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  • 1939 Oakland Archery Tackle Catalog

    20260529 162257

    Potter and MacQuarrie

    [Catalog] ARCHERY

    $125.00

    Andrew Langer, Bookseller

    Die-cut illustrated brochure/catalog for Potter and MacQuarrie, an Oakland archery tackle manufacturer and supplier located at 3400 Fruitvale Avenue. The red cover is cut in the shape of an archery target, printed in yellow and black, with the firm’s bow-and-target trade mark. The opening page includes a photographic image of the storefront and describes the business as an “Archery Sport Shop and Shooting Range,” with lessons by appointment and Wednesday evening shop hours. The catalog lists, describes, and prices arrows, bow staves, arrow shafts, quivers, gloves, arm guards, targets, tools, and related archery equipment, with described and illustrated pages of tackle and accessories. A well-preserved pre-war California sporting goods catalog, showing Potter and MacQuarrie as makers and suppliers of archery equipment rather than simply as a retail shop. Contemporary advertiser and directory listings place Potter and MacQuarrie at 3400 Fruitvale Avenue from at least 1937 into 1950; MacQuarrie’s California Archery Hall of Fame entry describes the partnership as operating from the mid-1930s to about 1960. Harrold C. MacQuarrie, partner with John Potter in the firm, later entered the California Archery Hall of Fame. His Hall of Fame entry describes him as a late-1930s tournament field captain, maker of cedar shafts, inventor of a dowel-making machine, and a principal organizer of Northern California archery clubs in the 1930s and 1940s. No institutional holdings for this company located in OCLC at time of listing. About 4-1/4 x 7-1/4 inches (11 x 18 cm). 16 pp. Stapled printed wrappers, die-cut at top. Condition: Near Fine.    

    Offered for Sale by: Andrew Langer, Bookseller

  • Very scarce 1899 Brooks Locomotive first edition

    Shel2040

    Brooks Locomotive Works

    A CATALOGUE DESCRIPTIVE OF SIMPLE AND COMPOUND LOCOMOTIVES BUILT BY BROOKS LOCOMOTIVE WORKS, DUNKIRK, N. Y., U. S. A.

    $500.00

    Gene W. Baade Books on the West

    Buffalo NY: Matthews-Northrup Co, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Item #SHEL2040 “Made in the complete art-printing works of the Matthews-Northrup Co., Buffalo, N. Y.” Gilt-stamped cloth with stamping in gilt of a locomotive on the front cover. Spine title printed in black. 335pp. Dozens of fine, high detail illustrations of Brooks locomotives. On the facing page of each one are the specifications of that locomotive. There are other illustrations, including a portrait of the founder, Horatio G. Brooks. Introductory, A Brief History and Description of the Works, Piston Valves, Catalogue Cipher Code, Numerical Code, and various tables and drawings. Index. Stamped in red ink on the title pages is “AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVE COMPANY.” A 1” x 2 1/2” piece of the brown paper ffep is missing as it became attached to the front past down and remains “glued” there. Some narrow loss to part of the bottom of a prelim leaf. There are occasional page edge tears. Last few leaves with a small area of dampstain to the lower corner. Covers of this copy are in brown cloth and are in quite good condition with light wear to the edges. A good copy. Very, very scarce.

    Offered for Sale by: Gene W. Baade Books on the West

  • Superlatively rare 1921 illustrated dental manual

    5032034

    Christopher, C. J.; Golbeck, W. C.

    Dental Prosthetics and Oral Research

    $950.00

    Gene W. Baade Books on the West

    Chicago: Privately Printed, 1921. First Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Item #5032034 Original illustrated RARE booklet in folded wrappers describing dental procedures and prosthetics. 86pp. Doctors Christopher and Golbeck practiced at 339 So. Wabash Ave in Chicago. Dr. Christopher was a graduate of the Chicago College Dental Surgery in 1902 and Golbeck from the same in 1898. Illustrations include pictures of the practice’s space with one page giving instructions on “Advisory Service and Personal Supervision” Other pages have headlined “Casting Gold and The Metals of the Platinum Group,” “Demonstration Samples,” Refining Precious Metals,” “C. & G. Casting Gold,” “Modern Denture Construction: Articulation and How to Obtain it,” “ Chair Technique,” “Outlining Areas for Compression and Relief,” “Compound and Plaster Impressions.” All these are followed by page after pages of illustrations of casts, molds, etc. There is a full page “Index to Illustrations for Quick Reference” in the rear and the last printed page has an application form for “Opening A Charge Account” and a “Request for Quotation.” with a diagram. I am not sure whether to call this a sales manual, instruction manual, case reference for instruction purposes, or all three. But it is superlatively rare. Very good condition, but the silk tie ribbon is torn and incomplete.

    Offered for Sale by: Gene W. Baade Books on the West
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