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1879210001879. Very good condition. Broadside listing the West Point Foundry in Cold Spring N. Y. as a reference for a sand company in what is now known as Beacon NY. Printed signature of Geo. Wade President. With the initial caps of the company elaborately decorated. Original horizontal folds. Printed broadside 5 x 8" unknown
186828395New York: West Point Foundry 1868. Very good condition. A receipt on West Point letterhead paper signed by S. Rumpf of the Foundry to A.W. Humphrey Treasurer of the Sterling Railway Co. acknowledging receipt of a draft for $100 with Sterling stamp. <br /> <br /> The Sterling Iron and Railway Company was situated in Ramapo Rockland County New York and operated under various names from 1736 until 1923. The West Point Foundry was an American iron working and machine shop located in Cold Spring New York. It's manufacture of Parrott Guns was instrumental in helping the North during the Civil War. It operated from 1818 to about 1911.<br /> <br /> 7 5/8 x 9 7/8" blue lined letterhead original folds manuscript round stamp mark by Sterling on 20 October 1868 4 binder holes at left. West Point Foundry unknown
1853250513London: 200 Upper Thames Street and 16 Bread Street Hill 1853. With "View of the Works" upper left. 11 x 9-1/2 inches. Very good old folds and some repair to a few small tears. With "View of the Works" upper left. 11 x 9-1/2 inches. <br/><br/> 200 Upper Thames Street and 16 Bread Street Hill unknown
187823581Louisville KY: Richmond and Lousville Medical Journal Book and Job Steam Press 1878. Paperback. Mr. Livingston's signed copy of a pamphlet pertaining to Florida as a suitable "health resort" for Northern patients by Frederick Lente MD. Dr. Lente 1823 - 1883 was the primary surgeon at the West Point Foundry Cold Spring NY during the Civil War. He served at the Foundry from 1851 to 1870; later he was head of gynecology and children's health at the University of the City of New York and founder of the American Academy of medicine.<br /> <br /> Livingston was a member of a family of the Hudson River Valley which at one point owned some 900000 acres of land and about three dozen mansions in the area giving the area the nickname "Livingston Valley".<br /> <br /> 8vo 56pp errata slip bound in. Printed paper wrappers. Wrappers chipped at edges and marked. Good condition but fragile. OCLC: 1648852. Richmond and Lousville Medical Journal Book and Job Steam Press paperback
1882049661New York: George Bruce's Son & Co 1882. First Edition. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Very Good Condition. Original quarter leather spine worn and dry corners worn joints a touch tender but sound and intact. Printed on one side only a few minor marginal tears from turning these double pages title a bit browned in spots otherwise unmarked internally. The typesetting and text is built around the history of printing using text from The Invention of Printing by Theodore Low de Vinne which Bruce's had printed in 1878 - a remarkable and charming conceit for a specimen book. Portrait frontis 352 XVIpp.<br /> <br /> Founded in 1813 by Scottish immigrant George Bruce Bruce's Type Foundry began issuing specimen books under George's son in 1865 culminating in the 1882 book. Ten supplements were issued from 1883-1894. Bruce's merged with American Type Founders in 1901. <br /> <br /> "probably the largest most complete and finest typographical specimen book ever produced" .—La Cygne Journal La Cygne Kansas April 29 1882.<br /> <br /> "The book has been made absolutely readable by the curiosity and propriety of the quotations. It swarms with typographical information…"—New York Daily Tribune February 5 1882<br /> <br /> <br /> quotes lifted from "Grolier Club talk—The Greatest Type Specimen Ever Made: The 1882 Bruce Foundry specimen" The Grolier Club on June 13 2023. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Engineering Industrial & Trades; Inventory No: 049661. George Bruce's Son & Co hardcover
