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197661240Flagstaff: Northland Press 1976. Hardcover. x 212p.11.5x9.75 inches landscape layout personal inscription signed by Briggs on endpaper paintings charts foreword bibliography index lightly-used and soiled first edition stated in white cloth boards and price-clipped worn dj with closed tears. Northland Press hardcover books
193115471931. SOCONY OIL COMPANY NEWSPAPER 1931. TOURS AND DETOURS. An original August 15 1931 edition of "Tours and Detours"- a tourism-related newspaper issued by the Socony Oil Company to its customers. This issue contains articles about touring the Northeast region of the United States with photographs and articles on Clinton NY; Buffalo & Niagara Falls NY; and Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts. The rear cover contains a road map of main highways in New England. Following the break-up of Standard Oil in 1911 the Standard Oil Company of New York SOCONY was formed along with 33 other break-off companies. In 1920 the company registered the name "Mobiloil" as its trademark and in 1963 it became the Mobil Oil Company. Very Good usual folds with a few tears. Scarce 10.00. <br/><br/> unknown books
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 books
1921802Colusa Ca. 1921. About very good. 8pp. Pictorial self wrappers stapled. Light wear and creasing; a few short closed tears at wrapper edges. Contemporary ownership inscription on front wrap. Even tanning. A scarce promotional for the Young Oil Company and its development of an apparently lucrative oil strike at Bear Creek in Colusa County during 1921. The pamphlet prints a story first published in the local Colusa Sun newspaper which documents history of oil production at the site chronicles the purchase of the lease by Young Oil in 1915 and relates positive comments from several contemporary geologists' reports that convinced the company to significantly increase its investment and work on the property including the imminent arrival of an industrial drilling rig from Texas. The remainder of the text publishes a letter from a Sacramento oil man William Babcock which describes the operation as "The best oil venture that I know of -- in fact it looks so good to me that while I have for all intents and purposes retired from active participation in the development of the oil business I shall in this case make an exception." The final leaf prints an enjoinder from the company to "Buy all the Young Oil Company stock you can afford" and gives the organizational information of the firm. Illustrated with five halftone images of the site; not in OCLC. unknown books
2008191436Krishna Books Incorporated 2008-12-01. Paperback. Very Good. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Krishna Books Incorporated paperback books
195096Houston 1950. Very good. Map 22 x 17 inches. Folded. Light wear and soiling. Map of the Louisiana and southern Texas oil fields along the Gulf of Mexico. Each county is outlined with oil fields noted in green and gas fields noted in red. unknown books
1939213762San Francisco: State of California Department of Natural Resources Division of Oil and Gas 1939. 46p. 6x9 inches preface reports tables maps graphs and cross-sections several folding very good first edition annual in stapled yellow pictorial wraps. Special articles on Canal and Strand Oil Fields Arvin Area of Mountain View Oil Field and Premier Area of Poso Creek Field. State of California Department of Natural Resources Division of Oil and Gas unknown books
13394New York: Underwood Image depicts several gentlemen standing in front of a a wooden-frame oil rig several others in background; back of mount gives a couple of paragraphs of information regarding the history of the site more; ".Nobody began to realize the immense importance and value of such natural resources.In 1859 the first great 'strike' was made oil being reached only 69 feet below the surface.the beginning of one of the most exciting 'booms' in American Industrial history."; photographer identifier at side of mount not dated title on back in six languages; earlier 'split-image' type of view two separate photos; a couple of identifying numbers: a large "S 127" at top right; the number 5535 is at the title bar position at the bottom of the right-hand image; light wear to card tips edges; very good condition. Very Good. Underwood unknown books
1900569Boston 1900. Very good. 4pp. on a bifolium. Quarto. Previously folded. Light wear along old folds and a couple of short closed tears at lower edge. Rare illustrated prospectus for the potentially fraudulent Bernalillo Oil Company based in Boston and San Diego at the turn of the 20th century. The text promises astounding returns stating that "Few in the East appreciate the stupendous nature of this great industrial awakening and the unparalleled opportunity it affords for large profits on even limited investments." The promoters further advise readers to send away for more complete information about the company's holdings and business plans and provides a list of references to contact for confirmation of their bona fides. Strangely despite its extensive endorsement of the oil industry in California the land it advertises is 6400 acres in New Mexico between Fort Wingate and the Navajo Reservation as is the town of Bernalillo. A 1905 article in the business periodical United States Investor cast serious doubt on the venture writing in response to a query about the trustworthiness of the company that "The stocks have no market value and intrinsically they are not believed to be worth more than the paper they are printed on." We locate only one copy at Yale. unknown books
196537968Louisville KY: Standard Oil 1965. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket issued. Louisville KY: Standard Oil 1965. Copious b/w illustrations. Various pagination pp. Hardcover. 8vo size. Medium green cloth. Bound periodical for the year 1965. Head heel and corners bumped and rubbed; moderate soil to boards. Very good/No jacket issued. Standard Oil hardcover books
196437964Louisville KY: Standard Oil 1964. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket issued. Louisville KY: Standard Oil 1964. Copious b/w illustrations. Various pagination pp. Hardcover. 8vo size. Forest green cloth. Bound periodical for the year 1964. Head heel and corners bumped and rubbed. Very good/No jacket issued. Standard Oil hardcover books
196238063Louisville KY: Standard Oil Company 1962. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket issued. Louisville KY: Standard Oil Company 1962. Numerous b/w photographs and illustrations. Various pagination pp. Hardcover. Small 4to size. Brown cloth. Gilt lettering to front board. Bound edition for the year 1963; head and heel slightly rubbed; slight insect damage to top of front board. Very good/No jacket issued. Standard Oil Company hardcover books
1986149439Budapest: ICPS 1986. 38p. 8x5.5 inch wraps booklet faintest signs of age or handling. ICPS H-1415 / Documents on the struggle against chemical weapons volume II. ICPS unknown books
186534056Parkersburg 1865. Printed Broadside 7-3/4" x 11". Old folds Very Good.<br/><br/> This is an early report on the development of the petroleum industry in West Virginia. Professor Ward reports on the mineral resources of lands which Mr. Day purchased in Cabell County "Western Virginia." Although navigable waters salt coal and iron have been found in abundance "The value of your lands as OIL TERRITORY is doubtless infinitely above all other considerations. Its situation geographically and geologically is such as to warrant sanguine expectations as to the existence of Oil under all parts of it." Ward describes the "Oil belt" which graces Davy's land and assures him "There is little territory in Western Virginia as yet undeveloped which holds out inducements for finding Oil equal to the value which you own on the Guyandotte."<br/>Not located on OCLC as of October 2020. unknown books
194029695New York: Standard Oil Company 1940. First Edition. Octavo 22.25cm.; original tan printed card wrappers; 4170pp. Minor wear else Very Good or better. Standard Oil Company unknown books
186538685Philadelphia 1865. Broadside with a table of the rates of fare on verso. Woodcut illustration of a locomotive. Sheet size: 19 x 8 inches. Extraordinary survival: a railroad broadside advertising a route to America's first oil boom.<br/> <br/>The first oil well in the United States was drilled by E. L. Drake in Oil Creek Pennsylvania near Titusville in 1859. On the 29th of August oil was struck and the first boom was on. Towns such as Oil City and Pithole sprang up. The Titusville population exploded from 250 residents to over 10000 in little more than five years; Pithole expanded from four log-cabin farmhouses to a bustling city with over 50 hotels over the span of five months in 1865. At its peak the Pennsylvania wells were producing one third of the world's oil. An ephemeral survival of America's first oil rush. unknown books
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. Oil Creek. 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 books
1892613N.p. but likely Pennsylvania 1892. Good. 28pp. Folio. Original black half sheep and marbled boards. Spine and corners heavily worn boards worn. Several leaves cut away with later French funeral notices pasted in on stubs. Ledger recording transactions for several companies and individuals extracting oil in Pennsylvania from 1889 to 1892. The ledger records the name of the company listing the date and then barrels of crude and refined oil "sound" and "broke." Named parties involved in the extraction include James Stewart Aetna Oil Co. Miles Stitt Crew Levick Co. Jos. Kelly & Co. James Harding and others. Several have street addresses listed below their names which would allow for firmer identification with some research. Notations are occasionally in French and taken together with the funeral notices pasted in at the front of the volume we surmise that the owner of the ledger may have been Francois Poulard of Philadelphia to whom one of the notices is addressed. unknown books
188464746Lockport NY 1884. Single sheet folded. 21 cm. 4 pp. of text printed on yellow paper. An illustration on the first page shows the different sizes of the Gargling Oil offered by the company the product suitable "for man or beast." John Hodge Secretary and Manager of Merchant's Gargling Oil advertises the publication of the company's almanac produced with "handsomely lithographed covers larger pages and containing some new departments notably the one indicated in its title- that of Dream and Fate." Dealers are offered copies of the almanacs shipped free of charge for distribution to their customers. Printed on the two internal pages are card samples to choose from allowing for the name and address of the dealer to be printed on the almanacs ordered. The final page requests the dealer fill out shipping directions. This copy is unused. Merchant's Gargling Oil was created by Dr. George Merchant of Lockport New York in 1833 according to an article written by Doug Farley director of the Erie Canal Discovery Center in 2008. Although it was called a 'gargling oil' it was primarily intended for external use as a liniment. The city of Lockport was located along the route of the Erie Canal and Merchant's liniment found a market with the canallers and their horses and mules. By the time John Hodge joined the company in the late 1850s it was a very successful enterprise. He was a master at marketing and advertising producing almanacs notebooks circulars and placing ads in numerous publications for his product. see a brief biography of the company in the Atwater catalogue Vol. 2 p. 48. <br/><br/> unknown books
34620Original bust oil portrait 11-1/2" x 14". The canvas is mounted to a 1/2" thick piece of wood held with small nails along the fore-edges. Framed in a later dark brown recessed molded wood frame behind a burnt orange velvet mat with oval opening measuring approximately 9-1/2" x 12". The painting's surface has some usual age cracks and crackling patterns some very small spots where paint has rubbed off along the line of the oval beneath the matting. Very Good. <br/><br/> We can identify neither the subject nor artist. Her dress is of high quality possibly of European design with an empire waist sleeves with large puffs at the top which sit off the shoulders the top line of the dress being a bit demure and cut above the cleavage and nearly straight across with lace trimmed netting leading up to the neckline and ending in a collar. A brooch is placed at the center where the dress material and netting meet. This type of apparel was popular during the early to mid-1800s. unknown books
1918664Muskogee Ok 1918. Very good. 4pp. on a large bifolium. Previously folded. A couple of very minor losses at fold points. Light tanning. Scarce illustrated report from 1918 on the developments and production of the Oklahoma Oil Wells Company based in Muskogee Oklahoma. Much of the text is dedicated to an assessment of work completed on wells located at lease secured by the company near Sedan in Chautauqua County Kansas to which the majority of available funds was being directed. The progress of four wells is assessed and a report on construction and acquisition of other equipment necessary for the site is given. The production of other leases in Nowata and Muskogee Counties Oklahoma and Greenwood County Kansas is also discussed. The final page contains three photographic illustrations of a power plant and a well on the Sedan property as well as a lengthy exhortation to invest in Liberty Bonds to support the federal government's war effort as World War I continued through 1918. Also with a separate typed letter dated January 9 1917 soliciting investment from an Ohio resident. unknown books
192315067Boston 1923. 8vo pp. 210 little water stained on the foredge affecting the last few leaves a very good copy bound in red cloth. This trade catalogue contains advertisements of and descriptions of a wide variety of hoses and pumps and gaskets as well as hand tools grease guns pipe fitting tools wrenches brushes rulers and files. unknown books
1943540Venezuela 1943. Very good. 48 original photographs each 8 x 10 inches. Quarto. Plain leather boards twin-bolt binding. Some photos detached from mounts some wear to covers but images generally fine with typed captions affixed beneath each photo. A rare photographic document of Venezuelan oil production in the early 20th century. This album contains nearly fifty large-format original images that depict the construction of a 157-mile crude oil pipeline from Las Mercedes Del Llano Guanico to a deep-sea terminal at Pamatacual in 1943 by the Sociedad Anonima Petrolera las Mercedes owned jointly by the Texas Company later Texaco and British-controlled Caracas Petroleum S. A. Venezuelan oil reserves attracted foreign investment as early as 1908: "In 1908 General Juan Vicente Gomez took power to become the strongest dictator of the 20th century with 27 years in office. He opened the gate to foreign oil investors.World War I was the trigger introducing Venezuela into the world oil market. After 1919 the investment and the exportation of Venezuelan oil increased tremendously. By 1922 Venezuela became an important supplier of oil in the world and biggest reserves of oil were discovered in the Lake of Maracaibo. During World War II Venezuela was the most secure provider of oil to the United States." -- Johannes Alvarez and James Fiorito Venezuelan Oil Unifying Latin-America. Venezuela increased its production 42 percent in 1943 and 1944 to satisfy the Allied demand for wartime oil. The images contained in the present album show various features of the pipeline oil wells and storage facilities at the inland stations as well as the path of the pipeline through the jungle to the sea. Several photos depict groups of men at work on the line in several locations. Another series of images depict views of the terminal station and the construction of its structures as well as its shipping facilities and the operations surrounding the loading of tankers there. From a research perspective this album is a fascinating look into the development of the now-critical oil industry in a lesser known region of mid-20th century Venezuela the involvement of American in this case Texan companies in South American industrial growth as well as the importance of South American resources to the United States war effort during World War II. We were unable to find any examples of large format photographs from the Venezuelan oil industry from this period in auction records or on the market. Photographs of Venezuelan oil production from outside of the Lake Maracaibo region where the bulk of early oil development occurred are equally difficult to locate. The printed title page suggests that more than one of these albums was produced but we are unable to uncover another example in OCLC or archived sales records. unknown books
199420537NY: Watson-Guptill. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1994. Hardcover. 0823032736 . 335 color illustrations. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Watson-Guptill hardcover books
19361182Los Angeles: Brooks Bros 1936. Very good plus. Blueprint map 21.5 x 18.25 inches. Old fold lines minor wear. A few pencil annotations. An interesting and quite attractive blueprint map that shows the oil and gas fields of New Mexico where oil was first discovered in 1924. The map was compiled and drawn by Fabius and Sam Brooks Los Angeles publishers and was based on a 1931 map by Dean Winchester and "corrected to date" likely in the mid-1930s. The map shows the locations of oil and gas fields across the state and delineates sites of oil drilling their proprietors and the depths at which they hit oil or gas. Also included are the routes of major gas and oil pipelines. At the lower left corner of the map is a list of principal lease holders in New Mexico broken into tiers by acreage with Standard Oil holding over a million acres and the next group holding 100000 to 500000 each down to 5000 individuals and small companies who hold anywhere from 40 to 5000 acres. We locate a handful of copies of the Winchester map and one copy of a later dated Brooks map with a different title but none of the present issue. A highly attractive and informative New Mexico oil map. Brooks Bros unknown books
