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2008170535福州.Fuzhou.: 福建教育出版社.Fujian jiao yu chu ban she. 1st Edition 1st Printing. 2008. Profuse illustrations some in colour 206pp very good paperback copy. Text in Chinese only. 28.5 x 21cm. This album includes western engravings and etchings of 19th century China covering the Sino-French War Naval Battle of Mawei Battle of Taiwan Battle of Northern Vietnam and the Social Customs of Fujian Taiwan and Vietnam. . 福建教育出版社.[Fujian jiao yu chu ban she]. paperback
41384Printed folio document 10-1/4" x 15-1/2." Completed in ink manuscript. Signed by the President S. N. Felton and Secretary Chas. Hinchman of the Western Land Association. Docketed on the verso with manuscript release of portion of a mortgage from the Association. Usual folds Very Good plus.<br /> <br /> A Jay Cooke project to give him access to the lands along a Minnesota Railroad. "One of the projects growing out of Jay Cooke's connection with the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad was the 'Western Land Association of Minnesota.' The purpose of this company was similar to George Francis Train's Credit Foncier of America. It sought to exploit Duluth and the town sites and land privileges along the right of way of a projected railroad. The first published report of the Western Land Association was made in 1871. The company had received cash of $200000 for its shares. Its receipts consisted of $97321 for real estate sold and $21166 in interest on deferred payments and it paid out $182390 for real estate purchases. But the most important item mentioned in the report is the stock interest acquired in the company by the Northern Pacific Railroad. In return for an agreement of the Northern Pacific to fix its eastern terminus at Duluth and to connect with the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad the Western Land Association sold 2000 shares of its stock for $120000 to the 'Lake Superior and Puget Sound Company' the real estate subsidiary of the Northern Pacific.<br /> "The president of the company Mr. Samuel M. Felton said 'The company will soon be attacked by the Press and in the Courts as a monopoly and being the creature of the law may be subject to continual and expensive annoyance.' Moreover 'the Western<br /> Land Association has now accomplished as a holder of a large number of town lots the object for which it was organized and kept out of the hands of unprogressive speculators the property they would otherwise have held to the detriment of all large plans of improvement". Sakolski THE GREAT AMERICAN LAND BUBBLE. Harper & Brothers. 1932. Chapter 14 page 294 et seq. Reprinted 1966. unknown
193460177New York: Rae D. Henkle Publisher 1934. 8vo. 320 pp. Black cloth pictorial cover art and striking Art Deco lettering in red front cover & spine w/ d.j. pictorial cover art by Nat Falk & lettering in red on black field very slight shelfwear an exceptional NF/NF copy. First edition of this Great Depression Era prison reform memoir detailing the life story of career criminal John Goode and his continued downfall and numerous incarcerations over a career of many decades. Moved abruptly to Colorado in the 1870’s Goode ran away from home in 1875 becoming a “second story worker†for a band of yeggmen in Denver; two years later was sent to reformatory in Massachusetts for robbery before escaping twice; indentured to a fishing schooner off the Grand Banks before escaping; rustled cattle in New Mexico looted gambling halls in Colorado herded sheep in Wyoming and eventually repeated in prison sentences in Ohio for Highway Robbery as well as running pickpocket ring in New York. Henkle 1883-1935 editor of the New York Herald and prison reformer along with journalist Thelma Roberts believed his story should be told and dedicated the book to Goode’s mother and “all those who understanding that boys are at hear adventurers romancers brave little crusaders and help them to find the paths of right adventuring.†Scarce in original dustjacket. Rae D. Henkle, Publisher, hardcover
187431000Pennsylvania: Delaware Lackawanna & Western Express Railroad 1874. Leather bound. Defective. Oblong ledger. Restored. Marbled paper covered boards. Newer paper covered corners and spine. Front cover cleaned. Covers re attached with papered hinges in front and back. Ledger consists of 77 leaves 144 pages of recorded information written in pencil on lined columns. The last 3 leaves in back unused. Information includes date; article; consignee; destination amount charges; and by whom received. The recorded information is brief and sometimes difficult to read. No destinations recorded instead cash numbers written in the destination fields. <br /> <br /> From wikipedia:<br /> <br /> The Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad also known as the DL&W or Lackawanna Railroad was a U.S. Class 1 railroad that connected Buffalo New York and Hoboken New Jersey and by ferry with New York City a distance of 395 miles 636 km. The railroad was incorporated in Pennsylvania in 1853 and created primarily to provide a means of transport of anthracite coal from the Coal Region in Northeast Pennsylvania to large coal markets in New York City. The railroad gradually expanded both east and west and eventually linked Buffalo with New York City. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Express Railroad unknown
196440044N.P.: Privately printed 1964. 1964. 9 1/4" x 6 1/8" in bright colorful pictorial wrap-around covers showing a photograph of the California Zephyr traveling along a mountainside. 4 panels. Text printed in blue ink. Offers 3 entrees with vegetables for $2.25 and an Ala Carte Menu. Inserted is a small card 3 1/4" x 4" offering for the Cafe's Special of the Day. Rusted paperclip mark to top of panel 2 and also to top of the small card offering the special. Lightly soiled and with light wear to the extremities. Very good. Privately printed, 1964. unknown
194046529N.P.: Privately printed n.d. ca 1940. 1940. First edition. 8 1/4" x 45" sheet folded to 24 panels. Illustrations. Map. 12 full-color captioned images are printed on one side of the sheet. The opposite side offers 2 cover panels a 6-panel color route map and 4 panels offering information on the Royal Gorge Route and the Moffat Tunnel Route describing what one can expect to see an experience during the trip and offering information on notable Rio Grande Wonder Spots. Minimal soiling and with light rubbing to some folds. Very good plus. Privately printed, n.d. [ca 1940]. unknown
189046818Chicago: R. R. Donnelley and Sons Company 1890. 1890. UTAH. First Edition. 56 pp. Octavo 22 cm Gray illustrated wrappers. Illustrations. Offers a short history of the settlement and growth of Utah and includes profiles of Salt Lake Ogden and the Great Salt Lake. Illustrations include the tramway in Little Cottonwood "The vast improvements wrought by the industrious and frugal pioneers of Utah the great natural resources of the territory the balm of its health giving and invigorating climate the wonders of the majestic mountains the sylvan beauties of its unrivaled valleys the new relations of amity and progress that have sprung into life between all the religious sects of the territory and especially in Salt Lake City the enterprise of energetic railroads the building of great irrigating canals the establishment of manufactories the growth of mining in short all those great strides towards absolute preeminence which Utah has made have been to a great extant ignored in the past." - from the Preface. A small bump to the fore-edges along the upper portion of the front cover and diminishing in size inward very light foxing to the first few pages else a very good tight copy. Not in Flake/Draper. R. R. Donnelley and Sons Company, 1890. unknown
195359040Boston MA: Beckwith’s 37 Essex St. 1953. 12mo. 109 3 pp. With 100’s of photo & text illustrations throughout. Colour-illustrated softcovers cover art photo of woman in English riding wear with horse ads on back minor shelfwear slight soiling back cover still VG copy. First edition of this uncommon catalogue by the noted New England equitation supply and ranchwear store with English and Western wear. Included within are women’s California suede jackets Corral leather jackets the Rio Grande Jacket Western California shirts for men & women Divided riding skirts for women Lady Levi’s and more. The catalogue even includes listing for a leather motorcycle jacket in conjunction with the release of Marlon Brando’s The Wild One. No copies in Worldcat. Beckwith’s, 37 Essex St., paperback
1920243371920. Very good condition. 11 b&w real photographs printed titles on the back including a great view of South Beach with a view over the wharves and a crowd in their holiday best crossing the railway line looking towards the Indian Ocean and a view of Convict Bridge with automobiles crossing over.<br /> <br /> The other images are: the War Memorial panorama of the wharves the Town Hall and High Street High Street showing the store front of Samuel's "The Big Tailors the Swan River another view of High Street the Post Office shipping on the Harbour and Round House Arthur's Point. These were perhaps the majority of a set of photographs issued for tourists. Photographs measure 3 1/2 x 2 1/2" unknown
19143378Various locations in Southern California and Hawaii 1914. About very good. Sixty-one leaves illustrated with 214 mounted silver gelatin photographs most with manuscript annotations in white ink; plus numerous mounted postcards menus and assorted ephemera. Oblong quarto. Contemporary black textured limp cloth over boards. Edges a bit chipped and tattered inelegant black tape repairs to spine. First leaf detached contents otherwise clean. A wonderful annotated vernacular photograph album documenting a well-to-do family's vacation to Hawaii via brief stops along the West Coast in 1914. The album opens with a group image of the travelers in San Francisco numbering around twenty-two men women and children captioned "Southern California - Honolulu." This is followed by several pages picturing their initial journey from Seattle down to San Pedro Los Angeles and San Diego before they departed for Honolulu on the S.S. Matsonia on June 17. A passenger list is included and many of the images are captioned with the names of the subjects providing a nice opportunity for identifying the travelers by cross-referencing the passenger list.<br /> <br /> The group spends their vacation time at the Sea Side Hotel on Waikiki Beach in bathing houses and on the beach visiting local businesses plantations and other hotels surfing fishing and more. Through the course of the album much of the landscape of Waikiki is featured providing a snapshot of the hotel and details of its surroundings along with shots of a "Native Village" sugar cane fields and a plantation pineapple fields street views of Honolulu a picnic for "Kids of all nations" at Waikiki the Port of Honolulu and more. The album also features a few early images of surfing at Waikiki Beach. In mid-July true to the title of the album the group heads back across the Pacific Ocean aboard the R.M.S. Niagara after just one month.<br /> <br /> Most notable among the photographs are about thirty risqué images of local Hawaiian women interspersed throughout. The pictures of the "Native Girls" often feature them topless or scantily clad identifying them with additional captions such as "Hawaiian Beauty" "Maidens bathing" "Girls" "Hula Hula Dancers" and "The Ex. Queen of Hawaii." One group shot shows ten Hawaiian women eating fish captioned "'Lunau' sic Lu'au or Native feast." Another side-view image of a naked Hawaiian woman is annotated "The Natives are a sturdy race of people." There are also numerous images featuring other indigenous Hawaiian people in a variety of settings including a couple of images showing a "Hawaiian boy climbing a cocoa nut palm" two pictures of "Native fisher boys" a "Native hut" "Hawaiian kiddies" a "Native canoeist" a "Group of Natives" a "Native Priest - looks as if he had been fasting for some time" and images showing "Natives selling 'Leis' for departing visitors" and "Native 'Leis' vendors on Honolulu." The images of the Hawaiian women as well as the men combined with the captions provide an opportunity for further studying the ways in which affluent American mainlanders have traditionally viewed indigenous Hawaiians and other native peoples encountered throughout the world.<br /> <br /> In addition to the passenger list mentioned above the ephemeral items include shipboard menus a program for an onboard concert newspaper clippings cigar labels and postcards. The latter includes a series of forty-one vibrantly-colored postcards illustrated with Hawaiian fish. An interesting travel album detailing a trip to Hawaii at the outset of the First World War with many notable observations on indigenous peoples in Honolulu especially the young women of the island. unknown
190022858Moline IL: C.J. Martin Publisher & Press of J.W. Warr 1900. Tall quarto; 16 pp. Profusely illustrated with 30 half tones 5 full-page of buildings and activities of the Illinois Western Hospital for the Insane also known as Watertown State Hospital East Moline State Hospital and then ultimately State Hospital. A Near Fine copy in string-tied grey wrappers titled in gold on front cover. The corner stone for the Hospital was laid in September 1896. At its peak 1944 it held 2200 patients.In 1980 the Illinois Department of Corrections took over the property and currently uses it as a minimum security facility. C.J. Martin, Publisher & Press of J.W. Warr unknown
191162631San Francisco CA: Nordman Bros. Co. 1911. 4to. 9.75 x 12.25 in. 4 667 3 pp. Illustrated title w/ 100’s of text photos illustrations diagrams. Peach-orange coloured publisher’s cloth light gray lettering & decorative borders lettering on spine spotting & soiling to covers minor wear minor bumping to corners edgewear minor age toning to textblock still G copy. First edition of this scarce and expansive jeweler’s and watchmaker’s catalogue issued less than five years after the 1906 Earthquake & Fire and featuring 1000’s of items for sale including acid bottles jewelers benches calipers engraving blocks jewelry boxes cameo mountings and an exceptional array of large watchmaker and jeweler’s signs and electric signs along with signs for opticians. Also featured were parts for such watch manufacturers as Omega Longines Waltham Hamilton Illinois and other makers. Joseph Nordman 1843-1920 and his brother Leon Nordman 1850-1924 were French-American watchmakers & jewelers who originally emigrated to California in 1867 where they established their successful watch and jewelry supply house which operated for decades on the Pacific Coast. Worldcat locates 1 copy U of O. Nordman Bros. Co., hardcover
1837ABC_46027London Calcutta etc.: various publishers 1837. Half calf with marbled sides and lettering in gold on spine or cloth with marbled sides and a spine label. 8vo. Some illustrated with plates and maps. 107 volumes many containing multiple articles. Handsomely bound extraordinary collection of important scientific journal articles by 19th and 20th century Western explorers of Afghanistan Central Asia China the Himalayas India including Assam Bengal Kashmir and Punjab Karakoram Pakistan including Sindh and Tibet with content covering anthropology archaeology exploration geography geology glaciology history language and grammar mountaineering and politics. At the time these were the far outskirts of the world for Western science where a lot was yet to be learned. Often the maps in these journals are the first modern maps of such regions and findings were the first to be scientifically published.Generally in very good condition.Please inquire for a full list of contents. various publishers, hardcover
188734305New York: Press of Fleming Brewster & Alley 1887. First Edition. Wraps. Fair. String bound wraps with illustration on the front. 8 pages. Illustrated views of Kennesaw Mountain and Confederate troops digging in defensive positions on Kennesaw Mountain. The red string on the front cover is torn and the front cover is mostly detached. Covers have light to moderate soil. Light edge stains to the interior. Poem written in facsimile hand. A fair to good copy. Published the Western & Atlantic Railroad. Press of Fleming Brewster & Alley unknown
130267Very Good. Two albumen paper photographs each 280 × 372 mm on the original card mounts each approximately 405 × 485 mm. Mounts uniformly tanned and lightly marked; trifling surface loss to silverfish to one plate confined mainly to the blank upper portion where it is inconspicuous; tiny blemishes near the top corners of the second plate; overall in excellent condition. The first image shows 665 'Lord of the Isles' a Problem class or Lady of the Lake class passenger locomotive. Clearly visible on the wheel arch is its build date 'Jany 1863'. The second image shows 2146 a DX Goods class locomotive. Both locomotives are shown in 'photographic grey' livery without tender and it is likely that these are official photographs for London and North Western Railway or the Crewe Works. <p>Both models were designed by John Ramsbottom and entered service in the late 1850s. However these examples are fitted with cabs suggesting that the photographs were taken after the appointment of his successor Francis Webb in 1871. Provenance: 'Mile End Railway Museum South Australia Inc.' inkstamp on the verso of one mount with 'Ex A.E. Cottrell 1/84' in ballpoint pen below the stamp. The contents of the museum were recently dispersed. 2 items. unknown
1907130806London: London and South Western Railway 1907. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. London London and South Western Railway 1907 and 1908. Quarto three volumes bound as one 4 A-S 5-172 pages with 2 large double-sided folding maps; 4 A-K 3-192 pages with 2 large double-sided folding maps plus a leaf of advertisements for White Star Line steamers; and 4 A-C Ca-Cb D-G 3-192 pages with 2 large double-sided folding maps. The original full-colour wrappers and three-colour maps are included in the pagination. Early half leather and marbled papered boards later rebacked with cloth retaining most of the original backstrip; new endpapers; leather corners and original backstrip a little worn; acidic paper a little tanned and brittle with insignificant short tears to some edges; text at the foot of the wrappers slightly shaved when rebound; rear wrapper of the third time table a little soiled with an old tape repair; overall in excellent condition. The foot of the retained backstrip is stamped in gilt 'Supt. Superintendent of Line'; this might explain why these three handsome Edwardian time tables from the heyday of the London and South Western Railway are in such wonderful shape. London and South Western Railway paperback
1988AOSe[LOS21Sante Fe: Gerald Peters Gallery 1988. 1988. oblong 4to. pp. 93 1. 54 illus. 49 colour. biblio. index. cloth. dw. Exhib. Cat. Hardcover. [Sante Fe: Gerald Peters Gallery, 1988]. Hardcover
186510246Boston: the hotel 1865. Menu printed on silk 30 x 10.5 cm. one leaf printed verso only. Illustrated with an engraving of vignettes of freight transport via ship and train. WITH: Printed envelope 8 x 13 cm. with an engraving. A handsome menu printed on silk for a banquet celebrating the Boards of Trade of the Western Cities given by the City of Boston at the Revere Hotel. Revere House was one of the city's leading hotels hosting guests that included Charles Dickens Jenny Lind and Walt Whitman. Daniel Webster addressed audience from the steps of the portico. The engraving on the envelope depicts the hotel from across Boston's Bowdoin Square. The hotel has had an additional structure added to the previously flat roof. The bill of fare for the Western Boards of Trade included Green Turtle Soup Baked Shad in a Wine Sauce Leg of Southshore Mutton in Caper Sauce Duffield's Ham Pate de Foie and much more. In remarkably fine condition with only the slightest fraying to the edges of the silk. The envelope with an engraving of the Boston's City Hall has some light soil but is near fine. the hotel hardcover
19263973Cambridge Ne: F.M. Steele 1926. Very good. Four photographs in five segments 7 x 46 inches in length folding to 7 x 9 inches on a card mount 10 x 12 inches. Images joined with linen. Light wear to card photo generally clean and crisp. An interesting documentary panoramic photograph depicting the livelihood and agricultural success of one B.F. Trosper of Cambridge Nebraska. Each panel is captioned in the negative with the third photo occupying two segments of the panorama. The first shows Trosper a woman we presume to be his wife and two other men who may be hired hands; the woman sits at the wheel of a Model T which is parked parallel to the photographer while Trosper stand with one foot on the running board. The two men stand behind the car and a stacked pen of corn is used as a background. The caption reads "The finest background for pictures in Nebraska is corn. This is B.F. Trosper of Cambridge Neb." The second panel shows a worker and a dog standing to the right edge of the image which proudly displays seven pens of corn piled high: "12000 bushels of corn. One half of the amount that was raised in 1924-25 by B.F. Trosper of Cambridge Neb." The third image again shows the car parked in front of the corn pens on the left with a tractor and plow parked on the right side of the image the farmhouse and windmill in the background. Each panel of this photo has a caption: "B.F. Trosper one of south west Nebraska's successful farmers and stock growers" and "B.F. Trosper owns 1840 acres of land he has bought since 1884 commenced without a dollar Cambridge Neb." The final panel depicts Trosper's cows in the feed lot. Francis Marion Steele 1866-1936 was a noted itinerant Western photographer who captured cowboys and cattle drives roaming the West to document ranch life and farming operations. F.M. Steele unknown
191453035None: W.G. MacFarlane n.d. ca 1914. ca 1914. 6" x 9" in pictorial wrappers. 32 pp. Illustrations. Map. Collection of black and white photos taken along the Norfolk & Western Railway. Pictures include Roanoke Valley Caverns of Luray Hotel Roanoke railway stations Hollins College Maple Shade Inn the grottoes the Roanoke River the Allegheny Mountains the Shenandoah Valley the Government Remount Station in Front Royal Cape Henry the James River Five Falls Crockett Springs etc. System map on inside of front cover showing routes from Norfolk to Hagerstown Maryland and to Columbus and Cincinnati Ohio. Moderate soiling to wrappers along with scraping to spine and rear panel. W.G. MacFarlane, n.d. (ca 1914). unknown
1840List2979Perrysburg Ohio 1840. Single three-page letter measuring 7 ½ x 12 ½ inches. Some stains folded with small tears at folds and tear at seal; overall near fine. Joseph Badger 1757–1846 was the first missionary to be sent to the Connecticut Western Reserve.1 He served in the Continental Army received a degree from Yale and was sent to Ashtabula County by the Connecticut Missionary Society in 1802. He retired in about 1833 after many years of organizing schools and churches around the Western Reserve plus a stint as a brigade chaplain during the War of 1812.<br /> <br /> Abigail Ely was Badger’s second wife; they married in 1819. The two write here to a widowed friend Harriet Lyon and her children in Gustavus Ohio. They discuss the importance of singing to religious work and of teaching children to sing and describe their living situation—on a farm nearby to some of their children who help them out. They also briefly complain about the quality of ministry in the area writing that the situation:<br /> <br /> “is exceedingly dark; one Church has a Minister worse than none; Six others have no Minister. . Much of the preaching that comes along occationally is calculated to excite the super-ficial affections of the mind without reaching the heart or enlightening the understanding.â€<br /> <br /> Of interest to historians of Ohio and religion in the Western Reserve.<br /> <br /> 1 “Badger Joseph†in Encyclopedia of Cleveland History accessed March 20 2025 https://case.edu/ech/articles/b/badger-joseph. unknown
191053592N.P.: Privately printed 1910. 1910. First edition. 19" x 25" sheet folded to 9 1/2" x 8 1/4. Printed in brown green and red. Photographs. On one side of sheet is information and illustrations. Information about Harney County crops dairy poultry water irrigation lumber railway transportation Burns. Photographs include agricultural scenes and a photo of downtown Burns. Opposite side of sheet offers a map of the entire state of Oregon with Harney County highlighted. Map printed by Poole Bros. of Chicago for the Great Northern Railway and dated 1910. "The Oregon and Western Colonization Company was incorporated in 1910 as a South Dakota corporation by Watson P. Davidson Sr. and several other investors for the purpose of trading in real estates. The corporation acquired 800000 acres of Oregon lands including several billion feet of standing timber from the Willamette Valley and Cascade Mountain Wagon Road. These lands comprised a federal land grant awarded the Willamette Valley company in 1871 to construct a military road and consisted of alternate sections 15 to 20 miles wide extending from Ontario in eastern Oregon to Albany midway between the Cascade Mountains and the Pacific." Rare. Light soiling else very good plus. Privately printed, 1910. unknown
79382Image: 7 ¼†x 4 ¾â€. Mount: 8†x 5â€.<br /> <br /> An albumen silver print: “#1612 of Ouray from the Northâ€. Geo. E. Mellen’s Colorado Views is imprinted on the verso along with C.H. Clark Publisher and General Trade Agent Gunnison Colo. Mellen b.1854 was an itinerant photographer. His views can be found in a wide array of collections from The Getty to The Amon Carter Museum of Art.<br /> <br /> Established by miners searching for silver and gold at its height Ouray had more than 30 active mines and was home to thousands of people. Ouray’s downtown is now on the National Register of Historic Places and the town bills itself as the "Switzerland of America†for its setting at the narrow head of a valley enclosed on three and a half sides by steep mountains. unknown
79381Mount: 4 ¼†x 7â€. Image: 3 ½†x 6 ¼â€. Undated and unmarked stereoview circa 1880 of the town of Idaho Springs Colorado. Identified with a holographic notation on the verso.<br /> <br /> Founded in 1859 by prospectors during the early days of the Pike's Peak Gold Rush Idaho Springs was at the center of the region's mining district throughout the late 19th century. The Argo Tunnel drained and provided access to many lodes of ore between Idaho Springs and Central City. unknown
19068829Duluth Minn: Western Fruit Jobbers' Association; Trade News Publishing Co. Printers 1906. Octavo stapled in wrappers 23.5 x 16 cm. 30 pages. Date from a three page TLS from the Association laid-in transmitting the Resolutions of the Association; and also from pencil annotation on the rear wrapper "Rcv'd 3/14/06". FIRST EDITION. "This is primarily a Bill to Eliminate Private Freight Cars Correct Refrigerating Abuses and Bring Express Companies Under the Interstate Commerce Acts and Prohibit their Dealing in Commodities Handled by Them." Roger S. Powell was the Attorney for the Association. ~ Tiny bit of edgewear and tanning to edges of wrappers otherwise fine. OCLC locates two copies UDenver WisconsinHistSoc. Western Fruit Jobbers' Association; Trade News Publishing Co., Printers unknown
