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343761 vols. 12 x 9 inches image size. Framed and glazed. 1 vols. 12 x 9 inches image size. This fine illustration was done for "The Express Messenger" the employee magazine of American Railway Express precursor to American Express. unknown
10071Privas, Archives de l'Ardèche, Mémoires d'Ardèche. Temps Présent, 1983, 1 br. in-4 de 87 pp., illustrations, cartes ;
18651800Calcul du rendement. Mit zahlr. Tabellen. Zürich, Zurcher u. Furrer, 1865. 8vo. (22,7 x 15,0 cm). 5 Bll., 118 S., 125 S. Annexes; 72 S. Supplément; 10 S. Calcul. Orig.-Umschlag.
18518220Boston: Eastburn's Press 1851. Sewn binding. Good. Octavo 29pp. A good copy in the publisher's yellow sewn wraps. Front wrap detached but present otherwise a clean bright example with mild chipping to wrapper extremities. Very faint flattened vertical crease throughout. Scarce and ephemeral volume loaded with forensic accounting of this railroad; one of the earliest commercial rail systems in the US. OCLC notes a single physical holding naturally at AAS. Eastburn's Press unknown
18582382(Langenthal, 1858). 8vo. 22,0 x 15,0 cm). Titel, 32 S., 1 l. Bl. Heftstreifen.
188276255San Francisco: J. Winterburn & Co. 1882. First edition. Twelvemo. 47 9 including Membership Appication pp. Publisher's printed pale salmon wrappers. Excellent condition."Rail Road Flat is a Gold Rush era mining town that was settled by gold seekers in 1849 named for a wooden track which conveyed ore cars with waste rock to and from the diggings. A post office was established in 1857 and the first stamp mill erected in 1866. By 1872 five or six mills were operating and at the turn of the century two stamp mills and one arrastra were still in operation. The Clark Ditch was constructed to supply the placer mines of Rail Road Flat in 1856 and soon extended to the mines of Glencoe and Rich Gulch. Originating near Blue Mountain it carried water from the South Fork of the Mokelumne over 55 miles servicing two reservoirs and numerous downstream communities" Calaveras History. It was the site of an Indian council as well as the center of rich placer and quartz mining. Its largest producer was the Petticoat Mine. J. Winterburn & Co. unknown
526001940. 3 original colour maps each c. 110 x 110 cm 40 x 45 inches folding to 20 x 12.5 cm. Natural fold creases generally very fresh and clean. Shows anchorage Big delta Blying Sound Circle fairbanks Gulkana Healy Kantishna River Kenai Livengood Mount Hayes Mount McKinley Seldovia Seward Talkeetna Talketna Mountains Tanan Tyonek Valdez etc. 1940 unknown
19626Paris, Léon & Lévy, s.d. (vers 1920), 1 carte postale de 14 x 9 cm, timbre oblitéré et correspondance manuscrite au dos.
1870354322San Francisco: Thomas Houseworth & Co 1870. Single stereocard 3½ x 7 inches. Stereo image mounted onto printed orange cardstock. Slight wear at edges. Very good. Single stereocard 3½ x 7 inches. A very attractive single stereocard image of the Central Pacific Railroad's "Long Ravine Trestle Bridge." The bridge is located in Nevada County California in the Sierra Nevada mountain range just west of the Nevada state line. The image comes from a set sixty-two stereocards created by Thomas Houseworth & Company for the railroad some time after the railroads completion in 1869. According to the website of the Central Pacific Railroad www.cprr.org the Houseworth company produced more than one hundred such stereocards for the railroad including more than a dozen views of the 878-foot long Trestle Bridge. A nice early stereoscopic image of an engineering wonder from an important American railroad. Thomas Houseworth & Co unknown
1870354323New York: E. & H.T. Anthony & Co 1870. Single stereocard 3½ x 7 inches. Stereo image mounted onto printed orange cardstock. Slight wear at edges. Very good. Single stereocard 3½ x 7 inches. An appealing stereocard image showing several long stretches of railroad track heading into the small town of Ogden Utah. It is a view of an important point crossing point in American railroad history as Ogden is the point at which the Union Pacific Railroad ends and the Central Pacific begins. A train can be seen on the tracks in the far distance as well as a few clapboard buildings. The New York photographic firm of E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. produced several stereoscopic views for the Central Pacific Railroad though few are known today. A nice image of an important railroad intersection. E. & H.T. Anthony & Co unknown
191299538<p>Hartford Connecticut: Public Utilities Commission State of Connecticut 1912. 1912. Fair. - Octavo 9 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. Softcover bound in printed light blue wraps titled in darker blue. There is a chip to the top corner of the front cover. The rear cover which is also a folding plate is chipped with a large portion out from the top inner edge a tear to the bottom edge and chipping along the spine. 15 pages plus the folding rear cover plate depicting the "Plan of Crossover at Westport Conn. Showing scene of derailment" with 8 pages of illustrations mostly from photographs. Ex-library with the libray's stamp on the rear cover. The corners of several pages are bumped and there are a few chips and tiny tears to the edges of a few pages. A good complete copy of this RARE book.</p><p>"Report of Chief Engineer and Inspector of his Examination into the Causes of and Circumstances connected with the Accident occurring at Westport on the 3d Day of October 1912 in the Operation of the plant or equipment of the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company resulting in the Death of Elizabeth H. Brady Flora M.B. Gavit Mary Hamilton Jessie H. Hanson George L. Clark J.J. Mokler and Mark Wheeler and Injuries to Sundry Other Persons".</p> Hartford, Connecticut: Public Utilities Commission, State of Connecticut, 1912. paperback
40769n.p.: Nashville Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway n.d. Full color chromolithograph with printed caption. 1 vols. Image 14 x 19 inches; matted to 21-1/2 x 26 inches overall. Small portion of blank lower right corner missing well away from image and caption and covered by mat; a few spots of almost imperceptible abrasion to surface else fine and handsome. Full color chromolithograph with printed caption. 1 vols. Image 14 x 19 inches; matted to 21-1/2 x 26 inches overall. An absolutely brilliant chromolithograph printed on heavy coated stock its clarity of detail putting most examples of this medium to shame. Caption states: "The 'General' was captured at Big Shanty now Kennesaw Ga. April 12 1862 by the 'Andrews' Raiders' and recaptured near Ringgold Ga. by W.A. Fuller Conductor and Anthony Murphy Shop Foreman for the Railroad Company assisted by Confederates and others after an exciting chase of about ninety miles." Illustrated here in repose the elegant engine glows as a work of art. Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway unknown
LFA-126723021Un ouvrage de 36 pages, format 200 x 200 mm, illustré, broché couverture couleurs, s.d., CFTM, bon état
1965LFA-126743860Un ouvrage de 30 pages, format 180 x 240 mm, illustré, broché couverture couleurs, publié en 1965, Editions du Chêne, collection "Le Livre d'Or de l'Estampe - Locomotion", bon état
LFA-126714065Une plaquette de 32 pages, format 135 x 210 mm, illustrée, brochée, s.d., Musée Historique de Lyon, bon état
1980LFA-126730049Une plaquette de 32 pages, format 140 x 190 mm, illustrée, brochée couverture couleurs, publiée en 1980, Impr. Dumas, bon état
2009LFA-126737993Un ouvrage de 136 pages, format 170 x 240 mm, illustré, broché couverture couleurs, publié en 2009, Impr. AGB, bon état, peu courant
1965B0293Petit étui (8,7 cmX13,9 cm) cartonné et illustré (feuille contrecollée) comportant 2 petits livres (8,5 cm X 13,6 cm) : 1. Un livre, fac-similé d'un document de 1843, comprenant une description des 2 itinéraires, et en particulier une description des communes traversées, horaires des départs et des arrivées, carte des chemins de fer du Rhône et de la Loire (page dépliante), prix des places (page dépliante). 2. Un livre, texte de Albert Peuvergne, fac-similé d'une notice éditée en 1844 à l'usage des voyageurs de la ligne Lyon-St Etienne - Roanne ; une illustration en couleur, dépliante, représentant un train à vapeur, avec ses wagons vus de profil. Cette réimpression de 1965 a été tirée à 1000 exemplaires.
0918654785.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
0918654149.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1898354324Meadville Pennsylvania: Keystone View Company 1898. Single stereocard 3½ x 7 inches. Stereo image mounted onto printed peach cardstock. Paper lightly soiled at edges image clean and crisp. Very good. Single stereocard 3½ x 7 inches. A nice stereocard image of a locomotive steaming across a high railroad bridge in the Colorado Rockies. Another railroad track is shown crossing underneath the bridge and a snow-capped mountain is visible in the distance. Georgetown is located just west of Denver along the route of what is now Interstate 70. Keystone View Company unknown
192245446Denver: The Van Noy Inter-State Company 1922. Paperback. Wide small 4to. Stiff calf-textured wrappers and large ornate gilt lettering string-tied. 40pp. Numerous large sepia-tone photographs. Very good. Faint wear to outer wrappers only. Tight and attractive first edition of this oversize promotional vehicle for the storied Denver & Rio Grande Railroad featuring full-page images of the major tourism sites such as Mesa Verde Bryce Canyon Great Salt Lake Pike's Peak etc. The Van Noy Inter-State Company paperback
1895250835Chicago: Poole Brothers 1895. Denoted the "thirteenth edition two hundredth thousand" on title page. With illustrations. Plus folding map. 56 pp. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers. Wrappers worn along spine. Some neat early pencil marginalia. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth folding case spine gilt. Denoted the "thirteenth edition two hundredth thousand" on title page. With illustrations. Plus folding map. 56 pp. 8vo. A useful turn of the century tourists' guide for places along the railroad's routes. This copy has pencil marginalia beside entries for five cities including Salt Lake City giving the impressions of a traveller in 1898. <br/><br/> Poole Brothers] hardcover
a56581NY 1919 Electric Railway Association. 8vo. 416pp. photo illustrated frontis photo illustrations power generators and equipment many foldout charts and diagrams index errata original hardcover. Owner signed inside front cover old ink price on front free blank. VG light soiling old dry stain at margin not near text of first few leaves. . hardcover
1946K307615London: The Electric Railway Society 1946-51. 1st edition. Nice copy. octavo. cloth binding c. 550pp b/w pls tables index The Electric Railway magazine vols. I -VI No. 1-60 lacks No.9 59 issues bound in green cloth. The Electric Railway Society hardcover
