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187735307Philadelphia: Published by Wm. Smith. Looking Glass Portrait & Picture Frames of every description 1877. Folio broadside 14" x 17". Printed in three columns: the first an 'Address of Hon. R.T. Conrad'; second 'Fireman's Address. Written at the request of the Association for the Relief of Disabled Firemen' by 'Hon. Robert T. Conrad'; third 'Address of Philip S. White Esq.' Very Good.<br/><br/> The ceremony seeks to make amends for Philadelphia's long history of antipathy to Irish Catholics. Conrad had been elected Mayor of Philadelphia on a Know-Nothing platform that capitalized on anti-Irish sentiment. But he says here "Whatever prejudices may have existed in regard to fireman sic have disappeared before the favorable evidence of the past and present conduct and character." Also a poet and writer Conrad composed a poem for the occasion printed in the second column. <br/> Praising the Company in column three was a leading temperance advocate Philip S. White. The Hibernia Company was responsible for an area of great "importance": "all the Exchange Post Office and Custom House brokers-- all the printing offices-- all the newspapers of the city. all the steamboat landings-- all the banks save two and nearly all the insurance offices." <br/>OCLC records four locations under three accession numbers as of May 2021: the Library Company Clements NYHS Brown. Published by Wm. Smith... Looking Glass, Portrait & Picture Frames of every description unknown books
181855212Providence: Miller & Hutchens printers 1818. Bifolium approx. 15" x 10" printed text and table on page 1 the integral leaf consisting of a pro-forma document accomplished in manuscript: "No. 16. Columbian Fire Company of Providence. This Policy of Insurance Witnesseth That.in consideration of Thirty Dollars to them paid by the Insured herein named the Receipt thereof is hereby acknowledged Do Insure William P. Greene of Providence. against Loss or Damage by Fire in the amount of Three Thousand Dollars on the stock in trade consisting of Dry Goods and contained in the lower story of Store No. 7 Market Square directly opposite in said Providence. Said store is built of Wood and two stories high as per application filed No. 16-- $3000." Further printed text setting forth terms and conditions with signatures of William Wilkinson President of the company and Charles Norris Tibbitts witness and dated November 7th 1818 at bottom. Manuscript docket on verso. There are old folds and the two leaves of the Proposals and accompanying policy are partially separated. There is some staining and browning to the margins and at the top of the Proposals extending into text. The prospectus is quite striking typographically. Not in OCLC or American Imprints. William P. Green 1784-1855 the insured was a Providence ship owner and merchant. Included with the Proposals and integral policy are twelve manuscript letters sent to Greene in 1818 being business correspondence from Savannah Richmond Boston among other places. The letters are variously browned and stained though legible. <br/><br/> Miller & Hutchens, printers unknown books
1825102273<p>Letter sheets 8" x 12" 3 pages plus integral address leaf. Extensive tape repairs to folds mostly archival tape but some regular tape too which has caused a little browning in areas long tear obscures writers signature but partially visible creased normal aging and browning remnant of wax seal; otherwise good or better. The letter is to Boston Mayor Josiah Quincy 1772-1864 a future head of Harvard and served eight years in Congress. It appears after becoming Boston's mayor he sent delegates to New York and Philadelphia to study fire fighting techniques in those cities. The author of this letter read about this mission and sent Mayor Quincy a lengthy letter on the subject. The probable author is Solon Robinson 1803-1880 although his signature is partially obscured by a tear. However on the back page a smudged docketed note identifies him as Solon Robertson or Robinson. Robinson was a writer and would become a well known Indiana pioneer. In any case the author would suggest a far more modern system for fighting fires than the existing practice of engines carrying water to fires which would become useless when the water ran out. he proposed putting lead aqueduct pipes "laid deep underground and leading to every part of the city." While her does not use the term fire hydrants the water would be accessed from locked iron covers that would serve that function. ABN.</p> books
186429021415Anthony Coventry RI 1864-1894. General wear and toning. The smaller of the two notebooks has semi detached covers. . A set of two notebooks containing nearly thirty years of the meeting minutes of the annual July 4 gathering of the Coventry Factory Fire Engine Company. These minutes includes a list of members and officers voted in each year as well all the outcome of any topic put to vote. The meetings take place in Anthony RI which is a small village within Coventry RI. The smaller copybook is completely full and contains minutes from their annual meetings dating from 1864 to 1881. The second and larger notebook begins where the first notebook left off in 1882 and continues until 1890 when at the annual meeting there was no quorum present and as such "the charter of the company was declared forfeited sic and the company disbanded." In August of 1893 the company was reorganized under the old charter. Four more meetings follow in 1893 with the last meeting recorded stating that the fire company met to compete at the Kent Co. Fair and won the third prize of ten dollars. Included with this set are several receipts and notes of the fire company. There are eight 8 receipts dating between 1893-1894 two of them are undated. One scrap piece of paper which served as a draft for a portion of one of the annual meeting minutes. A roll call list of members from the 1893 annual meeting. A list of dues paid by each individual member. And lastly a note dated September 15 1893 which certifies that the fire company won the third prize in the Hand Engine Contest Open at the Kent Co. Fair. Below is an excerpt from one of the entries: "The squirt gun was tested and proved very satisfactory. It was voted that Lt Capt Byron Matteson be a committed to inspect the Hay Cart and any other machine he may see fit and report as soon as posable. There being more business the meeting adjourned to the call of the Captain." - August 3 1893 Meeting These journals most likely belonged to Arthur J. Matteson 1859-1925 who was the Secretary of the Company from 1888-1893. Matteson lived in Coventry RI and worked as a machinist. Small Notebook: Brown illustrated wrappers depicting several scenes of children on a farm. The back cover has a multiplication table and a decorative border. String binding. Completely full. Measures 8" x 6 1/2" Large Notebook: Black decorative paper over boards. Red fore edge. One fourth filled. Measures 8 1/2" x 6 3/4" <br/><br/> hardcover books
193329817New York 1933. Brown pebbled cloth quarter bound with red leather. Pink paper labels with inclusive dates on spines; journal number written in black ink over-written in white ink. As to be expected with volumes put to daily use the bindings are worn & soiled with fraying front joint cloth to #79. Nevertheless an About VG - VG set. 2 volumes. 1000 numbered pages. 14" x 8-1/2" 36 cm x 23 cm. <br/><br/>Hook and Ladder Company No. 27 was originally part of Combined Engine Company 46 - Bronx which was organized on July 11 1881. The Company moved to new quarters at 451 E. 176th Street on April 1 1895. The Combined Engine Company was disbanded in order to organize Engine 46 and Hook and Ladder Company 27 on June 1 1904. In a NYTimes article of April 18 1904 it was announced that Fire Commissioner Hayes had established a new Fire Department Battalion in the Bronx to be known as the Seventeenth. This Battalion included Hook and Ladder Company 27. Hook and Ladder Company 27 was located at 453 E. 176th Street. The Company was relocated to new quarters at 460 Cross Bronx Expressway on November 6 1972 at which time it was disbanded to organize Ladder 58. The two journals provide an in-depth and fascinating glimpse into the daily operations of one of New York's finest Hook and Ladder Company No. 27. Noted down to the minute are the times the men came on duty and when they were relieved; when drills took place; inspections; testing of the telegraph equipment; who was on house watch and when he was relieved; exactly when an alarm came in by what method and from what station. Certain members of the Company were more complete in their entries stating that the Company and apparatus responded to alarm where they found the fire and when they returned to the station. A nice set documenting a segment of the NYFD's long illustrious history. hardcover books
183530636Boston: David Hooton.Printer.Merchants' Hall 1835. 12pp stitched in contemporary plain yellow wrappers. Title page vignette of the Department dousing a house fire. Very Good plus.<br/><br/> This rare Charter of an early mutual aid society evidently located only at the Boston Public Library was established to assist injured Boston firemen who "are liable in the discharge of their duty to many casualties to which citizens generally are not exposed." <br/> The pamphlet prints the 1830 Act of the Legislature incorporating the Association; Edward Prescott George Dearborn and Jonathan A. Davis are the named incorporators. The Articles render every Boston fireman eligible for membership. Annual dues are fifty cents. Injured members are barred from negotiating directly with the City Government for financial assistance: that's the job of the Association the names of whose officers are printed at page 12. Thomas C. Amory was President of the Board of Trustees.<br/>OCLC 33064696 1- Boston Public 1038097739 also Boston Public as of October 2019. AI 30581 1- Boston Public. Not in Sabin or on AAS's online web site. David Hooton...Printer...Merchants' Hall unknown books
186828080Chicago 1868. Broadsides of various sizes no printers listed. Some occasional minor wear Very Good.<br/><br/> The financial sheets quote daily prices for stocks and bonds in Chicago. They suggest Chicago's emergence as a center of trade and finance before the Great Fire. The sheets include Tyler Ullman & Co. Daily Quotations; and Opening Quotations from the Banking House of Lunt Preston & Kean. <br/> These banking firms were established during the early 1860's and quickly became an important financial force in building and after the Great Fire rebuilding the City of Chicago. Scripps Preston & Kean was involved in the first government loan issued for the prosecution of the Civil War. Howe: CHICAGO COMMERCE MANUFACTURES BANKING AND TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES. Chicago: 1884. unknown books
191032Thick folio of 400 forms bound together 800 pages 36 cm x 22 cm printer and stationers tag from the Martin B. Brown Company order number 29288 at 49 and 51 Park Place on front pastedown. The leather binding is worn and patched with tape and attempts at rehydration of the leather were only partially successful. Handwritten reports on FDNY printed forms give location of the incident location and pressure of the hydrant numbers of officers and firemen accompanying the apparatus and who did or did not accompany and why. Some of these technical reports also give the cause of the fire. Interior fine. Manuscript material on printed forms. hardcover books
1892250573Brooklyn: Brooklyn Fire Department 1892. First. hardcover. good. Compiled from the Records of the Department. 80 illustrations most of which are photographic portraits. 478pp. many pages of ads from Brooklyn merchants 4to original decorated maroon cloth spine ends lightly worn edges of corners worn some pages of text lightly soiled in right margins page 61 lacks the lower right corner margin. Brooklyn: Brooklyn Fire Deparment 1892. First Edition.<br/><br/> Beginning in 1785 the Brooklyn Fire Department consisted of six volunteer firemen who served an annual term. In 1816 with more that 35 firemen the Brooklyn Fire Department was incorporated. In 1898 when the City of Brooklyn was consolidated into the City of New York the Brooklyn Fire Department was merged with the Fire Department of the City of New York. Many of the photographic illustrations are individual portraits of firemen or group portraits of members of engine companies in their uniforms. This work includes the history of those engine companies and the ten districts that encompass them. Some of the merchant ads at the end are illustrated. Interally a bright tight copy.<br/><br/> Brooklyn Fire Department unknown books
1715WRCAM39781London 1715. Broadside 11 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches. Dbd. Early folds and early stab holes in left margin. Some foxing. Very good. A rare leaflet lobbying Parliament on behalf of British merchants who had recently lost £22500 worth of sugar ginger oil and sarsaparilla in a great fire. The merchants had just recently imported the goods paying approximately £3000 in customs. In the present document the merchants petition the House of Commons to allow them to import goods duty-free up to the value of the customs of the goods destroyed. This is among the earliest examples of commercial lobbying literature which first began proliferating in the lobby of the House of Commons at the time of the accession of King George I and the British general election of 1715. ESTC lists three copies at the University of London Oxford and Harvard. GOLDSMITHS 5228.1. HANSON 2169. unknown books
175660002Stuttgart: Cotta 1756. 19 pp. 1 vols. Small folio. Later drab wrappers. Some inoffensive dampstaining still about Fine. 19 pp. 1 vols. Small folio. Cotta unknown books
1906List821San Francisco 1906. Thirty-one silver gelatin prints measuring 4 x 3 inches with four accompanying sheets measuring 8 x 5 ½ inches identifying the images. Also included is the original envelope to an illegible recipient or possibly crediting the images. Fading to images else about fine very good minus overall. Many photographers amateur and professional alike took to the streets of San Francisco to document devastation caused by the earthquake and subsequent fire of 1906. Collected here are thirty-one images taken by one such photographer - likely an amateur based on the image quality and perspectives. What is unusual about the collection here is that the photographer took meticulous notes on each image and the images as found in a rather illegible envelope included several sheets explaining the location of each image. The photographer travelled through most of downtown with varied locations represented. The title is likely misleading as the fire raged for several days and the pictures were likely taken several days after the 18th of April. The envelope has the name "Mrs H. Thof illegible" which suggests that perhaps the photographer was a woman or possibly that these were given to the same as a gift by another photographer. Overall a scarce survival of images of which we find no other copies. books
187138735Chicago 1871. Broadside newspaper extra printed recto only approx. 12 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches. With a matted period hand colored map of Chicago by Rufus Blanchard showing the burnt district. Incredible broadside newspaper extra printed during the Chicago fire.<br/> <br/>This very rare newspaper extra -- believed to be the only newspaper published in Chicago on that day -- was printed sometime during the afternoon or early evening of Monday October 9. The fire had begun the night prior at approximately 9pm which was according to the paper "caused by a cow kicking over a lamp in a stable in which a woman i.e. Mrs. O'Leary was milking." This unsubstantiated myth blaming a poor Irish Catholic immigrant would persist for decades. The newspaper gives an account of the areas under flame detailing many of the buildings already destroyed including the City Water Works the Armory Gas Works Post Offices newspaper offices court houses breweries churches and more: "The scene of ruin and devastation is beyond power of words to describe. Never in the history of the world has such a scene extended terrible and complete destruction by conflagration been recorded; and never has a more frightful scene of panic distress and horror been witnessed among a helpless sorrowing suffering population." The damage to the city would prove extraordinary: the fire killed approximately 300 people burned roughly 3.3 square miles of the central portion of the city destroyed over 17000 buildings and left more than 100000 residents homeless about one third of the population. The final paragraph of the extra notes the exigencies caused by the fire of printing the paper on a borrowed press: "We are under great obligation to the Interior Printing Company 15 and 18 Canal street for accomodations by which are are enabled to issue this extra." OCLC cites but three extant examples Newberry Library i.e. the Graff copy Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Knox College; an additional example is located at the Chicago History Museum.<br/> <br/>Graff 1271. unknown books
1842123046Paris: L. Curmer 1842. First edition of this collection which Carteret considers to be one of the most important illustrated books of the 19th century. Octavo elaborately bound in full red morocco with elaborate gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands elaborate gilt ruling and stamping to the front and rear panels gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles elaborately decorated green morocco doublures hand-stitched patterned endpapers all edges gilt with intricate botanical carvings illustrated with eleven frontispiece titles by Trimolet Charles Jacque Penguilly etc. and numerous vignettes throughout the text. In fine condition. Rare and desirable. "This collection of ten short narratives mostly Gothic or exotic from the literatures of several countries is one of the most charming books of the Romantic period" Ray. L. Curmer unknown books
