All About Glass

All About Glass

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Exposition industrielle quinquennale de 1843; [suivi par] Rapport présenté à la Société industrielle d'Angers et du département de Maine-et-Loire sur la deuxième session du Congrès de vignerons français.
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Société industrielle d'Angers et du département de Maine-et-Loire (France) Bulletin de la Société industrielle d'Angers et du département de Maine et Loire Exposition industrielle quinquennale de 1843. nos 5-6, 14e année, september-décembre 1843, pp. [301]-386, 88378 Rapport

De vasculis libellus / adulescentulorum causa ex Bayfio decerptus; addita vulgari Latinarum vocum interpretatione; [Carolus Stephanus, lectori s.].
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Baïf, Lazare de, 1496?-1547. Estienne, Charles, 1504-ca. 1564. 89579 Parisiis: Ex Officina Roberti Stephani, 1535. 56, [7] p.; 18 cm. (8vo) NK4654 Printer's device on t. p. "Idib. Novem."--Colophon. Includes index. Renouard, 42.17 Adams, B-52 Digitized by Boston Photo Imaging in

Designers and workers for church and home: memorial windows, brasses, chancel furnishing, decoration.
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Colgate Art Glass Company, New York, NY, USA. 90558 New York: Colgate Art Glass Company, [1901] 58 p.: ill.; 18 x 26 cm. Colgate Art Glass Company, New York, NY, USA. Trade catalog. Includes stained glass windows, and cut glass panels. Digitized by Boston Photo Imaging in July 2010. Catalog has had

White and gold: china and glass.
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Higgins & Seiter, New York, NY, USA. Compagnie des cristalleries de Baccarat. 97900 China and glass New York: Higgins & Seiter, c1905. 18 p.: ill.; 16 x 9 cm. Higgins & Seiter Trade catalog. Cover title. Catalog bound with gold cord. Catalog of china and glass decorated in white and

Monograph on the pottery and glassware of Burma, 1894-95 / by Taw Sein-Ko.
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Toʻ Cinʻ Khui, 1864-1930. 90508 Rangoon: Printed by the Supdt., Govt. Printing, Burma, 1895. 13 p., [16] leaves of plates: ill. (some handcolored); 24 cm. NK4154.6.A1 "25th July 1895"--P. 13. "G.B.C.P.O.-No. 5216, B.S., 19-9-95-250"--P. 13. Includes bibliographical references.

[Photographic album].
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Blaschka, Leopold, 1822-1895. Blaschka, Rudolf, 1857-1939 87386 [Dresden: Blaschka, n.d.] 1 v.: 62 photographs; 28 cm. R-641 Green leather cover with silver colored clasp. First image on first page is Leopold Blaschka. There are 62 photographs in all, including some duplicates. This album includes

[Blaschka notebook beginning] L. Agassiz, Contributions to the natural history of the United States of N. America.
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Blaschka, Leopold, 1822-1895. Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1893. Contributions to the natural history of the United States of America. 1857-1862. 97741 L. Agassiz, Contributions to the natural history of the United States of N. America [n.d., between 1857-1880?] 77 p.: ill.; 20 cm. Blaschka Archives, Box

Geographiam multos scripsisse novimus Pater Beatissime Paule II. Venete Pon. maxime: temporu[m] nostrorum felicitas & gloria: cum eiusmodi sit doctrinae opus quod omnibus gratum...
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Strabo. Bussi, Giovanni Andrea, 1417-1475. ed. Guarino, Veronese, 1374-1460, tr. Thiphernio, Gregorio, tr. Wendelin, of Speier, d. 1477? printer 97139 Binder's spine title: De situ orbis [Venice: Vindelinus de Spira], 1472. [217] leaves; 41 cm. G87 Title from opening lines of text. Imprint

Palais de cristal à Sydenham, près de Londres / par J.W. del Campo.
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Campo, J. W. del. 88386 La Haye: Van Lagenhuysen frères: Londres: W.H. Smith; Paris: A. Faure, [1861] 85 p., [2] leaves of plates: ill.; 23 cm. DA687.C9 Includes index. Digitized by OCLC in 2008. Plate 1 scanned before 2008; digital image stored in MediaBin. Special CorningDB 32A927E6-BA80-44BA

The sign writer and glass embosser / by W. & W.G. Sutherland.
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Sutherland, William, b. 1820. Sutherland, W. G. (William George) 113021 Manchester: Printed and published by The Decorative Art Journals Co., Ltd.; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, & Co., Ltd., 1898. [2], 62 p., XXXII leaves of plates: col. ill.; 47 cm. TT360 Chromolithograph plates

Oeuvres de René Lalique: Nöel 1935.
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René Lalique et cie Paris, France. 117797 Nöel 1935 Paris: René Lalique et cie, 1935. 16 p.: ill.; 23 cm. René Lalique et cie, Paris, France. Trade catalog. Vendor dates mid 1935. Working glass fountain on cover. Includes prices. Vases, plates, syemware, candleholders, bowls, table top, pitcher

Recipes for making flint & colored glass, some old & some new [black square-shaped notebook].
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Carder, Frederick. 112162 Archives finding aid title: Black square-shaped notebook: Frederick Carder 1901, recipes for making flint & colored glass Recipes for making flint & colored glass 1901-[1908] 1 v.; 22 x 19 cm. R-1059 Archives. This item is in the Frederick Carder notebook

[Black sketchbook] 1889 / F. Carder.
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Carder, Frederick. 119894 Written inside cover: F. Carder, John Street, Wordsley 1889 1889. [45] p.: ill.; 18 x 13 cm. Carder/Steuben archive Box 29, Folder Black sketchbook, 1889 Carder sketchbook. Part of the Carder/Steuben collection. This item is in the Frederick Carder papers. Hinge at the top

[Black notebook, F. Carder, 1894].
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Carder, Frederick. 112155 F. Carder 1894 First entry: Receipes taken from Patent Journal & English Mechanic, etc. 1894-[1901] 1 v.: ill.; 18 x 12 cm. R-1058 Archives. This item is in the Frederick Carder notebook collection. This item is in the Frederick Carder notebook collection. Entries

Plan & dimensions of a window glass furnace (intended for soft or hard coal.) (- blast or draft obtained by a fan propelled by a steam engine.): built at Bridgeton for F. & J.N. Bodine.
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Bodine, F. (Francis) Bodine, J. N. (J. Nixon) Leng, H. (Heinrich). Vollständiges Handbuch der Glasfabrikation. Selections. Cohansey Glass Manufacturing Company. 115600 Plan and dimensions of a window glass furnace [Bridgeton, N.J.: F & J. N. Bodine], 1871-[1873]. 1 v. (unpaged): ill.; 21 cm.

[Black/dark green sketchbook] 1885 / F. Carder.
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Carder, Frederick. 119855 Written inside cover: F. Carder, 1885 1884-1885. [ca. 75 p]: ill.; 14 x 10 cm. Carder/Steuben archive Box 29, Folder Black/dark green sketchbook, 1885 Hinge is at the top. Carder sketchbook. Part of the Carder/Steuben collection. This item is in the Frederick Carder papers

[Travel diary, 1902].
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Carder, Frederick. 112164 Archives finding aid title: Flip open notebook:1902 travel diary 1902. 1 v. (unpaged): ill.; 17 x 11 cm. R-1058 Archives. This item is in the Frederick Carder notebook collection. Notebook cover reads "Note book 1d. 100 pages. Cream laid note paper, suitable for pen

[Payments to models].
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Carder, Frederick. 116467 [1885-1887] 1 v. (unpaged); 17 x 10 cm. R-1058 Archives. This item is in the Frederick Carder notebook collection. Notebook with black cover. The front and back covers were originally stuck to other notebooks and shows damage due to the separation of the covers. Most pages

Die Wunder des Glaspalastes: ein Festgeschenk für die Jugend / von F.G. Wieck; nebst einem Vorwort von Dr. Carl Vogel.
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Wieck, F. G. (Friedrich Georg), 1800-1860. Vogel, C. (Carl), 1828-1897. 116850 Leipzig: Verlag von J.J. Weber, 1852. xii, 262 p., [8] plates: ill.; 17 cm. T690 Digitized by Boston Photo Imaging in May 2012. Die Reise zum Glaspalast-- Der Glaspalast-- Der Besuch des Glaspalastes-- Wanderung durch

The Midland mapping book / F. Carder, the Leys Potteries.
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Carder, Frederick. 119909 1875. [10] leaves: ill., maps; 19 x 14 cm. Carder/Steuben archive Box 29, Folder Midland mapping book Carder sketchbook. Part of the Carder/Steuben collection. This item is in the Frederick Carder papers. Includes maps of Holland and Belgium, Switzerland, Canada (Ontario,

Summer lights.
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Steuben Glass, inc., Corning, NY, USA. Corning Incorporated. 104332 Corning, N.Y.: Corning Inc., c2008. 37, [4] p.: col. ill.; 20 cm. Steuben Glass, inc. "Beacon of Light" by Eric Hilton, 2006 on cover. Order form bound between pages 20 and 21. Gift; Corning Inc.; 2013; 1000134725

Glassware.
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Gillinder and Sons, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 119596 Philadelphia, Pa: Gillinder & Sons, [n.d., 1881-1889] 64 p.: ill. (some col.); 23 x 31 cm. (Pittsburgh, Pa: Central Lith. Co.) Gillinder and Sons Cover title. Catalog is not dated, suggested date only. By 1881 the company was producing imitation

[Black pocket sized diary, 1918-1919].
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Carder, Frederick. 112180 1918-1919. 1 v. (unpaged); 14 x 7 cm. R-1059 Archives. This item is in the Frederick Carder notebook collection. "Compliments of London Guarantee and Accident Company Limited, United States Branch, Head Office Chicago, F.W. Lawson, Gen'l Mgr. 1869-1918, Baxter

The methods of glass blowing and of working silica in the oxy-gas flame: for the use of chemical and physical students / by W.A. Shenstone.
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Shenstone, W. A. (William Ashwell), 1850-1908. 119807 London; New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1913. 8th impression. viii, 98 p.: ill.; 17 cm. TP859 Includes index. A digital copy of this book was made by/for Joseph Imler from the book in the Library of the University of California. CMGL has a

Framed mirrors: [for] medicine cabinets, bathroom mirrors, store mirrors, hat racks, plate glass desk and table covers, plate glass shelving and window ventilators.
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Cleveland Window Glass & Door Co., Cleveland, OH, USA. 102620 Medicine cabinets, bathroom mirrors, store mirrors, hat racks, plate glass desk and table covers, plate glass shelving and window ventilators Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Window Glass & Door Co., 1915. 36 p.: ill.; 27 cm Cleveland

The art of ornamental and figure modelling in clay, wax, &c / by T. Dewson. Illustrated with 30 lithographic sketches.
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Dewson, T. 112171 Art of ornamental & figure modelling in clay, wax, &c. Birmingham: [s.l.], [1867]: (Frederick Grew, printer) 16 p. [6] leaves of plates: ill.; 18 cm. R-1059 "Containing the principles and practice of modelling, for the use of beginners and artists, in twenty easy

Brush and pencil Keystone drawing tablet.
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Carder, Gladys M. Carder, Frederick. 119923 [n.d., between 1903-1908?] 1 v. (unpaged): ill., 23 x 31 cm. Carder/Steuben archive Box 29, Folder Brush and pencil Keystone drawing tablet Housed with Carder sketchbooks. Part of the Carder/Steuben collection. This item is in the Frederick Carder papers.

The book of mirrors.
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Cleveland Window Glass & Door Co., Cleveland, OH, USA. 106164 Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Window Glass & Door Co., 1917-18. 40 p.: ill.; 27 cm. Cleveland Window Glass & Door Co., Cleveland, OH, USA. Accompanied by: Wholesale net price list (November 1917) applying to "The Book of

Notes Paris, Aug. & Sept. 1897 / F. Carder, Ivydene John St., Wordsley.
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Carder, Frederick. 112185 1897. 1 v. (unpaged): ill.; 18 x 12 cm. Carder Notebooks Box 4, Notes Paris, Aug. & Sept. 1897 Archives. This item is in the Frederick Carder notebook collection. Black cover with gold edging and marbled endpapers. Only 23 leaves have been used. Title page includes

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