Search Results: Catalogs from Whiting Books

Philadelphia: Franklin Printing Co., 1913. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 5" X 8" Oblong. Lightly inked number at upper-right corner of front cover. Bottom edge near the corners shows a thin trace of dampstaining. Early 1900s American manufacturing brochure for Chambers Bros. Company and their paper-folder and paper feeding machines. No date of publication, but a list of U.S. patents for the company at the front of the catalog indicates the latest patent dated 1913. A drawing of the factory, included near the front of the book, shows an automobile from that era and helps support the 1913 approximation. 56 pages with elegant technical illustrations of the company's products. They included Automatic Paper-Feeding Machines, Paper-Folding Machines, Slip-Sheet Separating Machines, and Sheet-Varnishing Machines. If the catalog letter (N) is an indicator of the latest in a number of catalogs, then this would be the company's 14th catalog issued..

Cleveland, Ohio: Josef Sedivy Book. Fair. Soft cover. Stapled Czech-language catalog with heavy foxing to the covers. Interior pages have much less foxing. The front cover shows a photographic street-view image Sedivy's store (and possibly home) on or near Hamm Ave. in Cleveland, Ohio. The rear cover shows an ad for a sewing machine with the 'Jos Sedivey' name on it. 14 pages, illustrated, of ads for products from tobacco pipes to pocket knives and more. One ad page features dated correspondence from customers, 1913-1915, which helps date this catalog to circa 1915. No other copies of this or other Sedivy material found online or through OCLC. Very scarce thus. 0.

Princeton, New Jersey: The Pyne Press - American Historical Catalog Collection, 1975. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Small amount of pinpoint stains or foxing in the upper corner of the page block. The dust jacket has a minimal wear and is protected in a Mylar sleeve. Facsimile catalog from Peck & Snyder, 1886, boasting an eclectic collection of sports equipment and clothing, novelties, recreative science, firemen's supplies, magic lanterns and slides, plays and joke books, tricks and magic, badges and ornaments, and much more. From the dust jacket: "This book is a secret attic on a rainy day, a gentle reminder of the days when baseball was two words and a bicycle cost $12.50. Whatever those days were like, they could boast Peck & Snyder's Electro Radiant Megascopes, ventilated lunch satchels, nose amputation knives, battery operated scarf pins, electric sleeve buttons and magic bolognas.".

Bellows Falls, Vermont: Vermont Farm Machine Co., 1894. Book. Good. Soft cover. Damp stain top-edge, center, visible on all pages, otherwise just a trace of wear to this scarce catalogue. No publication date, but dated testimonials in the catalogue indicate mid 1890s. Stapled booklet, 6 x 9 inches, 24 pages. Illustrated catalogue featuring dairy apparatus such as butter workers, butter printers, and print butter carriers. Proclamations on the front cover: "The Davis Swing Churn was awarded Medal and Diploma of Highest Merit at Columbia Exposition, Chicago" and The Largest Manufactory of Dairy and Creamery Apparatus in America.".