Milwaukee: H.C. Schranck Co., [circa 1910]. Oblong octavo (22.5 x 29 cm.), [61 pages, numbered 969-1030]. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. Trade catalogue for H.C. Schrank Co., of Milwaukee, a manufacturer and distributor of equipment and supplies for bottlers. The catalogue covers a wide range of equipment, from carbonating machines to fillers and bottlers, crowning and filling machines, cappers, water stills, and labeling machines. Supplies include wooden boxes for bottles, siphon bottles.....

Waynesboro, Franklin Co., Pennsylvania: Frick Company, Engineers, [1895]. Octavo (24 x 15 cm.), 201, [15] pages. Index. Profusely illustrated with engravings and diagrams. FIRST EDITION, thus, of this trade catalogue for the Frick Company of Franklin County, Pa. focused on their line of heavy machinery in refrigeration applications. Text black generally clean and bright. Head of spine bumped a bit. In publisher’s gilt-stamped burgundy cloth, with some rubbing. Generally very.....

Rome (N.Y.): [circa 1908]. Ten trade catalogues. Items mostly uniform in size (~ 19 x 12.5 cm.), though page count does vary (from 14 to 155). Each catalogue contains an index. Each catalogue is illustrated and most include select full-color images. Including the Erie Can Company’s, there are four general catalogues that cover a broad range of products; three catalogues are specific to syrup cans; and the remainder feature one.....

New York: John Matthews Apparatus Co., 1885. Quarto, 104 pages. Fully illustrated. FIRST EDITION. A lovely trade catalogue for this important manufacturer of bottling equipment, soda fountains, and carbonation apparatus. The fountains get progressively larger and more elaborate. Also includes siphon boxes for home delivery of soda water. Edges of wrappers and one or two pages with repair, corners bumped. Some soiling throughout. In elaborately decorated printed wrappers. Good. Rare.....

Philadelphia; Chicago: Abram Cox Stove Co., 1913. Tall octavo (20.4 x 11.4 cm.), 80 pages. Illustrated. Index. Printed throughout in black and pale blue. FIRST EDITION. A combination trade catalogue and cookbook, produced by Philadelphia's Abram Cox Stove Company. Includes Bills of Fare for winter and summer dinners, and advice on setting the table. The recipes are uncredited. The rear of the book includes an envelope pasted down and printed.....

Paris: Imprimerie de la Samaritaine, 1914. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (24 x 15.5 cm.), 15 pages. Illustrated throughout. Text in French. FIRST EDITION. A small trade catalogue featuring aprons of every type, offered by Paris' famous Samaritaine department store. The aprons are divided into men's and women's. Women's aprons include those for trade, kitchen, nurse, and baker. For men, the aprons include those for gardener, valet, military, grocer, wine merchant.....

St. Louis, Mo. the company, 1951. Quarto-sized, stapled booklet in wrappers (29 x 22.5 cm.), 28 pages. Illustrated. A self-mailing trade catalogue featuring equipment and supplies for bars, taverns, soda fountains, and other drinking establishments. Mostly smaller products including a wide range of glassware, dishwashing chemicals, pourers, playing cards, olive forks, bottle stoppers, blenders, lemon squeezers, cocktail shakers, strainers, ice chippers, ice picks, ice tongs, jiggers, muddlers, tongs, fountain menu.....

[Providence, R.I. the company; Geo. F. Chapman, Printers, 27 Pine Street, circa 1887]. Bi-fold handbill (21.5 x 15 cm.), [8] pages, plus folded broadside. Illustrated. A small trade catalogue, promoting barrel trucks, wheeled racks which hold barrels and allow them to be moved around a warehouse or shop. Illustrated with two full-page images, interior scenes of a “wholesale liquor store” and of a “retail grocery”, each showing the barrel trucks.....

New York City: [circa 1870s]. A tri-fold circular (18 x 9 cm.) when flat. Alas, not illustrated. A small handbill-sized trade catalogue with an introduction by B. Staubach, followed by information on Miles’ “Challenge” Butchers’ Meat Cutter, Bell’s Improved Ham Pump, the “Challenge” sausage stuffer, the Plunger sausage stugger, various lard presses and butchers’ fixtures. Each with a narrative description, some with pricing information. The verso includes testimonials, information on.....

East Liverpool, Ohio: [the company]; Simms Steam Print, [circa 1880]. 16mo, single sheet uncut & folded to form [10] pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. Net price list of decorated ware with descriptions of Toilet Sets, Tea Sets, Decorated Ware, Covered Jugs, Molasses Cans, Etc. Knowles, Taylor and Knowles was formed in 1870, though its antecedents date to 1854. By the early 1870's the company specialized in Iron Stone China and operated.....

[Montelimar: the company, circa 1920]. Oblong album (21 x 30.5 cm.), [38] pages; with 52 original labels or wrappers pasted-in, each with a handwritten annotation on the leaf (not the label) with the name of the product including weight and price. FIRST EDITION. A handsome salesman's sample album that showing the varied offerings of the firm of Nougats Arnaud Soubeyran. Products represented include fruit nougats, chocolate, pistachios ... all with.....

Brooklyn: A. Johnson Machine Works, circa 1910. Octavo, 68 pages. Illustrations throughout. FIRST EDITION. Trade catalogue featuring machines for manufacturing of crown corks, crowning machines, machines for manufacturing of corks and cork discs, machines for screw caps, and special machines which include a friction capping machine, automatic rotary cap spinning machine, single head cap spinning machine, and an automatic rotary screw cap capping machine. Each item includes detailed rendering, as.....

New York: Bartlett & Company, The Orr Press, [circa 1896]. Octavo (20.5 x 14 cm.), 97 pages. Date derived from Water Street address on title page. An extensively illustrated trade catalogue of heating furnaces and cooking ranges. Before the 1830s, gravity hot-air furnaces were produced according to the specifications of individual buildings. The first mass-market manufacturer in the United States was Richardson & Boynton, established in 1837 (and in business.....