TRADE CATALOGUES Catalogue 65 HIGH RIDGE BOOKS, INC. 120 NORTH STREET SOUTH DEERFIELD, MA 01373-1008 USA (914) 967-3332 [email protected] HIGH RIDGE BOOKS, INC. 120 NORTH STREET SOUTH DEERFIELD, MA 01373-1008 USA (914) 967-3332 e-mail: [email protected] web: www.highridgebooks.com Catalogue 65 (Our 16th Catalogue of Trade Catalogues) If you want digital photos of any items in this catalogue, please ask and we will be happy to provide them promptly. We encourage telephone or e-mail orders and suggest strongly that items be reserved by phone, or e-mail. All items are offered subject to prior sale. Please order by catalogue number, item number and title Prices are net. Shipping is additional. Massachusetts customers will be billed the appropriate sales tax. Overseas customers are asked to remit in U. S. funds, drawn on a U.S. bank. All items are guaranteed and may be returned within 10 days for any reason. If you intend to return an item, please notify us promptly. 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TABLE OF CONTENTS Agricultural Machinery 1 ...... 30 Firearms 301 .... 336 Printers' Specimens’ & Equipment 696 .... 705 Alcohol & Tobacco 31 ...... 38 Fire Engines 337 .... 343 Pumps & Water Wheels 706 .... 717 Architectural Building Materials 39 ...... 63 Food & Drink 344 .... 388 Railroad Equipment 718 .... 724 Artists' Materials & Supplies 64 ...... 69 Furniture 389 .... 431 Refrigerators 725 .... 731 Automobiles and Motorcycles 70 .... 124 Gadgets 432 .... 439 Road Building Machinery 732 .... 736 Aviation Equipment 125 Glassware 440 .... 443 Scales & Weighing Devices 737 .... 738 Barbers' Supplies 126 .... 131 Hardware - Builders' & General 444 .... 461 Seeds and Nurserymens' Products 739 .... 760 Bee Keepers' Equipment 132 .... 134 Hardware - Tools & Machine Tools 462 ..... 497 Sewing Machines 761 .... 764 Bells and Bell Founders 135 Hardware - Miscellaneous. Machinery 498 .... 530 Silverware 765 .... 777 Bicycles and Accessories 136 .... 142 Horse Goods 531 .... 540 Sporting Goods 778 .... 802 Boats and Marine Supplies 143 .... 166 House Furnishings 541 .... 567 Stationery and Paper Goods 803 .... 823 Books, Booksellers, and Publishers 167 .... 178 Jewelry 568 .... 571 Stoves and Heating Equipment 824 .... 843 Carriages, Wagons, and Accessories 179 .... 191 Lighting 572 .... 581 Telephones 844 .... 849 Celebration, Decoration & Theatrical 192 .... 200 Livestock 582 .... 585 Toys, Games, and Entertainment 850 .... 891 China & Pottery 201 .... 212 Medical & Surgical Supplies 586 .... 603 Typewriters and Business Machines 892 .... 897 Clocks & Watches 213 .... 214 Musical Instruments 604 .... 631 Undertakers Equipment 898 .... 899 Clothing 215 .... 250 Optical & Scientific Apparatus 632 .... 651 Washing Machines 900 .... 902 Dental Instruments 251 .... 255 Ornamental Ironwork 652 .... 656 Windmills 903 Department, Dry Goods, Misc. Stores 256 .... 270 Paint 657 .... 670 Miscellany 904 .... 945 Drugs & Pharmaceuticals 271 .... 275 Pets and Pet Supplies 671 .... 677 Electrical Equipment 276 .... 294 Photographic Equipment 678 .... 690 Fences 295 .... 300 Plumbing 691 .... 695 Agricultural Machinery and Equipment 1) American Potato Machinery Co., Illustrated Catalogue 1912 Hammond, IN: 1912. 24 pp., 8vo. Potato planters and diggers, with descriptive text on potato farming. The machines can be pulled by horse or tractor. Fine condition. $40.00 2) Avery, B. F., & Sons, Plows - 1878-79 Louisville, KY: 1878. 64 pp., 12mo. Priced and illustrated catalogue of plows from a manufacturer in Louisville. Excellent condition. There is a list of branch offices, located mostly through the South. See Romaine p.2 for an 1899 catalogue from this company. $150.00 3) Avery, B. F., & Sons, Illustrated Catalogue and Price-List of Plows and Cultivating Implements Louisville, KY: 1882. 38 pp., 8vo. Many fine woodcut illustrations of plows and similar equipment. Also has a poem by Will Carleton, 'Song of the Plow', written especially for Avery. See Romaine for a later edition. $175.00 4) Bain, James M., Directions for Making and Using the Improved Common Sense Incubator Zanesville, OH: 1884. 26 pp., 12mo. Paper wrappers, excellent condition. This entire pamphlet devoted to problems of incubating and raising chickens and eggs for market. Sections are devoted to feeding, diseases of chickens, building chicken coops and other facets of the business. $40.00 5) Baker & Hamilton, Agricultural Implements, Steam Engines, etc. - No. 16 San Francisco, CA: 1882. 140 pp., 8vo. Original front wrapper, soiled, worn and lightly chipped, lacking back wrapper. Internally very good. Fully illustrated wholesale/retail catalogue of equipment and supplies for farmers and ranchers in California. Offers items largely manufactured in the East, though there are six pages of wagons made by the Benicia Agricultural Works in Benicia, CA and other items apparently made by Baker & Hamilton. Tipped in at the front is a 4-page flyer for Booth & Co., Grocers in Sacramento. A great survival. $275.00 6) Buffalo Fertilizer and Chemical Works, Honest Fertilizers - Ammoniated Bone Super-Phosphate and Pure Ground Bone Buffalo, NY: 1882. 24 pp., 8vo. Descriptions of the fertilizers are given along with directions for their use. These were the fertilizers in use before the development of synthetic products. Much of the text consists of testi- monials. There is an 1882 calendar inside the back cover. $50.00 7) Case, J. I., Co., Operator's Instruction Manual for the Operation and Care of Case Model "VA" Series Tractors, Fourth Edition Racine, WI: 1949. 64 pp., 8vo. Printed wrappers, worn and lightly soiled. Internally good. $25.00 8) Childs, J. M., & Co., Agricultural Implements, Wagons, Carriages, Buggies & Specialties Utica, NY: c.1885. 2 pp., folio. Uncolored broadsheet, printed on two sides, with approximately 80 cuts of items for farms. Excellent condition. Cuts includes items from small hardware to windmills. Also includes barbed wire, rakes, harrows, buggies and other items. The center of the recto has a large view of the company's building. $350.00 9) Coe-Mortimer Co., Animal Bone Fertilizers ... Sole U. S. Agents for Peruvian Guano New York, NY: 1906. 40 pp., 12mo. Stiff illustrated wrappers. Text describes the vari- ous fertilizers and their proper usage. $35.00 10) Conant, C. M., Co., Buckeye Broadcast Seeder with Cultivators Bangor, ME: c.1900. 2 pp., 8vo. Single sheet, folded, with illustrations of four models of horse-drawn field equipment. Priced. $30.00 11) Creamery Package Mfg. Co., Price Current - April, 1906 Chicago, IL: 1906. 48 pp., 8vo. Printed wrappers, near mint condition. Illustrated catalogue of equipment for dairies and creameries, including galvanized tanks, butter presses, egg cases, churns, pasteurizers, etc. $125.00 12) Cutaway Harrow Co., Cutaways, Intense Cultivation Is What You Want Higganum, CT: 1895. 36 pp., 16mo. Paper wrappers with view of factory on the back. Well- illustrated with the machines from which they take the company takes its name. Many other useful machines such as cider presses and heavy rollers are also illustrated. $40.00 13) Cutaway Harrow Co., Clark's Cutaway Disk Plow Higganum, CT: 1904. 64 pp., 12mo. This item consists of 12 small pamphlets, brochures and flyers for Clark's plows, in their original postally-used illustrated mailing envelope. $85.00 14) Eclipse Corn Planter Co., Eclipse Corn Planter and Fertilizer Distributor, Improved Enfield, NH: c.1887 1 pp., folio. Attractive broadside flyer advertising this farm implement. The planter is illustrated at the top, with the rest of the sheet taken up with a description of its operation and testimonials. $25.00 15) Goulds Mfg. Co., How to Spray, When to Spray and What Sprayers to Use Seneca Falls, NY: 1906. 24 pp., 8vo. Original tall 8vo wrappers. Illustrated catalogue and descriptive text about sprayers used for crops and painting. Includes stationary and portable models. Weak along center vertical fold, small sticker on front. $50.00 16) Griffith & Boyd Co., Manufacturers of Bone Fertilizers Baltimore, MD, 1920. 84 pp., 12mo. Partially illustrated in color showing the various crops to which the specially designed fertilizers are applicable. Included are sections which provide needed information to farmers everywhere about fertilizers and plant health. $50.00 17) Huntley Mfg. Co., Monitor Rice Machinery - Catalog No. 67 Silver Creek, NY: c.1910. 51 pp., 8vo. Red wrappers, one page torn with no loss. Shows and offers machinery for cleaning, sorting and processing rice. Each of the many machines is offered in a variety of sizes and capacities. $65.00 18) International Harvester Co., Instruction Book - McCormick-Deering Farmall F-14 Chicago, IL: 1938. 92 pp., 8vo. Printed wrappers, soiled. Internally good, one signature loose. Partially illustrated. Owner's manual for a standard farm tractor. $25.00 19) Massey-Harris Co., Stiff and Spring-tooth Cultivators - No. 19 Racine, WI: c.1935. 2 pp., folio. Large circular which folds down to 12mo. Spring-tooth cultivators for farms shown on one side, stiff-tooth on the other. $20.00 20) McSherry Mfg. Co., Founded on the Rock of Ages "Success" Middletown, OH: c.1910. 44 pp., oblong 12mo. Illustrated wrappers, with a brightly colored, very attractive depiction of an eagle perched on a piece of farm machinery. Fully illustrated. Describes many types of equipment, and shows detail on many parts. Export price list at the back in English, Spanish and German.