London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd., 1942. 4to, pp. 102 (ads), v, 78, 233, 64; numerous black & white photographic illustrations, diagrams, publisher's ribbon-tied announcements laid in, early owner's name (1942) on first advert, corners bumped, spine faded, slightly cocked, else very good in original navy cloth decorated in..... More
London: Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge, 1859. 12mo, pp. xv, [1], 312, 127, [1], 8; frontispiece and 7 plates and maps; later green cloth, gilt title on spine; tidestains to the edges of a few plates, near fine. More
New York: John H. Gresham, stationer and printer, no. 6 Broadway, 1868. 8vo, pp. 43, [1]; large folding lithograph map showing "Main Stem Lines Across the Continent"; original printed tan wrappers; rubberstamp of Dean, McGinnis & Co. on back wrapper; vertical crease but an uncommonly fine copy. Only the AAS..... More
Glasgow & Edinburgh: Blackie and Son, 1860. Folio, 2 volumes in 1, pp. xxv, [1], 282, *1-*86; vi, plus 60 engraved plates (52 double-page and 8 folding); contemporary marbled boards rather artlessly (but effectively) rebacked in black cloth tape, plastic labels lettered in while on spine; internally fresh. The text..... More
London: Alan Wingate, [April 1958[. First impression, 8vo, pp. [7]. xii, [2], 15-236; frontispiece, 36 photographic illus on rectos and versos of 11 plates, and several figures and charts in text; very good in dustjacket. Copyright info canceled with dark blue ink stamp and lacking pp. vii-x (p. x being..... More
[Los Angeles: Clymer Motors, 1945.]. 8vo, pp. 224; original red pictorial paper wrappers; illustrated throughout; wrappers sunned and creased with owner's signature in pencil, textblock clean and fine. A collection of essays, articles, photographs and ads in facsimile, with particular attention paid to the Stanley Steamer Company. The last manufacturer..... More
New York: Holley & Colburn, 1858. Folio, pp. [iii]-xxiii, [1], 168; lithograph frontispiece, lithograph railway map of Great Britain, plus 48 lithograph plates at the back; original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine; hinges neatly reinforced, scalloped tear in top corner of title page, spine sunned, spine extremities with old repairs; good..... More
Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark, 1930. First edition, 8vo pp. 376; double-page color frontispiece map, black & white plates; near fine in original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt; t.e.g. More
[New York]: Aperture, [1986]. First edition, oblong 4to, pp. 83; [4]; full-pg illustrations in color, signed by Davidson on the half title, afterword by Henry Geldzahler; fine in original gray cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Davidson's first extensive series in color, his exploratoin into the dark grafitti-filled New York subway perfectly..... More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1867. 8vo, pp, 37, [3]; 14 folding maps with hand colored details in red; black cloth, upper board replaced and spine crudely rebacked, with original spine laid down. Maps 1 and 5 with tears in the gutter, and map 7 with a hole at crease and..... More
[Friedrichshaften: Dornier, 1983.]. 8vo, pp. [3]-154; illustrated throughout showing the complete Dornier fleet of plans 1915-1983; fine in silver pictorial wrappers. Parallel text in German and English. This appears to be the first bilingual edition. More
Birmingham: printed and published by James Drake; Liverpool, Manchester, and London, n.d., [ca. late 1830's]. 16mo, pp. xiv, [17]-184 (pp. 110-184, ads); large folding frontispiece map (a few splits at folds), 4 engraved advertising plates (1 folding); front hinge cracked, else a good, sound copy in original green cloth, gilt-lettered..... More
Milwaukee: Kalmbach, [1964]. First edition, 4to, pp. 434; profusely illustrated, some in color and folding; bookplate on front pastedown, pictorial endpapers, spine cocked, extremities spotted, otherwise good in original green cloth with gilt lettering on upper cover and spine, dust jacket (lightly worn and soiled). An extensive history of passenger..... More
London: Hugh Evelyn, 1961. Oblong folio, pp. [8] plus 12 color plates, each with a descriptive leaf of text; original green and blue pictorial boards, original glassine dust jacket. Glassine slightly chipped else fine. Ships included are the Oceanic, Saxonia, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Virginian, Empress of Britain, Nieuw Amsterdam, Mauretania..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1873. First edition, 8vo, pp. 20; full-page map; wrappers and stitching perished; paper quite toned, old library release stamp on title page; fair copy of a rare book. More
Detroit: 1919. Small 8vo, pp. 63; illustrated throughout; original gray printed wrappers; very good. A very detailed mechanical analysis of the Ford product. More
Paris: Dupain-Triel, ans VII, [i.e. 1799]. First edition in French, 8vo, pp. xvi, 247, [1]; 6 engraved folding plates, 1 engraved folding map; nice copy in contemporary full mottled calf, smooth gilt-decorated spine laid out in 6 compartments, red morocco label in 1. Translated from the English by François de..... More
Harrow Weald, Middlesex: Capital Transport, [1994]. First edition, oblong 4to, pp. 80; profusely illustrated with maps and sketches, many full-pg and in color; a fine copy in pictorial boards. A unique history of the importance of the London Underground Diagram. Harry Beck produced his first sketch for the Diagram in..... More
New York: Praeger, [1954]. First American edition, 8vo, pp. [iii]-304; 160 illustrations on plates and in the text; fine copy in the dust-jacket. More
Hartford: The Guyde Publishing Co., 1923. 8vo, unpaged; 2-toned (black and red) maps, including one folding map mounted to back pastedown, photographic illustrations throughout; original red cloth (a bit soiled), gilt-lettered upper cover, very light shelf wear, else a fine copy. Advertisements for local establishments (such as the Puritan Hotel..... More
Boston: press of the Boston Daily Advertiser, W. L. Lewis, print. 1829. 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 64; uncut and stitched, as issued; blank corner torn from title page, otherwise near fine. This horse-drawn rail proposal was one of the first in the country. Hale was acting chairman of the Mass..... More
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
Boston: Wright & Potter, state printers, 1870. 8vo, pp. 118; tables and illustrations in the text; short tear in fore-margin of front wrap and first few leaves, small hole in back wrapper and last 2 leaves; all else very good in original printed tan wrappers. Early ownership signature at the..... More
Stuttgart: Germania-verlag g.m.b.h., [1925]. Folio, pp. xii, 396; 4 color plates, numerous illustrations throughout, mostly from photographs; later red cloth, gilt-lettered spine; slightly skewed, else near fine. 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
