"AN OPPORTUNITY TO SECURE A FORTUNE
WHICH YOU WILL NEVER HAVE AGAIN.
READ THESE PAGES CAREFULLY AND ACT
PROMPTLY, OR YOU WILL REGRET IT WHEN
TOO LATE. IF YOU ARE NOT SO CIRCUMSTANCED
AS TO BE ABLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS
OPPORTUNITY, PLEASE HAND THIS PAMPHLET TO
SOME FRIEND WHOM YOU WISH TO BENEFIT."

Seaver, Carlton (inventor). An Opportunity to Secure a Fortune ... (cover title). [Traer, Iowa]: published by Seaver, printed by the Ottaway & Co. Printers of Chicago, no date [1880 per OCLC]. First Edition. Octavo (10.25" x 7"), 12 pages plus covers, illustrated. Original printed paper wraps, sewn.

Condition: Slightly toned, still Fine. Please see photos.

Seeking agents, Carleton Seaver promotes his floor vented stove. Includes six full page illustrations from woodcuts. An 1880 issue of Scientific American provides further information

"An improved magazine stove has been patented by Mr. Carlton Seaver, of Traer. Iowa. The object of this invention is to construct a stove so that the smoke and other products of combustion shall pass downward through the bottom thereof into a pipe that leads under the floor of the room in which the stove is placed and into the chimney, while the heat and light of the tire shall warm and light the room in which the stove is."


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