DIRECTIONS FOR USING THE PATENT EXCELSIOR TANNING PROCESS
Johnson, John Jay
Published by John Jay Johnson, Kalamazoo, Mi., 1863
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14,[1]pp., plus folding receipt. Original printed wrappers. A few minor chips, lightly soiled. Pencil ownership on rear wrapper. Two small repairs to folding receipt and titlepage versos. Interior leaves loose, text somewhat foxed, but overall quite good. A short pamphlet in which the owner of a patent for a new method of tanning animal skins describes the process and gives directions on implementing it to potential customers. The pamphlet comes with a deed which the buyer would fill out in order to demonstrate that he had bought the right to use the process. "In the Pamphlet which accompanies each deed, the Excelsior Tanning Process is familiarly explained, and the directions are so plain and complete that any one can speedily acquire a succesfull practice of the art." OCLC 9992409. Seller Inventory # WRCAM51576
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Title: DIRECTIONS FOR USING THE PATENT EXCELSIOR ...
Publisher: John Jay Johnson, Kalamazoo, Mi.
Publication Date: 1863
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DIRECTIONS FOR USING THE PATENT EXCELSIOR TANNING PROCESS. PATENTED MARCH 18, 1862, by John Jay Johnson.
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([Kalamazoo MI: for the Patentee], 1863)., 1863
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Seller: Steve Finer - Rare Books, Greenfield, MA, U.S.A.
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8vo, printed wrappers, 15pp. Lightly foxed. The frontis. form, which transfers rights to the process to a local, or regional applicant, has been excised. Most of the content of these fifteen pages consists of a variety of receipts, or formulas, for curing and dyeing and processing leather. Seller Inventory # C141/388
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DIRECTIONS FOR USING THE PATENT EXCELSIOR TANNING PROCESS.
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(Albion NY: C.G.Beach, [1863])., 1863
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8vo, yellow printed pictorial wrappers, 16pp. Line drawn text illustrations. Lightly foxed. In this copy, the "Patentee" certificate inserted in the front has been excised out. Seller Inventory # C151/219
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DIRECTIONS FOR USING THE PATENT EXCELSIOR TANNING PROCESS.
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Albany NY: Perkins, 1864
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 12mo, printed pictorial wrappers, moderate wear, folding-out document certifying the sale and transfer of rights and privileges to use this process to Orlando C. Searls of Southampton MA in 1865. Text vignettes in the form of ordinary typographical images. An eminently successful scheme: during the 1860's, such booklets were published all over the Northeast and as far West as Michigan. A good+ copy. Seller Inventory # E-73/13
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DIRECTIONS FOR USING THE PATENT EXCELSIOR TANNING PROCESS. Patented March 18, 1862.
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(West Springfield MA: D. Stevens, 1865)., 1865
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12mo, printed wrappers (wrinkled), 14, i pp. Tipped in at inside front cover is a long folding legal form, assigning rights to employ this patent within York County, Maine, dated Jan, 15, 1866, costing all of five dollars. Five crude text woodcut illustrations. Seller Inventory # C138/16
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DIRECTIONS FOR USING THE PATENT EXCELSIOR TANNING PROCESS. PATENTED MARCH 18, 1862.
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Chester MA: Childs & White; Huntington MA: Higgins & Clark; Russell MA: Parks & Brownson, 1862
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 12mo, printed wrappers (first item little worn and spotty), 16pp., each of the three items. A few woodcut illustrations. A deed of transfer of rights appears with the first and third of these, but not with the second. All the imprints shown are relatively uncommon, but the Russell, Massachusetts imprint may well be unique. I have been unable to locate the existence of another such imprint for this small, Western Massachusetts, Hampden County town. Seller Inventory # E-49/85
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DIRECTIONS FOR USING THE PATENT EXCELSIOR TANNING PROCESS
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JOHNSON, John Jay. DIRECTIONS FOR USING THE PATENT EXCELSIOR TANNING PROCESS West Springfield, Mass: Published by D. Stevens, 1866. 12mo. Printed wrapper 14, (1) pages, folding frontispiece, illustrations. The frontispiece is a printed form giving notice that D. Stevens, the publish has procured the patent from Johnson ``and for a valuable consideration'' wil ``assign, sell and set over'' the right to use the patent. The cuts of anima are decorative rather than instructional. The wrappers are somewhat frayed w several small pieces missing from the front and about one-third of the back missing, but with no loss of text. Seller Inventory # 5836
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DIRECTIONS FOR USING THE PATENT EXCELSIOR TANNING PROCESS.
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Kalamazoo, Mi.: John Jay Johnson, 1863., 1863
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14,[1]pp., plus folding receipt. Original printed wrappers. A few minor chips, lightly soiled. Pencil ownership on rear wrapper. Two small repairs to folding receipt and titlepage versos. Interior leaves loose, text somewhat foxed, but overall quite good. A short pamphlet in which the owner of a patent for a new method of tanning animal skins describes the process and gives directions on implementing it to potential customers. The pamphlet comes with a deed which the buyer would fill out in order to demonstrate that he had bought the right to use the process. "In the Pamphlet which accompanies each deed, the Excelsior Tanning Process is familiarly explained, and the directions are so plain and complete that any one can speedily acquire a succesfull practice of the art." OCLC 9992409. Seller Inventory # 51576
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Directions for using the patent excelsior tanning process. Patented March 18, 1862
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J. Jay Johnson, Kalamazoo, 1863
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8vo, pp. vi, [7]-14; vignette title-p., folding patent certificate, 5 small woodcuts of animals in the text; foxed; last 3 leaves and rear wrapper with a chunk missing from the top margin affecting the printed page borders but no lettering. Seller Inventory # 30783
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