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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
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
185538667Providence: Knowles Anthony & Co. Printers 1855. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. A very good copy with small chips and creases to front wrapper spine worn contents bright. xvi 135 pp. 8vo. Includes: ""The Agricultural Wealth of Rhode Island and the Duties it imposes upon her Citizens. An Address before the Rhode-Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry and the Rhode-Island Horticultural Society at their Fifth Industrial Exhibition in Providence; Delivered September 14 1854 by Rev. William Clift Stonington Ct." with a separate title page. Provides great detail on agricultural and industrial activity in Rhode Island was well as reviews of technology and agricultural methods. Some biographies. William Clift 1817-1890 Amherst graduate pastor of the Stonington Congregational church rote much on agriculture and "was a bold and valiant enemy of rum and tobacco." Sabin 70736n. Knowles, Anthony & Co., Printers 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
1890199073London: The Association 1890. Hardcover. Poor Boards are heavily bumped/edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; spine strip is heavily chipped and peeling; textblock edges are heavily toned/scuffed/smudged; boards are very loose; textblock is cracked; marginalia is present; interior is clean with occasional smudging/foxing. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine; xvi 2 485 pp. [The Association] 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
189072766London: G. F. Neame 1890. First separate edition first appeared in the Timber Trades Journal. Octavo. 16 pp. Publisher's printed brown wrappers. Two large Japanese kanji stamped on front. Might be missing rear wrapper though front wrapper is p. 1 and last page is p. 16. Some edge chipping and mild soiling. No copies located by OCLC.A mildly technical pamphlet dealing with the strengths and uses of Douglas fir from carriages to use in railways. The last 4 pp. are testimonies from customers includes testimony from the Southern Pacific Company. In 1886 the Port Blakely Mill Company joined forces with several Puget Sound area mills to start the Pacific Pine Lumber Company. Pacific Pine Lumber set quotas for regional mills and established lumber yards in the San Francisco Bay area. In 1897 the Pacific Pine Lumber Company went out of business and their affairs were taken over by another firm to form the Pacific Lumber Company with offices on Market Street in San Francisco. This firm in turn went out of business in 1907. G. F. Neame unknown
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
189326348Rochester NY 1893. Paperback. Very good condition. Magazine for growers and dealers in nursery stock centered on Western New York. Lead article "The Grape industry Oldest Grape Growing Region in the United States". Sml. folio 12pp frontis & 3pp adverts. October 1893 issue Volume 1 number 9. Handsome original wrappers with embossed gilt scrolling on cream which is dusty & marked. Some staining of two leading corners. paperback
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
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
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
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
18882091502135415263Shiga Prefecture Industry Association 1888. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Shiga Prefecture Industry Association 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
