La route de l'air. Aéronautique aviation: histoire, théorie, pratique.
Paris: Hachette, 1909. First edition, 8vo, pp. [6],vi, [2], 311, [1]; 32 plates, 82 figures in the text; fine copy in original printed wrappers. More
Transportation
Report of the Board of Directors to the stockholders of the Boston and Providence Rail-Road Company, submitting the report of their engineer, with plans and profiles, illustrative of the surveys, and estimates of the cost of a rail-road from Boston to Providence. To which are annexed the acts of incorporation
Boston: J. E. Hinckley and Co., 1832. First edition, 8vo, pp. 87, [1]; uncut and stitched, as issued; tables in the text; without the folding map and lithograph plan as called for in some OCLC listings; contemporary annotations at the back in Acts of Incorporation; very good. Includes a geological..... More
First annual report of the Boston Transit Commission, for the year ending August 15, 1895
Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, city printers, 1895. 8vo, pp. 85, [1], 8 photogravure plates, 6 lithograph plates, 8 folding plates and tables, Transit Commission presentation slip tipped in at the title page; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; fine copy. Much of the report concerns..... More
Mail and passenger steamships of the nineteenth century. The MacPherson Collection, with iconographical and historical notes
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd, 1928. 4to, pp. [2], xxvii, [1], 324; 16 color plates and 170 illustrations on rectos and versos of 43 plates at the back; a fine copy in original ochre buckram, dust jacket partially renewed, preserving the front panel laid down over patterned glassine;..... More
Series of 9 promotionals for Breda Railway Group
Pistoia, Italy: Breda Railway Group, n.d., [ca. 1986]. Small folio. Promotional packet for Breda containing 9 mostly tri-fold leaflets, in both Italian and English, most with 8 panels of text, color illustration and diagrams on high-quality coated paper, and all contained in a black portfolio and original mailing envelope. Fine..... More
Jane's all the world's aircraft 1941
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
The navies of the world; their present state, and future capabilities
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
Life of Thomas Hawley Canfield his early efforts to open a route for the transportation of the products of the West to New England, by way of the Great Lakes, St. Lawrence River, and Vermont railroads, and his connection with the early history of the Northern Pacific Railroad, from the history of the Red River Valley, North Dakota and park region of northwestern Minnesota
Burlington, Vermont: [publisher not identified, but printed in Chicago by Donohue & Henneberry], 1889. First edition, large 8vo, pp. 48; steel-engraved portrait frontispiece; text printed in double column; original brown cloth, gilt-stamped on upper cover; ex-James J. Hill Library, Saint Paul, with perfporated stamp at bottom margin of title page..... More
Railway locomotives: their progress, mechanical construction and performance; with the recent practice in England and America. Illustrated by an extensive series of plates, and numerous engravings on wood
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
Atlantic adventure: a complete history of transatlantic flight.
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
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Floyd Clymer's historical motor scrapbook. Steam car edition, vol. 1 [wrapper title]
[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
The permanent way and coal-burning locomotive boilers of European railways with a comparison of the working economy of European and American lines, and the principles upon which improvement must proceed
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
Stagecoach and tavern tales of the Old Northwest. Edited by Louise Phelps Kellogg
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. "Cole was past president of the Wisconsin Historical Society, and spent many years in the collection of the material. The accounts..... More
The navigator, containing directions for navigating the Monongahela, Allegheny, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers; with an ample account of these much admired waters, from the head of the former to the mouth of the latter; and a concise description of their towns, villages, harbors, settlements, &c.; with maps of the Ohio and Mississippi ; to which is added an appendix, containing an account of Louisiana, and of the Missouri and Columbia rivers, as discovered by the voyage under Capts. Lewis and Clark
Pittsburgh: printed and published by Cramer & Spear, Franklin Head, Wood Street, 1818. Tenth edition, 12mo, pp. iv, [1], 6-304; 28 full-page woodcut maps; old marbled boards, recased with a late 20th century rebacking, smooth spine with simple gilt lettering; a good, sound copy, the text block lightly toned. Important..... More
Subway
[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
Report on interoceanic canals and railroads
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
Dornier: Flugzeuge. Aircraft
[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
Drake's road book of the Grand junction railway from Liverpool & Manchester to Birmingham. Containing a brief historical and topographical account of the scenery, places and objects on either side of the line, (as observed by the passing traveller in their order of appearance.) The rules, regulations, fares, times of outset and arrival of the trains at the various stations; together with all requisite information for travellers arriving at the various stations; and an accurately engraved map of the entire route...
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
Some classic trains
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
De Paris à Vaucouleurs à vol d'oiseau. Relation d'un voyage scientifique en ballon
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
Ford manual for owners and operators of Ford cars and trucks
Detroit: 1919. Small 8vo, pp. 63; illustrated throughout; original gray printed wrappers; very good. A very detailed mechanical analysis of the Ford product. More
Recherches sur les moyens de perfectionner les canaux de navigation, et sur les nombreux avantages de petits canaux...
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
Mr Beck's underground map
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
A history of flying.
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
Audels new automobile guide for mechanics, operators, and servicemen with questions & answers and illustrations on the theory, construction, and servicing of motor vehicles including diesels
New York: Theo. Audel & Co., 49 W. 23rd St. [1947]. Thick 12mo, pp. [18], 1607, [1], [8] ads; thousands of illustrations; fine in original embossed black cloth, gilt-stamped spine, edges stained red. This manual was originally published in 1938. This appears to be the fifth iteration, and the first..... More
