna Anjouan 1845. Ca. 32.5 x 20.5 cm. Original paper wrappers. 5 1 blank pp. Historically important treaty between Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1819-1901 and Sultan Selim dates unknown of Johanna present-day Anjouan for the suppression of the slave trade. The treaty was concluded in November 1844. The present work is the ratified version from 10 December 1845 signed by Sultan Selim and Christopher Wyvill 1792-1863 captain of the HMS Cleopatra and formation commander of the British Royal Navy in Africa between 1849-1853. The publication is exceptionally rare. We have not been able to find any printed copies anywhere else either in sales records or libraries. The archives of the UK parliament make mention of the treaty but it appears to be otherwise unknown.In the present work the Sultan of Anjouan states that: "There shall be no dealing in slaves in our territory and no slaves shall be imported to be sold in our country". He further allows the British to inspect Anjouan ships and take them to an English port if they are found engaging in slave trade. The present treaty which is of significant historical importance is an excellent example of the measures that were undertaken across the world to stop the slave trade.The leaves are slightly creased and browned around the edges. Otherwise in good condition. unknown
18426316London: T.R. Harrison 1842. Near fine. 38pp. stitched. Very minor bumps to top edge of first leaf light dust-soiling to outer leaves. A very rare treaty between Queen Victoria’s Britain and the “Oriental Republick of the Uruguay†printed in both English and Spanish in two parallel columns throughout. According to the text the parties were “mutually animated by a sincere desire to co-operate for the utter extinction of the barbarous Traffick in Slaves.for the special purpose of immediately attaining this object so far as relates to the total and final abolition of the Slave Trade of the Oriental Republick of the Uruguay.†The treaty is comprised of fourteen original articles plus three annexes totaling forty-six additional articles and four additional articles at the end covering a host of issues pertaining to the suppression of the slave trade. These issues included enforcement procedures the establishment of “Mixed Courts of Justice†“Regulations in respect to treatments of liberated negroes†and much more. With regard to slaves found on international vessels the two nations hoped for “permanent good treatment and a full and complete emancipation according to the humane intentions of the Parties of the Treaty.â€<br /> <br /> The present treaty was part of a larger effort by the British Crown to put an end to the transatlantic slave trade in the first half of the 19th century; at this same time Britain had reached terms on a similar treaty with the Republic of Texas and other nations. The document is signed at the end in type by J.H. Mandeville and Jose Ellauri representatives of the two countries who originally signed the treaty at Montevideo on July 13 1839; the present work was “Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty†in 1842 likely due to bureaucratic delays. Uruguay would have been an important ally for Great Britain in monitoring the seas against the transatlantic slave trade given its position opposite the South Atlantic Ocean from West Africa. OCLC records just a single physical copy of this treaty at the University of Arizona.<br /> <br /> Cundall 2854. T.R. Harrison unknown
1860010685London: John W. Parker and Son 1860. Book measures 23x15.cm. xxi1651pp 16pp book catalogue. Bound in original publishers embossed brown cloth with gilt lettering coloured endpapers. Cloth very lightly rubbed gilt lettering slightly faded repair to head and tail of spine. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Internally previous owners name on top margin of title page dated 1932. Pages in very good clean condition. A very nice copy. . Cloth. Very Good. 8vo. John W. Parker and Son Hardcover
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
189218107France 1892. Very good condition. Trade card for the most successful cigarette merchant in Egypt Nestor Gianaclis named after the man who founded the Egyptian cigarette industry in 1871 when he set up a factory in the Khairy Pasha palace in Cairo. Gianaclis' cigarettes made with imported Turkish tobacco became so popular with the British officers stationed in Egypt that the company began exporting to the UK and eventually to Europe and the US. With gilt text and gilt highlighted chromolithographic illustrations of 9 medals Bruxelles 1891; Paris Calcutta Toulon and two crests De S. A. le Khedive d'Egypte at the left and at the right "Et de la Cour de S. A. le Prince Heritier de Grece. 2 7/8 x 1 1/2 unknown
