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Salesman's Sample Cigar Box Labels O. L. Schwencke

Salesman's Sample Cigar Box Labels O. L. Schwencke

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Salesman's Sample Cigar Box Labels O. L. Schwencke
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Eclectibles (United States)
Condition
Cover wear
Description
New York & Chicago: O. L. Schwencke, 1907. Cover wear. A 66 pp. salesman sample of deeply embossed gilt embellished cigar labels produced by O. L. Schwencke. Elaborate and intricately designed. Elegant women, royalty, spotted trout, privileged gentlemen, road houses, cigarette in progress (silver ash), scenes from nature, Indigenous peoples , Cuba, Puerto Rica, Transportation and much more. Each with a label number and pricing information. Measures 6.5 by 9.75 inches. Gilt stamped boards. • My Favorite • The Latest • Our Jewel • Our Union • Opera • The Judge • La Industria (Flor Fina) • Speckled Trout • Modern Woodmen • No title – decorative border design, caption band at base “smoke” “cigars” • Princess • On the Square • Creole • BeautyS • Black Prince • Lake View • Ever True • Peerless • Special • Trolley • Good Smoke • Road House • Silver Ash • Extra Choice • La Rosa Especial – Delicio at base • No title – eagle at top, lion at base, etc. • La Planta • Favorite 5 • Fabrica de Tabacos Superiores – De La Vuelta Abajo at base • No title – rose garden border with the coins at base • Matinee Star – at top and base • Lady Flash – Smoke Lady Flash Cigars at base • Honest Labor – top and base • Porto Rico -Smoke Porto Rico Cigars at base • Lady Sterling – top and base • La Comercial – top and base • Golden Stag – top and base • Choice Puffs – top and base • Express (train) – top and base • No title – bland wooden signc, flowers at base • Palma de Puerto Rico – top and base • Perfection – top and base • Flora Belle – top and base • La Perfectos – top and base • Foresters Benevolence • Cuban Leaf • No title – bold eagle and American shield below blank banner • Brunette • Our Pet • Standard • Credito de Puerto Rico • Cupid’s Web – to and base • No title- Lion flanked with shields below blank banner • Little Gems • King Buck • Our Success • Good Record • Nicotina • Par Excelence • Petit Boquet • Dona Favorita • Panetellas • The Leader • La Rosa del Vuelta • El Trafico. Only Schwenke and Schlegel were the only two independent cigar label printers who stayed independent from the American Lithographing Company. Schwenke was an important producer of elaborate embossed chromolithographed cigar box labels.
[ZOOLOGY: THE FIRST ANATOMICAL STUDY OF GIRAFFES]. Recherches historiques, zoologiques, anatomiques et paléontologiques sur la girafe, (Camelopardalis giraffa, Gmelin)

[ZOOLOGY: THE FIRST ANATOMICAL STUDY OF GIRAFFES]. Recherches historiques, zoologiques, anatomiques et paléontologiques sur la girafe, (Camelopardalis giraffa, Gmelin) by JOLY, Nicolas & LAVOCAT, Achille

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[ZOOLOGY: THE FIRST ANATOMICAL STUDY OF GIRAFFES]. Recherches historiques, zoologiques, anatomiques et paléontologiques sur la girafe, (Camelopardalis giraffa, Gmelin)
Author
JOLY, Nicolas & LAVOCAT, Achille
Seller
Michael Laird Rare Books LLC (United States)
Description
Paris: Imprimerie veuve Berger-Levrault, 1845. First Edition. Large 4to (306 x 231 mm). 2 ff., 124 pp. With 17 plates lithographed by Delor after drawings by Joly. Bound in modern blue percaline cloth by Lobstein-Laurenchet, red morocco spine label gilt, original front cover wrapper preserved. Separate printing of the "Mémoires de la société du muséum d'histoire naturelle de Strasbourg." Some foxing but an excellent copy. THE FIRST ANATOMICAL STUDY ON THE GIRAFFE. PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO THE TAXIDERMIST WHO UNDERTOOK THE ACTUAL 20-DAY DISSECTION. This Abyssinian female giraffe, named "Twiga" (the Swahili word for giraffe), was transported alive to Toulouse in 1843 at the age of approximately 3 years. She died on January 4, 1844, either from the harshness of the European climate or (as some said) nostalgia for her homeland. In any event, after she was dissected and studied by researchers she was cooked and eaten by multiple Toulousian families at the Feast of Epiphany (!) The circumstances of the anatomical examination of Twiga are remarkable. Her body was presented to the mayor of Toulouse, who made it possible to study her, as the giraffe was still largely unknown in Europe at that time. Although Twiga was not the first giraffe to have been dissected (as was reported by some contemporary newspapers), no extensive anatomical study had ever been conducted until then. Nicolas Joly, professor of zoology at the Faculty of Sciences, and Achille Lavocat, professor of anatomy at the Royal Veterinary School, spent 20 days examining the anatomy of the animal, during which time they made extremely detailed drawings. The 17 lithographs contained in the present volume represent the first such studies ever published. The dissection itsef was entrusted to one of the most famous Toulouse taxidermists of the mid-19th century: H. Traverse. Keeping the entire skeleton intact, and preserving its unique hide, was an extremely difficult feat considering the giant size of this extraordinary mammal. Twiga is still the star of the Natural History Museum of Toulouse today; indeed, she is one of the oldest stuffed animals preserved therein, arriving at the time of the museum's opening (1865). The significance of restuffing of her body was such that it became the subject of a crowdfunding campaign by the Museum, which began in 2015 (the occasion of its 150th anniversary). The entire process consumed 130 hours; it was undertaken entirely in front of the public, finishing in May of 2016. Concerning Twiga, the Museum's website states: "Rarely has a museum's history been as closely bound to that of an animal as Toulouse's Natural History Museum has been bound to giraffes." The present volume contains a 30-page critical and historical bibliography of writings about the giraffe (ancient and "modern") which if not the first of its kind, it is surely the most exhaustive one compiled hitherto; the zoology of the giraffe; anatomy of the giraffe; paleontology of the giraffe; followed by 17 lithograph plates, including one of the giraffe "Zaida" and her one year-old offspring, and ancient depictions of the giraffe (from the Egyptian to the Medieval). PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION inscription on the title-page: "To Mr. Traverse, preparer of natural history animals at the Faculty of Science. Affectionate remembrances of the author, N. Joly." [Translation of: "A Monsieur Traverse, préparateur d'animaux d'histoire naturelle à la faculté des sciences. Souvenir affectueux de l'auteur, N. Joly"]. TAMU MSL has Joly's 31-page cursory announcement from the previous year: "Notice sur l'histoire, les moeurs et l'organisation de la girafe" (Toulouse, 1844) which contains 2 small plates (21 cm). Not in Nissen, ZBI.
The royal English dictionary: or, a treasury of the English language ... to which is prefixed a comprehensive grammar of the English tongue ... The fifth edition, improved

The royal English dictionary: or, a treasury of the English language ... to which is prefixed a comprehensive grammar of the English tongue ... The fifth edition, improved by Fenning, D[aniel]

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The royal English dictionary: or, a treasury of the English language ... to which is prefixed a comprehensive grammar of the English tongue ... The fifth edition, improved
Author
Fenning, D[aniel]
Seller
Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description
London: printed for L. Hawes, and Co. [et al.], 1775. Fifth, and last edition, 8vo, pp. viii, [3]-24 plus unpaginated lexicon in double column; full contemporary reversed calf with blindstamped border, red morocco label on spine; spine ends chipped, red morocco label worn; a good, sound copy, with with the approbation leaf in which George III (to whom the book is dedicated) grants Fenning a license to print his dictionary for a period of 14 years. Little is known of Fenning. He was a compiler of several school texts, including an arithmetic, a geography, and a speller, the last of which had notable popularity in America before Webster. Webster himself was no doubt well acquainted with Fenning's speller, which in London made a 71st edition in 1823. This dictionary contains terms used in mathematics, astronomy, chemistry, architecture, printing, natural history and navigation, with "each word followed by an initial letter to denote the part of speech" --the first time I believe in a dictionary. A competent, trustworthy dictionary on "so extensive a plan as to unite the different excellencies of all other English dictionaries." Alston V, 231.
Montana Lumberyard

Montana Lumberyard by Canning, Arthur

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Montana Lumberyard
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Canning, Arthur
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Tschanz Rare Books (United States)
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Helena, MT: Arthur Canning, Landscape Photographer, 1890. Boudoir cabinet card. Albumen photograph [11.5 cm x 19 cm] / [4.5 " x 7.5"] on a tan mount [13 cm x 20.5 cm] / [5" x 8"] with a Canning backstamp. Gentle overall sunning. Nice image showing a group of people and horses around a barn with limber stacked in the background. Arthur Canning (1864-1952) worked as a photographer in Helena (1888-1892) before relocating to western Canada where he worked as a photographer for another two decades.
COTTAGE ECONOMY. Information Relative to The Brewing of Beer, Making of Bread, Keeping of Cows, Pigs, Bees, Ewes, Goats, Poultry and Rabbits, and Relative to Other Matters Deemed Useful in the Conducting of the Affairs of a Labourer's Family

COTTAGE ECONOMY. Information Relative to The Brewing of Beer, Making of Bread, Keeping of Cows, Pigs, Bees, Ewes, Goats, Poultry and Rabbits, and Relative to Other Matters Deemed Useful in the Conducting of the Affairs of a Labourer's Family by Cobbett, William

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COTTAGE ECONOMY. Information Relative to The Brewing of Beer, Making of Bread, Keeping of Cows, Pigs, Bees, Ewes, Goats, Poultry and Rabbits, and Relative to Other Matters Deemed Useful in the Conducting of the Affairs of a Labourer's Family
Author
Cobbett, William
Seller
Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
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Very Good
Description
London: By the Author, 1826. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 12mo. Early printing. No pagination, numbered by paragraphs with an index, (8)pp. list of author's publications. Bound in half black polished calf over marbled paper covered bards, spine ruled in gilt, red leather label gilt with compartments stamped in blind, lightly scattered foxing to endleaves; a very nice clean copy.
Engraved Portrait by K. Cochran after H. Room

Engraved Portrait by K. Cochran after H. Room by Annisley, J.

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Engraved Portrait by K. Cochran after H. Room
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Annisley, J.
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Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
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London: Whittaker & Co, 1839. Margin: 272x183 mm. Some soiling, foxing.
In Art

In Art by WEIL, James L.

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In Art
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WEIL, James L.
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Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
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Charleston IL: Tel-let, 1992. 6 leaves. Stapled as issued in printed wrappers. Fine save some rust to the staples. FIRST EDITION, one of 150 copies.
United States Air Force Museum

United States Air Force Museum by Air Force Museum Foundation, Inc

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United States Air Force Museum
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Air Force Museum Foundation, Inc
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Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
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Ohio: Air Force Museum Foundation, Inc, 1983. Large Softcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. 1/2 inch tear along top spine edge, ink stamp inside back cover. 1983 Large Softcover. 112 pp. Black-and-white photographs. "The National Museum of the United States Air Force (formerly the United States Air Force Museum) is the official National Museum of the United States Air Force and is located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, in Riverside near Dayton, Ohio. The NMUSAF is the world's largest and oldest military aviation museum. More than 400 aircraft and missiles are on display, most of them indoors. Admission is free.

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