Judd, H. L., Co.
This is an archive consisting of 14 catalogues, one design book and a group of 40 heliotype and other images of company products. Many of the items bear the stamped signature of A. M. Woodworth who would appear to have been either a salesman or designer for the company. The earliest items are an 1883 Special List and an 1891 Descriptive Catalogue of . Ornamental Hardware (192 pp., lacking roughly 32 pages). The latest is Suggestions for Beautiful Window Draping (28 pages, dated 1930). The design book is undated but appears to be from around 1910 and contains illustrations, mostly photographic with many in color, of lamps, mouldings and other design elements. Other catalogues offer anvil, curtain rods, brass beds, metal novelties, brass cornices, brass and onyx tables, stationery hardware and match safes, art metal goods, vacuum cleaners and metal furniture. History of New Haven County, Connecticut, Volume 1 (p. 357): "The H. L. Judd Company was a manufacturer of stationersâ and ornamental hardware. It was incorporated in 1869 as the Judd Manufacturing Company, and was renamed in 1887. The original business was established in Brooklyn, NY with a branch factory located in Wallingford, Conn.â At one time, the company also had a factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee. An astounding archive documenting the production of this metalwork company over 40 years as compiled by a longtime employee. It is not possible to describe the extremely wide variety of metal products offered in these catalogues. They range from simple hardware and curtain rods to ornate lamps, mechanical banks, picture frames, ornamental swords, ornate inkstands and bookends and much more.
Mitchell, S. Augustus
47x37 cm. First edition, first issue, with the maps having been taken from the plates for Henry Tanner's Universal Atlas. Overall, a very good copy, with 1/2 original leather with morocco gilt label, some wear at extremities, front board is detached, backstrip loose, internally very good with scattered very light soiling in the margins of a small number of maps. 72 maps, including the single-page map of Texas which was only included in the first issue of this atlas. While Mitchell's name has been inserted on all maps, some still have Tanner's name as well. Most of the maps are copyrighted by H. N. Burroughs, in 1846.
23x16 cm. Original green cloth, excellent condition with very light soiling and rubbing at extremities. xlvii, [1], 686 pp., with many plates (1 colored) and maps, some folding. In addition to a report on the activities and finances of the Smithsonian, there are many articles on scientific studies being conducted at the time. These include reports on the Evolution of American Astronomy, the Story of Experiments in Mechanical Flight by S. P. Langley, a translation of a paper by Wilhelm Rontgen reporting the discovery of X-Rays, an address by Professor J. Thomson on Cathode Rays, and a report, with many photos, on the opening of the new Library of Congress building (now the Jefferson Building). There are also reports on an archaeological dig in Arizona, Crater Lake, and a possible Antarctic expedition.
82x57 cm. Map, backed with linen. Excellent condition, light wear. See Stephenson 553.6: "Detailed map of the environs of Fredericksburg giving Union entrenchments in blue and Confederate entrnechments in red, roads, 'Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Rail Road,' street plan of Fredericksburg and Falmouth, houses, fences, names of residents in rural areas, vegetation, drainage, and relief by hachures." This actually appears to be a slight variant Stephenson 553.8 as the names of the surveyors appear, though partially erased, at the bottom left, but there is no lithography credit to Julius Bien.