New England Mercantile Union Business Directory: Six Parts in One. 1849

Published by Pratt & Company.

Love the typography of the title page, the way the middle text spreads like eagle wings.

This copy has three of the six maps: Rhode Island, Vermont, and Maine.

...collected by the most competent men to be procured, who have carefully canvassed every town and city...

Someone wrote a rather childlike little essay about Vermont in the memorandum, in pencil, that looks like it was copied verbatim from another book.

There was one law school in New England then, Harvard. Seven medical schools.

Brewers to Carriage Smiths.

 

American Advertising Directory for the Year 1832, New York

Front board with label.

Crack in right edge of leather spine.

Leather spine with gilding.

Front label.

The back board.

Jocelyn, Darling & Co., No. 31 Merchant's Exchange. 1832.

The paper almost feels like fabric.

From the contents: everything from Iron Ore to Water Closets to Japanners to Mustard to Oil Merchants

Chronometer makers, cliff stone, cloak clasps, clocks

In the section on the Coasting Trade, imports include silks, watches, pearls, tin, opium

Boston Almanac for 1856

Albany Citizen's Directory and General Advertiser, 1834-5

Directory of Ballston Spa, Mechanicville, Stillwater, 1893–4
Coal, boots, livery stables, furniture makers