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191039114Holyoke: Holyoke Street Railway Co. n.d. ca 1910. 1910. MASSACHUSETTS. First edition. 9" x 6 3/4" in color pictorial wrappers. 24pp. illustrations. 17 full-page tinted views to include Summit House Mt. Tom; View of Mt. Tom from Easthampton Car Leaving Lower Station for Summit; Kenilworth Castle with Mt. Tom in Distance; Mt. Tom Railroad and Summit House; Going Through Rock Cut; Upper Station; Southerly View From Mt. Tom; Rustic Arch at Mountain Park etc. followed by text which offers information about Mt. Tom the Summit House the street-cars of Holyoke the views from Mt. Tom etc. Most photographs include people. Over-sized wrappers lightly worn at corners. Very good. A very attractive booklet. Holyoke Street Railway Co., n.d. [ca 1910]. unknown
1869ZB386909Washington 1869. 40th Cong. 3rd Sess. Senate Rep Committee No. 219 3 pp. ex library good. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Washington unknown
1880040522Portland Maine: Chisholm Brothers 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12 panels of views. Accordion-fold leporello format. Views include: Pennsylvania R.R. Station Jersey City showing birds eye view of the Hudson River New York City etc.; Pennsylvania R.R. Ferries plying between Jersey City & New York; Bridge Crossing the Raritan River; Broad St. Station.Philadelphia Grandest R.R. Depot in America; New Public Building Philadelphia Cor. Broad & Market Streets Built of Marble.; Bryn Mawr Hotel; Bryn Mawr Station; Bridge Crossing the Susquehanna River 6 Miles West of Harrisburgh; Lewiston Narrows; Jacks Narrows; Horse Shoe Curve; Near Bolivar on the Conemaugh; Spruce Creek Tunnel; View of Pittsburgh & Allegheny City Pa.; &c. Bound in embossed blue boards gilt cover title. Edges of boards lightly rubbed; internally fine. 5" x 6" The views here are very detailed and in sharp focus. WorldCat locates three holdings of this viewbook: N-Y Hist Soc Hagley Museum Duke University. Chisholm Brothers hardcover
0366701568.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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
1986A110840Melbourne: Victorian Model Railway Society 1986. 1st edition. Near Fine. quarto. hardback in original cloth 192pp. plans text ills. Rolling Stock Diagrams & Particulars of Locomotives Steam Electric Diesel Electric Rail Motors Cars Vans and Trucks etc. Limited edition this being No. 302 Victorian Model Railway Society hardcover
125840The Victorian Model Railway Society 1978. Oblong 4to 66pp. Black & white illustrations. A very good hardback copy. Previous owner's signature. Limited edition facsimile. The Victorian Model Railway Society, 1978 hardcover
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19992111902152907848Railway History Preservation Society 1999. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: A4 size Railway History Preservation Society paperback
1925652j0955Canada: Canadian Pacific Railway C.P.R. Good. 1925. First Edition Thus. Pamphlet. Substantial text is graciously illustrated with black and white photos on alternating pages. Contents include: Victoria; Motoring & Golfing; East Coast; Hunting & Fishing; West Coast; Resources/Industries; Travel Routes. Two-colour 16.5" x 12" fold-out map of Vancouver Island affixed to back cover lists hotels and boarding houses on verso. 16 glossy pages folded vertically in half. Contents securely stapled. Black and white photo-illustrated covers loose but present with opening to upper portion of fold. Inside the covers are lists of Canadian Pacific Hotels and Canadian Pacific Agencies throughout the world. A remarkable and informative memento of Vancouver Island's early tourism industry.; Sm 4to . Canadian Pacific Railway (C.P.R.) unknown
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189046818Chicago: R. R. Donnelley and Sons Company 1890. 1890. UTAH. First Edition. 56 pp. Octavo 22 cm Gray illustrated wrappers. Illustrations. Offers a short history of the settlement and growth of Utah and includes profiles of Salt Lake Ogden and the Great Salt Lake. Illustrations include the tramway in Little Cottonwood "The vast improvements wrought by the industrious and frugal pioneers of Utah the great natural resources of the territory the balm of its health giving and invigorating climate the wonders of the majestic mountains the sylvan beauties of its unrivaled valleys the new relations of amity and progress that have sprung into life between all the religious sects of the territory and especially in Salt Lake City the enterprise of energetic railroads the building of great irrigating canals the establishment of manufactories the growth of mining in short all those great strides towards absolute preeminence which Utah has made have been to a great extant ignored in the past." - from the Preface. A small bump to the fore-edges along the upper portion of the front cover and diminishing in size inward very light foxing to the first few pages else a very good tight copy. Not in Flake/Draper. R. R. Donnelley and Sons Company, 1890. unknown
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1894125669St. Paul Minn: Office of General Passenger and Ticket Agent 1894. Softcover. Good. 94 p. 20 cm. B&w photos and sepia line drawings. Grey paper covers with gold print. Lower spine chipped with pages separating. Some soiling to covers including white marks on rear. Stain on margin of p. 20. <br/><br/> Office of General Passenger and Ticket Agent paperback
185714427Washington DC: Bevery Tucker Printer 1857. First Edition. Very Good. A.H Campbell. 8.25x11in One litho tinted illustrated plate Part I plate V; Light age-toning along edges with several light spots in margin. Samuels p. 81 Taft p. 265. This plate is from from Volume VII of the quarto edition of twelve volumes were published from 1855 to 1861 as exploration and survey reports became available. These volumes contained not only the survey maps and elevations but a monumental collection of scientific reports on geography geology zoology botany and ethnology of the Native American tribes. The surveys also included 11 artists to record the landscape and indigenous peoples of the west. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Albert Henry Campbell 1826-1899 was a Railway survey artist-explorer civil engineer and surveyor. He was one of the more important artist of the surveys and participated in several survey expeditions across the west from 1853 to 1854. In the fall of 1854 he joined the Parke survey expedition for a coastal railroad route from San Francisco to San Diego and the survey along the 32nd parallel to Arizona. All eight of the full-page illustrations are credited to Campbell in the report three of California and five of Arizona scenes After the surveys he was assigned to Washington as Superintendent of Pacific wagon roads to 1860. During the Civil war he was a map maker for the Confederate Army and chief engineer of railroads based in West Virginia. from Samuels <br /> <br /> The twelve volumes were disorganized in publication with no overall all arrangement or indexing. Some of the plates and maps referred to in volumes were published in other volumes various reports were also published out of sequence relating to the four routes. Preliminary reports published were updated in latter volumes. From Wagner-Becker-Camp In 1853 Senator Gwin of California lead the inclusion of Congressional funding for 1853-54 of a series of surveys to determine the best and most economical railroad routes from the Mississippi River to the Pacific coast. The act directed the Secretary of War Jefferson Davis to plan and direct Army topographical engineers to conduct surveys of four routes. The first was between the 47th and 49th parallels generally along the Lewis and Clark route to the Pacific. The Second route between the 37th and 39th parallels was promoted by Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri. The Third route was along the 35th parallel. The Fourth route was promoted by Secretary Davis along the 32nd parallel that followed Emory's 1846-47 reconnaissance. Bevery Tucker, Printer unknown