Bruxelles: imprimerie du Moniteur Belge, 1930. Tall 8vo, pp. vi, 53; 106 plates, many in color; original brown printed wrappers backed in black cloth; very good. Instruction manual for the Westinghouse braking systems for automobiles, trains, etc. OCLC locates only 1 copy, in Switzerland. More
Nairobi: East African Railways and Harbours, n.d. [1949]. First edition, 4to, pp. xii, 582; 2 folding color maps, 14 plates showing 20 portraits and illustrations; original green cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; small hole in cloth at top of spine, else a very good copy. More
Berkeley: Howell-North, 1962. First edition; 8vo; pp. xv, [1], 282; pictorial endpapers, illustrations throughout; ex-library else very good in slightly soiled beige cloth, stamped in black on upper cover and spine. More
New York: Walker and Company, [1967]. 8vo, pp. [10], 166; 14 plates, map endpapers; original blue cloth, fine in fine pictorial dust jacket. More
Park Forest, IL: Transport History Press, 1993. First edition, 4to, pp. 384; map endpapers, illustrated throughout in black & white and color, text in double column; gift inscription of the verso of the front free endpaper, else a fine copy in the dust jacket. More
Stockholm: Albert Bonniers, [1955]. First Swedish edition printed in a limited but unspecified number (this is copy no. 155), signed by Lindbergh, 8vo, pp. [8], 483, [1], [10]; photographic portrait frontispiece, 11 illustrations on rectos and versos of 3 plates, 7 pages of maps and graphs at the back; fine... More
London: Passenger Transport Board, 1938. Tall slim 4to, pp. 72; chart frontispiece, folding map printed in red and black in rear, black and white photographs throughout; original red printed wrappers, yapp edges; edges a bit rubbed and worn, some soiling, else very good and sound. More
Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, [1979]. First edition, 8vo, xiv & [178]pp., numerous text illus.; upper front hinge torn, else a fine, tight copy in a dust jacket. A study of the business-leader founder of "one of the most important street railway companies in the U.S." by his grandson. Laid in the... More
Detroit: 1915. Small 8vo, pp. 24; illustrated and printed in red and black throughout; original gray wrappers printed in black and red; very good. Instructions on all facets for the new owner of the Maxwell 5-passenger touring car, including starting the car, care of the carburetor, testing the magneto, lubrication... More
1932. Cardboard scrapbook, 12" x 9", pp. [58]; invitations, calling cards, 15 hand illustrated dinner place cards with the names of Chinese ladies, dinner menus (both handwritten and printed), 63 mounted photographs, and an assortment of postcards, all from 1931-1939, with the majority from 1932. The contents have been removed... More
Boston: James Means, (1909). 8vo, pp. [8]; original green printed wrappers (slight fading at extremities); fine copy. Letters patent granted May 25, 1909 for a signaling apparatus and 3 types of launching apparatus. More
Boston: James Means, 1913. 12mo, pp. [12]; self wrappers, 4 drawings in text; a fine copy. More
Washington: G.P.O. 1863. Large 8vo, pp. 363, [3]; 10 lithograph plates (all but 1 tinted), plus 4 large folding maps (all bound in upside down); original diaper-patterned green cloth, gilt lettering on spine quite faded, else a very good copy. Ex-Northern Pacific Railway Co. with 2 small rubberstamps on the... More
Washington: G.P.O. 1863. Large 8vo, pp. 363, [3]; 10 lithograph plates (most with hand coloring), plus 4 large folding maps; recent utilitarian library cloth, gilt-lettered direct on gilt-paneled spine; text block bound tight; clean inside. Early ownership signature of Mr. Thomson Mason, Baltimore, Nov. 1, 1863. See Howes M-884 showing... More
[New York: Friedman / Fairfax Publishers, 2000]. First edition, oblong 4to, illustrated throughout; fine copy of an essential book for the Lionel collector and causal engineer. More
[Neuilly-Sur-Seine]: J. Robert, 1983. Second edition, 4to, pp. 511, [1]; numerous photographic illustrations in black & white and color, as well as extensive diagrams, maps and charts; old Paris carte orange metro maps laid in (dated 1974, 1983-4); near fine in original brown cloth backed boards, pictorial dust jacket. More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1967. Tenth edition, 4to, pp. 69 (ads), 522; numerous black & white photographic illustrations, maps, charts, index; light wear to extremities, a very good and sound copy. More
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1957. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, [8]; black & white plates; fine in original light blue cloth, dust-jacket with light edgewear. Illinois State Historical Society Occasional Publication No. 52. A history of aviation. More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, [1906]. 8vo, pp. xiv, 268; frontispiece, 16 plates, preliminaries lightly foxed and bottom corners clipped on the first 2 leafs; extremities a bit rubbed with some dampstaining to spine ends, else good in original red cloth with decorative color-illustrated upper cover and gilt lettering on spine. More
Chicago: Curt Teich & Co. [n.d.] (ca. early 1900s). 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... More
New York: Hodder and Stoughton, [ca. 1909]. Small 8vo, pp. map endpapers, photographic frontispiece, approximately 50 plates; publisher's red gilt-stamped pictorial cloth, spine a bit toned with two small tears to cloth at head; a very good copy over all. More
Dallas, Texas: 1914. Short typescript letter asking after details of an order of octagon buggy wrenches, with engraved letterhead depicting Studebaker Vehicle Works factory in South Bend Ind.; a few creases, fine. More
[United States]: [Time-Life Books], [1970]. Large 4to; pp. 3-430, [2]; illustrated throughout; very good copy in original jacket. Previous owners' signature on front and rear flyleaf. More
Washington, D.C. G.P.O. June 1958 - June 1962. 10 volumes, 4to, original beige printed wrappers; a few filing rubberstamps, but in all a near fine and complete set of the Army's bibliographic survey made art the request of the Office of the Chief of Research and Development on the space... More
Washington, D.C. A. O. P. Nicholson, printer, 1857. First edition, 8vo, pp. 238; folding plate, 21 full-page illustrations, illustrations in the text; original brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine (dull); all else very good. Issued as Senate Ex. Document 62, 34th Congress, 3rd Session. Graff 4436. More
