(Donaldson, Alexander, Printer)

The Complete Letter-Writer. Containing Familiar Letters on the Most Common Occasions in Life. Also a Variety of Elegant Letters for the Direction and Embellishment of Style, On Business, Duty, Amusement, Love, Courtship, Marriage, Friendship,.....

Edinburgh, Printed for Alexander Donaldson, 1781. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. 230 +9pp contents. Full leather, leather label. Covers worn and scuffed, free endpapers lacking, joints tender, contents tanned and foxed, minor dampstaining to last pages,drawing and doodling on front pastedown, strip torn from lower margin of last page, no loss of text, former owner's name on title page. A very early edition of this title, by the author referred to by James Boswell as the "Prodigious Vendor of Literature." Good.

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Book number: 003546

Catalogue: Collectible, Business and Industry, How-to and Hobbies

How to Use Florence Knitting Silk. No.4

Florence, Mass, Nonotuck Silk Co. 1882. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. 57pp. Wright & Potter Printing Co. Stapled illustrated wraps. Covers chipped and missing narrow 4 inch long strip from front cover, not affecting text or illustration. A few corners creased and an occasional smudge, but overall contents are sound. Knitting instructions with numerous illustrations. Fair/No Jacket.

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Book number: 001484

Catalogue: Hobbies and How-To, Ephemera, Collectible

Keywords: Knitting Handcrafts Needlework

Mekeel-Redfield-Severn Co.

Mekeel's Weekly Stamp News (Vol. XIX, No.17, April 29, 1905)

Boston, Mass, Mekeel-Redfield-Severn Co. 1905. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Soft cover. 12p, 139-150. Newspaper format. Light soil to covers, contents mostly clean, a few short tears, staple rusting, normal folding from shipping. British North America stamps featured. Included with this is the September 8, 1917 issue with missing cover and possibly some text, but a very early edition. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 001741

Catalogue: Hobbies and How-To, Periodical, Collectible

Keywords: Philately "Stamp Collecting"

Frank J. Knox Co.

Supplies and Tools for Plumbers, Gas and Steam Fitters, Mills and Manufacturers

Hart, CT, The Frank J. Knox Co. 1900. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. 825pp. No date circa 1900. Tan cloth, black lettering. Spotting to covers most heavily to rear board, contents mildly toned and very occasionally foxed, waviness to first pages, text is unmarked, binding is tight. A comprehensive vintage catalog of home and industrial plumbing equipment with illustrations on every page, prices included. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 002634

Catalogue: Business, Hobbies and How-To, Collectible

Keywords: Plumbers Pipes Valves Pumps

Gardner, F.B.

The Carriage Painters' Manual. Containing a Treatise on the Art, Science, and Mystery of Coach, Carriage, and Car Painting

New York, S.R. Wells, 1871. Fifth Edition, 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Hardcover. 126pp +16pp ads. Maroon cloth, gilt lettering to cover and spine. Soiling and light wear to cover, light dampstaining and foxing to some margins and endpapers, text is mildly age-toned. An 18th century discourse on the art of painting and decorating carriages, gilding, varnishing, staining and ornamenting, and the materials required. An early printing of this title. Poor.

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Book number: 003556

Catalogue: Collectible, How-to and Hobbies

Keywords: Carriages Wagons Decorating

Stanley Gibbons, Ltd.

Stanley Gibbons, Limited Priced Catalogue of Stamps of Foreign Countries (1912) Part 2

London, Stanley Gibbons, Limited, 1912. Twenty-second, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. xii+756 pp. Green cloth, wear to edges, vertical crease to front cover and a vertical wrinkle to rear cover, backstrip partly split. Hinges split but holding. Contents are clean. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000431

Catalogue: Antiques, Hobbies and How-To, Collectible

Keywords: Philatelic

M. Heminway & Sons

Illustrated Manual of Knitting and Crochet Adapted to the Use of M. Heminway & Sons' Pure Dye Silks

[Watertown, Connecticut], M. Heminway & Sons' Silk Co. 1894. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Soft cover. 127pp. Tan stapled illustrated wraps. Front cover chipped and creased, rear cover and most of spine missing, contents lightly toned but mostly quite clean, a few early pages lightly chipped. Detailed instructions for many knitted and crocheted items, heavily illustrated throughout. A scarce example of this original publication. Fair/No Jacket.

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Book number: 001483

Catalogue: Hobbies and How-To, Ephemera, Collectible

Keywords: Handcrafts Needlework Fashion