Trade & Industry

# 22359

Various.

[INDIA] Small group of printed ephemera relating to curio and arts and crafts traders in Jaipur, Rajasthan, 1890s.

I. NUR BAKSH, KHUDA BAKSH KA, Dealer in Arms, old and new ; Koftgari in gold and silver ; Enamel ; Silver and Brass, old and new ; Pottery ; and miscellaneous other things, CLOSE TO THE SCHOOL OF ART, JEYPORE. Business card, 102 x 64 mm, letterpress on thick paper; fine. II. NOTICE. SCHOOL OF …

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# 22128

PATERSON'S PTY. LTD.

Furniture and furnishings

Melbourne : Paterson’s Pty. Ltd., circa 1930. Twenty-ninth edition. Oblong quarto, illustrated wrappers (some old tape repair), pp. 200, extensively illustrated with photographs of products, Reduced Prices notice pasted on to title page. Extensively detailed catalogue of home furnishings from the Melbourne department store designed for ‘Mr. & Mrs. Everybody’. Includes lounge settings, seagrass furniture, dining …

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# 21618

OCCIDENTAL & ORIENTAL STEAMSHIP CO.

1896 / 1897. Joint Schedule showing sailing of steamers of the Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co. and the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. between San Francisco and Yokohoma and Hongkong.

(Including calls at Honolulu, Nagasaki, Hiogo (Kobe) and Shanghai). At head of sheet: United States, Japan and China. San Francisco : Occidental & Oriental S.S. Co., 421 Market Street, September 26, 1896. Lithographed broadsheet, 400 x 230 mm, printed recto only; original folds, in fine condition.

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# 21592

ATLAS MILLS (NEW YORK)

[HAUTE COUTURE FABRIC SAMPLES] Fall 1929 broad silks.

New York : Atlas Mills, 200 Madison Ave., 1929. Small folio portfolio (305 x 230 mm), original cloth backed textured papered boards (faded and scuffed), housing two sample cards (by Chas. Green Co., New York) with a total of 72 vibrantly coloured silks; a few pencilled annotations (presumably made by a sales representative) and some …

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# 21246

Photographer unknown.

Views of Turner’s homestead, clearing the land and planting lemon trees near Renmark, South Australia, 1892-93.

Three silver albumen print photographs (160 x 110 / 160 x 110 / 90 x 135 mm), laid down on individual sections cut from the pages of a disbound nineteenth century album, with undidentified photographer’s manuscript captions beneath each image: ‘Camp, Renmark. Sept. 92 (after clearing)’; ‘Block at Renmark shewing young lemons, Oct. 92’; ‘Turner’s. Renmark. …

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# 15422

BAIN & BURTT; [GIBBS, Alexander]

[WHALING] Letter written from Auckland, New Zealand to New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1853

Entire letter, single sheet folding to form [4] sides, quarto, closely written manuscript in ink on 3 sides, headed ‘Auckland, New Zealand, 8th February 1853’, addressed to ‘Alexander Gibbs Esqr., New Bedford’; signed at the foot ‘Your faithful obedt. servants, Bain & Burtt’; outer side with address panel, endorsed ‘via New York’, with ‘LONDON / …

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# 21090

BEIT, Henry (1826-1881); SANDILANDS, Edward Vincent (1847-1871); GUTSCHMID, Felix von (1843-1905)

Group of correspondence from Henry Beit, land agent, Sydney, to E.V. Sandilands, cotton grower and Vice-Consul, Fiji. 1870-71.

Sydney businessman Henry Beit (1826-1881) was a land agent specialising in the sale of properties in outback New South Wales and Queensland, and also in the Fiji Islands. His correspondent, Edward Vincent Sandilands (1847-1871), was a young English cotton grower in the Yasawa Islands, Fiji, whose acquaintance Beit had presumably made when Sandilands had been …

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# 19140

THOMAS F. LOGAN, INC.; SUGIHARA, S.

Manchuria : land of opportunities

New York : South Manchuria Railway Co., 1922. First edition. Octavo, original buckram-backed papered boards (lightly marked), spine with printed paper title label (sunned), pp. 113, illustrated with numerous black and white photographic plates, diagrams, folding colour map at rear; some pale foxing to preliminaries, otherwise internally clean, a very good copy; loosely enclosed is a …

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# 19165

Photographer unknown.

Premises of F. Fox, Butcher. South Australia, early 1860s.

Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image 63 x 65 mm (rounded corners), on original flat mount of white card, 80 x 175 mm; the albumen prints are somewhat faded and lightly marked, as is the mount. This early Australian stereoscopic photograph shows a two-storey colonial brick building with a shop sign that reads ‘F. Fox, Butcher’. …

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# 18142

THE LIVERPOOL DRY PLATE AND PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY

[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY] The Liverpool Dry Plate and Photographic Printing Company. Price list of Collodio-Bromide plates.

Liverpool, U.K. : Henry Greenwood, Printer, [1873]. Octavo sheet, 200 x 125 mm, printed recto only; [together with] the original covering letter relating to the price list, in manuscript on the company letterhead, octavo, 2 pp, written by the owner Peter Mawdsley to an American customer, George May Powell, dated 6 September 1873, explaining the …

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# 16149

BARLIER, André (illustrator); D'AUTILIS, Florence (text)

Autant en emporte le temps

Paris : Kirby-Beard & cie, 1948. Small quarto, original embossed wrappers with pictorial onlay in glassine jacket, bound with staples and silk ties; pp 21, illustrated with colour plates depicting female models wearing fine dresses, the illustrations also incorporating a selection of magnificent watches; a very good copy. A superbly produced promotional brochure for the …

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# 16147

High-Life Tailor, Paris.

High-life Tailor Paris. Catalogue hiver 1901-1902.

Paris : printed by Draeger frères for High-Life Tailor, 1901. Thin quarto, original pictorial wrappers, staple bound, pp [12], illustrated with black-and-white plates depicting models in the latest women’s and men’s winter fashions; a fine copy. High-Life Tailor was a popular Parisian fashion store offering designs of very fine 20th-century and fin de siècle styles, as seen in the …

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# 16145

Grands Magasins du Louvre Paris. Les plus beaux et les plus vastes du monde, maison de confiance, fondée depuis plus d’un demi-siècle, Paris

[Cover title]. Paris : Grands Magasins du Louvre, [circa 1910]. Oblong octavo, original printed wrappers (some very pale staining to front cover), lacking one of two staples; pp [16], illustrated with black-and-white photographic plates to facing pages. The Grands Magasins du Louvre was a landmark Paris department store. Founded in 1855, it closed its doors …

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# 13862

Parliament of Great Britain

World sea voyage journey times and seamen’s voyage rations

By the Commissioners for managing and causing to be levied and collected HIs Majesty’s Customs and other Duties 23d November 1832. [Great Britain : Parliament, 1833]. Quarto, disbound from a volume of H.M. Customs General Orders for 1833, [pp 12], with ink annotations. Contains a list of foreign goods that can be shipped duty free and …

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# 14772

OLDMAN, William O. (1879-1949)

[POLYNESIA] Illustrated Catalogue of Ethnographical Specimens, Eastern Arms &c.

Issued by W.O. Oldman, 77, Brixton Hill, London, S.W. November 1904. No. 20. Octavo, original printed wrappers, pp 2 (brief descriptions of 69 items), followed by 2 photographic plates (tissue guards intact) illustrating all items; a fine copy. Scarce original sales catalogue of the renowned early ethnographic dealer W.O. Oldman. Includes artefacts from New Zealand …

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# 14775

OLDMAN, William O. (1879-1949)

[GILBERT ISLANDS] Illustrated Catalogue of Ethnographical Specimens.

Issued by W.O. Oldman, 77, Brixton Hill, London, S.W. September 1905. No. 30. Octavo, original printed wrappers (detached), pp 2 (brief descriptions of 37 items), followed by 2 tipped-in silver gelatin photographs, illustrating most items. Scarce original sales catalogue of the renowned early ethnographic dealer W.O. Oldman. Includes 11 artefacts from the Gilbert Islands, among …

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