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1879List2997Big Spring Virginia 1879. Handbill measuring 8 ¾ x 11 ¾ inches. Marginal damage especially to top; marked in pencil at top left; very good. A handbill describing a process for curing tobacco patented in 1879 by John W. Barnett of Big Spring a town in northern Virginia. Tobacco has long been a hugely important cash crop in the region; in 1860 Virginia was the top tobacco producer in the United States by a large margin. During the Civil War production in Virginia dropped precipitously and bounced back slowly but surely over the next decades.1 Barnett goes into great detail specifying exact times and temperatures for the process; for instance for the first twelve hours the fires should be renewed every two hours and twenty-four minutes. The process involves using water around the fires which slows the curing process. We find six copies of this handbill on OCLC.<br /> <br /> 1 Benjamin William Arnold “History of the Tobacco Industry in Virginia from 1860 to 1894†in Johns Hopkins University Studies in History and Political Science Fifteenth Series ed. Herbert B. Adams The Johns Hopkins Press 1897 9–85. unknown
1870279011870. Very good condition. An early albumen photograph of two young women working a loom and spinning wheel in the silk industry. Hand color of detail on the women's kimono. <br /> <br /> 13 x 9 1/2" in a 14 x 12" mat. unknown
1836765Wolfeboro N. H. 1836. Tall Folio. 385 x 155 mm. 15 ¼ x 6 inches. 68 pp. Contemp. marbled boards leather spine; some minor deterioration to parts of the calf spine a few signatures sprung otherwise a good sound ledger. Cobbler David H. Whitehouse 1807-1839 lived primarily in Wolfeboro Carroll County New Hampshire. This volume of records appears to have kept up to his death at age 33. His wife was Mary M. Giles Whitehouse 1806 - 1899 and they had two children; Joseph and Abigail. Whitehouse's customers came mostly from Carroll County including the towns of Brookfield Conway Moultonborough and Wakefield. Whitehouse's signature appears on the front fly leaf and on the folio numbered 27. Entries include the date cost and job including various types of shoes; slippers calfskin shoes repairing boots boots and women's shoes. Whitehouse also purchases material for his trade including a shoemaker's seat and tools. The book also includes some household expenses and foodstuffs etc. Customer names include Dudley Pike Ephraim Parsons James C. Perkins John Chadwick Charles Colman Thomas W Mordough Joseph Malcham John Rollins and Nathaniel Barker to name a few of the local names prominent in the ledger. The first two pages of the book has a written transcript of the first 11 stanzas of Tennyson's poem "The May Queen'; two stanzas of the "Pirate Song or Serenade"; and a seven-stanza poem "To my Sister" dedicated at the bottom "To my sister Abby." All the text appears to be in the same hand. . unknown
180519714Weimar: Industrie Comptoire 1805. Other. In excellent condition. The map was originally published folded so that the old fold is still slightly visible. Paper minor toned. 168 by 215mm 6 by 8 inches. 168 by 215mm 6 by 8 inches. Copper Engraving uncolored by Industrie Comptoire published 1805 by Industrie Comptoire Weimar. Image size: 168 by 215mm 6 by 8 inches. The Industrie Comptoir was a Weimar-based German geographical publishing house active in the early 19th century known for producing engraved maps and geographical works for the German scholarly market. Their map of the Mississippi Delta 1805 reflects the European geographical interest in the Louisiana Purchase region following Napoleon's sale of Louisiana to the United States in 1803.A very nice and quite detailed antique map which shows the mouth of the Mississippi into the gulf of Mexico. With Pensacola in Western Florida Mobile Bay in Alabama and Louisiana with New Orleans. The map is equipped with many place names lakes rivers etc. An unusual early nineteenth century map published in Germany. In excellent condition. The map was originally published folded so that the old fold is still slightly visible. Paper minor toned. Industrie Comptoire unknown
1851TNC168George Virtue 1851. First Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable. Art Journal catalogue of the Great Exhibition of 1851. London 1851; first edition; book is in original black 1/4 leather binding; heavy corner and edge wear; some wear and scuffing to boards; Folio 12" to 15" tall; no jacket; hinges cracked; endpapers soiled; heavy foxing to endpapers. 328 pages with several engravings throughout. George Virtue hardcover
18991511030139Milano : Ulrico Hoepli; Instituto Italiano d'Arti Grafiche 1899-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. 12 volumes. Contains: vols. 8-19. Folios. Publisher's boards with later spines. Hardcover. 4 volumes with portfolio style binding. 8 volumes in full buckram. Soiling to covers. Some wear gash in cover edge where twine was too tightly bound in the portfolio volumes. Library stamps and markings. Primarily illustrated. Lovely color chromolithographic plates. An important periodical of decorative art in folio format; first published in 1890. <br> Milano : Ulrico Hoepli; Instituto Italiano d'Arti Grafiche hardcover
18907243Jerusalem Palestine: Printed at the London Jews' Society's House of Industry Jerusalem N.D. Circa 1890's. First Edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated fourteen unnumbered leaves. Oblong 12mo. measuring 12 x 18 cm. Original quarter maroon leather over gorgeous polished bevelled olive-wood boards bearing "Jerusalem" in black atop a deeply carved Jerusalem cross to the front board; like carving to the rear boards with Jerusalem printed in Hebrew characters to the centre; marbled edges and ivory silk-moire endpapers. Comprises of eleven beautifully arranged dried flower specimens mounted on stiff leaves most excepting two accompanied with their original remarkably well-preserved tissue-guards and individually captioned with their respective geographic origins e.g.: "Flowers from Mount Zion" "Flowers from the Mount of Olives" etc. Lightest wear to the leather spine else no other flaws noted to the extremities. Faint toning to the title page otherwise contents remain near-uniformly without blemish and with firm sound binding. A most lovely and unique period offering from the Holy Land. Rare to be offered in commerce in this edition and state. This edition unrecorded in WorldCat however nominally corresponds to OCLC #753636624 with notable differences in pagination and the number of specimens. See also OCLC #698494522. Rare indeed. <br/><br/>¶ Title leaf cites Biblical verse Matt. VI 28 29 30 which reads in part: "28 Why are you anxious about clothes Learn from the way the wild flowers grow. They do not work or spin. 29 But I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was clothed like one of them. 30 If God so clothes the grass of the field which grows today and is thrown into the oven tomorrow will he not much more provide for you O you of little faith" Although no author nor compiler is given within the present offering corresponds to other similar such works attributed to German missionary and cabinet-maker Ferdinand Vester see references above who had moved to Jerusalem in 1853 to join the Swiss-German Mission. Accordingly the present work may have been the result of his collaboration with the efforts of the London Jews' Society's' "House of Industry" an Anglican missionary society located at Christ Church Jerusalem which offered vocational training to Jewish boys in various trades such as carpentry turnery shoemaking etc. The products produced by these boys would in-turn be sold to other missionaries or as religious souvenirs to passing tourists or those migrating to the West. Vester's son Frederick would carry on his father's business later marrying Bertha Spafford herself the daughter of the founder of the American Colony in Jerusalem Horatio Gates Spafford and his Norwegian wife Anne Tobine Larsen Øglende. Printed at the London Jews' Society's House of Industry, Jerusalem hardcover
1886142150Lancashire: unpublished 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Lancashire unpublished 1886. Small quarto 245 pages of a 288-page notebook with numerous manuscript diagrams one coloured. Quarter roan and sand-grain cloth; covers rubbed and a little worn about the spine with slight loss; traces of childish scribbling in pencil to the front endpaper; a few signs of age and handling with a small hole in one leaf; overall in excellent condition. The neatly-written notes and well-executed drawings appear to relate to a technical education course covering cotton processing with particular emphasis on the types and configurations of machines for ginning carding spinning and weaving cotton. More broadly subjects include the planting picking pests and diseases of the cotton plant the characteristics of different kinds of cotton recipes for size and the assessment of cloth. The latter part of the notebook includes questions from examination papers and what are perhaps model answers. <p>The front pastedown is inscribed 'Joseph A. Prescott June 7th 1886' father of South Australian soil scientist and climatologist James Arthur Prescott CBE. A biographical memoir of the latter includes some scanty but pertinent details about his father: 'Joseph Prescott began adult life as a fitter of textile machinery at the site of installation. This work took him to Italy Alsace then part of Germany and northern France. His special line of expertise was in machinery for fine spinning the comber and spinning mule. He rose from fitter to maintenance engineer to foreman and to manager in charge of development' see below for source. This notebook must date from near the beginning of his career. <p>Offered together with a copy of 'James Arthur Prescott 1890-1987' by C.G. Stephens and J.P. Quirk an offprint from the 'Biological Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society' Volume 34 1988 and two later related ephemeral items. unpublished] hardcover
1888293631888. Print. Good overall. Over 100 sheets illustrating the English milk industry milk maids all things milk. 32 engravings 2 vinegar valentines 2 color illustrations 2 hand bills two small illustrations by "H. W. P." one printed on unusual silvered paper or silver of a man delivering milk in a town numbered "55" and a colored print of the same image unnumbered in colored woodblock. Over 20 pages of newspaper clippings carefully mounted on folio sheets 13 1/2 x 11 1/2" discussing milk adulteration milk famine etc. Newspapers clipped include the Daily Telegraph and Fun great name for a newspaper. Edges a little ruffled & musty. Overall a very interesting collection impossible to recreate. unknown
18972090202122800063Not Available 1897. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Not Available paperback
183148694Posonii Ludovici Landerer de Fúskút 1831. Folio. Uncut in contemp. boards. Small tears at spine ends. A faint dampstain to titlepage. VIII5716235 pp. Internally fine and clean. <br/><br/><em>The work gives the official articles privileges relating tothe mining industry in Hungary as well as giving the regulations for mining constructions. The work is in Latin. </em> hardcover
