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1920305393Los Angeles Pacific Electric Railway n.p. ca. 1920. 1920. 8 1/4" x 9 1/8". Pictorial color brochure opens to form four panels. Illustrated with seven halftone photographs. Text printed in orange and black. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. No Binding. Very Good. Los Angeles, Pacific Electric Railway, n.p. ca. 1920. unknown books
197432327Seattle: Association of American Railroads; International Union of Railways; International Railway Congress Association 1974. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good hardback bound in publisher's brown cloth; no jacket as issued <br/><br/> Association of American Railroads; International Union of Railways; International Railway Congress Association hardcover books
2668New York: The Company 362 Broadway. London : The Company 30 Fleet Street ca. 1904. . Oblong 8vo stiff card boards front printed with a view of Ely cathedral with the river Great Ouse in the foreground A later edition the first being in 1885 with 97 pp. New York: [The Company] 362 Broadway. London : [The Company] 30 Fleet Street, ca. 1904. hardcover books
1910012553no place: Canadian Pacific Railway 1910. Book. Very good- condition. Paperback. First Edition. Oblong octavo 8vo. 24 black & white photographs. Illustrated paper binding is moderately to heavily torn chipped and wrinkled at the edges but is quite clean and is fully intact. There is no text except the title of each photograph. There is also no date listed circa 1910. Shows the Banff Springs Hotel and amazing views. Canadian Pacific Railway Paperback books
188328496Buffalo NY: Matthews Northrup & Co. 1883. 104pp frontispiece illustration many illustrations. Original color printed wrappers detached rubbed and chipped four staples. Light wear Good. <br/><br/> "The time occupied in making the reconnaissance upon which this report is predicated was about three months during which time about 4000 miles of railway were traversed. These lines reach out into the best sections of the great States of Wisconsin Iowa Minnesota the Territory of Dakota and the garden portion of the Prairie State whose other name is Illinois. Matthews, Northrup & Co. unknown books
1917313Chicago: Rogers & Company 1917. Very good. 40pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Light wear. Uncommon promotional for the Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway route between Chicago and Seattle. Extensively illustrated with spectacular photographic reproductions of the route and sights along the way in Montana Idaho and Washington. OCLC locates several different issues of this publication in a small number of copies but none from this year. Rogers & Company unknown books
19144293Chicago: Rand McNally 1914. 62pp. Square octavo 23 cm x 21.5 cm Stapled Illustrated wrappers with vertical fold at center as issued. Very good. Minor overall wear with a number written small in ink on the cover. Rock Island promotional piece for travel to Denver and the front range with descriptions of the area and attractions with black and white views throughout. Double-page map at the center.<br/><br/>"Colorado is the vacation center of America not only because of its central location but also for its altitude profusion of scenic wonders sunshine mile-high atmosphere and tempting outdoor life all of which are natural causes."- rear cover. Rand McNally unknown books
1930292777London: Locomotive Pub. Co. 1930. Soft Cover. Good binding. The booklet opens to the color frontispiece of the "Standard 4-6-0 Locomotive 'Royal Scot' Class" followed immediately to the Foreward. If there was a title page with publisher information it is not present.~~There are a number of black and white illustration of L.M.S. locomotives and eight color plates including the frontispiece. There wrappers have some wear with minor loss to the top of the spine. 51 pages. Good binding. [Locomotive Pub. Co.] unknown books
2338Portland Me.: Chisholm Bros. Circa 1880s-1890s. . Small 4to6 x 5 1/4 inches maroon diced cloth front highly gilt; some minor wear to corners and edges. [Portland, Me.: Chisholm Bros.], Circa 1880s-1890s. hardcover books
1882WRCAM51543Boston: George H. Ellis 1882. 20pp. Original pink printed wrappers front detached. Light tanning else clean. Good. A report charting the progress of railroad construction and relating financial details for the Mexican Central Railway. The company founded in 1880 completed its main line from Mexico City to Ciudad Juárez in 1884 as well as several other branch lines across Mexico by 1890. Not in OCLC. George H. Ellis unknown books
186633953Wash D.C. 1866. First Edition. 16pp. Disbound Deals with the transportation of troops and stores within the Territories through which the route of the proposed road passes unknown books
187514747New York: George Nesbitt 1875. Original printed wrappers front wrap detached with erasure of old institutional mark rear wrap illustrated with 'The Great Highway and Railroad Three Span Steel Bridge over the Mississippi River at Saint Louis Missouri'. Small map on page 3 shows the Road's locations. 22pp two folding tables. Good or so. FIRST EDITION. George Nesbitt unknown books
40362Los Angeles: Trans-Anglo Books n. d. Ca. post 1962. White paper printed in black and red. Moderate wear to edges slight rust spots from paperclips curling and rubbing to edges. Otherwise a VG example. Broadside. Single sheet printed recto only. Large map illustration of Southern California. Oblong format:. <br/><br/>"Pacific Electric Railway. Wells-Fargo & Co. Express World's Greatest Electric Railway System. 1000 Miles of Standard Trolley Lines to All Points of Greatest Interest in the Heart of Southern California and Traversed by 2700 Schedules Trains Daily. Including 5 Trains at Convenient Periods to World Famous Mount Lowe." "Here is the way the Pacific Electric Railway looked in 1926 when the system was reaching its peak. The interurbans ended all operations in 1961. Map reproduced from Trans-Anglo Books' Ride the Big Red Cars by Spencer Crump." Trans-Anglo Books unknown books
1916010685Pennsylvania Railroad 1916. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Large 8vo faux crushed leather covers gilt titles spine 136 pages. Pictorial organizational and statistical record of all the "company" or "intrmural" athletci teams of the Eastern Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad covering all kinds of indoor and outdoor sport - shuffleboard basketball football tennis volleyball etc withphots of both railriad executives and teams and individual athletes at sport plus hundreds of advertisements for Penn vendors and businesses allied to the railroad. In fune unused condition. Scarce. Pennsylvania Railroad hardcover books
190529043Philadelphia: Baldwin Locomotive Works 1905. 1st edition thus. Pale green decorative wrappers stapled. General wear soiling & grubiness from thumbing. Old tape repair to bottom 2" of spine & t.p. gutter. Old tape repair to edge of p. 23/24 & 25/26. A Good copy only. 42 2 pp. 29 images with 7 locomotive images with specs of engines built for divers railroad companies such as Erie Railroad Co; Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company; and New York New Haven & Hartford. Oblong 8vo. 6" x 9" <br/><br/> Baldwin Locomotive Works unknown books
18662914039th Cong. 1st Sess. HED155. Washington 1866. 523 1 blank pp disbound. First 14pp detached but present. Caption title page a bit tattered at edges no text loss light edgewear of first several and last several pages of text. Good. unknown books
2687Chicago: The Company Poole Bros. Printers and Engravers 1896. . Large 8vo buff printed wrappers back pictorial; some chipping and soiling to wrappers. First published in 1887. Many of the illustrations are engraved after the photographs Jackson took on his trip with Ernest Ingersoll and which were published in Ingersoll's "Crest of the Continent". The copyright for Ingersoll's book and the present one were both give to S. K. Hooper the Passenger Agent for the railroaD. Chicago: [The Company] Poole Bros., Printers and Engravers, 1896. unknown books
2579Washington D.C.: Printed by Lemuel Towers 1859. . 8vo disbound; gutter showing evidence of previous pamphlet binding; first and last leaves no long conjugate; ink spots on final page which is age-darkened. [Washington, D.C.]: Printed by Lemuel Towers, , 1859. unknown books
1982289515Southern Railway Ladies Club 1982. Spiral Bound. Very Good binding. A loose-leaf typewritten cookbook published by the Southern Railway Ladies Club housed in a three ring binder. Includes instructions for equivalent and substitute ingredients herb hints pickling and numerous Southern recipes. Lacking the title page. OCLC notes only one institutional holding. Very Good binding. [Southern Railway Ladies Club] unknown books
1888WRCAM14797Philadelphia 1888. 39pp. Original front printed wrapper rear and spine lacking dbd. from larger volume. Signatures separated else good. Gives the terms of the mortgage. unknown books
19791361Chicago. 1979 Lg. 4to. Profusely illustrated with photographs schematics maps etc. A collection of selected articles published between 1915 and 1935 which review in detail the application of electric propulsion systems to rail transportation. These articles had very limited printings and describe a period of considerable activity and interest to historians in this field. A fascinating book. Fine in Near Fine dustwrapper. unknown books
1908WRCAM28591N.p.: Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Passenger Departments 1908. 72pp. including color illustrations and maps. Quarto. Plain wrappers. Spine partially chipped away lower corner on rear cover chipped. Quite clean internally. Very good. Describes in words and pictures the routes of the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific Railroad from Omaha Nebraska through Wyoming Utah and Nevada to Oakland California. The color illustrations throughout are most unusual in a publication this early. Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Passenger Departments unknown books
186612391Utica 1866. 16pp stitched untrimmed. Old obtrusive pencil notes Good. <br/><br/> Despite its great early promise "Today Utica is the largest town in the United States with so few railroad facitlities. She lost by railroads and neglected to use them as means of recuperation and growth." The pamphlet urges that Uticans repent their mistakes and embrace the proposed railroad. <br/>Not in Sabin Eberstadt Decker BRE. unknown books
1898013055Washington: International Railway Commission 1898. MAPS AND PROFILES ONLY. The seven maps from the report; America Central America Colombia Ecuador and Peru Part of Mexico Part of Mexico Bolivia Chile and Argentina. Back flap of Map 1 is browned. . All maps are colored and in nearly fine condition without tears or soiling. Along with the five profiles in equally nice condition. . First Edition. Nearly Fine. International Railway Commission unknown books
18724914Philadelphia: The Leisenring Steam Printing House 1872. 8vo. 76 2 blank xxiv pp. <br><br>Report of the receipts and expenditures for the years ending in November 1869 and 1871 with the Treasurer's general balance-sheets exhibiting the financial condition of the company. With a large folding map. Disbound from a nonce volume; sewing holes present. Text block split in twowith pp. 1-60 separated from remainder of text block; long gutter tear to pp. 61-68 of 1870 edition. Ex-Mercantile Library copy with numerous rubber stamps inside. Map in fragile condition torn along folds and separated from binding with loss. The Leisenring Steam Printing House unknown books