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5622N° 94 au 120 de 1933 du 2 mars au 24 août - cartonnage éditeur
A particularly interesting issue with topics ranging from the 100 horsepower blower for the organ in the new Chicago Stadium to an English vending machine which dispenses individual lit cigarettes. Features: The eyes and ears of the railroad - the complicated signal system that spells safety for rail travel; Editorials - Arthur G. Halfpenny - An Awakening Due - Lopsided progress; International Affairs; Did a meteorite strike a car in Crawfordsville?; New light on old fools - ultr-violet irradiation to create vitamin D; Unique solutions of bridge construction problems - caissons sunk on artificial islands - divers employed; Vacuum tubes in industry - thermionic tubes, grid-glow relays, photo cells find wide use; A new use for radium - radiography possible without combersome apparatus; Radio goes man-hunting - radio alarm system reduces the criminal's chance of escape; New temperature measurements of the sun, moon, mars - sensitive thermo-couples reveal surface conditions; Chicago's "Madison Square Garden" - called "world's largest sports arena"; has unusual features; Butterfly farming - an intriguing business started by Iowa youth; When locomotives go to sea - special steamers built to accomodate monsters of the rails (excellent photos); A machine-age "milk maid" - the "rotolactor' milks 240 cows in one hour; Centrifugally spun concrete piles - new manufacturing process; mass production of preserved foods - a huge industry that grew from a market basket; Salt making in India - Primitive methods illustrated and described. Average wear. Unmarked. Crease to front cover. Advertisement inside front cover features photo of luxurious Cord front drive automobile manufactured by the Auburn Automotive Company. Book
10956The scrapbook undated collection assembled in 1920s. The scrapbook is landscape 8vo 28 x 18.5 cm and contains 28 leaves of brown paper tied together with ribbon on which together with the inside of the back cover the images dating from between 1860 and 1928 are laid down. The scrapbook lacks the front cover and its leaves are worn but the images are in good overall condition with occasional wear and creasing. Ranging in size from 14.5 x 11 cm 'Fowler 8/c Traction About 1875. Jointed Horn Plates.' to 7.5 x 5.5 cm 'S/c Traction About 1875-80'. An impressive collection formed by an engineer or serious enthusiast with most of the photographs which form the majority of the images apparently having been made from engineering journals and catalogues while others are clearly original photographs of engines in situ. Also present are a number of original engravings taken from the same sources. Almost all items captioned. For example on the first page: 'CPD. Road Roller. Armstrong-Whitworth Ltd. Scotswood Newcastle-on-Tyne' and 'John Allen & Sons Ltd. Cowley Oxford'. Other examples include '1895 S/c Spring Mounted Road Loco. John Fowler & co. Leeds Ltd.' and 'Aveling & Porter 1871. DNP "Steam Sapper" drawing ARMSTRONG Breech Loadg Siege gun 95 cwts.' The blueprint 22.5 x 15 cm is for an '8 H. P. Traction Engine Barrows & Stewart. Engineers. LANBURY. Oxon. 1879.' See images; others on request. The scrapbook undated (collection assembled in 1920s?). unknown
8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers, covers a little age-marked else a very good, clean copy. Scarce in this condition. Published in Allan's 'ABC Locomotive' series, this is the second of Burtt's hugely detailed trilogy on the predecessors of the Southern Railway. Ottley, 7216.
192158606Lima OH: Repair Parts Dept. & Works Lima Locomotive Works Inc. G.M. Basford Co. Advertising 1921. 4to. 50 pp. With photo illustrations diagrams tables. Printed softcovers outline of Shay geared locomotive on front cover lettering in dark blue on brown background punch sewn w/green linen spine center choir w/ white linen reinforcement at gutter margin minor shelfwear scuffing soiling soot soiling some pencil annotations still G copy w/ former ownership stamp of Hofius Steel & Equipment Co. 272 Oak Street Portland OR. First edition thus of this rare original catalogue for the Shay Geared Locomotive the dominant locomotive for logging railroads sawmills milling operations switching yards coal mines across the country through the early 20th century. The photo illustrations show such types as the Class A two cylinder two truck Class B - three cylinder two truck Class C - three cylinder three truck and finally the Class D - three cylinder four truck Shay locomotives. No copies of this original located in Worldcat only the 1979 reprint by Pacific Fast Mail. Repair Parts Dept. & Works, Lima Locomotive Works, Inc., [G.M. Basford Co., Advertising], paperback
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Ottley, 6976.
1st Pan edition. VG pbk. ISBN 033002681X. 20478. eng
ca.100 illus. p Hardcover Very good condtion, small taped tear on backstrip
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 27 plates on 14 and 16pp of diagrammatic route guide, neat contemporary signature on front paste-down, some light and occasional spotting; original pictorial red cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black, red top, neatly recased, a very good, firm copy. Recalling the heady days of LMS immediately before WWII, Laurie Earl's minute-by-minute account of a day on the footplate on the London-Carlisle run has long been recognised as a railway classic. Ottley 4196, 6835.
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces, title-vignettes and very numerous photographs and diagrams (a number full-page) in the text; green cloth, gilt backs, dustwrapper of first volume sunned at backstrip else a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. The set comprises: Part 1: Inside-Cylinder Classes 1894-1910; Part 2: 'Counties' to the Close 1904-1961. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Ottley, 11984.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight rubbing to upper and lower edges and traces of handling. 144pp.
20825Milwaukee, Kalmbach Pub. Co. 1959.,IN FOLIO oblong,cartonnage rouge decoré;126 p. illus. 29 x 42 cm.
Limited edition neatly signed, without inscription, by Koch upon limitation page. ix, [5], 526 pages. Bibliography. Index. Profusely illustrated with marvelous glossy archival black and white photos. Decorated endpapers. "Recounts the fascinating and colorful history of a century and a half of logging railroads in the area stretching from the Kennebec River in Maine to Puget Sound and from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska and Canada." - from dust jacket. Average wear to book. Binding intact. Above-average wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A worthy copy of this magnificent tribute to a now-vanished era when men of mighty mettle fought and tamed the prodigious forests on their own terms. Author well-known for his earlier treatise on the Shay Locomotive. Book
144p. illus. Hardcover Very good condition
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked grey cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slightly rubbed upper edge. 128pp. A superb selection of colour photographs of the later days of steam power in the North West of England. Well captioned and with more text on some pages.
4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Already elusive in this condition
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, and numerous photographs and diagrams in the text; maroon cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
4to., First Edition, with very numerous photographs (the majoity full-page); pictorial boards, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Ottley 15847.
Five editions of the magazine. No marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. Very clean very tight copies with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. No 149 is slightly damp wrinkled but no loss to text or photos. 3 x 78, 1 x 90, 1 x 98pp. Steam Railway magazines May 1992, Sep 1992, Mar 1994, Dec 1994 and Aug 1995.
Five editions of the magazine. No marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers apart from a creased rear corner to no 275.. Very clean very tight copies with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. No 256 is slightly damp wrinkled but no loss to text or photos. 5 x 98pp. Steam Railway magazines Apr 2001, Feb 2002, Mar 2002, May 2002 and Sep-Oct 2002.
189p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
Oblong 4to., Second Edition, with a frontispiece and numerous fine photographs and drawings (a number full-page) in the text; original pictorial boards, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in 1994. Ottley, 16297.
8vo., First Edition, with photographic title-spread, and numerous photographs and diagrams in the text; terracota cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Ottley, 18446.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrated title-spread, numerous photographs throughout and pictorial endpapers; terracotta cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Ottley 18446.
19763857Couverture rigide Verlag Eisenbahn 1976 Villigen 27,5x20,5 cm
