[Cook, G.D. & Co.]:

$1,500 · Offered by William Reese Company

G. & D. COOK & CO'S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF CARRIAGES, NEW HAVEN, CONN. Handsomely illustrated catalogue of carriage-maker G. & D. Cook & Co. of New Haven, displaying eighty lithographed images of different carriages, with a brief history and description of New Haven. G. & D. Cook & Co. was founded in the 1850s and collapsed in 1861 under the economic pressures of the Civil War. They reformed as a joint stock company, but that also failed. During the Civil War the company manufactured an early form of bullet-proof vest for Union soldiers at the front lines. OCLC locates copies at only two institutions: the University of Illinois and the Henry Ford.

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