Insurance: Philadelphia Rare Books

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INSURANCE

“Cookery . . . the Economy of Your Grandmothers

& the Science of the Modern Chemist”

(Advertising Give-Away). The Metropolitan Life cook book. New York: Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Press, [1922?]. 8vo (19.3 cm, 7.6"). 64 pp.
$30.00

Metropolitan Life

• Brown, Culinary Americana, 2819g. Original printed paper wrappers, in good condition with only very minor wear and one small spot to front coer, spine gently faded. A handful of spots of foxing, inside, mostly concentrated around staples.

“The Delaware Insurance Company”

Delaware Insurance Company of Philadelphia. Constitution of the Delaware Insurance Company of Philadelphia. N.p., n.d. [Philadelphia, 1803]. 8vo. 16 pp.
$900.00

Institutional holdings of this constitution seem to be few: A search of NUC Pre-1956, OCLC, RLIN, and Shaw & Shoemaker turns up copies at only the Library of Congress, the Free Library of Philadelphia, and Cambridge University (England).

• Shaw & Shoemaker 4066. Housed in a modern quarter dark red morocco tray case. Sewn, with original blue-green paper wrappers; wrappers torn with small loss. Faint stamp on front wrapper. Uncut copy and margins chipped. Light foxing in a few places. Withal, a remarkable survival of a rare item.

Philadelphia-Area FIRE Insurance

(Mutual Assurance Company). The deed of settlement of the Mutual Assurance Company, for insuring houses from loss by fire, in and near Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Pr. by W. Fry, 1818. 8vo (18.7 cm, 7.4"). 15, [1 (blank)] pp.
$275.00

• Early and uncommon American insurance item, with a nice woodcut title-page vignette of a tree. The company was originally founded in 1784 and incorporated in 1786; it produced its first deed of settlement in 1801, the text of which is here amended to conform with changes made to the original act of incorporation.

In libraries, this is a common item on microfilm—very uncommon, as a reality.

• Shaw & Shoemaker 44957. Stitched in paper wrappers, front wrapper with printed paper label; pencilled notations to upper margin of front wrapper, small smudge to back wrapper. Ownership inscription to front fly-leaf. A little foxing only.

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