(BICKNELL,
Amos Jackson.) SPECIMEN BOOK OF ONE
HUN
DRE
D ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNS.
New York: Bicknell, 1879. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth. Frontispiece, 80 pages, First edition. [Hitchcock, 172].
An unusual pattern book, the most uncommon of all of Bicknell's publications, in that the sample houses, each shown here with elevation and floor plan, mostly come from other Bicknell pattern books. The specimens include plans for suburban houses, villas, sea-side and camp-ground cottages, homesteads, churches and public buildings. Where someone built a home from the pattern, the owner's name and location are listed. They include homes from Tenafly and Elizabeth, New Jersey, Nyack and Matteawan, New York. There are also several plates of mantles and furniture and elaborate Queen Anne and Arts and Crafts and Aesthetic Movement interiors. With twelve pages of building and furniture related advertisements and index in back. While all editions of Bicknell have the same number of pages, each edition made significant changes in the houses illustrated making each edition important. Very good.
$750.00
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(CARPETS, ETC.-TRADE CAT
ALOG
UE)
DUMONT, E. TAPIS-BROSSES, TISSUS BEGETAIN, GYMNASTIQUE HAMACS,...
Paris: (circa 1910). 8vo. Printed wrappers. (ii), 14 pages.
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re trade catalogue of carpets, mats, hammocks, gymnastic equipment, children's swings, and assorted accessories not recorded on OCLC. A fully illustrated color catalogue by the Dumont Company in Paris - a company who exhibited at the major expositions such as Paris (1900), Saint Louis (1904), Liege (1905), London (1908), and Brussels (1910). Each item named and numbered. The front wrapper has a folding flap with can be folded into the back wrapper to create a mailing envelope. Very good.
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(DAIRY-TRADE CATALOGUE) LINCOLN, Mrs. D.A. FROZEN DAINTIES.
Nashua: White Mountain Freezer Co., 1899. 12mo. Publisher's wrappers. 32 pages.
Recipe book for ice creams by the author of the
Boston Cook Book published as a trade publication by this superior freezer company. Fine.
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(FANS-TRADE CATALOGUE) TUERK HYDRAULIC POWER CO. ROTARY VENTILATING FANS.
Chicago: (circa 1890). 8vo. Printed decorated wrappers. 32 pages.
Rare trade catalogue not recorded on OCLC. This catalogue features "the celebrated Murray fans, the only perfect ventilating fans,...manufactured exclusively for the Tuerk Hydraulic Power Co." The Murray fans were awarded the medal of excellence at the American Institute. The first part of the catalogue features a variety of their fans both ceiling and standing styles including column fans, hanging, and chandelier styles, all illustrated (many in aesthetic decorated room usages) with dimensions and prices. The second part of the catalogue features a selection of their high pressure motors also illustrated and priced. Early owner's ink signature along outer edge of front wrapper.
$385.00
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(
FARM
BUILDINGS-TRADE CATALOGUE)
HUNTER, A.F. PRACTICAL FARM BUILDINGS PLANS AND SUGGESTIONS.
East Walpole, MA/ New York/ Chicago/ Hamilton, Ont: 1906. Oblong 8vo. Printed wrappers. 48 pages.
Scarce trade catalogue. OCLC only records two editions of this catalogue, and the 1905 copy (with seven copies in the US) is half the size of our 1906 edition which only lists only copy which is in Canada and none in the U.S. A catalogue of the various types of barns and related types of farm buildings provided by F.W. Bird & Son Company of East Walpole, Massachusetts. The first part features poultry houses filled with drawings and diagrams (both exteriors and interiors) of the variety of poultry houses and poultry yard designs. The second part features their variety of barns, stables, etc. also with numerous drawings and diagrams of designs such diary barn, "Stable for suburban place," "A suburban stable," Sheep shed, hog houses, etc. Additional portions include information on Paroid roofing, Neponset Red Rope roofing, Proslate Roofing and Siding and Florian Sound Deadening Felt, all filled with photographs. Very good.
$185.00
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HOBBS,
Isaac. HOBB'S ARCHITE
CTU
RE, CONTAINING DESIGNS AND GROUND PLANS FOR VILLAS, COTTAGES, AND OTHER EDIFICES.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1873. 8vo. Publisher's dark green cloth. 189 pages. First edition. [Hitchcock, 595].
Hobbs' work is a most uncommon architectural pattern book illustrated with over 100 engravings with plans and elevations for eighty-four separate houses in widely diverse styles, many of which were originally printed in Godey's Ladies' Book and The Farmer. The remaining plans have never before appeared in print. Each listing includes a drawing of the exterior of the house, a plan, and a description in which the author recommends building materials, suggests a cost for construction, describes the style of the house and discusses the characteristics of a suitable tenant. Many of the houses are identified by owner and location. A diverse collection of Victorian cottages, villas, churches, and more. The houses are mainly in the Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Youngstown, Ohio, areas. Very good in dark green cloth boards with gilt title to spine and gilt illustration of a house to front board. Professionally respined using original spine as an overlay, else very good.
$650.00
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(PLUMBING-TRADE CATALOGUE)
CRANE COMPANY. PLUMBING SUGGESTIONS FOR HOME BUILDERS.
Springfield, MA: Crane Co., April 1925. Small 8vo. Decorated wrappers. 96 pages.
A scarce trade catalogue. OCLC records only four editions of this trade catalogue (all in limited copies from one to two copies). OCLC only lists two copies of this 1925 edition (Circular No. 398 C) - University of Maryland and Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh. A richly illustrated catalogue of a wide variety of plumbing supplies - bathroom lavatories, toilets, bidets, bathtubs, showers, kitchen sinks, laundry and pantry sinks, slop sinks and specialty sinks such as a dental lavatory, water heaters, furnaces, and even a car washer. In addition their large selection of accessories such as shower heads, faucets, shower curtain rods, soap holders, towel racks, medicine cabinets, mirrors, bathroom scales, etc. Each item is numbered and described with dimensions. Several bathrooms are illustrated with the variety of Crane Company pieces displayed. Very good.
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(PORTABLE HOUSES-TRADE CATALOGUE)
BRADLEY PORTABLE HOUSE CO. PORTABLE COTTAGES, BUNGALOWS, AND GARAGES; ALSO POULTRY HOUSES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.
Randolph, MA: 1916. Oblong 8vo. Printed wrappers. 24 pages.
Rare early example of a portable builder's trade catalogue not recorded on OCLC. A collection of designs for small portable houses, garages and other small buildings, most with exterior view, floor plans with specifications and description. The cottages and buildings were built, knocked down for shipping and are complete including all hardware necessary to install. Last leaf lists weights of buildings by style and type of building. Very good.
$150.00
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(POST OFFICE-TRADE CATALOGUE) SADLER COMPANY. CABINETS OF ALL SIZES.
Indianapolis/ Kansas City: 1910. Oblong 8vo. 32 pages.
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re trade catalogue not recorded on OCLC. The Sadler Company were manufacturers of post office outfits, cabinets, lock boxes, rubber stamps and supplies. This catalogue features numerous examples of their post office lock boxes (with either a key or combination lock) each illustrated with dimensions, features anf prices which can be installed in any post office and adapted to the layout. One of the pages is headed: "The government ordered our cabinet for the Island Possessions." Back wrapper is printed order form. Very good.
$225.00
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(RHODE ISLAND)
HISTORY OF THE
STAT
E OF RHODE ISLAND.
Philadelphia: Hoag, Wade & Co., 1878. Folio. Later cloth. iv, 370 pages, 30 lithographic plates. First edition.
This historical survey of Rhode Island has over sixty-five illustrations of private residences, monuments and commercial buildings and twenty-five portraits of distinguished citizens. The state history is followed by brief histories of thirty-six towns. There is information on business, commerce, churches, and individuals. Paper beginning to yellow, otherwise good to very good.
$385.00
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(SILVER PLATE DINNERWARE-TRADE CATALOGUE) ANGLO-AMERICAN MANUFACTURING CO. AMERICAN CATALOGUE OF THE ANGLO-AMERICAN M'F'G CO. MANUFACTURERS OF SILVER PLATED WARE, CUTLERY, ETC
London/New York: (1883). 8vo. Publisher's printed wrappers. 16 pages, with 79 wood-engraving illustrations. Special coupon printed in red and black, laid-in.
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re trade catalogue not recorded on OCLC. Fine copy of a well-illustrated trade catalogue which includes dinner and breakfast castors, spoon holders, cups, pickle stand, sugar bowls, pitchers, berry, fruit, card and cake stands, waiters, ice pitchers, napkin rings, bouquet holders, tea sets, child's set, spoon rack, butter dishes, cake baskets, forks and butler knives, etc. Laid in is a coupon (no. 23497) which states: "We are determined to place our Superior Silver Plated Ware in every town and hamlet in the United States and Canada..." The coupon made a special offer. What is interesting about this is that it is essentially a modern marketing scheme; I have never seen anything else like this from the nineteenth century. Fine copy.
$385.00
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(WINDOW AWNINGS-TRADE CATALOGUE) HIJOS DE FRANCISCO SANS. Trade Brochure of Window Awnings.
Barcelona: G. Seix & Barral, (circa 1920s). Tall 8vo. Colorful folding brochure in eight panels (closed 6 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches; open 6 1/2 x 29 inches).
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re trade brochure not recorded on OCLC. A vividly colored brochure in concertina format rendered in resplendent pochoir as especially associated with the period. The products offered are striped window awnings, which were ubiquitous in summertime virtually everywhere and in Mediterranean climates year-round -- the latter, still found in the region, to this day. The colors rendered jump off the page and make what might seem entirely utilitarian quite exciting. In addition, this promotion includes five brightly colored inset "lifestyle" illustrations - golfers by a clubhouse decked in awning; a dock with a sailboat and a lovely house with purple awning in the background, etc. Then a larger illustration of a seaside panorama underlies several of these insets with text. This is not just a trade catalogue, but also a fine specimen of period printing and style. Very good.
$285.00
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(WINDOW DRAPERY-TRADE CATALOGUE) BERAUD & CIE. TENURES ARTISTES, NOUVELLE CREATIONS. NO. 45.
Paris: Beraud et Cie, (circa 1920). 8vo. Printed wrappers. (iv) pages, 31 chromolithographic plates.
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re trade catalogue not recorded on OCLC. A colorful collection of window drapery designs sold by Beraud et Cie in Paris who were known as major fine textile manufacturers. They specialized in silks, laces, and other fine textiles and these window drapery designs display some of their combinations they sold. They range from traditional styles that reflect the older French eighteenth century styles to very modern styles in fashion in the early twentieth century Art Deco. Very good.
$110.00
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(WINDOW TREATMENTS-TRADE CATALOGUE)
HODKINSON AND
CLAR
KE. LIFTS, HOISTS, CRANES, REVOLVING SHUTTERS AND WINDOW BLINDS.
London: Bemrose, (1881.) 8vo. Publisher's wrappers. Frontispiece, 112 pages, including 17 plates in color, 1 of which is large and folding. First edition.
A handsome trade catalogue of window treatments for businesses, including revolving shutters, wrought iron grills, window cornices, cane and cloth sun blinds, as well as patterns for "leaded, stained & painted glass screen, panes and window blinds," shown on a large, folding chromolithographic plate. Respined, minor spotting on cover and title page.
$650.00
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