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19009733Oshkosh Wisconsin 1900. Hardcover. Near fine. Tall 8vo. 229 pages many illustrations of various products. Black and white photo illustrations of the "Home of the Thompson Oil and Supply Co." and the "Thompson Oil and Supply Co's. Filling station. -- Binding slightly bowed. No other notable defects. hardcover
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
1860825CG(um 1860). Chromolithographie hinter Glas. Bildausschnitt: 28,5 x 39 cm. + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden +, Abb.
1845fremont1845house<p>First House edition of this famous report. 1845. Complete in original binding except for the gigantic map which is available in full size color thick glossy paper professional reproduction $25 extra if desired. Pagination: 583 pages 22 plates 4 maps all blanks present. Includes fascinating pencil diagram of oil rig on back of map. Oil rig drawing titled "Sheffield Oil Company. Warren Co. Pa." That pencil drawing is the only interior writing or ownership marking anywhere in the book. Condition is a mixed bag. Original half leather marbled boards show heavy wear and looks like they were professionally rehinged in the distant past. Binding is sound. Pages show moderate to heavy toning and foxing. Some plates have weird 'dot' foxing I have never seen elsewhere see scan. Marbled endpapers. A nice well maintained copy suitable for reading and research with a cool drawing. Howes F372; Wagner-Camp 115:2; Graff 1436. House Doc. No. 166. Feel free to inquire. Please see scans of the book you will receive. Note: the large map published in 1845 was the road map people used in the gold rush of 1849. It was routinely extracted hence its rare nature. Map is 52 x 32 inches. Furthermore I do not believe map was issued with all House editions which contributes even more to its scarcity. Map is sufficiently large that if it had ever been present there would be evidence of removal. No evidence it was ever in this volume.</p> House of Representatives. Blair and Rives. hardcover
1900003482Washington: Government Printing Office 1900. Very Good condition. Cover lightly rubbed else clean square and unmarked. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. No foxing. Pages are fresh and crisp. Bound in the original green cloth with decorations in blind on the front and rear covers. Gilt lettering on the spine is still bright and shiny. This thick heavy book is in 2 parts. Part I contains the Report of the Commission; Review of Evidence; Charts Showing Effects of Combinations on Prices; Topical Digest of Evidence; Index of Digest. Part II features testimony on trusts/combinations in various industries: sugar whisky oil tin steel silver etc. Some 540 pages are filled with testimony concerning the Standard Oil Company by John D. Rockefeller his would-be competitors etc. Oversize Hardcover. This thick heavy book will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments but only the standard charge for media mail. . First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Very Good condition. 264pp. 1325pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Government Printing Office Hardcover
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
1860250325Petroleum Centre 1860. Vintage albumen print rounded at top corners mounted on card captioned in pen beneath image. 1 vols. Image: 10 x 13 3/8 in. Image lightly faded some surface abrasion mount soiled and worn. Vintage albumen print rounded at top corners mounted on card captioned in pen beneath image. 1 vols. Image: 10 x 13 3/8 in. Vintage albumen print of Petroleum Centre Pennsylvania with Oil Creek in the foreground with a few scattered derricks and the town proper on the far bank. Petroleum Centre sprang up in 1861 with the birth of the oil industry in western Pennsylvannia. By 1873 the town was nearly deserted; it is now part of Oil Creek State Park. unknown
1896SCUtrVAC40Rochester NY: c1896. 1896. 12mo. pp. 39. original cloth upper portion of covers bit spotted light foxing crease marks to corner of several leaves. Hardcover. Rochester, NY: [c1896]. Hardcover
1900233951900. Turn-of-the-century Japan photo archive documenting foreign commercial travel oil and mining activity rural labor and domestic life during the late Meiji era when Japan was rapidly building railways mines refineries modern ports and industrial companies after the 1868 Meiji Restoration. The material appears connected to a Western man and his family moving through Japan in connection with oil extraction or related industrial work with repeated views of derricks refinery sites pipe trenches miners labor crews interpreters servants hotels villages and named regional destinations. Images show various scenes throughout northern Japan such as Hokkaido settlements Sapporo gatherings Naoetsu refinery work Nara and coastal travel household service and encounters between foreign visitors and Japanese workers at a time when foreign technical knowledge and Japanese state-backed industrial growth were reshaping the country.<br /> <br /> Photo archive of more than 150 photographs including approximately 6 cyanotypes and numerous silver gelatin and albumen photographs sizes range between 2" x 3.5" to 4" x 6" Japan circa late 1890s to early 1900s. Nearly every image bears a handwritten caption en verso identifying places people professions work scenes and social relationships. Captions include "Launching conveying pipe to and from steamship Corea Yokohama" "Refinery location Naoetsu Japan" "Celebrating the fall of Mukden Sapporo Mar. 21st 1905" "Crowd at Naoetsu Hotel" "Working on foundation for refinery Naoetsu" "Digging a great ditch for drain pipe from refinery to ocean" "Drillers and visitors" "Japanese servants at home in the bamboo grove" "Old American Naval Hospital" and "Mines & Smelters Sumitake Hotel Omori Japan." Workers dig trenches handle pipe gather beside derricks and refinery structures pose at mine entrances stand near kilns and industrial yards and move through villages and hotel courtyards. Other scenes record women in kimono children household staff rickshaw pullers street processions with rising-sun banners thatched structures coastal views mission or hospital buildings and Western family members partaking in local culture seated in gardens or standing among Japanese attendants and guides.<br /> <br /> The archive records Japan's industrial modernization from the perspective of foreign business presence rather than official state publicity. Oil had been produced in Japan since the nineteenth century especially in regions such as Niigata while Hokkaido mining railway building and settlement became central to Meiji development; this group places those broader changes inside fieldwork travel and household arrangements. The handwritten captions add another layer of specification by naming locations and functions that would otherwise be difficult to identify especially the refinery and drilling views. Condition varies across the group with curling fading toning creasing edge wear occasional surface loss and some with missing corners; images generally clean and clear captions remain present and visible on many versos. Overall in very good condition. By the turn of the century oil fields in Niigata and Akita were part of Japan's push to build an industrial economy but domestic crude was limited and often difficult to refine. The archive also reflects the unequal social and technical relationships that accompanied Meiji industrial expansion with foreign commercial specialists Japanese labor crews domestic servants and frontier extraction zones appearing together within the same industrial landscape. unknown
189929914Hamlin's Wizard Oil. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1899. Paperback. Song Book; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; Hamlin's Wizard Oil published a number of these little pamphlets at the end of the 19th century. They had slightly varying titles. Advertised Free Concert Troupes in their open-air ADVERTISING Concerts. Ads. . Hamlin's Wizard Oil paperback
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
1869665DG1869. Oel auf Leinwand. Format: 58 x 76 cm. Mit Holzrahmen: 75 x 96 cm. + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden +
1900233021900. Massachusetts oil delivery photographs documenting the horse drawn transport system that moved petroleum products through small town New England before motor trucks displaced wagon distribution. Images depict oil wagons teamsters and tank rigs tied to local commercial delivery via horse and carriage. The turn of the century marked an industrial boom when kerosene lubricants and other oil products circulated through growing towns. This archive shows how it's its daily movement still relied on animal power and local hand delivery.<br /> Photo archive of 5 albumen and silver gelatin photographs and one RPCC photos measuring about 3.5" x 5" with various sized mounts Ashfield Massachusetts circa 1900-15. Three photographs bear photographer credit on the reverse to A.W. & G.E. Howes Ashfield Mass. One view shows a line of horse drawn tank wagons posed along an unpaved street before frame houses and utility poles with drivers seated in their rigs and teams held in place for a group portrait; the company is identified as Consumers Oil Company as visible on one of the carriages. A second image shows a single horse and tank wagon before a brick commercial building painted "UNION GARAGE" linking oil delivery by wagon to the emerging repair and automobile service trade. Two photographs are duplicate prints of the same scene each showing a man beside a white horse and covered oil wagon while a child sits on the driver's seat beneath the canopy; the man holds a metal can and partial wagon lettering ending in "OIL CO." is visible on the side. Another photograph shows a two horse team hitched to a larger wagon with partial company lettering also ending in "OIL CO." <br /> Massachusetts was deeply tied to the early oil economy not as a major drilling region but as a refining shipping storage and consumption market linked to the industrial Northeast. By the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries petroleum products moved into the state through rail and coastal trade then outward through local dealers who supplied homes shops farms garages and machinery with kerosene fuel and lubricants. These photographs place that distribution system at ground level in Ashfield where horses still pulled the wagons that served an industry increasingly associated with mechanization and the rise of motor transport. Light fading and surface wear throughout; several mounts chipped at corners and edges; one of the duplicate pair having a 1.5" chip to the right side of the mount. Photos mostly show no signs of loss though the sepia photograph on the largest mount has a small chip to edge and a 0.5" tear to left side where horse's face is. Overall good condition. A compact Massachusetts record of the petroleum trade at the moment when horse drawn delivery and automotive modernity still occupied the same street. unknown
18201388Milano: presso Giovanni Silvestri 1820. <p>8vo. 24 pp. Illustrated with one plate. Original blue printed paper wrappers; water stained at the lower third of the wrappers and text block with tide marks visible. With faults a useful copy. </p> <br /> <p>This anonymous pamphlet examines the characteristics of rapeseed and colza plants with the aim of illustrating the most economical and functional method for extracting an excellent oil. Front and back wrappers with advertisements for works on agriculture and viticulture that have been published by Silvestre.</p> <br /> <p>ICCU Italian Union Catalogue cites 10 copies in Italy. OCLC only cites the copy in Torino Italy. Not in Niccoli or Paleari-Henssler.</p> . presso Giovanni Silvestri unknown
1865250221Benninghoff Run Pennsylvania 1865. Vintage albumen print rounded at top corners mounted on card captioned in pen beneath image. Image: 10 x 13 3/8 in. Image lightly faded some surface abrasion mount soiled. Vintage albumen print rounded at top corners mounted on card captioned in pen beneath image. Image: 10 x 13 3/8 in. Vintage albumen print showing the oil derricks and pump house of Benninghoff Run an important early oil field in Pennsylvania's Oil Creek Valley. The site's Ocean Well dug in 1865 was the first to prove that oil could be extracted from hilly terrain. Benninghoff Run was the scene of violence when teamsters angered over loss of work attempted to destroy the pipeline that comission dealer Henry Harvey built from Benninghoff Run to tanks at the Shaffer railroad two miles away. The right-of-way of the Benninghoff-Shaffer pipeline can be seen in this image as a white streak extending vertically from the fields to the hill in the distance cf. www.petroleumhistory.org. unknown
