Owner's Manual for your new Zephyr Six
[Australia], Ford Motor Company, [c. 1951]. More
Trade Catalogues
A collection of catalogues and ephemera relating to locomotive air brakes manufactured by Davies & Metcalfe Ltd.
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
Le Moniteur de la Teinture et de L'Impression des Tissus. Revue Technologique et Scientifique [Revue Theorique et Pratique (from Volume 14)]. Volume 12, 1868 [to] Volume 15, 1872
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
Reid Bros., Limited. Timber and Iron Merchants ... [Wholesale Price List. January, 1917 (title at the head of page 3)]
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
A selection of eleven different Nordyke & Marmon trade catalogues relating to flour milling are offered as one lot
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
Two trade catalogues for Beyer-Garratt locomotives intended for South African and Algerian railways
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
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Warwick. Fabrics of Quality. Colour Story. Third Edition [cover title]
[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
Operating Instructions and Parts List. Lawton Fork Truck, Model TFT 45 CC
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
The Albee Rolligon 7-Ton 6x6, Off-Highway Transporter
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
An album of eleven 1920s photographs promoting the Shell Company in Australia
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
American Specimen Book of Type Styles. Complete Catalogue of Printing Machinery and Printing Supplies, 1912
Jersey City, American Type Founders Company, 1912. 'Our card index number of this copy is ... A41705' is printed on the first page. More
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Aneroid Barometers. Shortland Bros. (Manchester) Ltd. [Catalogue No. 37 (cover title)]
Manchester, Shortland Bros. [1950s?]. The price-list is loosely inserted. More
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The Aniline Colours of the Badische Anilin- & Soda-Fabrik, Ludwigshafen °/Rhine [sic], and their Application on Wool, Cotton, Silk and other Textile Fibres
[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
The British Export Catalogues (formerly known as The British Standard Exporter) 1949-1951. Papers, Printing Machinery, Stationery, Toys & Games, etc. [with the subtitle repeated in French and Spanish]
London, Standard Catalogue Company, [circa 1949]. More
Butcher's British Carbine Cameo, Klimax & Pressman Cameras and other Photographic Apparatus. 1923 [Abridged Butcher's Catalogue, 1923 (cover title)]
London, W. Butcher & Sons Ltd., 1923. More
Catalog 1927. The Road to Greater Growth. G & N Seeds. Reputation for Reliability ... [cover title]
Melbourne, Gippsland & Northern Co-Operative Co. Ltd., 1927. More
Catalogue 1925. Paints and Oils, Sanitary Ware, Brushware, Hardware, Varnish, Tools. Cowell Bros. & Coy., Limited ... [Hardware Catalogue ... (cover title)]
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
A Catalogue of Superior Second-hand Books in Literature, Science and the Fine Arts ... including many sumptuous books, in bindings of the highest quality. Offered at moderate prices by Henry Sotheran & Co
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
A Catalogue of Surgical Instruments and Surgical Sundries by Chas. F. Thackray Ltd
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
Chiron Katalog No. 10
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
The Cincinnati Butchers' Supply Corporation. Catalog No. A-46. [Machinery and Equipment for the Meat Packing Industry (cover title)]
Cincinnati, Cincinnati Butchers' Supply Corporation, [early 1930s]. Be warned!!! Some sections are definitely not for the squeamish. More
The colour-pictorial front panels of eleven dustwrappers of books for girls published in London by Blackie, circa 1940
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
A Complete and Comprehensive Catalogue of Artistic Furniture by Hoopers Ltd [title printed on the inside front cover]. [With Compliments from 'The Home Makers'... Hoopers Furnishing Arcade Ltd, Hindley and Leigh Streets, Adelaide (cover title)]
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
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Cotton Piece Goods dyed with Indigosols in the Jigger... Sol. K. 7 / B.e. [cover title]
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
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D&M Athletic Goods. Spring and Summer, 1932 [cover title]
Concord, Draper-Maynard Company, 1932. A catalogue of sporting goods, primarily baseball and golf, but with several pages devoted to tennis and soccer. More