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188761105bdDeLand Fla.: Saint Johns - Oklawaha River Trading Company 1981. Facsimile reproduction of the 1887 edition with an Introduction by V. O. Coshow. Octavo stiff illustrated wrappers stapled 1 - 84 pp. Illustrations advertisements. Fine. Saint Johns - Oklawaha River Trading Company, (1981). Facsimile reproduction of the 1887 edition, with an Introduction by V. O unknown books
18798694La Crosse Wisconsin 1879. Original printed wrappers stitched 32 clean pages. Wrappers lightly soiled Very Good. FIRST EDITION. unknown books
19283927San Francisco: Southern Pacific Company 1928. 15pp. Square quarto 23 cm x 20 cm Illustrated wrappers. Better than very good. Bright. Folds as issued. Guide for the prospective tourist that offers descriptions of four scenic routes offered by the Southern Pacific: Sunset Route Shasta Route Overland Route Lake Tahoe Line Golden State Route. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout and a nice double-page pictorial map 36 cm x 18 cm at the center: 'The Best Way to See the Pacific Coast.' <br/><br/>"In this booklet are separate descriptions of Sunset Golden State Overland and Shasta Routes. At the end of the description of each route are several itineraries suggesting optional plans for seeing the points of interest on the Pacific Coast depending upon the route to be taken returning East. Southern Pacific Company unknown books
19223527Buffalo: The Matthews-Northrup Works 1922. Color map 65 cm x 52 cm on a single sheet 69 cm x 56 cm printed on both sides and folds to pamphlet size 23 cm x 9 cm Very good. Folds as issued. Large map color map of California that locates the Southern Pacific rail lines. Printed over Nevada is an index to places in California and the adjacent border towns of Nevada. Three inset maps 'The Bay Region About San Francisco' 18 cm x 13 cm; 'Los Angeles and Vicinity Showing Pacific Electric Railway ' 8 cm x 13 cm; 'Comparative Area' 14 cm x 10 cm. Reverse contains "A Brief Description of its Resources Attractions Topography and Climate" over 15 numbered panels.<br/><br/>"It is worth while to know the California of today to know what you can do in it; what money you can make and what comfort you can find in it; what home life it offers. New opportunities await the newcomer because new activities are developing. Irrigation has made the great valleys attractive and created farms and town where only ranches existed. The Matthews-Northrup Works unknown books
19021511San Francisco 1902. Very good. 120pp. including twenty plates many folding. 12mo. Original limp calf front cover gilt lettered. Light wear to spine and extremities. Internally quite clean. A very interesting early 20th-century manual and rule book for personnel in the Maintenance and Way Department of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Contained here are rules and instructions for a wide array of railroad employees including roadmasters bridge superintendants trackmen bridgemen and other watchmen. The principal portion of the text comprises nearly 270 general rules and regulations such as those governing the adjustment of woodtruss bridges lining and surfacing track keeping clear rights of way and establishing standards for numerous other basic repairs on track ties signals and other critical infrastructure. A short appendix contains laws from the several states in which Southern Pacific operated regarding the accidental killing of livestock by trains and railroad employees. At the rear are twenty plates many folding with reference diagrams for track and other maintenance projects.<br /><br />This edition is revised from the first edition of 1898 with a substantially different pagination. Several plates have been excised from the rear of this copy; however the only other copy that we locate of this work at UC Santa Barbara also is lacking a number of plates. books
190051799Chicago: Curt Teich & Co 1900. Oblong 4to unpaginated; 23 full-p. sepia illustrations mounted including a folding double-page panorama map two pages of text containing illustration descriptions; tan pictorial wrappers lettered in green & gilt paper label illustration mounted on upper cover ribbon ties at spine; covers a bit toned and lightly chipped at edges illustrations clean & bright overall very good. A picturesque view-book of scenery from the Golden Gate to the Great Salt Lake. <br/><br/> Curt Teich & Co unknown books
19245427San Francisco: Southern Pacific Company 1924. 15pp. Square quarto 23 cm x 20 cm Illustrated wrappers. Better than very good. Vertical fold as issued. Illustrated guide for the prospective tourist that offers a stop-by-stop guide from Seattle to San Francisco that provides information usually a paragraph on each stop along the route of the Southern Pacific. <br/><br/>'These are notes by the way. They anticipate questions and indicate features of the route and points of interest as seen from the car window. For the convenience of passengers side trips are stated distances given and fares noted wherever junctions occur or where stage lines run to places of resort or to towns off the main line. Southern Pacific Company unknown books
187527665New York: Evening Post Steam Presses 1875. Original printed wrappers with wrapper title as issued. Stitched. iv 3-133 pp. Wrappers moderately worn else a clean text and Very Good.<br/><br/> A comprehensive compilation of the legal documents creating and authorizing the Railroad and its branches and affiliates. OCLC locates five copies under several accession numbers as of March 2018. A shorter version with this title appeared in 1873. Evening Post Steam Presses unknown books
190643671n. p. 1906. 1st printing presumed. Pale green paper wrappers stapled with b/w graphic to front wrapper. Modest wear. Light age-toning to wrappers. VG. 22 2 pp. Illustrated with b/w photographic images & with drawings. 12mo. 6-3/4" x 5" <br/><br/>Departing San Francisco on the 17th and LA on the 18th one is invited to tour old Mexico via SP's "fine vestibuled Pullman sleepers." The pamphlet then goes on to describe the many allures of Mexico including Chihuahua Zacatecas & San Luis Potosi to name a few. Uncommon. unknown books
1920m1362Chicago: Curt Teich & Co. n.d. ca. 1920. Oblong quarto stiff illustrated wrappers with paper label string-tied iv pp. 22 leaves. Map and 22 color photographs of views along the Southern Pacific Railroad route over the Sierras mounted on individual pages with brief textual explanations. Very Good. Curt Teich & Co., n.d. [ca. 1920.] unknown books
1907288696San Francisco. : Southern Pacific Company. 1907. . 1st Edition. Softcover black embossed pictorial wraps. . Old paper tape repair to spine cover edges worn still a good plus copy with very good contents. . 4to. Color illustrations throughout. Southern Pacific Company. paperback books
196339982Oakland CA: Southern Pacific Railways 1963. 1st printing presumed. Stiff white printed paper. Modest wear to paper faint age-toning and creasing to edges. Stamped by F. L. Rizzo - Steward to a particular dining car. A VG example. Single sheet printed recto only. 9-1/2" x 6-1/4" <br/><br/>Includes prices alongside breakfast meal options. Southern Pacific Railways unknown books
47608Washington DC: Southern Railway nd. Paperback. Very good. 30pp. Light rubbing else very good in publisher's stapled wraps. <br/><br/> Southern Railway paperback 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
1880WRCAM55682St. Louis: Jno. McKittrick & Co. 1880. Broadside 21 x 6 1/2 inches. Old center horizontal fold small chip to left edge slight wrinkling. Very good. Matted and shrinkwrapped. An attractive broadside promotional for the St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern Railway with a large engraving in the center depicting the route from St. Louis through Arkansas and into Texas beneath a train wheel bearing wings about which the motto "Bound for the happy lands" appears all in the center of a circle of stars. A schedule of ticket costs for various routes is included as well as a pitch directed at homesteaders regarding the purchase of government lands. The names of three land agents are listed at bottom - one in Missouri one in Illinois and one in Arkansas. <br> <br> The railway touts their "large grant of lands from the United States Government embracing all varieties of soil and timber adapted to Farming Fruit Growing and Grazing purposes.Immigrants can locate on railroad land in well improved neighborhoods having Roads Mills Churches and Schools and peopled by honest and industrious citizens who will give a cordial welcome to all good people coming among them." <br> <br> Only six copies in OCLC spread over four records located at Yale SMU Michigan the University of Texas at Arlington Truman State and the University of Missouri at St. Louis. OCLC 22160865 166641127 702349761 761878887. Jno. McKittrick & Co. unknown books
7199baSt. Louis MO: St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Book. Railroads; ticket for passage. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway unknown books
1880658Cincinnati 1880. Very good. Folding brochure eight panels to each side. Minor wear and soiling. Contemporary ink stamp on two panels. Promotional brochure for the land grants of the St. Louis Iron Mountain and Southern Railway. The brochure outlines the benefits of the climate the resources and agriculture in the region ease of transport and access and other features: "People from all sections of the country who desire to better their condition are cordially invited to come to Arkansas and secure cheap homes. All classes of citizens without regard to political opinions join to build up the material interests of the state and develop its extraordinary resources. The colored people constitute only one-fourth of the population." The usual "Bound for the Happy Lands" circular woodcut of the railroad adorns two panels and a small map highlights the Texas Short Line from St. Louis to Texarkana. With the ink stamp of Henry H. Hannan land agent in Swan Creek Ohio. unknown books
187537686St. Louis: The railway Jno. McKittrick & Co. printers St. Louis 1875. Broadside 21 x 7 inches three paragraphs of promotional material ticket office addresses and fare rates set in many typefaces and sizes including display type and illustrated with a circular bird's-eye view map below the heads. Some old staining mostly in margin; "Henry Hannan Land Agent" stamp else very good. Advertising ticket fares and lands for sale to customers in Ohio Michigan Indiana Illinois and Kentucky. OCLC locates two copies Yale Truman State University. <br/><br/> The railway (Jno. McKittrick & Co., printers, St. Louis) unknown books
189925554St. Louis: Woodward & Tiernan Printing Co. 1899. 38pp folding map of the railroad and connecting lines. Original printed wrappers light dust and wear small rubberstamp at head of front wrap original staples. Very Good. <br/><br/> All material on the Road's financial condition with a map depicting its route and connecting lines.<br/>OCLC 251864058 1-AAS 187467966 1-PAU-serial 7984345 11-serial. Woodward & Tiernan Printing Co. unknown books
18679683Saint Paul: Ramaley & Hall 1867. Original printed dark blue wrappers clipped at upper corner of front wrap some wear. 15pp. Folding Map of the St. Paul & Chicago Railway Connecting the Railway System of Minnesota and the Hudson Bay Company's Territory with Chicago and the East. Very Good. <br/><br/> The Road offers bonds to finance the construction of the "railway from St. Paul to Winona one hundred and one miles where it will connect with the present system of railroads leading to Chicago and Milwaukee." The route will be through a number of towns "sustained by a very rich agricultural back country" and is "almost upon an air line from St. Paul to Winona La Crosse Madison and Chicago." <br/>FIRST EDITION. 135 Eberstadt 532. Not in Modelski Phillips Maps of America. Ramaley & Hall unknown books
186776723Washington D. C.: Publisher Not Stated. Good. 1867. Hardcover. This item has been removed from a larger binding with some wear/remnants to the spine. There is some toning to the page edges with a damp-stain to the lower right corner of the first few pages. . (Publisher Not Stated) hardcover books
183545066New-York: William A. Mercein & Son 1835. First Edition. Octavo 23cm.; disbound; 16pp. Recently staplebound brief red ink note to upper cover else Very Good and fresh. Includes the original act of 1826 as well as the 1828 and 1831 supplements which connected the Pennsylvania Canal to the Allegheny Portage Railroad. The line eventually used by the Delaware Lackawanna and Western rail companies was surveyed by the railroad speculator William Henry and began at Pittston running to the junction of the Susquehanna and Lackawanna rivers. SABIN 93918. William A. Mercein & Son unknown books
3036New York: The Company 1870. . Folio fold on pale purple paper slight separation in fold New York: The Company, 1870. unknown books
1888WRCAM13837Philadelphia 1888. 38pp. Original printed wrappers. Wraps darkened and chipped top margin considerably chipped with no loss of text old fold. A decent copy printed on bad paper. In a folding cloth box leather label. The Mercantile Trust Company makes claims to security in property of the Railway including holdings in New Orleans. The property is described in detail. Also printed are the articles of the new mortgage and documents of certification of New York and Louisiana. hardcover books
3040Washington: S.n. 1877. . 8vo white wrappers front printed Washington: S.n., 1877. unknown books