Rosholt, Wisconsin: Rosholt House, 1984. First edition, folio, pp. 239, [1]; extensively illustrated throughout; fine copy in original brown faux morocco stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine. Signed by the author on the title page. More
Philadelphia: printed by Joseph James: Chestnut Street, 1788 [but actually 1849]. 8vo, pp. [3], 1014-1038 [i.e. 28 pages]; engraved frontispiece; removed from binding; last leaf loose but present; all else very good. Originally published with title: A Plan Wherein the Power of Steam is Fully Shewn, and here extracted from..... 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
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..... More
[Edina MN: Beaver's Pond Press, 2010]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xx, 159, [5]; text illustrations throughout, colored map endpapers, illustrated stiff paper wrappers, fine. Signed by Soucheray, a columnist for the St. Paul Pioneer Press. 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
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
Taipei: Jen Jen Publishing Co., Ltd, [2005]. Second printing; 8vo, pp. 222, [2]; text in Traditional Chinese; each entry with statistical information and multiple photographs; pictorial paper wrappers; touch of bumping to corners, else fine. Su Zhaoxu is the most prolific author on trains in Chinese, with over 50 works..... More
[Washington, D.C. Gibson Brothers, printers, 271 Penna. Ave. 1864]. 8vo, pp. 16; self-wrappers; a touch of soiling, corners curled; very good. Includes an outline of the bill, a table of distances, and discussion on snow and cold, tunnels, encouragement of foreign emigration, mineral resources, means of constructing, etc. More
Westminster: London's Underground, 1928. First edition, 8vo. pp. vii, [3], 237, [1]; full-page map, 7 folding charts, nearly 150 illustrations, graphs, tables, etc. in the text (some full-page); publisher's yellow cloth stamped in brown on upper cover and spine; binding soiled; all else very good and sound. More
New York: George F. Nesbitt, 1849. 8vo, pp. 24; original blue printed wrappers; ownership signature in pencil at the top of the front wrapper of I[saac] M. Bull, Esq.; vertical fold; near fine. The famous story of Captain Tibbits is brought alive in an article by Eric C. Rodenberg which..... More
London: P. Grant & Co., 1861. First edition, 8vo, pp. 110; original green printed wrappers; wrappers loose, but present; chips from the top corners of the front wrapper; all else very good. The whole of the proceedings, in condensed form, "of the inauguration of the first line opened in the..... 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
Chicago: Curt Teich & Co. for the Van Noy Inter-State Co., [n.d.] (ca. early 1900s). Oblong 4to, unpaginated; 25 full-pg, illustrations in color and mounted, two pages of text containing illustration descriptions; tan pictorial wrappers lettered in black & gilt, color illustration mounted on upper cover, ribbon-bound; covers a bit..... More
New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1938. Oblong 16mo, 4.25" x 5.5", pp. xix, [1], 524; heavily illustrated with photo-reproductive images of the exterior and interior of ships, color illustrations of company and line flags and emblems, 50 folding plates of ship plans; original black cloth, gilt title on..... More
[New York]: The Vendome Press, [1988]. First edition, large 4to, pp. 208; illustrated throughout, much in color; fine copy in a near fine, unclipped dust jacket. More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1852. First edition, 8vo, pp. 295, [1]; lithograph frontispiece, large folding map, two charts, and 13 lithograph plates; full green blindstamped cloth; spine and edges toned, top of spine chipped, ex-library with spine label, bookplates and blindstamps, closed tear to folding map along gutter..... More
Philadelphia: Joseph A. Speel, 1850. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, [17]-310; errata slip tipped in after the title page; steel-engraved portrait frontispiece, 12 lithograph plates; original brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine; spine ends chipped level with text block, corners worn, the binding slightly skewed; all else very good and sound. "John..... More
New York: Century Co., 1919. 4to, pp. [30], vii, [1]. 202, [16]; addenda and errata slip tipped in at p. [1]; illustrated throughout; prelims and terminals are advertisements, ads also on endpapers; original gilt-stamped blue cloth; gilt on spine a bit dull, otherwise very good. "Text book of aerial transportation..... More
Providence: printed by John Miller, Journal Office, 1825. First Rhode Island edition (there was a Worcester edition issued in 1822); 8vo, pp. 16; self-wrappers; some toning, but generally very good. Old ownership sticker at the top of the title page. Concerning a proposed canal from the headwaters of Narragansett Bay..... More
Yokohama: Japan Gazette Office, 1878. Broadside, approx. 20¾" x 12½"; company emblem in red, printed timetable with pro-forma section for steamer names, unaccomplished; small tear and paste residue on upper edge, old folds, very good. The Mitsubishi Mail Steam Ship Company at the time had a virtual monopoly on oversea..... More
