| (LITHOGRAPHY) BAILLIE, Caroline R. I. II. ONE-TWO BUCKLE MY SHOE, 10 DESIGNS DRAWN ON STONE. 
(Edinburgh): W. & A.K. Johnson, 1857. Oblong 8vo. Publisher's red cloth. 10 lithographic leaves, 10 lithographic plates. First edition.
Featuring ten stylized mid-nineteenth century domestic scenes depicting of interior furnishings and dress. Cover very lightly spotted; still very good.
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(NEW YORK-TRAVEL GUIDE) ERIE LINES. SUMMER HOMES.
New York: Erie Lines, 1892. 8vo. Printed embossed wrappers. 64 pages.
Rare travel guide not recorded on OCLC. A fine promotional for towns and villages in suburban New York. Included are Chester, Goshen, Hancock, Honesdale (PA), Lake Mohonk, Milford, Monticello, Port Jervis, White Lake and others. Many photographs, listings of hotels and boarding house with rates. Illustrated from photographs and with maps of various railroad routes. Front and rear wrappers chipped, else very good.
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(TRADE CATALOGUE) PETERS & JONES. CHILDREN'S CARRIAGES.
Boston: 1884. 8vo. Self-wrappers. (12) pages. First edition.
A charming catalogue illustrating fourteen children's wooden and willow carriages. A large, folded price list for thirty-two carriages is laid in with two carriages illustrated on the verso. The catalogue's final page offers a boys' velocipedes (a tricycle) with various options of size and oak or iron frames. Very good.
$285.00
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WALLIS,
N. THE CARPENTER'S TREASURE; A COLLECTION OF DESIGNS FOR TEMPLES.
London: I.Taylor, (1773). Large 8vo. Contemporary blue wrappers. (iv) pages, 16 engraved plates. First edition. [Harris, 900].
All recorded copies state on the title page "A New Edition." The present copy, without any edition statement on the title, with the plates still fresh and with no trace of any wear, point to it being 'the' first edition. The earliest recorded copy, as here, contains the advertisement listing William Pain's Practical Builder published in 1774, and bears the imprint of 'I. Taylor at the Bible & Crown in Holborn.' Later editions drop the advertisements with the imprint 'I. & J. Taylor, nearly opposite Great Turnstile, Holborn.' Harris and other scholars have verified that it is the first. A second and third were published in 1790 and 1800. Our copy has the two-page advertisement of books sold by
Taylor
frequently missing. Wallis compiled only three pattern books, this one unique in featuring both Gothic and Chinese designs, popular with American craftsmen. Neo-classical ornaments are featured in his other works. Wallis's pattern books were in colonial
America
and were sold in
Boston
before the end of the eighteenth century. Specific details from Wallis's pattern books can also be found in colonial
Virginia
furniture. A most attractive copy.
$4,500.00
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 (TRADE CATALOGUE) SOUTHERN PINE ASSOCIATION. SOUTHERN PINE GARAGES, AND HOW TO BUILD THEM.
New Orleans
: Southern Pine Association, (1926). Small folio. Decorated wrappers. 11 folded double sheets printed on both sides. First edition.
Three copies of this early edition are cited on OCLC, two of which are in the Harvard School of Design and
Hagley
Museum
(the Hagley copy supplied through the Bookpress Ltd.) Illustrated with floor plans, elevations, and details for eleven different garage designs. Among the types of garages shown are the single-car, double car, one-car with workshop, summer home garage, and apartment-garage. Fingering to cover; folding plans loose, else very good copy.
$150.00
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(DEDICATEE'S COPY)
COWEN, William. SIX VIEWS OF ITALIAN AND SWISS SCENERY.
London
: W. Cowen, 1824. Large folio (25 x 18 inches). Contemporary calf spine, printed boards. (2) pages, 6 etched plates. First, and only, edition.
Very rare work not in Abbey. OCLC records only one copy at the
Victoria
and
Albert
Museum
. This being the special issue with proofs in India paper, loosely inserted is a proof before letter working of the last plate,
Lake
Como
, inscribed in pencil to the dedicatee. "Etched by W. Cowen from his own drawings, made during two tours on the continent in the years 1819 and 1822 and dedicated by permission to the Viscount Milton." The subjects of the etchings and views of the following: The Lake Maggiore; The Lake of Lugano; The Romantic Shore of Sorrento; The Town of Luvino and Lago Maggiore; The Grand Approach to Sion; and The Town and Lake of Como. William Cowen (1791-1864) was an English landscape painter. He was lucky enough to obtain William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl of Fitzwilliam as a patron, who paid for him to visit
Italy
via
France
and
Switzerland
in 1819 and 1822, after which he published this work, which includes his own etchings from his continental tours. Extremities of calf spine worn, else very good.
$3,200.00
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(INCUNABLE LEAVES)
ALEXANDER, Anglius of Hales. SUMMA, SEU DESTRUCTORIUM VITIORUM.
Paris
: Pierre Levet,
April 11, 1497
. Folio single sheet, (9 1/2 x 7 inches) mounted.
Anglus or Anglius of Alexander was a monk of Hales in Gloucestershire. Some sources identify him as Alexander Ales, or de Hales, who died in
Paris
in 1245. A single leaf c56 lines printed in double column, with rubricated initial, several early marginal ink notes. Pars Quarta, Cap XXXI, leaf kii. In a plain cream mount.
$125.00
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RUSKIN,
John. THE SEVEN LAMPS OF ARCHITECTURE.
London
: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1849. 8vo. Publisher's embossed cloth. viii, (iv), 205, (1), 16 pages, 14 plates. First edition.
The first treatise in English to teach the real significance of architecture as the most trustworthy record of life and faith of nations. Ruskin's Seven Lamps of Architecture was an attempt to apply to architecture some of the principals he sought to enforce in the case of painting; it was influential in encouraging the Gothic revival of the time (DNB). Ruskin drew and etched the plates for the first edition only. Bookplate. Occasional spotting. Very good.
$525.00
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CHANUTE,
O., and George Morrison. THE
KANSAS CITY
BRIDGE
.
New York: Van Nostrand, 1870. 4to. Publisher's cloth. 140 pages, 12 folding lithographic plates, 5 tinted views. First edition.
Arthur M. Wellington's copy with his signature on the title page.
Wellington
was the author of The Economic Theory of Railroad Location (1887) and other books on railroad finance. Completed in 1869, it was the first rail and road bridge to span the
Missouri River
. It was built using a combination of wood and wrought iron. The project also has the distinction of being the first undertaken by George Morrison who went on to become a major railroad engineer. The fold-out view of the bridge is most appealing. On pages one hundred and five and one hundred and seven, corrections to the printed formuli are made in a contemporary hand. Professionally rebacked, else a very good copy. Housed in a later protective dust jacket.
$875.00
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(PAINT DECORATION)
ALBUM DE DECORATIONS PEINTES. PREMIERE SERIE: PLAFONS [SECONDE SERIE: PEINTURES MURALS]. Two parts in One.
Paris: Andre Daly, file at cie, (circa 1885). Folio. Contemporary quarter morocco, marbled boards and endpapers. Title leaf, 25 chromolithographs mounted on stubs; title leaf, 20 chromolithographs mounted on stubs.
A scarce item with only three copies listed on OCLC with two in
America
-
University
of
California
,
Los Angeles
and
University
of
Texas
,
Austin
. A collection of highly decorative interior designs by Pierre Andre and Victor Daly, son of Cesar Daly. The plates are richly colored (some highlighted in gold) and display a variety of designs especially for ceilings and highly decorated wall treatments. Very good.
$1,500.00
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(BOOKPLATE-JAMAICA)
EDWARDS,
Bryan
. Eighteenth Century Engraved
Jamaica
Bookplate.
N.P.: (circa 1770-1780). Engraved armorial bookplate (3 1/2 x 2 7/8 inches). [Allen, # 247].
Scarce eighteenth-century engraved bookplate of prominent
Jamaica
resident inscribed "Bryan Edward, Esq.,
Greenwich Park
,
Jamaica
." It was engraved by Ashby,
Russell Court
,
London
. Bryan Edwards (1743-1800) was born in
England
but became a prominent
Jamaica
planter and merchant who amassed major estates on the island and became a leading member of the colonial assembly as well. He was an author of several books including Thoughts on the late Proceedings of Government respecting the Trade of the West Indies with the United States, (1784); and in 1793 the History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies. His bookplate is an elaborate Chippendale styled design.
$285.00
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(PAINT TRADE CARD-SAVANNAH)
ASH, John E. Printed Decorated and Colored Trade Card.
(Savannah: circa 1870s). Shaped chromolithograph card stock (4 x 3 inches).
.
Unusual trade card cut into the shape of an artists palette. Brightly colored with gold background and colored pigments along upper edge and white cat's head in center. Inscribed: "compliments of John E. Ash, bookseller and stationer,
324 East Street
."
$125.00
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(TRADE CATALOGUE)
PALMER COMPANY, I.E. ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AND TREATISE ON HAMMOCKS...
Middleton, Connecticut: 1916. 4to. Printed embossed wrappers. (iv) pages, 37 plates, mostly colored, (4) pages.
Rare trade catalogue with only one copy recorded on OCLC - Connecticut Historical Society. A richly illustrated (mostly in color) of the variety of hammocks made by the I.E. Palmer Company located at Arawana Mills, outside of
Middleton
,
Connecticut
. The company was founded in 1859, and according to the title leaf in addition to the regular line of hammocks they include: "adjustable hammock supports, adjustable hammock awnings, hammock mosquito bars, anti-friction adjustable hammock hitch-hooks, hammock ropes, etc." Each plate displays from two to four samples, each with dimensions, accessories, and prices. With four pages of hammock accessories in back. With price list and letter from
New Haven
representative (Bronson & Townsend Hardware and Sporting Goods) loosely laid-in. Spine chipped and corners of wrappers chipped, else very good.
$350.00
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RAWLINS,
Thomas. FAMILIAR ARCHITECTURE; OR, ORIGINAL DESIGNS OF HOUSES, FOR GENTLEMEN AND TRADESMEN.
London
:
I.
and J. Taylor, 1789. Folio. Quarter-calf, marbled boards. 30, (4) pages, 50 plates. Second edition. [Harris, 731; Schimmelman, Architectural Books in Early
America
, 112].
An uncommon title with only eight copies recorded on OCLC in American libraries. First published in 1768, Rawlins plans concentrate on both rural and city housing. The patterns are for parsonages, summer retreats, banqueting-rooms, and churches, as well as middle class housing. Many of the designs are Palladian in nature. There is also a chapter on stone masonry, not surprisingly as Rawlins, who spent his life in
Norwich
, was more a successful mason and sculptor than an architect. Schimmelman locates copies in
America
before 1800. A four-page catalogue for J. Taylor's Architectural Library is bound-in. Sympathetically rebacked; light sporadic foxing; else very good.
$4,850.00
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(BROADSIDE-TRADE EPHEMERA-IRONWORKS)
CHASE BROTHERS. MANUFACTURERS OF IRON RAILINGS, BEDSTEADS, HAT STANDS, UMBRELLA STANDS, MANTELS, BRACKETS, GARDEN CHAIRS AND SETTEES, FOUNTAINS, BASES, ETC.
Boston
: n.d. (circa 1850-1855). Single leaf printed and engraved broadside (9 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches).
Rare piece of ephemera not recorded on OCLC. A printed and illustrated advertisement for the Chase Brothers in
Boston
. Illustrated with elaborate rustic styled fence railing across the top and four pieces including a hat stand, garden chair, ornamental bracket and other pieces from their stock across the bottom of the broadside.
$125.00
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(ENGRAVED CONCERT TICKET)
(PIOZZI, Gabriel Mario). FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. PIOZZI, WILL BE A GRAND CONCERT OF VOCAL & INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC.
(
London
): n.d., (circa 1777 to 1780). Etched and engraved ticket in red on heavy stock (3 1/8 x 4 3/4 inches).
A rare eighteenth century engraved ticket not located anywhere else. Gabriel Mario Piozzi (1740-1809), Italian singer and composer, was the music and singing teacher of the daughter of Dr. Johnson's close friend, Mrs. Hester Thrale. To the consternation of Dr. Johnson, Fanny Burney, and other society friends, Piozzi, an Italian Catholic, became the second husband of Mrs. Thrale in 1784. The ticket was engraved by C. Barnes,
Coventry Street
,
London
, engraver of British and American bookplates.
$785.00
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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.
Rare 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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(TRADE CARD-CHAMPAGNE)
HARASZTHY & CO., ARPAD. ARPAD HARASZTHY & CO. THE ONLY PRODUCERS OF
CALIFORNIA
CHAMPAGNE.
Boston
: Robinson Eng. Co., 1880. Illustrated engraved folding brochure on pink card stock. 4 pages.
Arpad Haraszthy (1840-1900), was a pioneer
California
winemaker best known as the creator of Eclipse champagne (advertised here), the first commercially successful sparkling wine produced in the state. "Dear Sir: We beg to inform you that we are now placing on the market the Eclipse Cuvee of 1879 and 1880, which for dryness and bouquet are unsurpassed. We are pleased to inform you that our efforts in producing a Champagne, competing with the best Foreign Wines, have been appreciated, dispelling, in a great measure, the prejudice against native wines..." With a list of Haraazthy & Co. Gold Medal winning wines from 1867. There are three stamps of A.C. Hellmann & Co.,
Pearl Street
,
New York
, Agents. Very good.
$385.00
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(TRADE CATALOGUE)
WILSON, J. Godfrey. PATENTEE AND MANUFACTURER OF ROLLING PARTITIONS, BLOCK FLOORING, ROLLING SHUTTERS, VENETIAN BLINDS.
New York: 1901. 8vo. Printed wrappers. 80 pages. First edition.
Rare trade catalogue with only one copy listed on OCLC at the
University
of
Chicago
. The above is a transcription of the cover; the actual title page reads: First edition, 1901, General Catalogue of
Wilson
's Specialties improved and brought up to date by 30 Years Experience.
Founded in 1876, this was an old and well established company. They made high quality blinds and won awards at several international exhibitions. The illustrations, both in line and in halftone, show Venetian blinds, English Venetians, sliding Venetians, outside Venetian blind and awning combined, Venetian awnings for piazzas, improved rolling blinds, rolling partitions, rolling shutters applied to butlers' pantry, fire proof cases for documents, etc. They also made large steel shutters for industrial buildings. Spine chipped, else very good.
$350.00
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