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1982238390Noumea New Caledonia: South Pacific Commission 1982. 71p. staplebound wraps 8.25x11.5 inches very good. South Pacific Commission unknown books
19245439San Francisco: Southern Pacific Railroad 1924. 8pp. Square quarto 23 cm x 20 cm Illustrated wrappers. About very good. Vertical fold as issued. Illustrated guide for the prospective visitor to California that touts the service offered by Southern Pacific to the west coast from all over the country. Black and white views throughout. "Here is the life you long to lead. You work in a section of untold opportunity whether you choose the live and progressing industrial communities of the rich and fertile agricultural districts. You play where everything invites to outdoor fun. You find people here millions of them who are happier than they have ever been before. Great numbers of them came to visit and decided to stay. You'll love California. Its lure will lay hold of your heart. And it is a wholesome lure for its leads you to a happier fuller healthier and more prosperous life. Southern Pacific Railroad unknown books
190573814San Francisco: Southern Pacific 1905. Wraps. Very good. Pictorial travel booklet highlighting the many sights one could visit while traveling through the Golden State on the Southern Pacific Railroad. The first ten pages focus on San Francisco which would be devastated by an earthquake less than a year later. Other excursions include Napa Valley the Big Trees of Santa Cruz Yosemite Valley Mount Lowe the New Hotel Glenwood in Riverside now known as The Mission Inn Avalon and Mission Santa Barbara. Includes rates and time tables as well as an advertisement for Sunset Magazine. Octavo: 40 p. with 38 textual photographs. Original printed paper wrappers bound with two staples. Small crease to the top corner of a single leaf. Minor toning and edgewear with a small smudge to the front panel; otherwise very good. Scarce OCLC locates only two holdings Bancroft and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Southern Pacific unknown books
190714642New York 1907. Original printed stiff paper wrappers with title in raised gilt. 51 1 pp. Many plates maps photo reprods. Very Good. unknown books
19012221875<p>Map of San Francisco: Showing points of special interest to attendants the Fifth International Convention of the Epworth League July 18-21 1901 folding map of 21" x 28" printed in black & red.With numbered locations of places of Methodist interest and historical. Verso of map with 23 panels detailing trips excursions to Yosemite Valley Southern California including Pasadena Redlands Riverside Palo Alto Santa Cruz Lick Observatory. Very good minor wear; short tears at folds.</p><p>San Francisco before the 1906 devastating earthquake.</p> unknown books
196272797San Francisco 1962. Paperback. Very Good. 15 15p. cover included in pagination. Wrapper. 28cm. Covers browning around edges. <br/><br/> paperback books
189143969San Francisco: H. S. Crocker Company 1891. Printed self-wrappers. General wear & age-toning. A few short tears along folds. Stain upper right corner. A Good copy. One long sheet oriented horizontally printed both sides in purple folded three times to form a 12-panel brochure. Illustrated with 4 wood engravings one 3-panel "Views of Pacific Grove and Vicinity"; one 2-panel and map single panel. Unfolded: 21-3/4" x 7". Folded: 7" x 3-1/2" <br/><br/>A promotional "announcement extraordinary" for a five-day program held by the YMCA at Pacific Grove from June 17 - 21 1891 featuring a program of bible study lectures e.g. "Aggressive Christian Work" "How to Teach the Bible to Young and Old" and related preaching and readings. A special train was provided for the association by the Southern Pacific Company Coast Division. Includes a large illustrated "View" and other promotional material for Pacific Grove and a map of the Southern Pacific routes to Monterey. Not found in Rocq. H. S. Crocker Company unknown books
191739520n. p.: Southern Pacific Company 1917. Color illustrated outer wrappers. Government Notice pasted to front wrapper. Modest wear to wrappers edges worn. An About VG copy. 21 1 pp. B/w photographic images by W. H. Bull. 9" x 4" folded. <br/><br/>"United States Railroad Administration: Important Notice. This publication contains valuable informative descriptive matter; but references to fares train service hotels camp or livery facilities etc. are subject to correction account changes which may have been made since issuance". Southern Pacific Company unknown books
191439517n. p. 1914. Color illustrated outer wrappers. Light wear to edges. Price listing on p. 32 stuck on small stain to bottom of last two leaves. Very Good. 46 pp. Brochure folded once. B/w photographic images by W. H. Bull. 9" x 4" folded. <br/><br/>"Travel booklet on Yosemite National Park issued by the Southern Pacific Company promoting tours and travel to the park by railway. Contains numerous full-page black-and-white photographs of areas of park such as Bridal Veil Falls Cathedral Rocks Half Dome El Capitan Yosemite Falls the park from Inspiration Point Mirror Lake and Vernal Falls. Also included are a suggested 7-day itinerary beginning in Merced where a first class ticket $31.20 round-trip from Los Angeles carries a 10-day stopover; a table of altitudes of Yosemite peaks; a list of hotels and camps in the park with photos of Camp Ahwahnee Camp Lost Arrow Camp Curry and the Sentinel Hotel; two maps of the park and a map of Southern Pacific routes; and a list of Southern Pacific agents in the US Europe and Asia". OCLC 8 institutional holdings found on OCLC. unknown books
1964288201San Francisco. : Southern Pacific Company. 1964. Plastic comb bindings pictorial covers. . Comb bindings damaged and brittle owner’s name to covers otherwise very good. . Three volumes complete. Requires extra postage. 9 folding maps in pockets. Southern Pacific Company. unknown books
194440351San Francisco: Southern Pacific Company 1944. Beige paper printed with blue black and orange inks. Brochure printed on orange paper. Moderate wear to timetables and posters rubbing creasing and light soiling apparent. An about VG collection. 15 items each of varying pages. Spreadsheets housed within each timetable. Various sizes: 10-3/4" x 15-1/4" oblong format to timetables. Brochure: 5" x 7" oblong. Posters: 12-1/2" x 19" <br/><br/>Includes: 8 Railway timetables numbers: 210 239 12 11 225 231 218 & 236 a small brochure on How to be a Southern Pacific Junior Engineer complete with question and answer test a pamphlet on the "End of an Era" about the run of San Francisco's Last Ferryboats and three posters with timetables printed on rectos blank versos. "All boys want to be real locomotive engineers someday. All of us want to run big locomotives that pull famous trains blow whistles give signals and do all the other things that make the engineer's job so much fun. Now boys don't have to wait until "someday" to be real engineers. They can be Southern Pacific Junior Engineers. It is very easy to be a Junior Engineer and it doesn't cost a cent." How to be a Southern Pacific Junior Engineer. Southern Pacific Company unknown books
19594283Los Angeles: Southern Pacific Railroad 1959. Single sheet 23 cm x 60 cm printed on both sides and folding to pamphlet size 23 cm x 10 cm. Vertical folds as issued. Near fine. 1959 time tables for Southern Pacific. Includes times for Shasta Route Overland Route Coast Line San Joaquin Valley Line and local service and connections for Washington Oregon California and Nevada. Also listed are connections at Chicago and St. Louis for the New York Central System Pennsylvania Railroad and Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Southern Pacific Railroad unknown books
19254281San Francisco: Southern Pacific Railroad 1925. 15pp. Square Octavo 23 cm x 20 cm Illustrated wrappers. Vertical fold as issued. Very good. Promotional piece for Southern Pacific's Sunset Route that ran from New Orleans to Los Angeles and San Francisco. Illustrated description of the sights along the way. Double-page pictorial U.S. map at the center with the Southern Pacific lines marked.<br/><br/>"Along the Sunset Route are found constant reminders that this was first the trail of Spanish adventurers. Old Spain's influence still lives in the life color and architecture all along the way from New Orleans to Los Angeles and San Francisco." - rear cover. Southern Pacific Railroad unknown books
19176139New Orleans: General Passenger Department Southern Pacific Lines 1917. Good. 105 x 235 mm. 32 pages in stapled wraps embossed with a medallion portrait of Bienville and printed in bronze. Text pages with green tinted borders and green tinted overlay illustrations. Each page with black and white half-tone photo illustration and text. Railroad map of the United States on inside back panel. Sun marks on front panel of wraps. A little dusty but unmarred. General Passenger Department, Southern Pacific Lines paperback books
19283927San Francisco: Southern Pacific Company 1928. 15pp. Square quarto 23 cm x 20 cm Illustrated wrappers. Better than very good. Bright. Folds as issued. Guide for the prospective tourist that offers descriptions of four scenic routes offered by the Southern Pacific: Sunset Route Shasta Route Overland Route Lake Tahoe Line Golden State Route. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout and a nice double-page pictorial map 36 cm x 18 cm at the center: 'The Best Way to See the Pacific Coast.' <br/><br/>"In this booklet are separate descriptions of Sunset Golden State Overland and Shasta Routes. At the end of the description of each route are several itineraries suggesting optional plans for seeing the points of interest on the Pacific Coast depending upon the route to be taken returning East. Southern Pacific Company 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
19021511San Francisco 1902. Very good. 120pp. including twenty plates many folding. 12mo. Original limp calf front cover gilt lettered. Light wear to spine and extremities. Internally quite clean. A very interesting early 20th-century manual and rule book for personnel in the Maintenance and Way Department of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Contained here are rules and instructions for a wide array of railroad employees including roadmasters bridge superintendants trackmen bridgemen and other watchmen. The principal portion of the text comprises nearly 270 general rules and regulations such as those governing the adjustment of woodtruss bridges lining and surfacing track keeping clear rights of way and establishing standards for numerous other basic repairs on track ties signals and other critical infrastructure. A short appendix contains laws from the several states in which Southern Pacific operated regarding the accidental killing of livestock by trains and railroad employees. At the rear are twenty plates many folding with reference diagrams for track and other maintenance projects.<br /><br />This edition is revised from the first edition of 1898 with a substantially different pagination. Several plates have been excised from the rear of this copy; however the only other copy that we locate of this work at UC Santa Barbara also is lacking a number of plates. books
190051799Chicago: Curt Teich & Co 1900. Oblong 4to unpaginated; 23 full-p. sepia illustrations mounted including a folding double-page panorama map two pages of text containing illustration descriptions; tan pictorial wrappers lettered in green & gilt paper label illustration mounted on upper cover ribbon ties at spine; covers a bit toned and lightly chipped at edges illustrations clean & bright overall very good. A picturesque view-book of scenery from the Golden Gate to the Great Salt Lake. <br/><br/> Curt Teich & Co unknown books
19245427San Francisco: Southern Pacific Company 1924. 15pp. Square quarto 23 cm x 20 cm Illustrated wrappers. Better than very good. Vertical fold as issued. Illustrated guide for the prospective tourist that offers a stop-by-stop guide from Seattle to San Francisco that provides information usually a paragraph on each stop along the route of the Southern Pacific. <br/><br/>'These are notes by the way. They anticipate questions and indicate features of the route and points of interest as seen from the car window. For the convenience of passengers side trips are stated distances given and fares noted wherever junctions occur or where stage lines run to places of resort or to towns off the main line. Southern Pacific Company unknown books
187527665New York: Evening Post Steam Presses 1875. Original printed wrappers with wrapper title as issued. Stitched. iv 3-133 pp. Wrappers moderately worn else a clean text and Very Good.<br/><br/> A comprehensive compilation of the legal documents creating and authorizing the Railroad and its branches and affiliates. OCLC locates five copies under several accession numbers as of March 2018. A shorter version with this title appeared in 1873. Evening Post Steam Presses unknown books
190643671n. p. 1906. 1st printing presumed. Pale green paper wrappers stapled with b/w graphic to front wrapper. Modest wear. Light age-toning to wrappers. VG. 22 2 pp. Illustrated with b/w photographic images & with drawings. 12mo. 6-3/4" x 5" <br/><br/>Departing San Francisco on the 17th and LA on the 18th one is invited to tour old Mexico via SP's "fine vestibuled Pullman sleepers." The pamphlet then goes on to describe the many allures of Mexico including Chihuahua Zacatecas & San Luis Potosi to name a few. Uncommon. unknown books
1920m1362Chicago: Curt Teich & Co. n.d. ca. 1920. Oblong quarto stiff illustrated wrappers with paper label string-tied iv pp. 22 leaves. Map and 22 color photographs of views along the Southern Pacific Railroad route over the Sierras mounted on individual pages with brief textual explanations. Very Good. Curt Teich & Co., n.d. [ca. 1920.] unknown books
1907288696San Francisco. : Southern Pacific Company. 1907. . 1st Edition. Softcover black embossed pictorial wraps. . Old paper tape repair to spine cover edges worn still a good plus copy with very good contents. . 4to. Color illustrations throughout. Southern Pacific Company. paperback books
196339982Oakland CA: Southern Pacific Railways 1963. 1st printing presumed. Stiff white printed paper. Modest wear to paper faint age-toning and creasing to edges. Stamped by F. L. Rizzo - Steward to a particular dining car. A VG example. Single sheet printed recto only. 9-1/2" x 6-1/4" <br/><br/>Includes prices alongside breakfast meal options. Southern Pacific Railways unknown books
1819249959N.p. Paris 1819. One page in French. 8vo. One page in French. 8vo. The Neapolitan-born Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini 1774-1851 was a celebrated composer of operas in his day who made his career in Paris under the patronage of the Empress Josephine. His most famous opera LA VESTALE premiered in Paris in 1807 and according to Grove's Dictionary underwent over 200 performances in Paris by the year 1824. As late as 1954 in fact in celebration of the composer's 180th birthday it enjoyed a revival at La Scala with Maria Callas in the leading role.<br/><br/>According to calendars only these two years during Spontini's time in Paris had a September 22 which fell on Wednesday. Spontini left Paris in 1819 to accept a position with the Dresden opera. unknown books
