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1 (Adventist) Advent Christian Church, Taunton, Massachusetts, Rev. Arthur G. Lyon, Pastor. DIRECTORY of the ADVENT CHRISTIAN CHURCH, Taunton, Mass. 1900. 32 pages. Portrait, local advertisements. 6.25 x 5.25", printed wrapper, church view. Historical Notes, Services, Covenant, Officers, Sunday School, Young Peoples & Ladies Aid Societies, Committees, By-laws & Regulations, Principles. VG. $25.00 2 (Advice) Dodsley, Robert, 1704-1764. The ECONOMY of HUMAN LIFE. Translated from an Indian Manuscript. To which is prefixed An Account of the Manner in Which the said Manuscript Was Discovered; in a Letter from an English Gentleman Residing in China, to the Earl of ******** Lewistown, PA.: Charles Bell & Sons, 1832. 246 pages, 2p publisher advertisement. 4.25 x 2.75", leather, gold tooled spine. 'Abigail Weaver from Father'. American Imprints 12195. Spine & hinge professionally repaired, G. $35.00 3 (Agriculture) Johnson, Samuel W., Sheffield Scientific School, Yale College. HOW CROPS FEED. A Treatise on the Atmosphere & the Soil as Related to the Nutrition of Agricultural Plants. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1883. Copyright 1870. 375 pages, 9p publisher advertisesment. 9 engravings. 7.5 x 5", gold & blind stamped blue cloth. Clean, tight, VG. $25.00 4 (Agriculture) Johnson, Samuel W., Sheffield Scientific School, Yale College. HOW CROPS GROW. A Treatise on the Chemical Composition, Structure and Life of the Plant. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1881. Copyright 1868. 394 pages, 2p publisher advertisement. 71 engravings. 7.5 x 5", gold & blind stamped green cloth. Sewing weak 1 place, else VG. $25.00 5 (Alphabet) Peterson, Mrs. Frederick. CHILD HEALTH ALPHABET. Child Health Organization, New York, 1918. Copyright 1918. (28) pages. Black & red drawings; 4 line poems, nutrition & regimen ('A is for Apples, also for Air; Children need both & we have to spare.'). 7.5 x 5", pictorial wrapper, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company slug. VG. $15.00 6 (Americana) Lansing B. Bloom, Edgar L. Hewett, Caroline Asplund, F.S. Curtis, Jr., Archaeological Institute of America, Santa Fe, N.M. The FIESTA BOOK 1926. Papers of the School of American Research. 133 pages. Color frontispiece. 8 x 5.5", printed wrapper. Original Bando, Cabeza de Vaca, Fray Marcos de Niza, Francisco Coronado, Don Juan de Onate, Pueblo Rebellion, Diego de Vargas, Ceremonies, Santa Fe, Mexican Revolution, Kit Carson, General Kearny. VG. $20.00 7 (Americana) M.V. Moore, William Rideing, Grace Cushing, Elias Longley, Jacques Redway, Philip Mighels, J.G. Owens, Preston Uberoth, Helen Bates, Helen Hunt Jackson, Sarah Kellogg. SELECTIONS from The YOUTH'S COMPANION for Supplementary Reading. Number 12. In the Southwest. Perry Mason & Company, Boston, copyright 1897. 64 pages. Illustrated. 8 x 5.75", printed wrapper. Bibliography of American Literature 10480. 'Louise Lindsley'. Big Trees, Lumbermen, Raisin-Making, Death Valley, Nevada, Pyramid Lake, Grand Canon, Cave-dwellers, Oldest American Houses, New Mexico, Adobe. Wrap bit rubbed, first, last pages tanned, VG. $25.00 8 (Amusements) C.I. Hood & Company, Apothecaries, Lowell, Massachusetts. HOOD'S SARSAPARILLA BOOK of PARLOR GAMES. No date, ca 1890? 16 pages. 2 columns: Mammoth Sneeze, Blowing the Feather, Minister's Cat, medical advice, testimonials. 7 x 4.75", pictorial yellow wrapper. Small wrap sticker stain, trifle toned, VG. $15.00 9 (Architecture) Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Company, New York. COLOR CLUES to HOME BEAUTY with RUGS and CARPETS by the BIGELOW WEAVERS. Copyright 1939. 19 pages. Color interiors. 11x 8.5", pictorial color wrapper. VG. $15.00 10 (Architecture) Detroit Steel Products Company, Detroit, Michigan. WINDOW WALLS: Their Cost & Their Advantages. No date, ca 1920? 30 pages. Drawings of industrial windows, installation details. 8 x 5.5", pictorial color printed stiff paper. VG. $15.00 11 (Architecture) Edwin A. Cochran; S. Parkes Cadman, foreword; Cass Gilbert, architect. The CATHEDRAL of COMMERCE. Woolworth Building, New York, 1916. Copyright 1916. (32) pages. Color views: grand arcade, exterior by day, night, lower Manhattan skyline; J.C. Maugans photographs: observation gallery, entrance, tower, night lighting, Irving National Bank, Postkeller, swimming pool, barber shop, generators, switchboard, boiler, vault, tower views, F.W. Woolworth office, elevator, stairs, balcony. 11 x 8", gold embossed color wrapper. VG. $35.00 12 (Architecture) National Lead Company, New York, &c. A TALK on PAINT. Copyright 1906. Rogers & Company, Chicago & New York. 40 pages. 4 Henry Hutt color illustrations (romance with house), drawings of paint manufacture. 9 x 7", embossed white stiff paper. VG. $50.00 13 (Architecture) Perry, Shaw and Hepburn, Architects, Boston, Massachusetts. EXAMPLES of the WORK of PERRY, SHAW and HEPBURN, ARCHITECTS, Boston, Massachusetts. No date, ca 1948? (62) pages. Halftones: Governor's Palace, Williamsburg Inn, Capiol, Court House, Williamsburg; College of William & Mary; Longfellow Hall, Radcliffe College; Houghton Library; St. Stephen's Church, Boston; St. Paul's, Newburyport; United Church, Walpole; Bulfinch Hall, Andover Academy; Harvard Cooperative Society, Technology Store & Washington Elms Government Housing Project, Cambridge; Brooks Hospital & Dexter School, Brookline; Roxbury Latin; Concord Academy; Wellesley High School; homes, offices, stable. 11 x 8.5", plastic comb. Cover bit soiled, corner crease, text VG. $75.00 14 (Architecture) The E.T. Burrowes Company, Portland, Maine. BURROWES' WIRE SCREENS for Windows & Doors. Copyright 1897. 30 pages. Engravings & halftones: office & warehouse, factory, window screens, production & packing, screen doors, entrances, P.T. Barnum, A.J. Drexel, Clem Studebaker, other architect identified homes. 9.75 x 6", color pictorial stiff paper, printed envelope with address, stamp. Small marginal corner stain, VG. $35.00 15 (Auto Travel) RAND McNALLY OFFICIAL AUTO TRAILS MAP. 1921. District No. 6, New England and Eastern New York. 28 x 22" blue & red folding map. 7.5 x 4" printed wrapper: Souvenir Edition, Bangor Motor Co. & Bangor House, Bangor, Maine, halftones. Cover rubbed, soiled, map VG. $25.00 16 (Auto Travel) Southern Berkshire Chamber of Commerce, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. HIGHWAYS and BYWAYS of SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE, Northern Connecticut and Eastern New York. (Promotional roadmap). No date, ca 1930? 16 x 12" sheet folding to 8 x 4". Distance chart, drive itineraries, realtor list. Trifle rubbed, VG. $15.00 17 (Auto Travel) Trailways of the Northland, Lake George, New York. TRAILWAYS of the NORTHLAND RECOMMENDED ACCOMMODATIONS For Your Motoring Pleasure. At the Sign of the Red Arrow. Copyright 1949, Merton E. Hall. (12) pages. Color halftones: tourist cabins & cottages, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine; review form. 9 x 4", color wrapper. VG. $15.00 18 (Auto Travel) U S 60 Association. HIGHWAY MAP of VIRGINIA and WEST VIRGINIA featuring U S 60, America's Most Scenic and Historical Highway from Norfolk, Virginia to Los Angeles, California, Travel Route 60. "From Birthplace of Nation to Paradise of Pacific". Official Map U S 60 Association. "Stick to Sixty". No date, ca 1930? 17 x 22" blue & red printed sheet folding to 8.5 x 3.75". Roadmap, trans-continental strip map, inset illustrated advertisements: Greenbrier & Cottages, Homestead, Natural Bridge, Old Point-Norfolk Ferry, General Lewis, Conley, Murphy's Hotels, Hotel Jefferson, Daniel Boone. Short edge tear, toned, VG. $15.00 19 (Autos Travel) Mrs. F.B. Caldwell, East Northfield, Massachusetts. OVER MOHAWK TRAIL. 32 pages. Map (1920), 9 halftones: autos on road, Williams College. 7 x 4.5", printed wrapper. Narrated tour: East Northfield, Bernardston, Greenfield, Shelburne, Shelburne Falls, Charlemont, North Adams, Williamstown; Trail Construction. VG. $20.00 20 (Books About Books) ROBERT ANDERSON, The Cumberland Bard, Born 1770-Died 1833. Centenary Celebration Souvenir. Charles Thurnam & Sons, Carlisle, September, 1933. 31 pages. Plates: portrait, memorial tablet, grave, Joseph Simpson watercolor, manuscript facsimile. Song: Canny Aul Cummerlan', poems. 8.5 x 5.5", printed wrapper. Wrap bit soiled, VG. $15.00 21 (Books About Books) American Art Association, New York City; Thomas E. Kirby, Auctioneer; Robert Fridenberg, Catalogue. ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE of the NOTABLE COLLECTION of VIEWS of NEW YORK and Other American Cities, Historical China and Books Relating to New York Formed by PERCY R. PYNE, 2d, to Be Sold February 5- 7, 1917. (130) pages. 562 lots. (18) color plates (1 folding), 36 halftones. 11 x 8", printed wrapper over paper boards.. Wrap rubbed, soiled, edge tears, chips, 2 fold-ins detached, text VG. $50.00 22 (Books About Books) Arthur Freeman. ROBIN HOOD: The 'Forresters' Manuscript. Bernard Quaritch, 1993. 22 pages. 8.5 x 6", black & red printed wrapper. 'With compliments & best regards, A.F.' on Quaritch stationery. Wrap bit soiled, VG. $20.00 23 (Books About Books) Beckley-Cardy Company, Chicago, Illinois. CATALOGUE of BOOKS, HELPS and SUPPLIES for TEACHERS and SCHOOLS. No. 21. September 1, 1920. 80 pages. Illustrated: children's story books, history, classics, dictionaries, encyclopedia, phonograph, weaving, painting, kindergarten, stencils, pure books on avoided subjects, music, conduct, teaching, forms, merit cards, diplomas, gummed seals, Christmas cards, classroom pictures & statues, globes, maps, desks, chairs, blackboard, duplicating machines, plays, entertainments. 8 x 5.25", black & blue pictorial wrapper. VG. $20.00 24 (Books About Books) Breslauer, B.H.