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18871408San Francisco 1887. About very good. 668pp. including numerous in-text or full page illustrations and eight photolithographed plates plus large folding map. Folio. Original pictorial wrappers. Wraps with some soiling wear at edges; front wrap with a few signs of biopredation; two small chips to rear wrapper; spine perishing at extremities. Minor worming at upper corner of a few interior leaves. Light tanning. A rare and extravagant promotional for the Pacific Cable Railway Company which manufactured installed and operated the famous streetcar system of San Francisco and in several other American cities. The present work also serves as a declaration of patent with a list of patents and patent holders at the rear and the text comprises a detailed technical description of the wire cable system with many illustrations of its mechanisms and operation as well as general accounts of the systems running in San Francisco Los Angeles Chicago and Kansas City. In addition to the technical diagrams are several attractive line illustrations and eight photolithographed plates reproduced by artotype of the cable cars of San Francisco in action all by Britton & Rey. The folding map at the rear provides a detailed delineation of the lines running across the city. Very scarce OCLC locates only five copies.<br /><br />Cowan II p.512. books
19087623Near Cambridge MD 1908. Seven volumes in all. Receipt Books: oblong quartos 29.5 x 22.5 cm. approximately 500 pages in all. Receipt books and bills of lading for a shipping agent specialized in oysters and other seafoods. The bills of lading indicate that the shipments originated with L.B. Phillips & Co. in or near Cambridge MD and that most shipments were sent on the Empire Line. The Bills of Lading indicate that the shipments originated with L.B. Phillips & Co. in or near Cambridge MD and that most shipments were sent on the Empire Line. The five Receipt Books are dated: Sept. 28 1905 - Nov. 23 1905; Nov. 24 1905 - Dec. 21 1905; Dec. 22 1904 - Jan. 24 1905; Mar. 20-1906 - April 13 1906; Nov. 27 1906 - Dec 21 1906. Individual sheets show a single day's shipments to various customers and a grid provides space for recording shipment in quantities measured in Cases Tubs Kegs Barrels Crates and Baskets. For example a single sheet from March 20 1908 indicates some 570 cases and partial barrels and kegs of oysters to eight clients in cities including Denver Kansas City Washburn Wisc. Bay City Mich. Mitchell South Dakota Kankakee Ill. Johnstown NY and DeKalb Ill. Most of the accounts are in the Midwest but Toronto Livingston Manor NY Alexandria Virginia and other are also included. The two volumes of Bills of Lading: oblong quartos 20 x 22.5 cm. approximately 200 pages in all. Dates of the Bills of Lading: Aug. 21 1905 - Sept. 4 1905; Dec. 13 1907 - Jan. 2 1908. The Bills of Lading also list Shrimp shipped in 200lb. barrels. Pages brittle and a few leaves are chipped or torn. Receipt Books are bound in marbled boards backed in tan cloth with printed paper labels to front boards. Bills of Ladings are in pale blue paper boards backed in tan cloth with printed paper title labels. Overall near very good. hardcover books
191043222Pottsville PA: Order of Railway Conductors 1910. Original lithograph certificate 57.75x35.75cm. printed in black on heavy cream stock accomplished in calligraphic manuscript and hand-colored with mounted original albumen photographic portrait lozenge 8cm in diameter. Stock has suffered some fairly heavy frame burn to extremities and verso blank along with some brief glue residue and paper flaws from where the stock was previously mounted not affecting image or text. Still overall Very Good the colors and photograph vibrant. Initiation certificate to ORC member William A. Nye of the Pottsville Division No. 416 P&R Ry. Philadelphia & Reading Railway Caboose No. 90073 dated July 10 1910. The head of the certificate shows a lovely red engine steaming past a grassy field over which is mounted Nye's photographic portrait though the largest portion of the piece is devoted to an oversized symbol of the ORC a large circle 23cm in diameter divided into three equal parts depicting an arm with a coupling an arm with a lantern and whistle and an arm entwined with a snake-like chain. Order of Railway Conductors unknown books
191043231Reading PA: Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen 1910. Original lithograph certificate 57x35.5cm. glued to mount 63.5x35.5 certificate printed in black on heavy cream stock accomplished in calligraphic manuscript and hand-colored with mounted original silver gelatin photographic portrait lozenge 7.5cm in diameter. Some light toning along extremities verso blank suffering from frame burn else Very Good and sound. Initiation certificate to BRT member William Walter Spatz of the William Penn 172 in Reading PA. The head of the certificate shows an engine steaming past a grassy field the engine only partly hand-colored red over which is mounted Spatz's photographic portrait. Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen unknown books
188025667New York City: Eastern Office Oregon Railway and Navigation Co.; Franklin Press: Rand Avery & Co. Boston 1880. 59 1 blank pp large 17" x 19" folding Colton color map of Oregon Washington Territory part of Idaho. A few short splits along folds with no loss. Original printed wrapperssoiled and worn. Scattered spotting. A few small chips and wormholes at corners of outer leaves closed tear to title page no text loss. Good.<br/><br/> "To meet the constant and increasing demand for full information as to the climate and resources of both Eastern and Western Oregon the present pamphlet is issued. In this compilation use is made of matter entertained in pamphlets issued by Oregon State Board of Immigration. The reader is given a few of the disinterested opinions of travellers map and tables showing all that may be desired in order to arrive at a correct knowledge of this state as gathered from Facts and Figures."<br/>Adams Herd 1729. Eastern Office, Oregon Railway and Navigation Co.; Franklin Press: Rand, Avery, & Co., Boston unknown books
40603OREGON RAILWAY AND NAVIGATION COMPANY. THE PACIFIC NORTH-WEST; A GUIDE FOR SETTLERS AND TRAVELERS: OREGON AND WASHINGTON TERRITORY. New York: Land Dept. Northern Pacific Railroad Co. 1882. 8vo. Printed wrappers. Frontispiece plate 81 pages. First edition. Scarce Western promotional travel guide to the Pacific North-West. Addressed prospective settlers and travelers alike this guide consists of historical geographical and agricultural information and discusses at length matters s as commerce climate education taxes prices and the regions of the Pacifi North-West. Each county is described and suggestions are provided to prospective emigrants such as "In mercantile pursuits the opening is good f men of enterprise and capital; but the chances for mere clerks are not good." Farm labor wages in these parts are recorded as being between $25 and $30 per month and lumber mills wages between $60 and $90 per month for first-class hands. It is also noted that "Chinamen work for the railroads and boards themselves at $1.00 a day and in winter take contracts for grubbing brush land." There are ten full-page illustrations which include a two-page "Bird's Eye Vi of Portland Oregon" "Saw Mill on Puget Sound W.T." "Astoria Oregon Entrance to Columbia River" "First Street Portland Oregon" and "Commercia Street Seattle W.T." with folding map of the region Unfolded 28 1/2 x 18 inches in the back. Spine and outer edges of wrappers sunned else good. unknown books
186744783Boston: n.a. 1867. First edition. A very good copy some toning at the center crease minor wear to edge. 1 sheet. 1 p. 19 x 24 inches 48.5 x 61 cm. Broadside printed on yellow paper advertizing a combined railroad and steamer trip from Boston to Rocky Point RI. The train would travel to Falls River where it connected with the Steamer Canonicus which then traveled to Rocky Point. Lists stops and fares. Notes that "A Band of Music will accompany the Excursion." Signed and dated in type "Boston August 15 1867. W.H. Bullock William Henry Sup't." OCLC locates no copies of this broadside but shows the American Antiquarian Society holding a similar item issued a year later American Broadsides and Ephemera. Series 1; no. 14733. n.a. unknown books
185629362Massillon Ohio: James E. Wharton Printer 1856. Disbound 22pp. Light wear Good. <br/><br/> The Company was chartered in 1848 by the legislatures of Ohio and Pennsylvania. Its mission beginning at Pittsburgh where the Pennsylvania Central Rail Road ended was to link that Road with the railroads of Ohio which would then connect with other roads westward and thus become it was hoped a crucial part of the rail transportation system. Unfortunately the Company "sustained heavy losses from various causes" in seeking to accomplish this mission; an Investigating Committee was appointed to figure out what caused the calamity. <br/> This pamphlet -- signed in type at the end by Thomas W. Bartley Dwight Jarvis and W. Bagley-- is the Stockholders' review of that Report. They give it a grade of "unsatisfactory." The Investigating Committee treated the Company's managers with excessive deference and tenderness ignoring or minimizing their shocking cost overruns defalcations and mismanagement.<br/>OCLC 16315711 1- OH Hist. Soc. as of September 2012. BRE 247 related pamphlets. James E. Wharton, Printer 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
18581100Cincinnati: Enquirer Print 1858. Good. Broadside approximately 14.5 x 7 inches. Matted. Internal tear near top edge slightly affecting text. Light dust soiling heavier at foot; some creasing and foxing at edges. An attractive broadside advertisement for the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad promoting its newly completed line from Cincinnati to St. Louis. The broadside highlights the O&M as the "Shortest and Quickest" route from Cincinnati to Indianapolis Vincennes and St. Louis travelling on the "Only Wide Gauge in the West" with two trains leaving Cincinnati daily and arriving in St. Louis "two hours in advance of any other route." Ohio & Mississippi passengers enjoy "wide and spacious Saloon Cars unattainable on narrow gauge Roads and cross the River at Illinoistown on arrival." By contrast the dimwitted passengers of the Terre Haute and Alton "wait on bank of River one hour before crossing." With a woodcut illustration and a bracing combination of woodcut types. Not in OCLC; the line was completed at the end of 1857. Enquirer Print unknown books
40450San Francisco: Ocean Shore Railroad n. d. Original illustrations ca. 1900-1905. Reprinted on white printed paper. White paper printed with black ink. Creasing no hard creases just warped to paper light wear. A VG set of copies. Two sheets printed recto only. Two large map illustrations. 2 sizes. 14" x 8-1/2" & 17" x 11" <br/><br/>"The Ocean Shore Railroad was intended to be built from San Francisco to Santa Cruz California via a route along the Pacific coastline. Incorporated in May 1881 with construction beginning in 1905 at both ends but the line was never completed. The April 18 1906 earthquake caused major damage and delayed completion of the railroad. Trackage within the city of San Francisco was electrified while the rest of the line was operated with steam locomotives and later with self-propelled railcars. Despite significant passenger patronage especially on weekends the railroad never recovered from losses in the 1906 earthquake and failed to attract enough freight traffic to cover increasing deficits." Wikipedia. These reprinted map blueprints look to have been done before the 1906 earthquake. Ocean Shore Railroad unknown books
1898045234Honolulu: Gazette Print 1898. 39p. original stiff printed wrappers folded tables wrapper chipped along the spine. Gazette Print unknown books
1907045235Honolulu: Mercantil Printing Co 1907. 35p. folded tables original stiff printed wrappers. Mercantil Printing Co unknown books
1897045233Honolulu: Hawaiian Gazette Co.s Print 1897. 43p. folded tables original stiff printed wrappers. Hawaiian Gazette Co.s Print unknown books
184028453New Hampshire 1840. 8" x 10" printed on blue paper. Old folds light wear. Small hole near left margin loss of a couple letters. Good to Very Good. <br/><br/> The Northern Railroad was a single track line from Concord to White River Junction Vermont. It was 69.5 miles long with a 13.41 mile branch line from Franklin to Bristol NH. The main line was chartered in 1844 and completed 1848. Operated independently until 1888 when it was taken over by the Boston & Maine. Heald: IMAGES OF RAIL: BOSTON & MAINE IN THE 19TH CENTURY. 2001. unknown books
188327620St. Paul: Brown & Treacy 1883. Original printed and illustrated wrappers. 96pp. Wraps worn blank inner margins with binding holes and some separation of the text block from the wraps. Else Very Good. Profusely illustrated. Blank verso of front wrapper with small plate 'Presented by J. Fletcher Williams St. Paul Minn.' <br/><br/> The story of the Railway its completion details of the celebration and the attractions of St. Paul "the Northwestern Metropolis."<br/>BRE 243. Brown & Treacy unknown books
1916562St. Paul 1916. 64pp. Quarto. Original pictorial wrappers stapled. A scarce North Dakota promotional published by the Northern Pacific Railway focused on the agriculture of the state. The extensive text consists consists of detailed county-by-county descriptions of farming opportunities in North Dakota accompanied by numerous photographic images as well as the obligatory information on passenger travel and freight service available through Northern Pacific to these areas. A color map of the state with existing and proposed Northern Pacific lines is printed on the inside front wrapper. We locate three copies at Yale BYU and the State Historical Society of North Dakota. unknown books
1913019149St. Paul MN: Northern Pacific Railway 1913. Book. Very good- condition. Paperback. First Edition. Oblong octavo 8vo. 40 pages of text. Color paperback binding with quite a bit of soiling and a large crease to the rear wrapper; original string-binding remains intact. Minor water stain visible on top corner. Illustrated with 2 maps. 37 pages contains one or more black-and-white photographs. . Northern Pacific Railway Paperback books
1880WRCAM8149Washington 1880. 15pp. Printed self-wrappers stitched. Very good. A plea for continued support by Congress for completion of the railroad. unknown books
187333851N.p. 1873. First Edition. 16pp. Original printed wrappersspine mended. Not in Graff Eberstadt. Hibbard was the superintendant of immigration providing home steads to soldiers and sailors along the route of the NPR. unknown books
1887WRCAM29248Np 1887. 21pp. Original printed wrappers. Numerous institutional stamps and ownership signatures on front wrapper. Very good. The terms and conditions of the lease of the Duluth and Manitoba Railroad Company to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company in 1887. Good evidence of the dramatic northwest railroad consolidation in the late 19th century culminating in the acquisition of the Northern Pacific by James J. Hill's Great Northern Railroad in 1896. OCLC locates only two copies. OCLC 3742891. unknown books
1873403707Jay Cooke & Co 1873. 8vo. 51 4 pp. Folding map of the railroad and its inter-oceanic connections. Original printed wrappers the rear wrapper with map of the railroad. Wrappers separated along spine last two text leaves loose. FIRST EDITION. The map shows the northern half of the U.S. from the Pacific to Lake Superior and Lake Michigan. The proposed railroad extends from the Missouri River near Fort McKean westward to the towns of Olympia Portland Seattle and terminating at Whatcom just north of Bellingham. The route splits into a northern and southern branch just above Coeur d'Alene Lake. The publisher Jay Cooke was the famous financier of the Civil War; his private bank financed the construction of the railroad. This promotional pamphlet was used to gain investors. <br/><br/> Jay Cooke & Co unknown books
18821204Portland Or: George H. Himes 1882. About very good. 328pp. plus photograph frontispiece. Original printed wrappers. Spine ends chipped; some light dust soiling and wear to wraps. Slight fading to frontispiece photo but a clear image. Light even tanning internally; three leaves with small patches of damp staining. A scarce 1882 promotional for potential excursions from Portland Oregon published in conjunction by the Northern Pacific Railroad and the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company. The work is illustrated with a real photograph of the Multnomah Falls east of the city on the Columbia River. The text prints itineraries for ten trips from Portland in the Pacific Northwest to the Cascades the Dalles Seattle Tacoma Olympia Ilwaco and even Alaska almost all via the steamers of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company. The final four leaves of text contain numerous illustrated advertisements for Portland businesses. The frontispiece photograph of the Multnomah Falls is credited in print to Issac Grundy Davidson. "One of the Northwest's premier photographers Davidson published an extensive series of scenic photographs covering many aspects of life and scenes throughout Oregon Washington and Alaska. He operated portrait studios a traveling gallery and contracted with the Northern Pacific Railroad. A keen businessman who produced the finest photographic record of Oregon during the 1870s-80s" - Mautz. An excellent example of the collaboration between a pre-eminent photographer of the Pacific Northwest and the Northern Pacific Railroad as well as an unusual and scarce specimen of a rail and river travel promotional illustrated with a real photographic print. George H. Himes 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
187216715New York: Land Department Northern Pacific Railroad Company 1872. Original printed wrappers with wrapper title as issued. Verso of front wrap is a 'Map of the Northern Pacific Railroad Lands in Minnesota.' Rear wrap is a 'Map of the Northern Pacific Railroad and its Connections extending to Washington on the West Coast. Some wrapper soil 32pp. Text illustrations minor wear Good or so. <br/><br/> This Guide which is well-represented in institutions discusses the geography and resources of the railroad's Minnesota lands East of the Mississippi River the lands between the Mississippi and the Red River Valley and the land in the Red River Valley. Fruit timber and fuel markets transportation facilities settlers Soldiers' Colonies reflecting Homestead Law provisions favoring soldiers and sailors settlement tips stock-raising price of land and terms of sale how to construct a house with illustrations are all reviewed. Land Department, Northern Pacific Railroad Company unknown books
