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184827732Exeter: Printed by T. Latimer 1848. 12mo. 36 pp. <br><br>The society's business "shall be conducted in Exeter or such other place or places in the West of England as may be determined . . . but under no pretext shall such business be transacted at any Tavern or other place of public entertainment."<br>Â Â Â Â The objects of the society were "to enable the industrial classes of society First to provide a certain fixed weekly allowance during Sickness also Medical Attendance and Medicines. Second To secure deferred Annuities superannuated pay to commence at certain given ages. Third To secure Endowments for Children on attaining the age of 14 18 or 21 years. Fourth To secure a certain sum at death not exceeding £100."<br>Â Â Â Â No copy located via COPAC; WorldCat does not list this first edition and finds only one copy of the later one of 1858. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Not in Goldsmiths'-Kress. Modern wrappers. Old library pencilling on title-page. Printed by T. Latimer unknown books
1917292374Roanoke Va.: Stone Print. & Manufacturing Co. 1917. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. In the publisher's light blue cloth with titling stamped in black and the logo in red to the upper board. On the pastedown it is noted that it was Loaned to "J. D. Griffith. Car Foreman". 182 pp. with illustrations of hand flag and lamp signals some printed in red or in green.~~"The rules herein set forth govern the railroads operated by the Norfolk and Western Railway Company. They take effect April 1 1917 superseding all previous rules and instructions inconsistent therewith."~~We are able to locate only one copy of this edition on OCLC. Very Good binding. [Stone Print. & Manufacturing Co.] unknown books
197419456EFlagstaff AZ: Northland Press 1974. First Edition. Paperbound 6 3/4†x 9 1/2â€. An illustrated catalogue issued to accompany an exhibition of Western paintings by Ross Stefan at Wollheims’ Rosequist Galleries in Tucson AZ. Fine copy in printed wrappers. Northland Press unknown books
19464326Denver: The Smith-Brooks Printing Company 1946. 42pp Oblong quarto 25 cm x 30.5 cm Gray printed wrappers with a photograph of the Upper Colorado on the front panel. Better than very good. 20 tinted plates 16.5 cm x 20 on white leaves with the facing page prints a paragraph description of the view. All images are sights that one could see riding the D&RGW through Colorado. Double-page plate at the center 21 cm 51 cm 'Colorado's Highest Mountains.' Double-page pictorial map at the end. The Smith-Brooks Printing Company 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
1998230529Seattle: Western Conference of Teamsters 1998. 109p. paperback 8.25x11 inches minor edgewear. Western Conference of Teamsters 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
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
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
