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ref. 24523n.p.: n.p. n.d. Hardcover. Near fine. Accordion-type album bound in the Oriental style silk boards. The first double page is in calligraphy: "Words by Jin Zhaojing; Verses of Logou". Then follow six double page lovely ink and color views of the bridge from different viewpoints. Near fine condition. . n.p. hardcover books
1893ref. 234551893. Boston and Albany Railroad disaster photo archive documenting the catastrophic 1893 bridge collapse at Chester Massachusetts when the westbound Chicago Limited Express crashed through an iron bridge spanning the Westfield River. The wreck occurred on August 31 1893 after the bridge failed beneath the weight of the train sending locomotives and passenger cars into the river gorge below. Fourteen people were killed and dozens injured in a disaster that drew national newspaper attention during a period when American railroads were rapidly expanding passenger service while struggling with aging infrastructure and increasing locomotive weight. Photo archive of 4 albumen photographs mounted on original boards each 8" x 10" Chester Massachusetts August 31 1893. The images show passenger coaches twisted into the collapsed bridge structure tracks hanging above shattered timbers and the locomotive overturned amid splintered debris along the riverbank. One view centers on a heavily damaged passenger car resting beside broken rails while groups of men stand surveying the destruction. Another records the locomotive and tender surrounded by wreckage and recovery workers gathered along the track bed. Smoke rises above the debris field in one scene while telegraph poles hillsides and the river valley remain visible in the background situating the wreck within the narrow western Massachusetts rail corridor. Pencil inscriptions along the mounts identify "Chester" with date "Aug. 31st 1893." The Chester wreck became one of several highly publicized railroad disasters of the late nineteenth century that intensified scrutiny of bridge engineering inspection standards and railroad safety during the peak era of American passenger rail expansion. By the 1890s express trains such as the Chicago Limited linked eastern industrial centers to the Midwest with unprecedented speed but the increased weight of modern locomotives placed enormous strain on bridges originally designed for lighter rolling stock. These photographs preserve not only the violence of the collapse itself but also the physical reality of nineteenth-century rail disaster recovery when wreckage removal body recovery and public investigation unfolded directly at the crash site. Light toning scattered surface wear and minor mount wear consistent with age; images remain clear and detailed. Overall in very good condition. unknown books
1953ref. 504696New York: Oxford University Press 1953. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. xix 214pp. Illustrated "with two portraits and eight reproductions of designs by Sturge Moore". Light foxing on endpapers spine ends and corners lightly bumped near fine in a very good dust jacket with spine and edges age-toned spine ends chipped. Oxford University Press hardcover books
1885ref. 139331885. Nineteenth-century albumen views of Venice's Ponte dei Sospiri and Palazzo Ducale document two closely connected structures in the judicial and political history of the Venetian Republic. The Bridge of Sighs completed in 1614 linked the Doge's Palace with the New Prisons across the Rio di Palazzo and carried prisoners between courtrooms magistrates' chambers and cells; the verso preserves a separate view of the Palazzo Ducale the former seat of the Republic's government and judiciary. Original large albumen photograph 10½ x 14 inches mounted on heavy cardboard to an overall size of 14 x 20 inches. The recto shows the Rio di Palazzo with gondolas moored along the canal and the enclosed Ponte dei Sospiri spanning the water its reflection visible below. Catalogued within the lower left corner of the image: "9. Venezia/ Ponte dei Sospiri." The bridge contains two enclosed passageways connecting the New Prisons with judicial rooms in the Doge's Palace. Its familiar name dates from the Romantic period and derives from the imagined sighs of prisoners glimpsing Venice through its small stone windows while crossing from judgment to confinement. On the verso is a second albumen photograph of the same size captioned within the image "38. Venezia/Palazzo Ducale." The two-sided mount preserves nineteenth-century photographic views of buildings central to Venice's former machinery of government and criminal justice. The Doge's Palace housed the Republic's governing bodies courts and earlier prisons while the purpose-built New Prisons were erected across the canal and connected to the palace by the Ponte dei Sospiri. Moderate staining and warping to the cardboard mount; the photographs themselves are in fine condition. The presence of a full-size Palazzo Ducale view on the verso gives the mount two related architectural records rather than a single Venetian tourist view. unknown books
1893ref. 422594New York: Harper & Brothers 1893. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 12mo. 200pp. 4pp. Pictorial gray cloth stamped in green and gilt top edge gilt. Gutter cracked with light dampstain contemporary owner's gift inscription in pencil on front fly along with fellow poet Daniel Hoffman's initials and two other owner names spine darkened with chips on ends about very good. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1968ref. 412315New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company 1968. Hardcover. Good/Good. First edition. 207pp. Ex-library with the usual markings good only in a good only dust jacket with flaps taped to boards. McGraw-Hill Book Company hardcover books
1789ref. 42124Boston: Printed by Adams & Nourse 1789. 54pp with the half title but lacking the final blank. Disbound. Half title and title leaves moderately foxed. Else a clean text. Good plus. Bridge speaks a few weeks after Washington's inauguration as President: "Man was originally formed for society and furnished with faculties adapted thereto." But not just any society-- only one which like the United States under its Constitution "protects the subjects in the peaceable possession of their just rights properties and priviledges." Bridge rejects one-man rule because the temptations of power are corrupting. He notes that God helped us obtain independence "upon terms too as honorable to America as they were humiliating to Britain." The rulers' task is to encourage education and useful pursuits and to distribute justice fairly and impartially. Bridge pleads for the bond-holders of the new country. They should be paid in full. "They risqued their dear-earned interest and their still dearer lives for the freedom of their country." America he says is "blest with the bright beams of gospel light and grace." FIRST EDITION. Evans 21713. Sabin 7808. Printed by Adams & Nourse unknown books
1942ref. 105869Boston:: Little Brown and Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1942. Hardcover. Stated first edition. Very good in a very good chipped at the spine ends light creasing to front panel age toning dust jacket. . Little, Brown and Company, hardcover books
1919ref. 415923London: John Murray 1919. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. 328pp. 4pp. of advertisements. Blue cloth with black and gilt stamped lettering. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and black and white portraits. Pages lightly age-toned front hinge cracked extremities worn and bumped about very good. Inscribed by the author on the author's letterhead and affixed to the front pastedown: "With the Author's compliments to Rev. Wm. Dawson Bridge 3 July 1921." Presumably a relative of the author Rev. Bridge was a minister and author who invented a shorthand system. This is an account of Admiral Sir Cyprian Arthur George Bridge's fifty years of service in the British Royal Navy. John Murray hardcover books
1977ref. TB33124Enfield Conn.: Enfield Historical Society 1977. First Edition. Fine in green cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and a gilt image of a man holding a bike upright. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches with printed end sheets. In a near fine price clipped dust jacket. 327 pages including an index list of illustrations chapter notes bibliography and text. Illustrated throughout with images from black and white photographs and maps. Enfield Historical Society hardcover books
1869ref. 3723Galveston Tx 1869. Very good. 2pp. on a single folded folio sheet of lined paper with integral blank plus fourteen partially-printed receipts completed in manuscript. Minor dust-soiling creasing and edge wear. A post-Civil War manuscript agreement from Texas with the signatures of twenty-six investors transferring their stock in the Brazos Iron Bridge Company to John Sealy of the Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway Company. Additionally the document is noted and signed on the verso by Sealy transferring those same shares to Thomas W. Peirce. The document is accompanied by fourteen receipts for installment payments on capital stock purchased in the Brazos Iron Bridge Company some of which relates directly to the larger transfer agreement. The Brazos Iron Bridge Company was organized in 1867. Its mission was to construct a railway bridge across the Brazos River. The bridge completed in July 1869 was purchased by the Buffalo Bayou Brazos and Colorado Railway later known as the Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway Company. When the dust settled on the various transactions among the shareholders John Sealy owned a one-eighth interest in the railway company. Sealy moved from Pennsylvania to Galveston in 1846 and became an important early Galveston merchant real estate investor and railroad magnate. unknown books
1976ref. 276981Thessaloniki Greece: Institute for Balkan Studies 1976. Hardcover. 527p. previous owner's book plate on front blank paste down minor bumping of corners else very good condition. Institute for Balkan Studies hardcover books
1996ref. 211540New York: International Association of Bridge Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers 1996. Hardcover. vii 297p. glossy pictorial boards profusely illus. very good condition. No dj. International Association of Bridge, Structural, and Ornamental Iron Workers hardcover books
1922ref. S1585New York:: Duffield 1922. 1922. FIRST EDITION. 197 x 128 mm. 8vo. 182 pp. Gilt-stamped dark green cloth. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to Force Parker Esq. Very good. "While Bridge had a distinguished medical career he was actually far better known for his substantial fortune earned from his work in the oil industry and the resulting philanthropic endeavors that involved large sums donated to many regional organizations." He also served on the board of Cal-Tech. Duffield, 1922. hardcover books
1839ref. 20069Boston 1839. 30pp. Disbound. Light scattered foxing. Very Good. offered with REPORT RELATING TO EXPENSES OF WARREN BRIDGE. HD29. 7 1 blank pp. Disbound loosening. Light scattered foxing. Good to Very Good. Reports on the bridges that were the subject of the Supreme Court's landmark opinion in the Charles River Bridge Case. AI 57166 2. unknown books
1845ref. 12458New York & London: Wiley and Putnam 1845. First Edition First State. Original wraps. Very good. First edition of Journal of an African Cruiser by Horatio Bridge in the publisher's original paper wrappers from the personal library of and signed by Maine Governor Joseph H. Williams. Small octavo viii v-vi 179pp 32pp ads. Original printed wrappers title in black on spine. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Slight lean to text block faint dampstain to leaves at end of volume not affecting text Kennebec Historical Society bookplate on half title a very good example. Price "Fifty Cents" listed on front cover tape remnant on front cover wear to spine. BAL's printing A and wrapper 1 including misnumbered page "x" with "vi" in Preface copyright information in four lines and three titles listed under "Library of American Books" on rear cover. BAL 7597 Moebs 80 In custom brown cloth clamshell with title printed on paper label. Signed by J.H. Williams on front cover. Joseph H. Williams 1814-1896 served in the State legislature of Maine as both a Senator and House Representative and he was also Governor of Maine for one year. Williams was a relative of the author of this work Horatio Bridge 1806-1893. Bridge a U.S. Navy officer served aboard the sloop-of-war USS Saratoga off the west coast of Africa from 1843-1844. The USS Saratoga was stationed there to protect American citizens and suppress the slave trade. According to correspondence Bridge's roommate at Bowdoin College Nathaniel Hawthorne allegedly inspired Bridge to keep a journal of his travels which Hawthorne helped edit and compile into the Journal of an African Cruiser. Wiley and Putnam unknown books
1882ref. 22094Unknown place: Not Published 1882. Contemporary three-quarter leather. Very good; front cover detached; spine worn; card stock pages a bit warped. Folio. An album of 62 albumen prints meas. appx. 115 x 195 mm. mounted two to a page recto and verso on thick card stock meas. appx. 345 x 273mm. Most of the photographs are dated in the negative. There is no text; the exception is a nine line printed label mounted in the center of the first page of the album identifying the bridge and its basic details. A detailed record of the construction of the bridge by F J Haynes who had recently been appointed the official photographer of the railroad. The bridge was a wooden trestle design of 1500 feet in length between four stone piers in the river. It utilized a combination Whipple truss and bowstring trusses at the landings. The two main spans saw sections of the truss assembled on land and then floated and lifted into place for assembly. Morison DAB XIII 191-192 had previously designed and built a number of bridges for the Erie Railroad under the direction of its chief engineer Octave Chanute. He was however at this time an independent contractor and this was his most sophisticated individual effort. He would go on to complete several more bridges across the northern United States amassing an astonishing record of successful crossings of most difficult environments. Haynes carefully photographed the most salient features of the multi-year construction providing a superb - possibly unique - engineering record of the construction work. OCLC does not locate any copies of this album; see the Tilden biography of Haynes Following the Frontier . who mentions Haynes' bridge photographs but provides no illustrations to match this album; absent from the North Dakota Historical Society collection. See chapter 4 in Edwards' . Early American Bridges for an excellent account of bridge engineering and material science. Not Published hardcover books
1815ref. 20053Paris: Goeury 1815. First Edition. Contemporary full green dyed calf with blind stamped roll and broad gilt rule; elaborate gilt spine panels with raised bands. Very good; some spotting and toning; modest chafing at the joints. 4to 2 135 pp. large folding engraved plate. Lamande one of the finest French engineers of the early 19th century was responsible for a number of innovative bridge designs e.g. the multi-span cast iron Austerlitz Bridge in Paris completed in 1806 - the earliest such bridge in France. The innovation at Rouen was the foundation of the bridge. The pier foundations were constructed on timber piles that were closely set within a caisson and then filled with concrete béton. This method was specific to the Rouen Bridge because the river ran deep and the current was strong. The principle was later used by Vicat on his notable Souillac Bridge. An important engineering work. Bound in an unusually elaborate manner presentation for such books. Absent from Roberts; see Peters Transitions in Engineering . p. 190 for a discussion of the Austerlitz Bridge. Goeury hardcover books
1918ref. 5214Quebec: Dept. of Railways and Canals 1918. First Edition. Original publisher's cloth. Very good. Oblong folio I - 259 1 - blank pp. frontispiece and numerous half-tone illustrations; II - atlas with 111 fldg. litho. plates. The account of the construction of the steel cantilever bridge across the St. Lawrence begun in 1900. When near completion in 1907 the central span collapsed. Investigation revealed the failure of a compression member. The spectacular failure forced the adaption of new and scientific methods for bridge engineering. A second cantilever bridge was finally completed in 1917. The book offered here is a magnificent and comprehensive technical account of the disaster and the construction of the new bridge. Both engineering and construction drawings are included. An exhaustive work. Dept. of Railways and Canals hardcover books
1916ref. 004541Roanoke VA: Virginia Bridge and Iron Company 1916. Very good. Seven covers envelopes - unused n. d. ca 1916; 3 3/4 x 6 1/2; captioned monochrome illustrations from photographs to recto; one with a small cut to bottom edge else overall very minor wear; in very good to near fine condition. Founded in Roanoke in 1888 as the American Bridge Works its name would be changed to the Virginia Bridge and Iron Company in 1893 it would grow into a major structural steel and bridge builder eventually opening branch plants in Memphis and Birmingham and manufacturing hundreds of highway metal truss bridges railroad bridges and commercial building frames across the American South and Mid-Atlantic. A large number of their surviving structures are currently listed on the US National Register of Historic Places NRHP such as High Bridge in Farmville VA larkton Bridge in Nathalie VA the State Highway 23 Bridge at the Clear Fork of the Brazos River in Texas and so on. The current advertising covers featured various projects of the company including the Ocean Steamship Company's terminals in Savannah GA Norfolk and Western Railway Company Coal Pier in Norfolk VA which would evolve into the largest and fastest coal-loading complex in the Northern Hemisphere Mississippi River's Harahan Bridge in Memphis TN etc. Virginia Bridge and Iron Company unknown books
1973ref. 59727New York St. Louis ET AL: McGraw-Hill Book Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1973. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0070077363 . An unblemished first Printing of the First Edition in Fine condition housed in an equal dust-jacket; After a disastrous move from her home state of California Julia moves to Dublin Ireland to be with her boyfriend. She starts a new job and quickly becomes attached to her new community. Julia is thrilled to find a new passion in her work as a journalist writing about the quirky and interesting people of Dublin. But when her boyfriend proposes and she learns he's got a job offer in the States Julia is torn. She knows she loves Ireland but she also loves her boyfriend. She decides to stay but she's not sure if she can keep the happiness she's found in her new life.; 8vo; 254 pages . McGraw-Hill Book Company hardcover books
1966ref. 55810New York Toronto ET AL: McGraw-Hill Book Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1966. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. A handsome first Edition/First Printing housed in an equally impressive dust-jacket; In 1835 the United States and Spain were embroiled in a long bloody war for control of the territory now known as the Southwest. In the small town of Toledo Ohio the war was felt most acutely. At the heart of the conflict was the disputed possession of a small patch of land on the banks of the San Juan River. A group of townspeople desperate for peace hatched a daring plan to bring the war to an end. They would kidnap the Spanish governor of Ohio and demand that he release the town from Spanish control.The plan was risky but the townspeople were ready to take whatever risks it took to end the war. On a dark night in November they staged their daring kidnapping. For the next three months the townspeople held their governor hostage in the heart of Spanish territory.The Episode At Toledo is the story of the townspeople's daring plan and its incredible aftermath. It is the story of a; 8vo; 249 pages . McGraw-Hill Book Company hardcover books
1954ref. 95973New York: Coverdale & Colpitts 1954. Paperback. Very Good. 54p. printed on one side plus 7 Exhibits consisting of two folding maps and seven folding tables/charts Softcover in cloth-backied wreapper. 28 cm. Some splitting on sides of backstrip. Waterstain on all leaves including the folding Exhibits in upper right corner; contents otherwise sound. . Laid in are 6 glossy black and white photos 28 x 21 cm. of trans-Hudson traffic and three similarly size glossy traffic charts. None appear to have been included in the report. The photos have taped slips generally on back identifying each photo. One slip credits that photo to Margaret Bourke White. Perhaps these photos and charts were prepared in connection with this joint study but not used in this report. Coverdale & Colpitts seems to have reagarded a 125th Street Trans-Hudson bridge as a key component in meeting future Trans-Hudson traffic demand. The 125th Street bridge never happened. Coverdale & Colpitts paperback books
1920ref. M14649New York:: Duffield 1920. 1920. 8vo. viii 292 2 pp. Frontispiece. Original gilt-stamped dark green cloth; spine ends worn front joint with kozo repair. Ex-library copy – bookplate and embossed stamp of the Los Angeles County Medical Assoc. Historical Collection; spine call no. over-painted; rear pocket. Good. Norman Bridge's autobiography. He was in Chicago California Los Angeles. "While Bridge had a distinguished medical career he was actually far better known for his substantial fortune earned from his work in the oil industry and the resulting philanthropic endeavors that involved large sums donated to many regional organizations." He also served on the board of Cal-Tech. Duffield, 1920. hardcover books
ref. 39287BLACKFRIARS BRIDGE-PARLIAMENTARY ACT ANNO REGNI GEORGII III. REGIS.AT THE PARLIAMENT BEGUN AND HOLDEN AT WESTMINSTER THE NINETEENTH DAY OF MAY ANNO DOM. 1761. London: Mark Baskett 1767. Folio. Disbound. Pages 459-499. The Parliamentary act passed in 1766 "for completing the bridge cross the River Thames from Black Fryars in the City of London." In 1761 there were only two bridges crossing the Thames - London Bridge and Westminster Bridge. Parliament passed a bill in 1761 to commence building a new bridge about equal distance between the two existing ones to ease congestion of building traffic crossing the Thames. The architect Robert Mylne was awarded the contract. By 1766 Parliament was requested to fund the completion of the bridge plus redeeming the tolls on the bridge as well as adding additional provision in the bill "for rebuilding the gaol of Newgate.; for repairing the Royal Exchange." etc. The new bridge was finished in 1769. Very good. unknown books
