A handbook and trade catalog issued by the leading American globe manufacturer of the mid-nineteenth century, and one of relatively few publications on globes of the era. Thirty pages are devoted to instruction on the use of globes, with sections on both the terrestrial and the celestial, listing the features.....
A scarce and attractively illustrated catalog of photographic equipment, introducing the “Wee Wizard” camera with its 3.5-inch plates, as well as several other models produced only briefly around 1898. The stated “Sixth Issue” of the Manhattan Optical Co.’s catalogs, this amply-illustrated volume opens with an introduction to its smallest offering.....
An unrecorded and splendidly illustrated trade catalog advertising sealing waxes for letters, packages, and bottles (champagne, etc.); sulfur wicks and powders for sterilizing wine barrels; and inks. The chromolithographic plates were produced by master printer Charles Verneau, the Parisian publisher of many famous posters, including most of the oeuvre of.....
A rare and impressive locomotive trade catalog illustrated with original photographs of engines and parts, providing comprehensive and detailed photographic documentation of locomotive construction. The photographs were taken by the firm of noted New York City photographer George Rockwood. Included here are portraits of the Lake Shore & Michigan Railroad.....