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The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers from Seeds and Roots

[New York City; Telephone] Sutton, George WBiblio.com

Phoenix Electric Telephone Company. 1894 - 1899

189922050New York: Cameron & Bulkley 1899. Very good condition. Scarce large broadside from an early competitor to the American Telegraph and Telephone Company in New York City AT& T aimed at the independent telephone exchange manager and offering a free trial of the electric telephone patented by the company June 2nd 1896. Alexander Graham Bell made the first long distance phone call on August 10 1876 from his home in Brantford Ontario to his assistant located ten miles away. By 1878 Bell had set up the first telephone exchange in New Haven Connecticut was the home of the first telephone exchange which was established in 1878; connections were made between Boston Massachusetts and New York City by 1884. In 1885 American Telegraph and Telephone Company AT&T was formed; it dominated telephone communications for the next 100 years. Bell employees were instructed to bad mouth the U.S. telephone system to drive down stock prices of its competitors facilitating for Bell's acquisition George W. Sutton an independent inventor is named here both for the development of the Sutton microphone filed April 14 1896 and the Self Restoring drop patent May 17 1898. Sutton one of the best known independent telephone manufacturers in the east installed 100 lines in Columbia South Carolina and 700 each in Poughkeepsie and Newburgh NY. Central panel with offset printed illustrations of standing female nude with light emanating from her hands titled "Electricity Enlightening the World". At the top panel: "To the Independent Exchange manager"; around the central engraving topics include: about telephones in general about transmitters about switchboards self restoring drop patent and cut of calling key. Lower central is a picture of the Phoenix Company headquarters in New York at 93 Washington Street. 22 x 28". Some cracking on folds otherwise very good condition. Not recorded in OCLC. Cameron & Bulkley hardcover

Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints · États-Unis450,00 $US≈ 380,75 €

Martin J SuttonBiblio.com

Permanent and Temporary Pastures: With Descriptions and Coloured Illustrations of Leading Natural Grasses and Clovers

1886993Y13London: Hamilton Adams & Co. 1886. First edition. Cloth. Good. 10" by 7". Not Stated . A beautifully illustrated work on pastures signed and inserted with the author's signed letters. With real samples of grass and clovers collected by contemporary author on livestock J. P. Sheldon. The author's presentation copy of this work with two signed letters bound-in. Also flat-signed by the author to the half title page.First edition.Rebacked with the cloth from the original boards and spine laid down.Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece colour folding plate additional monochrome plate and twenty-three chromolithographic colour plates. Collated complete.This copy particularly charming for its multitude of paraphernalia relating to the book and its author. To the front of the work are both of the author's signed letters - one being a presentation letter dated January 22nd 1886 and the other referring to having sent a copy of Bell's Messenger into which the author's letter on technical education of agriculture implemented into schools. To the second letter is tipped-in a newspaper clipping from Daily News 1891. With a loosely inserted newspaper clipping of Martin Hope Sutton's obituary and a later printed version bound-in. With two slips loosely inserted pressed to which are real gathering of leaves and grass collected by acquaintance and author on dairy farming John Prince Sheldon. To the rear of the work are the publisher's review pamphlet of this work bound-in and an article clipped from The Times dated 22nd December 1905. Two more of Sheldon's extracts inserted to the last two plates.A comprehensive volume on pastures including descriptions of the extension of pastures drainage of grass land cultural preparations sowing grass seeds after-management of new pastures hints on grazing and more followed by a selection of grasses and clovers.Written by Martin J. Sutton based on an essay published in the journal of the Royal Agricultural Society Vol. XXII. Part II written by Martin Hope Sutton author's father. Rebacked with the cloth from the original boards and spine laid down. Externally with damp staining to the lower edges of the boards. Mild rubbing to the extremities and a few other marks to the boards. Internally generally firmly bound. Half title and title leaves are loosening. Pages are bright and generally clean. With offsetting to half title caused by inserted letter. With several tissue-guarded grass and clover extracts inserted to the work. Good Hamilton, Adams, & Co. hardcover

Rooke Books · Royaume-Uni125,00 £GB≈ 142,73 €