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1870GG01758Cincinnati:: Cincinnati Weekly Times/Times Steam Job Color Press ca. 1870s. 1870. Engraved framed print. 52.5 x 66 cm. Printed in color caption title lower left margin: "G.K. Stillman Engraver 4th & Walnut Cin."; insect damage to lower right margin affecting text but not image. age toning from backing. Gold-leaf frame probably contemporary. Very good. "A fanciful engraving of the Calaveras Grove showing the principal trees living and dead grouped around the hotel. The text identifies the trees and provides minimal statistical information. The 'Big Tree Stump' is depicted without a structure on it and 'The Mother of the Forest' is shown with scaffolding still in place. However style printing and paper would indicate a date circa 1870s or later." Currey & Kruska. REFERENCES: Currey & Kruska Bibliography of Yosemite the Central and the Southern High Sierra and the Big Trees 1839-1900 #246; Robert B. Honeyman Jr. Collection of Early California and Western American Pictorial Material. Indicating 1855 Bancroft Library Banc Pic 1963 002:0379-D. Cincinnati Weekly Times/Times Steam Job Color Press, [ca. 1870s]. unknown books
190012240N.p. 1900. 1 vols. 13 x 10 1/2 inches. Matted and framed. 1 vols. 13 x 10 1/2 inches. Superb Heroic Watercolor by "JOB". Fine heroic portrait of Leopold of Austria on a throne in a flowering field sword half drawn with Justice and Clemency seated beneath.<br/><br/>JOB a French artist is best remembered for his picture-albums for youth commemorating monarchs and military campaigns for which this drawing must have been intended. unknown books
182253342Sharon CT 1822. Broadside approx. 9" square; docketed on the verso in ink with 7 apparently unrelated names; very good. An act to incorporate the New York and Sharon Canal Company was passed April 19 1823. Not found in OCLC. <br/><br/> unknown books
1819SS321-001Various: Various 1918-1955. Hardcover. Very Good. For an itemized list of the items in this lot please inquire. Condition Very Good to Good. The Courier-Journal newspaper began publication in Louisville Kentucky in 1868 - the last run of the Courier-Journal newspaper was Sunday February 28 2021; the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company printing facilities closed for good on March 4th 2021. The material offered here is dated 1918 through circa 1955 and includes technical material used by apprentices and compositors working in the composition and press rooms of the Courier-Journal Job Printing Co. Included are 6 volumes of the Typographic Technical Series For Apprentices Part VI Nos. 32-40 out of series Chicago IL: Published by the Committee on Education United Typothetae of America 1918. All copies with the bookplate "Property of Courier-Journal Job Printing Co. For EMPLOYES' sic Use Only Return to Superintendent's Office" in a handsome Art Nouveau design on the front paste-down. This educational material demonstrates that the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company was unionized at least from the beginning of the twentieth-century and highlights the power and influence of typographers who were among the most educated economically mobile wage laborers in the United States and who were represented in every major urban center in the newspaper industry; the typographic unions won a 48-hour work week in 1897 and a standard wage scale throughout the newspaper industry; as an example of the power of the typographers unions in the 1930s the International Typographical Union introduced the 40-hour work week across the industry which spread to other unions and has sinse been codified across the labor sector by federal legislation; the typographers occupied an important if ambiguous place in the development of American labor history in as much as American labor was never successful in uniting all laborers together in one force but tended organize within industries. This grouping tends to focus on the tools of the trade including type specimens and catalogs of process inks issued in the 1920s and 1930s; Courier-Journal typographers left notes to themselves in these catalogs indicating material they felt needed representation in the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company's shops. Something of an outlier in this grouping is an accordion-fold volume of photographs of printing equipment available for use in the 1950s by the competing print shop The Standard Printing Company Incorporated of Louisville Kentucky. Most likely a salesman's dummy to show potential clients that The Standard Printing Company had the latest printing equipment and the most prestigious customers this undated circa 1955 without imprint accordion-fold photo-archive of printing equipment shows the most modern print shop of the 1950s. The earliest book printed by the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company was issued in 1884. An interesting article by Chris Kenning in the Louisville Courier Journal March 11 2021 gave some valuable insights into the history of the newspaper the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company and the challenges to the newspaper business and printing in general in the United States with the advent of desktop computers and the rise of the internet. While the Kenning article did not touch much on the time period 1918-1955 there are still interesting stories to tell about the printing industry in America the place of printing in the American labor movement and printing technology in the first half of the twentieth century that can be told using the materials offered here as visual aids. With the sale of the Courier-Journal to the Gannett Co. Inc in 1986 the road to the shut down of the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company was opened. Now the Courier-Journal newspaper will be printed in Indianapolis IN. The current print circulation of the paper is now under 60000 while the Courier Journal's digital journalism garners 4.5 million monthly visitors to their website. Media consolidation has been made possible with the internet's ability to distribute news on a minute-by-minute basis making regional newspapers printed on paper a redundancy. The Cincinnati Enquirer the Lexington Herald-Leader the Bowling Green Daily News are all regional newspapers that will no longer be produced locally after having been produced in Louisville by the presses of the Courier-Journal. This consolidation of the newspaper industry means the loss of 102 Louisville jobs including printing press operators mailroom and transportation jobs that have been lost to the relocation of the press work to Indianapolis. Various hardcover books
1804WRCAM7141Philadelphia 1804. v2-224pp. Contemporary calf leather label. Boards bowed wear to extremities. Tanned and foxed old rubberstamp on endsheet. A good sound copy. A survey of agriculture and agricultural practices of the day with information partially borrowed from Spurrier and Bordley as well as that gleaned from the author's own polls. Scarce here in the first edition. SABIN 71898. RINK 1148. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 7203. hardcover books
1815284Boston: Bradford & Read 1815. 8vo. 213 x 125 mm. 8 1/4 x 5 inches. 216 4 pp. including a leaf of instructions to the binder and errata leaf. Illustrated with 5 engraved plates. Contemporary mottled calf leather label on spine; upper and lower margins with tide marks some natural toning to the paper otherwise quite a good copy. Presentation copy to Richard Fletcher whose inscription appears on the front fee endpaper detached and the title-page. First edition. Attractive copy of Job Wilson's study of the influence of climate on the epidemic of spotted fever meningitis that spread throughout New England in the first years of the 19th century. Organized in three parts Wilson begins with a short description of the climate in New England from 1630 until 1806. Wilson expands the details of his study to show climate variations from 1801 to 1814 and their correlation with the rise and fall of the disease. This is one of the earliest studies in America to offer data on climate and disease with specific reference to the outbreak of spotted fever in 1807 1809 1811-1815. Part two of the Wilson's study describes the cause for the fever with reference to its impact on the lungs liver and brain. Part three discusses the ways of preventing the disease and its spread from person to person. The unsigned engravings illustrate the impact of the spotted fever on the nervous system lungs and heart. Austin 2074. 284. Bradford & Read unknown books
180454777Philadelphia: Jacob Johnson and others A. Bartram printer 1804. First edition. 12mo. v 3 5-224 pp. With the contemporary bookplate of "Alfred Macay of Millford" on the front pastedown; an Alfred Macay owned Milford Plantation in Rowan County North Carolina at this time. Sabin 71898. American Imprints 7203. Contemporary calf a little eroded leather label gilt rules and ornaments on spine. Persistent foxing but a very good copy. 1612. <br/><br/> Jacob Johnson [and others], A. Bartram, printer hardcover books
184234680Bristol 1842. 16pp caption title as issued. Disbound else Very Good<br/><br/> Chief Justice Durfee says that the Dorr rebels are traitors. "The first duty which every person residing within the jurisdiction of this State owes to it is that of allegiance." The Dorr Constitution "can find no justification in law." Durfee explains with references to Rhode Island's original Charter of 1643 that sovereignty is "found in the body politic and corporate and no where else.No one within this jurisdiction can lawfully renounce this allegiance and transfer it to another sovereignty." The Chief Justice denounces "this principle of revolution by an unauthorized and irresponsible movement of masses."<br/> Dorrites must have trembled when not long after giving this Charge they learned that Durfee would preside at the trial for treason of Thomas Dorr. <br/>FIRST EDITION. Cohen 3298. Bartlett RI page 115. unknown books
184654235Boston: Thomas H. Webb & Co 1846. First edition 8vo pp. 176; original printed wrappers backed with red cloth at an early date manuscript paper label on spine; wrappers lightly soiled and worn with minor loss to back wrap; a few corners creased and curled but text generally clean. A good sound copy. A work of Emersonian pantheism by the Chief Judge of the Rhode Island Supreme Court who presided over the Dorr trials. In an earlier work The Influence of Scientific Discovery and Invention on Social and Political Progress 1843 Durfee believed that he had found in the advent of steam power a sign of divine intervention indicating a "law of progress" in man's development. Panidea adumbrates this theme: all is eventually assimilated into the "Theanthropoid" Durfee's term for the Divine Mind. See Schneider History of American Philosophy. DAB offers a concise assessment: "a somewhat pretentious philosophical work which nobody read." American Imprints 2262. <br/><br/> Thomas H. Webb & Co hardcover books
180965157Bridgeport: Printed and Sold by S. Backus & Co. G. L. Austen Typographer 1809. First American edition. This was first published in 1769 at Salop. 12mo. Contemporary calf. Lacking label some rubbing some browning staining and spotting of text mostly marginal endpapers browned early gift presentation on front free endpaper. Maroon leather tipped marbled and cloth open end case. First American edition. This was first published in 1769 at Salop. 12mo. Shaw and Shoemaker 18306 citing two locations Printed and Sold by S. Backus & Co. [G. L. Austen, Typographer] unknown books
1833WRCAM45874Philadelphia 1833. viii5-1051pp. Dbd. Minor foxing. Very good. Second edition published the same year as the first and greatly expanded. "At a meeting of a number of citizens of Philadelphia friendly to the entire abolition of lotteries held on the 12th day of January 1833 an essay was presented by Job. R. Tyson Esq. who had prepared it in compliance with a previous request.Whereupon it was resolved that five thousand copies of said essay be printed for gratuitous distribution throughout the United States." An additional note indicates that they expanded the first edition for republication in November of the same year. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 21595. unknown books
1900000153Paris: H. E. Martin 1900. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Job; Jacques Drogue ornament. Folio - over 12. Book. Undated circa 1900. With 18 color illustrated plates by Job each 14 by 11 inches. Countries covered include of course France Germany USA England Austria-Hungary Belgium China Denmark Spain Greece the Netherlands Italy Russia Persia Sweden Norway Mexico Montenegro Japan Siam Abyssinia Canada Switzerland Transvaal Orange South Africa Turkey Egypt Tunisia Siam Brazil Finland Portugal Bulgaria. Pages are quite toned as inevitable with the type of paper; otherwise clean. Binding tight. <br/><br/> H. E. Martin hardcover books
1809232076Bridgeport: Printed and Sold by S. Backus & Co. G. L. Austen Typographer 1809. First American edition. This was first published in 1769 at Salop. 309 7 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary calf contrasting spine label. A Near Fine tight copy. First American edition. This was first published in 1769 at Salop. 309 7 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Shaw and Shoemaker 18306 citing two locations Printed and Sold by S. Backus & Co. [G. L. Austen, Typographer] unknown books
1897139389Paris: Boivin and Cie 1897. First Edition. First Edition. Portfolio. Very Good plus. Unbound signatures interspersed with color illustrations by classic French illustrator Jacques Marie Gaston Onfroy de Breville credited here as "Job". <br/><br/>Light rubbing to the front board owner bookplate on the front pastedown and leaves lightly toned. A bright presentable book. Boivin and Cie unknown books
181510391Boston: Bradford & Read 1815. hardcover. very good-. 5 plates 216pp. 8vo original boards neatly re-backed in blue cloth ex-lib. Boston: Bradford & Read 1815. First Edition. Presentation copy.<br/><br/> In 3 parts Part 1- A Compendious View of the Climate and Diseases of These States 1620-1806; Part 2- An Inquiry Into the Prevailing Epidemic; Part 3- Catarrhus: or Slight Inflammation from Cold Attended with but Little or no Fever. Austin 2074.<br/><br/> Bradford & Read unknown books
184956158Providence: Gladding and Proud 1849. First edition 8vo pp. xxvi 523 1; contemporary half brown morocco over marbled boards; binding scuffed ex-Brown University with an Ives Collection bookplate withdrawn call slip on the rear pastedown; no external markings; good and sound. Durfee was the jurist who first called the Dorr Rebellion illegal and treasonable. Includes two lectures "History of the Subjection and Extermination of the Narragansetts" and "The Idea of the Supernatural among the Indians." Bartlett p. 115. <br/><br/> Gladding and Proud hardcover books
184355252Providence: B. Cranston and Company 1843. First edition 8vo pp. 52; removed from binding wrappers wanting; very good. Durfee here propounds the theory that "the recent revolutionary development of steam power was not merely an instance of man making progress it was a revelation of the divine 'law of progress' and of a 'higher destiny' planned by God himself for the new age" Schneider History of American Philosophy. These ideas were adumbrated by Durfee in The Panidea; Or An Omnipresent Reason Considered as the Creative and Sustaining Logos 1846 "a pretentious work that nobody read" DAB. More charitable comments are made by Joseph Blau in his collection of American Philosophic Addresses 1700 to 1900 page 381 ff where the Oration is reprinted in full. An important aspect of Durfee's deterministic theory of history is that "there is no absolute undefinable popular sovereignty which can in a manner its own and at any moment carry a certain supposed natural equality into social and political life and thereby elevate poor human nature however rude and degraded in condition at once as by a sort of magic into a state of supreme and absolute perfection" quoted by Blau. This is because the advances of science and technology impose conditions upon society which democracy cannot control and to which it must adapt. Blau notes that Durfee's views were influenced by German transcendentalism as mediated by Coleridge and Cousin. Not surprisingly given his skepticism on the efficacy of popular sovereignty Durfee as Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court played a prominent role in opposition to the Dorr forces. Not in American Imprints Bartlett or Parks; Sabin 21427 note. <br/><br/> B. Cranston and Company unknown books
1836638941836. TYSON Job R. DISCOURSE ON THE SUVIVING REMNANT OF THE INDIAN RACE. Delivered on the 24th October 1836 before the Society for Commemorating the Landing of William Penn. Philadelphia: Printed by A. Waldie 1836. First edition. 8vo.: 38 pp. Modern maroon cloth gilt title to spine. Light soiling to cloth with light foxing to opening and closing leaves else clean. Very good plus. Sabin 97645. unknown books
183355435Philadelphia: William Brown printer 1833. Second edition revised same year as the first with a new preface and expanded text; 8vo pp. 105 1 errata; removed from binding wrappers wanting; "duplicate" stamp and adhesion residue on title page title page also clipped at the lower corner; good sound copy. "The history extent and pernicious consequences of that species of gambling" i.e. lotteries. American Imprints 21595 for the first edition of only 48 pages; Sabin 97643. <br/><br/> William Brown, printer unknown books
184740377Providence: Charles Burnett jr. 1847. 8vo 22.5 cm 9". 42 5 1 pp. <br><br>Durfee 17901847 Chief Justice of Rhode Island expounds on "the Rhode-Island Idea of Government" p. 40 and his words were "Published at the request of the Society" title-page. This was first printed in the Journal of the Rhode Island Institute of Instruction Providence: Charles Burnett Jr. 1847 vol. II no. 1.<br>Â Â Â Â But for many of far more interest is the "Poem by Sarah Helen Whitman. Recited before the Rhode-Island Historical Society on the evening of January 13 1847; previous to the delivery of Judge Durfee's discourse" sectional title at rear. Whitman 180378 was variously a poet essayist Transcendentalist spiritualist and romantic interest of Edgar Allan Poe! The author of her page on the Poetry Foundation website characterizes her as "intelligent gifted witty and warm" and says "She was widely read." The fact is she is one of few women given space in the Bibliography of American Literature that bastion of white male authors.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Gift inscription on front wrapper "Jno. McClellan Esq. with the respects of E. Dyer Jr. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â BAL 21359B; Sabin 21425. Yellow printed wrappers. Very good. Charles Burnett, jr. unknown books
187618618Washington D.C.: Printed and Bound at the National Republican Printing House 1876. Original printed wrappers with wrapper title and caption title as issued. Stitched 17pp. Folding map sketch of the area in question. Wrappers moderately worn Good. After his War service in the Union army Barnard settled down to a legal career in Crown Point Indiana. He took on this case after he moved himself and his practice to Washington. His Brief in this case provides a history of the surveys and land ownership of the Northwest corner of Indiana from the inception of statehood in the mid-1830's. FIRST EDITION. Not located on OCLC. Printed and Bound at the National Republican Printing House unknown books
1856M13479New York:: Holman & Gray Steam Printers 1856 1863. 1856. Two papers bound together. 24 cm. 62; 299-351 1 pp. Title inscribed "from the author" . . . "and an essay on cyanosis". Nineteenth century brown cloth; extremities worn; lacks ffep first title gutter with tears to the title. Rubber-stamp on title of the Mercantile Library Assoc. NY. Good minor kozo repairs. Rare. "FROM THE AUTHOR" Smith also wrote A Treatise on the Diseases of Infancy and Childhood. Philadelphia 1869. Cyanosis or "blue disease" is described here in full via the author's 2-part lecture at the New York Academy of Medicine February 18 and March 4 1863. Smith considered the talk statistical as its results are based on the analyses of 191 cases. Within his paper is a detailed history of the literature on the same topic. "It is only just to state that Dr. J. Lewis Smith of New York in his admirable work on Diseases of Infancy and Childhood gives the best consideration of this subject that I have met with among out systematic treatises." -- Frank Woodbury "The Significance of Bloody Discharges from the Bowels in Young Children" JAMA vol. III no. 7 August 1884 p. 180. Smith was born in Spafford NY. His studies took him to the Buffalo Medical School where he interned. Smith graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York 1853. He worked as physician to the Charity Hospital and the NY foundling asylum etc. Ashwal mentions Smith as one of the persons advancing the field of pediatrics which he tells started in the early nineteenth century but also developed more strongly by the middle of the century. Smith was also the second president of the American Pediatric Society the first such organization in the Unites States. -- Ashwal p 120. p. 171. Atkinson Physicians and Surgeons of the United States p. 136. See: Ashwal The Founders of Child Neurology. Cone Thomas E. Jr. History of American pediatrics Little Brown 1980 pp. 103-104. REFERENCES: These works not in Grulee. FFrye C188 Holman & Gray, Steam Printers, 1856, 1863. hardcover books
183617343.2Philadelphia: Printed by A. Waldie 46 Carpenter Street 1836. 1st edition American Imprints 40622; Field 1581; Sabin 97645. Later 19th C. half sheep binding with red marbled paper boards gilt stamped spine lettering. Marbled eps. Modest extremity wear joints a bit rubbed a solid Very Good copy. 38 2 blank pp. 8vo. 9" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/> Printed by A. Waldie, 46 Carpenter Street hardcover books
181054074Baltimore: published by Joseph James 1810. Second edition 12mo; pp. 3 iv-vii 1 2-200; full contemporary mottled calf gilt-paneled spine in 6 compartments red morocco label in 1; joints starting with leaves moderately browned; good and sound. In the 1820s Scott's views became controversial among Quakers and were adopted by the Hicksite faction. First published in 1793 this is only the second American edition. American Imprints 21291. <br/><br/> published by Joseph James unknown books
188328019Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1883. First edition. Removed. A very good copy. xviii 185 pp. 8vo. 47th Congress 2d Session. House of Representatives. Report No. 1863. Examines the false claims of Thomas J. Majors of Nemaha county who was nominated as a contingent representative from Nebraska which claimed that it was underrepresented because there were serious faults with the census of 1870. Majors presented an 1874 census as an 1872 census thus deceiving Congress. Scarce. OCLC shows only a single copy at Georgetown. [Government Printing Office] unknown books
