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1855EARadBOA72London: 1855. 1855. pp. 24 1 leaf. later cloth-backed bds. extremities bit worn scattered dampmarks some foxing mainly affecting fore-edges & last few papers some papers with faint horizontal folds. Parl. Paper 1855 34.-V. Bound with 20 other British Blue Papers relating to trade & navigation as follows: 2 -----Trade And Navigation. Accounts.Month ended 31st May 1855 and Five Months in part ended 31st May 1855. pp. 23 1. Parl. Paper 1855 34-VI. London: 1855. 3 -----Trade And Navigation. Accounts.Month ended 30th June 1855 and Six Months in part ended 30th June 1855. pp. 23 1. Parl. Paper 1855 34-VII. London: 1855. 4 -----Trade And Navigation. Accounts.Month ended 31st August 1855 and Eight Months in part ended 31st August 1855. pp. 23 1. Parl. Paper 1855 34-IX. London: 1855. 5 -----Trade And Navigation. Accounts.Month in part ended 31st March 1855 and Three Months in part ended 31st March 1855. pp. 23 1. Parl. Paper 1855 35-IV. London: 1855. 6 -----Trade And Navigation. Accounts.Month ended 30th April 1857 and Four Months ended 30th April 1857. pp. 28 1 leaf. Parl. Paper 1857 No. 19. London: 1857. 7 -----Trade And Navigation. Accounts.Month ended 30th June 1857 and Six Months ended 30th June 1857. pp. 26 1 leaf. Parl. Paper 1857 No. 19-II. London: 1857. 8 -----Statistical Abstract For The United Kingdom In each of the last Fifteen Years From 1840 to 1854. pp. 33 1. London: Printed By George Edward Eyre And William Spottiswoode 1855. 9 -----Tariffs. A Return Of The Rates of Duty upon the Principal Articles of British and Colonial Produce and Manufactures.Levied in.1853 and 1855 by the Tariffs of Foreign Countries.Russia. Sweden. Norway.Chili. New Grenada. pp. 10 1 leaf. London: Printed By George Edward Eyre And William Spottiswoode 1855. 10 Duplicate copy of preceding. 11 -----Tariffs. A Return Of The Rates of Duty upon the Principal Articles.Levied in.1855 and 1856 by the Tariffs of Foreign Countries.Sweden. France. Austria. Roman States. Mexico. Peru.In continuation of the Return presented in August 1855. pp. 14 1 leaf. London: Printed By George Edward Eyre And William Spottiswoode 1856. 12 GREAT BRITAIN. GENERAL REGISTER & RECORD OFFICE OF SEAMEN. An Account Of The Number and Tonnage of Vessels that were built and registered in the several Ports of the British Empire in the Years ending the 5th of January 1853 1854 and 1855.pp. 3 1. Parl. Paper 1857 No. 57. London: 1855. 13 GREAT BRITAIN. FOREIGN OFFICE. China Correspondence Between The Foreign Office And The Commercial Association Of Manchester. 1846-1848. Presented to the House of Lords.1857. pp. 1 p.l. 8 1 leaf. London: Printed By Harrison And Sons 1857. 14 -----Copies And Extracts Of Despatches From Her Majesty's Ministers At Foreign Courts On The Subject Of Admitting British Shipping To The Coasting Trade. Presented to both Houses of Parliament. August 14 1855. pp. 18 1 leaf. London: Printed By Harrison And Sons 1855. 15 GREAT BRITAIN. COMMISSIONERS FOR THE BRITISH FISHERIES. Report By The Commissioners For The British Fisheries Of Their Proceedings In The Year Ended 31st December 1854 Drop Title. pp. 43 1 leaf. 2 lithographed plates. London: 1854. 16 GREAT BRITAIN. BOARD OF TRADE. Report Of An Investigation Into The Circumstances Attending The Loss Of The Steam Ship "Erin's Queen" Of Belfast By Collision With The Steam Ship "Sabrina" Of Cork; Made Under The Direction Of The Board Of Trade By Commander Robert Robertson R.N. pp. 10 1 leaf. London: Printed By George Edward Wyre And William Spottiswoode 1855. 17 -----Papers In The. Hardcover. [London: 1855]. Hardcover
186027356Boston: Committee of the Boston Board of Trade on Immigration 1860. First edition. Removed. A very good clean bright copy with mail folds. Unpaged 1 pp. Sm. 4to. A letter from the Committee of the Boston Board of Trade on immigration informing its members that it has a "favorable opportunity of supplying employers in all branches of manufactures trade agriculture mining domestic services etc. with such help as they require. of a superior class of skilled labor from Great Britain." Committee of the Boston Board of Trade on Immigration 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
1898232100Bellows Falls VT: Vermont Farm Machine Co 1898. Illustrated with wood engravings. 32 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Printed pink wrappers with slight wear and soiling a few tears and one crude repair; internally clean. Illustrated with wood engravings. 32 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Sap Evaporator. <br/><br/> Vermont Farm Machine Co unknown
187476466Worcester: The West & Lee Game and Printing Co. 1874. First edition. Small octavo. 31 1 pp. plus five foldout engravings of people playing the games numerous textual illustrations of required equipment. Publisher's printed light sage wrappers. A couple of chips to the lower corner of rear wrappers one of the foldouts with a tear at the fold-line light spine erosion. But a very good copy of this very ephemeral piece. Game rules seem to have had short life spans.There is no history or definition of this game but from reading the catalog it seems to be a variety of croquet. But instead of simple hoops this game used very elaboarate and expensive pieces. Castles that actually look like castles for example. This was an expensive piece of advertising and surely was meant more as a promotional than as a catalog. A yard game for the well heeled. The West & Lee Game and Printing Co. unknown
188521256Des Moines Iowa: Racine Seeder Co 1885. Fine. Pristine folding memorandum and calendar in beautifully illustrated 3-panel wrapper printed in dark blue with highly ornate type fonts and decorative elements at the center panel. The right hand panel with 2 circular engraved vignettes depicting the Strowbridge Sower compared with sewing seed by hand "the old way the hardest work on the farm". On the interior the two side panels with additional engraved vignettes including a bird's eye view of the factory in Racine and a calendar with each month printed at the left hand page and text pertaining to the Strowbridge Sower at the right hand page. Text includes testimonials diagrams or cuts of the working parts of the sower salaries of US officers useful construction information and US population by state or territory. Opened measures 10 x 6 1/4". Very bright and clean. Racine Seeder Co unknown
188521259Des Moines Iowa: Racine Seeder Co 1885. Very good condition. Trade catalogue with engraving of the sowing machine broadcasting seed at front wrapper and illustration at rear wrapper of a farmer sowing seed by hand & a caption signed M. Manz. Text pertains to the efficacy of the machine with 7 cuts or schematic illustrations of the sower's key parts. 32pp pale peach wrappers with engraved illustration of the factory inside the rear wrapper. 4 1/4 x 6 1/4" Racine Seeder Co unknown
187162250Hartford CT: Columbian Book Co. 1871. 8vo. xxi 1 23-602 pp. plus 4 pp. publisher’s ads. Steel-engraved frontisp. with numerous woodcut engravings & illustrations. Plum-coloured publisher’s cloth gilt bear stamped on front cover title lettering embossed in blind on spine minor foxing to frontisp. minor sunning & wear to spine edgewear slight uniform interior toning still a VG- copy. Second printing of this informative work gathered from the author’s first-hand interviews with early settlers and mountain men of the Pacific Northwest including Joe Meek William Henry Gray and others. Much of the work was actually written in the house of noted Oregon pioneer & author Belle W. Cooke who describes how she was “often reading the manuscript to my father and mother for comment.†Victor herself notes after publication that some of the historical facts regarding Marcus Whitman his efforts in the Oregon Country and the massacre orally related to her by Gray needed to have been checked more carefully. Victor d. 1902 was the primary author for the Bancroft histories of Oregon Washington and the Northwest Coast as well as a noted author of poetry and literature. See Powers History of Oregon Literature pp. 282 305-309 Graff 4477 1870 ed. Columbian Book Co., hardcover
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
1898127356Nottingham: The Raleigh Cycle Co. Ltd 1898. Fair. Nottingham The Raleigh Cycle Co. Ltd. 1898. Oblong octavo 16 pages with numerous illustrations 10 pages each contain a large illustration and detailed information about individual models of bicycles two of them tandems. Saddle-stapled as issued; rusted staples no longer present resulting in minor stains and trifling loss; some marks and light stains throughout but generally inoffensive; a decent copy. The recto of each leaf is ink-stamped 'J. Mullins. Manufacturer & Importer of Bicycles 84 Pirie St Adelaide. Branch at Commercial Road Port Adelaide'. Retail prices for all but the tandem models are added in ink: they range from just over £20 to £32. To put these figures into perspective on Saturday 19 February 1898 'The Advertiser' classifieds offered for sale a four-room cottage 'with paved yard shed &c.' in Adelaide itself for £200 and a house with 'five rooms verandahs &c.' in inner-suburban Stepney for £300. The Raleigh Cycle Co., Ltd unknown
188128032Cleveland OH: Morgan Lith. Co. 1881. Ephemera. Good overall. Trade card advertising the New Home Sewing Machine Co. 30 Union Square NY & Orange Massachusetts. Attracive image of a propering homestead the woman sitting at her sewing machine on the front verandah the family & their dog walking in from work. Color lithograph 3 x 5". Some glue residue on verso and slt. marginal browning. <br /> <br /> The Morgan Lithograph Company was established by William J. Morgan 1838-1904 and his younger brother George W. 1843-1905 in 1864. The Morgan brothers' parents emigrated from Wales in 1842 first settling in Pittsburgh before arriving in Cleveland in 1854. Located originally on Superior Street the W. J. Morgan & Company produced broadsheets trade cards pamphlets blotters postcards and posters to advertise local businesses. Increasing orders from surrounding states soon allowed the company to move to larger headquarters. Morgan Lith. Co. unknown
186542106London: Printed by William Clowes and Sons 1865. 4pp. Disbound with a few small fox marks. Good plus.<br /> <br /> "The old capital which consisted of slaves being destroyed new capital must be obtained in the shape of money." Bank loans guaranteed by the States with the aid of bondholders will supply the necessary funding. The author expects "that the manufacturing interests of England especially of Lancashire and Yorkshire would assist the Southern States by subscribing to the plan proposed which would enable them to procure an increased supply of cotton of which they stand so urgently in need."<br /> Not located on OCLC as of June 2026. Printed by William Clowes and Sons unknown
1899796A22London: Spottiswoode & Co. 1899. Leather. Good. 11" by 8.5". Not Stated . An early printing of this book of International Code of Signals with coloured illustrations. An early printing of this work dated 1899 from the same copy held at the National Trust Libraries on Jisc. With a publisher's slip bound in with the volume stating 'This edition of the International Code of Signals will come into use on 1st January 1901 .' A revised edition of the of the original 1857 International Signal Book which at the time failed to meet the requirements of the Mercantile Marine. This volume comprises a more updated copy of the international system of signals and codes for use by vessels to communicate important messages concerning the safety of navigation and related matters. Structured in two parts: Part I with instructions on how to signal including how to make alphabetical spelling signals and numeral signals and Part II on distant signals including the fixed semaphore for coast use. Illustrated with twelve full page coloured plates of flags as well as numerous other illustrations in text. With numerous leaves of advertisements. In the original publisher's quarter morocco binding over cloth covered boards. Externally rather worn with some shelf wear and chipping to the extremities of the boards rubbing to the spine and boards with some minor losses to the cloth of the boards and a touch of edge wear. General light soiling to the boards and spine. Internally firmly bound. The pages are clean with a touch of age toning to the protruding title indexes as usual and to the first and last few leaves. Illustrated with twelve full page coloured plates of flags as well as numerous other illustrations in text. With numerous leaves of advertisements. Good Spottiswoode & Co. hardcover
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
1897503Holyoke Mass U. S. A.: Dean Steam Pump Company 1897. 8vo. 205 x 135 mm. 8 x 5 ¼ inches. 132 pp. Illustrated throughout with half-tone images and diagrams. Original stiff blue paper wrappers with title printed in gilt on the front cover and company name on rear cover; chipped at head of spine and cracked in lower part of spine sewing of the text block weak call number in white ink on spine; bookplate of the Engineering Societies Library of New York. Dean Steam Pump is one of the most respected brands in its industry. Established after the Civil War the company under various ownerships has produced reliable and industrial grade pumping systems and over time has introduced innovations that have been become standards for the entire trade. In the 19th century the company made the transition from steam to turbine to electric pumps and produced vacuum pumps air pumps circulating pumps etc. for such diverse businesses as maple sugar companies to petroleum refiners. Romaine Guide to American Trade Catalogues p. 297 cites an 1890 edition published from the New York Offices and this edition published in 1897. OCLC only cites one edition published in Indianapolis in 1894 in one copy. George Frederick Gebhardt Steam Power Plant Engineering New York John Wiley 915 p. 618. Dean Steam Pump Company unknown
189775054New York: Knickerbocker Press 1897. Fifth edition. Octavo. 128 pp. Printed in red and black throughout. Numerous illustrations of the company's machines Some full page others vignettes. One fold out plan. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering. Minor extremity wear but a very good solid and attractive copy.John C. De La Vergne organized the De La Vergne Refrigeration Machine Co. The original intent was to manufacture refrigeration machines for breweries. His first machine had a 70-ton refrigeration capacity for Burr & Son Co. brewery in New York City. Soon the company was providing refrigeration for most of America’s best known breweries as well as some overseas. By the 1890s De La Vergne refrigeration was used by hotels restaurants dairies creameries chocolate manufacturers steamships and many more businesses.After De La Vergne died in 1892 the business was taken over by Jacob Ruppert who was interested in oil engines to meet the demand to power ice-making machines. “The result†said the 1936 issue of the Baldwin-Southwark Magazine “was the first commercially successful oil engine in the world.†In 1903 De La Vergne Refrigeration manufactured a 125 HP dual flywheel oil engine for display at the 1904 World’s Fair in St.Louis. (Knickerbocker Press hardcover
1893E22904Richmond VA: George W. Englehardt 1893. First edition. Softcover. Good. First edition 1893 date on title and copyright pages . Octavo inprinted illustrated stiff wrappers. 315 pp. with index. Advertsing inside and rear wrap back cover is ad for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. Profusely illustrated with photographs portraits and engravings of notable sights scenes places and people. Covers text block edges and spine are soiled but the interior is generally clean with an occasional foxed spot. Any edition of this guide to Richmond is uncommon but the first is quite rare. George W. Englehardt unknown
18969751Maine: Board of Trade Gardiner Maine. Good. 1896. Hardcover. Minimum signs of ex-library - see image. Bookplate on inside front cover. ; Photomechanical reproductions of photographs of Gardiner Maine accompanied by a descriptive text. Includes street views and images of local railways dams industries churches schools waterworks steamboats and the surrounding countryside. Scarce copy at this price. ; Ex-Library; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 112 pages . Board of Trade, Gardiner, Maine hardcover
188599671Columbus OH 1885. Half Leather. Fair with no dust jacket. This large and heavy book will require extra postage please inquire. leading edge of leather spine splitting about 2/3 of the way up. corners worn. ; 6 x 9 unknown
186475172London: 'sold by Messrs. Barclay & Sons .' 1864. Hardcover. Very Good. London 'sold by Messrs. Barclay & Sons .' 1864 seventh edition enlarged and revised according to the British Pharmacopoeia 1864. Octavo iv 293 13 including 8 blank ruled pages. Original half calf and cloth; cloth a little marked; leather a little rubbed mainly at the extremities; endpapers adjacent blank leaves and the first and last leaves of text foxed; tiny stain to the leading edge and margin of the first ten leaves; a very good copy with the contemporary rubber stamp of C.B. Hill Pharmaceutical Chemist 128 Rundle Street Adelaide on two early blanks. For the first 123 double-page openings the left-hand page contains an alphabetical list of drugs; pages 234-291 contain lists of sundries arranged alphabetically by broad subject headings such as bandages oils sauces soaps and varnish. Very few prices have been filled in. 'sold by Messrs. Barclay & Sons ...' hardcover
18964969New York: Bartlett & Company The Orr Press 1896. Octavo 20.5 x 14 cm. 97 pages. Date derived from Water Street address on title page. An extensively illustrated trade catalogue of heating furnaces and cooking ranges. Before the 1830s gravity hot-air furnaces were produced according to the specifications of individual buildings. The first mass-market manufacturer in the United States was Richardson & Boynton established in 1837 and in business for more than a century thereafter. The company survived the competitive surge in home heating manufacturers in the decades after the Civil War Fuller & Warren of Troy for instance also advertised as "the oldest house in the trade" introducing innovations in fuel source efficiency flue design cleaning access and model size – to say nothing of aesthetic appeal – at a surprising rate. The foundries and shop buildings occupied a double block in Red Hook Brooklyn; corporate offices 232-234-236 Water Street were across the Brooklyn Bridge in Manhattan. By the 1890s Richardson & Boynton were advertising themselves as manufacturers of multiple designs of furnaces fireplace heaters laundry water heaters cooking ranges stoves and kitchen appurtenances such as kettles urns pastry ovens and steam tables. Owing ostensibly to climbing tunnage and wharfage costs the entire operation decamped to Dover New Jersey in February 1896. Elaborate illustrations with equally elaborate cutaways; specification charts. A bit of chipping to head and foot of wrapper at spine otherwise very good in two-toned brown wrappers with gilt decoration. Pages clean and bright. Scarce. OCLC locates three copies of all other Richardson & Boynton cataloguesbut none of this issue; Romaine page 363 for other issues. Bartlett & Company, The Orr Press unknown
18858436New York: Agate Iron Ware Manufacturing Co.; Macgowan & Slipper Printers 30 Beekman Street 1885. Booklet stapled in wrappers 15.5 x 12 cm. 136 pages. Illustrated throughout. Title from cover. Date from page of medals received. Stated "Fourth Edition". There were at least three distinctly different works with this title issued by the corporate author: 1890 72 pages with the Lalance and Grosjean Manufacturing Co name; 1891 32 pages an almanac not a trade catalogue; and this one undated ~136 pages a trade catalogue. Promotional combined trade catalogue and cookbook for Agate Iron Ware Manufacturing Company manufacturers of kitchen ware. Illustrated descriptions of the wares typically two to a page face recipes. The recipes are decidedly Anglo-French not American and they lean towards more elegant fare. Illustrations include the Agate Iron Ware manufacturing plant on front wrapper verso an assortment of medals and awards and an image of a homemaker sitting in her kitchen surrounded by Agate Ware while consulting this cookbook. The front panel bears the printed promotional statement "Compliments of F. A. Walker & Co. Cornhill". In original chromolithograph wrappers decorated in a Japonisme-style. Small stain along bottom edge of text block bit of bumping to the corners. Wrappers worn at corners and with some wear to the bottom of the spine panel. Overall near very good. Agate Iron Ware Manufacturing Co.; Macgowan & Slipper, Printers, 30 Beekman Street unknown
181642431Bruxelles M.-E. Rampelbergh n.d. around 1816. 8vo. Contemp. full calf foreedges of each board overlapping the foreedge by 3 cm. to protect the the numerous thin vellum tabs. Spine ends a bit worn. Spine gilt and a bit rubbed. Early annotations on inside covers. X276 pp. and many illustrations of different coins in woodcut. Long vellum tabs attached for easy turn-up. <br/><br/><em>A scarce commercial easy-reckoner for European merchants with attractive woodcuts of current and historic coins. </em> hardcover
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