All About Glass

All About Glass

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Micrographia, or, Some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses, with observations and inquiries thereupon / by R. Hooke.
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Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703. Martyn, John, fl. 1649-1680, bookseller. Royal Society (Great Britain). Council. 97629 Some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses London: Printed for John Martyn, 1667. [36], 246, [10] p., xxxviii leaves of plates (chiefly folded): ill.; 30

General catalogue No. G23: Pressed tableware, tumblers, stemware, cut glass, etc. / McKee Glass Co., Jeannette, Pa.
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McKee Glass Company, Jeannette, PA, USA. 28854 Pressed tableware, tumblers, stemware, cut glass, etc. Jeannette, Pa.: McKee Glass Co., [1923?] 92 p.: entirely ill.; 27 x 36 cm. Tableware: McKee Glass Company, Jeannette, PA, USA (F-13T) Trade catalog. Index in front. Also includes stationers'

Catalogue of table glass ware, lamps, &c. / manufactured by National Glass Company, Pittsburgh, PA., U.S.A. operating McKee & Bros. Glass Works, Jeannette, Pa.
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National Glass Company, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, manufacturer. McKee & Brothers, manufacturer. 110922 Catalogue of table ware, lamps, chimneys and general glassware, plain and decorated 142 numbered pages, 6 unnumbered pages: illustrations (some color); 33 x 48 cm National Glass Company Index in

3. Gräser.
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Blaschka, Leopold, 1822-1895. Blaschka, Rudolf, 1857-1939. 112081 Gräser Referred to as: Herbarium 1883-1889. 1 portfolio; 38 cm. Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka Archive, Box 27 Cover title. This item is in the Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka collection Apparently this was a 3rd volume of a set. Pages

Glassware: our catalogue for 1897.
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Pitkin & Brooks, Chicago, IL, USA. 52896 Our catalogue for 1897 Chicago, Ill.: Pitkin & Brooks, 1897. 102 p.: chiefly ill.; 17 x 23 cm. Tableware: Pitkin & Brooks, Chicago, IL, USA (F-9332T) Cover title. Trade catalog. Table of contents and index, p. 1. Prices listed. Includes pressed,

[Cut glass catalog].
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Krantz, Smith & Co., Inc., Honesdale, PA, USA. 39971 [Honesdale, Pa.: Krantz, Smith & Co., Inc., n.d., ca. 1904-1915] [20] leaves: ill.; 29 x 38 cm. Krantz, Smith & Co., Inc. Trade catalog. Patterns are named. Manufacturer identified by patterns of glassware. Items have handwritten

The illustrated London news.
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0019-2422 0019-2422 1350-9012 z 37162 London: William Little, 1842- v.: ill.; 30-43 cm. 2 no. a year, 1994- v. 1 (May 14, 1842)- Ceased with: Dec. 2003. AP4 Title from caption. Publisher varies. Latest isssue consulted: Dec. 2003. Vols. for <Jan. 3, 1948>-winter 1993 called also <v. 212,

Supplement to catalogue number fourteen.
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Higgins & Seiter, New York, NY, USA. 39965 Fine china, rich cut glass, supplement catalogue no. 14 New York: Higgins & Seiter, [n.d., 1905?] 16 p.: ill. l; 14 x 22 cm. Higgins & Seiter Trade catalog. Digitized by Boston Photo Imaging in August 2010. Missing p. 7-10. CMGL also has a

L&#039;art décoratif: revue mensuelle d&#039;art contemporain.
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Art et décoration (OCoLC)ocm8259523 37030 Art décoratif Paris. v.: ill. (some col.); 30 cm. 1er semestre- Oct. 1898/Mars 1899- Ceased in 1914. Subtitle varies: from... to Dec. 1906: revue mensuelle d'art contemporain.--19..revue de la vie artistique, ancienne et moderne.--19..revue de l'

1895-6 [catalog].
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Higgins & Seiter, New York, NY, USA. 39948 Fine china, rich cut glass, catalogue no. 6 New York: Higgins & Seiter, 1895. 190 p.: ill.; 15 x 22 cm. Higgins & Seiter Trade catalog. Includes cut glass p. 34-58; Bohemian glass novelties, p.58-59; gold glass p. 63-68. Digitized by Boston

English cameo glass in the Corning Museum of Glass / David Whitehouse.
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Whitehouse, David, 1941-2013. Corning Museum of Glass. 0872901343 35913 Corning, N.Y.: Corning Museum of Glass, c1994. 63 p.: ill. (some col.); 27 cm. NK5143 Includes bibliographical references (p. 58). Digitized by Boston Photo Imaging in June 2011. Text-searchable.pdf created from digital file.

Memoir on the origin, progress, and improvement of glass manufactures, including an account of the patent crystallo ceramie, or, glass incrustations.
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Pellatt, Apsley, 1791-1863. 29558 London: B. Holdsworth, 1821. 36, 6 p., 8 plates; 25 cm. NK5440.S8 C. 1 digitized by Boston Photo Imaging in May 2011. c. 1, flooded, unbound, plates hand colored. c. 2, lacks 6 p. of explanation of plates. Plates are smaller (21 cm.) and laid in, never bound in. c.

L&#039;art en Alsace: exposition organisée / sous le patronage de la Société des Amis des Arts de Strasbourg.
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Société des Amis des Arts de Strasbourg. 31041 Strasbourg: Imp. Dernières Nouvelles, 1925. 39 p.: plans; 22 cm. T805 At head of title: Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, Paris 1925. From the collection of Frederick Carder. Digitized by Boston Photo Imaging in

Recipes for flint glass making / by a British Glass Master and Mixer. Being leaves from the mixing book of several experts in the flint glass trade, containing up-to-date recipes...
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British Glass master and mixer. 29689 London: Scott, Greenwood & Son, 1907. 2nd ed. 30 p. (i.e. leaves); 20 cm. TP857.12 Batch book. Title page Second edition; verso 1st ed., July 1900; reprinted, April 1907. Includes index. A digital copy of this book was made by/for Joseph Imler from the book

Les industries d&#039;art à l&#039;exposition universelle de 1889: mobilier, bronze, orfèvrerie, bijouterie, joaillerie, céramique, verrerie, vitraux, papiers peints, étoffes, tapis, dentelles, éventails, armes de luxe, instruments de musique, etc., etc. / par Victor Champier. Avec une préface de Eugène Guillaume.
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Champier, Victor, b. 1851. 31452 Paris: Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs, 1889-1891. 2 v. (17 fasc.), entirely plates: ill. (some col.); 30 cm. T803 Supplement to: Revue des Arts Décoratifs from May 1889-June 1891. Contrary to prospectus in fasc. 1, no text for these plates was ever published.

Frederick Carder, his life and work.
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Corning Museum of Glass. Buechner, Thomas S. 30032 23 pages: ill.; 18 cm NK5198.C3 Written by Thomas S. Buechner. Digitized by Boston Photo Imaging in June 2011. Text-searchable.pdf created from digital file. Corning Museum of Glass exhibition, 1952. f-1033, 1 sheet; hard copy in library NK5198.C3

An account of ancient glass beads and cylinders found on the strand of Dunworley Bay, Co. Cork / by William C. Neligan.
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Neligan, William Chadwick. 32305 [s.l.]: Printed for private circulation, 1858. 25 p., 1 col. plate; 22 cm. NK3650 Beads, possibly of 14-15th century. Near Eastern origin, presumably from a shipwreck, washed ashore in Ireland. A paper read before the Cork Cuvierian Society, December 2, 1857.

Frederick Carder: portrait of a glassmaker / Paul V. Gardner.
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Gardner, Paul Vickers, 1908-1994. Corning Museum of Glass. Rockwell Museum. 0872901114 31168 Corning, N.Y.: Corning Museum of Glass; Rockwell Museum, 1985. 120 p.: ill. (chiefly col.); 28 cm. NK5198.C3 Issued in conjunction with a special exhibition at The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, N.Y.,

Belgique. Catalogue des produits industriels et des oeuvres d&#039;art.
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Belgium. Commission Belge de l'Exposition Universelle de Londres. 31028 Bruxelles: Imp. Charles Lelong, 1862. 279 p., 1 plate: 3 plans; 18 cm. T691 At head of title: Exposition Universelle de Londres en 1862. Includes index. Digitized by Boston Photo Imaging in May 2011. Glass: p. 190-194.

Muséum sacré: Description de l&#039;église métropolitaine du diocèse d&#039;Auch / dessinée par G. G. Lettu.
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Lettu, G. G. 32173 Paris: [s.n.], 1837 (Imp. et Fonderie Normales de Jules Didot l'Ainé) [35] β.: ill.; 54 cm. NK5349.A8 Added t-p: Collection complète des brillants vitraux de l'église cathédrale d'Auch, Département du Gers. Sent to photography August 2012 (photography no.

Rapport sur les produits de l&#039;industrie française: présenté, au nom du jury central, à S.E.M. le comte Corbière,... approuvé par S.S.M. le duc de Doudeauville / rédigé par M. le Vte Héricart de Thury, et par M. Migneron.
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Héricart de Thury, Louis-Etienne-François, vicomte, 1776-1854. Migneron, M. (Pierre-Henri) Exposition des produits de l'industrie française. Jury central (1823: Paris, France) 32180 Rapport du jury central sur les produits de l'industrie française Exposition de 1823 Paris: Imprimerie

Osservazioni istoriche sopra alcuni medaglioni antichi. All&#039;altezza serenissima de Cosimo III, Granduca di Toscana.
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Buonarroti, Filippo, 1661-1733. 30255 Roma, Nella Stamparia di Domenico Antonio Ercole in Parione, 1698. 5 p.l., xxviii, 495, [1] p. illus., 30 pl. + 3 fold. plates. 28 cm. F-10176 Copy 1 digitized by Boston Photo Imaging in September 2009. Vellum binding, worm holes. From Ray Winfield Smith

The methods of glass blowing: for the use of physical and chemical students / by W.A. Shenstone.
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Shenstone, W. A. (William Ashwell), 1850-1908. 31049 Glass blowing London; New York: Longmans, Green, 1897. 4th ed. x, 86 p.: ill.; 18 cm. TP859.2 Title on spine: Glass blowing. Includes index. A digital copy of this book was made by/for Joseph Imler from the book in the Reese Library of the

L&#039;Exposition de Paris (1889) / publiée avec la collaboration d&#039;écrivains spéciaux. Premier &amp; deuxième volume réunis.
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Exposition universelle de 1889 (Paris, France) 31237 Paris: La Librairie Illustrée, 1889. 2 v. in 1 (324 p.): ill. (some col.); 38 cm. T803 Weekly Exposition newspaper: no. 1, 15 Oct. 1888-no. 40, 2 Oct. 1889. Includes index. Digitized by Boston Photo Imaging in September 2009. Original binding;

Spezial-Katalog: Römer, Madeira- und Likör-Kelche, Sektkelche, Champagner-Schalen, Rotwein-Kelche, Pokale, 1909-1910.
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Compagnie des cristalleries de Baccarat, Paris, France. 30854 Römer, Madeira- und Likör-Kelche, Sektkelche, Champagner-Schalen, Rotwein-Kelche, Pokale, 1909-1910 Paris: Compagnie des cristalleries de Baccarat, 1909. [18] pl. (most col.); 24 cm. Trade catalog: Baccarat, Paris, France (F-7223C)

Fabrique de peinture sur verre a la manière des anciens: cahier des dessins divers. / Laurent &amp; Cie, successeurs de Billard.
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Laurent & Cie, Paris, France. 29702 Paris: Laurent & Cie, 1843. [2] p., [19] leaves of plates (some col.); 39 cm. Laurent & Cie Trade catalog. Inside front cover has sealed-on "Changement de domicile" notice and includes some prices. Price list on next 2 pages. 122 designs, no

Catalog (no. 8): chemical, laboratory supply, physicians, druggists, photographers and watchmakers glassware.
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Cambridge Glass Company, Cambridge, OH, USA. 29634 Chemical, laboratory supply, physicians, druggists, photographers and watchmakers glassware Cambridge, Ohio: Cambridge Glass Company, [n.d., 1920?] 62 p.: ill.; 27 cm. Lab glass: Cambridge Glass Company, Cambridge, OH, USA. (F-40L) Trade catalog.

Aldridge, Dowler, Hilton: the Steuben project: sculptures in crystal: [exhibition] Heller Gallery, May 7-29, 1988, Steuben Glass, June 15-July 16, 1988.
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Heller Gallery. Zerwick, Chloe. Steuben Glass (Firm) 32821 [New York]: Steuben Glass, c1988. [42] p.: col. ill.; 23 cm. NK5112.9.S7 Edited by Chloe Zerwick and Meleny Peacock. Price list inserted. "An edition of 7500"--P. facing t.p. A copy of this item was received with the Steuben

Excavations at Jalame: site of a glass factory in late Roman Palestine: excavations conducted by a joint expedition of the University of Missouri and the Corning Museum of Glass / edited by Gladys Davidson Weinberg.
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Weinberg, Gladys Davidson, 1909-2002. Brill, Robert H. Scientific investigations of the Jalame glass. University of Missouri--Columbia. Corning Museum of Glass. 0826204090 (alk. paper) 31493 Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1988. xxv, 378 p.: ill. (some col.), map; 29 cm. NK5107.6 Includes

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