agent boynton nathaniel (1 risultati)

1st printing (presumed). Broadside, printed in black ink, 34 lines of text. Verso blank [except for 2 lines of mss]. 3 wood engraved views of the furnance. 10-3/4" x 9-1/4" "A central heating furnace was said to have been invented in 1835 in Worcester, MA. Early furnaces were locally produced for the specific job â" there was no furnace industry per se. The first U.S. furnace manufacturer was the Richardson & Boynton Co., Brooklyn NY, which began mass marketing furnaces about 1837. The company survived until 1942." [the NEWS website]. The text herein puffs the superiority of Boynton's patented [as of August 1854] ventilating furnance, with "orders personally attended to in any part of the State, by W. G. Wing, Agent, (Late Wing & Watson). Hint of age-toning & a couple fold-lines, otherwise a VG+ copy of this fragile, and rare, survivor. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve.