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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
18972090202122800063Not Available 1897. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Not Available paperback
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
1886142150Lancashire: unpublished 1886.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 Lancashire unpublished 1886.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
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
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
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
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
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
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
185731694Chicago: Democratic Press Mammoth Steam Printing Establishment 45 Clark Street 1857. First Edition. Wraps. Good. Printed stitched wraps. Octavo. 65 pages. 15 pages of advertisement in back. Front wrap darkened at the edges Light damp stains to bottom page edges. <br /> <br /> Pre Chicago fire imprint. Democratic Press Mammoth Steam Printing Establishment, 45 Clark Street unknown
185635061Chicago: Democratic Press Steam Printing House 1856. Second Edition. Wraps. Very good. Stitched printed salmon wraps. 94 pages. Double columns. Light shelf wear and toning to the outer covers. Pages 80-94 are local Chicago merchant advertisements. Some illustrated. Interior contents clean. <br /> <br /> Chicago Anti-Fire Imprints 178. Democratic Press Steam Printing House unknown
1886List3133Baltimore Maryland: Jno. S. Bridges & Co. Printers 1886. Trifold booklet measuring 3 ½ x 6 ¼ inches folded with notebook and short almanac inside; two pages with notes. A booklet made for the Patapsco Guano Company of Baltimore Maryland printed in 1886. The exterior of the booklet features three attractive lithographs by A. Hoen & Co. with the lithograph on the back of the booklet showing Patapsco’s manufacturing plant at Fell’s Point. Inside is a miniature almanac with notebook pages two of which have been written on. Guano was invaluable as a source of nitrogen for fertilizer and gunpowder. Guano export was a pillar of economic development supporting a stable economy in Peru in the mid-19th century and driving American annexation of numerous islands in the Pacific and Caribbean under the Guano Islands Act of 1856. For its part the Patapsco Company was involved in a Supreme Court case in 1898 in which it contested the inspection charge of twenty-five cents per ton for fertilizers. Not too long after in the early 20th century a method for extracting nitrogen from air was discovered and guano’s importance declined. Jno. S. Bridges & Co., Printers unknown
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
187533711Somverville MA 1875. Broadside 5" x 10". A few old folds. Signed in type by A.T. Small Jas. E. Crawford Able Jones Sarah J. Price and J. Campbell as the Committee on Charges. Official Council blindstamp at the bottom right corner. Very Good. <br /> <br /> The Sovereigns of Industry established in 1874 grew out of the Patrons of Husbandry a mutual aid society for farmers. The Sovereigns sought members among all workingmen not just farmers. Its purpose articulated by its founder William H. Earle of Massachusetts was "elevating the character improving the condition of and as far as possible perfecting the happiness of the laboring classes" through the establishment of consumer cooperatives. The cooperative network would allow workers to "control the whole of what they produce and exchange it as near as may be even with other hand-workers thus saving to themselves the fortunes which those who are devoted to manipulating other people's labour and to getting rich thereby have heretofore taken by extortion." Commons John R. et al.: HISTORY OF LABOUR IN THE UNITED STATES: NATIONALISATION 1860-1877 VOLUME II New York: 1921 Pages 172-173. <br /> A scandal occurred in Union Council No. 71 Somerville Massachusetts. A conspiracy to usurp the authority of the Council majority on the location of a new Hall was charged. The conspirators allegedly were guilty of self-dealing by choosing a Hall for their own personal gain. "Riotous disorderly and disgraceful proceedings" erupted.<br /> Not located on OCLC as of May 2017. unknown
1888386674London : 22 Albemarle Street 1888. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very good cloth copy gilt-blocked title to spine. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Light foxing to prelims. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; 407 pp. 26 cm. Subjects; Morris William 1834-1896. National Association for the Advancement of Art and its Application to Industry. Art Societies. Decorative arts. Aesthetic movement Art. 19th century. London : 22 Albemarle Street hardcover
188234833La Paz: Imprenta de la Libertad 1882. First edition. Cloth. Title page with chip to top inner edge and neat label with name inked out shallow rough area on fore edge of last few leaves otherwise a very good copy. i 97 1 iii pp. 4to. Bolivian tariffs. Scarce. OCLC shows no copies for this year but Univ. Texas holds similar volumes for 1879 and 1890 and Univ. Illinois has 1894. Parreño sale 70. Imprenta de la Libertad hardcover
1877015993Roma: Botta 1877. Un volume 235 cm di 143 pagine; intonso a fogli ancora chiusi. Brossura editoriale. Ottime condizioni. L'inchiesta verte sul lavoro delle donne e dei fanciulli. Il Ministero aveva accertato che i ragazzi impiegati nell'industria non comprese le miniere ammontavano nel 1871 a 132.489 dei quali 28.844 al di sotto dei quindici anni e fra questi ultimi la grande maggioranza bambine. Le risposte che vengono date ai questionari ministeriali da parte delle camere di commercio prefetti e sindaci fanno oggi rabbrividire: Ad eccezione dei filatoi dove le bambine sono ammesse anche all'età di 6 e 7 anni avviene di rado che i fanciulli comincino a lavorare prima dei 9 anni spiegano a Cuneo. Ma la situazione non è diversa a nord e a sud. L'orario di lavoro per tutti compresi i bambini si aggira sulle 12 ore con un intervallo variabile per la colazione. Le malattie riscontrate nell'inchiesta non vengono attribuite al lavoro in fabbrica che anzi viene considerato come civilizzatore. La gran parte delle autorità e degli imprenditori intervistati è contrario ad un intervento per legge che limiti il lavoro dei fanciulli e delle donne. Che peraltro arriverà solo nel 1886. - Importante e non comune. Botta unknown
1867AQ32256London: Bell and Daldy 1867. x 300pp. Original publisher's gilt-stamped green cloth. A trifle rubbed spine dulled. Internally clean and crisp. The fourth series of lectures on arts and literature delivered at the former Royal College of Science for Ireland in the late nineteenth century. Includes a lecture on the English Sonnet by the Archbishop of Dublin and a talk on architecture in the thirteenth Century by George Edmund Street 1824-1881 a leading figure in the Victorian Gothic revival. . Fourth series. 8vo. Bell and Daldy hardcover
1851HALL407193Hardback. 1851. comprising sketches by Pen and Pencil of the Principal objects in the Great Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations 1851. xliv 556pp 10 folding plates & illustrations throughout text 4to John Cassell London 1851. The original 30 parts re-issued in 1 volume. Recased in half leather with new endpapers. Binding a little worn & marked but sound. Outer margins of 2 leaves worn othewise contents very good. . hardcover
184835079Cincinnati: H. W. Derby & Co 1848. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo. 1 vii 328 pages 1. Brown cloth hardcover with boards stamped in blind and gilt stamped title on spine. Cloth chipped head and base of the spine. Edge wear to corners. Light scattered foxing to the end sheets and text edges. 1893 pencil inscription on right front end sheet. Earlier faded inscription written on the same page. Fair. H. W. Derby & Co hardcover
18842091502135411036Kochi Prefecture 1884. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Kochi Prefecture paperback
18852091502135412067Kochi Prefecture 1885. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Kochi Prefecture paperback
18882091502135415263Shiga Prefecture Industry Association 1888. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Shiga Prefecture Industry Association paperback
1893014864Roma: Bertero 1893. Un volume 225 cm di VIII-414 pagine. Un timbro alla pagina di titolo. Legatura coeva in mezza pergamena con tassello di titolo al dorso e piatti con carta marmorizzata. Molto buono. Contiene la discussione per l'istituzione della prima copertura previdenziale in Italia per gli operai che verrà approvata cinque anni dopo. Della Commissione fanno parte tra gli altri Francesco Nitti Luigi Luzzatti Marco Besso con presidente il ministro Pietro Lacava -La storia della previdenza italiana inizia nel lontano 1898 quando venne fondata la Cassa nazionale di previdenza per linvalidità e la vecchiaia degli operai: si trattava di unassicurazione volontaria integrata da un contributo di incoraggiamento dello Stato e dal contributo anchesso libero degli imprenditori. --Importante documento originale per la storia delle istituzioni sociali in Italia. Bertero unknown
