[Oakland]: [Dry Fruit Products Corporation], 1935. Unpaginated, though 10 pages. "Business reply" card laid in; agent's business card affixed to front wrapper with paper clip. 8-3/8" x 5-3/8". Stapled cream self-wrappers with green and black printing. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Trade booklet advertising the "dryfruit" process, explaining..... More
[Oakland]: [Waldorf Bakery], (n. d.). Circa late 1920s. Folded trade card. B/w illustrations of wheat and wheat fields to front, facing b/w illustrations of a human male outline and the structure of a grain of wheat to interior. 7" x 4". White paper with black printing, orange title. Now housed..... More
New York: The Brass Rail, 1933. Bifolium (4 pages) plus small, stapled-in "Sea Food Combination" card. Dining fare printed in three columns on center pages, beverage list to last page. 12-3/8" x 7-1/2". Offwhite leaves with gilt and black lettering and decoration. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Fully..... More
Saratoga Springs, N. Y. Daily "Saratogian" Print, 1883. 1st printing. Unpaginated, though 4 pages. P. 2 with the day's menu [start with the 'Green Turtle' soup] & p. 3 with the priced wine menu [G. H. Mumm & Co's Extra Dry Champagne. $3.50 Qt]. 7-1/8" x 4-5/8". Self-wrappers, with the..... More
[Philadelphia]: [The City of Philadelphia City Committee], 1898. Unpaginated, 4 pages. Affixed to a large sheet of scrapbook paper. 7-1/2" x 4-3/4". White bifolium with blue lettering and embossed emblem to front cover. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Menu includes chicken croquettes with peas, fried oysters, ginger ale..... More
New York: Redfield, 1853. 1st edition (Wright II, 1206). 313, [10] pp. 11 pages of adverts at rear. 12mo. 7-5/8" x 5". Original green cloth binding with spine lettered in gilt & boards stamped in blind. The fairly scarce 1st book from this Connecticut author, with OCLC showing only 2..... More
London: G. F. Cruchley, 349 Oxford Street. 1822. Second Edition [stated]. A dissected, very detailed 25-panel, hand-colored in outline, linen-backed map. Title set in border top-right. Scale: 1" = 10.91 miles. Unfolded: 38-5/8" x 26-1/4"; Folded in Portfolio: 7-3/4" x 5-1/4". Housed in the publisher's original green paste-paper slipcase, with..... More
London: John Andrews and J. Harris, 1781. 1 sheet, folded in 20 panels. Folded: 19.7 cm x 14.7 cm. Unfolded: 80 cm x 72 cm. Linenbacked & hand-colored, housed in the original marbled paper slipcase, with printed paper title label to one side. While many of Andrews' cartographic publications are..... More
New York: American News Company, 1871. 1st edition thus. 856 pp. Illustrated with frontis of Barnum & 32 wood engravings throughout. 12mo. Original pebble-grain terra-cotta cloth with gilt spine lettering; boards stamped in blind. More
London: Ward Locke, 1858. 3rd, revised edition. x, [11] - 125 pp. Illustrated with 200+ woodcuts. 8vo. 8-1/8" x 5-1/2" Original brown publisher's cloth with gilt stamped device to front cover. Contains an additional 12 ppg not in the first two editions. More
West Chester, PA. Printed by Joseph Painter, 1842. 1st edition thus, with revisions & additions. Not in American Imprints, nor in Smith. 120 pp. 12mo. 5-3/4" x 3-5/8". Period full brown speckled sheep binding. Speckled edges. More
Berlin: Friedrich Vieweg dem älteren, 1790. 1st edition thus. [5] - 263, [1] pp. Untrimmed. Hand-colored frontispiece. Engraved vignette to t.p. 8vo. 7-1/8" x 4-1/2". Period dark brown plain paper wrappers. Hand-inked title label to spine. More
Maritzurb and Durban / Tongaat, Natal: P. Davis & Sons; Adams & Co.; or of the Author, (n. d.). Second, Altered and Perfected, Edition. Ca 1910. [1 (blank)], 127 pp. Pp 108 - 127, Dictionary of "More than 1500 Common Words". 6" x 4-3/4". Green cloth over card stock binding..... More
London: Printed for Samuel Lee and Benjamin Alsop, [1680]. 1st edition thus (T. C. I, 394; Wing 3604A). [24], 247, [1 (blank)] pp. Printed glosses in main text. 8vo. A^4 (*)^8 B - Q^8 R^4 [-R4, presumed a blank]. 6-13/16" x 4-1/4". 19th C. brown full calf binding with gilt..... More
London: Printed for Richard Sare and E Hindmarth, 1696. The Eighth Edition, Corrected (Wing Q-202). [8], 344 pp. 8vo: A4 B - Y8 Z4. 7" x 4-5/8". Period full brown calf binding, with raised spine bands. Red speckled edges. Per the OCSL, Quevedo Y Villegas "one of the greatest and..... More
[Columbia, SC]: [Belk's of Columbia], [1966]. INSCRIBED by Carl T. Julien on the presentation page. Unpaginated, ~ 30 pp. B/w intratextual reproductions of photographys by Carl T. Julien; alternating olive-colored illustrations throughout. 9" x 4-1/2". Stapled red, white, and black wrappers with printed black lettering. Now housed in an archival..... More
[Los Angeles]: [Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge], 1969. Unpaginated, ~ 24 pp. Blue and white duotone illustrations throughout. 10-1/4" x 5-1/4". Pale blue stapled wraps with embossed emblem and cloth red, white and blue ribbon to front cover. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "Honoring our patriots of inner..... More
1897. Handwritten invitation [4 pp]. Card illustrated to look like an owl. ~6-1/2" x 3-1/8". Offwhite card cut in the shape of an owl, with purple illustration and lettering to front, and purple hand-written menu and sentiments to interior and rear. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Menu card..... More
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1899. Single sheet, printed recto only. 7-1/4" x 4". Offwhite cardstock, with red decorative titling and black lettering. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Menu card most likely once belonging to Harry T. Wyndman (?), Pennington Seminary Class of 1897, whose name is one of the signatures on the..... More
London: 1935. Single sheet, printed recto only. 7-1/2" x 4-1/2". Buff paper, menu in black ink. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "Copie Menu - Le Causaloup Jubilee..." More
Providence, R.I. Rumford Chemical Works, (n. d.). 1st printing (presumed). Ca 1900. 48 pp. Printed note, on size of a 'teaspoon', tipped-in after p. 4. 12mo. 6-1/2" x 4-1/4". Grey paper textured wrappers, printed in red & black. Red cord loop for hanging, upper left. Now housed in an archival..... More
San Francisco: California Dried Fruit Research Institute, (1939). 32 pp. B/w photographic illustrations. 12mo. 7" x 5". Color pictorial wrappers, stapled. More
Wharton, (1974). 1st Printing. [7], 1 - 9, [1 (divisional t.p.)], 10 - 24, [1 (divisional t.p.)], 25 - 43, [1 (divisional t.p.)], 44 - 66, [1 (divisional t.p.)], 67 - 72, [1 (divisional t.p.)], 73 - 85 pp. Each recipe illustrated with drawings. 8-1/2" x 7". Flip-book style, with..... More
(South Norwalk, CT): Nash Engineering Co., (n. d.). Ca 1923. 43 b/w photographic leaves (5 laid in). 48 original silver-gelatin photos (7.25" x 9.5") exhibiting the factory, assembly floor, testing area, wide range of liquid ring vacuum pumps, and the numerous industries, commercial buildings, and homes in which they were..... More
Eureka, CA: Humboldt-Del Norte County Agricultural Extension Service, (n. d.). Ca. 1951 - 1957. 4 pp. Illustration to outer wrapper. 9" x 6". Green illustrated/printed paper wrappers, stapled. Rare in the trade. More
