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18671393540TH Cong. 2d Sess.: HED31. 1867. 9pp Disbound Very Good. HED31. unknown books
1886WRCAM2355Washington 1886. 23pp. Gathered signatures stitched. Very good. Outlines all the grants to the line. unknown books
18841544648th Cong. 1st Sess. SED. 1884. No.121. 1884. 11pp disbound. Inner edges a bit rough. Very Good. unknown books
18831393148TH Cong. 1st Sess.: SED27. 1883. 32 14 pp. Disbound. Very Good. SED27. unknown books
18681389640th Cong. 2d Sess.: HED203. 1868. 11pp Disbound Very Good. HED203. unknown books
1869139281869. 40TH Cong. 3d Sess. SED10. 47pp Disbound Very Good. unknown books
18681392740TH Cong. 3d Sess. SED4. 1868. 12 4 pp. Disbound. Very Good. unknown books
18661665939th Cong. 1st Sess.: SED14. 1866. 17 1 blank pp disbound. Very Good. SED14. unknown books
18641396538th Cong. 1st Sess.: SED26. 1864. 16pp Disbound Very Good. SED26. unknown books
192440427San Francisco: Market Street Railway Company 1924. 1st printing. White paper printed with black lettering. Very light wear to edges previous creasing. Single sheet. Illustrated map of the San Francisco peninsula. Oblong format: 12-3/4" x 15" <br/><br/>The Market Street Railway Company was a commercial streetcar and bus operator in San Francisco the core of its runs transporting up and down Market Street in the city hence the name of the company. Throughout its lifetime the company traded hands and names on numerous occasions. It was the first horsecar line to open in San Francisco beginning its runs on July 4th 1860. The company had a difficult time convincing others of the need to electrically run systems but the 1906 earthquake and fire gave them the chance to overrule the votes and rebuild the system the way they chose. The cars were large and luxurious and are on display in San Francisco's Railway Museum. Only 2 later editions found in institutional holdings on OCLC. Rare in the trade. Market Street Railway Company unknown books
40362Los Angeles: Trans-Anglo Books n. d. Ca. post 1962. White paper printed in black and red. Moderate wear to edges slight rust spots from paperclips curling and rubbing to edges. Otherwise a VG example. Broadside. Single sheet printed recto only. Large map illustration of Southern California. Oblong format:. <br/><br/>"Pacific Electric Railway. Wells-Fargo & Co. Express World's Greatest Electric Railway System. 1000 Miles of Standard Trolley Lines to All Points of Greatest Interest in the Heart of Southern California and Traversed by 2700 Schedules Trains Daily. Including 5 Trains at Convenient Periods to World Famous Mount Lowe." "Here is the way the Pacific Electric Railway looked in 1926 when the system was reaching its peak. The interurbans ended all operations in 1961. Map reproduced from Trans-Anglo Books' Ride the Big Red Cars by Spencer Crump." Trans-Anglo Books unknown books
1962SGG313B-45Los Angeles CA: Interurbans Electric Railway Publications 1962. Paperback. Very Good. Series: Interurbans Vol. 20 No. 1; Interurbans Special No. 16 pt. 4A. Pamphlet. 11 x 8 1/2 inches. 40 pp. Many halftone photographic illustrations maps; text clean unmarked. Printed wrappers in red and black vignette advertisements on back stapled three-hole punched; binding square and tight minor soiling head and foot of spine bumped light shelf wear. Very good. Vol. 20 No. 1 of Interurbans Magazine edited by Ira L. Ewett Raymond E. Younghans Frank Barnes Librarian. This Special Edition focuses on the history of the Pasadena Long Beach and San Pedro streetcars and railways. Includes chronologies histories and statistics for each line as well as extensive historic photographic images of the cars from the early teens through the 1940s; also with historic maps of each line. The Pacific Electric Railway founded by Henry Huntington was the largest railway network in the world in the 1920s. It connected Los Angeles with many surrounding cities the first of which was Long Beach. Interurbans Electric Railway Publications paperback books
1930292777London: Locomotive Pub. Co. 1930. Soft Cover. Good binding. The booklet opens to the color frontispiece of the "Standard 4-6-0 Locomotive 'Royal Scot' Class" followed immediately to the Foreward. If there was a title page with publisher information it is not present.~~There are a number of black and white illustration of L.M.S. locomotives and eight color plates including the frontispiece. There wrappers have some wear with minor loss to the top of the spine. 51 pages. Good binding. [Locomotive Pub. Co.] unknown books
1928TB30959Pennsylvania Station New York City: Long Island Railroad 1928. First Edition. Very good in printed multi-color wraps over a stapled binding. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches with light rubbing and wear around the perimeter of the covers and with modest soiling to the title page and verso of the front cover and to the recto of the rear cover. Without a dust jacket as issued. Issued by the General Passenger Department of the Long Island Railroad. 96 pages followed by a fold-out map five color map of Long Island which has a one inch closed tear in one fold and a two inch closed tear starting at the end of the above tear both of which have been repaired with archival tape. Illustrated throughout from black and white photographs and replete with ads for hotels resorts and inns. Long Island Railroad paperback books
193026286New York NY: Long Island Railroad 1930. 76 pages; black and white illustrated throughout. Cover article by Samuel O. Dunn on How Improved Railway Service Has Increased Prosperity; articles specific to Long Island Railroad employees events news and pieces of local Long Island NY interest: commercial air service; the Duke's Laws printing sometimes called the East Hampton Book of Laws; article by Amy King Frieman on the Libraries of Suffolk County leading off with East Hampton's; also "Home Sweet Home" Passes First Milestone as Public Museum originally in the East Hampton Star; another piece with a suggestion that entire length of Long Island's north side be designated "Northern Boulevard"; a chapter in her ongoing Long Island Agriculture articles by Edith Loring Fullerton with full-page illustration of the Homestead at Experiment Station No. 1 and another full-page of a line-drawn "No. 1 Boiled Dinner Scrub-Oak Style." using Long Island-specific ingredients given August 7th 1906; also a piece concerning South Shore of Long Island Maintains Steady Growth During 1929 Large Scale Public Improvements Including Highways Parks and Parkways General Development Attract New Residents; also on Rabbit Raising A New Industry for Long Island; another on the historical Long Island Press Chapter II Dealing Briefly With Newspapers Founded Between 1810 and 1850 by Helen Jo Scott Mann; and other items. George Flatow editor. Approx. 6 3/4" x 10" size printed paper stapled cover no back wrap. Some darkening to cover papers few old pencil marks at top of first page; otherwise clean and in good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. Long Island Railroad paperback books
1938266516Cleveland. : Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. 1938. Maroon leatherette over boards gilt cover title no spine title. . Very good spine cocked corners lightly bumped endpapers foxed no dust jacket as issued. 29x21 cm. . Max Lowenthal’s copy with his name blindstamped in gilt on the cover. Heavy book may require extra shipping. weight: 3.6 lb. Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. hardcover books
1938001534No Place: Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen 1938. Personal copy of Herman B Wells beloved former President and Chancellor of Indiana University with his name in gilt at bottom of front boards. Apparently published as the response of the unions to management's demands for a 15% reduction in wages in 1938 and specially printed for prominent Americans in the hope that they would support the union's request for an increase in wages. 482 pages.Bound in brown leather with gilt lettering. A fascinating chapter in union- management history and a great railroad collectible. Boards lightly rubbed at tips and 1 page small corner crease. First Edition. Buckram. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen Hardcover books
2630S.l.: The Company Passenger Department 1902. . 12mo dark gray stiff wrappers front with pictorial panel printed in black red and yellow Map is dated March 1902. Printing was carried out by the Corbett Railway Printing Company Chicago slug on outer back wrapper. S.l.: [The Company] Passenger Department, [1902]. unknown books
194572933Philadelphia 1945. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 301p. Pages inserted in a 3-ring notebook with thin flexible cover. 24cm. Cover of notebook scuffed. Some revised sheets dated 1950 have been inserted here and there. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1880100458<p>Large thick folio 15x10 1/2 bound in soft tan calf maroon morocco corners and spine label marbled endpapers 26 425 111 blank pp. Hinges reinforced with cloth front joint split leather chipped at spine ends and corners are a bit worn light rubbing and finger soiling to contents; else very good. Fascinating piece of railroad memorabilia that documents railroad company mergers deeds for track expansion and other contractual correspondence dated from 1839-1915 chiefly between Massachusetts and New York. Many of the transactions mention concern the Boston and Albany Railroad connecting Boston to Albany. The ledger appears to record events from the original documents. Sometimes it cites the individual who copied the document. While the the dates of documents it refers to go back to the before the mid 19th century these entries were probably done in the late 19th century or early 20th century. The ledger contains over 400 pages of hand-written contract documents most one to three pages long plus 26 pages indexing 166 contracts at the front. Nearly all with Public Notarization as well as signatures of the people involved. These are copies of the originals inked in various highly legible hands. Many of the documents are of the Boston and Albany Railroad which would become part of the New York Central Railroad system. </p> books
194138417Chicago 1941. 8vo 27.4 cm 10.75". 8 1 blank ff. <br><br>Gorgeously rendered manuscript tribute to a prominent lawyer financial advisor and railroad executive remembered fondly for "his public spirit his high personal character his urbanity and his loyalty as a friend." Follansbee was a Harvard graduate and notably active alumnus serving as president of the Associated Clubs of Harvard who studied law at Northwestern University prior to becoming a board member and director of the Erie Railroad Company.<br>Â Â Â Â This admiring hand-accomplished homage to Follansbee's life and career was commissioned by his fellow directors and => beautifully calligraphed and illuminated on vellum by the Harris Engrossing Studio of Chicago. The capitals are accomplished in whitework gilt purple and green and the text in an even handsome modern Gothic hand with a gilt border surrounding the text on each page. Each leaf is protected by a moiré-patterned tissue guard. The final page was signed by the chairman and the secretary of the board and pressure-stamped with the Erie Railroad Company's seal.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Dark blue morocco framed in gilt double fillets and panelled in a dotted gilt roll with gilt-tooled corner fleurons; spine with gilt-ruled raised bands and gilt-framed compartments. Turn-ins tooled to echo covers cream moiré silk endpapers all edges gilt. Binding as above edges and extremities showing slight sunning and wear. Vellum expectably cockled. => Lovely unique beautifully bound and an impressive showcase both of modern calligraphy and of Follansbee's impact. hardcover books
1890187Various locations in Massachusetts 1890. Very good. 247pp. Small quarto. Late 19th-century tan cloth. Binding lightly worn and soiled. Stamps for the Engineering Department of the B. & M. R.R. on binding and endsheets. Minor soiling to contents. Written in a neat and legible hand. The Boston & Maine Railroad and the Eastern Railroad were both founded in 1836 and ran competing lines throughout the 19th century. The B. & M. acquired the Eastern in 1890 ending competition on the rail route from Boston to Portland. This volume describes more than 300 land transactions made by the Eastern and Boston & Maine Railroads primarily from the early operational years of the 1830s and 1840s. This volume appears to have been copied out neatly at a later date perhaps after the purchase of the Eastern by the B. & M. and includes transactions ranging from 1836 to 1894. It is indexed by town at the end. Entries include the sellers' names the bounds of the parcel the price paid and the date. The towns involved include Chelsea Everett Lynn Revere Saugus Swampscott Salem Beverly Rowley Hamilton Wenham Ipswich Newbury Newburyport and Salisbury. unknown books
187018078np 1870. Octavo sheet folded into panels totaling 8pp. Unfolded the verso consists of a Map of Boston Clinton & Fitchburg Railroad and Connections. Light wear a few short fold splits without loss. Good or so. 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
186323142New York: Colton 1863. Folded into original 16mo red cloth binding a bit shaken with title stamped in gilt on the front cover: MAP OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK ACCOMPANYING THE LEGISLATIVE MANUAL Weed Parsons & Co. Map is @25" x 27 1/2" hand colored and enclosed within an ornamental border. Inner margin @10" tear affecting the border but not the map light occasional wear else Very Good. Colton unknown books