Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1953. First edition, 8vo, pp. 352pp., frontispiece and 5 graphs in the text; a very good copy or better in original blue cloth. Issued as Vol. 4 in the publisher's American Waterways Series. "Based on primary source material, Rector's study reveals the intimate details of..... 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: 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

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

[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

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

[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

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: 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

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

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