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195662242Anaheim & Burbank CA; Chicago IL: Walt Disney Productions Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. ca. 1956. 16mo. 3 x 5 in. 16 pp unpaginated. brochure printed in blue orange & peach which folds out into 12 x 10 in. pictorial map of the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe RR routes and small blue-tinted Disneyland map on verso slight dustsoiling very minor crease to one corner still a VG bright copy. First edition of uncommon pictorial map route guide for the Santa Fe and Disneyland Railroad which opened July 15 1955 featuring two narrow gauge scale steam locomotives constructed by Roger Broggie of the Walt Disney Studios machine shop based on the narrow-gauge Oahu Railway & Land Co. passenger cars at the Travel Town Museum in Los Angeles. Locomotive No. 1 was based on his own scale 1:8-scale miniature Lilly Belle and the other No. 2 was a later ca. 1900 steam locomotive with straight smokestack as indicated for coal-burning locomotives circular headlamp and a small cowcatcher. The railroad featuring 5/8 scale of early Santa Fe RR trains visited in a loop around the park Main Street Adventureland Frontier Land Fantasy Land and Tomorrow Land. The pictorial map features a simplified route map with Native-American pictographs reminiscent of Holling C. Holling as borders with specific information on Santa Fe stops routes and the new El Capitan with every seat having a second story “Big Dome†height. Worldcat locates 1 copy Newberry Library. Walt Disney Productions, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co., unknown
183869551London: Simpkin Marshall and Co 1838. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 264pp. Small octavo 19.5 cm Green decoratively embossed cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Yellow endpapers. Frontispiece illustration. Spine sunned. Cloth at spine ends chipped. Underlying boards barely just beginning to peek through at corners. Free endpapers and recto of frontispiece mildly discolored. Short tape repairs to long closed tear on p. 140 no text is obscured. Loss to fore-edge margin of p. 163/64 again text not affected. Stitching visible in inside margins however binding very sturdy.<br /> <br /> Ex-libris James Cowan Smith with his bookplate depicting his beloved dog Callum on the front pastedown. James Cowan Smith 1843-1919 was a British civil engineer director of a railway company British Wagon and philanthropist. In his will he bequeathed what would now amount to roughly $4284000 to the National Gallery of Scotland to be used to expand its collection. The one stipulation was that the portrait of his dog Callum by John Emms was to be on permanent display in the museum. The condition of the donation helped draw attention to Callum's rare terrier breed the Dandie Dinmont. Simpkin, Marshall, and Co hardcover
186985507h<p>London: Illustrated London News 1869. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Half-year run bound in early half-leather over pebbled cloth boards. Some edge-wear and bumping to covers; small paper label painted over to upper spine. Edges toned and old library bookplate and marks to front and rear endpapers. Front hinge nearly exposed internally at endpaper but still firm. Otherwise clean tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome volume and internally unusually bright and clean. Superb illustrations.</p> Illustrated London News hardcover
1967164286兰州.Lanzhou.: 兰州铁道学院紅色革命造反司令部《紅铁院》编辑部. Lanzhou tie dao xue yuan hong se ge ming zao fan si ling bu "hong tie yuan" bian ji bu. 1967. Issue no. 15 of this Cultural Revolution newspaper published on May 28th 1967 by the Red Guards organisation in the Lanzhou Railway Institute. Single sheet printed on both sides stamp upper section front page reads "archived for reference" very light browning and creasing along edges and folds otherwise very good. Text in Chinese. Sheet measures 39.4 x 54.8cm. Front page upper section includes quotations from Chairman Mao on the spirit of revolutionary unyielding integrity. Front page lower section reports on an organised rally on May 21th by local Red Guards organisation 红联 "Red Alliance" to celebrate the publication of "May 16th Notice" which marked the beginning of Chinese Cultural Revolution. . 兰州铁道学院紅色革命造反司令部《 unknown
1967164288兰州.Lanzhou.: 兰州铁道学院紅色革命造反司令部《紅铁院》编辑部. Lanzhou tie dao xue yuan hong se ge ming zao fan si ling bu "hong tie yuan" bian ji bu. 1967. Issue no. 17 of this Cultural Revolution newspaper published on June 10th 1967 by the Red Guards organisation in the Lanzhou Railway Institute. Single sheet printed on both sides stamp upper section front page reads "archived for reference" very light browning on edges with occasional closed tears otherwise very good. Text in Chinese. Sheet measures 39.3 x 54.1cm. Front page upper section features an editorial on class struggle within the former government of Gansu Province and its capital Lanzhou. Lower section features another article celebrating the first anniversary of the big-character poster "What have Song Suo Lu Ping and Peng Peiyun done during the Cultural Revolution" which was first put up on 25 May 1966. . 兰州铁道学院紅色革命造反司令部《 unknown
1967164284兰州.Lanzhou.: 兰州铁道学院紅色革命造反司令部《紅铁院》编辑部. Lanzhou tie dao xue yuan hong se ge ming zao fan si ling bu "hong tie yuan" bian ji bu. 1967. Issue no. 19 of this Cultural Revolution newspaper published on June 15th 1967 by the Red Guards organisation in Lanzhou Railway Institute. Single sheet printed on both sides edges little creased mainly upper edge very light browning edges stamp upper section front page reads "archived for reference" otherwise in a clean and sound copy. Text in Chinese. Sheet measures 39 x 53.8cm. This issue quoted an editorial from another Red Guards organisation within Beijing Normal University titled "Chairman Mao's criticisms on Liu Shaoqi the Chinese Nikita Khrushchev". It also lists 58 selected highest directives from Chairman Mao between 1951 to 1967. . 兰州铁道学院紅色革命造反司令部《 unknown
194638206St. Augustine: Private printing 1946. 1946. FLORIDA. 9" x 6" colorful pictorial wrappers. Foreword. 44pp. including wrappers. Black and white map of Florida high-lighting the Florida East Coast Railway from Jacksonville to Miami. Black and white photographs include a portrait of Henry Morrison Flagler the builder of the Florida East Coast Railway Flagler System Hotels and associated enterprises. A pioneer of the East Coast of Florida. "Linking the entire east coast of Florida with a transportation system and establishing tourism and agriculture as the basis of the state’s economy at the time was largely an uninhabited frontier demanded a great deal of foresight and perseverance. More than a century later the mainstays of Florida’s economy are still agriculture and tourism and Flagler’s incredible legacy as the inventor of modern Florida can still clearly be seen throughout Florida." This booklet is well written and provides an interesting summarized history of the Florida East Coast Railway and the development of the area it served. Soiling to wrappers a "Railroadians of America" sticker to front wrapper else a good copy of an informative booklet. Private printing, 1946. unknown
190432964N.P.: Forest City & Gettysburg R.R. Co. n.d. Ca. 1904. 1904. Printed wrappers 3-311p. plates map tables. 23.2 cm. Last page advertisements extremely fine copy of one of those rare promotional booklets issued by the various railroads in the early days. Ownership signature of Dorothy and Clint Josey. A very well-assembled promotional extolling the merits of the region for cattle-raising outlining the improvements the railroad was undertaking a water works and promising more a line from Forest City to Deadwood in the Black Hills. The plates show such things as "branding scene on Timm's Ranch Potter County South Dakota." One plate however seems a trifle out of place in such a work: "A number of Indians in a Council of War after the shooting of one of their number by a white man.near Forest City." Rare. Forest City & Gettysburg R.R. Co., [n.d.] [Ca. 1904]. unknown
190951186N.P.: W.J. Black 1909. 1909. First edition. 8" x 5" in color pictorial wrappers. 23pp. illustrated from photographs and drawings. The El Tovar Hotel also known simply as El Tovar is a former Harvey House hotel situated directly on the south rim of the Grand Canyon in Arizona United States. The hotel was designed by Charles Whittlesey Chief Architect for the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and was opened in 1905 as one of a chain of hotels and restaurants owned and operated by the Fred Harvey Company in conjunction with the Santa Fe railway whose Grand Canyon Depot was 330 feet away. It is at the northern terminus of the Grand Canyon Railway which was formerly a branch of the Santa Fe. The hotel is one of only a handful of Harvey House facilities that are still in operation and is an early example of the style that would evolve into National Park Service Rustic architecture. The booklet provides detailed information about and attractive views of the El Tovar Hotel including both exterior and interior attractions as well as information on things to do in the area. Rubbing and scraping to wrappers along with light wear to the extremities. W.J. Black, 1909. unknown
3730953<p>Np likely Massachusetts: np 1848. Large single sheet folded down to form 8pages; untrimmed as issued. One fold line expertly strengthened with tissue.</p> <p>Rare. Free Soil Party campaigning for Benjamin Franklin Newhall abolitionist politician self-made businessman stationmaster on the Underground Rail Road UGGR who helped formerly-enslaved African American fugitives seeking their freedom by moving onward from stations in Boston. Siebert </p> <p>Newhall was an unsuccessful Free Soil candidate for Massachusetts’s 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. This tract promoted Newhall and the Party’s “uncompromising hostility to the usurpation of Slaveholders—the Slave power—the power exercised by 30000 men owners of the 3000000 of Slaves.†p1</p> <p>OCLC AAS Peabody NYPL Duke.</p> unknown
190716960London: W. Mate & Sons 1907. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. <br /> <br /> Printed paper boards with decorations and titles. designed to captivate and enthrall! oblong. 9 by 6 inches. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. The folded map has toned with a closed tear. The text is flawlessly clean with a delicate even toning. Corners rubbed. The magic of the Lake District is displayed with 48 historical and professional black and white full-page photographs each a visual masterpiece. Several additional pages feature two photos on each page creating a feast for the eyes. To enhance your journey accompanying text eloquently describes the locales captured in these attractive images.<br /> <br /> Approximately 30 pages of historical advertising portrays life in Edwardian England. Bursting with life these advertisements offer a splendid array of lodging refreshment and services. Most of them occupy full-page layouts accompanied by enchanting photographs that transport you to a world of the past. W. Mate & Sons unknown
188936180Augusta: Georgia Railroad 1889. Paper. Good. Paper with printed letterhead at top and illustrated envelope. Paper is approx. 8" x 5". Folded. Contents written on one side and pertain to inspection of "white oak." Signed at the bottom by the Railroad Mater Mechanic manager John Cook. <br /> <br /> Letter comes with a printed illustrated envelope from the Georgia Railroad. The back side of the envelope is an illustration of the 1888 "Augusta National Exposition." Edge wear to the envelope. Envelope in fair condition. Georgia Railroad unknown
190330359Chicago: Poole Brothers 1903. Second Edition. Wraps. Very good. Wraps. 7.5" x 5". 32 pages. Illustrated with photographs plan of the Prison grounds and map of the railroad route in back. Gray illustrated covers with title on front. Poole Brothers unknown
191863179Bethlehem PA & New York NY: Lehigh Valley Railroad ca. 1918. Large oblong double atlas panoramic silver gelatin photograph sized 47 x 8.5 in. caption at lower fore-edge w/in the negative preserved in the original quarter-sawn oak black stained original glass VG image with excellent contrast. This original panoramic photograph approaching a water tank hauling 75 cars of grain for the War effort during World War I captures the efforts of delivering harvested and processed grain from farmers through grain elevators and later delivery to markets for processing and sale. Although originally founded in 1846 to haul anthracite coal from the coal fields of Pennsylvania the Lehigh Valley RR became an essential freight and passenger line through New York in the early 20th-Century and were well known for their significant network of grain elevators and transport logistics. The Class R-1 Steam Locomotives from Baldwin were numbered originally from 4000-4075 many of which were used by Lehigh Valley RR for slow heavy freight haulage. Lehigh Valley Railroad, unknown
192460276Chicago IL: W.J. Black Passenger Traffic Manager Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co. April 1924. 4to. measuring 4 x 9 in. folds out to 4to. measuring 8 x 9 in. printed in orange & black with 54 2 double-columns i.e. 28 pp. numerous photo illustrations large centerfold map of Grand Canyon in orange & black 2nd map at rear in orange & black. Self-printed illustrated softcovers cover art photo of Grand Canyon photos of local Native Americans in area on back minor shelfwear rubbing still VG copy. First edition thus of this nicely illustrated tourism brochure extolling the benefits costs and wonders of seeing the Grand Canyon. The photos and text detail stays at the El Tovar Hotel travel to the Grand Canyon and Tusayan Forest by automobile views by automobile along the Lincoln Point and the Palisades with Painted Desert View and even an image of the first plane to land in the Grand Canyon in August 1922. Worldcat locates 2 copies Northern AZ U U of MI. W.J. Black, Passenger Traffic Manager, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co., paperback
1908138240High Bluff Manitoba: Edwin C. Blair c1908. Undetermined. very good. 24pp. Oblong quarto. Black cloth photo album rubbed with some loss of cloth on front board. Spine reinforced with additional patterned cloth. 24 albumen photographs loosely inserted between 12 double-mounted leaves. 10 photos are signed "Blair" a few with additional titling in pen to photo. 23 photos with a stamp on verso: "Real photographs of real life in Canada by Edwin C. Blair High Bluff Manitoba; 1 photo stamped "Photo by E.C. Blair. Two photos are dated 1908. Photos measure approximately 6.75" X 5". very good A fantastic collection of photographs documenting the construction of the Grand Trunk Railway in Alberta. Includes a variety of subjects such as horse-drawn lumber operations steam-powered construction equipment hard rock excavation construction of the Battle River and Clover Bar bridges steam locomotives and camp life. 1908 Edwin C. Blair unknown
1901137938Montreal: Grand Trunk Railway System 1901. Undetermined. near fine. 1st Edition. 16pp. Tall octavo. Original folding brochure with printed and embossed wrappers. Staple bound. Measures 8.5" X 8.25" unfolded. Light rubbing to spine. With map of Pam-American grounds in Buffalo and colour folding map printed on recto and verso of Georgian Bay Muskoka Lakes and Kwartha Lakes of Ontario. Map measures 16" X 15.75". near fine A scarce piece of Ontario Grand Trunk Railway and Pan-American Exposition ephemera in an excellent state of preservation. Illustrated throughout with photographs of Ontario and the adjacent areas of Buffalo New York with text on activities in the area. The Pan-American Exposition was a World's Fair in Buffalo NY in 1901. 1901 Grand Trunk Railway System unknown
8917St. Paul MN: Great Northern Railroad n.d. First edition. Illustrated wrappers stapled. Near Fine. 4to. Pp. 20. Illustrated throughout with superb black and white photos of agrarian scenes along the route. Maps to verso of front cover and rear cover. Color illustrated wraps lettered in black and orange; scuffs and slight loss on front cover. Circa 1922. Stamp of E.C. Leedy / General Agricultural Development Agent / Great Northern Railway / St. Paul Minn to foot of select pages. Scarce. OCLC locates holdings in only six libraries. Great Northern Railroad unknown
191546858N.P.: Privately printed n.d. ca. 1915. ca. 1915. WASHINGTON. First edition. 9 1/8" x 32" sheet folded to 16 panels each measuring 9 1/8" x 4." 2 bright colorful cover panels. Maps. Illustrations. Lake Chelan is on the east side of the Cascade Mountains in the north central part of the state of Washington. The Great Northern Railway promoted the region as "A Wonder 'Stop-off Place' for Tourists Bound to or from the Pacific Northwest." It is described as "A stupendous and splendid fjord that from the west highlands of that Great River of the West the Columbia outstretches for more than a half-hundred miles through and to the very heart of the Cascade Mountains of Washington - a fjord that is the most remarkable lake-in the-mountains in all America – and "roundabout the head of this lake about Stehekin and the Hotel Field a wonder region of the Cascades that abounds in delightful mountaineering 'short jaunts' both be 17 saddle horse and 'over trails afoot' . such is Lake Chelan and its country." The brochure goes on in great detail about the various lodging opportunities trails and camping trips train and boat service and physical description of the region. It is illustrated from photographs offering photos of scenery Hotel Field individuals riding horses cruising along Chelan's shores etc. Two maps include a two-panel colored map titled "Lake Chelan and the Lake Chelan Country / Cascade Mountains / Washington." It shows roads trails and the auto-stage road from the Great North Railway to the Lakeside Chelan Station. The other map is a one-panel system map. This map has the code 1-mcmxv which is the source for the date attribution. This is one of the scarcer and most graphically interesting promotional brochures of the region from this early time period. An attempt to erase a number from one of the color panels along with a green scratch-through of a number at top edge of same panel along with light soiling and light wear to edges and folds. Very good. Privately printed, n.d. [ca. 1915]. unknown
195262951Wenatchee WA: World Publishing Co. 1952. 4to. 9.5 x 12.5 in. 64 pp. printed in double columns. With text illustrations decorations photo illustrations. Gray textured softcovers illustrated w/ locomotive front cover brown borders yapp fore-edges minor soiling slight scuffing edgewear still VG copy inscribed by author to Robert Burks. First edition inscribed of this often printed and popular work detailing the many “Rails Across the Cascades†columns by Anderson from The Wenatchee Daily World about the Great Northern Railroad relating that “trains once climbed over the Cascades via ‘switchback’ . . ; 101 persons died in the 1910 snowslide tragedy of Wellington at the west portal of the old Cascade tunnel. . . Lake Chelan area was surveyed by the Northern Pacific for a cross-Cascade route in 1870. . . “ First editions are quite scarce. Worldcat locates 8 copies. World Publishing Co., paperback
1833002876Durham: J.H. Veitch 1833. Single sided printed broadside approximately 220mm x 275mm. Browned slightly creased with small amount of loss to top left hand corner otherwise quite clean. Notice from the Committee of the Hartlepool Dock and Railway Company asking contractors upon the Railway and Docks not to employ workers who have dogs and warning the contractors that they will be held responsible for any damage occasioned by the "wanton or unnecessary Trespasses of their Workmen on the Lands adjoining the Railway". Printed by J.ohn H.ardinge Veitch see Hunt 'The Book Trade in Northumberland and Durham to 1860' page 91 and Wallis' 'Supplement' page 46. Not in COPAC. First Edition. Unbound. Good. 4to. Broadside. J.H. Veitch Paperback
1904ABC_47091Constantinople: Matba a-i Bahriye 1904. Colour-lithographed map 76.5 x 49.5 cm trimmed to neat line. A rare separately issued official railway map with the entire text in Ottoman Turkish depicting the route of the Hejaz Railway. Following a route proposed by the eminent Turkish engineer Mukhtar Bey and surveyed by the cavalry officers Umar Zaki and Hasan Mu'ayyin the epic project funded by subscriptions from the global Islamic faithful completed a rail link from Damascus to Medina by 1908. The present map shows the intended continuation to Mecca never completed. Although it went no further south than Medina the railway nevertheless briefly allowed many thousands of pilgrims to make the Hajj in relative comfort bringing them to Medina and within about 300 km of Mecca. It shows the northern half of the Red Sea the Sinai peninsula the southeast corner of the Mediterranean Sea and what were to become Palestine most of Jordan and parts of Lebanon and Syria.A contemporary Ottoman colour-lithographed map of the Arabian Peninsula has been pasted over the lower left corner below the key like an inset map hiding only a tiny bit of the main maps topographic image. Old folds and creases some small tears repaired tiny chips to neat line some light stains. Some remnants of tape and old private collector's stamps on the back. Still in good condition. Matba a-i Bahriye, unknown
19189630Chicago: Porter & Regan 1918. First edition. 18x13.5cm 128pp. Illustrations. Perfect bound in illustrated wrappers with edge wear soiling and a few chips. Page block toned. A very good copy. <br /> <br /> Apparently the third and final book in the Brakeman series of humorous stories by a former hobo-turned member of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and Brotherhood of Railroad Brakemen. OCLC cites a single holding for the second book in the series A thirty-eight-dollar brakeman tied to a tin can at the Huntington but none for this title nor the first 32 Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Freight Train. Porter & Regan unknown
191039114Holyoke: Holyoke Street Railway Co. n.d. ca 1910. 1910. MASSACHUSETTS. First edition. 9" x 6 3/4" in color pictorial wrappers. 24pp. illustrations. 17 full-page tinted views to include Summit House Mt. Tom; View of Mt. Tom from Easthampton Car Leaving Lower Station for Summit; Kenilworth Castle with Mt. Tom in Distance; Mt. Tom Railroad and Summit House; Going Through Rock Cut; Upper Station; Southerly View From Mt. Tom; Rustic Arch at Mountain Park etc. followed by text which offers information about Mt. Tom the Summit House the street-cars of Holyoke the views from Mt. Tom etc. Most photographs include people. Over-sized wrappers lightly worn at corners. Very good. A very attractive booklet. Holyoke Street Railway Co., n.d. [ca 1910]. unknown
192951612N.P.: Rand McNally & Co. 1929. 1929. 9" x 6" in pictorials wrappers. 32pp. Printed in green ink and with decorative border surround text and pictures. Illustrations. Maps. Detailed description of New Orleans to include the French Quarter Canal Street Bourbon Street churches monuments parks the Garden Distrct Mardi Gras New Orlenas being the gateway to the Panama Canal etc. One-page map of New Orleans and vicinity and 1-page system map of the Illinois Central. Light soiling to wrappers and with light wear to the extremities. Very good. Rand McNally & Co., 1929. unknown
