All About Glass

All About Glass

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The myth of Adonis / Steuben Glass, Inc.
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Steuben Glass, inc. Pollard, Donald designer Pfohl, Jerry designer 68926 New York: Steuben Glass, Inc., [1966] [8] p.,: ill.; 18 cm. Steuben Archive Cover title. Includes brief biographies of the artists Donald Pollard and Jerry Pfohl. The Myth of Adonis was an edition of one piece completed in

Buffalo Cut Glass Co.: manufacturers of rich cut glass.
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Buffalo Cut Glass Company, Batavia, NY, USA. 79050 Diamond finish Buffalo Cut Glass Company Batavia, N.Y.: Buffalo Cut Glass Company, [n.d., between 1905-1918] 44 leaves: ill.; 23 x 30 cm. Buffalo Cut Glass Company Trade catalog. All catalog descriptions are in handwritten script. Buffalo Cut Glass

At home with Steuben.
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Steuben Glass, inc., Corning, NY, USA. Corning Incorporated. 71386 At home [New York: Steuben Glass, 1991] 35 p.: col. ill.; 19 cm. Steuben Glass, inc. "Starlight Cluster" by David Dowler featured on p. [1] of cover. Gift; Corning Inc. 2013; 1000135216 Digitized by Boston Photo Imaging

Clarity, craftsmanship, design.
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Steuben Glass, inc., Corning, NY, USA. Corning Incorporated. 71368 [New York: Steuben Glass, inc., ca. 1990] 28 p.: ill. (some col.); 19 cm. Steuben Glass, inc. Cover title. "Globe" by James Houston, featured on p. [1] of cover. Digitized by Boston Photo Imaging January 2014. An

Anmerkungen über Wirbellose Thiere. III.
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Blaschka, Rudolf, 1857-1939. Heller, Camil, 1823-1917. Zoophyten und Echinodermen des Adriatischen Meeres. 61915 [n.d., ca. 1876?] 124 handwritten p.: ill.; 21 cm. Blaschka archive, Box 23 Cover title. Attributed to Rudolf Blaschka. At head of p. 1: Heller, Die Zoophyten und Echinodermen des

Enjoying Steuben glass / by Louis Redmond.
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Redmond, Louis. 65353 Corning, N.Y.: Steuben Glass, [1965] [21] p.: ill.; 18 cm. Steuben Archives Box 9. "75, 1-65"--Inside back cover. Digitized by Boston Photo Imaging January 2014. The reason for it-- The substance of it-- The shapes it takes-- Living with it-- Giving it-- Creating

Chemical analyses of early glasses / Robert H. Brill.
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Brill, Robert H. Rising, Brandt A. Stapleton, Colleen P. Corning Museum of Glass. 0872901424 (v. 1) 9780872901421 (v. 1) 0872901432 (v. 2) 9780872901438 (v. 2) 0872900432 (v. 2) 9780872901902 (v. 3) 0872901904 (v. 3) 61154 Corning, N.Y.: Corning Museum of Glass, 1999-2012. 3 v.: ill. (some col.),

Annual price list. July 1, 1913 / Whitall Tatum Company manufacturers of druggists', chemists', and pefumers glassware, manufacturers, importers, and jobbers of druggists' sundries.
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Whitall Tatum Company, Millville, NJ, USA. 95965 Whitall Tatum Company manufacturers of druggists', chemists', and pefumers glassware, manufacturers, importers, and jobbers of druggists' sundries Price list 1913 Millville, N.J.: Whitall Tatum Company, c1913. 198 p.: ill. (some col.);

Description of a glass-apparatus for making in a few minutes, and at a very small expence, the best mineral waters of Pyrmont, Spa, Seltzer, Seydschutz, Aix-la-Chapelle, &c.: together with the description of two new eudiometers, or instruments, for ascertaining the wholesomeness of respirable air, and the method of using these instruments, in a letter to the Rev. Dr. J. Priestley / by J.H. de Magellan, F.R.S.
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Magalhães, João Jacinto de, 1722-1790. 81531 London: The author, 1783. 3rd ed., rev., corr., and enl. by the author, with an examination of the strictures of Mr. T. Cavallo, F.R.S., upon these eudiometers. viii, 80 p.: front.; 21 cm. TP625 Digitized by Boston Photo Imaging in September 2009.

Photographs.
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Charles G. Tuthill Glass Company, Middletown, NY, USA. 80271 [Middletown, N.Y.: Charles G. Tuthill Glass Company, 1902-1923] [24] leaves: original photos; 18 x 27 cm. Tuthill, Charles G., Glass Company, Middletown, NY, USA. Cover title. Trade catalog. Strictly a photo album, presumably from the

Notizbüchel für 1869-1870.
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Blaschka, Leopold, 1822-1895. 87383 [1869-1871] [24] p.; 21 cm. R-641 Cover title. Small blue notebook containing business records organized by month. This may be an order book or a listing of orders shipped. Includes orders for glass eyes (Augen) for animals (Thieraugen) and probably for people.

Actinologia britannica: a history of the British sea-anemones and corals / by Philip Henry Gosse.
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Gosse, Philip Henry, 1810-1888. 95911 History of the British sea-anemones and corals British sea-anemones and madrepores London: Van Voorst, 1860. xl, 362 p., 12 leaves of col. plates: ill. (some col.); 23 cm. QL376.4.G8 Plate 5 is facing t.p. Includes bibliographical references and index.

[Photographic album].
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Blaschka, Leopold, 1822-1895. Blaschka, Rudolf, 1857-1939 87387 [Dresden: Blaschka, n.d.] 1 v.: 27 photographs; 16 cm. R-641 Brown leather cover with embossed rose and yellow metal clasp. Twenty-seven photographs in all. Empty pages were not filmed. This item is in the Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka

Essayes of natural experiments, made in the Academie del cimento, under the protection of the most serene Prince Leopold of Tuscany / written in Italian by the secretary of that academy [Lorenzo Magalotti], Englished by Richard Waller.
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Accademia del cimento (Florence, Italy) Magalotti, Lorenzo, conte, 1637-1712. Waller, Richard, tr. 95592 London: Printed for B. Alsop at the Angel and Bible in the Poultrey, 1684. [20], 160, [10] p.: 19 plates; 24 cm. QC17 Added t.-p., engr. Includes index. Digitized by Boston Photo Imaging in

Correspondenz-Buch III.
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Blaschka, Leopold, 1822-1895. 97766 Correspondenzbuch III [1876-1877] 1 v. (unpaged); 21 cm. R-838 Cover title. Drafts of business letters, in German and English. This item is in the Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka collection. Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka collection Displayed in the exhibition titled

[Cut glass catalog].
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Quaker City Cut Glass Co., Philadelphia, PA, USA. Noack & Gorenflo. 96968 Quaker City Cut Glass Company, largest cut glass manufacturers in the world 20 numbered pages: illustrations; 24 x 31 cm Quaker City Cut Glass Co. "Our cut glass won grand prize and gold medal at World's Fair

Fra den kunstindustrielle udstilling: erindringsblade / ved C. Nyrop.
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Nyrop, Camillus, 1811-1883. 88382 Kjøbenhavn: J.H. Schubothes Boghandels Forlag, 1879. vii, 96 p.: ill.; 27 cm. T535 Includes bibliographical references. Digitized by OCLC in 2008. Drinking vessels: p. 32-43. Special CorningDB 0EBC794F-DEB2-4FE2-AF2E-61B402057E6C.pdf Exhibitions Denmark 19th

Manufacturer of registered flower centres, candelabras, vases, speciment tubes, and of cut, engraved, and etched table glass of every description.
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Philip Pargeter (Firm). Red House Glass Works, Stourbridge, England. 99387 At head of title: Philip Pargeter, Red House Glass Works, Stourbridge, England Also known as: Book no. 5 Fifth book Stourbridge: Philip Pargeter, [n.d., 1875-1881] Ensor & Simkins Lith. 93 leaves: entirely ill.; 33 cm.

[Catalog pages of colored stretch glass].
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Fenton Art Glass Company, Williamstown, WV, USA. 87542 Williamstown, W.Va.: Fenton Art Glass Company, ca. 1921. [6] p.: col. ill.; 23 x 31 cm. Fenton Art Glass Company, Williamstown, WV, USA. Trade catalog. Colored catalog pages 3-8, of Fenton Art Glass, in colored glass. Ware includes candlesticks

Drawings from painted glass in Norfolk / I. Talman.
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Talman, John, 1677-1726. 88039 [1705-1708] 1 v. (unpaged): ill. (some col.), coats of arms; 55 cm. R-91 Title from spine. Album of 19 original drawings in pen and watercolor of stained glass windows in Cathedral of Norwich, Boyton Church in Norfolk, Upton Church in Norfolk, Ranworth Hall in

Leop. Blaschka 1849 aus Böhmischaicha.
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Blaschka, Leopold, 1822-1895. 97740 1849. 1 v.: ill.; 18 cm. Blaschka Archives, Box 23 Small handwritten notebook, probably the earliest item in the Blaschka archives. Includes notes on Galvannismus, Versilberung (recipes for using gold and silver); drawings, perhaps of glass eyes and, on the same

Fine china, rich cut glass, catalogue no. 15.
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Higgins & Seiter, New York, NY, USA. 94051 New York: Higgins & Seiter, 1904-1905. 146 p.: ill. (some col.); 14 x 20 cm. Higgins & Seiter Trade catalog. Cover title. Includes index. P. 128-133 include cut glass gifts in white leatherette cases. Three blank order forms bound in at end.

Importers and manufacturers of glass ware, hotel china, bar & restaurant supplies.
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Budde & Westermann, New York, NY, USA. 89387 New York: Budde & Westermann, ca.1900. 123 p.: ill.; 24 cm. Budde & Westermann, New York, NY, USA. Cover title. Trade catalog. Index, p. 120-123. Suggested date provided by previous owner. Illustrated catalog of glassware (some cut), china

[Milk bottle catalog].
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Deutsche Flaschen Verkaufsgesellschaft m.b.H., Düsseldorf, Germany. 86414 Düsseldorf: Deutsche Flaschen Verkaufsgesellschaft m.b.H., [n.d., 1880-1920?] 6, [1] leaves: ill.; 17 x 26 cm. Deutsche Flaschen Verkaufsgesellschaft m.b.H., Düsseldorf, Germany. Trade catalog. Catalog is not dated;

[Sketchbook, beginning with a page of multiple sketches: people, a pendulum clock, and an insect].
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[Blaschka, Leopold, 1822-1895]. 95869 [n.d., between 1850-1873?] 1 v.: ill.; 21 cm. R-838 Blascka sketchbook, primarily of human figures engaged in various activities, but includes designs for jewelry (earrings, pins, rings, filigree work), decorative objects (mirror, birdcage, tableware), and 1

[De ira Dei; De opificie Dei sive de hominis formatione; De phoenice].
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Lactantius, ca. 240-ca. 320. Alcher, de Clairvaux, 12th cent. De spiritu et anima. 95635 Title from p. [94]: L. Coeli Lactantii Firmiani de ira Dei Title from p. [97]: L. Coeli Lactantii Firmiani de opifitio Dei sev hominis formatione De opificie Dei sive de hominis formatione De phoenice Title

Lalique mascots.
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Breves Lalique Galleries, London, England. René Lalique et cie. 89500 Lalique mascots: the most beautiful & distinctive form of car decoration London, England: Breves Lalique Galleries, [n.d., 1930-1935?] 1 folded brochure: ill.; 19 cm. Breves Lalique Galleries Car mascots (hood ornaments)

Micrographia, or, Some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses, with observations and inquiries thereupon / by R. Hooke, fellow of the Royal Society.
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Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703. Martyn, John, fl. 1649-1680, printer. Allestry, James, d. 1670, printer. Royal Society (Great Britain). Council. 97628 Some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses London: Printed by Jo. Martyn and Ja. Allestry, Printers to the Royal Society,

[Sketchbook, beginning with a sketch of a house and its surroundings].
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[Blaschka, Leopold, 1822-1895]. 95865 [n.d., between 1870-1920?] 1 v.: ill.; 21 cm. R-838 Blascka sketchbook, primarily of human figures engaged in various activities, but does include landscapes and sketches of ships. Approximately half of the pages are blank. This item is in the Leopold and

Opticks, or, A treatise of the reflexions, refractions, inflexions and colours of light; also two treatises of the species and magnitude of curvilinear figures.
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Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727. Smith, Samuel, fl. 1681-1703, bookseller. Walford, Benjamin, d. ca. 1710, bookseller. Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727. Quadratura curvarum. Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727. Enumeratio linearum tertii ordinis. 94325 Treatise of the reflexions, refractions, inflexions and

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