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Bazaine (Pierre-Dominique) :Livre Rare Book

Travaux et Matériel de Chemins de Fer exécutés en majeure partie sous la direction de Mr Bazaine, Ingénieur en chef, Professeur à l'Ecole Impériale des Ponts et Chaussées. Atlas : Tome VI : Matériel roulant. Locomotives, tenders, voitures, wagons, etc.

HUDSON RIVER RAILROADBiblio.com

Hudson River and the Hudson River Railroad: with a complete map and wood cut views of the principal objects of interest upon the line

1851406078New York: Wm. C. Locke & Co 1851. Wrappers chipped at edges professionally rebacked some unobtrusive offsetting on map. 8vo. 50 pages. Large folding map on three joined sheets 21 x 1788 cm; 8.25 x 61.75 inches. 11 woodblock illustrations in text and with 2 more not recorded in the index but always present. Original printed wrappers with woodblock vignette. SCARCE Hudson River Railroad travel guide published the first year in which the full line was completed. It covers points of interest along the route with woodblocks illustrating the text. Topics include: the history of the Hudson River the history of the construction of the Hudson River Railroad and the cities towns and villages along the Hudson from New York City all the way to Troy. Concerning the West Point Foundry at Cold Spring the guide states: "the iron foundry was established here by Gouverneur Kemble. The works are situated about a mile west of the village upon a small stream which tumbles rapidly down the mountains affording considerable water power. It is the largest establishment of its kind in the country employing nearly five hundred hands constantly." The building of the Hudson River Railroad is another topic in the guide. The project was considered highly impractical since much of the route had to be cut through extremely difficult rock and terrain. This section includes a description of the tunnels which had to be constructed. The railroad was opened in three stages. In September 1849 it allowed passengers to travel from New York to Peekskill. By that December 6 twenty-three additional miles were opened extending to New Hamburg. By the 31st of the month it was open the remaining distance of nine miles to Poughkeepsie. The Hudson River Railroad was an extension of the Troy and Greenbush Railroad which was chartered in 1845 connecting Troy South to Greenbush now Rensselaer on the east side of the Hudson. The Hudson River Railroad was chartered on May 12 1846 to extend this line south to New York City. The full line opened on October 3 1851 the same year in which this travel guide was published. WorldCat/OCLC records 25 copies but it is scarcely found complete with the map and the map is also excluded from the digitized versions available online. Wm. C. Locke & Co unknown

Riverrun Books & Manuscripts · États-Unis1 000,00 $US≈ 846,10 €

Lancaster Underground Railroad; Fugitive SlavesBiblio.com

Arson Threats on the Antislavery Route: An 1850 Lancaster Letter Amid Pennsylvania Underground Railroad Fugitive Slave Tensions Crisis 1850

1850235001850. Slavery & Abolition Underground Railroad Fugitive Slave Signed letter mentioning threats of arson against an abolitionist community in Pennsylvania 1850. Lancaster stood on a volatile antislavery route in 1850 with fugitives moving west toward Columbia and the Susquehanna River while pro slavery men targeted communities accused of sheltering escapees. Mary Louisa Harbaugh the young wife of Rev. Henry Harbaugh of the German Reformed Church wrote to her mother that "a party of fellows from Phil. came up here and threatened to burn this place down" and that residents had kept watch after "a great many alarms of fire." Lancaster was the home of Thaddeus Stevens the lawyer and future Radical Republican congressman who defended fugitives and attacked slavery in public life. Columbia eleven miles west had a large free Black population and served as a crossing point for people escaping slavery before and after the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Harbaugh M. L. Autograph Letter Signed. Lancaster Pennsylvania June 15 1850. Three manuscript pages plus stampless address leaf addressed to her mother Mrs. Margaret A. Linn Lewisburg Pennsylvania. Harbaugh reports household matters children's clothing local health and the arson threat in one domestic letter writing that the city was "very healthy" except for "a few old people" before describing the men from Philadelphia who threatened to burn Lancaster. The address leaf preserves the Lewisburg destination manuscript postal markings and remains of the original red wax seal. The part concerning the arsonists reads as follows: "Dear Mother .This place is very healthy now. I know of no disease or sickness at all except among a few old people. We had a great many alarms of fire a few days ago a party of fellows from Phil. came up here and threatened to burn this place down but they were discovered too soon. They have had a watch out since and nothing is heard of them now. The place is not large enough for such persons to do any injury to it." Mary Louisa Harbaugh's husband Rev. Henry Harbaugh was a prominent German Reformed minister and writer who avoided public antislavery controversy while her family in Lewisburg was connected to abolitionist politics through her father's break with the Democratic Party for James G. Birney's Free Soil candidacy. Local newspapers such as the June 19 1850 issue of The Lancaster Examiner and Herald reportedly attributed the fire as "no doubt the work of incendiaries as two men were seen running from the Cooper Shop just as the alarm was given" in which they made their escape. It was reported that a young black man by the name of "Gilmore" was arrested and imprisoned on suspicion but was released the next day for insufficient evidence. Other newspapers reportedly minimized the incident without attribution to racial tension all while Columbia suffered a fire that destroyed nine houses and the offices of the Columbia Spy. Folded as mailed with light toning minor edge wear one small seal tear and clean legible manuscript throughout. Overall very good condition. unknown

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis985,00 $US≈ 833,41 €

(HIMALAYAN MOUNTAINS: RAILWAY)Biblio.com

The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway. Illustrated Guide for Tourists.

189675179London: McCorquodale & Co. Limited 1896. First edition of this elusive yet important publication. Quarto 7 x 9 7/8 inches. 46 2 ad for the photographer of the book Fred. Ahrle and printer's slug. pp. including 15 full page photographic illustrations by Ahrle and 5 double page plates the first one is a map printed in gold of the railway route used as a frontispiece and one is an gradient diagram and the remainder are plans. Publisher's flexible scarlet cloth with large gilt cover lettering along with the device of the railway. Aside from a couple of ink drops on the corner an exemplary copy. Only a handful of copies located by OCLC. and no copies have appeared at auction according to RBH.The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway is the first and foremost instance of a mountain passenger railway. Opened in 1881 it introduced bold and imaginative engineering approaches to the challenge of rail links on a hilly terrain of excellent beauty this is the first guide book to this fabled railway.The settlement at Darjeeling really began in 1828 with British interest. By 1835 it was separated from Sikkim for establishing a Sanatorium for the invalid servants of the East India Company. It then consisted of a monastery on observatory hill clustered with about 20 huts and a population of about 100 people. Planning began in 1839 to lay out the Darjeeling town and construct a hill road connecting Siliguri Pankhabari Kurseong and Darjeeling. At the same time evolution of hotels began the first being The Darjeeling Family Hotel’s followed by other hotels. By 1840 Darjeeling town had about 30 buildings and a few respectable houses.I n the year 1878 Franklin Prestage Agent of the Eastern Bengal Railway foresaw the utility of a rail link between the hills of Darjeeling and the plains. His scheme was mainly driven by hard economic considerations viz. the huge difference in the cost of essential commodities between Darjeeling and Siliguri the need to carry out tea for export and the inability of the existing road to handle the growing traffic. He submitted a scheme for the construction of a two feet gauge railway line from Siliguri to Darjeeling.In a detailed scheme submitted to the Government of Bengal and approved by the Lt. Governor Sir Ashley Eden he pointed out how a railway could substantially reduce the cost of transport between Darjeeling and the plains. Rice which sold at 98 a ton at Siliguri Cost 238 at Darjeeling! He was also convinced that the cost of construction of the 2 feet gauge rail-line would not be prohibitive and locomotives small but powerful enough to climb steep gradients could be designed Prestage received final sanction for his project on April 8 1879 and formed the Darjeeling Steam Tramway Co. However the idea of operating the line as a steam tramway was soon abandoned and on September 15 1881 the company adopted the designation of Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Co. DHR which remained effective until it was taken over by the Government of free India on October 20 1948. Throughout that period Gillanders Artbuthnot & Co. one of the oldest managing houses in Calcutta handled its financial legal and purchasing interests.abaa-ny-2022 McCorquodale & Co., Limited hardcover

Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA · États-Unis950,00 $US≈ 803,80 €