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1886142150Lancashire: unpublished 1886.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 Lancashire unpublished 1886.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 unpublished] hardcover
183135065Baltimore: Published by order of the Convention 1831. Wraps. Fair. Stitched wraps. 44 pages. Original outer wraps present. Wraps have been vertically folded. Light occasional foxing. Paper covers are worn and creased. Period inscription with name written top of the outer wrap. The list of members attending this convention are listed in back. A topic of interest at this convention concerned constitutional protective tariffs and opposition to free trade. This was in direct conflict with the positions held by Southern agricultural businesses and politicians. Published by order of the Convention unknown
18311512010062General Convention of Friends of Domestic Industry 1831-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 2 pamphlets bound as 1. Bound in later cloth. Good binding and cover. Scattered foxing. 44 197 pages. AI 7163 Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 26742. An early account of American protectionism tariff advocacy. General Convention of Friends of Domestic Industry 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
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
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
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
188863219No place nor printer 1888. 12mo. In the original blue boards with gilt lettering to spine. Fine and clean. 24 pp. 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
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
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
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
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
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
181938137Washington DC: Printed By Gales Et Seaton. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1819. 1st. Pamphlet. 9 pages; . .assembled in the city of New York to take into consideration the prostrate situation of our manufactures and to petition Congress for their relief and protection : composed of delegates from Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Maryland Delaware and Ohio. ; December 20 1819. Referred to the Committee on Manufactures. Nine page pamphlet with some wear to extremities. Unopened. . Printed By Gales Et Seaton unknown
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
1883H3526New York: The Association 1883. Paperback. Good. Published 1883 gray printed wraps 70 pp good plus copy with wear and staining to wraps contents very good. Addresses by Peter Cooper et al. the meeting had four objectives: protection of manufacturers advancement of various industries restoration of ocean navigation in American-built ships and the 'security and comfort' of workmen including pensions and allowances. Ulysses Grant and John Jacob Astor were among the border members of this Association. (The Association) paperback
188327291New York: New York Association for the Protection of American Industry 1883. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good copy with nicks on the spine small chips to the wrappers some edgewear mildly creased leaves clean. 70 pp. 8vo. New York Association for the Protection of American Industry Document no. 2. Peter Cooper's opening remarks could have been written today: "The advocates of free trade . are trying to persuade . people that it is for our interest to buy from other countries all the manufactures that they have to offer. These advocates of free trade propose that our mechanics shall either work at the starvation wages of foreign laborers or be forced to abandon their trades." Other speeches on free trade including William Dodge William Evarts Dexter Hawkins and Cyrus Hamlin President of Middlebury College on the blight of free trade. The ojectives of the New York Association for the Protection of American Industry was: "1. To disseminate ideas favorable to just protection of manufactures. 2. The development protection and advancement of the various industries of the United States. 3. The restoration and development of ocean navigation in American-built ships sufficient for the exigencies of trade commerce and manufactures and for the advantage and safety of the country. 4. The security of the comfort and improvement of workmen and—by encouraging allowances or pensions after long-continued service in important establishments—of their support in old age." New York Association for the Protection of American Industry unknown
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
18882091502135415263Shiga Prefecture Industry Association 1888. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Shiga Prefecture Industry Association paperback
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
1896260395Washington : Govt. Print. Off 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description: 576 pages 43 plates. part color : illustrations. Subjects: Horse Diseases. Washington : Govt. Print. Off hardcover
