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80 pages. Features: Motive Power Progress on the Chicago and North Western - very lengthy article with dozens of wonderful photos; Arthur Latham Church - obituary with photo portrait; Testing Railway Motor Cars - detailed article with many photos; The First Steam Railroad in the State of New Jersey - The Camden & Amboy Railroad and Transportation Company; The Manufacturer's Railway Company of St. Louis; The Railways of New South Wales - long article with many excellent photos; A Roundhouse Pit Crane; Extending the Electric Truck Range - Jaw-dropping article on the state of electric delivery trucks way back in 1931... including the following comment "The electric street truck has been with us for such a long time that many truck users feel they know it and know all about it."... (so why don't we have them now???); Baldwin Locomotives of Historic Interest; The Redwood Empire Special - the greatest single rail shipment of lumber in the history of the west - 117 cars with more than 3,000,000 feet of lumber - with photos; Fourteen pages of excellent photo ads. Average wear. Binding intact. Prior owner's small namestamp atop table of contents. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
Book and jacket in virtually mint condition. 144pp. The history of the railways with all the major locomotives that appeared between 1855 and 1955 with their technical specifications and background information.
8vo, 96 pages, illustrated. (Wordsworth Colour Handbooks). eng
A book on wheels... literally! Cute board book. Average wear. Unmarked. For ages 3 and up. Book
Twelve issues. Small address mark on (usually) rear cover. No other marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers Twelve very clean very tight copies with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. January edition missing upper corner of front cover. Otherwise all in very good (+) condition. Total of 537pp. Whole year January 1973 to December 1973 of Railway World magazine.
19147817Philadelphia: Baldwin Locomotive Works 1914. First Thus . Hardcover. Vg/No Jacket. 8vo. 146 pgs.multiple b/w photos & diagrams.Green cloth with light scuffs and minor rubbing to spine ends and a small chip in the cloth along the bottom edge. An early history of one of the Eastern U.S.A.'s major locomotives manufacturer who built and provided the world with their product. <br/> <br/> Baldwin Locomotive Works hardcover
1907117132Philadelphia, Pa., USA, Edgell Press 1907 In-8 à l’italienne 15 x 23 cm. Broché, couverture noire, dos muet, titre doré gaufré sur le premier plat, 67 pp., 28 locomotives type Atlantic 1902-1906 figurées hors texte avec leur fiche technique en regard. Exemplaire en bon état.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, coloured and monochrome full-page illustrations, and smaller drawings in the text; original wrappers, backstrip mildly worn at head and tail (but binding wholly sound), a very good, bright, clean copy. Ottley, 6152.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Ottley, 12347.
186810910Texte + atlas, 2 tomes in-4 ; demi-percaline vert-sapin, plats cartonnés et papier marbré vert (reliure de l'époque) ; 386 pp., texte manuscrit lithographié, 234 figures dans le texte, Première partie, Atlas 19 planches dont 2 doubles également lithographié par Broise à Paris.
186810705S.l. (Paris), s.n. (gravé par Pouzadou, lithographié par Lanoue), 1868 ; grand in-folio en feuilles sous portefeuille muet ; (6) pp. de Titre, noms des Chemins de fer et table de planches imprimées en rouge et noir, 118 planches doubles, triples ou quadruples ou plus, certaines en couleurs. Ouvrage entièrement lithographié.
5 vols., oblong 4to., First Edition, with drawings and tables throughout; pictorial boards, a near fine set. COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE. Ottley 15800, 17961, 18481, 18128, 18933 respectively.
2 vols., sm. folio, Fourth Edition, with coloured frontispieces (one folding), titles in red and black, and very numerous photographs, illustrations and diagrams (a number folding and several coloured or part-coloured), tiny uniform signature on front free endpapers; original burgundy cloth, upper boards blocked in blind, gilt backs, upper board of first volume a little scuffed, joints lightly rubbed, backstrips chafed at heads and tails else a very good, bright, clean copy. Bright, clean copy of a standard and hightly detailed reference. Ottley 2790 (recording the first edition).
95p. illus. Hardcover Very good condition
No marks or inscriptions. Crease across front cover, none to rear or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and very slight rubbing to some corners. 99pp. A detailed study of the legendary engineering careers of both Sir Nigel Gresley and Sir William Stanier, whose designs for steam locomotives excelled along the East Coast and West Coast routes in Britain and who were born less than a month apart from one another in 1876. Well illustrated. .
1998LFA-126735511Un ouvrage de 191 pages, format 220 x 305 mm, illustré, relié cartonnage couleurs, publié en 1998, Editions La Vie du Rail, collection "Le Temps de la Vapeur", bon état
1981LFA-126742449Un ouvrage de 144 pages, format 210 x 295 mm, illustré, broché couverture couleurs, publié en 1981, Editions N.M. La Vie du Rail, collection "Le Temps de la Vapeur", bon état
2012LFA-126712483Un ouvrage de 266 pages, format 230 x 245 mm, illustré, relié cartonnage couleurs, publié en 2012, Doyen Editeur, bon état
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 8 3/4"w x 11 1/4"h. 216 pages. Many b&w photos.
Previous owner's name and address inside front board. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight creasing to lower edge and traces of storage. 195pp. A very wide-ranging study of the application of steam power across the ages recording the years of the railway locomotives, from Stephenson and the Rainhill Trials, through World War II and the Beeching axe, to the subsequent railway museums; Brunel and his famous iron ship The Great Britain, in a chapter on marine engines; the great days of the traction engines and the fall, and rise, of the great showmen's road locomotives. Also includes the many applications of steam for stationary engines.
No inscriptions or marks. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked, torn or creased. 156pp. This book sets out to depict the great age of railways in terms of the way it affected the whole community.
cROU-2031Paris, Louis Chaux, 1899 ;grand in-8°, couverture factice de papier fort vert mousse, étiquette manuscrite à l'encre au dos,couverture imprimée en noir et illustrée d'une vigentte conservée; 188pp.,1p.nch.; illustré de 77 figures dans et hors texte en noir.Petit manque de papier au dos de la couverture factice en tête, la couverture imprimée est un peu jaunie, très petite tache brune dans la marge externe de 3 feuillets.
8vo., Best Edition, with a frontispiece, illustrated title, 8 coloured plates, 38 monochrome plates and 13 illustrations and maps in the text; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. Considerably expanded version of the original edition of 1977. Ottley, 11804 [1977 edn]
1978142182Grenoble, Patrice Bouillin 1978 In-4 à l’italienne 21,5 x 29 cm. Reliure éditeur toile bleu-marine, sous jaquette en couleurs, 253 pp., 207 photographies en couleurs dont 190 de pleine page, 1 carte d’Europe, légendes en allemand, anglais et français, caractéristiques principales des locomotives à vapeur. Exemplaire en bon état.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and diagrams in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Ottley, 12244.
