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THE LEATHER WORK COLLECTION

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A TRULY FASCINATING COLLECTION OF 165 VINTAGE BOOKS ON ONE USB FLASH DRIVE, INCLUDING SOME REALLY RARE TITLES TEACHING YOU ALL YOU COULD EVER WANT TO KNOW ABOUT LEATHER WORK, LEATHER CRAFT, TANNING, DRESSING, CURING AND MUCH MORE. THE FULL LIST OF TITLES SPEAKS FOR ITSELF!

This superb compilation of 165 vintage books on USB flash drive data disc provides literally 1,000’s of pages of great content and fabulous photos / illustrations for the reader. All of the books have been scanned in high quality and preserved forever in pdf format - easy to read on your laptop or computer, or transfer to tablet, smartphone, kindle or e-reader. You can also print entire books or select pages.

This is without doubt the most extensive collection of its kind - compiled over time by rare-book-collections, and only available here!

The Full List of Titles Included is as Follows:

A complete guide to the ornamental leather work by J. Revell - London (1875)

A history of furniture, with chapters on tapestry, oriental embroidery and leather work by A. Jacquemart (1907)

A manual of shoemaking and leather and rubber products by W. H. Dooley (1912)

A method of tanning without bark - W. Maple (1729)

A new and complete treatise on the arts of tanning, currying, and leather-dressing - H. Dussauce (1855)

A study of the changes in skins during their conversion into leather by A. A. Schlichte (1915)

A text-book of tanning - a treatise on the conversion of skins into leather, both practical and theoretical - H. R. Proctor (1885)

Aboriginal skin-dressing - O. T. Mason (1891)

About furs - G. R. Cripps (1903)

Adventurers of Oregon - a chronicle of the fur trade - C. L. Skinner (1920)

An apparatus for measuring the relative wear of sole leathers - R. W. Hart (1919)

Application of dyestuffs to textiles, paper, leather and other materials by J. M. Matthews (1920)

Area measurement of leather by F. J. Schlink (1920)

California tanbark oak. Part I. Tanbark oak and the tanning industry - W. L. Jepson (1911)

Church art in metal, plaster, glass, leather, embroidery, wood, jewelled plate (1921)

Cleaning of fur and leather garments by M. H. Goldman (1921)

Conserving hides, skinning - I. D. Clarke (1915)

Constitution of the United Brotherhood of Leather Workers on Horse Goods - United Brotherhood of Leather Workers on Horse Goods (1910)

Country hides and skins - C. V. Whalin (1919)

Country hides and skins - skinning, curing and marketing - R. W. Frey (1923)

Cowie's bookbinder's manual containing a full description of leather and vellum binding, etc. - G. Cowie (1852)

Decorative textiles - an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors ... tooled and illuminated leathers - G. L. Hunter (1918)

Directions for the tanning and dressing of furs - J. S. Dixon (1922)

Directions for using the patent eagle tanning process - A. F. Stockwell (1869)

Durability of sole leather filled with sulphite cellulose extract by R. C. Bowker (1922)

Effects of glucose and salts on the wearing quality of sole leather by P. L. Wormeley (1919)

Embroidered and laced leatherwork - A. Macbeth (1921)

English of leather making by G. F. Quimby (1919)

Facts worth knowing about leather, boots, and shoes by J. H. Walker (1872)

Forty years a fur trader on the upper Missouri; the personal narrative of Charles Larpenteur, 1833-1872 Vol. 1 - C. Larpenteur (1898)

Forty years a fur trader on the upper Missouri; the personal narrative of Charles Larpenteur, 1833-1872 Vol. 2 - C. Larpenteur (1898)

Fur and the fur trade - M. M. Backus (1879)

Fur buyers' guide; complete instructions about buying, handling and grading raw furs, including size, color, quality - A. R. Harding (1915)

Fur dressing and dyeing - B. R. Armour (1919)

Fur-bearing animals in nature and in commerce - H. Poland (1892)

Fur-farming in Canada - J. W. Jones (1914)

Furs and fur garments - R. Davey (1895)

Furs and the fur trade - J. C. Sachs (1923)

Hides & skins and the manufacture of leather - J. P. Warburg (1921)

Hides and skins from the animal's back to the tannery door (1912)

Home manufacture of furs and skins - A. B. Farnham (1916)

Home tanning of leather and small fur skins - R. W. Frey (1923)

Laboratory wearing test to determine the relative wear resistance of sole leather at different depths throughout the thickness of a hide by R. W. Hart (1920)

Leather- and Metal-work Designing - International Correspondence Schools (1916)

Leather chemists' pocket-book, a short compendium of analytical methods by H. R. Proctor (1912)

Leather Dressing - M. C. Lamb (1909)

Leather for libraries - E. W. Hulme (1905)

Leather in the decorative arts (1915)

Leather industries laboratory book of analytical and experimental methods by H. R. Procter (1908)

Leather investigations the composition of some sole leathers by F. P. Veitch (1913)

Leather manufacture, a practical handbook of tanning, currying, and chrome leather dressing by A. Watt (1906)

Leather manufacture, a treatise on the practical workings of the leather manufacture; ... together with numerous ... recipes... and miscellaneous matter by J. W. Stevens (1891)

Leather trades chemistry; a practical manual on the analysis of materials and finished products - S. R. Trotman (1908)

Leather Work - (article published September 1, 1894)

Leather Work - (article published September 1, 1899)

Leather Work - A. Mickel (1915)

Leather Work A Practical Manual For Learners - I. Pitman (1923)

Leather work by W. H. Wilson (1908)

Leather working by P. N. Hasluck (1904)

Leather, Hides, Skins & Tanning Materials by E. C. Snow (1922)

Leathers of old Japan - B. Matsuki (1910)

Manufacture of leather by A. Rogers (1922)

Modern American Tanning Vol. 1 (1918)

Modern American Tanning Vol. 2 (1918)

Nature and control of tannery processes by J. R. Lorenz (1922)

Notes on bookbinding for libraries - J. C. Dana (1910)

P. Stephenson's lightning tanning process by P. Stephenson (1879)

Practical Leather Chemistry - A. Harvey (1920)

Practical tanning - a handbook of modern practice and processes as applied in the manufacture of leather and allied products by A. Rogers (1922)

Practical tanning - a handbook of modern processes, receipts, and suggestions for the treatment of hides, skins and pelts of every description by L. A. Flemming (1916)

Preservation of leather bookbindings - R. W. Frey (1922)

Principles and practice of fur dressing and fur dyeing - W. E. Austin (1922)

Puering, bating & drenching of skins - J. T. Wood (1912)

Report of the committee on leather for bookbinding - C. Cobham (1905)

Roycroft leather-book being a catalog of beautiful leathern things made Roycroftie by hand by Roycroft artists by Roycroft (1909)

Seven easy and cheap methods, for preparing, tanning, dressing, scenting and renovating all wool & fur peltries by C. Goodrich (1860)

Shoe and leather encyclopedia (1911)

Shoe and leather trade of the last hundred years by S. Bryant (1891)

Something about leather by L. Allyne (1897)

Sorting, grading and curing furs - A. F. Wallace (1910)

Spanish Leather Work - (article published December 1, 1892)

Summary of Report of the Federal trade commission on shoe and leather costs and prices - United States Federal Trade Commission (1921)

Tanners' and chemists' handbook - L. E. Levi (1909)

The American fur trade of the far West - H. M. Chittenden (1902)

The American tanner - N. R. Briggs (1892)

The application of Oils and Grease to Leather - J. R. Blockey (1919)

The art of tanning leather - D. H. Kennedy (1857)

The arts of tanning, currying, and leather dressing - J. De Fontenelle (1852)

The boot and shoe manufacturers' assistant and guidev by W. H. Richardson (1858)

The care of leather - F. P. Veitch (1920)

The Chemistry Of Leather Manufacture - J. A. Wilson (1923)

The chemistry of mineral tannages - W. M. Norris (1888)

The decoration of leather by M. Nathan (1905)

The fur animals of Louisiana - S. C. Arthur (1922)

The fur trade of America - A. C. Laut (1921)

The fur trade of America and some of the men who made and maintain it - A. L. Belden (1917)

The fur traders and fur bearing animals - M. Petersen (1914)

The fur traders of the Columbia river and the Rocky mountains - W. Irving (1903)

The furrier's friend & adviser on dressing and tanning of fur skins and hides - G. F. Ott (1922)

The fur-trade and early Western exploration - C. A. Vandiveer (1919)

The gleanings of tanning by H. Montgomery (1883)

The home mechanic and complete self-instructor in carpentry, painting, horse-shoeing, soap making, candy making, baking, taxidermy, tanning by R. J. Schofield (1897)

The Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association Vol. 1 (1906)

The Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association Vol. 3 (1908)

The Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association Vol. 4 (1909)

The Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association Vol. 5 (1910)

The Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association Vol. 6 (1911)

The Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association Vol. 7 (1912)

The Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association Vol. 8 (1913)

The Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association Vol. 9 (1914)

The Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association Vol. 10 (1915)

The Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association Vol. 11 (1916)

The Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association Vol. 12 (1917)

The Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association Vol. 13 (1918)

The Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association Vol. 14 (1919)

The Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association Vol. 15 (1920)

The Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association Vol. 16 (1921)

The Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association Vol. 17 (1922)

The leather goods department - M. Lehmann (1917)

The leather manufacture in the United States; a dissertation on the methods and economies of tanning - J. S. Schultz (1876)

The leather specimen book by F. W. La Croix (1917)

The Leather Work Book - R. Baughan (1919)

The Leather Worker's Journal Vol. 1906

The Leather Worker's Journal Vol. 1909

The Leather Worker's Journal Vol. 1916

The making of leather by H. R. Proctor (1914)

The manufacture of leather being a description of all of the processes for the tanning, tawing, currying, finishing by C. T. Davis (1885)

The manufacture of leather by H. G. Bennett (1909)

The manufacture of leather; being a description of all of the processes for the tanning and tawing with bark, extracts, chrome and all modern tannages in general use - C. T. Davis (1897)

The manufacture of lubricants, shoe polishes and leather dressings - R. Brunner (1906)

The new kard process for preparing and tanning small skins and firs - H. Stephens (1884)

The practical upholsterer - giving clear directions for skillfully performing all kinds of upholsteres' work in leather, silk, plush, reps, cottons, velvets, and carpetings - F. T. Hodgson (1891)

The principles of leather manufacture by H. R. Proctor (1903)

The Shoe and Leather Journal (1910 Jan-Dec)

The Shoe and Leather Journal (1911 Jan-Dec)

The Shoe and Leather Journal (1912 Jan-Dec)

The Shoe and Leather Journal (1913 Jan-Dec)

The Shoe and Leather Journal (1914 Jan-Dec)

The Shoe and Leather Journal (1915 Jan-Dec)

The Shoe and Leather Journal (1916 Jan-Dec)

The Shoe and Leather Journal (1917 Jan-Dec)

The Shoe and Leather Journal (1918 Jan-June)

The Shoe and Leather Journal (1918 July-Dec)

The Shoe and Leather Journal (1919 Jan-June)

The Shoe and Leather Journal (1919 June-Dec)

The Shoe and Leather Journal (1920 Jan-June)

The Shoe and Leather Journal (1920 July-Dec)

The Shoe and Leather Journal (1921 Jan-June)

The Shoe and Leather Journal (1921 July-Dec)

The Shoe and Leather Journal (1922 Jan-June)

The Shoe and Leather Journal (1922 July-Dec)

The Shoe and Leather Journal (1923 Jan-June)

The Shoe and Leather Journal (1923 July-Dec)

The shoe industry - F. Allen (1922)

The tanning industry by A. H. Onthank (1917)

The world's trade in hides, skins and leather - Tanners' council of the United States of America (1918)

Two lectures on tanning - G. Lee (1838)

Unhairing hides by sulphide of sodium (1883)

W. H. Newby's new tanning process by W. H. Newby (1867)

The most comprehensive collection of its kind available on eBay today - a must for anyone with an interest in leather work, leather craft and the processes involved in the manufacture of leather!

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