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1897DEMO007259ILondon: Chapman and Hall 1897. New edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo 296 iv pages green cloth recased with new endpapers. <br/><br/>"The novel breathes with the overtones of plain sky and stars in the setting of a South African farm". "Her best and most famous novel . a neurotic but powerful presentation of life on a remote ostrich farm in the Veld. She was an early passionate but unintegrated feminist -NOVELS AND NOVELISTS." Chapman and Hall hardcover
1898100094New York: The J.L. Mott Iron Works 1898. 1898. Good. - Oblong octavo 5-7/8 inches high by 9 inches wide. Softcover bound in tan wraps titled in copper on the front cover. The covers are slightly soiled and the corners bumped. The edges of the rear cover are darkened. 16 pages with 3 pages of black & white illustrations depicting the heaters and the Tobey steam trap. The corners of the pages are bumped. Good. <p>Established in 1828 by Jordan L. Mott in New York City the American hardware dealer and manufacturer The J.L. Mott Iron Works operated during the late 19th century through the 1920's. Mott's products were mentioned in Benson Lossing's "History of New York City". The company exhibited an elaborate 25 foot tall cast iron fountain at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition.<p>RARE. New York: The J.L. Mott Iron Works, 1898. paperback
1890502San Francsico California: Pacific Rolling Mill Company 1890. 8vo. 250 x 170 mm. 10 x 7 inches. 100 pp. plus 4 leaves of ruled paper 2 with measurements in manuscript. Illustrated throughout with simple drawings of parts many stenciled with green wash; one plate folding. Bound in limp cloth covered boards title in gilt on front cover; a cloth binding shows some wear to gilt title two pencil drawings on front endpaper; other a very good sound copy. Straight forward price list of iron bar steel rail rolled and forged metal axles nuts bolts washers and dozens of other metal products. There is no introduction about the history of the firm just images of parts prices and a few lines of text describing specifications for some of the more complicated manufacture items. What distinguishes this rare trade catalogue is the design sense of many of the images and the application of stenciled color to highlight the object. The printed form of the parts are in outline and as one pages through the catalogue the images take on an abstract quality. Metal parts become contoured shapes with form being determined only by the light green wash applied to the physical part of the design. Although unintentional I am sure this late 19th century publication replete with many of the characteristics of period book design exhibits a very modernist feel one that is most unusual in publications of this nature. Although called the 7th edition this is only one of three issues of the PRMC's product guide and price list that is known. Organized in 1867 PRMC grew continuously and by 1892 was producing more than 40 thousand tons of iron and steel. "This giant enterprise is so closely identified with the manufacturing interests of the Pacific Coast that there is scarcely a manufacturing firm or corporation on the Coast that does not depend upon its output. The mills are located at Potrero Point in South San Francisco and cover an immense area" Master Hands. Romaine Guide to American Trade Catalogues p. 200 this edition and one from 1886 both known in only one copy each at California Historical Society. OCLC cites an edition from 1885 in one copy at San Francisco Public Library and this edition 1890 also in only one copy at California H. S. See: Master Hands in the Affairs of the Pacific Coast Historical Biographical and Descriptive. A Resumé of the Builders of Our Material Progress. San Francisco: Western Historical Publishing Company 1892 pp. 260. Pacific Rolling Mill Company unknown
19000086438Wisconsin: np 1900. Wraps. Very Good. A large unique book ca. 1900 14 x 8.5 inches vertically oriented; softcover about 100 pages of typescript in purple carbon very seldom with ink corrections culled from “The Republic†— probably the Baraboo Republic a newspaper of the period published in Baraboo the county seat of Sauk County Wisconsin this book with material relating to the Iron Brigade the 6th Wisconsin Regiment of volunteers who fought for the Union in the Civil War and also concerning the Sauk County Riflemen. It apparently was compiled by a veteran-turned-historian who concludes this compilation writing “Returned to private life -- became the 'man behind the hoe' instead of 'behind the gun.’†Very rare and a great resource for anyone interested in this period of Wisconsin history. np unknown
184910210Philadelphia: Published by the Committee 1849. Sewn binding. Very good . Octavo 100pp. illustrated with charts and graphs two of which are inserted as issued. A crisp clean example very good or better in the original side-sewn binding and printed wrappers. Short tear to the front wrapper pencilled call number else no evidence of any library markings. Contents clean though the two graphs printed on cheaper paper are evenly age-toned. Spine somewhat chipped. Published by the Committee unknown
184835414Cass County Bartow County Georgia: n.p. 1848. Letter. Good. Letter. Approx. 10" x 8". 4 pages. 2 pages of content and one page with address. Paper is folded. A couple of light red partial wax seals on the address side. Letter transcribed as best as possible:<br /> <br /> Iron Works Cass County Georgia Sept 15 1848<br /> <br /> Mr J. H. Parker<br /> <br /> Dear Sir<br /> <br /> Being absent from home when your letters arrived at the Post Office Is the cause of me not writing you sooner. The money for the machine came duly to hand I am sorry that I can not send you the castings for the machine Our Furnaces is not making good Iron And has not make any good Iron since your Order arrived from Mr Ford It requires good Iron for making the castings We will after stop our Furnances since week or two until we put in new hearth as soon as we get that done we send your castings right on I send your machine to Rail Road to day the the repeated agent said he would send it right on in a few days I hope that it reach you in due time The machine is New & it not cut so well at the start as it will when used a while I will be sirtain to send the casting as soon as their are made write to me soon as convient and to let know whether you have received the machine or not <br /> <br /> Very Respectfully Yours signed Jacob D Shoup<br /> <br /> N B<br /> <br /> The castings you spoke of for Buggs &c cant be furnished at a short notice if you will send the pattens for the same when we get our Furnance in good fix again Your J D S<br /> <br /> We will send them to Rail Road four four cents per pound that will be much better than buying them in Augusta at 18 cts per pound Ours will be as neat any you can get from Augusta J D H<br /> <br /> On the back side is the address<br /> <br /> Iron Works Ga Sept 18th <br /> <br /> Mr Isaac H Parker Newborn P O Newton Co Georgia END<br /> <br /> Georgia business man and industrialist Mark Anthony Cooper formed the Etowah Iron Works in present day Bartow County with Ironmakers Moses and Jacob Stroup in the 1840's. Etowah was located just north of Cartersville Georgia in former Cass County. The Iron Works were destroyed by the Union Army in 1864 and after the War the area remained in ruins. <br /> <br /> From from the Dictionary of North Carolina Biography 6 volumes edited by William S. Powell:<br /> <br /> "Moses Stroup the eldest son of Jacob was born in Lincoln County N.C. With little formal schooling he was brought up in the iron business. Many contemporaries considered him to be one of the "most expert furnacemen" in the South and a "remarkable genius" in the iron business as well as a good money-maker but a "poor keeper." He accompanied his father to South Carolina about 1815 and when Jacob moved to Georgia in the late 1820s Moses stayed behind. But in 1843 he joined his father at Cass County Ga. and bought him out. Moses built a rolling mill and rolled some of the first railroad iron made in Georgia some of which was used on the state-owned Western and Atlantic. In 1847 he sold the Cass County works to Mark Anthony Cooper and Company and shortly moved to Alabama where he bought ore lands from the government and began the Round Mountain Furnace in 1849". <br /> <br /> From wikipedia:<br /> <br /> Bartow County was created from the Cherokee lands of the Cherokee County territory on December 3 1832 and named Cass County after General Lewis Cass 1782–1866 Secretary of War under President Andrew Jackson Minister to France and Secretary of State under President James Buchanan3 who was instrumental in the removal of Native Americans from the area. However the county was renamed on December 6 1861 in honor of Francis S. Bartow because of Cass's support of the Union4 even though Bartow never visited in the county living 200 miles 320 km away near Savannah all of his life. Cass had supported the doctrine of popular sovereignty the right of each state to determine its own laws independently of the Federal government the platform of conservative Southerners who removed his name. The first county seat was at Cassville but after the burning of the county courthouse and the Sherman Occupation the seat moved to Cartersville where it remains. n.p. unknown
188846016N.Y.: Burgoyne Quick Printing Co. 1888. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. Removed from a larger volume rear wrapper lacking minor soiling and browning ownership stamps and page renumbering in red. 17 pp. Sm. 4to. The Iron Mountain Railroad Company of Memphis was part of Jay Gould's extensive network of Railroads later taken over by his son named in this document George Jay Gould 1864-1923 Stamped on front wrapper & first leaf: Property of White & Kemble who'd published "Atlas and Digest of Railroad Mortgages" at the turn of the 20th century. We could locate no copies of this document in OCLC nor in other online sources. Burgoyne Quick Printing Co. unknown
188540240N. P.: Privately printed n. d. ca 1885. 1885. First edition. 2 3/4" x 4 1/4" full color advertising card. Message reads "Home Industry." Pacific Stove & Iron Works Co. Manufacturers of the Rose Camelia and Lily Ranges With Phoenix Patent Fuel Saving Grates 939 Market Street S. F. Verso is unprinted. Fine. Privately printed, n. d. (ca 1885). unknown
18693723Galveston Tx 1869. Very good. 2pp. on a single folded folio sheet of lined paper with integral blank plus fourteen partially-printed receipts completed in manuscript. Minor dust-soiling creasing and edge wear. A post-Civil War manuscript agreement from Texas with the signatures of twenty-six investors transferring their stock in the Brazos Iron Bridge Company to John Sealy of the Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway Company. Additionally the document is noted and signed on the verso by Sealy transferring those same shares to Thomas W. Peirce. The document is accompanied by fourteen receipts for installment payments on capital stock purchased in the Brazos Iron Bridge Company some of which relates directly to the larger transfer agreement. The Brazos Iron Bridge Company was organized in 1867. Its mission was to construct a railway bridge across the Brazos River. The bridge completed in July 1869 was purchased by the Buffalo Bayou Brazos and Colorado Railway later known as the Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway Company. When the dust settled on the various transactions among the shareholders John Sealy owned a one-eighth interest in the railway company. Sealy moved from Pennsylvania to Galveston in 1846 and became an important early Galveston merchant real estate investor and railroad magnate. unknown
18858436New York: Agate Iron Ware Manufacturing Co.; Macgowan & Slipper Printers 30 Beekman Street 1885. Booklet stapled in wrappers 15.5 x 12 cm. 136 pages. Illustrated throughout. Title from cover. Date from page of medals received. Stated "Fourth Edition". There were at least three distinctly different works with this title issued by the corporate author: 1890 72 pages with the Lalance and Grosjean Manufacturing Co name; 1891 32 pages an almanac not a trade catalogue; and this one undated ~136 pages a trade catalogue. Promotional combined trade catalogue and cookbook for Agate Iron Ware Manufacturing Company manufacturers of kitchen ware. Illustrated descriptions of the wares typically two to a page face recipes. The recipes are decidedly Anglo-French not American and they lean towards more elegant fare. Illustrations include the Agate Iron Ware manufacturing plant on front wrapper verso an assortment of medals and awards and an image of a homemaker sitting in her kitchen surrounded by Agate Ware while consulting this cookbook. The front panel bears the printed promotional statement "Compliments of F. A. Walker & Co. Cornhill". In original chromolithograph wrappers decorated in a Japonisme-style. Small stain along bottom edge of text block bit of bumping to the corners. Wrappers worn at corners and with some wear to the bottom of the spine panel. Overall near very good. Agate Iron Ware Manufacturing Co.; Macgowan & Slipper, Printers, 30 Beekman Street unknown
1889B68779Pittsburgh PA: National Lodge of the United States and Canada 1889. Softcover. Very good. RARE! Printed paper wraps octavo paginated 2568-2866 not illustrated. Book has rubbing and soil to wraps mild wear to spine head bunching to spine binding tight text clean and unmarked. The Amalgamated Association of Iron & Steel and Tin Workers was first organized in 1876 and instigated key strikes in the 1880s for better wages and working conditions. In 1887 AA joined with the American Federation of Labor AFL which led to increased power and membership. At its height AA had over 24000 members. AA organized the 1892 Homestead Strike and the length bitterness and violence of that strike nearly bankrupted AA and resulted in a massive loss of its membership. But AA was the seed organization that eventually became the United Steelworkers union in 1942. National Lodge of the United States and Canada unknown
1877h42288NP: Publisher not identified 1877. Very good. 12mo 7.5 x 4.75 inches limp black cloth stamped in gilt on front cover very good light wear faint crease to rear cover contents very good. 36 pp. Very rare OCLC locating a single holding in Wisconsin unaccountably described as having only 24 pp. The Amalgamated was an American labor union formed in 1876 to represent iron and steel workers. It partnered with the Steel Workers Organizing Committee of the CIO in November 1935. Both organizations disbanded May 22 1942 to form a new organization the United Steelworkers. They suffered significant setbacks from the results of the Homestead Strike and their other labor organizing efforts and strikes in early 20th century Pittsburgh and became linked with the AFL which gave them greater traction that increased with the merger of the AFL and CIO. A foundational document in American labor history: one can see the direct influence of fraternal organizations and masonic societies on the rituals of membership in the earliest days of this labor union. Publisher not identified unknown
187645220Philadelphia:: The American Iron and Steel Association 1876. original printed wrappers. Some dust-soiling and spotting to the wrappers. 8vo. The American Iron and Steel Association, unknown
189157039Bath Iron & Rimber Company 1891. Soft Cover. Poor. Prospectus and invitation to buy stock for Bath Iron and Timber Company in Bath Virginia. Pamphlet secured by string binding. 14 pgs. Large chips on front cover and back cover mostly missing. Pencil cursive practice across inside cover and title page. Bath Iron & Rimber Company paperback
189032067East Berlin CT: Berlin Iron Bridge Co ca. 1890s. Large broadside 31.75x47cm.; previous mail folds as issued very slightly postally used on verso else a Very Good or Near Fine example. Advertisement issued by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company depicting their "Patent" municipal signboards including information on production materials and a price guide. Text includes extracts from pertinent New England and mid-Atlantic state laws regarding guide boards. Presumably issued sometime after 1888 the laws in Vermont having been approved November 2nd of that year. As of today many of bridges built by the Company can be found on the National Register of Historic Places. One copy catalogued in OCLC as of November 2016 at the Connecticut Historical Society. Berlin Iron Bridge Co unknown
186278773New York:: Francis Hart & Co. 1862. First edition. publisher's gilt-lettered and blind-embossed cloth. Small marginal chip to one map; cloth a little sunned; a beautiful clean tight and sound copy. . Folio. Decorative half-title page; engraved illustrations throughout; one double-page and one folding double-page map; engraved decorative borders throughout. . Francis Hart & Co., hardcover
187625449Portsmouth Ohio: Jas. W. Newman Printer Times Office 1876. 4" x 6.25". 15 1 pp with folding "Diagram List" and manufacturer's Note tipped in after title leaf. Original printed yellow wrappers rear wrap printed in red ink light wear stitched. Folding plate illustrates the patterns available to cut for customers partly printed in red ink. The final page notes that the company was 'built in 1871' and lists the officers: L.C. Robinson Vice-President; G.W. Weyer Secretary; and M.H. Ball Treasurer. Minor wear Very Good. <br /> <br /> Burgess Steel and Iron Works was named for Charles Burgess the general superintendent and director a native of England who immigrated to the United States in the mid-1860's. Company products were considered superior and won the highest premiums wherever exhibited.<br /> Not in Winterthur Romaine Eberstadt Decker. Not located on OCLC. Jas. W. Newman, Printer, Times Office unknown
1868173873Lille: Imprimerie de L. Danel 1868. Limited to 25 copies. Good overall the silk endpaper has lifted from the corner. 3/4/ black leather with 6 raised bands and gilt title second compartment. Purple silk endpapers and pastedowns. T.e.g. Title-page with large gilt-decorated emblem device above imprint. 3 preliminary leaves 7-97 2 pages mounted portrait. Preliminary states "Recueil des Discours Pronounces sur la Tombe du Baron James De Rothschild et des principaux articles de journaux publiées à l'occasion de sa mort et de ses funéreailles Ce Recuei tire vingt-cinq exemplaires est offert A Madame La Baronne James De Rothschild et a sa famille par le personnel du Chemin de fer du Nord." Includes funeral sermons and obituaries published in Le Temps Journal des debats L'Epoque and other perodicals. The photograph shows the Baron as he appeared in 1864. Worthy of restoration and exceedingly scarce. Worldcat locates 4 copies including 1 in the United States. Imprimerie de L. Danel hardcover
18851010801.22Imprimerie Nationale Paris 1885 - 1890. Hardcover. Good. 4to. Seven annual reports rebound in protective boards Good condition. Apprx 600 pages in seven individual issues edges chipped contents clean binding tight. Imprimerie Nationale, Paris hardcover
1878ZB314855Paris: 1878. quarto 113 pp library markings lacks back cover of paper wrappers text age toned with early and late leaves flaked at margins but no loss neat rebacking with cloth tape good only. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Paris: hardcover
1878ZB314857Paris: 1878. quarto 98 pp library markings text age toned lacks back cover of paper wrappers and spine strengthened with cloth tape good. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Paris: hardcover
1878ZB326314Paris: 1878. published in 1878 quarto 138 pp. folding map; library markings text age toned lacks back cover of paper wrappers and front cover chipped map split spine strengthened with cloth tape good only. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Paris: hardcover
1878ZB326313Lille 1878. quarto 103 pp library markings text age toned lacks back cover of paper wrappers and front cover chipped spine strengthened with cloth tape good only. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Lille hardcover
1878ZB314856Paris: 1878. quarto 98 pp. folding map; library markings lacks back cover of paper wrappers text age toned map has short tear spine strengthened with cloth tape good only softcover. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Paris: paperback
1877ZB314858Lille: 1877. quarto 118 pp library markings text age toned lacks back cover of paper wrappers and front cover chipped at fore edge spine strengthened with cloth tape good only. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Lille: hardcover