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15 RARE BOOKS &TRADE CATALOGUES


FINE CATALOGUE INIMMACULATE CONDITION

1. ADAMS & WESTLAKE CO. Manufacturers of Railway Car Trim-mings, Chairs, Seats, Curtains, Etc. Chicago, Ills., 1891 $1700.00

Very fine copy of a stunning catalogue, beautifully printed by the Art-Printing Works of the Matthews-Northrup Co., Buffalo, New York. Thetitle page is printed in red and gold and/or bronze ink; the following leaf isa “Table of Finishes” (represented as nearly as possible with printers’ ink)and shows twelve finishes: brass, bronze, antique brass, fire-gilt brass, oxi-dized brass, Persian brass, Japanese copper and oxidized and antique silver.A real tour de force. The contents are vast and wide-ranging and run thegamut from acorns to wrenches. A few picked at random: ash trays, cur-tain rods, door catches, snaps, hooks, fasteners, foot rests, racks, rods,seats, etc. etc. All the illustrations are razor-sharp electrotypes made fromwood-engravings. The main office was at 110 Ontario St., the works - alarge four story factory building illustrated in a perspective view in thefrontispiece, was a city block bounded by Ontario, Franklin, Ohio andMarket Streets. The Eastern Office was at 115 Broadway, New York. ThoughOCLC does locate copies of other A&W catalogues, the present one is notlocated. Not in Romaine. A really fine catalogue which gives much plea-sure.

4to, orig. publisher’s cloth, beveled edges, blind stamped and silver stamped; all edgesred, fine copy. xiv+429 pp with full-p. wood-engr frontisp, color printed plate of ‘Finishes’and thousands of electrotypes of wood engravings.


GOOD SOURCE FOR THE ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANIN TURN-OF-THE CENTURY CHICAGO

2. DEARBORN FOUNDRY COMPANY. Architectural Iron Work,machinery, castings, steel beams. Compiled by Thomas Smith, Supt. Chi-cago, Office and Works, 1525 Dearborn St., Chicago, 1906 $450.00

A rare little book. The preface is of interest: “In the following edition, wepresent standard sections of Steel Beams, Channels and Angles, as adoptedby the American Association of Steel Manufacturers in January 1896 ...The manufacture of wrought iron beams having been practically discon-tinued, the tables for Beams, Channels, Angles, and Tees are all based uponthe use of Mild Steel.” In two parts; the first is mostly tables, the second is

“devoted to tables and designs of cast iron columns, lintels, store fronts,and miscellaneous architectural work.” Of particular interest, on pp. 170and 171 are two cast iron fronts, with caption: “We are prepared to furnishIron Work for above Front complete, including Cast Iron Columns, Pilas-ters, Sill Plates, Pier Plates, Risers and Cast Iron Lintels, or can furnishSteel Beams for Front Lintel or Girder, as we carry a very large stock.” Ofthis edition OCLC locates two copies (U of Chicago U of Utah).

12mo, orig. cloth (cloth on outer edges of covers faded & frayed; internally fine). 272pp. including tables.


A RARE AMERICAN PATTERN BOOK

3. FRANKE, W[ILLIAM] B. Designs for monuments. New York: theauthor, 1875 $2000.00

First and only edition; nice copy of a rare book. It is strictly a patternbook, with a handsome decorative title page drawn by the author and 40plates; there is no text. The plates range from modest grave markers andheadstones to obelisks, sarcophagi, mortuary chapels, underground vaults,etc. The author identifies himself as an architect but is not listed in Withey,not in the Avery obituary index or in any other sources at hand. The de-signs are very accomplished; I suspect that Franke may have been trainedin architecture in Europe (probably Germany) and come to this country asa mature designer. NUC locates seven copies, but OCLC locates only two(Yale & U of Ill).

Folio, orig. dec. cloth, title in decorative gilt on cover, neatly rebacked. Photo-litho t.p.,40 litho plates and letterpress table of contents at the end.


“ONE OF THE MOST MOVINGDEFENSES EVER PENNED...”

4. GARNIER, CHARLES. Le Theatre. Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1871$975.00

First edition. “In Le Theatre Garnier used the experience of designing andbuilding the complex opera house to expand his own views of architec-ture. He wrote one of the most moving defenses ever penned of an archi-tecture responsive to social needs and expectations, and which never shiesaway from decorative and coloristic effects. Throughout Garnier celebratesthe artist’s intuition and instincts more than codifiable rules as the onlysure guide to the creation of convincing architectural settings for socialrituals. While Le Theatre was inevitably an explanation of his own cre-ation, it sought to develop a more general theory about the relation be-tween man’s instincts to represent in the theatre and the nature ofarchitectural representation and artifice, as well as to develop a generalview of an architecture in which the rationalist theories of structural set-ting for high society were resolved with an ease and confidence that beliedthe clear struggle and experiment that had gone into every detail of Garnier’sbuilding.” - Barry Bergdall in Avery’s Choice.

8vo, cont. half brown morocco, mottled paper sides. (iv)+iv-[v-vi]-[vii-viii]+v-vf (i.e.preliminaries scrambled but complete). Prelims+470+(ii) pp.


ADVERTISING PHOTOGRAPHS OF

ARTILLERY GUNS

5. KOERNER, ALFRED. The Hotchkiss single-barrel rapid firing gun.A description of the system. Paris: Printed for Private Circulation, 1884

$3000.00

A rare work of special interest for the seven mounted albumen photos ofthe gun, each signed in the negative by L. Lafon, Paris. L. Lafon is notedin Gary Edwards as a topographical French photographer, Ca. 1890, work-ing in the albumen print process. His prints are not at all common; Edwardsmakes only one citation. The present weapon was heavy-duty; the shelldiameter was 57 mm. Two of the photos show the gun mounted on a‘fixed elastic’ stand, one of which shows two men working it; anothershows the cartridge for the gun, complete and broken down into its com-ponent parts; another shows the gun on a boat carriage; another shows thegun on landing carriage and limber; ditto on a non-recoiling field carriage;and finally a view showing the weapon in use as a rapid-firing torpedoboat gun. This copy is inscribed “Compliments of Berkeley Hotchkiss

Edwards” with a further gift inscription to the Uni-versity of Bridgeport.Hotchkiss et Cie was founded by American engi-neer Benjamin B. Hotchkiss in 1867, with a fac-tory in Rodez, France and later in Saint-Denis,outside Paris. The company prospered during theFranco-Prussian War and from later sales to the USgovernment (Hotchkiss artillery was employed atWounded Knee). By the turn of the centuryHotchkiss & Cie expanded into an automobilebusiness. Van Haaften 426 (but with only 6 pho-tos). OCLC locates 3 copies in this country (NYPL,USNavy, Princeton).

4to, orig. cloth, title printed in gilt on cover, inner hingesreinforced. 37+1 pp with 11 plates of which 4 are foldinglithos (line dwgs) and 7 are mounted albumen photos onprinted mounts (6 x 8 ¼").


TRADE CATALOGUE OF COMICAL COSTUMES,PARAPHERNALIA, MASKS, BEARDS, WIGS, ETC.

6. LILLEY, M. C. & CO. Specialties for Secret Societies. Burlesque andSide Degree Rituals, Costumes & Paraphernalia manufactured by.. .Colum-bus, Ohio, N.d. [ca. 1900-1910] $400.00

A rare trade catalogue; OCLC locates but one copy (Ohio History Con-nection). Illustrates both in line drawings and halftones comical costumes(the German, the Clown, Imps, Mephisto, Persian, Turk, Indian, UncleSam, Negro, African, etc); also beards, wigs, masks (all made of papier

mache); gag specialties, including ‘the only perfect spanker ever made’,electric carpet, the rough rider (a bucking goat made for adults to ride),branding outfit, shackles, a guillotine, trick coffee urn, and much more -all juvenile and rather tacky. But it does provide a good insight into socialmores of middle class secret societies around the turn of the century. Andrare.

8vo, orig. stiff printed wrappers. 56 pp., extensively illustrated.


ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF

TRUCK CRANES

7. MEAD-MORRISON MFG. CO. Album of original photographs ofMead-Morrison Truck Cranes and Winches. East Boston, Mass., Ca. 1927-31 $975.00

Rare group of fourteen professionally taken silver prints of truck cranesand winches advertising the Mead-Morrison Company line of cranes andwinches installed on trucks. Originally founded in 1904 as the Mead-Manu-facturing Co., this firm assumed the manufacturing facilities and businessof John A. Mead Manufacturing Co. of New York, and was originallydevoted to coal-handling machinery. The company was apioneer in manufacturing hoisting machinery; their SingleLine Truck Crane was a very popular design. The cranecould lift up to two tons on 10 to 15 foot booms, andcould be equipped with a grab bucket and electric magnet.Their special design with a low clearance allowed them tobe used in any warehouse, and could be backed into almostany garage. In addition they could be attached to a trailer,and operated by independent gas engine or electric motor.The excellent photographs show the Vertical Capstan Winchinstalled on a large flatbed truck of the Rodenhausen Co.of Philadelphia. Another shows a Mead-Morrison crane ona Lever Bros. Co. truck of Cambridge, Mass. Two photosshow a truck of the Hamre Co. erecting a steel buildingframework. Two others show road crews laying sewer pipein New Jersey.

For documentation see: Eliot, A history of CambridgeMassachusetts 1630-1913, pp. 301-4. Petroleum Age and Ser-vice Station Merchandising, v8, no. 2, p. 108; Motor Body,Paint and Trim, v.54, June 1918, pp. 63-4. Also GoogleMead-Morrison.

Oblong 1g. 4to, recent cloth post-binder, brass screw posts, titled ingilt on upper cover. 14 orig. silver prints each in clear sleeve (average 7x 9"), 7 images backed on linen; 4 with rubberstamps on reverse ofcommercial photographers.


THE THEORY OF ENGLISHPALLADIANISM

8. MORRIS, ROBERT. Lectures on architecture consisting of rules foundedupon harmonick and arithmetical proportions in building. London: J. Brindley,1734; London: the author, 1736 $4000.00

First edition. Harris and Savage note that “the first edition of part I wasevidently exhausted before that of part II which did not require reprinting.. . In the first edition signatures and pagination of the two parts are con-tinuous. This is a very important and rare work; it constitutes the chiefexposition in writing of the architectural theory of English Palladianism,The work has been summarized by Richard Ryan in Wiebenson: “A seriesof fourteen lectures read by Morris to the Society for the Improvement ofKnowledge in Arts and Sciences between 1730 and 1735, the first fourlectures were a recapitulation of Morris’s theories regarding the history ofarchitecture and the advantages of using the proportional systems and Or-ders of the ancients, as presented in his earlier book, An essay... Lecturesfive through eight dealt with site selection, the Orders, and the generalapplication of Morris’s nine ideal proportions; the circle, the square, thecube, the cube and one half, the double cube, 3 (width) -2 (depth) -1(height), 4-3-2, 5-4-3 and 6-4-3. Morris applied his proportional rules notonly to the exterior form but also to room volumes, chimneys, decorativefeatures and window openings. The final six lectures, contained in Part II,applied proportional rules to specific sites and buildings.” - Archit theoryand practice, 11-20. Harris, BABW, 570. Park List 53. Colvin, p. 559.Berlin Catalogue 2273 (second edition, 1759). Archer 215.1. RIBA, Earlyprinted books, 2197. Rare; not in the book auction records. I have ownedtwo other copies in the past 50 years.

2 vols. 8vo, both in recent half calf matching bindings by Green Dragon Bindery. (1)(xx)+134 pp with engr. frontisp and 4 fdg. plates. (2) viii+135-226 with 13 engr. plates(counting 1 fdg. plate as 2). Fine copies.


“THE FIRST FULLY REALIZED EXEMPLAR OF THE GARDEN SUBURB”

“VIRTUALLY A ROAD MAP FOR ALL THE GARDEN SUBURBS THAT

FOLLOWED”

9. NASH, JOHN. Blaise Hamlet. To John S. Harford Esq. of Blaise CastleGloucestershire, in whose Grounds these Picturesque and Beautiful Dwellingsare erected. Delineated by J. Hornor. London: Day & Hague, N.d. [1838]

$1500.00Given pride of place in Chapter 1, “Origins” in R. Stern, Paradise Planned(2013): “Blaise Hamlet (1811) situated along an irregularly looped laneoff a main road four miles north of Bristol in the west of England, is thefirst fully realized exemplar of the garden suburb. Consisting of ten highlyindividualistic, neo-vernacular, mediaevalizing, freestanding cottages setin a deliberately random arrangement around a green - complete with vil-lage pump (incorporating a sundial) and many other “countrified” touchesthat fit squarely into the tradition of associationism characteristic of mostsuburban architecture to this day - Blaise Hamlet conjures up a prior, more“innocent” condition of community, making it, as architect George Godwin

(1813-1888), writing to the editor of the Civil Engineer and ArchitectsJournal in 1839, put it, “certainly a spot [to] play at Arcadia.” The hamletwas designed for J. S. Harford (1754-1815), a Quaker banker, by JohnNash, who persuaded his client to locate the development away fromHarford’s. Blaise Castle, setting it instead in a wooded clearing where theresidents, who were retired servants, might better enjoy peace, quiet andprivacy, a point made obvious by the decision to surround the house groupby a stone wall entered through a single gate. At Blaise Hamlet, Nash laidout the road map for virtually all the garden suburbs that followed.” Para-dise Planned, p. 21-23. Presumably this lithograph was issued as a souvenirfor visitors. Since 1943, the village has been owned and managed by theNational Trust.

Sheet (14 x 10 ¼ inches). Lithograph, matted, but not stuck down.


THE UBIQUITIOUS GLASS BLOCK AN

ICON OF AMERICAN MODERNISM

10. OWENS-ILLINOIS GLASS COMPANY. Insulux Glass Block.Owens-Illinois Glass Company, Toledo, Ohio, 1937 $450.00

As far as I can determine, the first piece of promotion for the glass blockwhich was a favorite material for early modernism in America was pub-lished in Corning, N.Y. by the Corning Glass Works in December of 1936(see my Catalogue 171, item 172). The present item may well be thesecond. The full title is on page 2 of the text: “Owens-Illinois InsuluxGlass Block combines in one modern building material the important ad-vantages of many...” It is full of information: extensive text with halftones,drawings, technical details, etc. For a little context see: Elizabeth A.Patterson & Neal A. Vogel, “The Architecture of the Glass Block,” TheOld House Journal (Jan-Feb 2001), p. 46. In this article they note that theproduction of the Corning glass block began in 1936. The present item isnot located in OCLC and the Rakow Library of the Corning Museum ofGlass has only a microform copy.

4to (11 x 8 ½ inches), orig. two color printed wrappers, and printed in two colorsthroughout. 19 pp with many halftones (numerous examples ganged up) and severaldozen good clear technical illus.


RARE LAND DISTRIBUTIONBROADSIDE

11. PENNSYLVANIA. YORK-HAVEN. Scheme for Selling by Certifi-cate, and Distributing by Allotment, the following valuable property, at York-Haven, viz. N.p. N.d. [Baltimore?, (1814)] $600.00

A rare broadside; OCLC locates just two copies, Yale (imperfect copy)and AAS, but the latter copy is Microform, so there is really only one copylocated. The bulk of the broadside if taken up with a listing and ‘situationand description of the property’; at the bottom is some text: “Each certifi-cate will entitle the holder to one of the Lots above described, and givehim a chance in the allotment to obtain the most valuable. A view of theproperty, and due consideration of its advantageous situation, will satisfyany competent judge that the Lots are rated much below their just value.”Certificates may be obtained at York-Haven from Messrs. C. M. Poor andCharles Bishop; York - Thomas Woodyear and John Forsyth, Esquires;Philadelphia - [blank]; Baltimore, by application personally, or by letters,post-paid, to William Cole, President of the York-Haven Company. N.B.York-Haven is a Post-town in York County, Pennsylvania, on the WestBank of the river Susquehanna, at the Conewago Falls. The Canal at theFalls passing through the town - its distance from Baltimore is 58 miles,over an excellent Turnpike Road - from York Borough 10 miles - Colum-bia 15 miles and Carlisle 24 miles.” The York-Haven Company was incor-porated by an act of the Pennsylvania General Assembly on March 26,1814. Its investors, including William Cole, were primarily Baltimoremerchants.

York Haven is today a borough in York County, Pa. the populationwas 709 at the 2010 census.

Folio sheet (17 7/8 x 11"), untrimmed edges; printed on one side only. Slight dark spotalong lower blank margin, else an excellent copy.


A GARDEN SUBURB OF STOCKHOLM

12. SWEDEN. STOCKHOLM. Saltsjobanans promenadkarta. Skala1:50000. Saltsjobanans fastighetsafdelning, ca. 1915 $375.00

On this subject see R. Stern, Paradise Planned: “Sweden’s main hub ofSitte-esque and garden suburb planning was Stockholm. As industrializa-tion arrived, the city followed a familiar course of suburban expansion,with the wealthiest residents taking advantage of new railroad lines to fleethe crowded center and live in English-inspired villa parks. Saltsjobaden(1891), ten miles southeast of the city, was initially conceived as a Balticseaside resort by a prominent financier, Knut A. Wallenberg, who in 1893

built a railroad to the hilly farmland site and developed two hotels, whileparceling out the surrounding land to individual buyers.” (p. 536). Thepresent item is promotional pamphlet for the garden city of Saltsjobanan.It opens out to a color printed map showing the greater area along thetrain line from Stockholm to Saltsjobanan. Short bits of text surroundedby red-lined boxes indicate how cheaply one could buy summerhouses inAlgo and how beautiful the building lots were in Solisdan. Rare.

Sheet 15 ¾ x 8 inches. Printed on both sides. Opens out flat to the color printed map.


EARLY STEAM CAR

13. WHITNEY MOTOR WAGON CO. Builders of Self-propelling Ve-hicles of all styles and for all kinds of service. 32 New Street, East Boston,1897 [The Barta Press, Boston]. $500.00

A small but informative and well illustrated brochure giving the salientpoints of this machine and illustrated with two good halftones. “GeorgeEli Whitney (1862-1963), an early pioneer in automotive history, wastinkering with steam cars before the turn of the 20th century. While othersturned their attention to the new-fangled gasoline engine, he stayed withsteam, founding the Whitney Motor Wagon Company. He designed andbuilt a succession of steam-driven carriages, starting with, he believed, thefirst steam-driven car ever built. Many of the ideas that found their wayinto the steam automobile are attributable to him. The Stanley Brothers,famous founders of the Stanley Steamer, sought advice from him and used

some of his ideas in their first cars. - http://wiki.whitney.gen.org. “Whitneycompleted his first automobile in 1896 and founded the Whitney MotorWagon Company the following year. Five cars had been built by the end of1897, and although all his steamers had the common feature of a verticaltwo-cylinder engine attached to the boiler, because Whitney was an ‘invet-erate tinkerer’ no two were exactly the same. He devoted more of his en-ergy to patenting his inventions and pursuing others over allegedinfringement of his ideas than he did to actually making automobiles andhe left the industry soon after the turn of the century.” - Society of Auto-motive Historians (Dayton, OH) - exact citation unknown. OCLC lo-cates one copy: Northwestern.

Stiff card stock (10 ¾ x 3 ¾"), folded once to 5 3/8 x 3 1/4". Letterpress on front and rearcovers; pp. 2 & 3 with halftones. the margin of one of the pictures is inscribed: “Mydaughter age 3 in 97 / Geo. E. Whitney 1958.” Fine copy.


INCLUDES LOUIS SULLIVAN& FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT ORNAMENT

14. WINSLOW BROS. CO. Ornamental Iron and Bronze Executed bythe... Chicago, 1910 $950.00

A fine trade catalogue printed on high quality coated stock by the leadingfabricator of metal ornament. Every major piece is identified as to build-ing, location and architect. Includes three plates of cast bronze ornamentby Louis Sullivan (Carson Pirie Scott; McCormick Residence, Bank ofOwatonna) and one plate by Frank Lloyd Wright (The Rookery, p. 65).Arranged in sections by categories of ornament. Includes pieces designed

by many of the most prominent architects: McKim, Mead & White; H. J.Hardenbergh; Holabird & Roche; Henry Ives Cobb; Howard Van DorenShaw; Cass Gilbert; D. H. Burnham & Co., John Russell Pope, Jenney &Mundie, etc. Romaine p. 37. OCLC locates three copies: UC Berkeley,NYPL, Harvard.

4to, original binding of coarse weave buckam, vellum spine with printed paper spinelabel. 234 pp with hundreds of finescreen halftones. Upper inner blank margin shows afaint trace of ripple, but for all intents and purposes a fine copy.


A KEY SOURCE BOOK FOR CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNERS

15. [WOOD, ROBERT]. The ruins of Palmyra, otherwise Tedmor, in thedesart. London: [the author], 1753 $3750.00

First edition. “Wood began his protracted tour of Asia Minor in 1750with Bouverie and Dawkins, visiting the sites of Cyzicus, Pergamus, Sardiss,Teos, Ephesus, Miletus and Magnesia (where Bouverie died). The remain-ing pair joined Stuart and Revett in Athens until 1751 when they set outfor Palmyra, with an Italian architectural draftsman named Borra ... Thebuildings, which were late Roman, did not excite as much interest as Stuartand Revett’s work on classical Athens but the decorative work quicklyestablished both of Wood’s books as a source book for contemporary ar-chitectural practice...” Weinreb 25:143. Wood’s travels and his books havebeen examined in depth by Dora Wiebenson in her Sources of Greek RevivalArchitecture (1969). In regard to the competition between Wood and Stuart

and Revett, she states: “Moreover, Wood’s work, and not Stuart’s, remainedthe most popular during his lifetime, and of all the early travellers to theLevant, it was Wood who proved the most attuned to the taste of histime.” She then goes on (in a footnote) to quote a letter written by RobertAdam wherein he gave Wood credit for establishing the new taste. (page33 & note 54). Millard British 92. Fowler 443. Harris & Savage 939.BAL, Early Printed Books, 3707 with an excellent note (“the work was aconsiderable popular and critical success, for a combination of reasons - itsintrinsic value as a scientific survey of the site, prepared with great care andindustry. . . and its beauty as physical object”).

Lg. folio, recent calf spine gilt, marbled boards. (vi)+50 pp with 3 engr plates ofinscriptions and 57 engr. plates (plate 1 is a large 3-sheet panorama). Carefully washedand rebound by Green Dragon Bindery. Untrimmed copy.

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