1 (Agriculture) Archibald Cochrane, Earl of Dundonald. A TREATISE shewing the INTIMATE CONNECTION that Subsists between AGRICULTURE and CHEMISTRY. Addressed to the Cultivators of the Soil, to the Proprietors of Fens & Mosses, in Great Britain & Ireland; & to the Proprietors of West India Estates. London: for J. Murray & S. Highley, 1795. (ix),252 pages. 10 x 8", disbound. Lacking upper board, lower board detached, few library blindstamps, G. Alkaline salts, coal, lime, magnesia as manure, nitrogen, phosphorus, insects, compost, drainage, fallowing, paring & burning, soils, peat moss, sorel, &c. 'To the Society of Agriculture of the State of Massachusetts, from William Strickland, member of the Board of Agriculture in London' on half-title. $150.00
2 (Agriculture) Barry, P. (Patrick), 1816-1890. The FRUIT GARDEN : a Treatise intended to explain & illustrate the physiology of fruit trees, the theory & practice of all operations connected with the propagation, transplanting, pruning & training of orchard & garden trees, as standards, dwarfs, pyramids, espaliers, &c., the laying out & arranging different kinds of Orchards & Gardens, the selection of suitable varieties for different purposes & localities, gathering preserving fruits, treatment of diseases, destruction of insects, descriptions & uses of implements, &c. Illustrated with upwards of 150 figures, representing different parts of trees, all practical operations, forms of trees, designs for plantations, implements, &c. NY: Charles Scribner, 1852. xiv,398 pages, 1p advertisement, Ellwanger & Barry, Mount Hope Nurseries, Rochester, N.Y. 8 x 5", cloth. Cloth torn along, across spine, tips frayed, cloth soiled, upper hinge pulled, loose, few blanks gone, text G. $25.00
3 (Agriculture) Henry A. Dreer, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. DREER'S GARDEN BOOK 1937. 185 pages. Color & halftone illustrations of roses, flowers, vegetables. 10.5 x 7.5", printed wrapper. Lightly creased, rubbed tip nick, VG. $15.00
4 (Agriculture) I.D. Rupp, Editor, an Association of Practical Farmers; David Emminger, President; Benjamin Haverstick, Secretary. Publishing Committee. The PRACTICAL FARMER. Vol. I, Nos. 1- 12. Mechanicsburgh, Pa.: Printed by Winebrenner, October, 1837 - September, 1838. 288 pages. 7 x 4.5", leather spine, red label, gold title, marbled paper boards. Cover worn, leather cracking, foxed, few creased corners, G. 'To Our Patrons' at head #12 notes year of 'sustained heavy pecuniary losses, by fire & otherwise', name change to Practical Farmer, Silk Cultivator & Educator's Advocate. $150.00
5 (Agriculture) Jean d' Arcet, 1725-1801. DESCRIPTION de DIVERS PROCEDES pour EXTRAIRE la SOUDE du SEL MARIN. Faite en execution d'un arrete du Comite de Salut public du 8 Pluvoise, an 2 de la Republique Francaise. Paris: l'Imprimerie du Comite de Salut Public, [1795]. 80 pages. 11 folding plates: mill with apparatus for extracting soda from sea water. 10.5 x 8.5", half leather, paper boards. Boards detached, worn, blanks gone, titlepage soiled, 6" tear, plate split along fold, few rubberstamps, library plate, pocket, fair. Untrimmed. $250.00
6 (Agriculture) Thacher, James, M.D., 1754-1844. The AMERICAN ORCHARDIST; or A practical treatise on the culture & management of Apple & other Fruit Trees, with observations on the diseases to which they are liable, & their remedies. To which is added the most approved method of manufacturing & preserving cider, & wine from apple juice & currants. Adapted to the use of American farmers, lovers & cultivators of fine fruit. Second edition, much improved. Plymouth: Ezra Collier, 1825. (236) pages. 7 x 4.5", leather spine, paper boards. Large spine chip, cover heavily worn, endsheets gone, damped, text G. American Imprints 22442; Rink, Technical Americana 1677. $50.00
7 (Agriculture) William Schott, Holyoke, Massachusetts. BUFF WYANDOTTES and BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS. 1912 Mating List. 12 pages. 6.25 x 3.25", printed wrapper, envelope. Envelope bit rubbed, else fine. $10.00 8 (Americana) Baldwin, Alice Mary. The CLERGY of CONNECTICUT in REVOLUTIONARY DAYS. Tercentenary Commission of the State of Connecticut, Committee on Historical Publications, #56. Published for the Tercentenary Commission by Yale University Press, 1936. 31 pages. 9 x 6", printed wrapper. VG. $10.00
9 (Americana) Beadle, J. H. (John Hanson), 1840-1897. LIFE in UTAH; or, the MYSTERIES and CRIMES of MORMONISM. Being an Exposé of the Secret Rites & Ceremonies of the Latter-Day Saints, with a Full & Authentic History of Polygamy & the Mormon Sect from Its Origin to the Present Time. Issued by subscription only & not for sale in the book stores. Philadelphia, Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Atlanta: National Publishing Company, copyright 1870. 540 pages, 4pp publisher advertisement. Folding map, double frontispiece, plates, engravings. 8.75 x 5.75", gold & blind stamped purple cloth. 2 board edges nibbled, edges frayed, cloth soiled, text clean, tight, G. $25.00
10 (Americana) Blunt, Joseph, 1792-1860. An ANNIVERSARY DISCOURSE, Delivered before the NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY, on Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827. NY: G. & C. Carvill, Elliott & Palmer, Printers, 1828. 52 pages. 8.5 x 5.5", printed wrapper. Wrap bit soiled, creased, VG. Untrimmed. Noteworthy historian on meaning of European Reformation, North American colonies, cause & effects of American Revolution. $25.00
11 (Americana) Conkling, Margaret C., Melrose, Massachusetts. MEMOIRS of the MOTHER and WIFE of WASHINGTON. New edition, revised & enlarged. NY: C.M. Saxton, Barker & Co, 1860. (246) pages, 4pp publisher advertisement. Engraved frontispiece portrait. 7.5 x 4.75'', brown cloth, gold stamped spine, blind paneled boards. Cover bit rubbed, soiled, bit foxed, few smudges, small owner mark, G. Mary & Martha Washington. Dedicatory poem to Mrs. William H. Seward. $25.00
12 (Americana) Donaldson, Paschal, editor. The ODD-FELLOWS' MINSTREL; comprising a Variety of Odes, to be used on Anniversary & other Public Occasions. NY: Nafis & Cornish, 1848. Copyright 1848. 128 pages. 5 x 3.5", black cloth, gold stamped spine & upper board center, blind paneled boards, gilt edges. Internal upper hinge break, foxed, tips worn, text G. 'A. Philipson from L.J. Jones' on blank. $35.00
13 (Americana) Dow, Peggy & Lorenzo Dow. VICISSITUDES in the WILDERNESS; Exemplified in the Journal of Peggy Dow. To which is added, an Appendix of Her Death, & also, Reflections on Matrimony, by Lorenzo Dow. Fifth edition. Norwich, Conn: William Faulkner, 1833. 214 pages, 2pp advertisement Dow's Family Medicine. 7 x 4.5", black cloth. Cover worn, soiled, text shaken, G. Eccentric itinerant Methodist preacher & diarist wife, from 'what matrimony is not . . . Two persons of the same gender dressed in the garb of the sexes deceive a magistrate or minister, have ceremony performed . . . is downright wickedness . . . ' &c. American Imprints 18007. $50.00
14 (Americana) Fairbanks, Charles W. ADDRESS. One Hundred & Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Battle of Monmouth, Freehold, N.J., June 27, 1903. Press of Levey Bro's & Co, Indianapolis. 16 pages. 9 x 6", printed wrapper. Wrap soiled, corner nick, VG. $15.00
15 (Americana) Grand Lodge of Ancient Free & Accepted Masons of the State of Illinois. PROCEEDINGS of the GRAND LODGE of ANCIENT FREE and ACCEPTED MASONS, of the State of ILLINOIS, at their Twelfth-Fifteenth Grand Annual Communications, held in the City of Springfield, Oct. A.L. 5851-4, A.D. 1851-4. Peoria: Republican Book & Fancy Job Office, 1851, (128) pages; Peoria: Rebublican Book Office,1852, 144pp; Alton: Geo. T. Brown's Steam Press Print, 318pp; Alton: "Telegraph" Book & Job Rooms, 1854, 216pp. 8.75 x 5.5", half black leather, gold tooled spine, cloth boards, gold lettering on upper board. Short spine split, corner nick, cover rubbed, sheet loose, toned, few marks in text, owner name, G. Rosters, constitution. $100.00 16 (Americana) Humphrey, Heman. OUR NATION. A Discourse delivered at Pittsfield, Mass, January 4, 1861, On the Day of the National Fast. Pittsfield: Henry Chickering, Printer, 1861. 37 pages. 9 x 5.5", printed wrapper. Lightly creased, wrap bit rubbed, VG. Peculiarly pious approach, value of fast, prayer, supplication, avoids party politics (paraphrases Jefferson, 'We are all Democrats, all Republicans'), denounces disunion, slavery ('I have no sympathy with those who denounce slave- holders . . . they did not bring the slaves . . . forced upon them in colonial state by mother country . . . abetted by New England cupidity, continuing the traffic . . . '). $25.00
17 (Americana) Ingersoll, Robert G. & Herman E. Kittredge. The WORKS of ROBERT INGERSOLL. In Thirteen Volumes. Lectures, Discussions, Interviews, Political, Legal, Miscellany, Biographical Appreciation (Second edition). Dresden Edition. NY: Dresden Publishing Co, 1915. Frontispiece portraits. 9 x 6", green cloth, paper spine labels, top edges gilt. Spine labels rubbed, soiled, else clean, tight, VG. Robert Green Ingersoll, 1833-1899, noted agnostic, freethinker, orator. $250.00
18 (Americana) Klu Klux Klan. KLU KLUX KLAN. First Annual Xmas Dinner, Dec. 20, 1913, K.K.K. House. Menu/Toasts/Dance card. No imprint. 6 leaves, fronts only, heading, menu, toasts (W.H. Garwood, Prof. Weed, Mr. Weinheimer, Prof. Colton), 14 dances to Merriman's Orchestra, partners in pencil, stiff leaf with 20 autographs. 5.75 x 3.5", initialled alligator textured paper wrapper, opening vertically, cord tie through 2 holes. Lacking usual affixed pencil, trifle soiled, G. $50.00
19 (Americana) Loring, George B., &c. CELEBRATION of the BIRTH-DAY of THOMAS JEFFERSON, at Salem, Mass., April 1st, 1859. Oration by Dr. Geo. B. Loring; Speeches by Hon. Joseph S. Cabot, Col. J.M. Adams, & others; Letters by Hon. J.C. Breckinridge, Hon. Howell Cobb, Hon. John B. Floyd, Hon. Jefferson Davis, Hon. Henry A. Wise, Hon. B.F. Hallett, Hon. John S. Wells, Hon. Bion Bradbury, Hon. Harry Hibbard, Gen. J.S. Whitney, Samuel B. Sumner, Esq., S.O. Lamb, Esq, J.E. Field, Esq, & others. Salem: Advocate Office, 1859. 28 pages. 2 columns. 9 x 6", printed wrapper. Removed, creased, damped, rubbed, fair. $15.00
20 (Americana) O'Gorman, Edith. TRIALS and PERSECUTIONS of Miss EDITH O'GORMAN, otherwise Sister Teresa de Chantal, of St. Joseph's Convent, Hudson City, N.J. Written by herself, with appendix by the publisher. Hartford: Connecticut Publishing Company, copyright 1871. 264 pages. Engraved frontispiece portrait. 7.5 x 5", gold & blind stamped purple cloth. Edges frayed, cover rubbed, soiled, bit shaken, foxed, G. Advised by confessor in Newport, Rhode Island, to join convent, enrolls at St. Elizabeth's Convent, Madison, New Jersey, sent to St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum, Paterson, then Hudson City to establish convent, tells of cruelties to nuns, orphans. Kaplan, American Autobiographies 4317. $15.00
21 (Americana) Sears, Clara Endicott, Harvard, Massachusetts. REVISED CATALOGUE of "FRUITLANDS" at HARVARD, MASS. (24) pages. Before & after halftones of restoration. Additions to Fruitlands Collection 1914-1916, descriptions of house & rooms, p (24): Additions, 1917. 8.25 x 6", stapled booklet. Outer sheet starting along fold, rubbed, soiled, text VG. Lists donations of books, manuscripts, furnishings associated with Alcotts, Charles Lane, Emerson, Thoreau, Harvard Shaker Community. $25.00
22 (Americana) Sunderland, Rev. Byron, K.T. The MASONIC LIFE. An Address delivered in the Hall of the Smithsonian Institution, on the Occasion of the Celebration by the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia of the Festival of St. John the Baptist, June 24, A.D. 1856, A.L. 5856. Washington: George S. Gideon, 1856. 29 pages. 8.75 x 5.5", printed wrapper. Creased, corner damped, nibbled along fold, wrap inscription obliterated, rubbed, text G. $25.00 23 (Americana) The American Home Missionary Society, New York. The FOURTEENTH REPORT of the AMERICAN HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY, Presented by the Executive Committee, at the Anniversary Meeting, May 13, 1840. With an appendix. NY: William Osborn, Printer, 1840. 122 pages. 9 x 5.5", printed wrapper. Few nicks, VG. Officers, constitution, missionaries, statistics, auxiliary reports, directors, members. $15.00
24 (Americana) The American Home Missionary Society, New York. The FIFTEENTH REPORT of the AMERICAN HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY, Presented by the Executive Committee, at the Anniversary Meeting, May 12, 1841. With an appendix. NY: William Osborn, Printer, 1841. 128 pages. 8.75 x 5.5", printed wrapper. Lacking lower wrap, faintly damped, else VG. Officers, constitution, missionaries, statistics, auxiliary reports, directors, members. $15.00
25 (Americana) The American Home Missionary Society, New York. The SIXTEENTH REPORT of the AMERICAN HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY, Presented by the Executive Committee, at the Anniversary Meeting, May 11, 1842. With an appendix. NY: William Osborn, Printer, 1842. 132 pages. 8.5 x 5.5", printed wrapper. Lacking lower wrap, few pages soiled, margins trimmed, corners creased, G. Officers, constitution, missionaries, statistics, auxiliary reports, directors, members. $15.00
26 (Americana) Tomlinson, Everett T., Elizabeth, New Jersey. The BOYS of OLD MONMOUTH: A Story of Washington's Campaign in New Jersey in 1778. Boston & NY: Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1898. Copyright, 1898. vii,427 pages. 6 plates by John H. Betts. 7.75 x 5", red & green stamped tan cloth. Cover trifle soiled, endsheet owner name & rubberstamp, clean, tight, near fine. Historical fiction for young readers. $35.00
27 (Americana) Webb, Thomas Smith & George W. Chase, Haverhill, Massachusetts. The FREEMASON'S MONITOR; or, Illustrations of Masonry. A new & illustrated edition. Boston: Brown, Taggard & Chase, 1859. 352 pages, publisher list & regalia advertisement on lower endsheet. Many small engravings. 4.25 x 3", flexible leather extending over foredge, tab inserted under band in upper board, gold stamped spine 'Pocket Monitor', gold edges. Few short leather tears near tab, cover worn, text VG. $35.00
28 (Americana) Weis, Frederick Lewis. The COLONIAL CLERGY of MARYLAND, DELAWARE and GEORGIA. Publications of the Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy V. Lancaster, MA: 1950. 104 pages. Frontispiece: First Church of Christ, Lancaster, Massachusetts interior. 9 x 6", gold stamped red cloth, no dj. VG/none. $10.00
29 (Americana) William H. Seward, Secretary of State, United States of America. PAPERS relating to FOREIGN AFFAIRS, accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth Congress. Part I. Washintgon: GPO, 1866. xx,671 pages. 9 x 6", black cloth. Edges frayed, bit shaken, toned, G. Correspondence with British Ambassador Charles Francis Adams, November, 1864 - December, 1865 regarding British role in Civil War. 'Thomas G. Lindsay Esq, with the compliments of the Secretary of State of the United States - March 5, 1868' on blank. $50.00
30 (Amusements) Asbury Park, New Jersey. THIRTIETH ANNUAL BABY PARADE PROGRAM, Asbury Park, August 31st, 1920. (36) pages. Portraits of mayor, carnival director, assistant, Queen Titania XXX, queen's maids, flower girls, halftones of prize, Asbury Park, illustrated local advertisements. 12 x 9", blue & black printed pictorial wrapper. Bit rubbed, soiled, VG. Parade formation, officers, Mother Goose Party, Miniature Colonial Wedding, divisions, list of contestants. $40.00 31 (Amusements) Hamilton, Robert. The ORACLES of SHAKSPEARE;; with a selection of Aphorisms, from the same author. Seventh edition. Auburn: Derby, Miller & Co, 1848. 128 pages. Color half-title. 4.5 x 2.75", gold & blind stamped black cloth, gilt edges. Tips frayed, cloth rubbed, text bit foxed, G. Game in which player selects question ('Am I beloved?', 'Shall I be married?', 'Shall I be rich', &c), then slip with number, checks chart for star name & answer to question. $25.00
32 (Amusements) Hotel Traymore, Atlantic City, New Jersey. EVENING MUSICALE by the Traymore Quintette, Friday, November 4, 1927. (Program). Small broadside, 8 x 4.5". Creased, VG. $6.00
33 (Amusements) Prof. J.S. Black's Musical Institute, Rochester, New York. GRAND CONCERT and FINE ART DISTRIBUTION, for Benefit of the Musical Institute. (Advertising leaflet). Rochester Democrat Printing House, no date, ca 1866 (pencil note). 3 pages. Engraving of Palmer Block with Musical Institute. Folded sheet, 8.25 x 5". Creased, bit foxed, rubbed, G. List of works to be distributed with values, Wilbur, Coast of Maine, Church, Under Niagara, Chromo, House of Washington, Proof Engraving, Hilliard, Catskill Creek, Bower of Boston, Fruits, Rogers Statue, &c. $20.00
34 (Amusements) Starr, Frederick, Collected & Edited. A LITTLE BOOK of FILIPINO RIDDLES. Philippine Studies I. Yonkers: World Book Co, 1909. Copyrighted 1909. Torch Press, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 133 pages. Bibliography. 6 x 3.75", green cloth, no dj. VG/none. Introduction briefly discusses collection, languages, anthropology, history, taxonomy of riddles. $15.00
35 (Amusements) Steel Pier Ballroom, Atlantic City, New Jersey. Sunday August 25th, 1929, Opera in English: "MARTHA" by Friedrich von Flotow. Program. (4) pages. Halftone of building. Singers, afternoon & September 1 programs. Folded sheet, 9 x 6". Creased, rubbed, G. $8.00
36 (Amusements) Steel Pier, Boardwalk at Virginia Avenue, Atlantic City, New Jersey. STEEL PIER, ATLANTIC CITY. Program Beginning Sunday, August 18th, 1929. (32) pages. Panoramic halftones of Convention Hall, skyline, aerial view of Steel Pier, views of beach, pier at night, boats, lighthouse, coast guard, Casino Hall, Hawaiian surfers, diving horse, golf clubs, many advertisements for hotels, amusements. 7.5 x 5.25", printed wrapper. With 7.5 x 5" broadside program for Steel Pier Stage Presentations beginning Monday, August 19, 1929. Rubbed, VG. $25.00
37 (Architecture) American Sheet & Tin Plate Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. COPPER: Its Effect Upon STEEL for ROOFING TERNE PLATES. Eighth edition. 1931. 28 pages. Illustrations of roofing tin manufacture, tests, buildings, construction details. 11 x 8.5", printed stiff paper. VG. $15.00
38 (Architecture) American Sheet & Tin Plate Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. AMERICAN APOLLO BEST BLOOM and KEYSTONE COPPER STEEL GALVANIZED SHEETS. Fifth edition. 1930. (24) pages. Illustrations of sheets, drain pipe installations, tanks, silos, flumes, industrial buildings, tall buildings. 11 x 8.5", printed stiff paper. VG. $15.00
39 (Architecture) Benjamin Moore & Company, New York. SANI-FLAT: A Sanitary Flat Oil Paint for All Interior Painting. The Perfect Flat Velvet Finish. (Paint chip folder). December, 1937 - printer code. 8.5 x 21" sheet folding to 8.5 x 3.5". 20 paint chips, image of paint can. Trifle rubbed, VG. $15.00
40 (Architecture) Benjamin Moore & Company, New York. UTILAC: A Utility Enamel. Quick Drying. (Paint chip folder). September, 1938 - printer code. 6.5 x 18" sheet folding to 6.5 x 3.75". 30 paint chips, tissue with list of colors. Small adhesive damage to 2 chips, bit rubbed, G. $10.00 41 (Architecture) Betjeman, John. GHASTLY GOOD TASTE or, a depressing story of the rise & fall of English Architecture. Revised with annotations by the author, with a beautiful folding illustration, nine feet long, drawn by Peter Fleetwood-Hesketh. NY: St. Martin's Press, copyright 1971. 112 pages. Folding illustration. 9.5 x 7", cloth spine, printed paper boards, dj. VG/VG. $15.00
42 (Architecture) Boudon, Philippe; Gerald Onn, translator; Henri Lefebvre, preface. LIVED-IN ARCHITECTURE: Le Corbusier's Pessac revisited. First English edition. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1972. 70 halftones, drawings, plans. 8 x 5.5", cloth, dj. Dj trifle rubbed, VG/VG. ISBN 0262020831. $15.00
43 (Architecture) Carl Feiss, Introduction; Historic Savannah Foundation, Incorporated. HISTORIC SAVANNAH. Copyright 1968. (249) pages. Many illustrations of buildings. 11 x 9", cloth, dj. Dj edge wear, else VG/G. $25.00
44 (Architecture) Chesbro-Whitman Company Incorporated, a subsidiary of The Patent Scaffolding Co, Newark, New Jersey & Long Island City, New York. PSCO ALUMINUM SCAFFOLDS. Copyright 1960. (8) pages. Illustrations of scaffolding, installations. 11 x 8.5", stapled booklet. VG. $10.00
45 (Architecture) Eisenhart, Luther P., editor. HISTORIC PHILADELPHIA from the Founding until the Early Nineteenth Century: Papers Dealing with its People & Buildings, with an Illustrative Map. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 43, Part 1. 1953. Reprinted 1965. 331 pages, xix index. Map in pocket, Many illustrations. 12 x 9", cloth, dj. Dj edge chips, VG/G. Riley, Independence Hall & Franklin Home; Lingelbach, Philosophical Hall; Gilchrist, Philadelphia Exchange; Peterson, Carpenters Hall & Library Hall; Eberlein, Washington & Adams Home; Churches, Banks, Peale Museum, Schools, Pennsylvania Hospital, Atheneum, Academy of Natural Sciences, Franklin Institute, Theatre, Taverns, Prisons. $15.00
46 (Architecture) Elks National Memorial Headquarters Commission. Chicago, Egerton Swartwout, New York, architect. The ELKS NATIONAL MEMORIAL. (Souvenir View Book). Authorized by The Grand Lodge of the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks of the USA. Published 1931. 73 pages. 9 color plates of murals by Edwin Blashfield & Eugene Savage, 24 duotones of building, statuary, interiors, doors. 12 x 9'', gold embossed cloth, no dj. VG/none. $15.00
47 (Architecture) Fishwick, Marshall & J. Meredith Neil, editors. POPULAR ARCHITECTURE. Bowling Green: Bowling Green Popular Press, no date, ca 1973? 120 pages. Illustrated. 9 x 6", paperback. Review slip. 5 pages underlined, cover bit soiled, G. Las Vegas on My Mind; Denise Scott Brown, Learning from Pop; Robert Jones, Woolworth's Tower; Mark Lapping & Bruce Etherington, Squatter Settlements; Alan Gowans, David Burg, &c. $10.00
48 (Architecture) Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect. The SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM. NY: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation & Horizon Press, copyright 1960. (72) pages. Many halftones, 1 foldout, of museum, artworks. 10 x 8", paperback. Cover scuffed, G. $10.00
49 (Architecture) Gaffney, Walter M., architect, Hyannis; National Plan Service. CAPE COD COTTAGES. No date, ca 1935? 12 pages. Drawings & floorplans for 10 houses (Cap'ns Bearse, Nickerson, Hallett, Doane, Allen, Chase, Baxter, Crosby, Hinckley, Crocker), 6 'small camps & cottages'. 9 x 12'', printed wrapper. Wrap soiled, rubbed, short split, slight edge damp damage, G. Foreword: 'early settlers . . . thrifty & honest people, true 'Yankees' & architecture an honest solution of requirements . . . wants were few & homes filled needs perfectly . . . great strides have been taken . . . plans not reproductions, but adaptations'. $25.00 50 (Architecture) Giedion, Sigfired. WALTER GROPIUS: Work & Teamwork. NY: Reinhold Publishing Corporation, copyright 1954. 249 pages. Illustrated. 10 x 7.75", cloth, dj. Few dj edge nicks, owner name, G/G. $25.00
51 (Architecture) Haim Gamzu, Tel-Aviv Museum & Arieh Sharon, Association of Engineers & Architects in Israel, texts. ARCHITECTURE in ISRAEL: the tel-aviv museum-dizengoff house, dec.67-jan.68. Presented by the Institute of Architects, Association of Engineers & Architects in Israel. 12 pages each English & Hebrew text, 151 halftone illustrations of contemporary buildings. 8 x 7", paperback. Cover trifle soiled, VG. $15.00
52 (Architecture) Hardin, John R. The MARCUS L. WARD HOME at Maplewood, N.J. with some References to its Founder & to other Foundations of Similar Type. June, 1928. (34) pages. 15 plates of building exteriors & interiors by John Russell Pope, architect, New York City. 9.5 x 6", gold lettered green cloth, no dj. VG/none. Brief family history & biography of Marcus Lawrence Ward, 1847-1920, provisions of will, establishment of Marcus L. Ward Home for Aged & Respectable Bachelors & Widows, Maplewood, New Jersey. $25.00
53 (Architecture) Harrison Brothers & Company, Incorporated, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. HARRISON'S FLOOR PAINT For inside use: 8 Colors & All Good. (Paint chip folder). January, 1905 - printer code. (4) pages. 8 paint chips, glassine tissue. Folded slip, 6.25 x 3.5". Short split, light offsetting, G. Founded 1793, bought by Du Pont 1917. $10.00
54 (Architecture) Harrison Brothers & Company, Incorporated, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. HARRISON'S OUTSIDE FLOOR PAINT for Porch Floors, Steps, &c: 6 Colors & All Good. (Paint chip folder). No date, ca 1905. (4) pages. 6 paint chips, glassine tissue. Folded slip, 6.25 x 3.5". Short split, light offsetting, adhesive stain on back, G. Founded 1793, bought by Du Pont 1917. $10.00
55 (Architecture) Harrison Brothers & Company, Incorporated, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. HARRISON'S VARNISH STAINS: "9 Colors & All Good". (Paint chip folder). January, 1905 - printer code. (4) pages. 9 paint chips, glassine tissue. Folded slip, 6.25 x 3.5". Short split, light offsetting, light adhesive staining on back, G. Founded 1793, bought by Du Pont 1917. $10.00
56 (Architecture) Hartwell & Richardson, Architects; The Youth's Companion, Boston, Massachusetts. SOUVENIR of the YOUTH'S COMPANION, 1893. (36) pages. Tinted lithographs of magazine's new building: perspective, entry, vestibule, offices, presses, folding, stitching & mailing rooms, boiler room, details. 5 x 7'', stapled booklet. Slightly soiled, VG. $25.00
57 (Architecture) Hitchings & Company, Greenhouse Builders, Home Office & Factory, Elizabeth, New Jersey. HITCHINGS SUPPLY BOOK. Fifth edition. No date, 1930 - text. 88 pages, order blank. Illustrations of greenhouses, construction details, sash, hardware, benches, boilers, asbestos, fittings. 11 x 8.5", printed wrapper. Wrap detached, few pencil notes, staples little rusty, G. $25.00
58 (Architecture) Hodgson, Fred T. BUILDERS' RELIABLE ESTIMATOR and CONTRACTORS' GUIDE: A Complete Guide for Pricing All Builders' Work. Contains many tables, rules & useful memoranda. The rules show how to measure all kinds of work, before & after construction. How to estimate the cost of any work. How to tell the time the work should take to complete. Tells how much work a man should perform in a day & how much material the work will require. Special exclusive edition. Chicago: Sears, Roebuck & Company, 1914. 269 + 263 pages, (78)pp perspective drawings for 39 buildings & floorplans, publishers advertisements. Many diagrams. 7.75 x 5.5", pictorial green cloth. Cover rubbed, VG. $50.00 59 (Architecture) Hope's Windows Inc, Jamestown, New York. HOPE'S LOK'D BAR STEEL SASH in Pivoted & Commercial Projected Types. Publication No. 76C, November, 1947. 28 pages. Illustrations of steel sash production, sash, details, installation, layout, industrial buildings. 11 x 8.5", printed wrapper. VG. $25.00
60 (Architecture) Koch, Carl, 1912-1998, designer of the Techbuilt House, 'Grandfather of Prefab', with Andy Lewis. AT HOME with TOMORROW. NY & Toronto: Rinehart & Company, copyright 1958. (First edition). 208 pages. Illustrated, blueprint endsheets. 7.5 x 10", cloth, no dj. Slightly scuffed, smudged, VG/none. $45.00
61 (Architecture) L.M. Rumsey Manufacturing Company, St. Louis, Missouri. PLUMBING and HEATING SUPPLIES, with their accessories. Catalog H. Copyright 1914. xxxii,741 pages. Illustrations of factory, bathroom fixtures, furnishings, slop sinks, urinals, bubblers, water heaters, faucets, fittings, traps, tools, hydrants, pumps, valves, radiators, &c. 9 x 6", limp leather. Lacking most cover leather, cover very chipped, worn, text bit shaken, G. $35.00
62 (Architecture) Le Corbusier; Peter de Francia & Anna Bostwick, translators. The MODULOR: A Harmonious Measure to the Human Scale Universally applicable to Architecture & Mechanics. Second edition, first English edition. London: Faber & Fabery, 1954. 243 pages. 100 illustrations. 7.5 x 7.5", black & red embossed grey cloth, dj. Light dj edge wear & soiling, else VG/G. $20.00
63 (Architecture) Libbey, Owens, Ford Glass Company, Toledo, Ohio. GLASS: Designed for Happiness by Libbey - Owens - Ford for Brighter, Cheerier & More Livable Homes. July 1941 - printer code. (24) pages. Color halftones of living rooms, interiors with picture windows, mirrors, bathroom, dining room, kitchen, game room. 11 x 8.5", stapled booklet. Corner creased, VG. $15.00
64 (Architecture) Libbey, Owens, Ford Glass Company, Toledo, Ohio. THERMOPANE: a Metal-to- Glass Welded Insulating Unit, Reduces Heat Loss, Increases Air-conditioning Efficiency, Reduces Down Drafts at Windows, Reduces Possibiliy of Condensation, Only 2 Surfaces to Clean, &c. February 1948 - printer code. (12) pages. Illustrations of residential, industrial, commercial installations. 11 x 8.5", stapled booklet. VG. $15.00
65 (Architecture) Marlatt, Earl Bowman, Class of 1922. CHAPEL WINDOWS: Boston University School of Theology, 72 Mount Vernon Street, Boston. Copyright 1924. (22) pages. Halftones of windows, chapel exterior, interior. 10.75 x 8", printed wrapper, applied color illustration. Wrap creased, edges rubbed, VG. $15.00
66 (Architecture) Mason, H.F. Randolph; Introduction: Robert J. Craig. HISTORIC HOUSES of CONNECTICUT Open to the Public. Connecticut Booklet No. 5. Sponsored by The Connecticut League of Historical Societies. Stonington: Pequot Press, 1963. 64 pages. Pictures & descriptions of 55 houses, map. 9 x 6", printed wrapper. Rubbed, VG. $8.00
67 (Architecture) Massachusetts Building Commissioners & Inspectors Association, Incorporated, Boston, Massachusetts, Hugh H. Boyd, Clerk. OFFICIAL PUBLICATION of the Massachusetts Building Commissioners & Inspectors Association, 1940. 380 pages. Many advertisements. Illustrated. 9 x 6", cloth, no dj. Lower blank removed, VG/none. Officers, members, laws & regulations relating to erection, alteration, inspection & use of buildings, boiler rules, annual report of Commissioner of Public Safety. $20.00
68 (Architecture) Metropolitan Greenhouse Manufacturing Corporation, Brooklyn, N.Y. METROPOLITAN VENTILATING APPARATUS. Bulletin 131. Copyright 1931. 20 pages. Drawings of greenhouse machinery. 9 x 6", printed wrapper, small image of factory. Few creases, G. $15.00 69 (Architecture) National Association Builders' Exchanges of the United States of America. BALTIMORE of TO-DAY. Souvenir of the Fifth Annual Convention, National Association of Builders' Exchanges of the United States of America, Baltimore, Maryland, February 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 1916. 136 pages. Portraits of politicians & officers, halftones of downtown, city hall, parkway, harbor, railroads, skyscraper, dam, Roland Park, river, rowhouses, schools, postoffice, courthouse, boulevards, illustrated advertisements for contractors, building supplies. 10.5 x 7.5", printed stiff paper. Library marks, cover edges chipped, text G. $25.00
70 (Architecture) Negroponte, Nicholas. The ARCHITECTURE MACHINE: Toward A More Human Environment. Cambridge & London: MIT Press, copyright 1970. 153 pages. Illustrated. 7.25 x 7.25", paperback. Review slip inserted. Cover bit soiled, VG. ISBN 0262640104. $35.00
71 (Architecture) New York World's Fair 1939, Inc. The TOWN of TOMORROW and HOME BUILDING CENTER. Souvenir Folder with 15 Demonstration Home leaflets. 4-pages each. Folded sheets, 10.5 x 7.25". Drawings, plans. Blue printed orange folder. Folder rubbed, corner chipped, leaflets VG. 1. Henry Churchill, Dual Duty House; 2. Lawrence Kocher, House of Plywood; 3. Landefeld & Hatch, Bride's Home & 4. House of Glass; 5. George Conner, Small Brick Home; 6. Evans, Moore & Woodbridge, Small Wood Home; 8. Cameron Clark, New England Home; 10. Vernon Johnson, House of Vistas; 13. Garden Home; 15. Godwin, Thompson & Patterson, Insulated House; 16. Electus Litchfield, Kelvin Home; 17. Chapman & Beder, Celotex House; 18. James O'Connor, Electric Home; 19. Perry Duncan, Fire-safe Home; 21. Adams & Prentice, Motor Home. $75.00
72 (Architecture) O'Gorman, James. The ARCHITECTURE of FRANK FURNESS. Catalogue of Selected Buildings by George E. Thomas & James F. O'Gorman; Checklist of the Architecture & Projects of Frank Furness by George E. Thomas Hyman Myers, Special Photography by Cervin Robinson. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art April 5 to May 27, 1973. 212 pages. Illustrated, some color, floorplans. 11 x 8.5", paperback. Gift inscription, VG. ISBN 08766330154. $10.00
73 (Architecture) Paul Goldberger & Richard Reid, text; Luigi Ghirri, Wolfgang Hoyt, Norman McGrath, Piero Sartogo, photos; Piero Sartogo Architetti Associati, architect. 730 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. Milan: l'Arca Edizioni SpA, copyright 1990. 61 pages. Color photographs of Bulgari jewelry shop in Warren & Wetmore's 1924 Crown Building, storefront, street, stonework, interiors, furnishings, display cases. 13.5 x 9.5", embossed paper boards, applied color illustration, no dj. VG/none. ISBN 8870380083. $15.00
74 (Architecture) Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The making of a LEADER: PENNVERNON WINDOW GLASS. Copyright 1935, revised 1940, printer code. (16) pages. Halftones of production, cutting, inspection, shipping. 11 x 8.5", embossed wrapper. VG. $25.00
75 (Architecture) S.C. Johnson & Son, Racine, Wisconsin. PROPER TREATMENT for FLOORS. Copyright 1927. 32 pages. Illustrations of factory, interiors of offices, hospitals, dance halls, cafeteria, store, with wood, linoleum, rubber, terrazzo floors, polisher, containers of wax, varnish, stain. 9 x 6", color wrapper. VG. $15.00
76 (Architecture) Sears, Roebuck & Company, Modern Homes Main Offices, Factories & Warehouses: Norwood, Ohio & Newark, New Jersey. The BOOK of MODERN HOMES, complete with floor plans & descriptions. Copyright 1939. 52 pages. Perspective drawings & isometric floorplans of many homes. 11 x 8.5", color wrapper. Wrap edge tear, VG. $25.00 77 (Architecture) Simonds Manufacturing Company, Fitchburg, Massachusetts. SIMONDS GUIDE for CARPENTERS. A book of useful rules and illustrations gathered from different sources. Entirely revised. Copyright 1914. 64 pages. Small illustrations of factories, 12 hand saws, building & sharpening details. 5 x 2.5'', printed stiff paper. VG. $15.00
78 (Architecture) Small Homes Guide, Inc, Chicago, Illinois. SMALL HOMES GUIDE. 30th edition. Summer-Fall, 1953. 272 pages. Illustrated, 75 home plans, much color, many advertisements. 12.5 x 9.5", printed wrapper. Corner nick, wrap rubbed, trifle toned, G. $25.00
79 (Architecture) Soss Manufacturing Company, Roselle, New Jersey. SOSS INVISIBLE HINGES. Catalog No. 10. 21 pages, 4pp Price Lists, April 15, 1937 & March 1, 1939, 4pp circular with typed letter on first page inserted. Birdseye view of factory, illustrations of hinges, doors, entrances, installation drawings. 11 x 8.5", printed stiff paper. VG. $25.00
80 (Architecture) The Patterson-Sargent Company, Cleveland, &c. BPS FLOOR and DECK ENAMEL for use on Interior & Exterior Wood & Cement Floors. (Paint chip folder). Copyrighted 1931. 8 x 15" sheet folding to 8 x 3.75". 26 paint chips, small images of man & woman painting floors. VG. $15.00
81 (Architecture) Valentine & Company, Varnish Makers, New York. HOW VARNISH IS MADE. Illustrated. Valentines Varnish Works Illustrated. Copyright 1875. (40) pages. Engravings of gum- room, turpentine tank, engine-house, boiling, melting, straining, grinding, shipping rooms, umber- washing, oil sediment building, sealing, case & tin shops, 3 sentimental silhouettes. Carriage repair, piano-box, wagon, varnish prices. 9.5 x 6.5", printed wrapper. Stab holes in gutter margin, cover soiled, small stain, corners creased, chipped, rubbed, fair. $50.00
82 (Architecture) Venturi, Robert; Vincent Scully, introduction. COMPLEXITY and CONTRADICTION in ARCHITECTURE. The Museum of Modern Art Papers on Architecture 1. NY: The Museum of Modern Art, with Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in The Fine Arts, Chicago, distributed by Doubleday & Company, copyright 1966. (143) pages. Illustrated. 7.75 x 5.75", paperback. Cover bit soiled, slightly shaken, owner initials & sticker (architect Ellen Perry Berkeley), G. $10.00
83 (Architecture) William R. Jack, Designer & Master Craftsman, Carroll E. Whittemore Associates, Boston, Massachusetts. STAINED GLASS. Copyright 1945. (20) pages. Illustrations of ecclesiastical stained glass, cartooning, cutting pattern, glass, tracing, painting, glazing. 9 x 6", color wrapper. Wrap trifle rubbed, soiled, VG. $25.00
84 (Architecture) Wrightson, Priscilla, introduction, catalogue & notes; Carl J. Weinhardt, preface. The ENGLISH PICTURESQUE VILLA and COTTATE, 1760-1860. Indianapolis Museum of Art Bulletin, Volume I, Number 3 (New Series), Summer, 1973. Pages (135)-205. Many illustrations. 10 x 7", printed wrapper. Few corner creases, tiny spot, VG. $10.00
85 (Art) A. Edward Newton, introduction; Elizabeth Mongan & Edwin Wolf 2nd, catalogue, The Philadelphia Museum of Art. WILLIAM BLAKE, 1757-1827. A descriptive catalogue of an exhibition of the works of William Blake selected from collections in the United States. Philadelphia: 1939. 175 pages. Many illustrations. 10 x 8", paperback. Spine nick, corners bumped, cover bit soiled, VG. $10.00
86 (Art) Arthur Fairbanks, Director, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts. CATALOGUE of PAINTINGS. Preliminary edition. 1921. 271 pages, 1p arrangement of galleries inserted. 7.5 x 5", cloth spine, printed paper boards, no dj. Boards rubbed, soiled, owner name, few pencil notes on Monet, VG/none. $15.00 87 (Art) Beck, Carol H., editor. CATALOGUE of the W.P. WILSTACH COLLECTION, Memorial Hall, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, 1908. Published by the Commissioners of Fairmount Park. (103) pages. 34 plates of paintings. 9.5 x 6.5", printed wrapper. Wrap edges chipped, corner damped, lacking upper blank, G. $10.00
88 (Art) James S. Plaut, foreword; MacKinley Helm & Frederick S. Wright, essays. JOHN MARIN: Retrospective Exhibition, 1947, The Institute of Modern Art, Boston. 41 pages. 2 color plates, 2 portraits, 34 halftones of paintings, drawings, etchings. 10 x 7", printed stiff paper. VG. $10.00
89 (Art) Murray, Henry The ART of PORTRAIT PAINTING in OIL COLOURS, with Observations on Setting & Painting the Figure. Fifty-fifth thousand. One Shilling Hand-books on Art No. 11. London: Winsor & Newton, no date, ca 1890?. 72 pages, 64pp Catalogue of Colours & Materials for Oil & Water Colour Painting, engravings of ink bottles, tubes, boxes, brushes. 7 x 4.75", printed yellow cloth over stiff paper. Cover soiled, shaken, G. $20.00
90 (Art) Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. SUN RISE ISSUE of PHILADELPHIA SKETCH CLUB'S ANNUAL: The Dawn of a New Era - Oh Yeah, "Oh - Let It Be Soon", 1932. Lang Company, engravings, Japan Paper Company, Halpin & Bradbury Printers, Philadelphia. (23) pages, printed fronts only. Embossed frontispiece, illustrations by John Geiszel, Henry C. Pitz, Edward Warwick, cartoons. 8.25 x 6", printed wrapper. Toned, rubbed, VG. Much hilarity over impending end to prohibition, officers. $25.00
91 (Art) Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The ANNUAL Published by & for the Members of the Philadelphia Sketch Club, 1933. T.C. Davis & Sons, Philadelphia, printing. (24) pages, printed 1 side only. Illustrations by Henry C. Pitz, &c. 8.5 x 6.25", printed wrapper. Bit wrap edge wear, soiling, VG. Celebration of end of prohibition, officers. $25.00
92 (Art) Rexford Newcomb, Allen Weller, Frank Roos, essays, University of Illinois. UNIVERSITY of ILLINOIS COMPETITIVE EXHIBITION of CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN PAINTING, College of Fine & Applied Arts, February 29 through March 28, 1948. (120) pages. Many illustrations. 10 x 7.5", paperback. Corners chipped, cover rubbed, soiled, text VG. Adolph Gottlieb, Evergood, Speicher, Marin, Weber, Andrew Wyeth, Kuniyoshi, Hoffman, Kuhn, &c. $15.00
93 (Art) Rockport Art Association, Rockport, Massachusetts. 38th ANNUAL EXHIBITION CATALOG. Third Part. August 9th through September 21st, 1958. 56 pages, ballot & coupon inserted. Illustrations of paintings, prints, sculpture, advertisements. Prizes, members. 9 x 6", printed wrapper. VG. $15.00
94 (Art) Samson, G. W. (George Whitefield), 1819-1896. ELEMENTS of ART CRITICISM comprising a Treatise on the Principles of Man's Nature as Addressed by Art together with a Historic Survey of The Methods of Art Execution in the Departments of Drawing, Sculpture, Architecture, Painting, Landscape Gardening, & the Decorative Arts. Designed as text book for schools & colleges, & hand-book for amateurs & artists. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co, 1867. Copyright 1867. 840 pages. 8.25 x 5.25", green cloth, gold stamped spine, Edges lightly worn, trifle toned, VG. Lower & higher senses, sight, mental faculties, national character, engraving, photography, color, West, Copley. $35.00
95 (Art) Sears, Clara Endicott. SOME AMERICAN PRIMITIVES: A Study of New England Faces & Folk Portraits. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941. Copyright 1941. xix,292 pages. 110 halftone portraits. 8.5 x 5.5", cloth, dj. Dj heavily chipped, torn, VG/fair. Story of author's collection of New England folk portraits & artists. $15.00 96 (Art) The Ogunquit Art Center, Ogunquit, Maine, N. Vayana, Director. THIRTY-FIFTH EXHIBITION of PAINTINGS, July 2nd to September 4th, 1955. Catalogue. (30) pages. Illustrations of paintings by Nan Graecen, Rockwell Kent, Marguerite Pearson, Robert D. Hunter, Dana Pond, John Costigan, Aldro Hibbard, Eugene Higgins, Andrew Winter, Anton Fischer, Peter Cook, Gordan Grant, Frank Kirk, Henry Gasser, Lester Stevens, Kenneth Bates, Alice James, Dorothy Beverly- Haynes, Feodor Zakharov. List of 364 works, few advertisements. 9 x 6", printed wrapper. VG. $15.00
97 (Automotive) American Automobile Association, Washington, in Co-operation with the Pennsylvania Motor Federation. PENNSYLVANIA: Main-Traveled Routes, Based on the U.S. Geological Survey & Post Road maps, with Principal Connections into the Adjoining States. Copyrighted 1913, 1916 & 1917. 24 x 38" heavy sheet folding to 9.5 x 4". Full sheet state map with mountains tinted, other side has 28 city maps, large & small, advertisements for Kittatinny, Casey & Schenley Hotels, Dixon Grease, ABA Cheques, Bushkill Falls, title as above. Few 2" splits along folds, exterior lightly soiled, rubbed, G. $35.00
98 (Automotive) American Automobile Association, Washington, in Co-operation with the Pennsylvania Motor Federation. PENNSYLVANIA: Main-Traveled Routes, Based on the U.S. Geological Survey & Post Road maps, with Principal Connections into the Adjoining States. Copyrighted 1918. 24 x 38" heavy sheet folding to 9.5 x 4". Full sheet state map with mountains tinted, other side has 28 city maps, large & small, advertisements for Hotel Casey, Dixon Grease, ABA Cheques, Bushkill Falls, Conaphor Headlight Glass, title as above. Few 1" splits along folds, lightly rubbed, soiled, G. $35.00
99 (Automotive) Automobile League of America, Boston, Massachusetts. The AUTOMOBILIST. Vol. 21, No. 5, June, 1937. New England Number. (28) pages. Illustrated article on New England vacation tours, advertisements for Sunoco, Yankee, lists of lawyers, garages. 11 x 8.5", stapled booklet. Creased, rubbed, edge nibbled, G. $10.00
100 (Automotive) Chadwick, H.H., Vermont Development Commission, Montpelier, Vermont. VERMONT TOURS. Copyright 1937, Publicity Service, Vermont Department of Conservation & Development. Lane Press, Burlington. 48 pages. Tiny route maps, halftones of Lake Bomoseen, Rescue, Dunmore, Memphremagog, Willoughby, Big Averill, Caspian, Fairlee, Lake Champlain Bridge, Plymouth, Mt Mansfield, Camels Hump, State House, Quechee Gorge, Molly Stark Trail. 9 x 6", printed wrapper with map. Lightly rubbed, VG. 19 part auto tour of state. $10.00
101 (Automotive) Fisher, Harriet White, Trenton, New Jersey. A WOMAN'S WORLD TOUR in a MOTOR. Philadelphia & London: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1911. Published November, 1911. 370 pages. 70 halftone illustrations. 8.5 x 5.75", pictorial blue cloth. Cover rubbed, soiled, text clean, tight, G. Locomobile shipped to Paris, began July, 1909 with chauffeur husband, cook, maid, dog, back to Trenton August, 1910. Bliss, Autos Across America 12. $125.00
102 (Automotive) Hand, Alice Josephine & Frederick Henry Hand. ABROAD in a RUNABOUT. Illustrated from photographs by the authors. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co, 1911. Published, October, 1911. (xvii),356 pages. Many halftone plates. 7.5 x 5", pictorial cloth. Corners & edges of 18 leaves torn, with loss of only a few characters, tip frayed, cover spotted, fair. Authors toured France, Germany, Switzerland in Courier made by Courier Car Company, an offshoot of the Stoddard-Dayton Motor Car Company of Dayton, Ohio. They describe their tour & discuss the vicissitudes of automobile travel, bringing American car to Europe, repairs, roads, &c. $15.00 103 (Automotive) Homans, James E. SELF-PROPELLED VEHICLES: A Practical Treatise on the Theory, Construction, Operation, Care & Management of All Forms of Automobiles with Upwards of 500 Illustrations & Diagrams, Giving the Essential Details of Construction & Many Important Points on the Successful Operation of the Various Types of Motor Carriages Driven by Steam, Gasoline & Electricity. Second revised edition. NY: Theo. Audel & Co, 1904. 652 pages, publisher advertisements. Portrait of Gottlieb Daimler, 461 illustrations of vehicles, engines, mechanisms. 8.5 x 5.5", cloth, top edge gilt.. VG/none. $50.00
104 (Automotive) Montana State Highway Commission, Helena, Montana; Rad Maxey, designer & writer. SEE EVERYTHING in MONTANA. Naegele Printing Company, Helena, no date. (24) pages, 2pp fishing info & form letter from Governor Sam G. Ford (1941-9) inserted. Halftones of Bad Lands, Fort Peck, highways, Yellowstone, Lewis & Clark Cavern, mining, Indians, dude ranch, rodeo, skiing, hunting, fishing, Glacier National Park, Flathead Lake. 10.75 x 8.25", color wrapper. VG. $15.00
105 (Automotive) New England Hotel Association, Boston, Massachusetts, in cooperation with New England Council. NEW ENGLAND. Around the Calendar in New England. (Promotional brochure). No date, map copright 1936. Color printed 18 x 24" sheet folding to 9 x 4". Scarborough Interstate Maps roadmap, halftones of scenery, fishing, swimming, skiing, golf, tennis, hunting, sailing, canoeing, beach, horseback riding, color artwork. List of hotels. VG. $10.00
106 (Automotive) New England Hotel Association, Boston, Massachusetts. NEW ENGLAND TOURS. 1920. (Folding map). 18 x 15" sheet folding to 9 x 5". Map in blue & red, halftones of scenery, lists of hotels, officers, color image countryside with auto. Trifle rubbed, soiled, VG. $20.00
107 (Automotive) Quality Courts United Inc. 1959 COMPLIMENTARY DIRECTORY. Travel Quality. 48 pages, stiff paper 4pp application for AMEX credit card at center. 8 x 3.5", color wrapper, lower wrap unfolds to map of east coast. Wrap pulled from staple, trifle rubbed, toned, VG. Motel directory by state, city. $10.00
108 (Automotive) Serro Scotty Company, Irwin, Pennsylvania. Just For Fun . . . Go SERRO SCOTTY SPORTSMAN. (Trailer leaflet). No date, ca 1960? (6) pages. Color illustrations, floorplans of Hi- Lander, Scotty 13 & 15. Folded sheet, 4 x 8". VG. $20.00
109 (Automotive) Sinclair Oil Corporation. SINCLAIR ROAD MAP & sightseeing guide: LONG ISLAND & Metropolitan New York. No date, 1951 - printer code. Color printed 27 x 19.5" sheet folding to 6.75 x 3.25". Maps, indices, legends, logos, cover image gas pump, attendant, car. Edge nick, bit rubbed, G. $10.00
110 (Automotive) Standard Oil Company of New York. NEW ENGLAND SOCONY MAP 1932. 28 x 22" sheet folding to 7 x 3.75". Road map in red & blue, Socony logo, other side has maps of Boston & Vicinity, Maine & Eastern Canada, index, mileage, chart, cover graphic. Few tiny splits, edge rough, few pencil notes, bit soiled, G. $15.00
111 (Automotive) Standard Oil Company of New York. NEW ENGLAND in SOCONYLAND: 1930 Road Map of New England. 28 x 22" sheet folding to 7 x 3.75". Road map in red & blue, Socony logo, other side has maps of Boston & Vicinity, Maine & Eastern Canada, index, mileage, chart, cover graphic. Short split, VG. $15.00 112 (Automotive) Standard Oil Company of New York. SOCONY ROAD MAP of NEW ENGLAND 1925. 28 x 22" sheet folding to 7 x 3.75". Road map in red & blue, Socony logo, other side has maps of Boston & Vicinity, New York & Vicinity, index, mileage, chart, cover graphic. Bit rubbed, soiled, G. $15.00
113 (Automotive) Standard Oil Company of New York. 1930 ROAD MAP of NEW YORK. 28 x 22" sheet folding to 7 x 3.75". Road map in red & blue, with inserts of lower New York, Montreal, Buffalo, Albany, metropolitan New York, index, mileage chart, cover art. VG. $15.00
114 (Automotive) The Battlefield Information Bureau, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. AUTO TRAILS TO and FROM GETTYSBURG. Marken & Bielfeld, Inc, Printers, Frederick, MD, map copyright 1925. (16) pages. Color view, battlefield map, halftones of guides & sign, monuments, Shenandoah Valley, Gettysburg College, Cyclorama, Hoffman Hotel, Hotel Gettysburg, highway, double-page color map of eastern US, smaller maps of Shenandoah Valley & Lincoln Highway. 9 x 8" folding to 9 x 4", color cover drawings of battle scene, inset of car & scenery by Wm. Mark Young. Creased, bit rubbed, few smudges, G. $25.00
115 (Aviation) Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, President, Richard Glazebrook, Chairman, National Physical Laboraory, Teddington. AERONAUTICS. TECHNICAL REPORT of the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics for the Year 1917-18. With Appendices. Vol. I: General questions, Airships & model Aeroplane research; II: Airscrews & Full Scale Work on Aeroplanes; III: Seaplanes, Fabrics & Instruments. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1921. xxiii,276 pages; xxii, pp 277-762; xl. pp 763-1191. Many folding illustrations, charts, diagrams. 10 x 6", cloth. Covers rubbed, soiled, short spine tear, owner name ('W. L. LePage' - Wynn Laurence LePage, helicopter pioneer), bookplates removed, texts VG. Hundreds of reports on biplanes, balloons, German airplanes, bombing, engines, Hispano, Royal Aircraft Factory, helicopters, kite balloons, &c. $150.00
116 (Aviation) Century Rotary Motor Corporation, Cortland, New York, Otto Hermann, President. CENTURY ROTARY MOTOR CORPORATION COMMON STOCK. New Issue, 20,000 Shares. (Prospectus). No date, ca 1930 - text. (3) pages. 2 halftones of airplane engines. Folded sheet, 11 x 8.5". Creased, soiled, G. Describes features of patented engines, marketability, management, directors, capital. $15.00
117 (Aviation) Gerhardt, W.F. (William Frederick), &c. PRINCIPLES of AVIATION. Volume I. The Curtiss-Wright Ground School Text, Course I. NY: Curtiss-Wright Flying Service, Inc, 1929. 344 pages. 255 illustrations. 8.5 x 5.25", printed wrapper, 3 brass fasteners. Cover rubbed, soiled, text clean, G. Curtiss Flying School became Curtiss-Wright Flying Service in 1929 after merger. $25.00
118 (Aviation) Haskin, Frederic J. AVIATION: Fundamental Facts About Flying. For distribution through newspapers represented by Frederic J. Haskin. Washington: Haskin Information Bureau, copyright 1928. (32) pages. US airway map, illustrations of airplanes. 9 x 6", stapled booklet. VG. Chronology of historical events, flights, mechanics of flight, World War I flying aces, army, navy, marine aviation, business, law, routes, airports, markings, schools. $15.00
119 (Aviation) J. Laurence Pritchard, editor, The Royal Aeronautical Society, London. The AERONAUTICAL JOURNAL. Vol. XXV, No. 132. December, 1921. xii, pages (617)-672. 16 halftones, 4 diagrams, advertisements, some illustrated. 9.75 x 6.5", printed wrapper. Removed from pamphlet binder, sewing plowed, loose leaves, adhesive cloth strips along wrap edges, fair. Illustrated talk, Griffith Brewer, 'Langley Machine & Hammondsport Trials', responses by Charles D. Walcott, Smithsonian Institution, A.F. Zahm, C.M. Manly, Glenn H. Curtiss. $35.00 120 (Aviation) Jordanoff, Assen; Frank L. Carlson & Fred L. Meagher, illustrations. SAFETY in FLIGHT. NY & London: Funk & Wagnalls Company, July, 1942. First edition, second printing. ix,371 pages. 325 illustrations. 9.5 x 7.5", blue stamped silver cloth, dj. Large chip from lower dj edge, few smaller chips, wear, lightly musty, text clean, tight, VG/G. Weather, airports, airplane construction, instrumentation, safety features, pilot fitness, communication. Author Bulgarian, considerable experience as pilot, engineer for Curtiss-Wright Corporation. $25.00
121 (Aviation) Knowles, T.A., President, Goodyear Aircraft Corporation, Akron, Ohio. The GOODYEAR AIRCRAFT STORY. Address to Akron Rotary Club, May 8, 1956. 9 pages. Halftone of blimp, hangar, portrait. 9 x 6", stapled booklet. Pencil notes on cover, else VG. $15.00
122 (Aviation) LeShane, Albert A. The Story of HARRIMAN MOTOR WORKS, Manufacturers of Aeroplanes & Aviation Motors, 1906 to 1916 - South Glastonbury, Connecticut. Connecticut Aeronautical Historical Association, no date, ca 1983. 26 pages. Illustrated. 9 x 6", printed wrapper. Trifle soiled, VG. $15.00
123 (Aviation) Mingos, Howard, editor. The AIRCRAFT YEAR BOOK for 1936. Eighteenth Annual Edition. NY: Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America, copyright 1936. 526 pages. Many illustrations of airplanes, interiors, engines, airports. folding map, drawings, military, commercial, private airplanes. 9 x 6", cloth, no dj. Cover worn, soiled, library marks, hinges loose, text clean, G. $15.00
124 (Aviation) Mingos, Howard, editor. The AIRCRAFT YEAR BOOK for 1941. Twenty-third Annual Edition. NY: Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America, copyright 1941. 608 pages. Illustrations of interiors, engines, production, airports. folding map, drawings, military, commercial, private airplanes, advertisements. 9 x 6", cloth, no dj. Library marks, cover rubbed, soiled, text G. $15.00
125 (Aviation) Mingos, Howard, editor. The AIRCRAFT YEAR BOOK for 1946. Twenty-eighth Annual Edition. Official Publication of Aircraft Industries Association of America, Inc. NY: Lanclar Publishers, copyright 1946. 702 pages. Illustrations World War II activity, airplane interiors, engines, production, airports. drawings, military, commercial, private airplanes, accessories, advertisements. 9 x 6", cloth, no dj. Short spine cloth tear, owner sticker, text clean, tight, G. $15.00
126 (Aviation) Pugh, Stevenson, Air Correspondent. The BLERIOT ANNIVERSARY RACE, Organized by the Daily Mail London, July 13-23, 1959. 80 pages. Illustrated. 9.5 x 7.25", paper boards, no dj. VG/none. In commemoration of Louis Bleriot's first flight across the English Channel in 1909, the Daily Mail organized races between London & Paris by various forms of transportation. $15.00
127 (Aviation) Stark, Howard C. INSTRUMENT FLYING: Instruction Book. Pawling, NY: James Stark, copyright 1934. (x),77 pages, (iv) index. 25 illustrations of airplane instruments, diagrams of flight patterns. 8.25 x 5.5", gold lettered cloth, no dj. Cover creased, corner bumped, trifle soiled, owner name (Harris Fahnstock Jr), text clean, G. Preface offers author's piloting history, work for Colonial Air Transport, National Air Transport, mail routes to South America, instrument flying experience. $15.00
128 (Books About Books) (Canvassing Book) Henry Davenport Northrop. The AMERICAN EDUCATOR and Home Instructor, containing . . . All the Latest Inventions & Discoveries, Courtship, Marriage & Social Life, the Countries of the World, . . . forming a Complete Guide & Self- Instructor. Chicago: C.W. Stanton Company, copyright 1898. Presentation plate, sample illustrations, titlepage, preface, contents, folding maps, sample text, illustrations, index, broadside conditions, 2 bindings, 6 lined leaves for subscriptions 10.5 x 7.5", brown & gold stamped tan cloth, cloth spine hinged to fore-edge, leather spine piece pasted inside lower board. Lightly rubbed, soiled, shaken, G. Not in Arbour/Zinman, Canvassing Books. $35.00 129 (Books About Books) (Canvassing Book) J.W. Buel. The WORLD'S UNKNOWN: an All- embracing History of a Century of Exploration & Discovery. Philadelphia: Eaton & Mains, copyright 1898. Double-page color frontispiece, printed slip, titlepage, introduction, contents, sample text, illustrations, printed slips inserted, 1p conditions, 3 bindings, 8 lined leaves for subscribers. 10.5 x 7.75", black & gold stamped red cloth upper board, spine hinged to fore-edge, dark green cloth lower board, spine hinged to fore-edge, leather spine piece pasted inside upper board. Lightly soiled, VG. Not in Arbour/Zinman, Canvassing Books. $35.00
130 (Books About Books) (Canvassing Book) Logan Marshall. The True Story of OUR NATIONAL CALAMITY by Flood, Fire & Tornado. Providence: Best Manufacturing Company, copyright 1913. Special Notice: Every Subscriber is a contributor to the National Relief Fund, frontispiece, titlepage, plates, contents, sample text, maps, plates, illlustration of half-morocco style, 1p conditions, 2 binding styles, 4 lined leaves for subscribers. 9 x 6", gold & black stamped red cloth, spine design on lower board. Cloth lightly rubbed, soiled, VG. Variant of Arbour/Zinman, Canvassing Books 1029. $25.00
131 (Books About Books) (Canvassing Book) Murat Halstead. The STORY of CUBA: Her Struggles for Liberty, the Cause, Crisis, & Destiny of the Pearl of the Antilles. Boston: Desmond Publishing Co, copyright 1896, The Werner Company. Frontispiece portrait, titlepage, introduction, map, contents, sample text, plates, 1p conditions, 2 binding styles, 6 lined leaves for subscribers. 9 x 6", black, gold, color stamped drab cloth, cloth spine hinged to fore-edge, leather spine piece pasted inside lower board. Cover soiled, VG. Not in Arbour/Zinman, Canvassing Books. $20.00
132 (Books About Books) American Type Founders Company. FISHING for BUSINESS. (Christmas specimen). (1909) - text. (16) pages. Red & green facsimiles of advertisements, catalog covers, program, invitation, gift card, holiday cuts. 11 x 8.5", red, blue, purple wrapper. Rubbed, VG. $35.00
133 (Books About Books) Arrow Press, Inc, Minneapolis, Minnesota. CATALOG of CUTS. No date, ca 1935? 95 pages. Illustrations of advertising graphics for bakers, barbers, beauty parlors, bowling, cleaners, automobiles, food, painters, movers, furniture, plumbers, flowers, insurance, photographers, dance halls, banks, &c. 8 x 4", printed wrapper. Wrap rubbed, soiled, text bit toned, G. $35.00
134 (Books About Books) Bromer, Anne C. MINIATURE BOOKS DESERVE MORE RESPECT. Boston, 1985. Colonial Printing, edition of 750. (12) pages. 2 7/8 x 2 1/4", printed stiff paper. VG. Pre-print of AB Bookmans Weekly article, Autumn, 1985. $25.00
135 (Books About Books) Dill & Collins Company, Makers of High Grade Printing Papers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. DILL & COLLINS CO'S BLACK and WHITE Coated Two Sides. (Sample booklet). Designed & executed by Chasmar-Winchell Press, NY-Pittsburgh-Cleveland, no date, ca 1910?. (16) pages. Color illustration by Maxfield Parrish, examples of commercial halftone printing, some color, for Bay State Brass, Standard Sanitary Manufacturing, International Silver, Regal Shoe, Bullard Machine Tool, Steinway & Sons, Erie City Iron Works, Studebaker, Russell & Erwin, Betts Machine. 9 x 6", stitched. VG. $20.00
136 (Books About Books) Fenn, Patricia & Alfred P. Malpa. REWARDS OF MERIT: Tokens of a Child's Progress & a Teacher's Esteem as an enduring aspect of American Religious & Secular Education. The Ephemera Society of America, distributed by Howell Press, Charlottesville, VA, copyright 1994. First printing. 224 pages. Many illustrations, much color, of printed & manuscript slips, medals, other rewards. 8.5 x 11", cloth, dj. Fine/fine. ISBN 094323168X. $12.00 137 (Books About Books) Hackleman, Charles W. COMMERCIAL ENGRAVING and PRINTING: A Manual of Practical Instruction & Reference Covering Commercial Illustrating & Printing by all Processes for Advertising Managers, Printers, Engravers, Lithographers, Paper Men, Photographers, Commercial Artists, Salesmen, Instructors, Students & all the Others Interested in These & Allied Trades. Indianapolis: Commercial Engraving Publishing Co, copyright 1921. 846 pages. Inserted examples of photo-gelatine, copper & steel engraving, color embossing, photogravure processes, lined paper, color charts, color separations, labels, illustrations of printing, binding & paper equipment, advertisements for equipment. 9.25 x 6.25", cloth. Cover damp spot, owner name, VG. Photography, drawing, etching, color plate, halftone, photo-engraving, wood & wax engraving, letterpress, lithography, offset, inks, embossing & die cutting, music, posters, envelopes, paper, trademarks, bookbinding. $50.00
138 (Books About Books) Hammermill Paper Company, Erie, Pennsylvania. Pocket size IDEA KIT of LETTERHEADS on HAMMERMILL BOND. Fall-Winter, 1937-1938. (Sample folder). 8 slips 5 x 3.75", colored papers, various graphic styles. 5.5 x 4.25", printed folder with slot for samples. Short tear, VG. $15.00
139 (Books About Books) Heartman, Charles F., compiler. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CHECKLIST of the WRITINGS of The POET CHARLES WEST THOMSON. Heartman's Historical Series No. 60. Hattiesburg Mississippi: The Book Farm, 1941. 99 copies published. 15 pages. Silhouette frontispiece. 9 x 6", printed wrapper. Toned, few owner notes, VG. Charles West Thomson, 1798- 1879, lawyer, teacher, Episcopal minister. Lists books, pamphlets, broadsides, carriers addresses, contributions to literary annuals. $15.00
140 (Books About Books) Hilliard, George S., editor. LIFE, LETTERS, and JOURNALS of GEORGE TICKNOR. 2 volumes. Eleventh edition. Boston: Hougton, Mifflin & Company, 1880. viii,524 + vi,533 pages. Frontispiece portraits. 8 x 5", gold lettered brown cloth. Toned, VG. 1791-1871, Dartmouth, 1807, influential Harvard professor, Spanish literature, founder Boston Public Library. $20.00
141 (Books About Books) Houghton Mifflin & Company, Boston, Massachusetts. SUMMER BULLETIN of NEW BOOKS Published by Houghton Mifflin & Company. May-July, 1895. (16) pages. Cover graphic, header decoration monogrammed 'AS', small portrait of Margaret Deland. 10 x 6.75", stitched booklet. Light crease, VG. $15.00
142 (Books About Books) Klinefelter, Walter; Marlin L. Heckman; Fritz Braun & Frederick S. Weiser. The A B C BOOKS of the PENNSYLVANIA GERMANS; ABRAHAM HARLEY CASSEL, Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania German American Book Collector; MARRIAGES performed at the EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH of the HOLY TRINITY, 1748-1767. Publications of The Pennsylvania German Society, Volume VII. Breinigsville, PA: The Pennsylvania German Society, 1973. viii,299 pages. Illustrated. 9 x 6", pictorial cloth, no dj. VG/none. $15.00
143 (Books About Books) Los Angeles Daily Times, Los Angeles, California. LOS ANGELES DAILY TIMES: The Foremost Journal of Expanding Southwest. Every Morning in the Year, "All the News All the Time". (Promotional leaflet). (1900) - text. (16) pages. Small halftones of Times Building, editorial, counting, city editor, press, linotype rooms, art & subscription departments, branch, mercantile printing. Folded sheet, 6.25 x 3.25". VG. $35.00
144 (Books About Books) Michael Papantonio, foreword; Hannah Dustin French, introduction. EARLY AMERICAN BOOKBINDINGS from the Collection of Michael Papantonio. NY: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972. Copyright 1972. Stinehour Press/Meriden Gravure Company. x,89 pages. Descriptions & photos of 61 bindings. 10.5 x 7.5'', paperback. VG. ISBN 875980376. $15.00 145 (Books About Books) Rand McNally & Company, New York, New York. MERRY CHRISTMAS, HAPPY NEW YEAR, 1956. (Holiday card). 12 x 16" sheet folding to 12 x 5.5". Greetings in ornate panels on front, opens to color reproduction of Ortelius map of Holy Land, text on back. Bit spotted, signature on front, G. $10.00
146 (Books About Books) The Bauer Type Foundry Inc, New York. BODONI TYPES. BORDERS. (Specimens & Bauer Type Price List). No date, ca 1925? (8),(4) + (4) pages. Sampes of Bodoni Roman, Italic, Bold, Weiss & Trianon Borders in 2 colors. 10.5 x 7.5", stitched, folded. Bit foxed, VG. $15.00
147 (Books About Books) The Bauer Type Foundry Inc, New York. INITIALS DESIGNED by MARIA BALLE. (Specimen). No date, ca 1930? Folded sheet, 5 x 8". Italic capitals in 54, 66, 84 points, facsimiles of 2 showcards. VG. $10.00
148 (Books About Books) Whitehead, Thomas M., curator. WALTER DE LA MARE: An Exhibition of Books, Letters, Manuscripts, March 3-April 25, 1969, Rare Book Department, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (11) pages printed fronts only. 167 entries. 11 x 8.5", printed paper, cloth tape spine. Cover soiled, VG. 'Dorothy Lathrop from Thomas M. Whitehead, April 16, 1969, cf. no 81' (copy of Three Mulla-Mulgars with presentation letter from illustrator Dorothy P. Lathrop to bookseller Howard Mott). $15.00
149 (Books About Books) Williams, William Emrys. The PENGUIN STORY, MCMXXXV-MCMLVI. Penguin Books, Ltd, Hammondsworth, July 1956. (60)p. Illustrations, some color, Penguin books, devices, roundels, offices, production, titlepages, catalogs, bookstore displays, showcards. 7 x 4.5", paperback. VG. Not more than you wanted to know. $8.00
150 (Business & Industry) American Bankers' Association. PROCEEDINGS of the SOUTHERN and WESTERN MEMBERS of the Executive Council of the AMERICAN BANKERS' ASSOCIATION, at St. Louis, Mo, January 8th, 9th & 10th, 1878, with the Addresses presented to the Committee on Ways & Means & the Sub-committee of the House of Representatives, for the Repeal of the Federal TAXES on the DEPOSITS of Private Bankers, State & National Banks, Trust Companies & Savings Institutions. Second Report. NY: American Bankers' Association, 1878. 58 pages, 6pp advertisements, few engravings. 8.5 x 5.75", printed wrapper. Wrap split, detached, chipped, text toned, G. Plus ca change all over again. $20.00
151 (Business & Industry) Bay State Paper Collar Company, Boston, Massachusetts. To DEALERS in PAPER COLLARS. (Broadside). April, 1867. 12.5 x 7.75". Creased, VG. Disputes claims made by Union Paper Collar Company in their effort to monopolize trade. $35.00
152 (Business & Industry) Bourne-Newton, Francis B., Editor. PRACTICAL HOTEL MANAGEMENT: an Indispensable Handbook for the Hotel Trade. Seventh edition. London: Caterer Publishing Co, 1926. 248 pages, publisher announcement inserted. Specimen menus, price lists, record forms, advertisements for hotel suppliers. 8.5 x 5.5", paperback. Lower wrap detached, wrap worn, soiled, splitting, sewing broken, text shaken, G. Brief articles on country & continental hotels, women hotel- keepers, staff, railway hotels, waiters, advertising, furnishing & decoration, billiard-room, provisions, banquet catering, menus, wine cellar, cigars, laundry, tariff, construction, cleaning, bookkeeping, law. $50.00 153 (Business & Industry) Domett, Henry W. A HISTORY of The BANK of NEW YORK, 1784-1884. Compiled from Official Records & other Sources at the Request of the Directors. Fourth edition. Riverside Press, Cambridge, no date, ca 1900? (xv),140 pages. 18 plates: portraits, Bank of New York, Walton House, facsimiles of check, bank notes. Lists of presidents, cashiers, stockholders, Act of Incorporation. 10 x 6.5", gold stamped green cloth, top edge gilt, no dj. Cover rubbed, soiled, text clean, tight, VG/none. $20.00
154 (Business & Industry) Dreier, Thomas. United Shoe Machinery Company, Beverly, Massachusetts. The STORY of THREE PARTNERS. No date, but 1912 - text. 50 pages. Panorama of factory & employees, birdseye view, illustrations of power plant, baseball & cricket, country club, boat club, homes, field day, museum, hospital, industrial school, reading room, foundry, machine shop, stock room, athletic association gun club meet, band, shoe machinery. 8 x 9.5", printed wrapper, Egyptian design, men making shoes, wrestling. VG. Discussion of company employee health & recreation programs. $25.00
155 (Business & Industry) du Pont, B.G. (Bessie Gardner). E.I. du PONT de NEMOURS and COMPANY: A History, 1802-1902. Boston & NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920. Copyright 1920. 196 pages. 8 plates. 8 x 5.5", gold lettered blue cloth, no dj. VG/none. Larson, Guide to Business History 812. $15.00
156 (Business & Industry) John A. Higgins, editor. The FIRST FIFTY YEARS, 1913-1963: ARTHUR ANDERSEN & CO. Chicago: Arthur Andersen & Co, copyright 1963. xi,201 pages. Portraits of Arthur Edward Andersen, Leonard Spacek, Walter J. Oliphant, floorplan. Lists of employees. 10 x 7", gold lettered leather, no dj. Tip worn, cover scuffed, VG/none. Chicago accounting firm. $20.00
157 (Business & Industry) Lathrop, William Gilbert. The DEVELOPMENT of the BRASS INDUSTRY in CONNECTICUT. Tercentenary Commission of the State of Connecticut, Committee on Historical Publications 49. Published for the Tercentenary Commission by Yale University Press, 1936. 32 pages. Diagram 9 x 6'', printed wrapper. VG. $10.00
158 (Business & Industry) Parsons, Francis. A HISTORY of BANKING in CONNECTICUT. Tercentenary Commission of the State of Connecticut, Committee on Historical Publications, #42. Published for the Tercentenary Commission by Yale University Press, 1935. 32 pages. 9 x 6'', printed wrapper. VG. $15.00
159 (Business & Industry) The Litchfield Savings Society, Litchfield, Connecticut. The LITCHFIELD SAVINGS SOCIETY, Litchfield, Connecticut, 1850-1950. (27) pages. Map, portraits, illustrations of bank, Litchfield. 9 x 6", printed wrapper. VG. $15.00
160 (Cinema) Castle Films, New York City. MOVIES for EVERY OCCASION, Silent, Sound, 8mm, 16mm. 10th annual catalogue of motion pictures for home entertainment. No date, but 1948. Small stills from Abbot & Costello, Woody Woodpecker, Andy Panda, Paul Terry, sports, Carpentier- Tunney, travel, chimp. circus, animals, musicals, news parades through 1947. 9.5 x 6.5", color wrapper. VG. $15.00
161 (Cinema) Castle Films, New York City. MOVIES, 8mm Silent, 16mm Sound. The world's best entertainment for the home - for any occasion. No date, but 1953. (24) pages. Small stills, 1952 News Parade, football, killer lion, Howdy Doody, Hopalong Cassidy, Abbott & Costello, W.C. Fields, Woody Woodpecker, Andy Panda, Tom Mix, Tex Williams, sports, circus, animals, chimp, travel, atomic attack, biological warfare. 8.5 x 6", color wrapper. VG. $15.00 162 (Connecitcut) The White Memorial Foundation, Litchfield, Connecticut. The WHITE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION, INCORPORATED, Litchfield, Connecticut, 1913-1938. Published for the Trustees by The Prospect Press, Hartford, 1938. 102 pages. Map of Bantam Lake by J.K. Finch, many photos of scenery, camps, cabins, lake, swimming, boating, tennis. 11 x 8", printed stiff paper. Cover soiled, edges chipped, text VG. Private foundation for conservation & recreation. $15.00
163 (Connecticut) Adt & Brothers, Waterbury, Connecticut. WATERBURY, CONN. Illustrated. (Viewbook). Photographed & published by Adt & Brothers, Waterbury, copyright 1889. Titlepage, 4pp description, 32 plates of downtown, green, churches, residences, school, Naugatuck River, Waterbury Hospital, factories. 5.25 x 7.25", gold & black stamped blue cloth, string tie. Cover stained, text toned, G. $35.00
164 (Connecticut) Bulkeley, Alice T., compiler. HISTORIC LITCHFIELD, 1721-1907, being a short account of the History of the Old Houses of Litchfield. Second edition. Hartford: Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1907. 37 pages. Many halftone plates. 10 x 6.5", printed wrapper. Lacking illustration from wrapper, light edge wear, G. $10.00
165 (Connecticut) Faulkner, Waldron. OUR TOWN. Washington, Connecticut. Press of Byron S. Adams Printing, Washington, D.C., 1970. 22 pages. Map. 9 x 6", printed wrapper. Wrap soiled, text VG. $15.00
166 (Connecticut) Gage, William L. THREE SERMONS Preached at Hartford. Cure of the Impotent Man at Bethesda. Jonah. Recent Confirmations of the Scriptures. Hartford: Case, Lockwood & Brainard, 1873. 40 pages. 6.5 x 4.5", brown cloth, gold lettering on upper board. Cloth spotted, VG. 'Suppose an old book were found describing . . . the Connecticut Valley . . . the name of their village should be Hurtford, . . . four miles south Wuthersfeld, . . . still further Muddleton . . . Had a mob of Bostonians destroyed Faneuil Hall, State House, Old South Church, Bunker Hill Monument, Public Library & Atheneum, it would give some idea of the destruction in Paris.' $20.00
167 (Connecticut) Harris B. Holt, Jr, director. NATURE TRAINING for BOYS, New Haven & Vicinity, Summer, 1936. (Leaflet). (6) pages, tear-off application. Folded stiff paper, 6.25 x 3.25". VG. $8.00
168 (Connecticut) Plainfield Academy Alumni Association, Plainfield, Connecticut. PLAINFIELD ACADEMY REUNION & Formal Organization of the Alumni Association on Wednesday, August 25th, 1904. From a report appearing in the Plainfield Journal of September 1. Journal Job Print, Moosup, CT. (12) pages. Halftones of academy building, First Church of Plainfield, hotel, street. 8.75 x 6", printed wrapper. Wrap bit soiled, light crease, G. $15.00
169 (Connecticut) Seymour, Morris W. HISTORIC LITCHFIELD: Address Delivered at the Bi- Centennial Celebration of the Town of Litchfield, August 1, 1920. Privately Printed. 13 pages. 9 x 6", printed wrapper. Wrap edge nicked, bit soiled, scuffed, text VG. $10.00
170 (Connecticut) Stanley, Ella M., Methodist Episcopal Church, South Manchester, Connecticut. SOUVENIR of CHRISTMAS KERMIS at the METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, So. Manchester, Conn, December 8, 9, 10, 1920, containing 130 years of Methodism in Manchester, 1790-1920. History & Program. (24) pages. Advertisements. 9 x 6", printed wrapper. VG. $15.00 171 (Connecticut) Taylor, William Harrison, compiler, Secretary, Centennial Committee, State of Connecticut. The ONE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY of the FIRST MEETING of the GENERAL ASSEMBLY, under the Present Constitution & the Second General Legislative Reunion, The Capitol, Hartford, Wednesday, May 7, 1919. Hartford: 1919. 188 pages. Invitation, program, portraits of state officers, senate, house, views of exhibit, state houses. 9.5 x 6.5", gold stamped blue cloth. Cover stained, text VG. Simon Baldwin, Historical Address; Herbert Randall, Poem; Charles Clark, Capitals & State Houses; Constitution; Biographical Sketches of Officers, historical rosters of officers, congressmen, &c. $10.00
172 (Connecticut) The Griswold & the Shenecossett Country Club, Eastern Point, New London, Connecticut, Jean G. Venetos, President. The GRISWOLD & the SHENECOSSETT COUNTRY CLUB, on Eastern Point, New London, Conn. (Promotional brochure). No date, ca 1939. Silver & blue printed 9 x 16" sheet folding to 9 x 4". Halftones of exterior, waterfront, pool, sailboats, tennis, croquet, golf, aerial view, nautical cover graphic. Slightly rubbed, soiled, VG. $10.00
173 (Connecticut) The Litchfield Historical Society. SOME HISTORIC SITES of LITCHFIELD, CONNECTICUT. Published 1933, Reprinted 1954. Enquirer Press, Litchfield. 13 pages. Folding map, 1p 'Books about Litchfield'. 9 x 6", printed wrapper. Staples bit rusty, VG. $8.00
174 (Connecticut) The Milford Tercentenary Committee, Inc, Milford, Connecticut. COMMEMORATING the 300th ANNIVERSARY of the FOUNDING of MILFORD, CONNECTICUT, 1639-1939, August 20- 27, 1939. Souvenir Program. 40 pages. Portraits, illustrations of 1938 hurricane, churches, monuments, public buildings, old homes, Devon, Memorial Bridge, advertisements. 11.5 x 8.75", printed wrapper. Wrap soiled, VG. $20.00
175 (Cooking) The CHAFING DISH BOOK. Copyrighted 1899, Livermore & Knight Co, Providence, RI. (x),102 pages. Titles in red. Recipes for scrambled eggs to fried bananas. 4.75x3.5", embossed paper over paper. VG. $25.00
176 (Cooking) (Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell). NEW SYSTEM of DOMESTIC COOKERY Formed upon Principles of Economy & adapted to the Use of Private Families, by a Lady. With the addition of many new Receipts. London: for Thomas Allman, 1843. xxx,351 pages. Frontispiece & 9 plates. 7 x 4.25", gold stamped black cloth. Spine piece detached, cover frayed, worn, hinges pulled, text soiled, shaken, fair. Bitting, Gastronomic Bibliography page 410. $25.00
177 (Cooking) (Tea Council of the U.S.A., NY?). TWO LEAVES and a BUD. (Promotional pamphlet). No date, ca 1960? 15 pages. 9 x 6", stapled booklet, drawing of tea plant on front. Rubberstamps 'Wah Chah Company, 91 Wall Street, New York 5, N.Y.' Bit soiled, G. Brief history, geography, culture, processing, varieties, grading, blending, brewing. $8.00
178 (Cooking) [Arnold, Seth Shaler, 1788-1871]. The INTELLECTUAL HOUSE-KEEPER: a series of Practical Questions to His Daughters, by a Father: or Hints to Females on the Necessity of Thought in Connection with their Domestic Labors & Duties. With an Album. Boston: Russell, Odiorne, & Co, 1835. 47 pages, 20 lined blank leaves at end. 7.5 x 4.75", patterned cloth, gold title on upper board. Cover bit stained, edge lightly gnawed, bit foxed, else clean, tight, G. Daily conversations with daughters, whose mother is away, about meals, cleaning, household routines, religion, seasons, clothing & furniture. 'S.P.B. and E.H.B., A present from grandma', 'S.B. Barrett, No 59' on blank. $250.00
179 (Cooking) Admar Bar & Kitchen Equipment Corp, Long Island City, New York. ADMAR MOBILE REFRESHMENT and CATERING EQUIPMENT. No date, ca 1960? (8) pages. Halftones of frankfurter pushcart, trailer, motor scooter, station wagon unit, lunch truck, cater van. Stapled booklet, 11 x 8.5". VG. $15.00 180 (Cooking) Allen, Ida Bailey. GOLDEN RULE FOODS . . . The Golden Rule Way. (Promotional cookbook). Columbus: Citizens' Wholesale Supply Co, no date, ca 1930? 122 pages. Few color illustrations of prepared dishes, halftone portrait. Recipes featuring Golden Rule packaged foods. 9 x 6", paperback. Scuffed, VG. $15.00
181 (Cooking) American Cranberry Exchange, New York. CRANBERRIES and HOW to COOK THEM. No date, ca 1950?. (40) pages. Illustrations, some color, cranberry sauces & relishes, breads, entrees, salads, pies, desserts, bog, picking, sorting. 5 x 7", stapled booklet. Light crease, VG. Promoting Eatmor Cranberries. $8.00
182 (Cooking) Aron Canning Company, Stockton, California. CORINA CALIFORNIA TOMATO PASTE. "The Tomato Paste with the Preferred Taste". Why Everybody Prefers Corina California Tomato Paste. (Recipe booklet). No date, ca 1940? (16) pages. Blue & red illustration of can, trademark. 5.75 x 3", stapled booklet. VG. $15.00
183 (Cooking) Arthur Guinness & Company, Dublin, Ireland. GUINNESS, DUBLIN (cover). History of St. James Gate Brewery, The Brewing Process, Figures, Weights & Measures, Glossary, The Brewery & Social Service. (Souvenir book). (1939). 62 pages. Few portraits of Guinnesses, illustrations of harp, label, glass, views of brewery, malt, hop & fermenting houses, cooperage, delivery fleet. 7 x 4.75", cloth spine, printed paper boards. Rubbed, VG. $20.00
184 (Cooking) Ashley, Jane. JANE ASHLEY'S NEWEST RECIPES for BETTER MEALS. NY: Corn Products Refining Company, copyright 1952. 80 pages. Color illustrations of prepared dishes, Karo Corn Syrup, Argo Corn Starch, Mazola Oil, Kre-Mel Pie Filling, &c. 8.5 x 7", color stiff paper. VG. $10.00
185 (Cooking) Baker, Mary Ellen. 75 DELICIOUS DESSERTS. Recipes prepared & tested for you by the National Biscuit Company. No date, ca 1940? 28 pages. Color illustrations of baked goods, Nabisco products, packages, decorations. 8.5 x 5.5", color wrapper. VG. $8.00
186 (Cooking) Barbara Hoyt, Director, Consumers Service, General Baking Company, New York City. BOND BREAD COOK BOOK. Copyright 1935. 72 pages. Halftones of prepared dishes. 8 x 5.5", printed wrapper. Rubbed, VG. $8.00
187 (Cooking) Barton, Frances Lee. MY PARTY BOOK of TESTED CHOCOLATE RECIPES, Easy Desserts & Refreshments with America's Favorite Flavor. General Foods Corp, copyright 1938. 26 pages. Illustrations of chocolate cakes, brownies, cookies, Baker's Chocolate & Cocoa. 7 x 5", stapled booklet. VG. $8.00
188 (Cooking) Bostwick, Lucy W. MARGERY DAW'S HOME CONFECTIONERY. Eighth edition. Fifty Receipts for 25 Cents. Auburn, N.Y.: Lucy W. Bostwick, 1887. 24 pages. 5.5 x 4.5", printed wrapper. Wrap chipped, soiled, short tear, text toned, G. $25.00
189 (Cooking) California Fruit Growers Exchange, Los Angeles, California. SUNKIST LEMONS BRING OUT the FLAVOR! Copyright 1939. Printer code: May, 1941. 32 pages. Yellow tinted halftones of prepared foods, beverages, Sunkist Kitchen. 7.25 x 5", printed wrapper. VG. $8.00
190 (Cooking) California Walnut Growers Association, Los Angeles, California. For that "FINAL TOUCH" just add WALNUTS. No date, ca 1940? 39 pages, order form. Few halftones of walnuts, package, cookbooks. 6.25 x 3.25", color wrapper. VG. $10.00 191 (Cooking) Calumet Baking Powder Company, Chicago, Illinois. RELIABLE RECIPES: A concise compend of tested recipes, which make most delicious dishes, together with a compilation of helps & hints of value to every housekeeper. Every baking recipe given herein has been repeatedly tested by & is regularly used in the Calumet Baking Schools. 18th edition. No date, ca 1922 - text. 80 pages. Double-page color view of factory, 12 color plates of baked goods, birdseye of factory, halftones of model kitchen, offices, hospital, production, decorations, some Rose O'Neill Kewpies. 8.5 x 5", color wrapper with Kewpies. Chipped, wrap soiled, splitting, few smudges, fair. $15.00
192 (Cooking) Caswall, Muriel, Boston Post Household Department, editor. The BOSTON POST BOOK of RECIPES and MENUS, Kitchen & Household Helps. No date, ca 1925. 128 pages. Thumbnail portraits of First Lady Grace Coolidge & Well-Known American Women, advertisements. 9 x 6", printed wrapper. Wrap trifle rubbed, VG. $15.00
193 (Cooking) Chapman, Margaret & Warren Dunham Foster. The PRINCIPLES of CANDY-MAKING. Boston: Perry Mason Company, copyright, 1911. 14 pages. 3 tiny illustrations of tools. 6.75 x 4.25", printed wrapper. VG. $10.00
194 (Cooking) Clementine Paddleford, editor; Gertrude Lynn, recipe tester. RECIPES from ANTOINE'S KITCHEN. The secret riches of the famous century-old restaurant in the French Quarter of New Orleans. A This Week Magazine Service Booklet. United Newspapers Magazine Corporation, 1948. 21 pages. Gregory d'Alessio cartoon, halftones of dishes, line drawings. 8 x 5", printed wrapper. Wrap trifle soiled, VG. Oysters, oeufs, shrimp, chicken Creole, &c. $10.00
195 (Cooking) Cleveland Foundry Company, Cleveland, Ohio. NEW PERFECTION COOK BOOK. Copyright 1912. 72 pages. Small illustrations of New Perfection Steel Oven, heating plate, toaster, broiler. 7.25 x 5", printed wrapper, halftone of woman at stove. Wrap rubbed, soiled, trifle toned, G. $15.00
196 (Cooking) Concession Supply Company, Toledo, Ohio. 1954 CONCESSION SUPPLIES and EQUIPMENT: Illustrated Catalog. 68 pages, order sheet. Illustrations of Kiddie Boat & Auto Rides, Bar-B-Dog, Counter Chef, Deep Fat Fryer, Hot Dog Steamer, Bun Warmer, Waffle Molds, Griddles, Popcorn Poppers, Peanut Roasters, Copper Kettle, Candy Apple Unit, Cotton Candy Machine, Sno- Konette, Syrup & Beverage Dispensers, printed cups, bags. 8.25 x 5.5", printed wrapper. VG. $25.00
197 (Cooking) Fannie Engle, Food Service Editor, Macfadden Women's Group. EVERY HOMEMAKER'S COOK BOOK. Racine: Whitman Publishing Company, copyright 1939. 191 pages. 8.5 x 6", blue & yellow printed paper boards, metal comb. Clippings inside covers, bit toned, VG. $15.00
198 (Cooking) Felton & Son, Inc, Boston, Massachusetts. PILGRIM RUM: Recipe Book to Acquaint You Better with the Rum that's Grown up with America. On "Rationed" Recipes. Bottled & Distributed by The Fleischmann Distilling Corporation, Peekskill, NY, copyright, 1943. (32) pages. Small illustrations of bottles, drinks, desserts, decorations. 6 x 4.25", stapled booklet. VG. $10.00
199 (Cooking) G.D. del Rossi Company, Providence, Rhode Island. RECIPES for G.D. DEL ROSSI Co. MACARONI, Spaghetti, Gnochetti & other Fancy Shaped Semolina Edible Pastes. No date, ca 1920? 15 pages. Red & blue illustrations of pasta shapes, Mother's Egg Noodles label, mother with children, 'Eat More Macaroni'. 6 x 7", stapled booklet. Corner bent, trifle soiled, G. $15.00
200 (Cooking) Goessling, Adeline O. The ORANGE JUDD COOK BOOK: A Practical Collection of Tested Recipes for Practical Housekeepers. Chicago, &c: Orange Judd Company, 1914. Copyright 1914. 276 pages. Halftone portrait frontispiece, plates of prepared dishes. 7.5 x 5", decorated green cloth. Cover worn, soiled, scattered text stains, bit loose, G. Brown, Culinary Americana 811; Bitting, Gastronomic Bibliography page 191. $25.00 201 (Cooking) Green, Mary. BETTER MEALS for LESS MONEY. NY: Henry Holt & Company, 1917. Copyright, 1917. vi,295 pages. 7.5 x 5", brown cloth, no dj. Cover worn, soiled, upper hinge loose, scattered small stains, few owner recipe notes, shaken, 2 recipes taped inside lower cover, G/none. 'Annette B. Harvey, October, 1925' on blank. Bitting, Gastronomic Bibliography, page 199. $10.00
202 (Cooking) H.J. Heinz Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The HEINZ BOOK of SALADS. Copyright, 1925. 90 pages. Color frontispiece. 7.25 x 4.5", color wrapper. Corner chip, corners creased, wrap bit rubbed, G. $15.00
203 (Cooking) Henderson, Mary F. DIET for the SICK: A Treatise on the Values of Foods, Their Application to Special Conditions of Health & Disease, & on the Best Methods of Their Preparation. NY: Harper & Brothers, 1885. Copyright, 1885. ix,234 pages, 4pp publisher advertisement. Small illustrations of cooking utensils, prepared foods. 7.5 x 5", maroon, blind & gold stamped green cloth. Few corners creased, scattered soiling, cover only lightly rubbed, VG. Tea, coffee, chocolate, spirits (spiced foods lead to alcohol), meat, fish, oysters, arrowroot, sago, tapioca, gelatine, farine, koumiss, diseases, longevity, utensils, recipes, menus. 'E. Fear Leffingwell, Aurora, N.Y.' on blank. Bitting, Gastronomic Bibliography, page 223. $35.00
204 (Cooking) Herrick, Christine Terhune. A-B-C of COOKING. Harper's A-B-C Series. NY & London: Harper & Brothers, copyright, 1916. 110 pages. 6.75 x 4.25", black stamped red cloth, no dj. Cover rubbed, soiled, writing on lower endsheets, bit loose, text clean, G. Bitting, Gastronomic Bibliography page 225. $15.00
205 (Cooking) Hill, Janet McKenzie. GEM CHOPPER COOK BOOK: Valuable Recipes for Substantial Dishes & Dainty Desserts. Sargent & Company, New York, copyright, 1902. (93) pages. Few illustrations of food chopper, blades, drawings. 6.75 x 4.5", decorated flexible cloth. Light edge wear, soiled, corners creased, G. $15.00
206 (Cooking) Howard Johnson. The STORY of HOWARD JOHNSON'S in New England. Howard Johnson Company, copyright 1938. (48) pages. Rotogravure portrait, Howard Johnson's restaurants, sign, dining rooms, counter, Brief Pictorial Guide to Points of Historic & Scenic Interest with views by Samuel Chamberlain, &c. 8.25 x 5.5", stapled booklet. Extremities rubbed, G. Beginning in 1925, in Quincy, Massachusetts, Howard Deering Johnson built empire on ice cream & soda fountains along New England highways. $25.00
207 (Cooking) Huse, Polly, commentator, WLAW. WLAW COOK BOOK featuring the 52 recipes chosen as the best of 20,000 submitted by New England homemakers in the "Shopping With Polly" Contest. Hildreth & Rogers Company, owners, WLAW & WLAW-FM, Burllington, Massachusetts, no date, ca 1950. 20 pages, blanks. 9 x 6", printed wrapper. Wrap trifle soiled, rubbed, G. $10.00
208 (Cooking) Johnson, Helen Louise. The ENTERPRISING HOUSEKEEPER: Suggestions for Breakfast, Luncheon & Supper. Cover: 200 Tested Recipes. Third edition. Philadelphia: Enterprise Manufacturing Company, 1900. 80 pages. Illustrations of sad iron, coffee mills, meat & food choppers, cherry stoners, grape seeder, wine press, ice shredder, spice mills, menus. 6.5 x 4.5'', red & black printed wrapper. Wrap chipped, torn, soiled, text toned, G. $15.00
209 (Cooking) Kelvin Kitchen, Kelvinator Sales Corporation, Detroit, Michigan. COOKING with COLD. Copyrighted 1932. 56 pages. Color illustrations of prepared dishes, halftones of set tables, Kelvin Kitchen. 5.75 x 7.5", color wrapper. Cover lightly rubbed, 2pp lightly damped, else VG. $10.00 210 (Cooking) La Fayette, Eugene. PROF. LA FAYETTE'S FRENCH FAMILY COOK BOOK. A genuine French Family Cook Book, giving French Recipes & Instructions, together with the latest Scientific Discoveries regarding Bread Making, Canning, &c. London, Chicago & NY: Paris Publishing Co, 1885. Copyright 1885. 160 pages, 4pp dry goods price list pasted inside cover. 7.75 x 5.25", black stamped brown cloth. Edges frayed, cover worn, text tanned, fair. Bitting, Gastronomic Bibliography, page 269. $50.00
211 (Cooking) Ladies' Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Newark Valley, New York. FAVORITE RECIPES and Household Hints. Cover: Cook Book, Signed & Tested Recipes & Useful Household Hints. Herald Print, Newark Valley, 1906. 52 pages, blanks. Local advertisements, few illustrated, halftone of church. 8 x 5.75", printed wrapper. Lower wrap & blank detached, heavily worn, soiled, edge chips, fair. Not in Cook, America's Charitable Cooks. $15.00
212 (Cooking) Landers, Frary & Clark, New Britain, Connecticut. HOW to KEEP YOUR CARVER SHARP. (Leaflet). No date, ca 1890? (8) pages. Small birdseye engraving of factory, 6 illustrations of knife sharpening. 8 x 11" sheet folding to 8 x 2.75". Lightly stained, soiled, rubbed, few edge tears, tiny holes, fair. $15.00
213 (Cooking) Lichter, Ronald, Mount Vernon, New York. FISH FACTS. Compliments of The Wilmington Fish Market, Wilmington, Delaware. Copyright 1938. 32 pages. Recipes. 7 x 4", printed wrapper. VG. $10.00
214 (Cooking) Lincoln, Mary J. A COOK BOOK for a MONTH at a TIME. Cover: Mrs. Lincoln's Baking Powder Company Cook Book. Compliments of Mrs Lincoln's Baking Powder Co, Boston, copyright 1899. 48 pages. Portrait. 7 x 4.25'', color printed stiff paper. Few small stains, cover slightly soiled, VG. 'Dishes suitable for season, small families of moderate means, special menu for each month.' $25.00
215 (Cooking) Maddocks, Mildred, editor; Harvey W. Wiley, M.D., introduction & notes on food & food values. The PURE FOOD COOK BOOK: The Good Housekeeping Recipes, Just How to Buy, Just How to Cook. NY: Hearst's International Library Co, 1914. Copyright, 1914. ix,417 pages. Halftone plates of prepared meals. Menus, blanks for owner recipes (1 for finan haddie). 7.5 x 5", brown stamped mustard cloth, no dj. Cover little soiled, text little toned, else clean, fairly tight, VG/none. Bitting, Gastronomic Bibliography, page 303. $15.00
216 (Cooking) McDonough, Sally. 77 PINAFORE CHICKEN RECIPES. Chicago Western Corporation, Chicago, Illinois, no date, ca 1950? 32 pages. Portrait, halftones of dishes prepared with chicken from can, processing, drawings. 9 x 6", color wrapper. VG. $10.00
217 (Cooking) Mills, Marjorie, editor. "OXO" BRAND CUBE NEW RECIPES of FLAVOR. OXO Limited, Boston, no date, ca 1930? 32 pages, leaflet & card inserted. Line drawings. 7.25 x 5.25", color wrapper. Wrap trifle soiled, VG. $10.00
218 (Cooking) Minute Tapioca Company, Orange, Massachusetts. A COOK'S TOUR with MINUTE TAPIOCA. Copyright 1931, 46 pages. Color illustrations of prepared dishes. 6.75 x 4.75", color wrapper. VG. $10.00
219 (Cooking) National Cranberry Association, Hanson, Massachusetts. 20 FAMOUS CRANBERRY DISHES . . . from famous American Eating Places. No date, ca 1950? 24 pages. Photos, some color, cranberry dishes, Ocean Spray cans & bottles, drawings of restaurants. 8.5 x 5.5", stapled booklet. VG. Packed by cranberry growers of Massachusetts, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Washington & Oregon. $10.00 220 (Cooking) Norwegian Sardines, New York. DELICIOUS SEA FOOD RECIPES made with NORWEGIAN SARDINES. No date, but 1939 (New York World's Fair Exhibit). (24) pages. Halftones of sardine dishes, Norway. 3.25 x 5.5", stapled booklet. VG. $10.00
221 (Cooking) Otto Seidner, Inc, Westerly, Rhode Island. A BOOK of NEW RECIPES. QUALITY MAYONNAISE for QUALITY RECIPES by Otto Seidner. No date, ca 1933 - text. (24) pages. Color illustrations of prepared dishes by Edward Gilman, halftones of laboratory, factory, line decorations. 6.25 x 5", stapled booklet. VG. $10.00
222 (Cooking) P. Pastene & Company, Naples & Imperia, Italy, New York, Boston, Montreal. SECRETS of FAMOUS CHEFS. No date, ca 1930? (16) pages. Tiny illustrations of Pastene products, decorations. 6 x 3.25", printed wrapper. VG. $10.00
223 (Cooking) Phenix Cheese Corporation, New York City & Chicago. DELICIOUS CHEESE RECIPES. No date, ca 1920? 32 pages. Small illustrations of prepared dishes, cheese packages. 5 x 3.75", color wrapper. VG. $10.00
224 (Cooking) Rabbi Irwin Gordon & Victor B. Geller, editors. KASHRUTH: a handbook on the Jewish Dietary Laws. 3rd edition. Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America & Rabbinical Council of America, New York, New York, September, 1960. 32 pages. Illustrated, glossary. 9 x 6", printed wrapper Wrap lightly rubbed, VG. $10.00
225 (Cooking) Reliable Flour Company, Boston, Massachsetts. BISCUIT and CAKES: The ''Reliable'' Method. Copyrighted, 1911. (63) pages. Few small illustrations, measuring cup, spoons, advertisement for Marston's Restaurant. 7 x 4.5'', printed wrapper. Very small damaged spot 2 pages, bit soiled, rubbed, few pencil notes, G. $10.00
226 (Cooking) Richard Hellmann, Inc, Long Island City, New York. The HELLMAN SALAD BOOK. Copyright 1930. (20) pages. Color illustrations of salads, Hellman's Mayonnaise jars. 6.75 x 5", stapled booklet. Rubbed, VG. $10.00
227 (Cooking) Riverbank Canning Company, Riverbank, California. MADONNA BRAND TOMATO PASTE RECIPE BOOKLET. June 1, 1938. (28) pages. Color illustrations of tomato paste, juice, tuna, olive oil, olive cans. 5.75 x 3", stapled booklet. VG. $15.00
228 (Cooking) Roberts, Jessica H., Domestic Science Expert. The EVENING GAZETTE WAR COOK BOOK. A practical presentation of the fundamentals of cookery with detailed instructions in regard to the use of Wheat Flour Substitutes. Worcester Gazette Co, Worcester, MA, 1918. 24 pages. 7.75 x 5.25", printed wrapper. VG. $15.00
229 (Cooking) Shillaber, Lydia, editor & compiler. A NEW DAILY FOOD: A Collection of Tried & Reliable Recipes, Brought Forth from the Store House of Things New & Old, by the Ladies of St. Paul's Church, Morrisania, New York. NY: Press of Bedell & Brother, 1885. 128 pages, errata slip, 7pp advertisements. Frontispiece of church. 7 x 5", green cloth. Cover heavily worn, soiled, text loose, scattered stains, few corners creased, fair. Brown, Culinary Americana 2157; Cook, America's Charitable Cooks, page 176. $35.00
230 (Cooking) Smith-Lee Company, Cap Headquarters, Oneida, New York. SMITH-LEE MILK BOTTLE CAPS. Jobber's Price List No. 50. Effective April 1, 1952. (4) pages, 5 printed sheets inserted. Few illustrations of milk bottle caps. Folded sheet, 11 x 8.5". Creased, VG. $15.00 231 (Cooking) Sumner Rhubarb Growers Association, Sumner, Washington. 28 DELICIOUS WAYS to SERVE SUMNER HOT-HOUSE RHUBARB. No date, ca 1935? 10 x 10.5" sheet folding to 5 x 2.75". Color illustrations of prepared dishes, rhubarb, recipes. VG. $8.00
232 (Cooking) Sunshine Biscuits, Inc, Consumer Service, Long Island City, NY. SUNSHINE BISCUITS FAVORITE RECIPES. (1956 - printer code). 36 pages. Halftones of prepared dishes, vignettes of packaged crackers, cavorting chefs, Menu Guide, table setting diagrams. 8 x 6.25", color wrapper. Wrap lightly soiled, stained, G. $10.00
233 (Cooking) T.F. Chiffriller, Publisher, New York, New York. MANAGERS & STEWARDS DIRECTORY, Listing Purchasers, Hotels, Clubs, Transportation Co's, Industrial Restaurants, Hospitals & Schools. 52nd Year. Summer Issue, 1949. 72 pages. Advertisements for foodstuffs, linen, equipment, tableware, specialties, bakers, printer, painter, employment agency. 8.75 x 5.75", printed wrapper. Wrap bit soiled, few entries highlighted, else VG. $40.00
234 (Cooking) The Cox Gelatine Company, New York. COX'S GELATINE RECIPES. Copyright 1920. 32 pages. 7 x 4", color wrapper. Toned, VG. J.& G. Cox, Patent Gelatine Works, Gorgie Mills, near Edinburgh. $15.00
235 (Cooking) The Ladies Aid Society, Methodist Episcopal Church & Congregational Church-United, Staffordville, Connecticut. COOK BOOK from The Ladies Aid Society. 1920. What to Cook & How to Cook It. (16) pages. Local advertisements. 9 x 6", printed wrapper, string tie. VG. $20.00
236 (Cooking) The Ladies' Social Circle, Methodist Episcopal Church, Phillipston, Massachusetts. The PHILLIPSTON COOK BOOK of Tried & Proved Recipes. Cover: Ye True & Tried Receipts of ye Dames of Phillipston. Athol: Athol Printing Company, 1906. 84 pages. Few advertisements. 8 x 5.25", printed wrapper. Corner nibbled, corner chip, wrap bit soiled, G. Cook, America's Charitable Cooks, page 123. $25.00
237 (Cooking) The Pompeian Corporation, Baltimore, Maryland. POMPEIAN SALADS. Copyright 1928. (48) pages, presentation slip. Small illustration of olive oil can, branches, guarantee. 6 x 4.5", color wrapper. VG. $10.00
238 (Cooking) The Republic Metalware Company, Buffalo, New York. SAVORY PRIZE RECIPE BOOK I for the "Savory" Roaster. Copyright 1916. (48) pages. Few small illustrations of roaster, meat cuts. 6 x 3.5", stapled booklet, string through corner hole. Extremities rubbed, soiled, text VG. $15.00
239 (Cooking) The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, North Tonawanda, New York. A BOOK of RECIPES covering Three Generations of The FARNY and WURLITZER FAMILY & the Wives of Present Business Associates. Cover: CENTENNIAL COOK BOOK, 1856-1956. Copyright 1956. 172 pages. Tipped-in color illustration of House of Farny, Alsace, halftone of photo of 6 women. 7.5 x 5", decorated cloth, no dj. Cloth bit soiled, VG/none. From the makers of musical instruments, organs, jukeboxes in Cincinnati, Ohio. $10.00
240 (Cooking) The Wagner Manufacturing Company, Sidney, Ohio. WAGNER CAST ALUMINUM WARE. (28) pages, 12pp Cast Aluminum Ware, 3pp Hammered Ware, 3pp Magnalite Ware Price Lists for 1940 inserted. Illustrations of skillets, pans, boilers, roasters, kettles, coffee pots, baking molds, spoons, platters, view of factory. 10.5 x 8", stapled booklet. Lightly soiled, VG. $20.00 241 (Cooking) Townsend, Grace. FIVE O'CLOCK TEA. Recipes. NY: The Irving Press, copyright 1894. 31 pages. Small illustrations of S. Sternau & Company kettles, chafing dish, tea parties, drinkers. 5.5 x 4", printed wrapper. Wrap toned, rubbed, small light damp spot, text VG. Recipes for teas, coffee, punches, toddies, lemonades, mulled claret, &c. $20.00
242 (Cooking) Tru-Blu-Berries, New York, New York. LUSCIOUS TRU-BLU BERRIES RECIPES. No date, ca 1950?. (16) pages. Halftones of prepared dishes. 3.5 x 6.25", stapled booklet. VG. $8.00
243 (Cooking) Tyree, Marion Cabell, editor. HOUSEKEEPING in OLD VIRGINIA. Containing Contributions from 230 of Virginia's Noted Housewives, Distinguished for their Skill in the Culinary Art & other Branches of Domestic Economy. Louisville: John P. Morton & Company, 1879. Reprint. Louisville: Favorite Recipes Press, copyright 1965. 375 pages. Few facsimiles. 7.5 x 5", printed paper boards, no dj. VG/none. $10.00
244 (Cooking) V. La Rosa & Sons, Inc, Brooklyn, New York & Danielson, Connecticut. 101 WAYS TO PREPARE MACARONI. Recipes by La Rosa. Copyright 1949. (64) pages. Small views of factories, color illustrations of pasta shapes, packages, prepared dishes. 8 x 5.5", stapled booklet. VG. $10.00
245 (Cooking) V. La Rosa & Sons, Inc, Brooklyn, New York, Danielson, Connecticut, Hatboro, Pennsylvania. 51 LA ROSA PASTINA RECIPES. Copyright 1947. (24) pages. Small views of factories, color illustrations of pasta shapes, packages, prepared dishes. 8 x 5.5", stapled booklet. VG. $10.00
246 (Cooking) Wakefield, Ruth Graves. RUTH WAKEFIELD'S TOLL HOUSE: Tried & True Recipes. NY: M. Barrows & Company, 1943. Eighteenth printing. 275 pages. Portrait, plates, some color, Toll House, meals, dishes, menus, few drawings. 9 x 6", cloth, no dj. Few recipes written on endsheets, tips bit worn, clean, tight, VG/none. $10.00
247 (Cooking) Waring Products Corporation, New York, New York. ELEGANCE in ICE: Year Round Recipes for Your Waring Ice Jet. Copyright 1957. (16) pages. Few illustrations of Waring Blendor, Ice Jet, Coffee Mill, Mixor, cold dishes, drinks, decorations. 6 x 9", stapled booklet. VG. $10.00
248 (Cooking) Washburn Crosby Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota. ABOUT BREAD MAKING with GOLD MEDAL FLOUR. Copyright, 1907. 18 pages. Small panoramic view of mills, color illustrations of baked goods, woman with bag, barrel & bags of flour. 7 x 5", stapled booklet. Rubbed, soiled, foxed, minor edge damp damage, G. $15.00
249 (Cooking) Woman's Guild of Christ Church, Pottstown, Pennsylvania. OLD POTTSTOWN RECIPES. The Following Tested Recipes Were Contributed by Members & Friends of the Woman's Guild of Christ Church, Pottstown, Pennsylvania. (heading). No date, ca 1935? 80 pages. Advertisements. 9 x 6", printed wrapper, drawing of church. Wrap chipped, text VG. $20.00
250 (Dartmouth College) Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. CATALOGUE of the OFFICERS and STUDENTS of DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, for the Academical Year 1872-3. Hanover: printed for the college, 1872. 72 pages. 9 x 5.75", printed wrapper. Wrap bit soiled, creased, text VG. Medical Department, Chandler Scientific Department, New-Hampshire College of Agriculture & Mechanic Arts, Thayer School of Civil Engineering, courses, libraries, observatory, museum, student aid, calendar, &c. $15.00 251 (Decorative Arts) Albert Constantine & Son, New York, N.Y. CONSTANTINE'S MASTER MANUAL for WOODWORKERS & Big 1942 Bargain Book. 64 pages, order sheet, envelope inserted. Illustrations of tools, woodworking, veneer & inlay projects. 10 x 6.5'', printed wrapper. Wrap rubbed, splitting, text VG. $15.00
252 (Decorative Arts) Dennison Manufacturing Company, Framingham, Massachusetts. ART and DECORATION in CREPE and TISSUE PAPER. Twenty-third edition. 1913. 96 pages. Color plates of decorated fair booth, automobile, table, children in costume, pictures, vases of flowers, illustrations of crepe papers, hall, chandelier, booths, parade coaches, tables, lampshades, cups, napkins, shower decorations, costumes, flowers. 8.5 x 5.5", printed wrapper. Short wrap split, VG. $25.00
253 (Decorative Arts) Hodgson, Fred T. EASY LESSONS in the ART of PRACTICAL WOOD CARVING, suited to the wants of carpenters, joiners, amateurs & professioinal wood carvers, being a practical manual & guide to all kinds of wood carvng, including chip carving, flat carving, incised work & figure carving, with an essay on the principles of design for carved work of all kinds. Chicago: Frederick J. Drake & Co, copyright 1905. 284 pages. 185 illustrations. 7.5 x 5", cloth. Toned, VG. $20.00
254 (Decorative Arts) Michigan Chair Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan. MICHIGAN CHAIR COMPANY. A comprehensive selection of chairs in the manufacture of which comfort, elegance & perfect construction have always been the first considerations. (Catalog). July, 1915. 173 pages. Lovely birdseye drawing of factory, myriad halftones of every sort of chair in late Victorian & Craftsman style, few magazine & umbrella racks, pedestals, tabourettes, piano benches. 13 x 10", embossed stiff paper. IMAGE CLIPPED FROM 1 LEAF, cover heavily chipped, edge damped, fair. $35.00
255 (Decorative Arts) Prest-On Products Company, New York, New York. TRUCK DECALCOMANIA CATALOGUE for 1962. (8)pages. Color illustrations of signage ('Explosives', 'Diesel Only'), numbers, letters, few trucks with logos. 11 x 8.5", stapled booklet. Creased, VG. $15.00
256 (Decorative Arts) The Studio Limited, London. COMMERCIAL ART, Volume VI, 1929. viii,282 pages. 25 color plates, Austin Cooper, Charles Paine, Aubrey Hammond, Tom Purvis, Austin Reed, L.W. Anson, Calkins & Holden, Francis Jourdain, Paul Colin, Kenneth D. Shoesmith, Rene Vincent, Vera Truman, Marcel Valotaire, Joseph Binder, Fromenti, Graham Simmons, Walter Cyliax, Jean A. Mercier, C.H. Nolte, Andrew Johnson, Frank H. Mason, Loxton Knight; illustrated articles on window & store displays, posters, advertising, photography, Cunard, Heinz, interior design, storefronts, Ford, film, Hermes, booklets, layout, printing. 11 x 8", gold stamped blue cloth. Cover stained, worn, text shaken, but clean, G. A prodigious banquet of modernist design. $200.00
257 (Drawing) Bartholomew, William N. BARTHOLOMEW'S DRAWING BOOK. New Series. 2 (only). Boston & Chicago: Woolworth, Ainsworth & Co, copyright 1869. 12 leaves with lessons 1-12 printed versos only, interleaved with double-width blank sheets for drawing copies. 7 x 10.75", printed wrapper, with engraving of hand holding pencil on front, instructions on next 3 wrap pages. Light corner stain, vew corner chips, G. $20.00
258 (Early American Children's Book) The HYMNS from the CHILDREN'S HYMNAL: with Offices for a Sunday School. NY: F.J. Huntington & Co, copyright 1874. 188 pages, 3p Index, 1p book list. 5 x 3.25", limp purple cloth. Rubbed, few dogears, bit loose, G. $15.00 259 (Early American Children's Book) The FIRST RIPE STRAWBERRY. Boston: Henry Hoyt,1863. 64 pages. Fancy initial at head of each story. 4.5 x 3", purple cloth, gold stamped spine ('The Little Home Library: I'), blind stamped boards. Cover soiled, owner name, G. Pious Mary offers first strawberries to poor boy; 'The Little Hand', hapless boy pulled from river becomes metaphor for sin; 'What a Suit of Clothes came to', George Maxwell's generosity to Jed Little returned years later, latter a wealthy San Franciscan, former 'wrecked on a forlorn coast'; 'The Martyr Child', Knud Iverson drowned for refusing to steal; 'Ada's Resolution & its Fruit', Mrs. Marshall's tough love teaches Ada to save for missions. 'Edward H.M. Blomerth' on blank. $15.00
260 (Early American Children's Book) The CHILD'S DAILY FOOD. Containing a text of scripture, with questions appropriate for young children, for every day in the year. Prepared by a father. Revised edition, with engravings. Springfield: G. & C. Merriam, 1838. Copyright 1835. 192 pages. Frontispiece & 6 engravings, 2 signed 'J.W. Barber', mending fence, flowers, gathering hay, grain, threshing, crucifixion. 3.5 x 2.5", diamond pattern black cloth, remnant of spine label. Boards creased, edges chipped, hinges loose, edge damped, text soiled, fair. 'Eliza J. Chace' on blank. $25.00
261 (Early American Children's Book) WILLIS the PILOT, A Sequel to the Swiss Family Robinson; or, Adventures of an Emigrant Family Wrecked on an Unknown Coast of the Pacific Ocean. Interspersed with Tales, Incidents of Travel, & Illustrations of Natural History. Boston: Mayhew & Baker, 1858. 350 pages. Engravings. 7 x 4.25", purple cloth, gold stamped spine, blind paneled boards. Tips chipped, edges frayed, very worn, soiled, shaken, fair. $25.00
262 (Early American Children's Book) CINDERELLA and the LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER. Illustrated with colored engravings. N-Y: T.W. Strong; Boston: W.G. Cottrell, no date, ca 1850. (12) pages. 6 hand-colored engravings, publisher advertisement with large engraving of storefront & boxes of almanacs & valentines on the street. 7.5 x 4.5", printed wrapper, hand-colored engraving, advertisement on back. Wrap split, detached, tanned, soiled, rubbed, text VG. $75.00
263 (Early American Children's Book) ALADDIN or the WONDERFUL LAMP. Heading: The History of Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp. NY: McLoughlin Bro's, 30 Beekman St, no date, ca 1865. Stereotyped by Vincent Dill, 24 Beekman Street. (8) pages. 8 hand-colored engravings. 7.5 x 5", printed pink wrapper, engraving on front, advertisement on back. Edges nibbled, corner curled, wrap soiled, lightly damped, fair. $75.00
264 (Early American Children's Book) [Adams, William T.], Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1822-1897, Oliver Optic. NOW or NEVER; or, the Adventures of Bobby Bright. A story for young folks. Boston: Crosby, Nichols, Lee & Co; Cincinnati: Rickey, Mallory & Co, 1861. Copyright 1856. 263 pages. Frontispiece, extra engraved titlepage. 6.75 x 4.5", red cloth, gold stamped spine, blind paneled boards. 2 bites from spine edge, tip frayed, cloth soiled, bit shaken, G. 'George Henry Cleveland, from his Mother, January 1867.' on blank. $15.00
265 (Early American Children's Book) [Brightwell, Cecilia Lucy, 1811-1875]. PALISSY, the Huguenot Potter. A True Tale. Boston: Henry Hoyt; Chicago: William Tomlinson; Cincinnati: Geo. Crosby, 1859. 239 pages. Half-title, frontispiece with tissue. 6.75 x 4.5", blind stamped purple cloth, gold spine title. Cover bit soiled, trifle toned, G. 'Henry A. Fernald from Mrs. Root' on blank. Author, also an etcher, credits writings of Palissy & Morley's 'Life', tale of struggling potter of Saintes, effort to produce enameled ware led to further poverty, later royal patronage, but died in Bastille. $15.00
266 (Early American Children's Book) [More, Hannah, 1745-1833]. The SHEPHERD of SALISBURY- PLAIN. Series of Evangelical Tracts, No. 29. Printed & sold by Lincoln & Edmands, Boston, 1812. 24 pages. 6.5 x 4", stitched. Removed, lacking wrapper, split along fold, G. Shaw & Shoemaker 26130. $20.00 267 (Early American Children's Book) [Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de, 1737-1814]. The HISTORY of the ADVENTURES, LOVE, and CONSTANCY, of PAUL and VIRGINIA. Plymouth, (NH): H.E. Moore, 1824. 126 pages. 5.5 x 3.5", paper over wooden boards. LACKING FRONTISPIECE, boards broken, lacking lower third of each board, repaired with cloth, worn, foxed, with all faults. Shaw & Shoemaker 17878. $25.00
268 (Early American Children's Book) American Sunday-school Union, 1122 Chestnut St, Philadelphia. The FAMILY GATHERING; or, Thanksgiving-Day. No date, wrap imprint, ca 1860? 8 pages. Small engraving of family. 4 x 2.75", printed wrapper, 'Recent Publications' on back. Trifle creased, few spots, VG. Also 'The Bird's Nest'. $15.00
269 (Early American Children's Book) American Tract Society, 150 Nassau-street, N.Y. CATHARINE PRYOR, or, the Half-cent Premium. 114. No date, ca 1850? 16 pages. 3 small engravings. 4.25 x 2.75", orange printed buff wrapper, 'Charming Gifts for the Little Ones' on back. Trifle toned, VG. Cheap tract achieves pious life for sickly girl who dies. Set in Baltimore, 1854. 'Emma Bower' in pencil. $15.00
270 (Early American Children's Book) Brobst, S.K. Frageb üchlein über die Anfangs-Gr ünde der Religion. Für Familien-Unterricht, Sonntags-Schulen und Alltags-Schulen. Siebente auflage. Allentown, Pa: Verlegt von S.K. Brobst, 1857. (32) pages. Engraving of shepherd. 4.75 x 3", printed brown wrapper. Very worn, soiled, oversewn, dampstain, fair. Catechism. 'Minnie A. Lenhart' & 'Jefferson Lenhart' in pencil. $25.00
271 (Early American Children's Book) Emerson, Joseph. The EVANGELICAL PRIMER, containing a Minor Doctrinal Catechism; & a Minor Historical Catechism; to which is added the Westminster Assembly's Shorter Catechism. Tenth edition. With 72 cuts. Boston: Samuel T. Armstrong, 1820. 72 pages. 5.5 x 3.5", blue wrapper. Lacking lower wrap, upper wormed, soiled, rubbed, G. American Imprints 1098, $20.00
272 (Early American Children's Book) Fobes, Edwin. MISSION SONGS: A Collection of Hymns & Music designed for Sabbath Schools. Prepared for the New-England S.S. Union. Boston: Heath & Graves, 1855. Copyright 1855. 78 pages. 7 x 5.75", black cloth, blind paneled boards, gold title upper board. Spine nick, tips frayed, cloth soiled, upper board little cupped, corner damped, text foxed, fair. 'For Louisa & Hannah, From Cousin Annie' on blank. $25.00
273 (Early American Children's Book) Greenwood, Grace (Sara Lippincott), Lynn, Mass. HISTORY OF MY PETS. With engravings from designs by Billings. Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1852. Copyright 1850, Sara J. Clarke. (vii), 109 pages. Frontispiece, 5 engraved plates by Hammatt Billings. 6.5 x 4.5", red cloth, gold titles & decorations on upper board & spine, blind panels on boards. Edges frayed, shaken, bit soiled, fair. Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators, 404; O'Gorman, Billings Bookshelf, 27. Grace tells of cat, cockerel, hawk, pony, dog, spaniel, drake, greyhound, cosset, robin, setter from childhood on farm in upstate New York. 'Henry A. Fernald from his Aunt Sarah, 1856' on blank. $20.00
274 (Early American Children's Book) Heidelberger Katechismus. CATECHISMUS, oder Kurzer Unterricht CHRISTLICHER LEHRE, für die angehende Jugend in der Churf ürstlichen Pfalz und andern reformirten Orten zu gebrauchen: samt der Haus-Tafel, mit und ohne biblischen Spr üch-Büchlein. Alles zur Ehre und Lob Gottes. Germantown: Gedruckt & zu finden bey Leibert & Billmeyer, 1784. 118 pages, (1)p multiplication tables inserted. 5.5 x 3.75", (original) leather spine, marbled paper boards. Cover heavily worn, corner chip, spine foot oversewn, endsheets removed, few leaves torn, trifling losses, text damped, thumbed, fair. $250.00 275 (Early American Children's Book) Teller, Thomas, editor. A PARENT'S OFFERING: or My Mother's Story of Her Own Home & Childhood. Embellished with new & beautiful engravings. Teller's Tales. New series, number five. New Haven: S. Babcock, foreword: 1844. 64 pages. Titlepage vignette of New Haven by Lossing, 8 plates with pictorial frames. 5.5 x 4.5", orange printed buff paper over green endsheets, advertisement on back. Cover rubbed, soiled, corner bent, text foxed, G. 'Cornelia Huntington, What are our hopes? Like garlands on affliction's forehead worn, Lifted in the morning, and at evening torn. Marilla' on endsheet. Series of letters between siblings from Roseville or New Haven, 1802, sent by in-house Post Office to teach penmanship & amuse, one copies 'Old Woman of Banbury Cross, a Puzzle for April Day'. $35.00
276 (Early American Children's Book) Watts, Isaac & Joseph Emerson. The IMPROVEMENT of the MIND. With corrections, questions, & supplement, by Joseph Emerson, Principal, Female Seminary, Wethersfield, Conn. Revised stereotype edition. Boston: James Loring, copyright 1833. 234 pages. 6.25 x 4", leather spine, printed blue paper boards. Cover rubbed, text tanned, G. $15.00
277 (Education) Beecher, Catharine E. SUGGESTIONS RESPECTING IMPROVEMENTS in EDUCATION, Presented to the Trustees of the Hartford Female Seminary, & Published at Their Request. Hartford: Packard & Butler, Hudson & Skinner, Printers, 1829. 84 pages. 8.5 x 5.5", cloth spine, printed blue paper boards. Edges frayed, cover worn, text foxed, else VG. Catalogue of the Officers, Teachers, & Pupils for 1829. 'Miss Mary Ann Giles, from her friend, H. Beecher, Boston, March 20, 1830' in light pencil on blank. Harriet E. Beecher, author's sister, listed as teacher. $250.00
278 (Engineering) VALUABLE SECRETS in ARTS, TRADES, &c., Selected from the best authors. & adapted to the situation of the United States. N-Y: Evert Duyckinck, 1809. G. Long, Printer. 380 pages, (20) pp Index. 7 x 4", later cloth. Library bookplate, pocket removed, spine number, bit toned, loose, G. Shaw & Shoemaker 19085; Rink, Technical Americana 163; Lowenstein, Cookery Books 52. Engraving, Metals, Varnish, Cements, Glass, Color & Paint, Gilding, Dyes, Casting, Ink, Wine, Vinegar, Liquor & Oils, Confectionery, Snuff, Stains, Agriculture, Domestic Economy, Medicine, Distilling, Brewing, Tanning. $100.00
279 (Engineering) MACHINE MOLDING, FOUNDRY APPLIANCES, MALLEABLE CASTING, Brass Founding, Blacksmith-shop Equipment, Iron Forging, Tool Dressing, Hardening & Tempering, Treatment of Low-carbon Steel, Hammer Work, Machine Forging, Special Forging Operations. International Reference Library 53B. Scranton: International Textbook Co, copyright 191-6. (662) pages. Color chart, engravings of machines, equipment, apparatus, tools, processes, products. 9 x 6'', half leather, cloth boards.. Endsheet lifting, cover little rubbed, VG. $35.00
280 (Engineering) Aerovox Wireless Corporation, Brooklyn, New York. The AEROVOX 1931 CONDENSER and RESISTOR MANUAL and CATALOGUE. A Helpful Manual Containing Detailed Specifications. 40 pages. Illustrations of electrical components. 11 x 8.5", printed wrapper. Wrap soiled, rubbed, edge damping, G. $20.00
281 (Engineering) Aluminum Company of America, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. MACHINING ALUMINUM and its ALLOYS. January, 1932 - printer code. (24) pages. 8 illustrations of machining details. 8.5 x 5.5", blue & silver wrapper. VG. $10.00
282 (Engineering) Aluminum Company of America, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ALUMINUM CASTING ALLOYS: Their Uses & Advantages, Hardeners & Their Effects, Alcoa Standard Alloys, General Foundry Principles, Miscellaneous Physical Data. Third edition. Copyright December 1929. 30 pages. 14 illustrations of castings, machine shop. 10.25 x 8", blue & silver printed wrapper. Wrap trifle soiled, VG. $15.00 283 (Engineering) Aluminum Company of America, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. COMBATING CHEMICAL CORROSION with ALCOA ALUMINUM. Copyright 1933. (44) pages. Illustrations of chemical processing equipment. 8 x 5", color printed wrapper. VG. $15.00
284 (Engineering) American Sheet & Tin Plate Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ANTI- CORROSIVE METAL. Keystone Copper Steel Sheet Metal. Eighth edition. 1931. 23 pages. Illustrations of factories, test rack, streetcar, tanks, pipes, buildings. 11 x 8.5", printed stiff paper. Edge damped, VG. $15.00
285 (Engineering) American Sheet & Tin Plate Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. FACTS Simply & Briefly Told Concerning Keystone Copper Steel. Tenth edition. No date, ca 1930? (24) pages. Illustrations of tests, graphs. 11 x 8.5", printed stiff paper. VG. $15.00
286 (Engineering) American Sheet & Tin Plate Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The AGE of ALLOYS: A Brief Discussion of the Benefits of Alloys, particularly Copper Steel. Second edition. 1930. 11 pages. Few illustrations. 11 x 8.5", printed stiff paper. VG. $10.00
287 (Engineering) American Sheet & Tin Plate Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The TESTIMONY of SCIENCE and SERVICE. Second edition. 1930. (16) pages. Illustrations of buildings, mills, drain pipe, folding color graphs. 11 x 8.5", printed stiff paper. VG. $15.00
288 (Engineering) American Sheet & Tin Plate Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. BRIGHT TIN PLATES, also an appended Article describing Tin Plate Manufacture. Fourth edition. 1931. 10 pages. 11 x 8.5", printed stiff paper. VG. $10.00
289 (Engineering) American Sheet & Tin Plate Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. AMERICAN USS STAINLESS and HEAT RESISTING STEEL SHEETS and LIGHT PLATES. Second edition. 1932. 23 pages. Illustrations of commercial kitchen, equipment, modernist architectural details, industrial tanks, automotife trim. 11 x 8.5", printed stiff paper. VG. $15.00
290 (Engineering) American Sheet & Tin Plate Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The PROTECTION of IRON and STEEL SHEETS AGAINST RUSTING. Sixth edition. 1931. (12) pages. 11 x 8.5", printed stiff paper. VG. $10.00
291 (Engineering) American Sheet & Tin Plate Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. STEEL SHEETS APPLIED to MODERN CONSTRUCTION. 1932. (24) pages. Illustrations of Empire State & Chrysler Buildings, Irving Trust, Park Plaza Hotel, St Louis, Waldorf Astoria, NYC, tall buildings, schools, modernist details, factories. 11 x 8.5", printed stiff paper. VG. $20.00
292 (Engineering) American Sheet & Tin Plate Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. SPECIAL SHEETS for the MAGNETIC STRUCTURE of ELECTRICAL APPARATUS. Revised edition. 1928. 26 pages, 1930 sheet inserted. Illustrations of factory, sheets, graphs. 11 x 8.5", printed stiff paper. VG. $15.00
293 (Engineering) Artz, A.L.; Drawings by W.J. Stanley. The WOODWORKER and ITS OUTPUT from an INSURANCE POINT of VIEW. Lumber Mutual Insurance Company, Boston; Penna Lumbermens Mutual Fire Insurance Company, Philadelphia; Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Company, Mansfield, OH; Indiana Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Company, Indianapolis; Central Manufacturers Mutual Insurance Company, Van Wert, OH. April, 1915. 112 pages. Drawings of woodworking factories, construction, protection, safety details. 9 x 6", printed stiff paper. VG. $15.00 294 (Engineering) Behr-Manning, Troy, New York, Makers of Quality Abrasive Papers & Cloths, Division of Norton Company. SANDPAPER: Its How & Why. 5th edition, revised June, 1940. (32) pages. Birdseye of factory, small illustrations of minerals, sandpaper production, sanding machines, abrasives. 6 x 3.25", printed wrapper. VG. $10.00
295 (Engineering) Buck, D.M., American Sheet & Tin Plate Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania & J.O. Handy, Pittsburgh Testing Laboraories. RESEARCH on the CORROSION RESISTANCE of COPPER STEEL. Fourth edition. 1931. American Sheet & Tin Plate Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 22 pages. Illustrations of tests. 11 x 8.5", printed stiff paper. VG. $15.00
296 (Engineering) Buck, D.M., American Sheet & Tin Plate Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The INFLUENCE of VERY LOW PERCENTAGES of COPPER in Retarding the Corrosion of Steel. A paper read before the American Society for Testing Materials. Fourth edition. 1928. 13 pages. 10 illustrations of tests, graphs. 11 x 8.5", printed stiff paper. VG. $15.00
297 (Engineering) Chicago Fuse Manufacturing Company, Chicago. ELECTRICAL PROTECTING MATERIALS and CONDUIT FITTINGS. Catalog No. 32. Copyright March 1927. Illustrations of fuses, cutouts, fittings, tools, boxes. 10.5 x 8", cloth spine, printed stiff paper. Cover soiled, rubbed, text G. $20.00
298 (Engineering) E.P. Ordway, Compiler, Union Steam Pump Company, Battle Creek, Michigan. UNION ENGINEERING HANDBOOK. Pumping Machinery, Air Compressors, Condensers. First edition. Copyright 1921. xi,442 pages. Illustrations of pumps, compressors, electronics. 9 x 5", cloth. Cover scuffed, VG. $25.00
299 (Engineering) Eckel, Joseph C., American Sheet & Tin Plate Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. COPPER STEEL RESISTS CORROSION as Established Metallurgical Fact. A Summary of the Conclusions of the Scientists. Fifth edition. 1932. (16) pages. 11 x 8.5", printed stiff paper. VG. $10.00
300 (Engineering) Greer, William. A HISTORY of ALARM SECURITY. First edition. Washington: The National Burglar & Fire Alarm Association, March, 1979. 112 pages. Illustrated. 10 x 7", cloth, no dj. Tips rubbed, VG/none. $15.00
301 (Engineering) Harding, Louis Allen. STEAM POWER PLANT ENGINEERING. NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1932. Copyright 1932. viii,777 pages. Many illustrations, few folding plates, folding chart in rear pocket. 9 x 6.5", cloth, no dj. Only 1 chart in pocket, appears to lack some, else VG/none. $25.00
302 (Engineering) Hawkins, N. MAXIMS and INSTRUCTIONS for the BOILER ROOM. Useful to Engineers, Firemen & Mechanics, relating to Steam Generators, Pumps, Appliances, Steam Heating, Practical Plumbing, &c. Comprising instructions & suggestions on the construction, setting, control & management of various forms of steam boilers; on the theory & practical operation of the steam pump; steam heating; practical plumbing; rules for the safety valve, strength of boilers, capacity of pumps, &c. NY: Theo. Audel & Co, 1902. 331 pages, publisher advertisements. 184 illustrations. 8.5 x 5.5", cloth, no dj. VG/none. $20.00
303 (Engineering) Henry Ford Trade School, Dearborn, Michigan. SHOP THEORY. Revised 1941. (276) pages. Illustrations of machine tools, accessories, processes. 11 x 8.5", cloth spine, printed stiff paper. Cover soiled, rubbed, VG. School founded 1916 to train Ford employees in metal trades with shop equipment for 1800. $15.00 304 (Engineering) Henry R. Worthington Hydraulic Works, Brooklyn, New York. WORTHINGTON STEAM PUMPS, Electric Pumps, Condensers & Water Meters. Advance Sheets of General Catalogue No. 29. 1900. 32 pages. Illustrations of pumps. 8.5 x 6.5", stitched. Soiled, rubbed, corner crease, G. $15.00
305 (Engineering) Illinois Tool Works, Chicago. HIGH-SPEED STEEL TOOLS. Catalog D. 1929. 255 pages. View of factory, illustrations of hobs, gear, sprocket, tooth & milling cutters, reamers, bits, &c. 7.5 x 5.5", printed stiff paper. Wrap soiled, text VG. $15.00
306 (Engineering) Industry & Welding & Welding Illustrated, Cleveland, Ohio, compilers & publishers. 1958/1959 WELDING DIRECTORY: Products - Sources of Supply - Processes - Reference Data. (703) pages. Illustrations of welding equipment. 11 x 8.5", cloth, no dj. Cover soiled, bit musty, G. $15.00
307 (Engineering) Ingersoll-Rand Company, Cameron Pump Division, New York City. CAMERON HYDRAULIC DATA. Ninth edition. Copyright 1934. 192 pages, memoranda, graph sheets. Few illustrations of pumps. 7.25 x 4.5", cloth. Cover soiled, G. $10.00
308 (Engineering) Jeffery, Walter H. DEEP WELL DRILLING: The Principles & Practices of Deep Well Drilling & a Hand Book of Useful Information for the Well Driller. Second edition. Houston: Gulf Publishing Company, copyright 1925. 662 pages. 315 illustrations of drilling equipment, few folding plates. 9 x 6", flexible cloth, no dj. Few library rubberstamps, owner names, cover rubbed, VG. $25.00
309 (Engineering) McDonnell, M.E., Pennsylvania Railroad System, Altoona, Pennsylvania. RUSTPROOFING of STEEL MATERIALS, Corrosion resisting property of Copper Bearing Steel substantiated by tests, Economies Effected by Arresting Corrosion. Fourth edition. 1931. American Sheet & Tin Plate Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 8 pages. 2 illustrations, test, graph. 11 x 8.5", printed stiff paper. VG. $10.00
310 (Engineering) Merrimac Chemical Company, Boston, Massachusetts. INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS for Tanneries, Paper Mills, Steel & Wire Works, Textile Mills, Dye & Chemical Works, Celluloid, Smokeless Powder & Fertilizer Manufacturers, Artificial Ice Refrigerating Plants, Foundries, Brass Finishers, Engravers, &c. No date, but 1922 - text. 68 pages. Views of factory, interior, small illustrations of discharging tower, tank car, cylinders, bag, drum, carboy. 6.5 x 3.5", gold lettered black leather, gold edges. Cover splitting, soiled, text G. $15.00
311 (Engineering) Phillips Insulated Wire Company, Pawtucket, Rhode Island. "O.K." INSULATED WIRES and CABLES. Catalog. November, 1907. 80 pages. Small birdseye of factory, sections & lengths of wire. 5.25 x 3", gold stamped leather. Rubbed, G. $15.00
312 (Engineering) Power Specialty Company, New York, N.Y. SUPERHEATED STEAM: Foster Superheaters. Copyright 1917. 54 pages. Illustrations of superheaters, industrial boilers, boiler rooms, power stations, water works, railroad station, locomotive, oil tankers, cargo steamer, river boats. 9.5 x 7.5", gold stamped cloth, no dj. Tiny damage spots from few pages adhering, else VG. $25.00
313 (Engineering) Pratt & Whitney, Division Niles-Bement-Pond Company, West Hartford, Connecticut. SMALL TOOLS. Catalog No. 17. Copyright 1950. 462 pages, price sheets in rear pocket. Birdseye view of factory, illustrations of taps, dies, screwplates, cutters, reamers, punches, drills. 7.5 x 5", embossed cloth. Slightly cocked, VG. $15.00 314 (Engineering) Radio Corporation of America, Camden, New Jersey, RCA Laboratories Division. The RCA LABORATORIES: DAVID SARNOFF RESEARCH CENTER, PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY. No date, ca 1943 - text. (28) pages. Halftones of building, shops, laboratories, architectural model, floorplans, section drawing. 8.5 x 5.5", stapled booklet. VG. $15.00
315 (Engineering) Radio Shack Corporation, Boston, Massachusetts. RADIO SHACK 1960 GUIDE to ELECTRONIC BUYING. Mail Order Catalog No. 65. 312 pages, order sheet. Illustrations of tuners, amplifiers, turntables, speakers, headphones, microphones, radios, transmitters, receivers, ham radio, antennas, kits, tools, test equipment, transistors, tubes, components. 10.5 x 8", printed wrapper. Toned, G. $15.00
316 (Engineering) Richardson, E.A. & L.T. Richardson. American Sheet & Tin Plate Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. OBSERVATIONS Upon the Atmospheric Corrosion of Commercial Sheet Iron, particularly in regard to the Influence of Copper & Mill Scale. A paper read before the 30th Meeting of the American Electro-chemical Society. Fourth edition. 1930. 10 pages. 3 illustrations. 11 x 8.5", printed stiff paper. VG. $10.00
317 (Engineering) South Bend Lathe Works, South Bend, Indiana. "SOUTH BEND" HAND BOOK No. 44 For the Mechanic. September, 1929. Fourth printing. 32 pages. Illustrations of factory, lathes, accessories, details, turned metal pieces. 9 x 6'', stapled booklet. VG. $15.00
318 (Engineering) Stern & Company, Hartford, Connecticut. CATALOGUE of FESCO RADIO SUPPLIES. No date, ca 1925. (32) pages. Gathering of bulletins 1-15. Illustrations of headphones, coupler, slide tuner, pliephone, horn, keys, switches, meters, transformers, inductances, batteries, booster, rheostat, condensers, amplifiers, tubes, by various manufacturers. 9.25 x 6.5", printed wrapper, brass fasteners. Wrap soiled, G. $35.00
319 (Engineering) Tatum, J.J., Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. REDUCING the CORROSION in STEEL CARS: Steel Containing a Small Percentage of Copper Adopted to Prevent Rapid Deterioration. Reprinted from Railway Age. Fifth edition. 1931. American Sheet & Tin Plate Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 8 pages. 7 illustrations of railroad cars. 11 x 8.5", printed stiff paper. VG. $15.00
320 (Engineering) Taylor, Frederick Winslow, 1856-1915. The PRINCIPLES of SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT. Special edition printed in February 1911 for confidential circulation among members of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers with the compliments of the author. NY & London: Harper & Brothers, 1911. 77 pages. 9 x 6", dark green cloth, gold spine lettering, no dj. VG/none. Printing & the Mind of Man 403. $975.00
321 (Engineering) The Baker Manufacturing Company, Springfield, Illinois. BAKER'S TWENTIETH CENTURY PICK-UP SWEEPER. No date, ca 1900? (8) pages. Halftones of horse-drawn street sweeper. 6 x 9", stapled booklet. Slight crease, VG. $25.00
322 (Engineering) The Brown Hoisting & Conveying Machine Company, Cleveland, Ohio. PATENT AUTOMATIC HOISTING and CONVEYING APPLIANCES. Catalog B. 1900. 143 pages. Fine halftone views, drawings & plans of identified bridge tramways, fast plants, cantilever & gantry cranes, coal & ore storage plants, shed tramway, car-dumping machine, furnace-hoist & stock- distributor, sewer machine, cableway, &c. 9 x 12'', gold stamped tan cloth. PAGES 51-8 REMOVED, few small spine bugholes, cover lightly spotted, else G. $100.00 323 (Engineering) The Fairbanks Company, New York, N.Y. FAIRBANKS BRASS and IRON VALVES: A Type for Every Service: Steam, Water, Gas, Oil, Air, Acid, Globes, Angles, Gates, Checks, Ball Cocks. Illustrated Catalog & Price List No. 20. Copyright 1926. 199 pages. Birdseye view, illustrated. 7 x 4", cloth. Cover bit soiled, G. $15.00
324 (Engineering) The L.S. Starrett Company, Athol, Massachusetts. FINE MECHANICAL TOOLS. Catalog No. 25. 50th Anniversary. Copyright 1930. 383 pages. Illustrations of factories, rulers, tape measures, squares, calipers, gages, dividers, levels, punches, transits, saws. 7.5 x 5.25", printed wrapper. Cover worn, few corners bent, light soiling, G. $10.00
325 (Engineering) The Thew Shovel Company, Lorain, Ohio. THEW HANDBOOK describing Operation, Care, Adjustment & Application of Lorain Power Shovels, Cranes, Clamshells, Draglines & Backdiggers. Copyright 1928. (200)+ pages. Small drawings. 7.25 x 5.25", embossed stiff paper, brass fasteners. Owner name, bit soiled, VG. $15.00
326 (Engineering) The Warner & Swasey Company, Cleveland, Ohio. TURRET LATHE TOOLS. Catalog No. 16. 1917. 116 pages. Illustrations of turret lathes & screw machines, tools, chucks. 9 x 6", embossed stiff paper. Rubbed, smudged, G. $15.00
327 (Engineering) Toolkraft Corporation, Springfield, Massachusetts. TOOLKRAFT QUALITY POWER TOOLS. 1964 Models. 23 pages, leaflet inserted. Illustrations of radial arm, arbor, band, jig & table saws, jointers, shapers, drill presses, sander, grinder, lathe, vacuum, stands, motors, accessories. 11 x 8.5", stapled booklet. VG. $10.00
328 (Etiquette) The YOUNG MAN'S HANDBOOK of ETIQUETTE. By the author of "Etiquette for Gentlemen." Extra chromolithograph titlepage: Hand Book for Fashion. Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, no date, ca 1850? 224 pages. 5.25 x 3.5", cloth, gold stamped spine & title on upper board in floral wreath, blind panels on boards. Bit rubbed, VG. Appearance & Apparel, Good- Breeding, Behaviour on Occasions, Conversation, Courtship & Marriage, Morning Calls, Evening Visits, Receiving Company, Amusements. Not in Bobbitt, Etiquette Books. $50.00
329 (Etiquette) A MANUAL of POLITENESS, comprising the Principles of Etiquette, & Rules of Behaviour in Genteel Society. For persons of both sexes. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co, 1842. (288) pages. 5 x 3.5", red cloth, gold stamped spine & image of woman on upper board, blind paneled boards. Cover bit rubbed, soiled, hinges reglued, text foxed, shaken, G. 'Mr. J.S. Reed, Present from Miss L.A. Stone' on blank. See Bobbitt, Bibliography of Etiquette 164. $35.00
330 (Etiquette) The POCKET LETTER WRITER: consisting of Letters on Every Occurrence in Life; with Complimentary Cards, &c. Third edition. Providence: B. Cranston & Co, 1839. Copyright 1836. 256 pages. Engraved frontispiece. 4.25 x 2.75", black leather, gold spine title & lines. Tips chipped, cracking along spine edge, cover rubbed, edge stain, soiled, G. American Imprints 57989. $35.00
331 (Evolution) Brinton, Daniel G. (Garrison), 1837-1899. An ETHNOLOGIST'S VIEW of HISTORY. An Address before the Annual Meeting of the New Jersey Historical Society, at Trenton, New Jersey, January 28, 1896. Philadelphia: 1896. 24 pages. 9 x 6", printed wrapper. VG. History as depiction of evolution of human species. $15.00
332 (Expositions) WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION, CHICAGO. 1893. (Souvenir viewbook). Ward Brothers, Publishers, Columbus, Ohio, 1892. Double-page birdseye view & 6 panels with 2 views each in accordion strip: Government, Administration, Woman's, Manufactures & Arts, Agricultural, Horticultural, Transportation, Electrical, Fisheries Buildings, Art Palace, Machinery Hall, Hall of Mines. 6 x 5", black stamped red textured paper. Slightly rubbed, VG. $25.00 333 (Expositions) TRANS-MISSISSIPPI and INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION, Omaha, June to November, 1898. The Omaha Weekly Bee, Omaha, Wednesday, May 11, 1898. Number 35. (4) + 8 pages. Full-page birdseye view, panoramic view of lagoon under construction, views of buildings. Folded sheets, 24 x 17.5". Few bugholes, tears, newsprint tanned, G. Unpaginated section on heavier paper devoted to exposition, with regular issue having news of Spanish-American War, progress of exposition. $50.00
334 (Expositions) Louis J. Schneyer, Chicago, Illinois. SCHNEYER'S ILLUSTRATED HAND-BOOK and GUIDE to CHICAGO and the WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 1893. (48) pages. Halftone views of Administration, Government, Fisheries, Electric, Agriculture, Art, Manufactures, Machinery, Mining, Transportation, Woman's Buildings, birdseye view. 6 x 9.75", printed wrapper, cord tie. Wrap soiled, short splits, toned, few corners creased, wrap corner damped, G. $35.00
335 (Expositions) The Jamestown Exposition, Norfolk, Virginia. 1607-1907: The JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION, Opens Apr. 26, Closes Nov. 30. The Tidewater Cities of Hampton Roads, Virginia, Your Host for 1907. Principal Offices, Norfolk, VA. (24) pages. Small halftones of Norfolk Harbor, Navy Yard, Newport News Shipyard, Hotel Chamberlain, Naval Hospital, Jamestown, Exposition, St. Paul's Church, exposition birdseye, floorplan, groundplan. 6.25 x 3.25", green & black printed wrapper. Wrap rubbed, soiled, text G. $20.00
336 (Florida) FOTIS GIANOPOULOS, 35 years deep sea diver, Tarpon Springs, Florida. (Souvenir card). No date, ca 1940?? 6 x 4". Halftone of man in diver outfit on boat with sign 'Boat John Panagis: We show you how sponges are gathered', people on board. Tanned, G. $15.00
337 (Florida) Florida State Chamber of Commerce, Jacksonville, Florida. TOURIST'S GUIDE of FLORIDA: The Nation's Winter Playground. Copyright 1938, Curt Teich & Co, Chicago. (32) pages. 16 color illustrations of St. Augustine, Silver Springs, Daytona Beach, McKee Jungle Gardens, Palm Beach, Hialeah Park, Oversea Highway, Seminole Indians & Everglades, Ringling Museum, St. Petersburg, Tarpon Springs, Cypress Gardens, Singing Tower, Ravine Gardens, Palatka, Marine Studios. 4.75 x 6.75", stapled booklet. Staples little rusty, VG. $20.00
338 (Florida) Hay, Edgar Lee; Cover design by Natalie Newell; Silhouettes by A.H. Harrison; Introduction: Frank B. Stoneman, Editor, The Miami Herald. MIAMI RAMBLES. Copyrighted 1921. (40) pages. 9.25 x 4.5", printed wrapper. Wrap rubbed, few edge nicks, else VG. Miami Herald columns. 'To Edwin Gordon Lawrence, Just a little token of friendship which I hope will endure after our Miami Herald days, Sincerely, E.L.H., Apr. 25/21, Miami' on copyright page. $50.00
339 (France) Guilmin, L., Paris. PLAN de PARIS divise en vingt arrondissements indiquant les Nos des Maisons a l'angle des Rues, les Metropolitains, Rues, Omnibus, Musee, etc. Paris: Guilmin, no date, ca 1900? 63 page booklet 'Nouvelle Nomenclature des Rues, Boulevards, etc. de Paris Suivi de l'Itineraire des Omnibus & Tramways, des Metropolitains et des Renseignements sur les Musee, Ambassades, Theatres, etc. 10.75 x 14" folding color 'Plan of Metropolitain de Paris, Dresse & Grave par L. Guimin, Imp. Erhard'. 24 x 29.5" folding color 'Nouveau Plan de Paris Dresse & Grave par L. Guilmin, Imp.Dufrenoy' mounted on linen. 6.5 x 4" silver stamped paper boards, art-nouveau frame. Cover spine chipped & bug nibbled, maps trifle toned, else VG. $15.00
340 (Genealogy) Drummond, Josiah H. GENEALOGY of SAMUEL WILLIAMS of GRAFTON, N.H. Fifth in descent from Richard Williams of Taunton. Portland: Smith & Sale, Printers, 1899. 20 pages. 9 x 6", printed wrapper. Corner bent, wrap toned, rubbed, text G. $15.00 341 (Gift Book) The PHILIPENA, or Friendship's Token: a Present for all Seasons. Worcester: S.A. Howland, 1852. 126 pages. Extra chromolithograph titlepage by George Snyder, New York. 4.5 x 3", gold & blind stamped black cloth. Tips chipped, cover rubbed, soiled, text foxed, G. Stories & poems on love & marriage, 'Marrying for Money' set in New York, 'Twins' in Western Massachusetts during American Revolution, Thomas Jefferson, 'Rules for Conversation'. 'Jabez G. Reed, from his Cousin Minerva, August 22nd, 1853' on blank. $25.00
342 (Harvard University) Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. CATALOGUS SENATUS ACADEMICI, Eorum qui Munera et Offica Academica Gesserunt, Quique Alicujus Gradus Laurea Donati sunt in Universitate Harvardiana, Cantabrigliae, in Republica Massachusettensi. Cambridge: Hilliard & Metcalf Typographis, 1818. 66 pages. 9.5 x 5.75", printed wrapper. Wrap split, few creased corners, VG. Untrimmed. 'Jonathan Longley' on wrap. $25.00
343 (History) Lyman, Azel S. LYMAN'S HISTORICAL CHART. Containing the Prominent Events of the Civil, Religious & Literary History of the World. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day. Revised, enlarged & improved. Cincinnati, Memphis & Atlanta: National Publishing Company; Jones Brothers & Co, Philadelphia & Chicago, 1874. Copyright 1873. (33) pages. Hand-colored charts. 16.5 x 15", half-leather, cloth boards, gold stamped upper board, blind stamped lower, with title, scroll, globe. BOARDS DETACHED, worn, sewing broken 1 place, else G. $75.00
344 (Horticulture) Boggs, Kate Doggett, Fredericksburg, Virginia. PRINTS and PLANTS of OLD GARDENS. Richmond: Garrett & Massie, copyright, 1932. x,101 pages. 38 plates. 13 x 10", pictorial cloth, no dj. Spine cloth badly bugeaten, tips frayed, text VG/none. Views of 17th-19th century English gardens gathered for Rappahannock Valley Garden Club. $10.00
345 (Horticulture) Copeland, R(obert) Morris, 1830-1874. COUNTRY LIFE: a Handbook of Agriculture, Horticulture, & Landscape Gardening. Boston: John P. Jewett & Company; NY: C.M. Saxton, Barker & Co, 1860, Copyright 1859. x,814 pages. Double-page tinted lithograph Plan for Country Place, 8 plates with tissues, residences of J. Francis Fisher, Philadelphia, Washington Irving, H.W. Sargent, Fishkill, New York, Charles River, Newton, Hudson River, Hyde Park, many engravings, garden plans, greenhouse, grapery, conservatory, kitchen & flower gardens, orchard, farm, tools, plants, &c. 8.75 x 5.75", cloth. Cloth splitting along spine, edges frayed, hinges pulled, loose, text clean, tight, G. 'B. Delmont Locke, 1860' on blank. Copeland practiced landscape gardening in partnership with Horace Cleveland, designed Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Samuel Colt estate, Hartford, Billings estate, Woodstock, Vermont, Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard. $50.00
346 (Horticulture) Hutcheson, Martha Brookes; introduction: Ernest Peixotto. The SPIRIT of the GARDEN. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, copyright 1923. (xvi),221 pages. Many photos, arbors, gates, greenhouses, ponds, fountains, few plans. 11 x 8.5", gold stamped cloth, glassine dj. Dj chipped, VG/fair. List of author's landscape projects. $15.00
347 (Horticulture) Thomas George C. The PRACTICAL BOOK of OUTDOOR ROSE GROWING for the Home Garden. Third edition Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1916. 164 pages. 96 color plates, halftones, charts. 9 x 6.5", green cloth, gold lettering & top edge, applied illustration. Spine rubbed, bold gift inscription on pastedown & titlepage, text VG. $15.00
348 (Japan) Japanese Government Railways, Tokyo. TRAVELERS' MAP of JAPAN. With brief descriptions of the principal tourist points. 1936. Tokyo Tsukigji Type Foundry. 31 x 32" color map, railways & roads. Folds to 7.75 x 4". 10" tear along fold, bit soiled, rubbed, G. $10.00 349 (Juvenile) Putnam, Eleanor, 1856-1886. BOB'S "BREAKING IN." (with other stories by favorite authors.) Boston: D. Lothrop & Company, copyright 1880. (96) pages. Illustrated. 7.25 x 4.5", black green & gold stamped red cloth, holly & berries, boy watches birds from window. Cover soiled, few spine marks, text tanned, G. 'To Herbert darling, a reward for good lessons, from his teacher Carol Brown, June 9, 1899' on blank with Herbert's rubberstamp. Farming on Small Scale (toys), Posie, Piecing of the Blocks (quilting & growing pains), How Amy Visited School, True Story of Betsy Prig (Mt Desert), What Janet Did with Christmas Present (cash inspires lending library), How Elsie Hurried Spring. $20.00
350 (Law) [Wilcox, Phineas Bacon, 1798-1863]. A FEW THOUGHTS. By a Member of the Bar. Occasioned by a Request from a Brother in the Same Profession. No. 375. American Tract Society, 150 Nassau-street, New-York, no date, ca 1838? 28 pages, also paginated (325)-352. 7 x 4.25", blue printed wrapper. Wrap stained, nicked, lightly creased, G. Born Middletown, CT, Yale University, 1821, lawyer, Columbus, OH. Coyle, Ohio Authors page 686. Exhortation to church membership. $15.00
351 (Law) Aram, Eugene, 1704-1759. The GENUINE ACCOUNT of the TRIAL of EUGENE ARAM; who was Convicted, at York Assizes, Eng., Aug. 5, 1759, of the Murder of Daniel Clark; in which, after a Brief Narration of the Fact, is included an Account of the Remarkable Discovery of a Human Skeleton; the Depositions of Anna Aram, Philip Coates, John Yeates, &c.; the Confession of Richard Houseman; the Examination & Commitment of Eugene Aram, together with the Remarkable Defence he made on his Trial, & His own account of himself, written after his condemnation; with the apology for the attempt he made on his own life. All taken from the original depositions & manuscripts of Eugene Aram. These circumstances constituting the basis of Bulwer's Eugene Aram. -- First American, from the eleventh English edition. Boston: B. Franklin Edmands, 1832. 40 pages. 9 x 5.5", stitched. Lacking wrapper, damped, soiled, rubbed, top margin last leaf torn, few corners creased, fair. American Imprints 10992. $75.00
352 (Law) Nicholls, John S.C., Clerk, East Boston District Court. The RISE and GROWTH of the EAST BOSTON COURTS: An Historical & Statistical Account with a Forecast of the Social & Economical Conditions in the District in the Year 1980. East Boston: John S.C. Nicholls, 1933. 173 pages. 13 plates, courthouse, judges, clerks. 9 x 6", tan cloth, spine label, no dj. Owner name, VG/none. $20.00
353 (Law) Ogden, Gouverneur M. ARGUMENTS of the COUNSEL of TRINITY CHURCH, before the SENATE COMMITTEE. Albany: C. van Benthuysen, 1857. 66 pages. 9 x 5.5", printed wrapper. Upper wrap detached, chipped, else G. Dispute over terms of charter as to membership in corporation & voting rights. $15.00
354 (Literature) [Roby, John, 1793-1850?]. JOKEBY, a Burlesque on Rokeby, a Poem . . . . in Six Cantos. By an amateur of fashion. To which are added, Occasional Notes, by our most popular characters. Boston: W. Wells & T.B. Wait & Co & Eastburn, Kirk & Co, NY, 1813. 218 pages. 6.5 x 3.75", printed paper boards, publisher advertisement on back. Board detached, sewing broken many places, text loose, foxed, fair. Shaw & Shoemaker 29675. $35.00
355 (Literature) [Thompson, Daniel Pierce, Montpelier, Vermont, 1795-1868]. MAY MARTIN, and other TALES of the GREEN MOUNTAINS. New edition, revised & corrected by author. Boston: Sanborn, Bazin & Ellsworth, copyright 1852. 380 pages. 7.5 x 5", gold & blind stamped black cloth. Edges frayed, cover worn, corner stain, text tanned, shaken, fair. 'Shaker Lovers', 'Ethan Allen', 'Old Soldier' (American Revolution), 'Indian's Revenge', &c. $20.00 356 (Literature) Ashmun, Margaret. SCHOOL KEEPS TO-DAY. NY: Macmillan Company, 1926. Published April, 1926. vii,235 pages. 7.75 x 5", black stamped blue cloth, no dj. Gift inscription, else very clean, tight, fine/none. Born Rural, Wisconsin, Stevens Point State College, University of Wisconsin, taught English Departments, Stout Institute, University of Wisconsin, wrote on education, verse, children's books, novels. $25.00
357 (Literature) Doten, Lizzie, (Elizabeth). POEMS from the INNER LIFE. Second edition. Boston: William White & Company, 1864. xxviii,171 pages. 7.5 x 5", black cloth. Edges frayed, splitting along spine, cover worn, soiled, text shaken, trife soiled, rubberstamp, inscription, fair. 'First Italian Baptist Church, Rochester, N.Y.' rubberstamp, 'Dr Griswold, From a friend, 1865' on blank, 'T.L. Griswold' on titlepage (Oswego, NY physician dismissed as Bloomsburg Literary Institute & State Normal School principal for teaching Spiritualism). Clairvoyant author offers poems received from Shakespeare, Poe ('The Streets of Baltimore'), Burns. $25.00
358 (Literature) Fleming, May Agnes, 1840-1880. The THREE COUSINS or, Life at Hinton Hall. NY: Street & Smith, 1878. Copyright 1878. 61 pages (3), pp 75-100, 6pp advertisement, 2pp list 'First- class Stories', publisher handbill & slip inserted. 7.5 x 5", black stamped terra cotta cloth. Foxed, VG. Prolific & successful novelist born Canada, moved to New York 1865. 8 chapters of Three Cousins followed by 8 chapters of Bertha M. Clay, A Thorn in Her Heart, each ending: 'continuation of . . . will be found in Street & Smith's New York Weekly, now ready & for sale by every newsdealer.' $35.00
359 (Literature) Foxcroft, Elizabeth Howard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, editor; Frank Foxcroft, introduction. OUR GLORIFIED: Poems & Passages of Consolation, especially for those bereaved by the loss of children. Boston: Lee & Sheppard Publishers, 1889. Copyright, 1888. 136 pages. 6.25 x 4.75", gold stamped green cloth, edges gilt. Trifle toned, clean, tight, VG. Inspired by daughter's death in 1885, introduction noted editor's death in 1888 with biographical note. Mary Prescott, Clara Heath, Rose Lathrop, Ella Wilcox, Mary Blake, Susan Coolidge, Helen Jackson, George Klingle, &c. 'Mrs. Bartlett, with the love of Alice Alvord, So. Weymouth, April 2nd 1889' on blank. $25.00
360 (Literature) Gordon, Julien [Julie Grinnell Storrow Cruger]. A DIPLOMAT'S DIARY. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1890. Copyright 1890. 233 pages, 6pp publisher advertisement. 7.5 x 4.75", gold stamped white cloth spine, tan cloth boards. Cover lightly soiled, rubbed, text clean, tight, VG. German diplomat in Russia seduced & abandoned by American woman. $15.00
361 (Literature) Hartshorn, Nancy [M.E. McPherson]. NANCY HARTSHORN at CHAUTAUQUA. NY: J.S. Ogilvie & Company, copyright, 1882. 212 pages, 14pp publisher advertisement. Frontispiece portrait, few comic engravings. 7 x 4.5", black & gold stamped cloth. Cover well rubbed, text bit shaken, clean, 'M.R. Ingalls, 1882' in pencil titlepage head, G. 'To 28,000 members of Chautauqua Literary Scientific Circle'. Country woman with heavy dialect ditches dour Deacon, discovers high life at camp meeting. $20.00
362 (Literature) Harvey, Shirley (Wilcox), (Dartmouth College Class of 1916). The CHRISTMAS TRAIL and Other Poems. Concord, New Hampshire: 1916 Copyright, 1916. viii,44 pages. 7.5 x 5.25", textured paper boards, paper label upper board, dj. Dj edge chips, small damp spot, fine/G. Reprinted from Dartmouth College Aegis (yearbook) & Bema (student periodical), 'Chapel Bells', 'Dartmouth to Her Sons', 'Trophy Room', 'College Church', 'Plagiarist', &c. $20.00
363 (Literature) Long, Lily A. (Augusta), 1862-1927. RADISSON, The Voyageur. A Verse Drama in Four Acts. NY: Henry Holt & Company, 1914. Published November, 1914. viii,(115) pages, 4pp publisher advertisement. 7.75 x 5.25", gold lettered blue cloth, top edge gilt. Spine faintly damped, pastedown rubberstamp, clean, tight, VG. Partly unopened. $10.00 364 (Literature) Minster, Annie Maria. GLENELVAN; or, the Morning Draweth Nigh. NY: A.B. Burdick, 1861. 384 pages. 7.5 x 4.75", blind stamped black cloth, gold spine title. Edges frayed, text foxed, shaken, fair. Wright, American Fiction 1715. Town on Hudson River, ends with return to family estate from South with manumitted slaves. $25.00
365 (Literature) Morgan, Emily Malbone, 1862-1937; Ella Frances Hayden, illustrations. A POPPY- GARDEN. NY: Edwin S. Gorham, copyright 1893. 80 pages. 3 plates. 7.75 x 5.25" , red cloth spine, red printed green paper boards. Ticket of Belknap & Wakefield, Booksellers, Hartford. Cover rubbed, upper hinge just starting, small light edge stain, G. 'In remembrance of summer of 1891, spent near a poppy-garden.' Author on United States Episcopal Church Calendar of Saints. $15.00
366 (Literature) Pool, Maria Louise, 1841-1898; Amand B. Hale, biographical sketch. A WIDOWER & SOME SPINSTERS. Chicago & NY: Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1899. 326 pages. Halftone frontispiece portrait, view of house. 7.75 x 4.75", gold & blind stamped green cloth, top edge gilt. Tips bit worn, cloth rubbed, trifle toned, shaken, frontis bit loose, owner name, G. Wright, American Fiction 4298. Wrote for periodicals, lived with Caroline M. Branson in Wrentham, Massachusetts. $15.00
367 (Literature) Stedman, Edmund C. The PRINCE'S BALL. A Brochure. From "Vanity Fair." With illustrations by Stephens. NY: Rudd & Carleton, 1860. 63 pages, 4pp publisher advertisement. 8 comic plates. 7.5 x 5", gold lettered, blind decorated brown cloth. VG. Bibliography of American Literature 18657. Comic verse inspired by Prince Edward Albert tour to North America. $15.00
368 (Literature) Wright, Mabel Osgood; Oliver Herford, pictures. The DREAM FOX STORY BOOK. NY: Macmillan Company, 1900. 251 pages, 5pp publisher advertisements. 8 plates, 70 drawings. 7.25 x 5.75", pictorial light brown cloth. Short tear along, partly across spine, tip frayed, lower hinge just starting, lightly shaken, toned, VG. $50.00
369 (Maine) VIEWS of PORTLAND. C.S. Woolworth & Company, Portland, Maine, no date, ca 1903 (new Grand Trunk Railway Station). (32) pages. Halftone views of rail stations, Maine General Hospital, Custom House, City Hall, churches, schools, armory, US Marine Hospital, post office, library, Longfellow house, monuments, YMCA, Fort Allen Park, Riverton Park, Riverton, Underwood & Cape Cottage Casinos, Fort Gorges, Peak's Island, Gem Theatre, Portland Head Light, Ottawa House, shoreline. 8 x 10", embossed wrapper. Trifle rubbed, VG. $20.00
370 (Maine) Bangs, Ella M. An Historic Mansion: The WADSWORTH-LONGFELLOW HOUSE, PORTLAND. Portland: The Lamson Studio, 1903. Copyright, 1902. (23) pages. Halftones from Lamson Studio photographs, portraits, drawing. 9.5 x 6.5", printed wrapper. Bit rubbed, soiled, VG. $15.00
371 (Maine) Bath, Maine. DOUBLE CENTENNIAL: FIREMEN'S MUSTER, RAILROAD SERVICE, 1849-1949, Bath, Maine, July 2,3,4 in Observance of the 100th Anniversary of the First Firemen's Muster Ever Held & of the First Railroad Passsenger Service into Bath. Souvenir Program & Score Card. (56) pages. Halftones of committee, firetrucks, destroyer USS Frank Knox, Carlton Bridge, firemen. 9.75 x 7", printed wrapper. VG. $20.00
372 (Maine) Camp Kieve, Nobleboro, Maine. The KIEVE ANNUAL 1937. Published privately by The Augusta Press, Augusta, Maine. #32, edition of 100. 119 pages. Halftones of council, aids, boys, camp activities, rosters of staff & campers, reports of trips, archery, tennis, fishing, baseball, records, advertisements. 9 x 6", red cloth. VG. $35.00 373 (Maine) Chick, Olive M.. A HISTORY of LIMINGTON ACADEMY, 1848-1948. A paper submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Education, University of Maine, Orono, June, 1948. Webb-Smith Publishing Co, Cornish. 48 pages, Class of 1949 roster, 1951 Souvenir Ball Game Score Card & facsimile of Howard M. Blake Plaque inserted. 9 x 6", printed wrapper. Wrap spotted, VG. $20.00
374 (Maine) Ilsley, Charles P. (Parker), 1807-1887. FOREST and SHORE, or Legends of the Pine-tree State. Fourth thousand. Boston:: John P. Jewett & Company, 1856. 426 pages. 8 x 5", black cloth, gold stamped spine, blind stamped boards. Tips frayed, several signatures pulled, fair. Wright, American Fiction 1314; Williamson, Bibliography of Maine 4832. $15.00
375 (Maine) John R. Prescott, Newtonville, Massachusetts. GLIMPSES of CAMDEN On the COAST of MAINE. Copyright 1916. 128 pages. Folding map, halftones of village, harbor, scenery, mountains, estates. 7.25 x 9.5", printed stiff paper. Spine repaired, cover bugeaten, text G. $50.00
376 (Maine) Rowe, Ernest R., compiler; Marian B. Rowe, editor. HIGHLIGHTS of WESTBROOK HISTORY. Westbrook Woman's Club, copyright 1952. xiii,(242) pages. Folding view of mills, illustrated. 9 x 6", cloth, no dj. VG/none. $25.00
377 (Massachusetts) SOUVENIR BOOK of EAST NORTHFIELD, MASS. No imprint, ca 1910? 16 color halftones of Marquand Hall, Stone Hall, Round Top, Moody Cottage, Margaret Olivia Hall, Moody birthplace, Revell Hall, Homestead, Henry Moore Cottage, Russell Sage Chapel, Talcott Library, East & Weston Halls, Northfield Hotel, auditorium, Skinner Gymnasium. 5.5 x 7", printed wrapper, oval diecut window. Trifle soiled, VG. Campus of Northfield Seminary for Young Ladies. $15.00
378 (Massachusetts) Abbot Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. ADDRESSES Delivered during the Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Founding of ABBOT ACADEMY. 1929. 87 pages. 9.5 x 6.25", printed stiff paper. Edges worn, else VG. Rev. Albert Paraker Fitch, 'Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent'; William Allan Neilson, Commencement Address; Rev. Markham Winslow Stackpole, Tribute to Benefactors; Mary Emma Woolley, Centennial Address; &c, programs for commencement, graduation, anniversary. $20.00
379 (Massachusetts) Adams, Charles J., compiler & editor. QUABAUG 1660-1910: An Account of the Two Hundred & Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration Held at West Brookfield, Mass, September 21, 1910. Committee on Publication, Joint Executive Committee, Brookfield, West Brookfield, North Brookfield & New Braintree. Worcester: Davis Press, 1915. 127 pages. Portrait of Theodore Bates, halftone plates of town commons, historical markers, officials, New Braintree Church. 9 x 6", gold stamped green cloth. Cover soiled, endsheets gone, upper board & few leaves lightly damped, G. $10.00
380 (Massachusetts) Ancient Order of Hibernians of Worcester County, Massachusetts. ANCIENT ORDER of HIBERNIANS JOURNAL, July 4th, 1913. (Souvenir booklet). No imprint. (32) pages. Many portraits of state & county officers, brief text, 'Ancient Order of Hibernians in America', Worcester County, mostly local advertisements, mostly Irish names. 12 x 9.5", printed wrapper. Lightly creased, wrap soiled, rubbed, corners bent, text bit toned, fair. $50.00
381 (Massachusetts) Ancient Order of Hibernians, Committee of Arrangements of the Central Council, Lowell, Massachusetts. HIBERNIAN WEEK. BIENNIAL STATE CONVENTION, ANCIENT ORDER of HIBERNIANS, Lowell, Mass, August 23, 24, 25, 1910. (Souvenir program). (48) pages. Portraits of officers, many advertisements, banks, newspapers, beer, whiskey, automobiles, lawyers, restaurants, cigars, hotels, undertakers, &c. 10.5 x 8", green printed wrapper. Corner creased, trifle soiled, VG. Official Program of State Convention & Parade; Joseph Smith, Ancient Order of Hibernians in America, Future of Irish Race in America; P.F. Roche, Sketch of A.O.H. in Lowell. $50.00 382 (Massachusetts) Andover Theological Seminary, Andover, Massachusetts. TRIENNIAL CATALOGUE of the THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, Andover, Massachusetts, MDCCCXXXIX. Andover: Gould, Newman & Saxton, 1839. 46 pages. 9 x 5.5", printed wrapper. Creased corners, wrap trifle soiled, VG. Trustees, officers, faculty, students, 1809-1838. $20.00
383 (Massachusetts) Arlington, Massachusetts. 1807-1907: ONE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY of the Incorporation of the TOWN of ARLINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS, Saturday, June 1st, 1907. Everett Press Company. 65 pages. Portraits of selectmen, committees, Folsom & Sunergren halftones, chief marshall, parade, floats, fire trucks, decorated buildings, Highland Hose Fire House & Company, badges, souvenirs. 9 x 6", printed wrapper. Wrap nicked, rubbed, soiled, text VG. $20.00
384 (Massachusetts) Bliss, William Root, Short Hills, New Jersey. QUAINT NANTUCKET. Boston & NY: Houghton Mifflin & Company, 1896. Copyright, 1896. 225 pages. 8 x 5", pictorial green cloth, top edge gilt. Library marks, cover rubbed, soiled, text lightly toned, shaken, G. 'Nantucket . . . before discovered by summer boarder.' Based on town & court records, letters, journals, Quaker Society of Nantucket records. $25.00
385 (Massachusetts) Chamber of Commerce, Athol, Massachusetts. ATHOL: A happy combination of Old New England, Modern Industry, Good Homes & Scenic Beauty. No date, ca 1948 - text. (20) pages. Map, halftones of airport, library, L.S. Starrett Company, banks, YMCA, water plant, beach, town hall, post office, Union Twist Drill Company, churches, state police, Athol High School. 6.25 x 3.5", stapled booklet. VG. $10.00
386 (Massachusetts) Charlestown High School, Charlestown, Massachusetts. HISTORICAL SKETCHES of the School, the Association, & the Cadets, together with Lists of Teachers & Pupils, & other Matters of Interest. Published by the Association to Commemorate its Twenty-fifth Anniversary. Boston: Franklin Press, 1881. 106 pages. Photomechanical frontispiece view of school, portraits of Caleb Emery & Katharine Whitney by Heliotype Company. 9 x 6", gold stamped maroon cloth. Spine tip chipped, upper hinge cracking, else VG. $35.00
387 (Massachusetts) Eaton, Rev. G.F., Pastor. HISTORICAL SKETCH of the ELM STREET METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Gloucester, Mass, March, 1883. Gloucester: Woodbury & Haskell, Printers, 1883. 41 pages. Illustrations of church, ministers. 8.75 x 5.5", gold lettered black cloth. Edges worn, toned, G. $20.00
388 (Massachusetts) First Lutheran Church, Worcester, Massachusetts, John A. Eckstrom, Pastor. MINNES-ALBUM FORSTA LUTHERSKA KYRKAN, Worcester, Massachusetts, Med kort historik over forsamlingen och hennes verksamhetsgrenar, Utgiven med Anledning av Fyrtiofemarsfesten den 21-24 Oktober, 1926. (Souvenir album of 45th anniversary). (40) pages. Halftones of church, pastors, organist, choir, Sunday school, church groups, parsonage. Text in Swedish. 6.75 x 4.5", printed wrapper. Wrap bit soiled, VG. $10.00
389 (Massachusetts) Holyoke Street Railway Company, Holyoke, Massachusetts. VIEWS ON and ABOUT MT. TOM and of MT. TOM RAILROAD. Copyright 1912 by L.D. Pellisier. Poole Bros, Chicago, Railway Printers. 32 pages. Color birdseye view, halftone views, some color, rustic arch, railway stations, Summit House, scenery, electric rail cars, Mountain Park Café, rustic pavilion, dining room, small map, color page decorations. 9.5 x 7.25", lovely color printed wrapper. VG. $45.00
390 (Massachusetts) Holyoke Street Railway Company, Holyoke, Massachusetts. VIEWS ON and ABOUT MT. TOM and of MT. TOM RAILROAD. Morrill Press, Fulton, NY, no date, ca 1910? (24) pages. Tinted halftones of Summit House, trolley car, stations, Kenilworth Castle, Mountain Park, rustic arch, pavilion, views, rail line. 9 x 6.75", color wrapper. VG. $25.00 391 (Massachusetts) Hotel Manger, Boston, Massachusetts, George T. Keen, Manager. VISIT BOSTON, The Historical City, HOTEL MANGER, The Tower of Hospitality, 500 Rooms with Bath & Radio. (Promotional brochure). No date, ca 1939. 9 x 14.5" orange & black printed sheet folding to 9 x 3.75". Drawing of exterior, aerial view, halftones of lobby, Mirror Room, bedroom, theatre, points of interest in Boston. VG. $10.00
392 (Massachusetts) Hotel Manger, Boston, Massachusetts. HOTEL MANGER: A Tower of Hospitality at North Station, Boston, Massachusetts. BOSTON GUIDE & MAP. (Promotional brochure). No date, ca 1937 - map code. 9 x 16" orange & brown printed sheet folding to 9 x 4". View of exterior, halftones of bedroom, lobby, lounge, dining room, café & bar, map. Slightly soiled, VG. $10.00
393 (Massachusetts) Italian Chamber of Commerce of Boston & Vicinity for the development of business relations & the trade between Italy & USA. Camera di Commercio Italiana di Boston & Vicinanze. The COMMERCIAL GUIDE BOOK of USEFUL INFORMATION. La Guida Commerciale Libro di Informazioni Utili. 1929. 255 pages. Many portraits of members, advertisements for Italian- American businesses. Text mostly Italian. 9 x 6", gold lettered terra cotta cloth. VG. Discusses US & Italian flags, diplomats, newspapers, population, immigration, ethnicity, Catholics, time zones, postage, distances, national debt, banking, tobacco, oils, exports, cars, &c. $75.00
394 (Massachusetts) John H. Lockwood, Ernest N. Bagg, Walter S. Carson, Herbert E. Riley, Edward Boltwood, Will L. Clark, editors. WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: A HISTORY, 1636-1925. 4 volumes. NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1926. (1960) pages. Illustrated. 11 x 8", cloth, gold lettering. Trifle rubbed, soiled, clean, tight, VG. $125.00
395 (Massachusetts) Lee, Mary. A HISTORY of the CHESTNUT HILL CHAPEL. Being an address delivered at the Dinner held on October 16th, 1936 to celebrate the Seventh-fifth Anniversary of the Founding of the Chapel, compiled chiefly from letters written by Francis L. Lee & his wife, Sarah Wilson Lee, by their granddaughter. History Committee, First Church in Chestnut Hill, 1937. Published October, 1937. 91 pages. Portraits, maps, illustrations of chapel, school, houses. 9 x 6", gold lettered blue cloth, no dj. Cover spotted, VG/none. $10.00
396 (Massachusetts) Lord, Elizabeth Wellington, compiler; Ethel M. Eaton, editor. The STORY of TEMPLETON. Sponsored by Narragansett Historical Society, no date, ca 1948. 285 pages. Illustrated, map endsheets. 9 x 6", gold lettered blue cloth, no dj. Tips worn, cover rubbed, owner name, text VG. $20.00
397 (Massachusetts) Palmer, Charles J. HISTORY of LENOX and RICHMOND. Pittsfield: Sun Printing Co, 1904. 48 pages. Halftone plates of Lake Mahkeenac, Steven's Glen, Parsons Memorial Building, St. Helena's Chapel, streetscapes. 9 x 6", printed wrapper. Few margins damped, wrap bit soiled, slightly creased, G. Lists of soldiers, officials. $25.00
398 (Massachusetts) Robbins, E.L. QUAINT CAPE COD and its Summer Delights. Passenger Department, New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Old Colony System, Boston, no date, ca 1900? 82 pages. 2 folding maps, many small illustrations of towns, beaches, homes, hotels, lighthouses, cranberry pickers, &c. 8 x 5", color wrapper. Upper wrap detached, few edge chips, text VG. $35.00
399 (Massachusetts) Shutesbury, Massachusetts. SHUTESBURY, 1737-1937. Commemorating the 200th Anniversary of the Settlement of the Town. No imprint. (28) pages. Portrait of Samuel Shute, halftones of Daniel Shays Highway, town pound, Congregational Church, homes, Shutesbury Hill, high school bus, schools, Locks Village Methodist Church, Federated Church, parsonages, library, summer homes, farm scenes, Lake Wyola, Pilgrim Tercentenary Cast. 9.5 x 6.75", embossed flocked paper wrapper. Corner nibbled, edge stain, G. $25.00 400 (Massachusetts) Small, Isaac Morton. Just a Little About the LOWER CAPE from PROVINCETOWN to BREWSTER & the Journey of the Mayflower Pilgrims. Highlands of North Truro, Truro, Massachusetts, May 1, 1926. 71 pages. Portrait, halftones of Pilgrim Monument, Highland Light, Signal Station, Truro Library, Post Office, Highland House Golf Links, Wellfleet Methodist Episcopal Church, Eastham Wind Mill, French Cable House, Orleans, Nickerson Home, Brewster. 8 x 5.5", printed stiff paper. Cover bit soiled, VG. $15.00
401 (Massachusetts) The Sandwich Historical Society, Sandwich, Massachusetts. SANDWICH-by-the- SEA: Historical Sketch of the Famous Old Town. 1914. (22) pages. Halftones of Shawme Lake, First Church, town hall & monument, Main St, cemetery, Joseph Jefferson grave, library, herring run, grist mill, Wing home, beach. 7.75 x 5.5", printed wrapper. Wrap soiled, VG. $20.00
402 (Massachusetts) Underwood, Francis H. QUABBIN: The Story of a Small Town with Outlooks upon Puritan Life. Second edition. Boston: Lee & Shepard Publishers, 1893. ix,376 pages. Portrait, 12 plates. 7.75 x 5", gold stamped brown cloth. Tips slightly worn, owner name, VG. Generic observations on rural Massachusetts villages, farming, settlement, religion, romance, dress, manners, speech, benevolence, roads, growth, college, quilting, cider mill, literature, liberties. $25.00
403 (Massachusetts) Winslow C. Cooke, Boston, compiler. SOUVENIR of the WEBSTER FIRE DEPARTMENT, Webster, Massachusetts. 1899. Bay State Box & Printing Co, Webster. (72) pages. Halftones of fire house, chief, captains, department, steamer, hook & ladder, hose companies, Jack the Fire-dog, past officers & engineers, many illustrated local advertisements. 5.25 x 7.75", silver printed wrapper. Few corners bent, else VG. $50.00
404 (Medicine) PHYSICIANS NARCOTIC REGISTER: Containing a Synopsis of the National Narcotic Law, as it relates to the Medical Profession, together with a list of Preparations covered by it. Second edition. St. Louis: Medical Brief, August, 1915. Copyright 1915. 22 pages text, 22 lined blank leaves with columns for date, drug, dosage, patient name & address. 6.5 x 8", cloth spine, printed paper boards. Few lined leaves removed, cover stained, rubbed, slight crease, G. $15.00
405 (Medicine) [Day, L. Meeker]. The IMPROVED AMERICAN FAMILY PHYSICIAN; or, Sick Man's Guide to Health; containing a Complete Theory of the Botanic Practice of Medicine, on the Thomsonian & Hygeian System, with alterations & improvements. To which is appended, a Concise Formula, for Compounding Medicines for the Cure of Every Complaint Incident to Human Nature. Also, a complete Digest of Midwifery. New=York: 1833. 120 + 24 pages, 'Botanic Family Physician' with separate titlepage. 7 x 4.5", leather spine & corners, gold title, marbled paper boards. Cover worn, text shaken, foxed, G. Cordasco, American Medical Imprints, 30-0241, 30-0242. 'Mrs. Prudence Pearson's Book, Feb. 1835' in pencil. $100.00
406 (Medicine) Ciba Pharmaceutical Products, Inc, Summit, New Jersey. MAJOR PATHOLOGY of the ESOPHAGUS. Copyright 1943. 12 loose color plates signed 'F. Netter, M.D.', text on versos. 9 x 6", printed paper folio. VG. $10.00
407 (Medicine) Ciba Pharmaceutical Products, Inc, Summit, New Jersey. MAJOR PATHOLOGY of the DUODENUM. Copyright 1944. 12 loose color plates signed 'F. Netter, M.D.', text on versos. 9 x 6", printed paper folio. Folio bit rubbed, soiled, else VG. $10.00
408 (Medicine) Ciba Pharmaceutical Products, Inc, Summit, New Jersey. MAJOR PATHOLOGY of the LARGE INTESTINE. Series I & II. Copyright 1946,7. 20 loose color plates signed 'F. Netter, M.D.', text on versos. 9 x 6", printed paper folios. VG. $15.00 409 (Medicine) Ciba Pharmaceutical Products, Inc, Summit, New Jersey. MAJOR PATHOLOGY of the NOSE and ACCESSORY SINUSES. Copyright 1944. 12 loose color plates signed 'F. Netter, M.D.', text on versos. 9 x 6", printed paper folio. $10.00
410 (Medicine) Ciba Pharmaceutical Products, Inc, Summit, New Jersey. MAJOR PATHOLOGY of the HEART and AORTA. Copyright 1940. 8 loose color plates, few folding, signed 'F. Netter, M.D.', text on versos. 9 x 6", printed paper folio. Few pencil marks on cover, bit rubbed, plates VG. $10.00
411 (Medicine) Ciba Pharmaceutical Products, Inc, Summit, New Jersey. MAJOR PATHOLOGY of the LUNGS. Series I & II (of 3). Copyright 1941,2. 24 loose color plates signed 'F. Netter, M.D.', text on versos. 9 x 6", printed paper folios. Covers bit rubbed, VG. $15.00
412 (Medicine) Ciba Pharmaceutical Products, Inc, Summit, New Jersey. MAJOR PATHOLOGY of the SMALL INTESTINE. Series II (only). Copyright 1946. 10 loose color plates signed 'F. Netter, M.D.', text on versos. 9 x 6", printed paper folio. VG. $10.00
413 (Medicine) Ciba Pharmaceutical Products, Inc, Summit, New Jersey. NORMAL ANATOMY of the STOMACH & MAJOR PATHOLOGY of the STOMACH. Series I & II. . Copyright 1942. 19 color plates signed 'F. Netter, M.D.', text on versos. 9 x 6", printed folios. Trifle rubbed, soiled, VG. $15.00
414 (Medicine) Ciba Pharmaceutical Products, Inc, Summit, New Jersey. The CIBA SERIES of ANATOMICAL and PATHOLOGICAL PHOTOGRAPHS. Plates 5-8, 9-12 & 17-20. No date, ca 1948. 3 folding sheets, 10 x 7". Color photos from Pathological Collection, Newark City Hospital, illustrations of Ciba plant, research laboratories, Trasetine, Coramine. Creased, VG. $10.00
415 (Medicine) Ciba Pharmaceutical Products, Inc, Summit, New Jersey. WAR INJURIES of the CHEST. Copyright 1943. 12 loose color plates signed 'F. Netter, M.D.', text on versos. 9 x 6", printed paper folio. Trifle soiled, VG. $10.00
416 (Medicine) Cook, Charles H., M.D., Natick, Massachusetts. The EFFECT of COLLEGE LIFE at WELLESLEY. Read at the Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society, June 13, 1893. 7 pages. 9 x 5.75", stitched booklet. Corner nibbled, trifle soiled, creased, VG. Few case studies, few statistics, prevailing notions, adjustments to curriculum to relieve physical stress of study. $10.00
417 (Medicine) Cook, Charles H., M.D., Natick, Massachusetts. A STUDY of MALARIAL FEVER in EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS. Reprinted from Communications of the Massachusetts Medical Society for 1889. 15 pages. 8.75 x 5.5", printed wrapper. Wrap trifle soiled, VG. Hypothetical causes of malaria epidemic in Middlesex, Norfolk, Worcester Counties, 1885-9, water supply, sewage, swamp & marshlands, climatic conditions. $10.00
418 (Medicine) Cook, Charles H., M.D., Natick, Massachusetts. PROPOSED AMENDMENTS to NURSES' REGISTRATION LAW, February 23, 1917. Reprinted from the Boston Medical & Surgical Journal, Vol. clxxvi, No. 9, March 1, 1917. 4 pages. Folded sheet, 9 x 6". VG. Letter to editor regarding bill to establish procedures & qualifications for nurse registration. $8.00
419 (Medicine) Cook, Charles H., M.D., Natick, Massachusetts. RELATIVE to the REGISTRATION of NURSES, March 17, 1914. Reprinted from the Boston Medical & Surgical Journal, Vol. clxx, No. 18, March 26, 1914. Boston: W.M. Leonard, 1914. 5 pages. 7.75 x 5", printed wrapper. VG. Letter to editor on bill regarding nurse training & certification. $8.00 420 (Medicine) Fruitatives Limited, Ogdensburg, New York. LEARN ABOUT "FRUIT-A-TIVES". "Fruit Liver Tablets" - Compound. Reasons for the Relieving Power of this Wonderful Medicine Made from Fruit Juices & Tonics, & a Brief Sketch of the Manner of Making It. No date, ca 1900? Small illustration of package. 6.75 x 3.5", printed wrapper. VG. $10.00
421 (Medicine) Hayes, Albert H., M.D., Boston. The SCIENCE of LIFE; or SELF-PRESERVATION. A Medical Treatise on Nervous & Physical Debility, Spermatorrhoea, Impotence, & Sterility, with Practical Observations on the Treatment of Diseases of the Generative Organs. With illustrations. Published by the author. Copyright 1868. 278 pages (some numbers not used). 4 plates: female organs, effects of syphilis, victims of self-abuse. 5.75 x 3.75", black cloth, gold spine lettering. TOP INCH TORN from 1 plate, cover very worn, text shaken, smudged, G. Pregnancy, suppression of menses, venereal disease, physiology & perversion of marriage, in-breeding, self-abuse, &c. $40.00
422 (Medicine) Hippocrates & Elias Marks, M.D., Physico-Medical Society of New-York. The APHORISMS of HIPPOCRATES, from the Latin Version of Verhoofd, with a literal translation on the opposite page, & explanatory notes. Intended as a book of reference to the medical student. NY: Collins Co, 1818. 169 pages. 7.5 x 4.75", blue paper boards. Boards detached, very worn, sewing broken many places, few leaves detached, upper blank gone, edges chipped, tan, with all faults. Austin American Medical Imprints 912; Shaw & Shoemaker 44322. $50.00
423 (Medicine) John Wyeth & Brother, Manufacturer, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. MEDICINAL FLUID EXTRACTS Manufactured by John Wyeth & Brother, with Formulae, Dose List & Remedial Attributes. Philadelphia: Geo. F. Lasher, 1883. (176) pages. 7 x 4.5", gold lettered flexible cloth. Cover spotted, rubbed, G. $20.00
424 (Medicine) Mattson, Morris, Physician to Reformed Boston Dispensary, 1809?-1885. The AMERICAN VEGETABLE PRACTICE, or a New & Improved Guide to Health, designed for the use of families. In six parts. In two volumes. Boston: Daniel L. Hale, 1841. xii,706 pages, 1p errata, 1p advertisement for New England Depot, D.L. Hale, Vegetable Medicines. 24 colored botanic plates, 10 anatomical engravings, including double-page plate of skeleton. 9 x 5.75", leather, spine label, gold title. Leather dry, rubbed, cracking along upper hinge, text foxed, otherwise clean, tight, G. 'Dr. Vine Porters Book' in pencil. $325.00
425 (Medicine) Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. The CONQUEST of TYPHOID FEVER. No date, ca 1916 (text). (8) pages. Illustrations of pastuerization plant, barn, privy, farm drainage. 7.75 x 5.5", printed wrapper with drawing of Croton Spillway. Few light creases, few stains on cover, G. $10.00
426 (Medicine) Morgan, Samuel, M.D., Bath Homeopathic Hospital. The TEXT BOOK, for DOMESTIC PRACTICE; being Plain & Concise Directions for the Administration of Homeopathic Medicines, in Simple Ailments. NY: Boericke & Tafel, no date, ca 1880? 191 pages. 5.25 x 3.5", black cloth, gold title on upper board. Rubbed, toned, G. $20.00
427 (Medicine) Peter, W.W., M.D. POLICING the MOUTH. NY: Cleanliness Institute, copyright 1930. 55 pages. 43 halftones & drawings. 10.25 x 8", printed wrapper. Hartford Medical Society Library perforated stamp, wrap pulling from staples, damage along fold, removed from pamphlet binder, G. Educational material to prevent spread of communicable diseases through mouth & nose. $15.00
428 (Medicine) Tardieu, Ambrose, M.D.; Samuel Lee Bigelow, M.D., translator. TREATISE on EPIDEMIC CHOLERA; being Lectures Delivered under the Authority of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris. Translated from the French. With an appendix by a fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society (William Wallace Morland). Boston: Ticknor, Reed, & Fields, 1849. xi,286 pages, 8pp publisher advertisement. 8 x 5", blind stamped black cloth, gold spine lettering. Tips frayed, cover spotted, edge lightly damped, endsheets toned, VG. Appenix discusses cholera in America. $50.00 429 (Medicine) Taylor, Walter C., M.D. A PHYSICIAN'S COUNSELS to WOMAN, in Health & Disease. Springfield: W.J. Holland & Co, 1872. Copyright 1871. 399 pages. 7.75 x 5'', green cloth, gold lettering. Tips frayed, cover soiled, text shaken, G. Structure & function, puberty, nubility, single life, marriage, change of life, animal & spiritual love, heredity, family limitation, abortion, pregnancy, motherhood, female diseases. Cordasco, American Medical Imprints, 70-3564. $25.00
430 (Medicine) The Denver Chemical Manufacturing Company, New York City. PREGNANCY: Its Signs & Complications. No date, ca 1941 - owner note. 16 pages. Color drawings. 7.5 x 4.5", printed wrapper, diecut window. Owner name, VG. Promoting Antiphogistine for various disturbances. $10.00
431 (Medicine) Thomson, Samuel, 1769-1843. The THOMSONIAN MATERIA MEDICA, or Botanic Family Physician: containing a Philosophical Theory, the Natural Organization & Assumed Principles of Animal & Vegetable Life: to which are added the Description of Plants & their Various Compounds: together with Practical Illustrations, including much other useful matter. With plates. Twelfth edition, enlarged, corrected, revised & improved. Albany: J. Munsell, 1841. 834 pages. Engraved portrait frontispiece, patent right certificate for Vine Porter signed by Agent Shumway, 17 colored botanic plates, 97 text engravings. 9 x 5.75", leather. Leather rubbed, dry, gold lettering flaked, upper blank removed, text bit foxed, otherwise clean, tight, G. $150.00
432 (Medicine) United Shoe Machinery Company, Beverly, Massachusetts. EFFICIENCY THROUGH HYGIENE. (Promotional booklet). No date, post 1908 - text. 18 pages, presentation form letter. Folding floorplan, halftones of factory hospital, wash rooms, lockers, toilets, showers, ventilation system, safety devices. 8 x 9.5", printed wrapper. Library perforated stamp, VG. $20.00
433 (Medicine) United States Surgeon General, War Department. MEDICAL FIELD MANUAL: Splints, Appliances & Bandages. FM 8-50. Washington: GPO, 1940. iii,90 pages, several updates pasted- in. 6.75 x 4.25", printed wrapper. Pasted-in pages toned, G. $10.00
434 (Mexico) HAMMONDS ENLARGED MAP of MEXICO. Copyright, 1913, C.S. Hammond & Co, NY. 18 x 27.5" color map. Folds into 8.25 x 3.75" printed stiff paper cover, "Map Series No. 2, Mexico, Presented with the Compliments of F.A. Ferris & Company, New York City, March, 1913" with image of Ferris Ham on back. 2 short taped splits, else VG. $10.00
435 (Minnesota) Minnesota Historical Society. ANNUAL REPORT of the MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, to the Legislature of Minnesota, for the Year 1871. Read & adopted at the Annual Meeting of the Society, January 8, 1872. Saint Paul: D. Ramaley,1872. 16 pages. 9 x 6'', printed wrappers. Library marks, lightly creased, soiled, G. Officers, library, purchases, gifts, pamphlets, newspapers, portraits, maps & atlases, donors. $15.00
436 (Minnesota) Minnesota Historical Society. ANNUAL REPORT of the MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, to the Legislature of Minnesota, for the Year 1874. Executive Document, No. 17. Saint Paul: Pioneer Company,1875. 9 pages. 9 x 6'', printed wrappers. Library marks, VG. Officers, library, Drake library, newspapers. $15.00
437 (Minnesota) Minnesota Historical Society. ANNUAL REPORT of the MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, to the Legislature of Minnesota, for the Year 1876. Saint Paul: Pioneer Press Company,1877. 25 pages. 9 x 6'', printed wrappers. Library marks, VG. Officers, library, purchases, gifts, catalog of bound newspapers, patents, publications, donors. $15.00 438 (Minnesota) Minnesota Historical Society. BIENNIAL REPORT of the MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, to the Legislature of Minnesota. Session of 1881. St Peter: J.K. Moore,1881. 19 pages. 9 x 6'', printed wrappers. Library marks, toned, G. Officers, library, purchases, binding, gifts, museum, newspapers, publications, Hennepin bi-centenary, donors. $15.00
439 (Minnesota) Minnesota Historical Society. BIENNIAL REPORT of the MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Saint Paul, to the Legislature of Minnesota, Session of 1883. Minneapolis: Johnson, Smith & Harrison,1883. 48 pages. 9 x 6'', printed wrappers. Library marks, toned, G. Officers, state house fire, collections moved to church, losses, new quarters, purchases, gifts, museum, maps, engravings, pamphlets, newspapers, accessions, donors. $15.00
440 (Minnesota) Minnesota Historical Society. BIENNIAL REPORT of the MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Saint Paul, to the Legislature of Minnesota, Session of 1889. Saint Paul: Press Printing Company,1889. 40 pages. 9 x 6'', printed wrappers. Library marks, toned, G. Officers, library, museum, gallery, newspapers, printed catalog, Lake Glazier imposture, proposed building, donors. $15.00
441 (Mount Holyoke College) Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, South Hadley, Massachusetts, Mary Lyon, Principal. TENTH ANNUAL CATALOGUE of the MOUNT HOLYOKE FEMALE SEMINARY, in South Hadley, Mass, 1846-7. Amherst: J.S. & C. Adams, 1847. 16 pages. 9 x 5.5", printed wrappers. Trifle soiled, scuffed, VG. $25.00
442 (Mountaineering) JUNGFRAU RAILWAY, Switzerland. (Souvenir viewbook & guide). Fretz Bros, Ltd, Zurich, ca 1920? 47 pages. 3 color plates, 23 rotogravure illustrations of Jungfrau, Wengen, Grindelwald, Silberhorner, Eiger Glacier, Eismeer, Berghaus Jungfraujoch, Bedroom, Clubroom, Observatory, Meteorological Tower, Sledge-hounds, Ski-jumping, Monch, Konkordia Hut, Tunnel Station, Marjelensee, &c. 8.5 x 5.75", color paperback. Cover bit nicked, rubbed, VG. Development of Mountain Railways, Technical Foundation of Jungfrau Railway, Mountaineering, Skiing, Glacier Expeditions from Jungfraujoch Station, Technical Conditions. $15.00
443 (Music) Winner, Septimus, 1827-1902. WINNER'S NEW SCHOOL for the BANJO; (Arranged as a Self-instructor.) containing the rudiments of music, & complete directions for performing in the various positions, full explanation of the chords & accompaniments, a large collection of the most popular melodies best adapted to the instrument, song-tunes, dances, jigs, choice selection of popular ballads, easy & characteristic accompaniments. Boston: Oliver Ditson & Company, copyright 1872. 64 pages. Music. 6.75 x 9.75", cloth spine, paper covers, engraving of angel band, publisher advertisements. Cover rubbed, edge nick, G. $25.00
444 (New Hampshire) ATTRACTIVE BITS ALONG SHORE: Rye Beach, Portsmouth, Isles of Shoals, Old York, Kittery Point. Portland: H. Wilbur Hayes, no date, ca 1900? Boston Engraving & McIndoe Printing Co, Boston. (96) pages. Halftones of Kittery Navy Yard, Congress Street, Goodwin Park, Custom & Court Houses, Portsmouth Athletic Club, Rockingham Hotel, Christ Church, Greeley Fleet, Sagamore Bridge, Wentworth Hotel, US Life-saving Station, Fort & Frigate Constitution, residences, USS Kearsarge, Immaculate Conception, Portsmouth Shoe Company, Portsmouth, Frank Jones & Eldredge Breweries, Appledore Hotel, Celia Thaxter cottage, Star Island, White Island, Champernowne Hotel, Pepperell House, Gerrish Island, Walker Cottages, York River, Donnell House, Youngs Hotel, Nubble Light, St Andrews-by-the-Sea, &c. 7 x 10", gold stamped blue cloth. 3 leaves torn, no loss, small spine nick, cover bit soiled, G. $35.00
445 (New Hampshire) Atkinson Academy, Atkinson, New Hampshire, The Class of 1912. COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES, The Class of 1912, at Congregational Church, Friday Afternoon, June 14, 2:30 o'clock. Order of Exercises. Goodrich Press, Atkinson. 4 pages. 5 x 4", color printed stiff paper. With: engraved invitation, 6.25 x 5"; A.A. Class Day Exercises, Thursday, June 13, program, printed slip, 8.5 x 5.5"; 2pp manuscript letter from Mary Ann Page to Rev. Mr. Driver, asking him to speak at commencement (he's listed on program). Creased, VG. $25.00 446 (New Hampshire) Brother John P. Newell, Lafayette Lodge & Brother Joseph Kidder, Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of New Hampshire, Addresses. DEDICATION of MASONIC TEMPLE, MANCHESTER, N.H., December 26th, 1870. Manchester: William E. Moore, Printer, 1871. 31 pages. 9 x 5.5", printed wrapper. VG. Brother Alpheus Gay, Architect. $25.00
447 (New Hampshire) Carpenter, Frank O. GUIDE BOOK to the FRANCONIA NOTCH and the PEMIGEWASSET VALLEY. Boston: Alexander Moore, 1898. Copyright 1898. 186 pages. 2 folding halftone panoramas, halftones of towns, scenery. 6.75 x 4.5", pictorial stiff paper. Cover bit rubbed, soiled, upper hinge separating, panorama creased, owner name (Henry D. Coolidge), G. $35.00
448 (New Hampshire) Chamberlain, Allen. The ANNALS of the GRAND MONADNOCK. Concord: Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, 1936. Copyright, 1936. 195 pages. 4 folding maps, panoramic guide, many portraits, illustrations. 8.5 x 5.5", printed wrapper. Cover rubbed, few splits, crease, hinge pulling, G. History of Dublin & Jaffrey, New Hampshire, Mount Monadnock. $15.00
449 (New Hampshire) Dover Grange No. 225, Dover, New Hampshire. HISTORICAL SKETCH, VIEWS and BUSINESS DIRECTORY of DOVER, N.H. Dedicated to the State Grange P. of H. Fifty- third Annual Convention at Dover, N.H., December 13-16, 1926. Presented by Dover Grange No. 225. Printed by Geo. J. Foster & Co, Dover. (40) pages. Portraits of Mayor C.E.T. Caswell, state & local grange officers, city hall, high school, library, St Mary's Academy, Wentworth Hospital, nurses' home, Hayes Hospital, chamber of commerce, Woodman Institute, homes, court house, post office, Pomeroy's Cove, map. 9 x 6", printed wrapper. VG. $15.00
450 (New Hampshire) Gerould, Samuel L., Pastor. A BRIEF HISTORY of the CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH in GOFFSTOWN, N.H., being part of a Sermon, July 9, 1876, with a few late additions. Bristol, NH: R.W. Musgrove, Printer, 1881. 19 pages. 8.5 x 5.5", printed wrapper. Few corner creases, VG. $15.00
451 (New Hampshire) J.W. Patterson, Superintendent of Public Instruction. TEACHERS' INSTITUTE, FARMINGTON, N.H., April 9, 1890. Program. Printed card, 3.25 x 5.25". 3 days activities led by Annie Johnson, Mr. O.S. Williams, Katherine Whitman, Mr. F.W. Doring. VG. $6.00
452 (New Hampshire) L.H. Nelson Company, Portland, Maine. VIEWS of the WHITE MOUNTAINS with descriptive text. 23rd edition improved by new plates & text. Copyright 1917, Chisholm Brothers, Portland, ME. 48 pages. Halftones of Mount Washington, Franconia Notch, Tip Top House, Jacob's Ladder, Willey Brook Bridge, Summit House, Flume, Frankenstein Trestle, Ammonoosuc River, Crawford Notch, Mount Pleasant House, Crawford House, Pinkham Notch, Fabyans, Mount Washington Hotel, Mount Canon, Profile House, Echo Lake, Franconia Mountains, Sinclair, Bethlehem, Maplewood, golf links, baseball game, Waumbek Hotel, &c. 8 x 10", printed wrapper. Several 2" wrap tears, edge chips, rubbed, text G. $15.00
453 (New Hampshire) McGregor, Charles, Nashua, New Hampshire. A FEW SIMPLE RHYMES and THREE ESSAYS on the STRUCTURE of the UNIVERSE: The Mystery of the Aurora, the Cyclone, & the Cause of the Sun's Eternal Light & Heat, The Atom, the Molecule & the Theory of the Electric Current. April 8, 1907. 100 pages. Portrait. 7.25 x 4.75", printed wrapper. Spine nick, light edge wear, VG. Verse: Mars, Summer Birds of Londonderry, September Crickets, December 13, 1886 (birthday), Robert Dinsmore, 'Rustic Bard of Londonderry', Natural Plan ('Let us build perfect nation'), Echo Lake, Summit of Mt. Washington; Nature's Secrets (nothing but spinning atom); letters to Nashua Telegraph, complaining of advertisements for alcoholic drinks, opiates, 'poisons under guise of medicines'. $20.00 454 (New Hampshire) New Hampshire Old Home Week Association, N.J. Bachelder, Secretary. REPORT of OLD HOME WEEK in NEW HAMPSHIRE, August 26 to September 1, 1899. Manchester: Arthur B. Clarke, Public Printer, 1900. 99 pages. Portrait of Governor Frank W. Rollins, halftone plates of celebrations in Concord, Walpole, &c. 9 x 6", printed wrapper. Wrap soiled, edge nibbled, text G. Constitution, accounts of local events, addresses. $20.00
455 (New Hampshire) New-Hampshire Missionary Society. FORTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT of the TRUSTEES of the NEW-HAMPSHIRE MISSIONARY SOCIETY, auxiliary to the American Home Missionary Society: presented at the Anniversary Meeting, Meredith Bridge, August 26, 1847. Concord: Asa McFarland, 1847. 43 pages. 9 x 5.5", printed wrapper. Wrap splitting, few edge chips, text G. Summaries of work in each town, emigration from feeble churches in agricultural areas to larger manufacturing cities, finances, officers, members. $15.00
456 (New Hampshire) Patrons of Husbandry, No. 222, Sugar Hill, New Hampshire. CALENDAR for No. 222, P. of H., SUGAR HILL, N.H., 1902. Folded card, 5 x 3.5". Schedule, officers. Toned, G. $6.00
457 (New Hampshire) Richard T. Gardner, Secretary, White Mountains Region of New Hampshire, Warren, NH. WHITE MOUNTAINS REGION of NEW HAMPSHIRE. (Promotional booklet). No date, ca 1938? (40) pages, mailback cards. Photos of Franconia Notch, Cannon Mountain, hunting, fishing, tennis, golf, camping, covered bridges, towns, paper mill, camps, Mount Washington, cog railway, horseback, skiing, snowshoeing. 9.5 x 7", printed wrapper. VG. $15.00
458 (New Hampshire) Roberts, Rev. Guy, Whitefield, New Hampshire. The WILLEY SLIDE: Its History, Legend, & Romance. A narrative giving briefly the History of Crawford Notch & the Willey Slide, the Soltaire Legend & the Nancy Romance. Third edition. Donahue & Hamlin, Proprietors Willey House Camps, copyrighted 1925. 44 pages. Small halftones of house, Crawford Notch, camp. 6 x 3.25", printed wrapper, diecut window. VG. Souvenir with tale of fatal landslide. $10.00
459 (New Jersey) Camden Safe Deposit & Trust Company, Camden, New Jersey. MAP of CAMDEN, N.J., 1922. Second edition. 25 x 19" C.S. Hammond & Co map folding to 6.25 x 3.25". Black with trolley lines in red. Plan & Elevation of Proposed Delaware River Bridge on other size with bank advertisement. Stained, soiled, mostly exterior, G. $15.00
460 (New Jersey) Hotel Traymore, Atlantic City, New Jersey, Bennett E. Tousley, General Manager. The TRAYMORE, ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., Visiting the New York World's Fair? include a "Cruise" Ashore at this World Famous Hotel. (Promotional brochure). No date, ca 1939. Blue & black printed 16 x 11" sheet folding to 8.25 x 3.75", handbill with tour rates inserted. Halftones of exterior, lobby, lounge, fountain, patio, beach, dining & guest rooms, parlor, modernist decorations. VG. 1915 architectural showpiece & popular resort demolished 1972. $10.00
461 (New York) Barbizon-Plaza, 101 W. 58th Street, New York. BARBIZON-PLAZA HOTEL, NEW YORK. (Promotional brochure). No date, ca 1930. 9 x 16" sheet folding to 9 x 4". Black with red highlights, halftones of exterior, registration, lobby, breakfast, café, bar, performance, bedroom, library, rooftop lounge. VG. Laurence Emmons, architect, 1930, music-art residence, foreclosed 1933. $10.00
462 (New York) Canandaigua Academy, Canandaigua, New York. CATALOGUE of TRUSTEES, TEACHERS and STUDENTS, of CANANDAIGUA ACADEMY, Canandaigua; for the term ending October 3, 1838. Canandaigua: A. Francis, Jr. Printer, 1838. 8 pages. 7.5 x 4.5", blue wrapper. Creased, foxed, G. $35.00 463 (New York) Hotel Edison, 46th to 47th St, at Broadway, New York City. HOTEL EDISON: The Newest & Most Modern in New York. (Promotional brochure). No date, ca 1932. 9 x 9.5" diecut sheet folding to 6 x 3.25". Printed silver & black, drawing of exterior, halftones of café, lounge, dining room, lobby, crow's nest, ball room, bedroom, map. Bit soiled, G. $10.00
464 (New York) Hotel Plymouth, 49th Street, New York City, John F. Downey, Manager. IN NEW YORK CITY: HOTEL PLYMOUTH, Adjacent to Radio City. (Promotional brochure). No date, ca 1936? Black & orange printed 7.25 x 7.5" sheet folding to 7.25 x 3.75". Drawing of exterior, halftones of lobby, bedroom, roof garden, Radio City Music Hall, Times Square, birdseye pictorial map. VG. $8.00
465 (New York) Hotel St. George, Clark Street, Brooklyn. HOTEL ST. GEORGE, Clark Street Brooklyn, Greater New York's Largest Hotel, A City Block of Comfort & Hospitality. (Promotional brochure). No date, ca 1939. Black & green printed 9 x 16" sheet folding to 9 x 4". Drawing of exterior, halftones of skyline, bedroom, lobby, pool, café, bar, Italian Village, Colorama Ballroom, small map. Slightly soiled, VG. $10.00
466 (New York) Hotel Victoria, 7th Avenue at 51st Street, New York City, John L. Morgan, Managing Director. The HOTEL VICTORIA PLAN of SEEING NEW YORK. 3 Memorable Days of Hotel Victoria Hospitality. (Promotional brochure). Copyright 1936. Blue & orange printed 9 x 10.5" sheet folding to 9 x 3.5". Illustrations of exterior, Radio City, Wall St, Times Square, Central Park. VG. $10.00
467 (New York) Hotel Wellington, 7th Avenue at 55th Street, New York City. Bound for NEW YORK, then be sure to stay at HOTEL WELLINGTON, A Corner Hotel for the Motorists' Convenience. A Knott Hotel. (Promotional brochure). No date, ca 1935? Red, black & blue printed 18 x 16" sheet folding to 9 x 4". Drawing of exterior, halftones of interiors, maps of area, 8 routes to NYC, few small drawings, modernist decorations. Lightly soiled, VG. $10.00
468 (New York) The St. Regis, Fifth Avenue - Fifty-fifth Street, New York City. The ST. REGIS: New in Every Detail. A Home on Fifth Avenue. (Promotional brochure). No date, ca 1939? 9 x 22.5" sheet folding to 9 x 3.75". Illustrations of living, bed & dining rooms. VG. Trowbridge & Livingston, architects, 1904, Sloan & Robertson addition, 1925. Apartments decorated by Anne Tiffany. $10.00
469 (North Carolina) Raleigh Chamber of Commerce, Raleigh, North Carolina. RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA: The Progressive Capital of a Progressive State. No date, ca 1934 - text. (12) pages. Halftones of business section, tall buildings, colleges, hotels, Memorial Auditorium, airport, roads, homes. Stapled booklet, 9 x 8", folding to 9 x 4". Trifle rubbed, VG. $15.00
470 (Philippines) Bloomfield, Leonard. TAGALOG TEXTS with GRAMMATICAL ANALYSIS. Parts I-III: Texts & Translation, Grammatical Analysis, List of Formations & Glossary. University of Illinois Studies in Language & Literature, Vol. III, Nos. 2-4. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1917. 408 pages. 10.5 x 7", printed wrappers. Library rubberstamp on wraps, corner chip, light edge wear, toning, VG. $35.00
471 (Religion) CASE'S BIBLE ATLAS, to Illustrate the Old & New Testaments. Designed to aid Sunday school teachers & scholars in the study of The International Series of Sunday School Lessons. Hartford: O.D. Case & Company, 1878. Title, contents, 16 color maps by W. & A.K. Johnston, Edinburgh, 22p notes, index, 2p publisher advertisement. 11 x 8.5", cloth spine, printed paper boards, ticket Ira A. Smith Bookseller, Milford, Mass. Boards cupped, rubbed, soiled, text VG. $35.00 472 (Religion) [Overton, Charles, 1805-1889] & John Bunyan. COTTAGE LECTURES; or, the Pilgrim's Progrress Practically Explained. Designed for cottage & family reading. Philadelphia: American Sunday-school Union, copyright 1849. 456 pages. 9 engraved plates. 6 x 4", red cloth, gold stamped spine, edges, blind paneled boards. Cover rubbed, soiled, corner damped, bit foxed, G. $20.00
473 (Religion) David Christy, Cadiz, Ohio, Publisher & Printer; Herman Witsius, Richard Hurd, Rev. H. Venn, &c. The CALVINISTIC FAMILY LIBRARY, Devoted to the Republication of Standard Calvinistic Works. Volume I. Embracing a Series of Lectures delivered in Lime Street, London, 1732; The Economy of the Covenants between God & Man, comprehending a complete Body of Divinity, by Witsius; introduction to the study of the Prophesies, by Hurd; essay on the prophecy of Zacharias, by Venn. Vol. I, Nos. 1-25. Cadiz: June 1, 1835-January 25, 1837. 411 pages. 11 x 9", disbound. Lacks binding, foxed, G. $200.00
474 (Religion) Denton, William, 1823-1883, Boston, Massachusetts. WHAT IS RIGHT? A Discourse. Boston: William Denton, no date, ca 1870? 31 pages, 1p advertisement for 4 titles. 7.5 x 4.75", printed wrapper. Corners nicked, wrap bit soiled, G. Exercise in comparative religion, citing Muslim, Christian, Jew, Quaker, Mormon, Shaker, Hindoo, Catholic, Methodist, on temperance, holy days, polygamy, difficulty of reliance on Bible, proffers own utilitarian credo, 'That is right which is for humanity's benefit', argues for temperance, against holy days & polygamy, suffering caused by obeying unnatural beliefs & ignoring natural laws. $25.00
475 (Religion) Dunlap, S. F. (Samuel Fales), 1825-1905. VESTIGES of the SPIRIT-HISTORY of MAN. NY: D. Appleton & Company, 1858. Copyright 1858. vii,404 pages. 9.5 x 6", cloth. Tips frayed, Williams College Library bookplate, G. Sun & fire worship, cosmogony, philosophy, logos, Genesis & Exodus, garden, polytheism, Brahmanism, Buddhism, world religions. $35.00
476 (Religion) General Centenary Committee, General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The CENTENNIAL. 1766-1866. Revised edition. N. Tibbals, NY. (16) pages. Lithograph portrait of Elijah Hedding, double-page engraving, 'Dr Bangs Preaching at Sing-Sing Camp-Meeting', engravings of ministers, wives, Methodist events, churches, Wesleyan University, North Western University, Garrett Biblical Institute. 16 x 11", leather spine, marbled paper boards. Cover worn, damped, text toned, fair. 'M.A. Chandler, Stockbridge, Vermont' on blank. $50.00
477 (Religion) Goodrich, Charles A. (Augustus), 1790-1862. The BIBLE HISTORY of PRAYER, with Practical Reflections. Hartford: printed for the author, 1847. Copyright 1847. 384 pages. Titlepage vignette. 8 x 5", black cloth, gold spine title & floral medallions on boards, blind panels on boards. Tip frayed, cloth spotted, signature sprung, bit foxed, G. 'Mrs. Elisabeth Stebins, Gloucester, Oct 1847 - Presented, May 1865 to Rev. F.B. Knowlton, Waldoboro, Maine' on endsheet. $15.00
478 (Religion) Griffin, Edward D., President, Williams College. A SERMON on the ART of PREACHING, Delivered before the Pastoral Association of Massachusetts, in Boston, May 25, 1825. Boston: T.R. Marvin, 1825. 35 pages. 9 x 5.5", printed wrapper. Slightly foxed, wrap lightly scuffed, VG. Untrimmed.. Observations on rhetoric, principles of public speaking, faults to be avoided. Not in American Imprints (see 20762 for 2d ed). $25.00
479 (Religion) Moore, George C. The LIFE of ALEXANDER CARSON, LL.D. Fourth edition. 2 volumes. NY: Edward H. Fletcher, 1853. 156 + 242 pages, 24pp publisher catalog at back of each. 7.5 x 4.5", blind stamped black cloth, publisher logo board panel centers, gold spine lettering, Colton & Jenkins, Binders, New York. Light edge wear, faint foxing, VG. Carson, 1776-1844, Protestant Irish, left Presbyterian Church, became influential Baptist preacher, author. $45.00 480 (Religion) Nelson, Rev. John, Pastor, First Congregational Society, Leicester, Massachusetts. GATHERINGS from a PASTOR'S DRAWER. Worcester: S.A. Howland, 1852. 403 pages. Engraved portrait from a Daguerreotype by G.D. Hamilton, Boston, tissue. 7.5 x 4.5", blind stamped purple cloth, gold spine lettering & upper board decoration. Cover spotted, faded, text foxed, G. 'Reform & Reformers', 'Sobriety', 'Duties of Educated Men' before Adelphic Union Society, Williams College, &c. 'Eliza A. Bellows, Leicester, Mass' on blank. $20.00
481 (Religion) Rice, N. L. (Nathan Lewis), 1807-1877, Pastor, Central Presbyterian Church, Cincinnati, Ohio. GOD SOVEREIGN and MAN FREE: or the Doctrine of Divine Foreordination & Man's Free Agency, stated, illustrated & proved from the scriptures. Cincinnati: John D. Thorpe, 1850. 225 pages, 14pp publisher catalog. 7 x 4.25", flexible black cloth. Cloth frayed, worn, spotted, sewing cracked, loose, bit foxed, fair. 'J.P. Fisher' on blank, 'B. McVey Fisher' rubberstamp on titlepage. Coyle, Ohio Authors, page 527. Calvinist critique of Arminianism. $25.00
482 (Religion) Streeter, Russell. MIRROR of CALVINISTIC FANATICISM, or Jedediah Burchard & Co, during a Protracted Meeting of Twenty-six Days in Woodstock, Vermont. Second edition. Woodstock: Nahum Haskell, 1835. 168 pages. 5.5 x 3.5", cloth spine, printed paper boards. Cover well worn, inner hinges pulled, text clean, tight, G. Preface: 'Mr. Burchard is upon a money-making game . . . no evidence of being under the influence of the Holy Ghost. . . . Shakers entitled to greater credit . . . Methodist brethren disapprove . . . Burchardism, or Finneyism, or Footeism, (it is the same) . . . Mormonism not more unlike the gospel . . . Baptist denomination will have no connexion . . . ' &c. $75.00
483 (Rhode Island) ROGER WILLIAMS and other Famous Rhode Islanders. (Nathanael Greene, Esek Hopkins, Gilbert Stuart). "The Old Stone Bank" (Providence Institution for Savings), Providence, Rhode Island, no date, ca 1930. (31) pages. Few drawings. 8 x 5.5", printed wrapper. Wrap trifle rubbed, soiled, VG. $8.00
484 (Rhode Island) Brownell, W.C. (William Crary); W.S. Vanderbilt Allen, illustrations. NEWPORT. American Summer Resorts. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. 85 pages. 12 plates, small map. 7.75 x 5", red leather spine, gold title, marbled paper boards. Spine tip snagged, cover rubbed, text clean, tight, VG. $65.00
485 (Rhode Island) Cumberland Grange No. 2, Patrons of Husbandry, Cumberland, Rhode Island. PROGRAMME, 1906, Grange Hall, Arnold's Mills, Rhode Island. (6) pages. Folded card, 4.25 x 3". Bit rubbed, soiled, splitting along 1 fold, G. Officers, meeting topics. $10.00
486 (Rhode Island) Newport Chamber of Commerce Publicity Committee; George C. Williamson, cover & drawings. NEWPORT: the WORLD'S YACHTING CENTER. The City of Newport, Rhode Island, no date, ca 1930. 28 pages. Halftones of Brenton Cove, Lewis Yacht Club, USS Constellation, Enterprise, Naval War College, Fort Adams, Colony & Market Houses, Synagogue, Hotel Viking, LaForge, Cliff Walk, Stone Mill, tennis, beach, Jamestown, Mount Hope Bridge, Fall River Line steamer, airplanes, 2 maps. 8.5 x 5.75", blue & red printed wrapper, map of area. Wrap spotted, VG. Yachting, drives, steamer & air travel. $20.00
487 (Rhode Island) Rhode Island Coach Lines, Westerly, Rhode Island. WESTERLY PROVIDENCE BUS SCHEDULE, Effective September 24, 1939. 6.25 x 6.25" printed slip folding to 6.25 x 3". G. $8.00 488 (Rhode Island) State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations. ANNUAL REPORT of the RAILROAD COMMISSIONER, for the Year Ending December 31, 1895. Made to the General Assembly at its January Session, 1896. Providence: E.L. Freeman & Son, 1896. 126 pages. Folding color state map, 5 halftone plates: Providence freight yard, crane, new terminal construction site, Clyde steel bridge, Francis Street bridge. 9 x 6", gold lettered black cloth. Cover bit spotted, VG. Accidents, improvements, terminal work, street railways, annual reports & officers of state railroad companies. $35.00
489 (Rhode Island) Swan, Frank H. The COLONY HOUSE. Providence: Akerman-Standard Co, Printers & Binders, no date, but 1930. (18) pages. 8.75 x 5.5", printed wrapper. Wrap soiled, rubbed, text VG. Describes 18th century government building for Rhode Island in Newport. $10.00
490 (Rhode Island) Westerly Chamber of Commerce, Westerly, Rhode Island. WESTERLY, RHODE ISLAND: Setting forth the advantages of a New England Community. A Good Place to Live, Work & Play. 1931. 48 pages. Double-page pictorial map, aerial views, halftones of railroad station, schools, town hall, post office, churches, fire stations, library, armory, Misquamicut & Winnapaug Golf Clubs, Watch Hill, homes, beaches, Westerly & Watch Hill Yacht Clubs, banks, granite companies, factories, textile mills. 7.5 x 5", printed wrapper. Short wrap tear, VG. $15.00
491 (Sex) Foote, Edward B., M.D. DR. FOOTE'S HOME CYCLOPEDIA of POPULAR MEDICAL, SOCIAL and SEXUAL SCIENCE, embracing His New Book on Health & Disease, with Recipes, Treating of the Human System, Hygiene & Sanitation - Causes, Prevention, Cure, & Home Treatment of Chronic Diseases, including Private Words for Both Sexes, & 250 Practical Recipes; also embracing Plain Home Talk, on Love, Marriage, & Parentage. Twentieth century revised & enlarged edition. (Abridged). NY: Murray Hill Publishing, no date, ca 1910. 200+ pages, numbered to 1247. Many illustrations, anatomy, bicyclist, prostitute, Japanese manipulators, bellydancer, parasites, Oscar Wilde, Living Skeleton Charles Sprague, Jo Jo Dog-Face Boy, nose reconstructions, libertine. 7 x 5'', wrapper. Plain cover pasted over wrapper, few stains, creased corners, cover pulling from staples, bit rusty, fair. Nervous derangements, habit, social magnetism, sexual isolation, prostitution, unhappy marriage, impure vaccination, animal magnetism, seminal weakness, perverts, impotency, syphilis, beauty, contraceptics. $15.00
492 (Sex) Jacoby, Myron, M.R.C.P., Ph.D., Sexologist. The SEXUAL STUDY of the MALE and FEMALE HUMAN BODY in COLOR PICTURES. NY: Cadillac Publishing Co, copyright 1942. 35 pages. 16 anatomical illustrations. 7.75 x 5.5", printed wrapper. Wrap splitting, creased, text VG. $10.00
493 (Sex) Mantegazza, Professor Paolo; translated by James Bruce. ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES of SEXUAL RELATIONS of MANKIND. NY: Falstaff Press, copyright, 1932. Few illustrations after Blake. 9.5 x 6.5", pictorial cloth, no dj. Cover rubbed, soiled, text clean, tight, G/none. Puberty, debauchery, defloration, contrivances, perversions, mutilations, conquest, purchase, mating, incest, marriage, woman, polygamy, polyandry, concubinage, prostitution, anthropological theory, natural method of birth control. $10.00
494 (Shoes) Clarks of England, New York, Norwalk, CT, Los Angeles. CLARK'S DESERT CASUALS. Men's & Ladies' Catalogue 1967. (20) pages, 2 price sheets inserted. Illustrations of shoes, boots, some color. 11 x 8.5", printed wrapper. Trifle soiled, VG. $10.00 495 (Social Work) Gordon M. Fisk, Gilbert A. Smith, George Chandler, Inspectors, State Almshouse at Monson, Massachusetts. ELEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT of the INSPECTORS of the STATE ALMSHOUSE, at Monson. October, 1864. Public Document . . . . No. 26. Boston: Wright & Potter, State Printers, 1865. 29 pages. 9 x 6", printed wrapper. VG. Reports of Superintendent John M. Brewster, Jr, Physician J.D. Nichols, Chaplain William K. Vaill. 820 admitted or born, 770 discharged, indentured, deserted, died, 620 current, mostly children, daily rations, 96 cases conjunctivitis, 6 typhoid, 13 cholera, 51 smallpox, 14 venereal disease, 211 travelling paupers admitted from Palmer, condemns bringing contagious cases. $20.00
496 (Social Work) Grand Lodge of Ancient Free & Accepted Masons of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Claude L. Allen, Grand Master. The BENEVOLENT ENTERPRISES of the MOST WORSHIPFUL GRAND LODGE of Ancient Free & Accepted Masons of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1936. 28 pages. Halftones of Overlook Masonic Home, Charlton, Williams & Davenport Buildings, power house, dining room, solarium, bedrooms, greenhouse, barn, hospital. 7.25 x 4.75", stapled booklet. VG. Now Overlook Masonic Health Center. $10.00
497 (Social Work) Grand Lodge of Ancient Free & Accepted Masons of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Claude L. Allen, Grand Master. The BENEVOLENT ENTERPRISES of the MOST WORSHIPFUL GRAND LODGE of Ancient Free & Accepted Masons of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Ninth edition. April, 1964. 30 pages. Halftones of Overlook Masonic Home, Charlton, Williams & Davenport Buildings, power house, dining, bedroom, solarium, greenhouse, barn, hospital. 6 x 4.25", stapled booklet. VG. Overlook Masonic Health Center. $8.00
498 (Social Work) James Ford, J.B. Thaxter, Asa Millet, Inspectors, State Almshouse at Bridgewater, Massachusetts. ELEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT of the INSPECTORS of the STATE ALMSHOUSE, at Bridgewater. October, 1864. Public Document . . . . No. 25. Boston: Wright & Potter, State Printers, 1865. 28 pages. Small engraving of building. 9 x 6", printed wrapper. VG. Reports of Superintendent L.L. Goodspeed, Physician Samuel L. Young, Chaplain F. Lincoln Cushing. Opened 1854, 14,088 admissions, 1,051 in 1864, 485 current residents, 180 deaths in 1864. Notes effects of war: higher prices, fewer inmates; need for separate building for insane. $20.00
499 (Social Work) Landfear, N. Maria, his office assistant. REMINISCENCES of FATHER HAWLEY. Hartford: Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co, 1877. 99 pages. Albumen photograph frontispiece portrait. 7.25 x 4.5", black cloth, gold lettering on upper board. Tiny edge wear, VG. Father David Hawley, Hartford City Missionary, temperance work, Hartford Jubilee Singers, Christmas, visiting jail, sick, poor, children, distributing clothing. $25.00
500 (Social Work) State Reform School, Westborough, Massachusetts. EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT of the TRUSTEES of the STATE REFORM SCHOOL, at Westborough; with the Fifth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Nautical Branch. Public Document . . . . No. 20. Boston: Wright & Potter, State Printers, 1865. 76 pages. 9 x 6", printed wrapper. Foxed, VG. Reports of Superintendent Joseph A. Allen, Physician H.H. Rising, Farmer Wright Stratton, School Ship Massachusetts Superintendent Richard Matthews & Teacher Martin L. Eldridge. Finances, statistics, indentures, employment, production, bill of fare, staff, &c. $35.00
501 (Social Work) The Albany City Mission, Inc, Albany, New York ALBANY CITY MISSION, INC, 1931, for Ninety-six Years, A Leading Agency for Religious, Charitable, Welfare Work in the City of Albany, New York. (Annual report). 22 pages. Portraits of President Benton S. Hoit, Superintendent Rev. Frank A. Higgins, halftones of clothing distribution, dormitory, House of Friendship. Employees, volunteers, constitution. 7.5 x 6", printed wrapper. VG. $10.00 502 (Social Work) The Albany City Mission, Inc, Albany, New York. ALBANY CITY MISSION, INC, 1926, for Over Ninety Years, A Leading Agency for Religious, Charitable, Welfare Work in the City of Albany, New York. (Annual report). 22 pages. Portraits of President Henry Streibert, Superintendent Rev. Frank A. Higgins, exterior & interior halftones Martha Washington House, Annex, Rensselaer Street Religious Center & Commissariat, Men's Lodging House & Coffee House, camp, map, cartoon. Employees, volunteers. 7.5 x 6", printed wrapper. VG. $10.00
503 (Social Work) The Young Women's Christian Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The NEED of PHILADELPHIA'S YOUNG WOMEN: A Movement to Meet It. What does Philadelphia need most? Suitably planned buildings for its girls & young women for their leisure hours, for recreation, fellowship & training. The Young Women of Philadelphia Building Campaign. The Proposition. 1913. 16 pages. Halftones of Arch Street Y.W.C.A., factory meeting, kitchen garden class, millinery, interior, LA & NYC headquarters, cooking lesson, dressmaking, Camp Fire Girls. 7.5 x 5", printed wrapper. Trifle soiled, VG. $10.00
504 (Steamship) Grace Line Panama Mail Service. PANAMA MAIL SERVICE to CALIFORNIA Via Colombia, Panama Canal, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico. N.Y Folder No. 25 - Sept. 17, 1931. (Timetable/brochure). 5 pages. 18 x 16" sheet folding to 9 x 4". Sailings, first- class fares, itinerary, map, photos of swimming pool, stateroom, printed in black & green, modernist cover. Bit rubbed, spotted, few short splits, manuscript note, G. $15.00
505 (Textiles) Baird, Robert H. The AMERICAN COTTON SPINNER, & Managers' & Carders' Guide: A Practical Treatise on Cotton Spinning: giving the Dimensions & Speed of Machinery, Draught & Twist Calculations, &c; with notices of recent improvements. Together with rules & examples for making changes in the size & numbers of roving & yarn. compiled from the papers of the late Robert H. Baird. Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co for Otis Perrin, Sole Agent, 1856. Copyright 1851. 252 pages. 7 x 4.75", cloth. Tips chipped, edges frayed, hinge pulled, G. $35.00
506 (Textiles) Beaumont, Roberts, Yorkshire College, Leeds. WOOLLEN and WORSTED CLOTH MANUFACTURE: Being a Practical Treatise for the Use of All Persons Employed in the Manipulation of Textile Fabrics. Third edition, re-written. Technological Handbooks. London: George Bell & Sons, 1899. xx,471 pages. 213 illustrations, several folding, machinery, weave diagrams. 7 x 4.75", green cloth. Spine label, pocket inside rear cover, else VG. $25.00
507 (Textiles) Bramwell, William Calvert, Hyde Park, Massachusetts. The WOOL-CARDERS' VADE MECUM. January, 1881. Third edition, revised & enlarged. Boston: Thayer & Wadham, Printers, 1881. 396 pages, errata slip. 6.5 x 4.5", library buckram. Lowell City Library marks, toned, G. $25.00
508 (Textiles) Brooks, Christopher P. COTTON: Its Uses, Varieties, Fibre Structure Cultivation & Preparation for the Market & as an Article of Commerce, also the Manufacture of Cotton Seed Oil, Cotton Seed Meal & Fertilizers, with Especial Reference to Cotton Growing, Ginning, & Oil Pressing in the United States. NY: Spon & Chamberlain; Lowell: Christopher P. Brooks, 1898. Copyright 1898. 384 pages. Folding map, 174 illustrations of plant, pickers, fields, Atlanta convict crew, North Carolina mill help, chain gang, mill construction, hand spinning, weaving, agricultural equipment, boll weevil, street selling, screw & baling presses, gin house, equipment, Chewalla Mill, Eufaula, Alabama, hauling, platform, rail cars, steamboat, weighing, Texas market, grading, bales, NY Cotton Exchange, Gaffney & Pacolet Mills, South Carolina, Lanett Mills, West Point, GA, Dwight Mills, AL, Georgia Cotton Oil Company Mill, Macon, separators, hullers, Eufaula Oil & Fertilizer Co, Sibley Mills, Augusta. 9.25 x 6", pictorial cloth. Library marks, cover worn, soiled, upper hinge cracked, leaf detached, owner rubberstamps, shaken, fair. $25.00 509 (Textiles) Chittick, James, Roseville, Newark, New Jersey. SILK MANUFACTURING and ITS PROBLEMS. Being a series of papers on important questions of interest to all those engaged in the manufacture & distribution of silks & other textiles. NY: James Chittick, 1913. Copyright 1913. xvi,432 pages, 130 page advertising section, some illustrated. Frontispiece portrait, color advertisement as rear pastedown. 9 x 6", cloth. Spine edges frayed, cloth soiled, National Association of Cotton Manufacturers bookplate, marks, text G. Articles published in 'Silk' 1907-1912. $20.00
510 (Textiles) Cone Export & Commission Company, Greensboro, North Carolina, New York, N.Y. HALF CENTURY BOOK: 1891-1941. (47) pages. Color illustrations of textile labels, highway billboard for overalls, portraits of many Cones, officers, illustrations of Proximity Manufacturing Company mills, early documents, salesmen, parade floats, picnics, offices, advertisements, Camp Herman, Cone Country Club, Cesar Cone Public School, denim looms, &c. 13 x 10", gold lettered denim, no dj. Trifle rubbed, corner bumped, VG/none. $25.00
511 (Textiles) Crawford, M.D.C., American Museum of Natural History. The HERITAGE of COTTON: The Fibre of Two Worlds & Many Ages. NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1924. Copyright 1924. xix,244 pages. 21 plates (looms, design motifs, batik, wall hangings), chronology, bibliography, index. 9.5 x 6.25", cloth spine, paper boards, gold lettering & top edge. Cover worn, soiled, few library marks, bit loose, VG. Historical & cultural world survey, plantation, industrial revolution, New England mill building, Southern cotton industry. Signed presentation letter from author to National Association of Cotton Manufacturers trimmed & pasted inside upper cover, NACM bookplate. $25.00
512 (Textiles) Draper, George Otis, Secretary, Draper Company, Hopedale, Massachusetts. LABOR- SAVING LOOMS. A Brief Treatise on Plain Weaving & the Recent Improvements in that Line with Special Reference to the Northrop Looms. First edition. 1904. Printed by Cook & Sons, Milford, MA. 240 pages. Illustrations of looms, details, parts. 8.5 x 6", cloth. Cloth spotted, rubbed, text VG. $35.00
513 (Textiles) Felkin, William. A HISTORY of the MACHINE-WROUGHT HOSIERY and LACE MANUFACTURES. London: Longmans, Green, & Co, 1867. xxvii,559 pages. 20 plates (7 folding, 7 blue & white), engraved coat of arms, 2 portraits, images of lace, machines. 9 x 6", rebound. Sewing broken, plate & leaf detached, few signatures very loose, text toned, brittle, binding torn along spine, library marks, fair. $75.00
514 (Textiles) Franklin Process Company, Providence, Rhode Island. EFPECO FAST-to-BLEACHING YARNS - FRANKLIN PROCESS COLOR CARD No. 11. No date, ca 1920? Benze-Perfection, NY (printer). Cloth hinged paper boards, 10 x 5.25", sheets with text & 20 colored yarn samples pasted inside. Cover trifle soiled, rubbed, VG. $25.00
515 (Textiles) General Dyestuff Corporation, Sole Distributors, USA of dyestuffs manufactured by General Aniline Works, Albany, New York & Grasselli, New Jersey. RAPID FAST COLORS in CALICO PRINTING. No date, ca 1940? 6 pages text, 3 panels with 15 printed swatches & captions. 9.75 x 7", cloth. Soiled, worn, G. $25.00
516 (Textiles) Hummel, J.J. The DYEING of TEXTILE FABRICS. London, NY, &c: Cassell & Company, 1898. Tenth thousand. xii,534 pages. 97 small engravings of dyeing apparatus. 6.75 x 4.5", cloth. Tips frayed, owner name, VG. $25.00 517 (Textiles) Knowlton, Evelyn. PEPPERELL'S PROGRESS: History of a Cotton Textile Company, 1844-1945. Harvard Studies in Business History 13. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1948. Copyright 1948. xxix,511 pages. 34 plates of mills, offices, officers, documents, advertisements, textile machinery & production, aerial views of mills in Biddeford, ME, Fall River, MA, Opelika, AL, Lindale, GA, bleachery in Lewiston, ME. Directors, documents, statistics, contracts, accounts. 8.5 x 6", red cloth, no dj. Library bookplate, rubberstamp, spine number, else VG/none. Pepperell Manufacturing Company, Biddeford, Maine. Daniells, Studies in Enterprise 161. $25.00
518 (Textiles) Lowell Textile Institute, Lowell, Massachusetts. The PICKOUT ANNUAL, Published by The Senior Class, Volume XXXI, 1936. 201 pages, few pages of notes on letterhead inserted. Halftones of school, faculty, seniors, classes, football & basketball teams, fraternities, houses, 2 engraved insignia, organizations, initiations, flood, advertisements. 10 x 7", embossed cloth. VG. $25.00
519 (Textiles) Ludlow Manufacturing Associates, Ludlow, Massachusetts. JUTE: An Account of Its Growth & Manufacture. Privately printed, 1928. Copyright 1928. Walton Advertising & Printing, Boston. xiii,112 pages. Many photos of growing, retting, peeling, drumming, selecting, India, Calcutta Bazaar, bhur & bullock cart, dock, mills in Ludlow & Chengail, India, bale opening, batching, softening, carding, roving, spinning, twisting frames, weaving, finishing rooms, ballers, bagging & webbing looms, dam, power house, offices, Chengail jetties, coolie lines, housing. 11 x 8", cloth spine, printed paper boards, no dj. Cover lightly rubbed, soiled, VG/none. $25.00
520 (Textiles) Matthews, J. Merritt. APPLICATION of DYESTUFFS to Textiles, Paper, Leather & other Materials. NY: John Wiley & Sons, copyright, 1920. Later printing. 768 pages. 303 illustrations: dyeing apparatus. 9 x 6", cloth, no dj. Corner damped, rubbed, soiled, owner name, G/none. $25.00
521 (Textiles) McLaren, Walter S. Bright, (Smith & McLaren), Worsted-Spinner. SPINNING WOOLLEN and WORSTED: being a practical treatise for the use of all persons engaged in these trades. Second edition. Manuals of Technology. London: Cassell & Company, 1884. xv,256 pages. 69 engravings of textile machinery. Glossary, index. 7 x 4.5", brown cloth, gold title. Tips worn, else VG. $25.00
522 (Textiles) Nichols, Henry W. - William H. Broomhead. STANDARD COTTON CLOTHS and THEIR CONSTRUCTION. Fall River: Dover Press, 1927. 160 pages. 124 swatches, including tobacco, cheese, window, brassiere & umbrella cloth, sheeting, shirting, denim, twill, sateen, crepe, seersucker, prints, advertisements for machinery makers & mill suppliers, 83 drawings of weaves. 9 x 6", cloth. Cover worn, soiled, tips frayed, text bit toned, owner name, G. $35.00
523 (Textiles) Posselt, E.A. (Emanuel Anthony). RECENT IMPROVEMENTS in TEXTILE MACHINERY Part 3. A Treatise Giving a Thorough Description of the Properties & Supply of the Fibres, as well as the Various Processes Required for Converting Wool, Cotton, Silk Fibre to Finished Fabric covering both Woven & Knit Goods, giving also Descriptive Illustrations of the Construction of the Most Modern Improvements to Preparatory Machinery, Carding, Combing, Drawing & Spinning Machinery, Winging, Warping, Slashing Machinery, Looms, Knit Goods Machinery in all its Varieties, Dyestuffs, Chemicals, Soaps, Dyeing, Drying, Bleaching, Mercerizing & Finishing Machinery for both Woven & Knit Goods, &c. Posselt's Textile Library, Volume IX. Philadelplhia: E.A. Posselt, ca 1903. 473 pages. Many illustrations & advertisements of textile machinery. 11 x 7.5", black cloth, gold lettering. Cover rubbed, hinge broken, text G. $50.00
524 (Textiles) Textile Machine Works, Reading, Pennsylvania. BRAIDING MACHINES. (Catalog). Copyright 1925. 47 pages. View of factory, 74 illustrations of braiding machines, fancy braids, floorplans. 9.5 x 7.5", embossed stiff paper. VG. $20.00 525 (Textiles) Woonsocket Machine & Press Company, Woonsocket, Rhode Island. ROVING FRAMES: Catalog of Parts. Copyright, 1917. 213 pages, Halftones & drawings of roving frame, parts. 6 x 8.5", cloth. Cover scuffed, few owner rubberstamps, VG. $25.00
526 (Typewriter) Smith, Clarence C. The EXPERT TYPIST. NY: Macmillan Company, April, 1922. xiii,274 pages. 77 illustrations of typewriters, keys, mechanisms, handbills, dictaphone, mimeograph, business letters, graphs. 8 x 5", brown cloth, no dj. VG/none. $20.00
527 (United Kingdom) PHILIPS' CLEAR-PRINT POPULAR MAP of LONDON. 3 in=1 mile. George Philip & Son, Ltd, London, no date, ca 1900? 22 x 34" color map, 36 page Index. 7.75 x 4.25" printed paper cover, C.S. Hammond & Co sticker over imprint. Cover worn, map fine. $15.00
528 (United Kingdom) Savoy Hotel, London. SAVOY HOTEL, LONDON. (Promotional brochure). No date, ca 1936 - text. 15 x 15" color printed sheet folding to 8.5 x 4". Pictorial isometric map of central London, color drawings of royal couple, tennis, auto race, palace guard, couple dining, crew race, polo, buildings. Slightly soiled, VG. $15.00
529 (Vermont) Barre Academy, Barre, Vermont. RHETORICAL EXERCISE. Barre Academy. Wednesday Eve., Nov. 13, 1861. Order of Exercises. 3 pages. Folded slip, 7.5 x 4.5". Bit creased, soiled, G. Benefits of War, America's Future, &c. $10.00
530 (Vermont) Barre Academy, Barre, Vermont. RHETORICAL EXERCISE. Barre Academy. Wednesday Eve, May. 4, 1864. Order of Exercises. 3 pages. Folded slip, 7.5 x 5". Creased, VG. $10.00
531 (Vermont) Barre Academy, Barre, Vermont. RHETORICAL EXERCISE. Barre Academy. Wednesday Eve, May. 10, 1865. Order of Exercises. 3 pages. Folded slip, 8 x 5". Creased, soiled, G. Mustered Out, Under the Flag, Treason never Prospers, Soldiers of Vermont, Sectionalism, &c. $10.00
532 (Vermont) D.B.T., South Barre, Vermont. TRUST in GOD. Lines composed while passing under the rod of affliction in years long since gone by. 1865. (Handbill). 6 x 3". 9 quatrains in 2-line border. Small stains, faintly creased, G. $10.00
533 (Vermont) Earl Williams Newton, Editor; Raymond Taylor, Vrest Orton, Robert Burdick, Paul Orton, Steven Hall, Eleanor Marshall, George Wright, Jr. WESTON, VERMONT. A Picture of a Vermont hill town one hundred years ago & today. The Vermont Historical Society, 1947. 128 pages. Illustrated. 9 x 6", printed wrapper. Library marks, owner name, lightly rubbed, soiled, G. $15.00
534 (Vermont) Guy W. Bailey, Secretary of State, Vermont Bureau of Publicity, Essex Junction, Vermont. VERMONT: the land of Green Mountains. Copyright 1913. 203 pages, iii index. Many photos of scenery. 9 x 6", embossed wrapper. Upper wrap & titlepage detached, spine chipped, wrap soiled, owner name, text G. $15.00
535 (Vermont) Harriette Hayes, Mary Newton, Martha Kibby, Committee; Lucinda Vorse, Secretary, Vermont State Normal School, Randolph Center, Vermont. A HISTORY of the FIRST VERMONT STATE NORMAL SCHOOL: Its Instructors & Alumni. The Normal Register. Revised edition, 1926. Dodge, Printer, Rutland. 131 pages. Views of Randolph, school buildings, portraits of principals Edward Conant, Abel Leavenworth, Andrew Edson, Charles Morrill. 8.75 x 6", printed wrapper. Corners chipped, wrap rubbed, few manuscript notes of deaths, G. Rosters of faculty, graduates. $15.00 536 (Vermont) State Normal School, Castleton, Vermont. HANDBOOK of the STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, CASTLETON, VERMONT, A College of Education, 1939-1940. 45 pages. Portraits of Principal Caroline Woodruff, faculty. 6 x 3.5", printed wrapper. Wrap rubbed, soiled, owner name, G. Faculty, organizations, regulations, library, awards, publications, athletics, songs, cheers. $10.00
537 (Virginia) The Williamsburg Inn, Williamsburg, Virginia. The WILLIAMSBURG INN, WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA. (Promotional brochure). No date, ca 1939? 3.75 x 29" sheet folding to 3.75 x 7.25". Brown drawings of exterior, bedroom, birdseye map, roadmap. Paperclip mark, VG. $10.00
538 (Washington) The Ambassador Hotel, 14th & K Sts., N.W., Washington, D.C. At WASHINGTON: The AMBASSADOR, Washington's New 500 Room HOTEL. (Promotional brochure). No date, ca 1936? Green & black printed 9 x 12" sheet folding to 9 x 4". Modernist drawing of exterior, halftones of swimming pool, dining room, exterior, guest room, lounge, lobby. Lightly soiled, VG. $10.00
539 (Williams College) Bascom, Rev. John, Morris Professor of Rhetoric. BELIEF and ACTION. A Baccalaureate Sermon, Delivered at Williams College, August 4, 1861. Cover: Before the Class of '61. Boston: T.R. Marvin & Son, 1861. 22 pages. 9 x 5.5", printed wrapper. Spotted, wrap nearly detached, VG. "Not again shall we be called to such another baptism of blood in the cause of truth." $15.00
540 (Williams College) Field, David Dudley, 1805-y. ADDRESS of DAVID DUDLEY FIELD on the OCCASION of the UNVEILING of the MONUMENT to the GRADUATES & UNDERGRADUATES of WILLIAMS COLLEGE who fell in the CIVIL WAR. Delivered at Williamstown, July 28, 1868. Paris: Imprimerie Louis Edmonds, 1873. 16 pages. 8.25 x 5.25", printed wrapper. Creased, edge chips, wrap soiled, G. Born Haddam, Connecticut, Williams 1825, NY lawyer, wrote 1850 Code of Civil Procedure, president Association for Reform & Codification of Laws of Nations. $15.00
541 (Williams College) Griffin, Edward D., President. A SERMON PREACHED SEPTEMBER 2, 1828, at the Dedication of the New Chapel Connected with Williams College, Massachusetts. Williamstown: Printed by Ridley Bannister, 1828. 37 pages. 8.5 x 5.25", disbound. Removed, creased, G. History of Ephraim Williams, early years of college, revivals, threatened removal to Northampton, establishment of Amherst College. American Imprints 33436, CSmH; MWiW. $25.00
542 (Williams College) Hopkins, Mark, President of Williams College. PERFECT LOVE. A Baccalaureate Sermon, Delivered at Williamstown, Mass. August 15, 1855. Boston: T.R. Marvin, 1855. 24 pages. 9 x 5.5'', printed wrapper. Spotted, wrap splitting, VG. $15.00
543 (Williams College) Hopkins, Mark, President, Williams College. FAITH, PHILOSOPHY, and REASON. A Baccalaureate Sermon, Delivered at Williamstown, Ms., August 18, 1850. Boston: T.R. Marvin, 1850. 28 pages. 9 x 5.5", printed wrapper. Spotted, VG. $15.00
544 (Williams College) Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. CATALOGUS SENATUS ACADEMICI, Eorum qui Munera et Offica Academica Gesserunt, Quique Aliquovis Gradu Exornati Fuerunt, in Collegio Gulielmensi, Oppidi Gulielmi, in Republica Massachusettensi. Oppidi Gulielmi: Excudebat Ridley Bannister, 1832. 23 pages. 9 x 6", stitched. Trifle soiled, creased, VG. Untrimmed. Not in American Imprints. $35.00
545 (Williams College) Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. LAWS of WILLIAMS COLLEGE, 1853. North Adams: H. Chickering, Printer, 1853. 23 pages. 8.5 x 5.5", printed wrapper. Lacking lower wrap, removed, bit wrinkled, small stain, G. Government, Admission & Manners, Devotional Exercises, Instruction, Vacations, Absence, Crimes & Punishments, Library, Bills, Damage, Commencement & Degrees. $25.00 546 (Williams College) Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. CATALOGUE of the LYCEUM of NATURAL HISTORY of WILLIAMS COLLEGE, Instituted A.D. 1835. Williamstown: by the society, 1852. 60 pages. 9 x 6", printed wrapper. Wrap soiled, worn, text VG. Zoology, ornithology, herpetology, icthyology, conchology, mineralogy, Collection Geologique, Musee Pyreneen, mosses, antiquities, maps, denrology from Malabar, library, members, presidents, curators. $35.00
547 (Williams College) Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. TRIENNIAL CATALOGUE of the PHILO-TECHNIAN SOCIETY of WILLIAMS COLLEGE. Formed 1795. Troy: J.C. Kneeland & Co, 1844. 32 pages. 9 x 5.75", printed wrapper. Trifle wrinkled, soiled, VG. Members, 1795-1844, Catalogue of Books. $35.00
548 (Williams College) Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. CATALOGUE of the MEMBERS of the PHILO-LOGIAN SOCIETY, Since Its Formation in 1795: Williams College. Troy: N. Tuttle, Printer, 1840. 15 pages. 8.5 x 5.5", loose sheets. Stitching broken, foxed, soiled, fair. Marginal manuscript notes. $25.00
549 (Williams College) Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. The CONSTITUTIONS of the ADELPHIC UNION and PHILOLOGIAN SOCIETIES of WILLIAMS COLLEGE. Williamstown, 1856. 20 pages. 7.5 x 4.75", printed wrapper. VG. $25.00
550 (Williams College) Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. The CONSTITUTIONS of the PHILOLOGIAN and ADELPHIC UNION SOCIETIES of WILLIAMS COLLEGE, as Amended December, 1872, with a Complete List of the Members of the Philologian Society. Published by the Philologian. Albany: Weed, Parsons & Company, 1873. 42 pages. 9 x 6", printed wrapper. Upper wrap detached, chipped, VG. $25.00
551 (Williams College) Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. The GULIELMENSIAN. No. 6. May, 1862. Boston: T.R. Marvin & Son, 1862. 32 pages. 6 fraternity insignia. 9 x 5.5", gold printed orange wrapper. Creased, toned, wrap splitting, VG. Trustees, Faculty, Students, Secret & Public Societies, Athletic Associations, Musical Societies, Art Association, Quarterly, Reading Room, Library, Biennial, Class Day, Drama, Calendar. $40.00
552 (Williams College) Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. The GULIELMENSIAN. No. 9. May, 1865. Williamstown: C.E. Bigelow, 1865. Ward & Wyman, Printers, Winchendon. 42 pages. 2 fraternity insignia. 9 x 5.5", printed wrapper. Wrap split, detached, lightly soiled, rubbed, text bit toned, VG. Trustees, Faculty, Students, Honor Men, Secret & Public Societies, Lyceum of Natural History, Alumni, Instrumental & Glee Club, Art Association, Athletic Societies, Chess Clubs, Shakespeare Club, Reading Room, Quarterly, Eating Clubs, Class Day, Biennial, Library, &c. $40.00
553 (Williams College) Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. The GULIELMENSIAN. No. 15. Edited by Geo. H. Stever & E.H. Scott, of the Class of Seventy-Two. 1871. Angell & Mandeville, Steam Printers, North Adams. 74 pages. Few comic engravings & vignettes. 9 x 6", printed wrapper. Wrap split, detached, few tape stains, text VG. Trustees, Faculty, Students, Secret Societies, Class Day, Prizes, Moonlighters, Literary & Scientific Associations, Boxing, Rowing, Gymnastics, Base Ball Clubs, Glee, Chess, Reading Clubs, humor: Extracts from Journal of Member of Natural History Expedition, Botanists, Oikos de Bonus Feed Bill of Fare, Immutable Unconquerable Twistemigiger Base Ball Club, Olympic Games, Graceful Gazelles, College Hospital, Silver Toned Chirpers, &c. $40.00 554 (Williams College) Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. The MIRROR of '74 & '76. Vol. I. No. I. The Troy Press, Under the Supervision of Hubbell, 1873. 40 pages. Comic frontispiece. 8.5 x 5.75", printed wrapper. Wrap soiled, slight crease, few edge chips, VG. College humor by Class of 1875. 'In surgical practice on Juniors & Fresh, We will cut with a knife that is clean, Nor aught will one find in our well seasoned hash, Unjust, or profane, or obscene.' Poetry, personal attack, 'Catechism', 'Bonfire', 'Historic Hog Ballad', 'Confession of Dead Beat'. $35.00
555 (Williams College) Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. CATALOGUE of the OFFICERS and STUDENTS of WILLIAMS COLLEGE, and the Berkshire Medical Institution Connected with It. 1830-31. 20 pages, 2pp Circular of the Berkshire Medical Institution for 1831 inserted. 9 x 6", loose sheets. Pencil library marks, sewing gone, edges chipped, trifle toned & soiled, VG. Untrimmed, uncut. American Imprints 3487 (DNLM; MWiW; NNNAM). $35.00
556 (Williams College) Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. CATALOGUE of the CORPORATION, OFFICERS and STUDENTS of WILLIAMS COLLEGE. 1840-41. Troy, N.Y.: N. Tuttle, Printer, 1840. 20 pages. 8.5 x 5.25", printed wrapper. Foxed, creased, soiled, worn, G. $25.00
557 (Williams College) Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. CATALOGUE of the CORPORATION, OFFICERS and STUDENTS of WILLIAMS COLLEGE. 1841-2. Troy, N.Y.: N. Tuttle, Printer, 1841. 20 pages. 8.75 x 5.5", printed wrapper. Few corner tears, stab holes along gutter margin, rubbed, soiled, G. 'M. Hopkins' on upper wrap. $35.00
558 (Women) Connecticut Association of Women Workers, Vacation House Committee. The VACATION HOUSE, Madison, Connecticut, RECORD, 1909. Lyman Printing, New Haven. 4 pages. 8 x 5.5", printed wrapper, halftone of house. Wrap soiled, worn, G. Officers, narrative, finances. $15.00
559 (Women) Jane Drew, &c; Ministry of Housing & Urban Development of the Imperial Government of Iran. The CRISIS of IDENTITY in ARCHITECTURE: Report of the Proceedings of the International Congress of Women Architects, Ramsar, Iran, 1976. Hamdami Foundation, Tehran, 1977. 271 pages. Photos of congress, presenters. 9 x 6.5", paperback. Cover & few leaves detached, sewing breaking, loose, fair. Denise Scott Brown, Alison Smithson, Anna Bofill, Anne Tyng, Jean Young, Virginia Tanzmann, Joyce Whitley, Presentation letter to Ellen Perry Berkeley inserted. $35.00
560 (Women) W.C. Smith, Editor, North Carolina College for Women, Greensboro, North Carolina. BULLETIN of The NORTH CAROLINA COLLEGE for WOMEN (The State Normal College), Vol. VIII, No. 3. April, 1919. 34 pages, 1p application blank. Halftones of buildings, student group, observation school class, pageant, 9 x 6", printed wrapper. VG. $15.00
561 (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts. L'EXPOSE de SOCIALISM. W.P.I. '92. (1892 Yearbook). 130 pages, 16pp advertisements. Halftones of campus, faculty, Quartette, Socialists of '92, Bored of Editors, track, baseball, football teams, lithograph plate Phi Gamma Delta insignia, comic drawings. 7 x 10.5", red cloth, gold title in script, image of Venus. Lacking half advertising leaf, plate toned, cover bit soiled, rubbed, G. Faculty, humor, editors, classes, seniors, honors, history, ode, orations, poem, toasts, athletics, records, theses, organizations. $35.00
562 (World War I) C.S. Hammond & Company, New York HAMMOND'S LARGE SCALE WAR MAP of the WESTERN FRONT showing Woods & Forests, Fortresses, Fortified Towns & Naval Arsenals, Forts, Redoubts & Batteries, Airship Depots, Principal Wireless Stations, Altitudes, Railways, Canals. Popular edition. Copyright 1917. 28 x 40" folding color map. 8.25 x 4" printed paper cover. Cover edges worn, map trifle toned, VG. $15.00 563 (World War I) C.S. Hammond & Company, New York. HAMMOND'S NEW COMBINATION LARGE SCALE WAR MAPS of the WESTERN FRONT & ITALIAN FRONT, showing Woods & Forests, Fortresses, Fortified Towns & Naval Arsenals, Forts, Redoubts & Batteries, Airship Depots, Principal Wireless Stations, Altitudes, Railways, Canals. Popular edition. Copyright 1918. 28 x 40" folding 2-sided map. 8.5 x 4" printed paper cover, Old Corner Book Store Map Department sticker over imprint. Cover worn, few splits in map, bit toned, G. $10.00
564 (World War I) C.S. Hammond & Company, NY. HAMMOND'S FIVE MILE MAPS of the WESTERN FRONT. Sections No. 1-3: North Sea to La Fere, La Fere to Verdun, Verdun to Colmar. (Complete). Copyright 1918. 3 folding color maps, 25 x 21". 7.5 x 5.5" printed card covers. VG. $25.00
565 (World War I) Edward Stanford, London, Cartographers to His Majesty. STANFORD'S WAR MAPS. No. 1: CENTRAL and EASTERN EUROPE. Aug. 7, 1914. 38 x 26.5" linen mounted folding color map, 25 sections. 8 x 5.5" cloth boards, printed paper label, advertisement for Stanford's Library Maps. Map toned, VG. $15.00
566 (World War I) Edward Stanford, London, Cartographers to His Majesty. STANFORD'S WAR MAPS. No. 14: The SEAT of WAR on the AUSTRO-ITALIAN FRONTIER. June 30, 1915. 22.5 x 35.5" linen mounted folding color map, 21 sections. 7.75 x 5.5" cloth boards, printed paper label, advertisements for Library Maps & Leading Atlases. Map bit soiled, cover damped, G. $10.00
567 (World War I) Richard M. Bissell, Chairman. REPORT of the CONNECTICUT STATE COUNCIL of DEFENSE, December, 1918. Hartford, Printed for the Council, 1919. Bond Press, Hartford. 236 pages. Folding Organization Chart, 3 maps, Disaster Relief Plan, New Haven War Bureau. 9 x 6", printed wrapper. Corners nicked, cover rubbed, soiled, VG. Members, War Rallies, Liberty Choruses, Moving Pictures, Junior Food Army, Canning Corps, Home Gardens, Marketing, Automobile & Trolley Service, Americanization, Historical Records, Fuel Conservation, Sanitation & Medicine, Women in Industry, &c. $20.00
568 (World War II) Special Service Branch, Camp Kilmer, New Jersey. CAMP KILMER. To all debarkees . . . (Orientation booklet for returning soldiers). December - 1945 - printer code. 29 pages. Map, drawings. 5 x 3.75", stapled booklet. VG. $15.00
569 (World War II) United Service Organizations (USO), Greater Boston Soldiers & Sailors Committee. BOSTON: A Simplified Map showing principal streets of Uptown & Downtown Boston. Issued for Members of our Armed Forces. March, 1943. Fitchburg Paper Co. 7.5 x 12" blue & red printed sheet folding to 7.5 x 3". Map, lists of clubs, historic sites, services. VG. $8.00
570 (Yale University) Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, Class of 1859, Edward T. Fairbanks, Class Secretary. DECENNIAL RECORD, Yale College, Class of 1859. New Haven: College Courant Print, 1870. 112 pages. 8.25 x 5.5", gold lettered limp cloth. VG. Account of reunion, jocular biographical updates, much Civil War service, 1 Confederate, several battlefield deaths. $25.00
571 (Yale University) Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. CATALOGUS SENATUS ACADEMICI et eorum Qui Munera et Officia Academica gesserunt, Quique aliquovis Gradu exornati fuerunt, in Collegio Yalensi, in Novo-Portus, in Republica Connecticutensi. New Haven: B.L. Hamlen, Typographo, 1841. 127 pages. 9 x 5.75", printed wrapper. Lightly scuffed, foxed, VG. Latin listings of officers, faculty, graduates, 1702-1840. $25.00