A scarce catalog produced by noted British chart publishers Imray & Son, makers of a wide range of cartographic and nautical materials. James Imray operated one of the 19th century’s most successful chart selling companies, having begun his career as a bookseller and publisher. In 1854, his son James Frederick.....
A handsomely illustrated painting and art supply catalog including products such as China palettes, Tin boxes, Easels, Bronze powders, Putty knives, Vellum cloth, German drawing papers, Chinese Water Closet Paper, Sketch books, Camel’s Hair Mottlers, Badger Hair Blenders, and Red Sable Lettering Pencils. The numerous brushes offered include French Bristle.....
A handsome trade catalog of printing and lithographic inks, including samples of half-tone, semi-transparent, opaque, two-shade sepia, book, poster, soft, medium and heavy body inks printed over the same image of a cowboy on bucking bronco. The typography is impressive as each sample is printed on the type of paper.....
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.....
A scarce jail cell catalogue by one of the world’s largest wire and iron works manufacturers. Established 1866, E. T. Barnum Wire and Iron Works of Detroit custom-made cells and cages in various sizes and numbers to meet a wide range of needs. This catalogue announces: “we make a......
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.....
An unrecorded specimen book of twenty-two delightful labels for patent medicines and other commodities, printed by this Chicago label printing firm. Merchants Publishing Co. manufactured druggists’ stationary and produced a diverse high-grade line of labels, pill and powder boxes, folding boxes, prescription blanks, and containers. As noted on the front.....