Preston Pilkington & Gibbs Limited nd c1910

35pp catalogue illustrated with b/w line illustrations and including two perforated order forms on last two pages. Unused. Decorated wrappers. A little dusty else good catalogue. Prices given for the various designs. Loosely inserted 4pp folded typescript explaining the process of measuring time using a sundial. Attractive catalogue. On title page pink cancellation label indicating the firm taken over by J Casartelli & Son, 18 Brown Street Manchester by the time this item was dispatched. In 1906 Gibbs applied for a patent for a type of sundial he had de-signed—the Universal Equinoctial Mean Time Heliochronometer or Gibbs Heliochronometer for short—which was able to accurately determine GMT to within a minute at any time of the year and at any latitude. List of clients and testimonials form part of this publication indicating the sun dials were supplied world wide. Production ceased around 1914 at the outbreak of World War I.

Wien I Lugeck 2 nd c1910

36 + (4)pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates throughout. Decorated wrapers 4to. Very good. C. Genersich & Orendi traded in oriental carpets and the firm was established in 1857. Genersich died in 1891 and the company was continued by the Orendi family. Julius Orendi wrote several standard works such as the 1909 first published "Handbook of oriental carpets " which is still available as a reprint. This trade catalogue displays the whole range of the products they sold in the Wienner Werkstatte period. Items illustrated are priced. The number 3 on the front wrapper implies there are other editions of this catalogue but none have been traced. A rare and beautifully produced, turn of the century, trade item. The inner wrapper displays a photograph of the shop as constructed in 1857. The firm regularly exhibited at major trade shows of the period and this may have been published in association with one of the Vienna International exhibitions. Scarce.