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191434760Chicago: The Franklin Company 1914. 1914. First edition. 8 3/4" x 4 1/4" color pictorial covers. 23 pages and then 24 pages that are tri-folded and fold out to 8 3/4" x 12" illustrations advertisement map. Discusses the wonders of Colorado to include its climate its sportsmen's activities Colorado Springs Estes Park Manitou Ute Pass Glenwood Springs Pikes Peak Clear Creek Platte Canyon Pueblo etc. 2 pages devoted to advertising the Santa Fe Railroad and including rates. Numerous wonderful black and white photographs of individuals participating in various activities scenery and points of interest railroad scenes etc. Many photographs contain people. The borders around every page in the booklet are illustrated with various individuals involved in various activities. 8 1/4" x 7 1/4" contour map of the Colorado Rockies. A very interesting and nicely produced brochure. The Franklin Company, 1914. unknown
188937976Chicago: Rand McNally & Co. 1889. 1889. First edition. Copy right 1889 by S.K. Hooper. Verses by Stanley Wood from photographs by W.H. Jackson. 7 1/4" x 9 1/2" in yellow printed cardboard covers tied in burgundy ribbon. 12 leaves 5 being tipped in views from photographs. Views by Jackson of Lake San Christoval Second Tunnel Canon of the Grand River River of Los Souls Animas Canon Eagle River Canon and Mt. Sneffles and Uncompahgre River. 5 pages of verses by Stanley Wood to include "Colorado" "Nature's Gems" "Enchanted Land" "Mountain Moods" and "By Mountain Lakes." Covers soiled and with light wear to extremities. Ribbon beginning to deteriorate. A nice item. Rand, McNally & Co., 1889. unknown
188832743New York: Press of the American Bank Note Company 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Oblong quarto. 80 pages. Illustrated with 12 Albertype photographic images other photographs sketches map of the railroad route and illustrated advertisements. Dark brown pebble cloth hardcover with gilt illustrated title on the front cover. A restored repaired copy. New brown cloth backstrip. Hinges repaired. Front and rear end sheets replaced with newer light brown end papers. Cloth covers dyed with matching brown color lower edges of the covers. Light edge wear to the binding. First 6 pages are chipped in the lower corners no missing content and have been patched with white tissue. Presentation copy: Inscribed on the title page "To The Hon. J. Russell Jones with kind regards of James Gorant sp Secretary of the Guarantee Co. of N. America Chicago 2 of 9/88." J. Russell Jones was President of the West Side Rail Way Company in Chicago. 8 of the 12 plates are photographs by William Henry Jackson. Views include Pike's Peak Garden of the Gods Royal Gorge Marshall Pass etc. Contents are clean inside. A fair or better copy. Press of the American Bank Note Company hardcover
1932100976Thick folio 9 1/2 x13 original cloth gilt lettering includes a couple of maps 1972 pp. Binding has a little wear bottom extremities showing as a result of shelf wear overall binding is bright and clean pagination a little unusual but complete normal aging page 352 with tape repair a few margin tears but nothing significant and not affecting text; overall a very nice copy. Henry Varnum Poor 1812-1905 started producing his railroad manual just before the Civil War. They include a wealth of information on railroad operating and financial statistics. It provides the miles operated by different railroads and gives data on the financial their performance. These efforts in providing financial information on railroads would ultimately lead to providing credit ratings on corporates and governments. After a merger with Standard Statistics in 1941 the firm would become Standard & Poor's one of the leading rating agencies in the world. standardandpoors website. Poor's Publishing Company,
19383955New York: Labor Research Association 1938 - 1962. First edition. Original Wraps. Very Good mild ex-library. Octavo some years have index some issues missing call us for more details 978-664-6455. Labor Research Association paperback
18501008148vo pamphlet later paper wrappers two folding maps 117 2 pp. Minor foxing and browning a bit of staining in the margins mostly maps also have the staining in margins but are in great condition otherwise; overall very good. The goal of this bill in the House of Representatives was to connect the Atlantic and Pacific with a railroad. Specifically this undertaking was to construct a railroad and electric telegraph from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean. Whitney seems to have played a critical role in this process and started to work on the railroad project as early as 1841. The pamphlet contains a lot of information on early railroad issues especially imports and exports.
2887New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1869. . Tall 8vo dark green cloth spine gilt The Second Part of this volume contains Henry Stevens' "Historical and Geographical Notes 143-1869. Dedicated to Marshall O. Roberts who has inscribed this volume to Henry Wicoff on the blank preceding the title New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1869. hardcover
3985Walton Aylesbury Buckinghamshire U.K.: : S.G.P.R. Mixed media uneven 6 4 inches printed menu on card stock within a watercolor horseshoe with a watercolor racehorse at the inner top of the shoe; below the shoe an original photograph miniature train with driver pulling three flat-beds on which are 10 be-hatted men and a small boy with a dog. Entitled “S.G.P.R. 11.4.11†In British dating usage this is: “11 April 1911â€. Has been folded for mailing which has resulted in a crease across the body of the menu. The standing figure straddling the second and third flatbeds is Harry A. Ivatt the great British designer of railway engines and the Chief Mechanical Engineer of the British Great Northern Railway seated beside him is his son with a small dog—identified by a previous owner of the object and a member of the Ivatt family. Evidently some sort of club or society possibly a miniature railway society. The menu is most tempting—among items proffered Hors d'oeuvre variés Roast Beef Spare-rib of Pork Pigeon Pie Ham Tongue Boned Fowls Roast Fowls Charlotte Russe Tartlets Violet Meringue etc.The verso has ink notes and a penciled signature which appear to refer to the piece being mailed from Britain and received in British Columbia. The pencil signature is of a W. C. Morris who signs as president of the S.G.P.R. Walton, Aylesbury [Buckinghamshire, U.K.]: : S.G.P.R.,. unknown
1857TB31218Albany NY: Printed by C. Van Benthuysen 1857. First Edition. Very good- in its original patterned dark brown cloth covered boards with gilt text on the front board. A small quarto of 9 by 5 5/8 inches with heavy wear to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine such that the cloth is worn down to the edges of the text block. The cloth is also worn through in several spots at the lower edges of the boards. The upper 1 1/2 inches of both joints are splitting from their respective boards. Without a dust jacket. No pagination. Illustrated throughout with two large fold-out maps 8 plans of bridges 5 locomotives from the Hudson River line two from the New Haven Railroad and one from the Long Island Railroad Rail sections from the New York Central Albany and West Stockbridge and Hudson River Railroads 7 drawings for tunnels 3 miscellaneous drawings and 29 profiles. The profile for the New York and Erie Railroad has been spliced at a torn fold line. Printed by C. Van Benthuysen hardcover
18851387Chicago: Chas. N. Trivess 1885. About very good. 16pp. Original printed wrappers stapled. Light to moderate foxing to covers some light wear. A promotional work for the railroad this pamphlet is subtitled "A few testimonies of the results obtained from farming in this wonderful region." The text is comprised of letters written by real residents in this "Wonderland of the Northwest" noting bountiful crop yields and cheap land. The rear cover is a map of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway showing routes from Chicago out to Iowa Minnesota Wisconsin Nebraska and the Dakotas. Relatively scarce. Chas. N. Trivess unknown
18851387Chicago: Chas. N. Trivess 1885. About very good. 16pp. Original printed wrappers stapled. Light to moderate foxing to covers some light wear. A promotional work for the railroad this pamphlet is subtitled "A few testimonies of the results obtained from farming in this wonderful region." The text is comprised of letters written by real residents in this "Wonderland of the Northwest" noting bountiful crop yields and cheap land. The rear cover is a map of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway showing routes from Chicago out to Iowa Minnesota Wisconsin Nebraska and the Dakotas. Relatively scarce. Chas. N. Trivess unknown books
194154458N. P.: Privately printed for the Great Northern Railway 1941. 1941. Color 9" x 4" folded wrappers that unfolds to 27" x 32" printed two sides booklet. A Great Northern Railway Travel brochure with a Pictorial Map of Glacier National Park & Waterton Lakes National Park. Map is dated 1939. Full color with images of the buildings and wildlife in the parks. Yellow lines show paved roadways and the red lines highlight the park's trail network. A few black & white photographs and descriptive text about the features of the parks are shown. This wonderful pictorial map is bright and colorful and scarce It is in fine bright condition. Privately printed for the Great Northern Railway, [1941]. unknown
1856040213New-York: Isaac J. Oliver Printer 1856. First edition thus. Softcover. Very Good. 64pp sewn. Self-wrappers string tied; faint foxing to first and last few leaves. 8.5" x 5.5" Sabin 34317--more acreage was offered in 1854 and 1855. Buck Travel & Description locates five copies with this variant imprint by Oliver. Isaac J. Oliver, Printer unknown
188433877New York: Sackett 1884-1892. First Edition. 1884. 64pp. illuslarge fold map at rear. Orignal printed wrappers $100 1885. 40pp. illuslarge fold map at rear. Orignal printed wrappers $100 1887. 40 51pp. Original printed wrappers. $75 1892. 96pp. illus two large fold maps at rear. Original printed wrappers $100 Sackett unknown books
185478628Columbus:: Ohio State Journal Company 1854. First edition. publisher's embossed deep blue cloth; gilt spine. Shallow chipping at the bottom of the spine; 3" split to the front joint; some foxing to endsheets; otherwise clean tight and sound. 12mo. Added illustrated title page by the Ohio State Journal Co. Chromeographic and Ornamental Printers; folding frontispiece a few short splits at folds; and 31 tinted lithographic plates only 26 called for in the list of illustrations. . Ohio State Journal Company, hardcover
1856DEMO015982IWashington: Beverly Tucker 1856-7. First & Quarto edition. Hardcover. Fair. chromolithographs. 4to original sheep lacks t-pg. Ex libris U.S. House of Representatives. <br/><br/>Comprised of 5 reports by John Grubb Parke Albert Henry Campbell Thomas Antisell John Torrey Andrew Atkinson Humphreys. "This widely known work requires no comment - Cowan CALIFORNIA p.512." Illustrated with chromolithographs. Beverly Tucker hardcover
186133741Wash D.C.: Polkinhorn 1861. First Edition. 23pp. Orig ptd wrps. First ed. Signed in type at end: "Cincinnation Deals with California the Pacific Railroads Mexico Sandwich Islands etc. Scarce. Not in Eberstadt Decker Graff Cowan or Forbes Polkinhorn unknown books
elala4996New York: 1911. 8vo. pp. cviii 2716 ads on endleaves. 21 maps on 17 plates 16 folding maps & 36 full-page text maps. original cloth 2 leaves loose with chipped edges light dampstain to inner margin at beginning of text New York: 1911 hardcover
1932100976Thick folio 9 1/2 x13 original cloth gilt lettering includes a couple of maps 1972 pp. Binding has a little wear bottom extremities showing as a result of shelf wear overall binding is bright and clean pagination a little unusual but complete normal aging page 352 with tape repair a few margin tears but nothing significant and not affecting text; overall a very nice copy. Henry Varnum Poor 1812-1905 started producing his railroad manual just before the Civil War. They include a wealth of information on railroad operating and financial statistics. It provides the miles operated by different railroads and gives data on the financial their performance. These efforts in providing financial information on railroads would ultimately lead to providing credit ratings on corporates and governments. After a merger with Standard Statistics in 1941 the firm would become Standard & Poor's one of the leading rating agencies in the world. standardandpoors website. Poor's Publishing Company, books
18501008148vo pamphlet later paper wrappers two folding maps 117 2 pp. Minor foxing and browning a bit of staining in the margins mostly maps also have the staining in margins but are in great condition otherwise; overall very good. The goal of this bill in the House of Representatives was to connect the Atlantic and Pacific with a railroad. Specifically this undertaking was to construct a railroad and electric telegraph from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean. Whitney seems to have played a critical role in this process and started to work on the railroad project as early as 1841. The pamphlet contains a lot of information on early railroad issues especially imports and exports. books
2887New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1869. . Tall 8vo dark green cloth spine gilt The Second Part of this volume contains Henry Stevens' "Historical and Geographical Notes 143-1869. Dedicated to Marshall O. Roberts who has inscribed this volume to Henry Wicoff on the blank preceding the title New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1869. hardcover books
188412183np: St. Paul Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Co 1884. Original Document. Single loose leaf framed. Very Good. 9-1/2 x 15 inches pre-printed form recto and verso with manuscript notations and signatures. Behind glass in aluminum frame. Mellowed creases minimal stains. Agreement made on April 18 1884 by the Land Department of the Railway for the sale of 160 acres for 480 dollars to Mr. Tamas Opsak of Angus Polk County Minnesota. With signatures of CEO James J. Hill a Witness the Commissioner and the Purchaser.<p>The agreement includes the provision that the "premises are sold . for improvement and cultivation" and that the purchaser and heirs "will settle upon said premises and build and occupy a habitable dwelling house thereon and will also plow and put under cultivation not less than 50 acres .<p>The company was formed in 1879 from the assets of the Saint Paul & Pacific. Hill then transferred ownership to the Great Northern Railway in 1890. St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Co unknown
1867WRCAM36119Saint Paul 1867. 15pp. plus folding map. Original printed wrappers. Lacking rear wrapper. Ex-lib. with institutional inkstamp and blindstamp on front wrapper. Small numerical ink inscriptions on front wrapper. Small tear along folds of map without loss. Overall a very good copy of this fragile and crudely printed item. The map which was printed by Baker of Chicago and then married with the text prior to issue at St. Paul delineates the extent of the rail lines in Minnesota with the trunk projected to beyond the Canadian border and branches to Sioux City Superior etc. Included are estimates of profits to be accrued from tonnage as well as the eventual sale of the granted lands. BRE p.263. unknown books
1896318708San Francisco: Issued by The Wheeler Publsishing Co. 22 Clay Street 1896. First edition. Frontispiece of Claus Speckels. Photographs taken by Tabor of San Francisco and Spooner of Stockton Cal. 224pp. 4to. Publishers three quarters green morocco faded to brown. Very nice copy. First edition. Frontispiece of Claus Speckels. Photographs taken by Tabor of San Francisco and Spooner of Stockton Cal. 224pp. 4to. The San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway lasted from 1895 to 1901 when it was beame part into the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. Issued by The Wheeler Publsishing Co. 22 Clay Street unknown books
1995H40005Boston and Westford: The Railway & Locomotive Historical Society Harvard Business School 1995. Wraps. Very good. 41 issues from no. 132 to 175 lacking only no. 134. Each issue is 9 x 6 inches softcover 125-200 pp. each illustrated good to very good condition issues are mainly slight toning soil and occasional mild stains to covers and some are gently curved or wavy from spines-up storage in a box but all have very good clean and unmarked contents. For sale only as a group; we are not selling individual issues at this time. The Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, Harvard Business School unknown
