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RGW9744Hand-Coloured Lithograph heightened with gum arabic showing train and shipping by Day & Son mark on imprint to right Stephenson's Tubular Bridge over the Menai Straits was opened in 1850. Telford's road bridge in the background was built between 1820 and 1826.Francis Klingender in "Art and the Industrial Revolution" observes in the 1840s how artists moved away from depicting the railways themselves to the bridges which carried them. He writes of George Hawkins 1810-52 "his masterpieces are a series of tinted lithographs of the building of the Stephenson tubular bridges over the Conway and the Menai Strait." Here Hawkins shows how even in a remote and sublime location the world is busy with modern communication by train and shipping. Below the image are details of the bridges. unknown
1853019730New York: George P. Putnam & Co 1853. 2nd edition. 8vo: viii v/vi repeated so x 179 p. Title-page is a cancel. Green vertical ribbed cloth with blindstamped cartouches front and rear reading "Putnam's Popular Library.". Good. Covers spotted two corners lightly bumped first three leaves foxed with only very occasional foxing thereafter. Previous owners' names on front blank and title-page. Binding is sound. <br/><br/> George P. Putnam & Co hardcover
1845157495New York Wiley and Putnam 1845. First edition second issue. Small thin 8vo. Half title. 179 pages. Contemporary 1/2 brown leather over rubbed green cloth with original printed front wrapper from the issue in wrappers tipped-in; chip at top of spine. Very good. This was edited by Hawthorne for his old college chum who had underwritten the cost of Hawthorne's first book1837. With the bookplate of William Temple Emmet's with his pencil signature on the front free endpaper and ink signature on the wrapper leaf. BAL 7597. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. New York, Wiley and Putnam, hardcover
19223433London: Jonathan Cape 1922. Paperback. Very Good. FIRST LIMITED EDITION 296/ 750 INSCRIBED BY CLEMENCE HOUSMAN. 8vo incl. six woodcut plates by Stephen Bone. Original green cloth white paper title label lettered in black with green decorations to spine. Leading and bottom edges untrimmed. Pushing to spine ends. Edges toned top edge spotted. Inscribed in black ink to ffep: "To Norah from C. H. Christmas 1923" later ex libris of Alex. Bridge to front endpaper with his name and date 24.2. 1958 below in blue ink faint bands of offsetting to feps. Occasional fox spots spine cracked at pp. 32-3 with binding firm else clean and bright esp. Bone's six fine woodcut plates. In the original buff dust jacket lettered in black and reproducing Bone's woodcut 'Road' to front panel: price-clipped toned and foxed creased and nicked spine ends chipped; Bridge's pencil notes to ffep re. the inscription. Very good/ very good A tantalising as yet! unsupported association copy of the attractive limited edition George Bourne's familial farming memoir illustrated with six sympathetic woodcuts by Stephen Bone with an inscription ascribed to fellow woodcut artist author and suffragette Clemence Housman supposedly gifting it to the prolific and prolifically censored Irish novelist Norah Hoult: "To Norah from C. H. Christmas 1923"; according to a PO note "Alan Hancox the Cheltenham-based antiquarian bookseller who sold this to me says the inscription on the endpaper is by Clemence Housman. to Norah Hoult". Credibly in Housman's hand in 1923 the year of inscription the retiring artist and author would have been 62 and living briefly in Hampshire with her brother Laurence en route to their final home in Street from London; while her own novels and work for the Suffrage Atelier was behind her Housman was still producing wood engraving of her brother's drawings to illustrate his books with 1922 seeing Jonathan Cape issue three volumes of fairy stories and Christian fantasies on which the siblings collaborated. The significantly younger Hoult 1898–1984 had recently moved to London and was writing for a range of publications including Time and Tide the Telegraph and Pearson's Magazine; her first book Poor Women wouldn't appear for another five years. It's possible that Housman and Hoult may have met through literary circles and it seems likely that they would have been sympathetic to each other. Hoult would go on to nurture a close cross-generational friendship with her neighbour in wartime Kensington the novelist and suffragist Violet Hunt on whom she based her protagonist Claire in her 1944 novel of memory loss There Were No Windows. Alex. Bridge was a Tragara Press collector and correspondent of its founder Alan Anderson. With thanks to Elizabeth Crawford. Jonathan Cape paperback
198433052New York: Rizzoli 1984. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Rizzoli 1984. First American Edition. Folio 34cm; publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; 752pp.; full color frontispiece color and halftone illus. throughout. Light shelf wear a few faint surface scratches to rear jacket panel brief white residue to bottom edges of both boards corners nudged top textblock edge dusty else Very Good internally clean and sound. Rizzoli unknown
1937140990Murray Bridge: A.C. Weller for the Murray Bridge Centenary Committee 1937. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Murray Bridge A.C. Weller for the Murray Bridge Centenary Committee 1937. Octavo 64 pages with numerous illustrations from photographs including a gatefold aerial view plus a loosely inserted folding map of the town 'Scale 16 chains = 1 inch'. Overlapping saddle-stapled printed wrappers a little stained and rubbed; extremities a little creased with a few tiny tears; map lightly creased with a couple of tiny marks and a glue stain to one edge perhaps where the map was glued to the pamphlet itself; overall in very good condition. Printed on the front cover 'The Souvenir Programme and Guide Book with Maps'. A.C. Weller for the Murray Bridge Centenary Committee paperback
1925LIST0213New York 1925. Very Good. A large-scale rendering of the plans for the Greenpoint Avenue bridge over Newtown Creek. The bridge connected Greenpoint to the Blissville neighborhood in Queens. The bridge is the sixth in this location. unknown
192756438Pittsburgh PA New York NY & Toledo OH: The Foundation Company 115 Broadway 1927-1930. Oblong 4to. With 136 linen-backed silver gelatin photographs w/ smaller images mounted 3 to a leaf all w/ linen hinges at gutter margin; including 107 sized 3 x 5.75 in. many w/ text w/in the negative several w/ manuscript descriptions in ink on versos 6 sized 4.75 x 6.75 in. w/ photographer’s stamp for Simmons-Boardman Publishing Co. on verso 23 sized 8 x 10 in. nearly all w/ detailed ink manuscript notes w/in lower parts of negatives many w/ dates in the negative in lower fore-edge and negative numbers manuscript pencil notes of the Northland Studios on verso. All bound w/ sliding metal Acco-fastener at gutter margin manuscript title on front cover of thick paper preserved in the original file folder toning edgewear tears & creases still VG exemplar w/ mimeograph instructions mounted inside front flap detailing that these were to be returned to the Chief Clerk of the Roadway Dept. This amazing photo archive chronicles the bridge removal and construction coffer dam building foundation work and construction project on the Lower Maumee River Bridge for the Toledo Terminal Railroad by The Foundation Company of Pittsburgh & New York. The Toledo Terminal Railroad was completed in 1903 and at one time owned by most of the major railroads that passed through Toledo forming a loop around the city providing an essential link to all of the industrial factories around the city. The Lower Maumee River Bridge was originally erected in 1902-1903 as a single track truss bridge but by the Roaring 20s needed a major upgrade to double-track. These images show in reverse order the construction of additional piers building of coffer dams massive cranes installed to remove the old trusses and install new trusses as well as build the swing span. Along with photos of the control systems the entire intricate process of removing the original single span and installing the double-track trusses is depicted as well as the new swing span in operation. The Foundation Co. was founded in 1900 by Remington Jarrett and Moran and grew rapidly in the opening decades of the 20th century often securing numerous large projects including the building of several dams on the Ohio River to offset flooding railroad bridges and more. It should be noted that the MichiganRailroad project Bridge Hunter and several other references list this still existing and operational railroad bridge as having been constructed in 1902-1903 as double-track but these images clearly show the massive three-year project replacing the original from 1927-1930. See: Toledo Terminal Installs Simplified Interlocking System for Swing Bridge Railway Signaling Vol. 23 No. 12 Dec. 1930 pp. 437-439; R.L. Dalton The Foundation Company In: The Foundation Shipbuilder: The Standard of Stability Vol. 1 No. 3 1918 pp. 1-3; Foundation Company Editorial Chat In: Rock Products Vol. VII No. 2 1907 p. 24; Marvin Kusmierz Industrial Works 1873-1983 aka: Industrial Brownhoist In: Bay-Journal 2007. The Foundation Company, 115 Broadway, unknown
114868Both the card and the photograph are in excellent condition. unknown
1892139126Littlehampton: Thomas Sladdin 1892. Very Good. Littlehampton Thomas Sladdin circa 1892. Two individual albumen paper photographs each approximately 82 × 74 mm mounted on a plain stereocard approximately 88 × 175 mm; the photographer's inkstamp 'Thos. Sladdin Photo.' is on the verso. tiny mark to one photograph; in excellent condition. Davies and Stanbury record 'Thomas Sladden Sladdin' working as a photographer at three locations in SA: Littlehampton 1890-91; Sedan 1892-94; and Lyndoch 1895-1900 with his brother John. Littlehampton is the closest of the three to Murray Bridge. Thomas Sladdin unknown
19406069Tacoma 1940. 3 RPPC's 2 filled out on versos 1 blank. Generally very good or better with minor corner and edge wear. <br /> <br /> Three separate views of the historic collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge on November 7 1940. One view is from the east pier during the corkscrewing at 10:45am and another from a similar time viewed from below. The third shows the collapse into the Sound at 11:08am. Various factors including lack of torsional resistance flexibility of the structure "vortex shedding" and high winds contributed to the collapse; "Galloping Gertie" becoming an all-time lesson in physics and bridge construction. unknown
18693723Galveston Tx 1869. Very good. 2pp. on a single folded folio sheet of lined paper with integral blank plus fourteen partially-printed receipts completed in manuscript. Minor dust-soiling creasing and edge wear. A post-Civil War manuscript agreement from Texas with the signatures of twenty-six investors transferring their stock in the Brazos Iron Bridge Company to John Sealy of the Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway Company. Additionally the document is noted and signed on the verso by Sealy transferring those same shares to Thomas W. Peirce. The document is accompanied by fourteen receipts for installment payments on capital stock purchased in the Brazos Iron Bridge Company some of which relates directly to the larger transfer agreement. The Brazos Iron Bridge Company was organized in 1867. Its mission was to construct a railway bridge across the Brazos River. The bridge completed in July 1869 was purchased by the Buffalo Bayou Brazos and Colorado Railway later known as the Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway Company. When the dust settled on the various transactions among the shareholders John Sealy owned a one-eighth interest in the railway company. Sealy moved from Pennsylvania to Galveston in 1846 and became an important early Galveston merchant real estate investor and railroad magnate. unknown
18942210077<i>Consisting of 50 pressed card pieces of 52 lacking two small tie pieces and a few finials now broken away together with a small strip of pegs and a printed line drawing of the bridge and brief yet adequate instructions ; contained in the original box 25 x 35 x 1.5 cm the lid with a large decorative title label of the completed bridge with various boats milling around the 'Port of London'.</i><br /><br /><br />An unusual and perhaps unique example of an embossed card construction toy marketed to coincide with the opening of the then new Tower Bridge.<br /><br />The new bridge was considered something of an eighth wonder the engineering combining a bascule operated drawbridge together with a suspension bridge all disguised under an elaborate gothic exterior that was supposed to blend in with but actually dwarfs the Tower of London. Not the easiest design to translate into a construction kit but the anonymous makers evidently used the plans and elevations of the design as shown in contemporary engineering journals. Some modifications have had to be made in order to produce a toy that balanced the decorative gothic features and engineering accuracy into practical design. <br /><br />The expectation would be that once the model was built it would after a decent time be thrown away however the owner of this example has carefully disassemble the bridge and preserved it with the original box. When constructed the toy bridge measures 127 cm or 4 feet long and 29 cm or just under a foot in height. <br /><br />We have not met with any other example.<br />
18899540Philadelphia: Billstein & Son 1889. Original Wrappers. Fair binding. Oblong 12mo. 61 3 pp. fontis map illus. As issue stitched in printed wrappers; folding map and plate serve as frontispieces; full-page in-text illustrations throughout. Wrappers are soiled and chipped; scattered foxing; closed tear to the folding map. <br /> <br /> Despite going into multiple editions this remains a fairly uncommon description of Virginia's Natural Bridge. In addition to a description and history of Natural Bridge this comprises excerpts from other works about the bridge including a few pages from Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia. Additionally information on accommodations and transportation to the site. Quite rare with only 5 institutions reporting ownership of any edition according to OCLC. Haynes 4892 though the pagination noted in Haynes appears to be in error. Billstein & Son unknown
1899010643Navy Records Society 1899. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First English language edition of the Russian original and no.15 in the Navy Records Society's series of well produced publications. Stock toned to edges and moreso to endpapers but otherwise all is in VG internal order. Neat signature of former owner dated 1899 to fep. Cream and black cloth boards with bright gilt decoration and titling lightly marked and with a couple of small bumps. Scarce. 8vo. 161pp <br/> <br/> Navy Records Society hardcover
1330367472.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0260717673.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1999x-0897896610Bergin & Garvey 1999. Paperback. New. 232 pages. 9.25x6.00x0.50 inches. Bergin & Garvey paperback
19822090502113706392Not Available 1982. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
192918316<p>November 1929; 1st printing of 1st edition. Good HC no DJ. Blue cloth over boards black stamped titles on front cover and spine. Lightly scuffed covers and spine; some fading along cover edges; very faint damp stain at front cover lower fore corner; very slight bow to front cover; tightly bound; clean interior with slight general age darkening; leaves remain supple. 12mo 256 pp; index. See OCLC #504559425.</p> London: G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
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193317803<p>1st edition. Very Good HC in Good DJ. Green linen-grain cloth over boards gilt stamped titles on spine. Bright clean square covers and spine; dust spotting on text block edges; tightly bound; some age darkening of end papers; light clean interior; very light foxing on few pages. DJ is complete; lightly scuffed; age darkened on spine titles clear and very slightly along cover edges; small label at lower spine. 12mo 93 pp. Cf OCLC #30541851.</p> London: Ernest Benn Ltd hardcover
A9781639898077Hardback. New. hardcover
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