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2010133584Tokyo: The Tokyo Shimbun 2010. Softcover. VG. Glossy color-illustrated wraps with gilt lettering. 212 pp. Color and bw plates. In Japanese and Italian. Two volume set no matter what the title may indicate. 2010 exhibition at National Museum of Western Art Tokyo and Museum of Kyoto "Naples Beauty and the Court" featuring works from the collection of the Museo di Capodimonte. Volume 1 contains the Japanese text and color plates while volume 2 contains the Italian translations with bw thumbnails. ISBN for second volume is 9784906536559. Two volume set no matter what the title may indicate. The Tokyo Shimbun paperback books
196540428San Mateo CA: The Western Railroader 1965. 1st printing. White printed paper wrappers stapled. Modest wear to wrappers light coiling and rubbing. A VG example. 24 pp. Many black and white photographic images throughout. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/>Includes small single sheet folded once detailing news in the railway business addressed to a John Cooshek in Vancouver B.C. The Western Railroader unknown books
185831868Springfield IL 1858. Broadside 10-1/2" x 13-1/2". Printed in four columns. Lightly foxed old folds Very Good.<br/><br/> This evidently unrecorded broadside recounts the proceedings of a Convention. held at the State Capitol in Springfield to determine the feasibility of a regional program to advance the cultivation of sorghum or Chinese sugar cane. Notice of the Convention was reported in the Sangamo Journal / Illinois State Journal for 30 December 1857: "It is confidently believed that the Chinese Sugar Cane is well 'adapted to our soil and climate' and that it can be successfully and profitably cultivated and manufactured into molasses and sugar." <br/> The Agricultural Committee submitted information from growers and processors in Kentucky Pennsylvania Ohio and Indiana. The Mechanical Committee could not produce an acceptable proposal for a processing machine and the Convention adjourned with a recommendation that Illinois delegates gather more information for a future convention. Efforts to stimulate the growth of northern sugar cane continued through the succeeding decades.<br/>As of October 2019 not located on OCLC or the online sites of AAS NYPL Newberry Harvard Yale U MI. Not in Sabin Eberstadt Decker Graff. unknown books
021955Rochester NY: Western New York Nursery Company. Very Good. Hardcover. Black staplebound cloth over thick cardstock. Boards are rubbed on edges and moderately worn. Binding is solid with slight separation at front. Interior mostly clean with soiling to edges; a few of the plates show light foxing. One plate has 1 3/4 inch closed tear. Brown endpapers. Front endpaper has an inch closed tear and 1/8 inch hole. Inside front board reminds the salesman to "Please handle Plate Book carefully and do not mark prices on the plates. " Produced by the Western New York Nursery Company and printed by Vredenburg & Company both of Rochester New York. From the University of Rochester "In the latter half of the nineteenth century Rochester New York was a leading American nursery center. Auxiliary to the nursery businesses there developed allied enterprises one of which was the production of colored fruit and flower prints designed to aid nurserymen and their travelling salesmen sell plants. This business in nurserymen's plates as these prints were also termed flourished until changes in marketing nursery products and the increasing use of colored illustrations in nursery catalogues caused its decline. By the early years of this 20th century the production and use of these plates was ending. A typical nurserymen's color plate was approximately 9 by 12 inches or the smaller "pocket size" of 6 by 9 inches which was introduced in the early 1870's. Each pictured a specimen of fruit flower shrub ornamental tree or occasionally a hardy vegetable such as rhubarb. Under the illustration would be its name perhaps a brief description of its attributes as much for the benefit of the salesman as the potential customer and the name and often city of the producer of the plate. These plates were generally printed on heavy paper stock to withstand wear." Our copy has chromolithographic plates divided into equal parts of fruits and ornamental plants. The book can be dated to no earlier than 1904 as the "Perfection Grape" won a Gold Medal at the 1904 St. Louis Exposition. An attractive salesmans fruit and plant book from the early 20th century. ; 5.5" x 8.5"; 72 pp . Western New York Nursery Company hardcover books
44211<p>Japan and Western Medicine. Oranda jin Geka ryoji no zu Dutch Surgery in Nagasaki. Original pen ink and watercolor drawing on light brown-toned silk with 4 vertical lines of Japanese characters in the upper left corner. Japan: late 18th or early 19th century. 483 x 363 mm. mounted as a scroll at a modern date on light grey silk backed with paper with a half-round hanging rail with braided ribbon attached at the top and a suspension bar at the foot measuring 914 x 443 mm. overall; preserved in a custom-made wooden box. A few tiny pinholes in upper corners of image but fine with the coloring fresh and bright.</p> <p> This striking image showing an amputation carried out by a Dutch surgeon in Japan was most likely painted in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century during Japan's self-imposed period of national isolation. The hand-painted image is related but by no means identical to a Nagasaki woodblock print titled "Surgery by a Dutch Physician" one of many popular souvenir prints depicting scenes unique to Nagasaki which at the time was the sole point of contact between Japan and the outside world. See our reproduction of the print. It may be that our scroll is the original of the image; however it is also possible that both hand-painted and woodcut versions of the image were produced simultaneously.</p> <p> Western surgery came to Japan in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries via the Portuguese who in 1543 became the first Europeans to make direct contact with Japan and the Dutch who became the only European nation allowed to trade with Japan after Japan's expulsion of the Portuguese in 1639. Surgeons attached to the Dutch East India Company established practices at the island of Dejima in Nagasaki Bay which led to the formation of several Japanese schools of surgery based on European methods. "This aspect of Western medicine known as K m -ry geka or ‘Surgery of the Red-Haired' has had a profound effect on the development of surgical practice in Japan" Van Gulik p. 37. Van Gulik "Dutch surgery in Japan" in Red-Hair Medicine: Dutch-Japanese Medical Relations ed. Beukers et al. pp. 37-50. </p> <p>. unknown books
199019333ELos Angeles 1990. First Edition. Paperbound 8 1/2†x 11†48 pages. An original illustrated program for the Eighth Annual Golden Boot Awards celebrated Western Film held at The Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles on July 28 1990. Near fine copy with a hint of use in printed wrappers. The honorees included Gene Autry “President Reagan Award†Burt Reynolds Hal Needham Noah Beery Jr. and Katharine Ross George Kennedy Budd Boetticher and Sam Elliott “Golden Boot Award†and Jay Silverheels “In Memoriam Golden Boot Award†presented by Clayton Moore. unknown books
1857005328Cincinnati OH: B. W. Grinnell & Co 1857. Book. Very good condition. Unbound. First Edition. Quarto 4to. Partly printed document with six certificates printed in color. Document reads "Office of Western Emigrating Aid Association. Cincinnati Ohio 'June 16' 185'7'. 'Savesing Bank' Dear Sir: This Association has been formed for purposes set forth in a Circular which we enclose to you. We ask your attention to the benevolent objects therein contemplated and your aid in favor of the enterprise by disposing of Certificates of the Association at One Dollar each which well entitle the holder of each Certificate to a gift varying in value from fifty cents to FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS. This Association will allow you TWELVE certificates for TEN DOLLARS sent to them at Cincinnati and in that proportion. We enclose herin '6' Cerificates. Address all Letters and Orders to B. W. Grinnell & Co. Cincinnati Ohio. P.S. Please write out in full the name of each person holding Certificates with the name of the Post Office County and State." Words enclosed in single parenthesis are handwritten. Referenced in the document and included is a full uncut sheet of five 5 "Certificates" and another single 1 Certificate totalling six Certificates. These are printed in red and black and are hand-numbered '830 831 832 833 834 827' and read 'Western Emigrating Aid Association This Certificate entitles the Holder to a Gift varying in value from Fifty cents to Five thousand Dollars. Cincinnati Ohio.' Signed in facsimile "B. W. Grinnell Co." and decorated with the amount '100000' superimposed in large outline numerals. Document has minor soiling and both documents were folded to fit in a mailing envelope but remain in excellent condition. B. W. Grinnell & Co Paperback books
1998230529Seattle: Western Conference of Teamsters 1998. 109p. paperback 8.25x11 inches minor edgewear. Western Conference of Teamsters unknown books
180220679Philadelphia: Poulson 1802. 8pp caption title as issued bound in modern marbled wrappers. Small blank forecorner chipping to first leaf lightly spotted else Very Good. <br/><br/> This rare Petition-- from Pennsylvania settlers on lands in Luzerne Northumberland and Northampton Counties claimed by Connecticut-- reviews the history of the Western Land Dispute between Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Examined in detail are the 1782 judicial decree terminating the rights of the State of Connecticut but not rights of private claimants the litigation brought by Connecticut claimants and attempts of the Pennsylvania Legislature to adjust those claims. Disliking the adjustment the settlers here request federal intervention. The Committee Report and the Vote on the Question rejecting the settlers' request are printed here. <br/> Bristol and Shipton call this an 1800 imprint; this is impossible because the Petition refers to events in February 1801. NAIP which records only 18th century American imprints does not list it. American Imprints says it was printed in 1802. <br/>FIRST EDITION. AI 2874 1. Bristol 11109. Shipton & Mooney 49135. OCLC 55642207 7 as of September 2014. Poulson unknown books
1922669Various places 1922. Good plus. 181 original photographs most 3.5 x 3.5 inches some larger. Modern half morocco and marbled boards. Scattered manuscript captions. Some album leaves with tape repairs but photos generally fine. An absorbing photograph album containing over 180 original images that documents a family's travels in the West over a four year period after World War I. The group travelled to a disparate set of Western destinations during this time making their way across the county by train automobile and riverboat. In 1919 they travelled through the Northern Rockies making an obligatory stop in Denver but also halting at places such as Vananda Montana now a ghost town and Lake Pend Oreille in the Northern Idaho Panhandle. During 1920 the group was in Dalhart Texas and returned to Idaho to visit Lake Coeur D'Alene and to travel along the St. Joe River. Images from 1921 and 1922 center on travel around the Spokane area where the group appears to have been from including a series of images taken at Liberty Lake. A varied and interesting album of post-World War I western travels. unknown books
1938917Various Places including Mexico Wyoming Nevada Arizona and California 1938. Very good. 296 photographs in corner mounts on fifty-five leaves. Oblong quarto. Original cloth boards string tied. Cloth worn and frayed at edges. A few leaves loose. Photos generally crisp and neat; about half with manuscript captions on leaves. A travel album of nearly 300 original images of alluring and uncommonly high quality the preponderance of which chronicle a series of road trips made by a group of young men crossing the United States and Mexico by car in 1936 and 1937. The subjects were likely students at Worcester Polytechnical Institute. Approximately 250 of the images depict their trips across North America in the midst of the Depression with locations in the east including Mt. Katahdin in Maine; Washington D.C.; Lookout Mountain Tennessee; Lake Michigan; and Niagara Falls. In the West they drove through Texas and Mexico to Mexico City. They toured the Mexican capital and also stopped in Monterrey where they saw a bullfight. After re-crossing the border at Fort Stockton they traveled through New Mexico Arizona Nevada Wyoming and California with a series of photographs depicting their experiences in Yellowstone and Yosemite. Indeed many of the photos depict their stops in national parks across the West and demonstrate an interest in the major water engineering project being undertaken at that time. The remainder of the images show the aftermath of the 1938 hurricane on Bellows Falls Vermont likely the hometown of the album's compiler and scenes on the campus of WPI. An excellent visual account of Depression-era car travel. unknown books
19181914San Antonio 1918. Very good. Albumen photograph 6 x 8 inches. Mounted to a brown card 10 x 12 inches. Light soiling and wear to image corners of mount rubbed. A wonderful photograph of a parade float featuring a model bi-plane and the slogan "For our boys at the Front." The image shows the lengthy float drawn by four horses their harnesses studded with American flags. Three men sit at the front of the wagon while perched behind them is a small bi-plane with a fourth man seated inside. American flags deck out the front and rear of the float and star-spangled paper or cloth covers the wagon wheels. The float stands on a gravel street in front of a row of several clapboard businesses and a wood plank sidewalk; there are also two telephone poles with wires. The signage on one of the buildings reads "Bell Machine Works: Dealer in Marine Supplys." We guess but have not confirmed that this might be in San Antonio where Camp Travis was an active military post. A splendid image particularly with the model plane. unknown books
1887WRCAM55700Chicago: Chicago Legal News Company 1887. 27pp. Original printed gray-green wrappers. Minor chipping to wrappers light soiling and toning small circular library stamp for the Lowell Historical Society on front wrapper and titlepage. Text a bit toned but otherwise clean. Very good. A rare promotional pamphlet touting the services of Stanley's Western Detective Agency in Chicago. The company was formed in the year of this pamphlet's publication by Charles E. Stanley a well-respected thirteen- year veteran of Pinkerton's. The text contains information on the services the agency could provide; brief vignettes of several famous cases involving Stanley himself including murder confidence scams western train robbery and a child abduction case among others; and a list of legal and law enforcement personnel associated with the agency in Chicago Ohio Pennsylvania West Virginia Connecticut Indiana Michigan Minnesota Wisconsin Kansas Iowa and Colorado. The front wrapper reads "CALL IN A DETECTIVE" and the rear wrapper bears an ad for Stanley's Detective Agency with contact information. Rare with no copies in auction records and only one copy recorded in OCLC at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan. OCLC 56278798. Chicago Legal News Company unknown books
38902TRADE PROMOTION WESTERN PINE ASSOCIATION. PONDEROSA PINE: THE PICK OF THE PINES; ITS PROPERTIES USES AND GRADES. Los Angeles: 1935. 4to. Printed stiff wrappers. 80 pages. The second edition was printed in 1931 with up to ten editions well into the 1950's but only two of the 1935 edition are recorded on OCLC. A promotional booklet for the Western Pine Association featuring the Ponderosa Pine - the m prevalent species of pine found in the west - and printed for the Shevlin Pin Sales Company in Los Angeles. It features a "History of pine" "The manufact of Ponderosa Pine" "Characteristics and properties of Ponderosa Pine" "Installations of Ponderosa Pine" "Recommended grades of Ponderosa Pine for specific uses" "Standard manufactured and rough dry sizes" "Illustrations a descriptions of standard grades of Ponderosa Pine lumber" and "Distribution Ponderosa Pine." Illustrations include the use of Ponderosa Pine in homes interiors commercial buildings millword etc. Very good. unknown books
160781Los Angeles: The Museum n.d. Pre-visit package of materials for students and teachers visiting the museum in a re pictorial folder. The Museum unknown books
200540193NY:: Cambridge University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2005. Hardcover. 0521770904 . First edition. Previous owner's book-plate on front paste-down else fine in a very near fine short closed edge tear at the crown of the spine dust jacket. . Cambridge University Press, hardcover books
3021Boston: The Company; Dutton and Wentworth's Print. 1840. . 8vo pale blue wrappers front printed; ownership signature of the Hon. John Davis on front cover Boston: [The Company]; Dutton and Wentworth's Print., 1840. unknown books
18918289Kansas City 1891. First Edition. . 455pp. Modern cloth with leather spine. First edition. A convention of business men agriculturists educators and legislators which met to discuss economic questions affecting the development of the west. hardcover books
196018417Palo Alto California by the National Press : Western Joint Computer Conference 1960. First Edition. Wraps. Good. First Edition. ix 1-blank382 pages. 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Publishers' printed blue wraps with penned marking on spine 60 and "F.M.V." on the front wrapper. Professor Frank M. Verzuh's copy. This copy has been marked up occasionally by Professor Verzuh in pen and pencil throughout and is sunned on the front cover. Wraps. Another in a series of joint computer conferences sponsored by the IRE AIEE and ACM. Now we're moving out of the earliest periods of computers - people have stopped asking what they are and are now asking how can we use them in a practical sense. You see this in the table of contents: "Computer Organization Trends" "Data Retrieval" "Components and Techniques" "Analog Equipment" "Learning and Problem Solving Machines" "Analog Techniques" "Trends in Computer Applications" etc Still interesting historical content but the work has come out of the labs and is creeping into industry - names of presenters often are associated with companies - IBM Hughes Aircraft Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation are examples. One interesting article: "Recognition of Sloppy Hand-Printed Characters" by an MIT Lincoln Lab staff member. <br/><br/>Frank M. Verzuh worked in early computing and on the MIT Rapid Arithmetic Machine. He also attended the famous Moore School Lectures where his notes were the basis for the printed reports on the Lectures after some presenters didn't provide notes. Western Joint Computer Conference unknown books
196526097Ibadan: Ministry of Information ca. 1965. First Edition. Oblong octavo 16.5x23.5cm.; original grey pictorial staplebound wrappers; unpaged; illus. A bit dust-soiled some wear from handling else Very Good and sound. Second volume in a series of three publications on progress in Western Nigeria. Ministry of Information unknown books
S2182Western Electric Company Inc. Collectible - Acceptable. Western Electric Company Inc. No date stated. 8.75x11.25" Grey half cloth hardcover with paper boards with black lettering on spine and grey-green-black-cream illustration on front cover. 171pp. B&W illustrations throughout. No dust jacket. Cover edges lightly rubbed owners sticker on front cover. Spine ends bumped. Text block tight. Pencil writing on front end page. Rear end page glued to final index page.The rest clean. Western Electric Company Inc. hardcover books
184727881Ontario 1847. 47 1 blank pp plus two folding maps as issued: 'Map and Profile of the Great Western Railway Canada West' 48 1/2 cm x 32 cm; 'Map of the Route of the Great Western Railway Shewing its Connection with other Public Works' 35 1/2 cm x 29 cm. Versos with expertly repaired closed tears short margin tear else Very Good.<br/><br/> The railroad is "on the precise ground that will enable it to control the trade and travel of such a vast portion of the Canadas and the prosperous American States." <br/>TPL 2850. Sabin 28478n. unknown books
185728827Washington 1857. 572pp disbound. Contents clean. Very Good. <br/><br/> Material on the Utah expedition with Stewart Van Vliet's report of his interview with Brigham Young who said "that the Mormons had been persecuted murdered and robbed in Missouri and Illinois both by the mob and State authorities and that now the United States were about to pursue the same course; and that therefore he and the people of Utah had determined to resist all persecution at the commencement and that the troops now on the March for Utah should not enter the Great Salt Lake Valley." <br/> Reports on turmoil in Kansas include Governor Walker's Message on election day September 1857. Appendix H is Francis Bryan's Report concerning operations of a party assigned to explore the route from Fort Riley to Bridger's Pass. "Being the report of the Secretary of War the volume contains sizable quantities of material about the West." Graff. <br/>Wagner-Camp 286. Graff 4416. unknown books
186235981St. Louis: R.P. Studley and Co. 1862. Original printed wrappers stitched and disbound. 75 1- errata pp. Clean text. Small hole in rear wrapper affects several letters else Very Good.<br/><br/> A thorough report on the medical activities of St. Louis area hospitals during the War. OCLC collates only 64 pages; ours apparently like the Bartlett copy prints pages 65 until the errata the 'Report of the Western Sanitary Commission July 1st 1862' with detailed tables accounting for the distribution of articles by the Commission to the various area hospitals.<br/>Bartlett 5750. OCLC 14833658 2- Boston Pub. Lib. Natl Lib. Medicine as of May 2019. R.P. Studley and Co. unknown books
41505n. p.: A Screen Guild Productions Release n. d. Ca. 1949. Very delicate light green printed paper. Significant wear to edges sunning/age-toning significant chipping. Withal a Good example. Single sheet printed recto only. B/w photographic reproductions. 13" x 9-1/4" <br/><br/> A Screen Guild Productions Release unknown books
