Owner's Manual for your new Zephyr Six
[Australia], Ford Motor Company, [c. 1951]. More
[Australia], Ford Motor Company, [c. 1951]. More
Romiley, Davies and Metcalfe, 1966. The group comprises: (1) 5 slim catalogues for brake valves and cylinders; (2) 10 reproduced schematic diagrams (3 folding) by the company; and (3) A typed letter on Davies & Metcalfe letterhead (dated 18 January 1966) to J. Langdon Parsons of Langdon Parsons Pty Ltd..... More
Paris, 1868 to 1872. A French trade journal on fabric printing and dyeing; it first appeared in January 1857. The volumes on offer were published under the direction of Felix Gouillon, with individual issues appearing twice a month. However, Volume 14 covers the two-year period 1870-71. Although the pagination is..... More
Adelaide, Reid Bros. [1917]. A 'Price List of the leading lines of Timber, Mouldings and Joinery'. Offered together with a similar item dated 2 April 1917. Both carry contemporary ownership details of members of the Liebelt family of Echunga. More
Indianapolis, Nordyke & Marmon Company, [circa 1900]. In no particular order, the catalogues are Packers (24 pages); Sifter Siftings (No. 208; 56 pages); Packers. No. 612 (title-wrappers, 12 pages); Catalogue Number 812. Packers (15 pages); Roller Mills. Catalogue No. 221 (64 pages); Roller Mills. Catalogue No. 421 (64 pages); A...... More
The pamphlets are: 'New Express Passenger Beyer-Garratt Locomotives for Algeria (4 ft. 8.5 in. gauge)' (1936); '4-8-2 + 2-8-4 3 ft. 6 in. Gauge Beyer-Garratt Locomotives for the South African Railways' (1936). Both have the label of 'Parsons & Robertson Ltd, Mechanical Electical & Refrigeration Engineers, Importers &c', Adelaide, on..... More
[Adelaide, Warwick, circa 1994-2004]. Offered together with 'Warwick. Colour Story 4' (cover title), the subsequent edition from 2004. Large oblong folio, 420 × 450 mm, [52] pages containing 548 mounted samples plus technical data printed on the rear pastedown. Blue-lettered grey post-binder with four fabric samples set into the front..... More
Adelaide, J.A. Lawton and Sons, [early 1950s]. Offered with 'Operating and Maintenance Instructions for Lawton Fork Trucks, Models PFT 45M, PFT 68M, TFT 45M, TFT 68M, and "Fluidrive" Models. 2nd Edition'. Adelaide, J.A. Lawton and Sons, [early 1950s]. Quarto, approximately 170 leaves of duplicate typescript (printed rectos only) plus a...... More
Monterey, Albee Rolligon Company, [circa 1957]. 'The Albee Rolligon Company, Inc., presents the first basically new idea in ground transportation in modern times! Albee Rolligon off-highway trucks throw away wheels and tracks ... Instead they substitute pudgy-soft low pressure air bags on the tops of which they tote heavy payloads..... More
The vintage gelatin silver photographs (each approximately 160 x 205 mm) are expertly mounted on cloth, with typed captions on the verso. Eight of the plates depict scenes of Shell's business activities in Australia (five are in South Australia): these include aerial views of the bulk installations at Gore Bay..... More
Jersey City, American Type Founders Company, 1912. 'Our card index number of this copy is ... A41705' is printed on the first page. More
Manchester, Shortland Bros. [1950s?]. The price-list is loosely inserted. More
[Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Badische Anilin- & Soda-Fabrik], 1901. A comprehensive manual to the aniline dyes produced by the Badische Anilin- & Soda-Fabrik, including detailed instructions for dying yarns and printing fabrics. The mounted samples comprise wool (135 fabric swatches); cotton (180 swatches and tassels of thread); silk (138 tassels); blended..... More
London, Standard Catalogue Company, [circa 1949]. More
London, W. Butcher & Sons Ltd., 1923. More
Melbourne, Gippsland & Northern Co-Operative Co. Ltd., 1927. More
Norwood, The Company, 1925. 'We have pleasure in submitting this our First Illustrated Catalogue of General Hardware' (foreword). Henry James Cowell (1855-1935), born in Clarendon, SA, became a timber merchant at Norwood in 1876, and his brother, James William Cowell (1856-1910) joined him in 1880, henceforth trading as Cowell Brothers..... More
London, Sotheran, 1888. The original 'With Compliments' slip is loosely inserted. Not least, in the secondary catalogue, 'A Complete Set of Mr Gould's Magnificent Works' in 43 volumes for 1000 pounds. More
Leeds, Chas. F. Thackray Ltd, [circa 1955]. The most recent date in the addenda is May 1954; there is a contemporary ownership date of 27 January 1956 on the front free endpaper. An endpocket, now empty, presumably originally contained a price list. More
Tuttlingen, Chiron, [circa 1936 - see our footnote]. The text is in German, English, French and Spanish. Page [xviii] contains some fine self-promotional copy, along with a line illustration of the 'Hindenburg'. 'The airship ..., an example of today's technical progress, for whose construction and complement only the very best..... More
Cincinnati, Cincinnati Butchers' Supply Corporation, [early 1930s]. Be warned!!! Some sections are definitely not for the squeamish. More
They are mounted, 'as issued', in concertina-form on cloth. The spine of the first one, 'The Chartfield School Mystery' by Monica Marsden, is also present. This provides the details of the publisher, and paper residue on its cloth backing suggests it was originally tipped into (say) a representative's portfolio of..... More
Adelaide, Printed by Vardon & Sons [for Hoopers Limited], [circa 1922] (9 January 1922 is the date on the most recent testimonial letter quoted on the outside rear wrapper). The only copy of any trade catalogue from Hoopers Limited ('Established 1866') located in Trove is in the State Library of..... More
Basle [Basel], Durand & Huguenin SA, [1930s?]. We purchased this item many years ago from the estate of Dr Hedley Ralph Marston; if you don't know about him, consult the Australian Dictionary of Biography without delay. More
Concord, Draper-Maynard Company, 1932. A catalogue of sporting goods, primarily baseball and golf, but with several pages devoted to tennis and soccer. More