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192385579Mount Hope C. Z.: Panama Canal Press 1923. Revised 1923. Hardcover. Fair. 185p. Original cloth. 23cm. Pages yellowed. Cover rubbed and rather worn. Numerous short tears and soil marks. Lacks rear free endpaper. A heavily used copy. According to the Preface this was a revision of a book first published in 1921. OCLC locates only a 1949 edition 1 holding at the University of Illinois. <br/><br/> Panama Canal Press hardcover books
19156150San Francisco: Robert A. Reid 1915. Very Good. 24 x 32 cm; 31 leaves of plates all color illustrations from photographs with facing text. Title page printed in red and black with tinted floral background. Text within floral borders. Bound in original laced wraps with mounted color illustration from a photograph of the exhibition grounds. Covers a bit uneven torn along part of the upper joint and chipped along edges but internally the album is fine. Robert A. Reid paperback books
1927538Panama: Imprenta Nacional 1927. Very good. 6911pp. plus three folding maps. 12mo. Original green printed wrappers. Light soiling and wear. Internally clean. Handsome little guide to Panama printed in Spanish and English on facing pages. Includes notable sights to see together with a history of the Canal and a commercial directory. Imprenta Nacional unknown books
191542654Paris : Paris Lyons & Mediterranean Railway Co 1915. 1st Printing. Printed white glossy stock paper covers stapled. Modest wear & soiling to covers. Very Good. 11 1 pp. Illustrated with 14 tinted photographic images on 4 inserted plates. Fold-out color map of the railway route at rear. 7-7/8" x 4-1/2" <br/><br/> Paris, Lyons & Mediterranean Railway Co unknown books
192328406Mount Hope CZ: Panama Canal Press 1923. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good copy some sunning to the wrappers small tear along the fore edge of back wrapper and a few leaves. 12 pp. 8vo. A note states: "This information is provided for a handy reference and style guide for machine operators proof readers and reviewers employed at the Panama Canal Press." Includes ship names dimensions tonage etc. Scarce. OCLC shows no copies. Panama Canal Press unknown books
191326706Tegicigalpa: Tipografia Nacional 1913. Wraps. Good. 26 pages. Printed yellow wrappers. 7 3/4 x 11 inches. Browned paper uncut and unopened. Dampstaining near spine in several places throughout. A scarce publication. Wraps. Rough english translation: "Regulation of the Honduras Section at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition San Francisco California 1915: approved by supreme agreement of May 28 1913 . followed by the Regulations and Rules for Reporting and Guidance of Those Who Claim to Participate in she dictated by the President of The Expresada Exposicon And Corrected And Approved By The Same Tipografia Nacional unknown books
157979paperback. many photo. illus. 31pp. 8vo pr. wrs.; wrs. lightly soiled otherwise very good. Washington 1920.<br/><br/> unknown books
38814n. p. n. d. Ca 1877. Bit of discoloration at top. Adhesive residue along verso edges. Period date of "5/18/77" in recto lower margin. A VG copy. Pale blue card stock printed both sides. Typographical border. Card verso with departure dates for Japan Hong Kong Sydney Auckland & PNW ports. 5-13/16" x 3-1/4" <br/><br/>The Pacific Mail Steamship Company was founded in 1848 as a joint stock company under the laws of the State of New York. The company founders had acquired the right to transport mail under contract from the United States Government from the Isthmus of Panama to California. The company initially believed it would be transporting agricultural goods from the West Coast but just as operations began gold was discovered in California and business boomed almost from the start. During the California Gold Rush in 1849 the company was a key mover of goods and people and played a key role in the growth of San Francisco California. In 1867 the company launched the first regularly scheduled trans-Pacific steamship service with a route between San Francisco Hong Kong and Yokohama and extended service to Shanghai. This route led to an influx of Japanese and Chinese immigrants bringing additional cultural diversity to California. A rare survivor from the era documenting the firm's Far East routes. unknown books
1966WRCLIT41909Beverley Hills: Norman Panama c/o William Morris Agency 1966. 396 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in stiff wrappers printed label. Wrappers a bit used and soiled internally very good. A treatment of Berk's novel by the prolific screenwriter/director whose credits include MR. BLANDING BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE and THE ROAD TO HONG KONG. To the best of our knowledge no film eventuated. From the papers of Colleen Dewhurst and George C. Scott. Norman Panama c/o William Morris Agency unknown books
191530734Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts 1915. 1st edition. Original printed paper wrappers. Spine darkened. Modest wear. A VG copy. 351 1 pp. Text in English. Illustrated with sepia plates. 7-1/2" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/> Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts unknown books
1910369Panama: I.L. Maduro 1910. Good plus. Folding map 18 x 24 inches. Original printed wrappers. Light wear and sunning to wrapper edges. A few short separations along folds one of which repaired with tape none affecting text of map image. Attractive promotional for the construction of the Panama Canal issued by a local souvenir store. One side of the sheet are an overhead view of the canal route with locations of the proposed canal locks and other unfinished construction and two smaller maps one of Panama as a whole and a topographical profile of necessary excavations along the route. The other side prints a "History of Isthmian Canal" accompanied by eleven photographic reproductions depicting work sites and other views related to the construction. I.L. Maduro unknown books
2753ALS. 3pg. 8†x 10â€. July 20 1913. Balboa. An autograph letter signed “James†to his mother. James was working on the Panama Canal: “…We are having real nice weather here in Balboa. I got up rather early this morning and it is now 6:30 A.M. – and the thermometer is just 76 so that it is really comfortable – as you can imagine. Some of the boys that are new-comers here want me to go across the canal to a native village with them as I talk Spanish and they thought I could guide them a little better as I know the culture and language of the natives. One man is sort of a horticulturist and agriculturist from one of the western states just came here to work on the docks & terminals and he is very much interested in plant and jungle life here. I have told him about none of the…that I have found along rivers and in swamps and he is so much interested in finding some himself but they are a little hard to find that is you usually find them when you least expect to run into them…there is such little duty into Panama really – if any…we had a shake up in organization and fortunately I came out with the survivors – and have a real nice job. Am still on the permanent town site works and terminals and like that work so much…â€. The letter has the usual mailing folds but is in very fine condition otherwise. unknown books
191553715San Francisco: Robert A. Reid 1915. Second edition. Oblong quarto 21.5cm x 31cm. Publisher's pale blue cloth decoratively titled in gilt on spine and front cover; decorated endpapers; 328pp chiefly illus. An unusually fine copy in the original binding - virtually free of aging or wear but lacking the rare publisher's box. <br/><br/>Elaborately-produced view book publicizing the Exposition with views of pavilions and exhibits including numerous color plates. Highly uncommon in this condition. Robert A. Reid unknown books
1956150115Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1956. Vintage promotional reference photograph of Al Capp from the 1956 film. "Culver Pictures Inc." and "131242" stamps and two later date "Culver Pictures Inc." labels on verso.<br/><br/>Based on the 1954 Broadway play "King of Hearts" by Jean Kerr.<br/><br/>Al Capp famed cartoonist for his long-running satirical comic strip "Li'l Abner" portrays himself in a cameo role as well as providing promotional art for the film.<br/><br/>Divorced comic strip cartoonist Francis X. Dignan Bob Hope is hired as a ghost-writer for the pompous fiance George Sanders of his ex-wife Eva Marie Saint. <br/><br/>Set in Port Huron Michigan and New York City. <br/><br/>8 x 10.25 inches. Very Good with creasing primarily to margin. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1911100851Souvenir pamphlet 8vo colored printed pictorial wrappers illustrated 16 pp. Folded and creased down the middle with a little wear at the fold some minor rubbing to wrappers normal aging; otherwise very good. This is a scarce piece of ephemera commemorating the 1911 groundbreaking ceremony by President William H. Taft for the exhibition in the Golden Gate Park. While the purpose of the exhibition was to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal it seemed to function more as a worlds fair held in San Francisco. It took over three years to construct and the exhibition ran from February through December 1915. There are a number of black and white photographs in the booklet including a double page panoramic view of the city of San Francisco. The activities of the ceremony are recorded in this pamphlet which feature speakers songs marches and what they had for dinner Blair-Murdock Co., books
1930WRCAM55194San Antonio: E.O. Goldbeck National Photo & News Service 1930. Two panoramic photographs 10 x 48 1/2 inches and 10 x 34 1/2 inches. Minor edge wear and creasing. Very good. An interesting pair of panoramic photographs relating to the Panama Canal Zone around 1930. The photographs were produced by the prolific panoramist E.O. Goldbeck during one of his many jaunts to record American military installations in exotic locales. One is dated June 1930 but it is reasonable to assume Goldbeck photographed both subjects around the same time since the Panama Canal Zone is no short trip from San Antonio. The pair of panoramas include: <br> <br> 1 CULEBRA CUT - PANAMA CANAL ZONE. 10 x 48 1/2 inches. A well-composed image showing a steamship rounding a corner of the Culebra Cut an artificial valley cutting through the Continental Divide in Panama and one of the greatest engineering projects of the late- 19th and early-20th centuries. Begun in 1881 by the French and not finished until 1913 by the United States the Culebra Cut known for most of its life as the Gaillard Cut is an eight-mile-long artificial channel forming part of the Panama Canal. It connects Gatun Lake to the Gulf of Panama providing a link from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The Culebra Cut resulted from the blasting and excavation of the Culebra mountains by 6000 workers employing hundreds of steam drills and shovels 60 million pounds of dynamite and thousands of trains loaded with debris and bound for landfill dumps. The present image captures the awesome scope of the project completed less than twenty years earlier. <br> <br> 2 FT. AMADOR. C.Z. JUNE 1930. CAPT. R.J. VAN BUSKIRK. COMDG. 10 x 34 1/2 inches. A panoramic photograph featuring Company B of the 65th Air Defense Artillery Regiment of the United States Army. The 65th regiment was active in providing air defense in the Panama Canal Zone from July 1924 to April 1932. Fort Amador was primarily an infantry and artillery support base providing air defense to American merchant ships traveling through the Pacific side of the Panama Canal. The image captures over eighty members of Company B ranged on each side of their trophies and their regimental guidon. <br> <br> A complementary pair of panoramic photographs highlighting the scale of the project in the Culebra Cut and American military interests in the Panama Canal Zone in the interwar period. E.O. Goldbeck, National Photo & News Service unknown books
191438258New York: Wittenberg Coal Company 1914. 8vo. 36pp. Early cloth backed boards original wrappers bound in.<br/> <br/>Provenance: Marinens Bibliotek old inked stamps; deaccessioned by the Garnisions Biblioteket in 2017<br/> <br/>Among the earliest directions for sailing through the Panama Canal.<br/> <br/>The Panama Canal opened to shipping traffic on August 15 1914. This work issued as a promotional piece by an American coal company prints Wilson's July 9 1914 Executive Order number 1990 which detailed the rules and regulations for ships passing through the canal. Unrecorded in OCLC. Wittenberg Coal Company unknown books
