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20019010170Chicago: Emperor's Press 2001. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. The dust jacket has a chip to the bottom edge of the front cover. <br/><br/> Emperor's Press hardcover books
1995UBLAMIL00fpEmperor's Press 1995. Fine. Blaze Elzear. Military Life Under Napoleon: the Memoirs of Captain Elizear Blaze. translated by John R. Elting. Chicago: Emperor's Press 1995. 216pp. Illustrated. 4to. Hardcover. Book condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed and yellowed. Emperor's Press hardcover books
1880013291Paris: Calmann Levy. Very Good. 1880. Hardcover. Brown quarter leather binding with marbled paper boards and title gilt on spine. Content in French. All edges are lightly worn and have light soil. Bottom corners are chipped. Spine has light wear. Toning to endpapers and light foxing throughout text block. Written in the late 19th century this book chronicles musicians of the past and present including Gluck Mozart Rossini Weber Berlioz and more. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 438 pp . Calmann Levy hardcover books
18952222068<p>First edition. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2". Fine fresh copy on buff paper. 4 pages.</p><p>An early Riverside County imprint.</p> Board of Fire Underwriters unknown books
1966013393London: Mouton & Co. 1966. Book. Near fine condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. 125 pages of text including a bibliography. Hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear. Unclipped dustjacket with minor shelfwear and minor soiling; protected in archival mylar. First edition. Previous owner's name neatly on the rear endpaper. From the collection of Louis Marder Shakespeare historian and collector of books by on or referring to William Shakespeare. Mouton & Co. 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
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
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
19369736New York Camp Fire Girls Inc. 1936. 1936. First edition first printing so stated "November". Small 8vo. Illustrated with photographs maps drawings etc. Original limp pictorial tan cloth stamped with geometric Art Deco design in orange and dark brown. Very good. 248 pages with index. No signatures or bookplates. The Camp Fire Girls organization was founded in 1912. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. New York Camp Fire Girls, Inc. [1936]. hardcover books
1936Embry 143809Camp Fire Girls 1936. First edition first printing. Owner's name and address minor where to edges still near fine. B&W illustrations. Deco canvas wrappers. Camp Fire Girls, 1936. First edition, first printing. unknown books
182815371Paris: Castil-Blaze PN 23 1828. 1f. title 3ff. preface including a list of operas by Grétry 2-258 i index pp. listing the 46 numbers from the 21 operas found in the work. <br/><br/>The present score is especially interesting as it contains an air from Grétry's opera Cécile et Ermancé ou Les deux couvents comédie mêlée d'ariettes not included in the published edition of the opera. The work in 3 acts to a libretto by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle and Jean-Baptiste-Denis Desprès was first performed on January 16 1792 in Paris at the Comédie-Italienne. <br/><br/>Wotquenne: Catalogue de la Bibliothèque du Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Bruxelles 3624.<br/><br/>Bound with:<br/>Carbonel Narcisse. La Dansomanie Ballet de P. Gardel Arrangé pour le Forte-Piano avec accompagnement de Violon. 1re Livraison. Paris: Frères Gaveaux ca. 1828. 1f. title 1 blank 2-36 pp. Mercier overpaste to imprint. Engraved. The first act only.<br/><br/>Folio. Contemporary green vellum-backed marbled boards with manuscript title label to upper. <br/><br/>Binding worn; hinges split. Castil-Blaze [PN 23] 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
18711001188vo pamphlet publisher’s wrappers illustrated 144 pp. Wrappers chipped at the edges and a bit toned and stained Also signature on top of front wrapper. Bookplate indicating From Henry Belknap Fire Library on front pastedown. Usual aging and toning but overall very good. Gives a lot of detail about the Chicago fires as well as some other significant fires. Includes a folding colored map of Chicago illustrating the burnt portion of the city. There are four other folding plates which include illustrations of the burning of the chamber of commerce and opera house. A note from the publisher indicates a portion of the proceeds from the pamphlet will go toward helping the victims. unknown books
1872517Chicago: Max Stern 1872. 8vo. 195 x 130 mm. 7 ¾ x 5 inches. v 146 24 pp. plus 8 pp. ads. Illustrated with a folding stencil colored map and three folding lithographic plates. Bound in publisher's green cloth binding title in gilt on spine; edges of cloth a bit worn head of spine frayed some loss of color to cloth; illustrations separated at folds expertly repaired. This copy with the signature of Otto Lob on front free-endpaper and title-page. With faults a good copy. First edition self-published by the authors and printed by Max Stern. Contemporary account of the devastating fire that swept Chicago in October 1871. Published for the German language community in the United States it appears that numerous copies were also sent to Germany by the publisher Max Stern. An English language edition was published by Seeger in 1893 as part of the Columbian Exposition that took place in Chicago that year. The map entitled "Chicago as it is Showing the Burnt District" illustrates the impact of the fire in Wards 1 2 14 15 and 16 ranging from Taylor Street near the railroad depot running north to Lincoln Park. The map is colored by stencil in shades of red and green and evokes the destruction the fire caused to this populous part of the City. The book also contains three lithographic plates by Schrader Lith. Steam Press of St. Louis. One is a view of the City from Lake Michigan entitled "Chicago in Flammen". This is followed by a stunning lithographic entitled "Die Ruinen von Chicago" and a third dramatic image showing the burning of the Crosby Opera House and people fleeing the flames. "Saddened by the sight they came to the realization that they had been the protagonists of the last drama ever to be played out at Crosby's Opera House." Not in Howes or Graff. OCLC citing numerous copies in the United States and Germany. Peters American on Stone p. 360 for information on Schrader Lith. Steam Press. Eugene H. Cropsey Crosby's Opera House: Symbol of Chicago's Cultural Awakening Fairleigh Dickinson University Press 2000. Max Stern unknown books
193752948Hartford: Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Co 1937. 8vo pp. 96; printed in blue and black throughout; map endpapers; illustrated throughout; generally a fine bright copy. <br/><br/> Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Co 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
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
607003not signed on a 3/4 length cast portrait of Yvonne De Carlo as Minna Planer with Valentina Cortese as Mathilde Wesendonk Carlos Thompson as Franz Liszt Alan Badel and Richard Wagner and Rita Gam as Cosima Liszt from the 1956 Republic film "Magic Fire". Photograph is on single weight stock; 10" x 8"; very good minor signs of handling; 1956. Information slip on the back. No Binding. Very Good. unknown books
194384999Denver: The Company 1943. Hardcover. Very Good. index 972p. Speckled blue and white cover. 28 cm. Foxing on page edges. No Jacket. Printed slip laid in saying that because of the World War some items were either not available or subject to allocation. <br/><br/> The Company hardcover 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
184936814Philadelphia 1849. Folio large sheet folded to 14" x 22". 4 pp. Partly printed document completed in neat elegant manuscript. Printed on blue paper using decorative and standard typesettings. First page engraved with a beautiful illustration of the Fairmount Waterworks as seen from the west bank of the Schuylkill River; depicting the engine house millhouse mound dam and men fishing from shore. Attributed to "T. Birch del./ R.Tiller Sc.". Beneath the illustration is the policy of insurance blindstamp seal to the left of the signatures. The second page contains columns for recording future transfers of the policy; the third page contains the terms and conditions of permanent policy; and the final page has a printed area for recording the policy number date issued etc. with an illustration of the company's fire mark consisting of a fire-plug hydrant with a section of hose attached to it. A rubberstamped receipt of return deposit which has been signed by George W. Quein as executor of Geo. Quein deceased. Old folds several splits partly repaired. Else Very Good. <br/><br/> The Fire Association of Philadelphia was founded in September 1817 by a group of eleven volunteer engine companies and five volunteer hose companies. The Association distributed a percentage of its profits to local volunteer companies. Insurance policy holders were required to affix fire marks outside of their building to inform fire brigades that the building was insured and by which company. The F.A. fire mark was extremely popular and an estimated 40000 fire marks were issued during the company's history. The Fire Association operated until 1958 when it merged with the Reliance Insurance Company of Philadelphia. <br/> George Quein 1818-1882 owned a grocery business on the corner of 13th and Vine for many years. George W. Tryon 1791-1878 president of the Fire Association of Philadelphia from 1837-1872 had been a maker and seller of firearms was a trustee of the Philadelphia City Savings Institution and vice president of the Philadelphia Association for the Relief of Disabled firemen. William J. Butler 1820-1879 became Secretary to the Company in 1846. 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
1854100210Folio 11 3/4 x17 4 pp. plus two attached receipts for 1854 &1856 engraving on top of first page signed. Some slight aging creasing at folds but in very good or better condition. This is a fire insurance policy of John Wallis for a two story building on the North side of Broadway just off Mullberry Street in Paterson New Jersey.The premium was $15 for $1200 in coverage.It appears that the proceeds from the policy were to be paid to a Cornelius Duryea. An intesting account of an early insurance policy with premiums that just about anyone could handle. books
1867598201867. FIRE LANDS PIONEER. THE FIRE LANDS PIONEER. Volume VIII June 1867 Vol. IX June 1868 Vol. X June 1870. Published by the Fire Lands Historical Society. Sandusky OH: Register Steam Printing Establishment 1867 1868 1870. Three issues in 8vo. marbled-paper-covered leather-backed boards original wrappers bound in. Bookplate. Front board two chipped prelim. blanks detached but present rear board starting crumbling leather. As is with clean text. unknown books
188573568Antwerp Ohio: McCabe & Shaffer Agts. Very Good. 1885. Softcover. Chromolithograph color illustrated advertisement/calendar. German Fire Insurance Co. 1885; measures 10 1/2" x 6 1/2". Nice condition. The attached calender measures 3 1/2" x 3" and all 12 pages are present. At the top of the calendar Pittsburgh PA is printed. Light foxing but overall bright and colorful and pictorial woman portrait and eagle . McCabe & Shaffer, Agts. paperback books