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RAUCH, JOHN. John Rauch's Receipts on Dyeing, in a series of Letters to a Friend. Containing correct and exact copies of all his best receipts on dyeing cotton & woolen goods, obtained and improved by him, during twelve years practice at different manufactories, in Switzerland, France, Germany & America. Also, a True Description of His Invented Substitute for Woad, Being a Cheap and Preferable Material, and the Produce of This Country. New-York: Printed for Joseph I. Badger & Co., Proprietors in New-Haven, 1815. 1st ed. 8vo. 97 pp. Contemp. 3/4 calf & marbled boards. Browned, but fine. On the front endpaper: "Selah North's Book/ Price one hundred dollars[!]/ AD 1815./ Presented by Selah North/ To Gideon L. North/ May 15, 1847". $850.00
Rink 1855 (one copy). S & S 35749, one copy, but according to Rink, 98 pages and an entirely different setting. The rarity was perhaps occasioned by the price of $100.00! Given in a series of letters, with each used for a different type of dyeing. The first letter lists ten factores in the eastern United States where Rauch's dyeing methods are in effect, including one in Providence and five in Massachusetts.
Rauch also recommends "a new work lately published in Philadelphia, entitled "Bancroft on Colours," price $5 there you may find a great many amusing histories of old times, and a very particular description of a variety of Dye-Stuffs, which you and me never have nor never will see.. The only fault I find with said work is, that there are no practical rules in it..." (We can also offer Selah North's set of Bancroft). Rauch also includes a list of persons who have learned the art of dyeing from him.