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186088DGo.J. (um 1860). Öl auf Leinwand. Bildformat: 78 x 59 cm. + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden +, Abb.
186088DGo.J. (um 1860). Öl auf Leinwand. Bildformat: 78 x 59 cm.
1990231849PN. New. 1990. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition . PN paperback
200 pages. Index. Many reproductions of black and white photos. "Deals with tugs, scows and barges and the tug and barge companies in the Fraser River and along the coast, trailer barge traffic, the aggregates and cement industries and their fleets, dredging and marine construction, the oil tankers and distribution, and explosives and chemical transportation. It looks at old and new industries and their transportation solutions." - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Book
53620BBo.J. Leo Assenmacher, geboren 1904 in Düsseldorf, gestorben 1981 ebenda. [3 Warenabbildungen]
1947812CG1947. Oel auf Leinwand. Bildausschnitt: 58 x 71,5 cm. + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden +, Abb.
1947812CG1947. Oel auf Leinwand. Bildausschnitt: 58 x 71,5 cm.
544 pages. Bibliography. References. Index. "What this book purports to do is to furnish replies, naming names and quoting book, chapter and verse, to two blunt questions: Who owns and controls the large fortunes of today, and how are these fortunes used?" - from Foreward. Gift greetings and whited out details upon front free endpaper. Average soiling and wear to book. Pages moderately yellowed with age. Dust jacket heavily worn. Book
80 pages. Features: Vincent van Gogh; "My Friend Stephen" - oil painting by Jerry Farnsworth; John Averill - illustrator with a whimsical pen; The Weathervane - painting in the U.S. 1949; How to become a Michelangelo; American Furniture Design; Roger Duvoisin; The Hurst Page; "Grandma and Baroque" a caseine painting by Jacob Getlar Smith; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
36 pages. Features: Lewis Daniel Illustrates "Leaves of Grass"; To Standardize Oil Paints for Artists; Perspective (part 5); "fgc" or Fred Cooper; Phil Dike Captures the Scale of the West; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
84 pages. Features: George A. Magnan, Painter of Arizona; The Realism of Robert Weaver; The Sketchbooks of Robert Conlan; The Sculpture of Donal Hord; Oil Landscape by Sotaro Yasui; Your Sable brushes in oil painting; Alfred Khouri; A New Mural Technique - by Stanley Kaplan; and more. A worthy reference copy. Book
64 pages. Features: Spruce for Tomorrow's Paper - Can the Pulp and Paper Industry of the Northeast Survive? - with good photos; The Oldest Cultivated Trees in the World - Cypress Arches of Chapultepec Park, or the Bosque de Chapultepec, on the outskirts of Mexico City - with photos; Redwood Burls - by Emanuel Fritz - article with photos; The Forest and the Great Stone Face, by Allen Hollis; The Barred Door - by W.N. Craigie; Uncle Sam's First Timber Sale - near the quaint village of Nemo, South Dakota - with nice photos; Canada and the Migratory Bird Treaty; Don's Christmas Adventure - a story by Erle Kauffman; Shapshots of European Forests - In a Fir Forest of France - article with photos by John D. Guthrie; A Plea for the Forests - by Hon. John Q. Tilson; Planting Woodland Gardens - by J. Farnworth Anderson; A Man and a Mountain - Lije Coalman and Mount Hood, by Ethel Romig Fuller; Wasting Fortunes fo Make Fortunes - Guy Elliott Mitchell explains how vast quantities of Natural Gas are wasted in the search for oil - great photos including an an amazing shot of a forest of derricks in California; A Tale of a Bunny the Woodchuck - by C.H. McDonald; Nice two-color ad for the Pacific Pumper manufactured by Pacific Marine Supply Company of Seattle; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
128 pages. Features: Greatest Subversive Plot in History - documented evidence of a malignant UNESCO plot against the future of this country's children and their children; Ruinous Public Debt - cannot exist for long with perpetual debt; Opposition to Law and Order - the ACLU and the establishment of Police Review Boards; America Exploited in the Name of Humanity; The Challenge of World Conflict - a reappraisal of America's future and manifest destiny; The American Dream; Oh! What a Night - prevent tossing and turning at night; Music - soothing, sedative, and savage - Science confirms certain music can be dangerous and may contribute to juvenile delinquency ; Bumper Crop of Trees - after 20 years tree farming is winning public appreciation; A Key to Communist Semantics - the Canadian Intelligence Service explains how Communists have a double-talk vocabulary designed to mislead and confuse; Worse than Chain Letters - the same principle underlies Urban Renewal; American Textiles in Trouble - suffering from weird policies of foreign aid and trade; Educational Hierarchies - public schools have almost as many administrators as teachers; Had TV Trouble Lately? - watch out for shifty TV repairmen; Sovit Oil - Fuel for the Fires of Communism; Economic Integrity - by Hon. Harry F. Byrd; Materialism - The Devil's Delusion; Theft by Confiscation - Communism is merely the takeover of government by a political oligarchy - as in Russia - or by a banking oligarchy; Your Voice Reveals Personality; Scientific Socialism - Bunk; and more. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy bearing the address label of noted Madison, WI architect William Kaeser. Book
132 pages. Features: It is Happening Here - Current Misconceptions about Communism, by Revilo Oliver; Lincoln's Greatness - 1865; Are Churchmen Burying Us?; Thunder Frightens - Lightning Kills - The Soviet Union and Psychological Warfare; African Witches' Brew Concocted in Moscow - by Major George R. Jordan, author of "From Major Jordan's Diaries"; The Smut Racket Must Be Stopped - "The most infectious point of the disease is the family mailbox. It is here that so much of the pornographical sewage is dumped into the hands of so many of our children"; Let's Take a Look at the Good Guy; "From Your Valentine"; They Make Earthquakes - using seismic technology to find oil; Is Cultural Diplomacy the Road to Peace?; Hollywood Makes Me Laugh - M.J.R. Arthur's journey to the Panamanian jungle; From Religious Rite to Billion-Dollar Business - the origin of the popular pastime of bowling may astonish you; Alcoholism - a major problem; Slave Labor - USSR; What Kind of "Tic" Do You Have?; Foreign Aid Summary; Subjection... Disguised as Rebellion - progress that veers left tends toward subjection; research is Risky Business; We Adopted Two Orphans - Madeline Angell and two squirrels; Socialism by Default; Food for Peace and the UN; Benefit Program; The Administrative Agency Colossus - how laws are made and perverted with neither Congressional action nor judicial review; Guard Our Youth; A Growing Indignation - distrust and resentment to decisions from the Supreme Court; That Temporary Act - enacted as an emergency 26 years ago the TAA has been a millstone around the neck of U.S. industry; How to Win a War; and more. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy bearing the address label of noted Madison, WI architect William Kaeser. Book
60631BBo.J. [3 Warenabbildungen] (Petra Petitpierre, geborene Frieda Kessinger, geboren am 13. Mai 1905 in Zürich, gestorben am 23. Dezember 1959 in Murt
851ALS. ALS. 2pg. 4 " x 7". Feb 1867. Plank Road. An autograph letter signed "Wm H Ostrander" concerning early oil exploration. He wrote to J.E. Lipe: "Sir thinking that you would like to here from me I will drop you a few lines I have my Stone oil the ground so you see I am busy. I have drawed sixty five lodes of stone and will begin to build as soon as the wether sic will admit. John you put any money in an oil well our friend Lathrip has got a lot at Patrolia in Caniday and want to sink a well it is with in Six rods of the flowind sic well at Patrolia that flowes 400 barrels a day and there is no other well near it he thinks a shure sic thing or with very little risk and if he fails is willing to give the company the machinery witch sic is worth a portion of it he divides it in six shares at $500 each you can take a share or a portion of it do as you please. I will try a little for luck if you will take if you will take a share or a portion of it let me know immediately I think that will make the rich come try a little John for luck Mr Lathrip is all right. ". The letter has a light and small stain and is in fine condition unknown
851ALS. 2pg. 4 ½" x 7". Feb 1867. Plank Road. An autograph letter signed "Wm H Ostrander" concerning early oil exploration. He wrote to J.E. Lipe: "Sir thinking that you would like to here from me I will drop you a few lines I have my Stone oil the ground so you see I am busy. I have drawed sixty five lodes of stone and will begin to build as soon as the wether sic will admit. John you put any money in an oil well our friend Lathrip has got a lot at Patrolia in Caniday and want to sink a well it is with in Six rods of the flowind sic well at Patrolia that flowes 400 barrels a day and there is no other well near it he thinks a shure sic thing or with very little risk and if he fails is willing to give the company the machinery witch sic is worth a portion of it he divides it in six shares at $500 each you can take a share or a portion of it do as you please. I will try a little for luck if you will take if you will take a share or a portion of it let me know immediately I think that will make the rich come try a little John for luck Mr Lathrip is all right. ". The letter has a light and small stain and is in fine condition unknown books
First edition, 8vo (220 x 135 mm), [4], vii, [1], 76, [4]pp., stamp of the "Royal Veterinary College" on title and on E6, with notes and errata on verso of A2, some minor foxing on 6 leaves, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, upper joint cracked, title in gilt to spine. Includes chapters on "The Natural History of Barbadoes", "The Chemical Characters of the Mineral Oils of Barbadoes" and "Medical Properties of the Barbadoes Mineral Oil". Provenance: Early ownership signature of James B. Simonds to front flyleaf. COPAC finds the Bodleian Library copy only.
192549705Pittsburgh PA & Port Arthur TX: Gulf Refining Co. ca. 1925. Folio. 11.5 x 14.25 in. 5 large oversize folding leaves of typed descriptions measurements specifications; mounted 7 linen-backed photo leaves 2 folding -- w/ 39 images printed on 34 silver gelatin photos. Original split-pin post-binder blue silk red cloth corners brass split pins minor edgewear rubbing minor fraying to corners first typed leaf w/ creasing minor closed tears still a VG exemplar from the library of John W. Jackson former Marketing & Sales executive with Gulf Oil Corporation Tulsa OK. This spectacular packaging catalogue for Gulf Oil Company petroleum products in the 1920s provides an incomparable photographic reference for all of the available products their dimensions sizes specific directions about tin lithograph colours as well as the cardboard and wooden shipping crates. Gulf Oil Corporation was initially organized in May 1901 by J.M. Guffy Andrew W. Mellon and others. By 1907 they had built a 400-mile pipeline from Port Arthur to the Glenn Pool Field in Oklahoma and started refining Oklahoma crude by 1907. By the 1920s this integrated Oil Company had built service stations across the country sold Good Gulf Gasoline and actively promoted automobile travel with Gulf Maps marketing promotions and more. This catalogue begins with photos of 1 5 10 and 25 lb. tins of Gulf Supreme Grease Transmission Grease Red Top Axle Grease Gulf Petrol-atum Gulf High Pressure Grease and Gulf Lubricant with all of the product tins carefully sized by stack showing their side graphics sizes lids and lid configurations. The oil cans include Tractor Oil Auto Oil Harvester Oil Gulf Motorcycle Oil small illustration of 1920s era motorcycle with Gulf Logo and even the blank tin soldered cans of assorted sizes. Of particular interest are the images of all the specialty products Gulf Oil was marketing during the Flapper Era including Venom pesticide & bug killer in glass bottles with screw-top tin lids & corks; Gulf Gas-o-Clenz cans in 1/2 pint 1 pint 1 quart and 1 gallon sizes; Gulf Gleam Cans Gulf Jelly Clens tubes Gulf Grease tubes and more. The last group of photos show all of the varieties of Gulf Venom Jelly-Clenz Gulf Pressure Grease Gulf Gleam cardboard and wooden packaging complete with printed labels lithograph labels Venom hand-sprayers and packaging and crates in assorted sizes and amounts. These types of photographic sales catalogues for the Petroleum industry are quite scarce and often unique items. Gulf Refining Co., hardcover
192996057n.p. 1929. Very Good. 8p. document with second and eight page left blank. 28 cm. Two light horizontal folds. A few edge chips; otherwise generally sound and clean. John D. Rockefeller Jr. wanted to replace Robert W. Stewart as Chairman of the Board at least partly because of Stewart's suspected involvement in the Continental Trading scandal. Stewart resisted. This document was sent to shareholder's to support Stewart's retention. A majority of the the company's 58000 individual stockholders supported Stewart but Rockefeller prevailed with support from many of the major shareholders at the annual meeting held on March 7 1929 at the company's annual meeting in Whiting Indiana. We don't know what Stewart did after losing his position at Standard Oil Company Indiana unknown
25 pages. Presents information in tabular format. Topics include: Quebec Peat Bogs; Ontario Peat Bogs; Miscellaneous Samples including coal, briquettes from organic city refuse, anthracite, oil shale and natural gas. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Sound copy. Book
68 pages. Presents data in tabular form. Documents 22 Alberta Coal Field regions, Alberta Natural Gas, Alberta Oil and Northwest Territories Oil. Average wear. Binding intact. Writing atop front cover. Sound copy. Book
15 pages. Documents Manitoba Peat Bogs, Saskatchewan Coal Fields and Saskatchwan Oil shale. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Staple-bound. 10 1/4"w x 13 3/4"h. 40 pages. No date shown; circa 1962.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Staple-bound. 10 1/4"w x 13 3/4"h. 40 pages. No date shown; circa 1962. Edge wear and tears to cover.