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18994283Worcester MA: Cereal Machine Company 1899. Duodecimo-sized booklet limp cloth wrappers stab-sewn on cords 11 x 10 cm. 147 pages. Illustrated with three pages of chromo-lithographed images of dishes. Styled seventh edition. A product cookbook from the company that brought us Shredded Wheat. Almost every recipe from Blueberry Shortcake to Welsh Rarebit contains Shredded Wheat. A bit of dog-earing and some fly-specks to the first plate otherwise near very good in a good somewhat mottled green cloth wrapper titled in red stab-sewn with a brown cotton cord. Cereal Machine Company hardcover books
1895285011Christiana: Christiana Machine Companay 1895. pamphlet. very good. Illustrated. 51 pages thin 12mo printed wrappers; a few pages with some penciling. Christiana: Christiana Machine Company 1895. A very good copy.<br/><br/> Christiana Machine Companay unknown books
187427146Holyoke Mass. : Holyoke Machine Co 1874. Cloth. Very Good. 91 pages. Original brick cloth with company name and location embossed in gilt on front cover. Three previous owner names on front flyleaf including a presentation to J. W. Danielson Esq from S. F. Stebbins Agent for the company. Cloth. Nicely illustrated with cuts by Sebald Wightman Buffalo Kilburn Boston and others unidentified. A sound technical catalog that would enable an engineer to determine with some precision whether the specs for the equipment offered might meet their requirements.<br/><br/>A scarce catalog with only two copies in Worldcat as of this writing. Holyoke Machine Co unknown books
18892125New York & Boston: Ames Plow 1889. Octavo 84 pages. Profusely illustrated. Printed throughout in blue ink. A handsome small trade catalogue for this manufacturer and distributor of carts barrows presses mills sausage stuffing equipment presses etc. Some wear to spine of printed wrapper wrapper started at front hinge otherwise very good. Scarce. Ames Plow unknown books
1870106353<p>This broadside is 16½x10¼" and is tipped into an archival rag mat. Very slight aging though delicate this ad is in wonderful condition; near fine to fine. The Aiken Knitting Machine Co was located in New York City with their factory in Franklin N.H. The printed images show their various types of knitting machines and winder for spooling yarn with the direction to "Please Put Up In Your Office". The Aiken family moved to New Hampshire in 1938 and were fairly well known industrialists and inventors. In May 1855 Jonas B. Aiken secured a patent Patent 12933 for a knitting machine. Their machines appeared to get a lot of good press in the 1860s and they seemed to have established a very respectable business. </p> Baptist & Taylor, books
185654024Lawrence MA 1856. 16mo pp. 2 138 2 plus 24 pages of blank ruled paper for notes; original brown cloth with title stamped in gilt on spine and upper cover; edgewear contemporary owner's signature on endpaper very good. Key by number to patterns of gears hangers and pulleys giving weights diameters remarks etc. 3 in OCLC as of May '19. <br/><br/> hardcover books
188136888New York: Root & Tinker 1881. Oblong 4to broadsheet 9-1/2" x 12." Light dusting Very Good. <br/><br/> The recto is a color Lithograph. President Garfield and his Cabinet are depicted Garfield in the center shaking hands. The Capitol Building is in the background. At the bottom of the image in tiny print are the names of the persons depicted. The verso advertises the Company with illustrations of its flagship product "The Hartford" "The most elegant machine ever put upon the market. An entire work cabinet in itself from the size and solid framing of its drawers."<br/> The Weed Sewing Machine Company "obtained the patent rights of the late Theodore. E. Weed of Fairfield Connecticut inventor of a sewing machine prized for its simple construction and ease of operation making it competitive with the designs of Elias Howe 1846 Allen B. Wilson and Isaac Singer. The Weed Company played a major role in making Hartford one of three machine tool centers in New England and even outranked the Colt Armory in size if not fame. Weed eventually was the birthplace of both the bicycle and automobile industries" online essay 'The Miracle on Capital Avenue' in Connecticut Explored.<br/>OCLC 45451588 1- Smithsonian as of June 2020. Not in Romaine or Winterthur. Root & Tinker unknown books
182525214Washington D.C. 1825. Printed broadside 8" x 13.5". Light toning untrimmed minor edgewear old folds couple of pinholes at junctions but not affecting any text. Very Good.<br/><br/> This rare broadside announcement of a patent issued to Samuel Lane of Maine is signed in type by President John Quincy Adams Secretary of State Henry Clay and Attorney General William Wirt. It contains a complete Description "in the words of the said Samuel Lane himself" of his improvements to the corn-shelling machine. <br/> In 1828 Lane was the first to receive a patent for a combine. One of the witnesses to Lane's Description was William Blagrove probably the first full-time Patent Agent in Washington DC appointed in 1819.<br/>Not located on OCLC AAS Catalog American Imprints. unknown books
187636504np 1876. Beautifully handcolored engraving depicting four eye-level views of Howe Machine Company factories surrounded by busy streets ferries and carriages. A coin with profile of Elias Howe Jr. is at center left. Attractively framed and matted. Image 13-1/4" x 15-1/4" by sight. Not examined out of frame. Fine. <br/><br/> The Company's New York offices were located at 699 Broadway from 1867-1876. We locate this extremely attractive broadside only in the Jay Last Collection at the Huntington Library. unknown books
