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186085165New York: Holman & Gray 1860. Hardcover. Very Good. Bound volume containing 14 consecutive reports for 1st of June to the 1st of December 1854 through 1st December 1859 to 31st May 1860. Each report individually paginated -- generally 30-40 pages each. 19th century 1/2 leather. 22 cm. Corners and edges rubbed. Joints quite tender. "Rutgers Ins. Co." in gilt on front cover. Bookplate removed. A few ink markings. <br/><br/> Holman & Gray 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
40711AUTOMOBILE FIRE INSURANCE NATIONAL SECURITY FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. Two-p Monthly Fiscal Bulletin for Omaha Nebraska Insurance Company with Flyer for Automobile Insurance Company aimed at covering fire insurance for Automobiles. Omaha: March 1917. Quarto Two-sheet typed Bulletin on company letterhead wit two-sided printed and illustrated flyer promoting automobile fire insurance. Rare automobile ephemera on automobile insurance the Monthly Bulletin No. 16 March 1917 with typed report to "Stockholders of the National Fire Insuranc Company" on the status of their finances. The company letterhead with automobile and horse driven fire equipment exiting fire house. Included is a printed flyer promoting the need to buy fire insurance for your car "Do they burn" "They do Burn!" with two half-tone photographs of a wrecked automobil and another one of an automobile destroyed by fire. Printed for the Automobi Insurance Company of Lincoln Nebraska. Very good. unknown books
1983217585Atlanta GA: Atlanta Bureau of Fire Services 1983. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Illustrated; No pencil or ink markings in text. Red decorated cloth binding with dark raised lettering. Boards slightly cocked. Very Good binding. Atlanta Bureau of Fire Services unknown books
18005672Boston 1800. 18 1pp. No half title. Disbound light tanning and wear. <br/><br/> With a list of members. George Minot was President of the Society which was incorporated in 1794. <br/>IRST EDITION. Evans 37929. unknown books
31948Evansville IN: M.T. Publishing Company 2006. Hardcover. 9.5" x 12.25". Pictorial boards in matching pictorial dust jacket. Overall clean and sound. Like New. ISBN: 1932439579. . LikeNew. Hardcover . M.T. Publishing Company 2006 hardcover books
1992032017Santa Fe: Bear & Company Publishing 1992. xvii 280p. b/w illus. dj. Bear & Company Publishing unknown books
19631286286New York: George Braziller 1963. First Edition. Octavo; VG/VG; black spine blue/red text; jacket has light rubbing on front and back light bumping on the head mild age toning and tail of spine unclipped and has protective mylar cover; boards has bumping on the head and tail of spine light staining on the tail of front and back; textblock has spotting on the bottom edge otherwise clean; interior pages clean; LP consignment; pp 330. 1286286. Full-priced Rockville. George Braziller unknown books
1971041251Skopje: Makedonska Akademija na Naukite i Umetnostite 1971. 108 1p. original stiff printed wrappers. In Cyrillic with a summary in French. Makedonska Akademija na Naukite i Umetnostite unknown books
1935118290New York: The Association 1935. 206p. very good in original printed wraps. The Association 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
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
186856003New York: Insurance Monitor Office 1868. First edition. Small 4to. 105 3 pp. Introduction: "It is a collection of scattered fragments of insurance wisdom collated from a great variety of sources freely appropriated and brought into an aggregated form whence the tyro in the profession can gather the fruits divested of technicalities." With a southern ownership signature "Jno. R. Long Agt. / Columbus Miss." OCLC locates six copies Buffalo/Erie County Public New York Public Library of Congress Smithsonian North Carolina Brown. Original gilt-stamped blue cloth spine ends and corners rubbed. Very good. 2525. <br/><br/> Insurance Monitor Office hardcover 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
