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63-6753London: John Boydell ca. 1767. Engraving 20" x 17" with Decorative Border On Paper Mounted on Canvas Good with marginal tears. [London: John Boydell, ca. 1767.] unknown
1957ABC_46260Tel Aviv: Israel Defence Forces General Staff 1957. Folded. 56 x 82.5 cm. Chromolithographic map of the Arabian Peninsula from Turkey in the north to the Indian Ocean in the south and covering Saudi Arabia Egypt Israel Palestine Jordan Syria Lebanon Iraq Iran Kuwait Bahrain Qatar United Arab Emirates Oman North and South Yemen. Scale 1:5000000. Scale and key in Hebrew inset to top-right inset explanatory panels in Hebrew and English compass rose in Saudi Arabia. Extremely rare Israeli strategic map of the Arabian Peninsula showing oilfields and associated infrastructure. Printed in black red and blue the map demarks the political boundaries of the time along with the areas covered by oil companies concessions. Pipelines form a web across the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula shown in an uncommon vertical orientation while oilfields and refineries large and small are also marked. The IDF probably made the map in responce to the 1956 Suez Crisis and its associated geopolitical shifts. With the Egyptians operating the Suez Canal and the USA forcing Britain and France to abandon their post-imperial plans Israel now counted in both U.S. and Soviet plans for their control of Middle Eastern politics. Britain had to anchor its Middle Eastern influence in Cyprus Aden and Iraq while the increased American influence can be seen in the huge swathe of territory assigned to Aramco. We have located only one institutional copy of this map in the National library of Israel.With traces of pins from former wall mounting. A couple of small light stains some uneven creasing and tears at the edges of some folds and a couple tiny holes where the folds cross. Otherwise in good condition. Israel Defence Forces, General Staff, unknown
188250838N.P.: Privately printed n.d. ca 1882. 1882. 9" x 12" sheet folded to 4 panels. A 4-page promotional flyer for the theatrical performance of Grizzly Adams. Grizzly Adams came West in 1849 and forsook the gold mines for life in the Western and California wilderness where he acquired a legendary reputation for hunting grizzly bears and fending off Indians. Cover panel offers title actors manager etc. as well as printed in red ink on the right side front carries the notice "8th Street Theatre - - Grand Opening Week Commencing Monday September 4th" which would most likely have been 1882. The second panel offers a full-page advertisement for Merchant's Gargling Oil the company sponsoring the show. Merchant's Gargling Oil is “a Liniment for Man and Beast" a catch-all salve first produced by George W. Merchant a druggist in 1833. The salve was made up of petroleum soap ammonia water oil of amber iodine tincture benzine and water and supposedly would cure anything . burns scalds scratches foot rot on sheep roup in poultry hemorrhoids toothaches etc. Panel 3 offers general information about the play followed by a synopsis for all three acts. The rear panel offers a full-page woodcut illustration showing Adams on horseback rescuing innocent settlers in the wilderness from Indians. 1 1/2" closed tear to fold and with a 1" closed tear to side panels. Very good. Privately printed, n.d. [ca 1882]. unknown
1865List2532New York: Wm. A. Pond 1865. Folio 13 ½ x 10 ½ inches. Fine condition. Fine. An unusual use of sheet music as satire with the lithographed cover showing a fake stock certificate. The cover - engraved by Major & Knapp - advertises an ownership share in the Spondolix Petroleum company and states that F.B. Helmsmuller who was actually a noted composer was the “Treasurer and General Manager†of the company. This is a particularly fine example of the piece. In our research we found several references to this piece as being a real stock certificate for a real company however this is clearly a parody of the oil business. This was printed in 1865 when the Pennsylvania oil industry was booming and the engraved illustration appears to show a countryside scene in Pennsylvania or somewhere similar. Four copies in OCLC. Wm. A. Pond unknown
19582329Pawhuska Oklahoma: Department of the Interior Osage Indian Agency 1958. Very Good. 8-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches. 8pp including wrappers. Stapled self-wrappers printed in black b&w illustration to front wrapper. Front wrapper toned; corner creased. Postmarked auction catalog for oil and gas leases on Osage tribal land. Such auctions were a regular occurrence dating back until at least the 1920s and regular netted millions of dollars for the Osage tribe. Nevertheless these auction catalogs appear to be quite scarce with only one from 1921 located in OCLC. Department of the Interior, Osage Indian Agency unknown
19014229N.p. 1901. About very good. 12pp. Original printed wrappers stapled. Minor edge wear. Light toning and dust soiling. Scarce promotional for this early 20th-century New Mexico oil venture. The text contains an amusing if dangerous sounding origin story for the company in which the founding officer ignites a brook covered in a "peculiar scum" and spooks his horse. The remainder of the text contains the usual inducements to invest including various descriptions statistics analyses and endorsements. The first commercial well in New Mexico was drilled in the early twenties and we find little additional information on the Eureka Oil Company. One other copy located at SMU. unknown
192556537Chicago IL & La Crosse WI: Standard Oil Company Indiana; Stanolind Record 1925-1929. Two vols. 1st - 4to. 9 x 11.5 in. Approx 120 leaves many added leaves over numbering. mimeographed sheets throughout w/ text illustrations diagrams and decorative lettering with 15 sample sales brochures & catalogues most 12mo. & 16mo. w/ 4 to 24 pp. most illustrated several printed in colour inks and all retaining their original covers carefully tipped-in to their respective sections. Three-quarter black cloth over gray boards post-binder brass split-pin posts at gutter margin occasional minor creasing to a few corners light interior toning still VG copy; together with 2nd -- 8vo. 72 pp. Numerous photo & text illustrations. Colour-illustrated softcovers bound into simulated black calf gilt lettering stamped on front cover rounded corners minor shelfwear rubbing still VG copies of both from the library of Andrew Edward MacMeekin 1884-1949 who was the purchasing manager for Standard Oil of Indiana at the main offices in Chicago IL from before World War I to his death w/ his ownership stamp on front cover of the Stanolind vol. First editions of these very scarce Standard Oil Company Indiana sales publications by one of the independent oil companies to emerge after the breakup of Standard Oil in 1911. Standard Oil Indiana pioneered the “cracking†process for refining crude oil under pressure resulting in far higher yields of gasoline and the many byproducts and by the mid-1920s was the third largest oil refiner in the U.S. behind Standard Oil New Jersey and Standard Oil California. This very scarce salesman’s advertising manual was created for distribution around the time that Standard Indiana had merged with the American Oil Co. Amoco and was looking to streamline both their purchasing and marketing pitches to service stations wholesalers and jobbers. The manual continually extolls the product diversity and reach of the Standard Indiana Company with Sinclair Dixie Pan-American Petroleum and Midwest Refining as subsidiaries the extensive fleet of oil tankers railroad tank cars and chain of service stations. The splendid sample catalogues encompass a range of styles and products including Red Crown gasoline featuring an Art Deco cover of a Standard Oil service station; the high octane Red crown Gasoline; Neolite kerosene for more efficiently and economically raising poultry; competing motor oils of Iso-Vis and Polarine designed for Ford engines; as well as Mica Axle Grease used to coat hog scratching poles; Merusol Petrolatum White petrolatum used as a non-stick coating for bakeries and with a number of “medical†applications as well or the KIP insecticide used for everything from ants and flies to bed bugs and mosquitoes. Also included are customer sales letters sample thank you letters sales goals tips and more. The second volume focuses on an extended article by MacMeekin on the Standard Indiana purchasing department which at the end of the 1920s was spending over $ 50 million a year on 14000 different items ranging from rare Asian flowers to wax from the head of whales pins by the ton locomotives and everything else to fuel the massive oil company. Detailed list of tipped-in catalogues available upon request. No copies located in Worldcat for Sales Manual very incomplete runs and records for holdings of Stanolind Record BP Archive appears to have an issue as well as Univ. of Illinois but incomplete records and run; See: Mark Wilson Stephen Porter Janice Reiff Standard Oil Company Indiana Dictionary of Leading Chicago Businesses 1820-2000. Standard Oil Company (Indiana); Stanolind Record, paperback
1948L2EG76GNBQ6GLondon: Brettenhem house 1948. Later cardboard binder. 30 x 23.5 cm. With many reproductions of photographs ground plans maps and cross-sections. Extract from the periodical The Petroleum Times containing an extensive article on oil in the Middle East. It opens with a list of Middle East oil companies and their concessions accompanied by a map showing their oil fields followed by a section on the future of Middle East oil. Individual chapters are devoted to the oil industry in Iran Iraq Bahrein Saudi Arabia Haifa Israel and Kuwait describing the area's geology oil fields reservoirs and more illustrated with photographs and cross-sections of the soil. The first 25 and last 16 pages consist of advertisements. Lacking the first 4 leaves of the preliminaries probably advertisements but the article itself complete some leaves slightly creased otherwise in very good condition. Brettenhem house, unknown
195952165Vancouver BC: Shell Oil of British Columbia On-The-Spot-Photographers Williams Brothers Feb. 1 1959. 4to. 44 pp unpaginated 12 pages on bonded paper w/ signatures 32 pages of two-sided mylar sleeves with white & black paper inserts for photographs with 76 original and studio photographs inserted into sleeves sized from 2.5 x 2.5 in. up to 8 x 10 in. nearly all originally glued with adhesive to backing papers but now just laid-in to mylar sleeves a few w/ photographer’s stamps on versos. Original tweed-patterned white vinyl padded 20-ring binder engraved silver plate mounted lower front corner minor soiling shelfwear thumbing to covers occasional creasing on some of the images glue offsetting on paper backing leaves behind the photos still a VG exemplar. This remarkable souvenir photo album documents the safety efforts and operations of the Shell Oil Shellburn Oil Refinery located on Burrard Inlet in British Columbia. Shell’s original refinery was constructed in 1932 but by the end of World War II the Canadian economy’s demands for oil products resulted in a substantial expansion which added thermal cracking distillation stabilization U.O.P. catalytic polymerization of stabilizer overhead gas gasoline refining and gasoline sweetening units. The refinery applied a number of new refining techniques perfected during the war to produce high-grade gasoline from high-pour waxy straight-run residue. Gardiner worked not only as public relations and safety inspector for the refinery but also as petroleum engineer. The album begins with large photo by W.T. Davis & F.B. Hughes of On-the-Spot Photographers with Gardiner showing three young girls the details on an oil refinery model which had been developed by Shell and Standard Oil of California in order to promote interest in the petroleum industry. This is then followed by birds-eye images of the refinery operating on the Burrard Inlet in the 1950s earlier images before and after expansion after World War II executive offices oil workers in frigid temperatures with icicles hanging off the equipment in the background large Shell Oil safety sign recording how many days since last industrial accident in the refinery in 1954 as well as awards ceremonies and banquets. Of interest is a particularly nice image towards the end of a Shell Oil Executive fronted with large Shell advertising sign and behind large architectural rendering of 1950s Shell service station with signage and Shell Oil tanker pulling into the station. A few of the photographs were by Donn and Warner Williams the Williams Brothers who served as aerial photographers in the R.C.A.F. during World War II and then established their Williams Bros. Ltd. Commercial Photo lab in 1948 in Vancouver BC. On-the-Spot Photographers operated by W.T. Davis and F.B. Hughes from 1945-1955 maintained studios at 520 Sixth Ave. and later 2124 London St. in New Westminster British Columbia. See; Shell Canada Shellburn Refinery Construction Projects Fluor; Rick Erickson Williams Brothers Mining Fishing Logging Thru the Trapdoor Exhibition 2014; Jim Wolf Royal City: A Photographic History of New Westminster 1858-1960 pp. 174 184 191. Shell Oil of British Columbia, On-The-Spot-Photographers, Williams Brothers], unknown
99301The Public Catalogue Foundation London. 2012. First edition. The Public Catalogue Foundation London. 2012. Quarto hardback with dust-wrapper. xvi 348 pages. Colour reproductions throughout. Index of Artists. Very clean and sound; a rather lovely volume. hardcover
1922303664Bakersfield California Kern County Chamber of Commerce 1922. 1922. 6 panel folding brochure. Illustrated with 10 halftones and one map. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. Includes information on oil and gas wells farming irrigation gold and silver. Rocq 2431 - located only 1 copy. No Binding. Very Good. Bakersfield, California, Kern County Chamber of Commerce [1922]. unknown
1923L2FB7C8EALK3London: His Majesty's stationery office 1923. Contemporary red cloth paper title-label on spine. 6 works in 1 volume. Compilation of publications on the worldwide resources of gypsum strontium molybdenum silver and "petroleum and allied products" and its mining industry in the period 1913-1919. Written two decades before the discovery of oil the Middle East the last and longest publication describes an almost unrecognizable oil production. "It will be noted that the United States and Mexico together produced over 87 per cent. of the world's output in 1921 " p. 13. Under the header "Arabia" follows one of the shortest descriptions only stating that "Indications of oil are known on the Farsan Islands in the Red Sea where drilling has been unsuccessful. On the Persian Gulf coast of Arabia indications of oil occur in the neighbourhood of Basra and near Koweit. A deposit of asphalt is known on Bahrein Island" p. 185.With the spine slightly discoloured and the front hinge somewhat worn; a very good copy. His Majesty's stationery office, hardcover
1950112102Hobart: H.H. Pimblett Government Printer 1950. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Hobart H.H. Pimblett Government Printer 1950. Octavo vi last blank 214 pages with several tables plus 2 large folding maps a map of Tasmania and one of the Latrobe-Quamby Bluff Shale Oil Fields. Wrappers slightly creased and lightly marked at the rear; tiny tape repair to the stub of one map; slight crease to the blank bottom corner of most leaves; an excellent copy. Tasmanian Department of Mines Geological Survey Mineral Resources Number 8 Volume 2. H.H. Pimblett, Government Printer paperback
1931112099Canberra: H.J. Green Government Printer 1931. Fine. Canberra H.J. Green Government Printer 1931. Foolscap folio 118 pages with the last 18 pages containing 36 plates from photographs. Stapled through the left-hand margins with a plain rear cover of thin card as issued; a fine copy. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 161 of 1929-30-31; one of 830 copies printed. The author was 'Geological Adviser to the Commonwealth Government'. H.J. Green, Government Printer unknown
1970ABC_50132Iran 1970. The collection is housed in a plastic file folder with each photograph also separately kept in a plastic folder. Various sizes. With 10 photographs. Collection of ten beautiful press photographs of the oil industry in Abadan Iran which was home to the largest oil refinery in the world at the time these photographs were taken. They show various parts of the industry such as the oil refinery oil tankers pipelines and fire department. The photographs were take by various French and German news agencies.With the stamps of various French and German news agencies on the back of each photograph. Some of the photographs are slightly creased. Otherwise in good condition. unknown
35286Towanga: Urell Photo n.d. Photograph. Good. Photograph. Approx. 11" x 9" matted photograph. Edge wear to the board. This photograph is undated. Presumably this photograph was taking at one of the buildings at Oil Hill Kansas during the oil boom in Kansas in the first half of the 20th century. Written in small white letters at the bottom of the photograph are the words - "Urell Photo Towanga sp." <br /> <br /> From wikepedia: The community was formed during the oil boom in Butler County.2 A post office was established in Oil Hill in 1917 and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1958.3 The community no longer exists and is considered a ghost town.4. Urell Photo unknown
19343798<p>This delightful pictorial map focusing on the North Pacific Ocean was distributed as a premium in connection with the syndicated radio program "Air Adventures of Jimmie Allen." The program featuring Jimmie Allen as an adventurous 16-year old pilot ran from 1933 to 1937 and from 1946 to 1947 and was sponsored initially by the Skelly Oil Company.</p><p>Background on the show appears on the Radio Days Theater of the Mind Museum website http://radiodaysmuseum.org<strong>:</strong></p><p><strong>"Broadcast History:</strong> 1933 to 1937 and 1946 to 1947.</p><p>The writers of Jimmie Allen had been flying aces in World War I. They came up with the idea of a show about a boy pilot while at a party in Kansas City and used their experience as pilots to create and write the show.</p><p>The show was one of the first to capitalize on the idea of a club as a promotional tool. To join the Jimmie Allen Flying Club all a child had to do was apply at any Skelly Gas Station the initial sponsor. As a member the child received a whole host of goodies ranging from a set of wings through to a "personal" letter from Jimmie himself. An incredible 600000 club newspapers were sent out to children each week and many thousands attended the Jimmie Allen Air Races that were held in Midwest cities.</p><p>The show was first broadcast between 1933 and 1937 and then came back to the air with brand new stories after the war between 1946 and 1947. The post-war stint in no way lived up to the fascination for the show in the 1930s."</p><p>http://radiodaysmuseum.org/index.php/our-collection-1/2-old-time-radio-shows/7-juvenile/265-air-adventures-of-jimmie-allen-the</p><p>An uncommon map.</p><p><strong>References:</strong> David Rumsey Map Collection: List no. 11105.001. No examples on OCLC.</p><p><strong>Condition: </strong> Two vertical fold lines which may have been partially separated. Mounted on backing board. Very good.</p><p>ICN 7719.3</p> Skelly Oil Co.
1977ABC_47947Baghdad: Ministry of Oil 1977. Original sturdy plastic case. Oblong 10 x 23 cm. With photographic illustrations all postcards are printed in colour. Remarkable complete set of 14 postcards published by the Iraqi Ministry of Oil to celebrate the flourishing petroleum industry and probably its nationalisation in 1972. The first 2 postcards show the building of the ministry and the official state portraits of then President of Iraq Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr 1914-1982 and Vice Chairman Saddam Hussein 1937-2003. The remaining 12 postcards are each printed for a different month of the year and show various aspects of the Iraqi petroleum industry including the Al-Bakr deep water terminal renamed in 2003 to Al-Basah oil terminal the Al-Khalida oil products tanker the degassing station at North Rumaila oil field the eternal fire near Kirkuk which was the first oil field found in Iraq and the Haditha-Rumaila pipeline which was newly built at the time.With a small crack in one of the sides of the sturdy plastic case. The first and last card in the set are slightly creased. Otherwise in very good condition. Ministry of Oil, unknown
18848935Binghamton N.Y.: Binghamton Oil Refining Co 1884. Booklet stapled in wrappers 17 x 11.5 cm. 48 pages. Illustrated. Advertisements. Title from cover. Date from testimonials in text. FIRST EDITION. A product book advertising a patent medicines offered by the Binghamton Oil Refining Company with cures for various poisons and other ailments as well as testimonials and some culinary recipes. "Gives the exact dose of leading medicines. Furnishes reliable prescriptions and treatment for numerous diseases of man and beast and many caluable recipes for a great variety of useful articles". Includes advertisements for the Fire Proof Farm Engine with the Shapley Sparkless Boiler sold at Shapley & Wells Binghamton and Practical Poultry Keeping by C. M. T. Johnson Binghamton. An interesting woodcut depicting an oil field and the Petrolina shack graces the front wrapper panel and in a larger form the rear panel. A crease from folding runs vertically through the booklet. Some light spotting to the wrapper and a very small chip from the edge of the rear panel. Very good. OCLC locates four copies. Binghamton Oil Refining Co unknown
1929143194Melbourne: The Shell Company of Australia 1929. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Melbourne The Shell Company of Australia 1929. Octavo 48 pages with numerous illustrations many in colour. Saddle-stapled colour pictorial card covers a little sunned and rubbed; an excellent copy. Intended to promote motor tourism in Australia. Offered together with a companion volume in the same series: 'Australian Birds' The Shell Company Limited 1930; 64 pages with numerous illustrations many in colour; card covers a little worn and marked; in very good condition. The latter publication was produced using materials and photographs the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union. 2 items. The Shell Company of Australia paperback
194113424New York: Harcourt Brace & Co 1941. First Edition. Octavo 21cm. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 570p. A few small spots to backstrip; mild rubbing to bottom edges of boards else Near Fine. In original dustjacket unclipped but with light overall rubbing and a brief ca 3/4" closed tear to upper margin of rear panel. A very good copy overall. A novel of the Texas oil industry. Somewhat uncommon especially in jacket; this a solid and attractive copy. Harcourt, Brace & Co unknown
1902106482<p>Rectangular 8vo 9½x5¼" pamphlet 1 11 leaves printed on rectos only original brown paper wrappers red ribbon tie at top. A little normal aging but otherwise near fine. This is an early Standard Oil piece that appears to be designed to promote the stock which according to this brochure consisted of only 2500000 shares. At the time of publication the par value was only $1 per share. The brochure discusses various oil field potential and on the inside back cover is a "no wild cat" illustration hyping the stock. This was printed well before the 1911 breakup of the company for violating the "Sherman Antitrust Act." A wonderful piece of corporate memorabilia. OCLC locates only a single copy at the University of Wyoming.</p>
193644218N.P.: 1936. 1936. 28" x 24" sheet folded to 24 panels. 2 bright colorful cover panels showing a woman at the wheel of a car the wind blowing through her hair. 8" x 5 3/4" map of Yosemite National Park 4" x 5 1/4" map of Boulder Dam and Vicinity and 4" x 5 1/4" map of Reno all Copyrighted by the H.M. Gousha Company;mileage chart. 6-panel 1936 map of the United States showing routes national parks and monuments cities etc. Opposite 12 panels offers a 1936 Road Map of Nevada showing roads cities roads under construction lakes etc. along with part of California. Down side edges is a listing of cities and their locations on the map. Wear to folds and with tiny hole to one fold. Very good. 1936. unknown
193841619Chicago: Lou Fox 1938. 1938. Approximately 8" x 6" bright colorful boards in the shape of a revolver and showing an illustration of an elf-like creature snapping his fingers and with the name "Snappy" on his hat. Printed in Red and blue. In order to use this toy gun the child would hold the grip of the revolver place his finger in trigger hole and swing downward quickly. A paper flap would come out of the muzzle of the gun making a loud pop. On this particular paper popper the paper flap shows "Starts Just Like That!" Lightly soiled and with light wear to the extremities. Very good. Lou Fox, 1938. hardcover
192012758Fort Worth: Standard Blue Print Map & Eng. Co 1920. Very good. Folding map 25.75 x 25.75 inches on thin paper. Old folds minor edge wear several short closed edge tears a couple of small areas of loss at crossfolds. Overall good condition and a wonderful display item. A rare and detailed Texas oil map produced by a Fort Worth firm just after World War I and here present in the larger 25-x-25-inch issue advertised in the promotional text on the map itself. The map shows the distribution of oil wells and derricks across the Lone Star State in 1920 prints the names of the most prominent oil fields and lists the names of Texas counties along with the oil companies active in each county. The map also shows the types of soil and rock deposits encountered throughout Texas counties with a legend of abbreviations for each at bottom right. The area of the map is crowded in places but still quite attractive and legible and is a good encapsulation of the rapidly developing oil industry in Texas at the time. Contemporary advertisements for the publisher of this map Standard Blue Print Map and Engineering promote the availability of over 200 oil maps of Texas Oklahoma New Mexico Louisiana and Arkansas from the firm. A rare map rarer still in this larger size; we locate just two copies at SMU one issued with a slightly later "May 1920" copyright notice with a larger "photocopy" reported at Denver Public Library and the Colorado School of Mines. Standard Blue Print Map & Eng. Co unknown
