New York: Press of J. J. Little & Co., 1905.
Price: $150.00
Hardcover. First edition. Two-tone cloth over boards with front cover gilt. Illustrated with plates. Modern owner label on front pastedown. Binding a bit cocked with modest wear and soil, one plate and adjacent pages foxed, a very good copy. Chesebrough was the chemist who discovered petroleum jelly, which he marketed as Vaseline. In 1899, the Chesebrough Manufacturing Company moved into a building at 13-19 State Street in Battery Park, New York City, subsequently known as the Chesebrough Building. In 1919 the company sold it to real estate broker Joseph P. Day. This book was Inscribed by Chesebrough to Day in the year the sale was finalized. An interesting New York City business association. Eleven copies in *OCLC*.
Item #600068
