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1946réf. 4326Denver: The Smith-Brooks Printing Company 1946. 42pp Oblong quarto 25 cm x 30.5 cm Gray printed wrappers with a photograph of the Upper Colorado on the front panel. Better than very good. 20 tinted plates 16.5 cm x 20 on white leaves with the facing page prints a paragraph description of the view. All images are sights that one could see riding the D&RGW through Colorado. Double-page plate at the center 21 cm 51 cm 'Colorado's Highest Mountains.' Double-page pictorial map at the end. The Smith-Brooks Printing Company unknown books
1847réf. 27881Ontario 1847. 47 1 blank pp plus two folding maps as issued: 'Map and Profile of the Great Western Railway Canada West' 48 1/2 cm x 32 cm; 'Map of the Route of the Great Western Railway Shewing its Connection with other Public Works' 35 1/2 cm x 29 cm. Versos with expertly repaired closed tears short margin tear else Very Good. The railroad is "on the precise ground that will enable it to control the trade and travel of such a vast portion of the Canadas and the prosperous American States." TPL 2850. Sabin 28478n. unknown books
1870réf. 58937Dublin: Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland n.d. 1870. Unaccomplished pro-forma folio broadside approx. 13¾" x 8¾" on gray paper; fine. Pro-forma contract for the purchase of rails and fish plates with blanks left for tons of rails date terms signature and date. "To be delivered free on any part of the wharves of the Royal Canal Docks at Dublin that may be pointed out by the engineer or into lighters in the docks at his option . With the rails sufficient fish plates ared provided . the rails and fish plates are to correspond accurately with the annexed drawings" not present. Unlocated. Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland, n.d. unknown books
1900réf. 51798Chicago: Curt Teich & Co. for the Van Noy Inter-State Co 1900. 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 toned at edges corners creased illustrations clean & bright overall very good. A picturesque view-book of "the most interesting views seen along the route" of Utah Nevada and California. Curt Teich & Co. for the Van Noy Inter-State Co unknown books
1984réf. 43714London Ontario: University of Western Ontario 1984. First edition 4to pp. 2 viii 1 plus 91 leaves; printed from typescript; original black cloth tape-backed yellow wrappers about fine. WHSTC Western Hemisphere Short-Title Catalog Library Catalog no. 24. University of Western Ontario unknown books
1988réf. 43710London Ontario: University of Western Ontario 1988. Reissue 4to 1 vii 65 leaves; printed from typescript; original black cloth tape-backed yellow wrappers; fine. WHSTC Western Hemisphere Short Title Catalog Library Catalog no. 20. University of Western Ontario unknown books
1988réf. 43712London Ontario: University of Western Ontario 1988. Reissue 4to pp. 2 vii 1 plus 33 leaves; printed from typescript; original black cloth tape-backed yellow wrappers; fine. WHSTC Western Hemisphere Short-Title Catalog Library Catalog no. 8. University of Western Ontario unknown books
1985réf. 43716London Ontario: University of Western Ontario 1985. First edition 4to pp. 2 vii 1 plus 38 leaves; original black cloth tape-backed yellow wrappers; about fine. WHSTC World Hemisphere Short-Title Catalog Library Catalog no. 27. University of Western Ontario unknown books
1988réf. 43713London Ontario: University of Western Ontario 1988. Reissue 4to pp. 2 vii 1 plus 60 leaves; printed from typescript; original black cloth tape-backed yellow wrappers; fine. WHSTC Western Hemisphere Short-Title Catalog Library Catalog no. 10. University of Western Ontario unknown books
1960réf. 39953Orange CA: Great Western Cordage n.d. 1960. 4to spiral-bound salesman's sample book flexible brown morocco lettered in gilt on upper cover containing 34 original full-page photographs of Great Western Cordage products in various stages of production including rope twine specialities. Manila sisal cotton synthetics etc. with 8 pages of printed description of same illustrated throughout: fine. Great Western Cordage, n.d. unknown books
1960réf. 39951Orange CA: Great Western Cordage n.d. 1960. 4to pp. 24; original pictorial wrappers illustrated throughout and containing a section on knots and a glossary of cordage terms. Fine. Great Western Cordage, n.d. unknown books
1959réf. 39824Orange CA: Great Western Cordage 1959. 4to pp. 103; black 3-ring binder lettered in orange with 3 internal tabs Handbook Special Products Price Lists illustrated throughout and containing a section on knots and a glossary of cordage terms. Fine throughout. Great Western Cordage unknown books
1880réf. 279471880. Seven photographs: from Virginia City Denver and San Francisco of men and women. The bottom margins and the verso identify the studio. Very Good. unknown books
1860réf. 72773NY: Derby and Jackson. Geo. Russell & Co. Printers 1860. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. Frontis portrait 187pp. Foxed throughout top corner square of front free endpaper neatly cut out spine and edges of boards sunned with some light wear to the extremities else very good in publisher's brown cloth decorated in blind. Derby and Jackson. Geo. Russell & Co., Printers hardcover books
1857réf. 42280New York: Hosford & Co. 57 & 59 William St. 1857. Illustrated broadside 17-1/2" x 13-1/2" printed in gilt letters on thick green coated stock. Illustrated with cuts of the Steamer Plymouth a canal boat and smaller images. Visually quite pleasing. Blank verso toned else Fine. Advertises a New York shipping firm: "Merchandise and other property forwarded to and from the west via Erie Canal and lakes." The Company's Officers and Directors are listed with Agents in New York Albany Troy Boston Chicago Milwaukee Detroit Toledo and Cleveland. "Mark packages 'W.T.Co.' and ship daily from Pier 7 E.R." We have not located another record of this exceedingly attractive trade broadside. Hosford & Co. 57 & 59 William St. unknown books
réf. 41384Printed folio document 10-1/4" x 15-1/2." Completed in ink manuscript. Signed by the President S. N. Felton and Secretary Chas. Hinchman of the Western Land Association. Docketed on the verso with manuscript release of portion of a mortgage from the Association. Usual folds Very Good plus. A Jay Cooke project to give him access to the lands along a Minnesota Railroad. "One of the projects growing out of Jay Cooke's connection with the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad was the 'Western Land Association of Minnesota.' The purpose of this company was similar to George Francis Train's Credit Foncier of America. It sought to exploit Duluth and the town sites and land privileges along the right of way of a projected railroad. The first published report of the Western Land Association was made in 1871. The company had received cash of $200000 for its shares. Its receipts consisted of $97321 for real estate sold and $21166 in interest on deferred payments and it paid out $182390 for real estate purchases. But the most important item mentioned in the report is the stock interest acquired in the company by the Northern Pacific Railroad. In return for an agreement of the Northern Pacific to fix its eastern terminus at Duluth and to connect with the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad the Western Land Association sold 2000 shares of its stock for $120000 to the 'Lake Superior and Puget Sound Company' the real estate subsidiary of the Northern Pacific. "The president of the company Mr. Samuel M. Felton said 'The company will soon be attacked by the Press and in the Courts as a monopoly and being the creature of the law may be subject to continual and expensive annoyance.' Moreover 'the Western Land Association has now accomplished as a holder of a large number of town lots the object for which it was organized and kept out of the hands of unprogressive speculators the property they would otherwise have held to the detriment of all large plans of improvement". Sakolski THE GREAT AMERICAN LAND BUBBLE. Harper & Brothers. 1932. Chapter 14 page 294 et seq. Reprinted 1966. unknown books
1805réf. 33731Fairfield County 1805. Broadsheet 12-1/2" x 15-1/2". Printed document completed in ink manuscript. Old folds with some repaired splits and one 6" unrepaired split. Some small chips along a few splits with minimal loss. Light tanning scattered spotting. Good. The original grant for this land was to Nehemiah Phippeny who lost title for nonpayment of taxes. The land was sold to Lothrop Lewis of Fairfield Connecticut on May 27 1805. On the verso are hand written transfers of the same piece of property: from Lothrop Lewis to William Hawley of Woodbury January 21 1806; from Hawley to Nehemiah Dibble of Stamford February 7 1806; from Dibble to Zalmon & Seymour Wildman of Danbury October 20 1806. There is also a voided transaction crossed out from Hawley to William Lamson of Waterbury January 31 1806. In 1800 the State of Connecticut granted to her citizens who were sufferers by fire caused by the British during the Revolutionary War a half million acres of land lying within the State of Ohio which was to be taken off the west part of the "Western Connecticut Reserve" now embraced in the counties of Huron and Erie. By an 1803 Act of Ohio the sufferers were incorporated as "The proprietors of the half million acres of land lying south of Lake Erie called 'Sufferers' Land'." The Act required management of the Company by a Board of Directors. The Board was to locate and survey the granted land and to partition it among the different claimants. This part of the Western Reserve was inhabited by Indians who engaged in warfare with the settlers. On July 4 1805 a treaty between the United States and the Wyandot Ottawa Chippewa Munsee and Delaware Shawanee and Pattawatamy nations was signed whereby those Indian nations in consideration of $18916.68 released their claims to all the lands owned by the company. unknown books
1865réf. 22266Hiram OH 1865. 4 pp folded. Very Good. The Western Reserve Eclectic Institute was founded by Amos Sutton Hayden of the Disciples of Christ Church in 1850. The original focus of the institution was to train people for Christian ministry. The school was rechartered under the current name of Hiram College in 1867. President James Garfield was a student instructor and principal of the institution while it was still the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute. He left for the War in 1861. unknown books
1925réf. 4849Various locations in the American Southwest West Coast and Pacific Northwest 1925. Very good. 30 leaves illustrated with 270 photographs of various sizes including two multi-panel panoramic photographs each leaf with a single printed caption identifying the subjects or location. Oblong folio. Contemporary red leather gilt titles on front cover. Some scuffing and abrading to covers a few short edge tears. Internally clean. A handsome annotated photograph album produced to commemorate a railroad trip by a well-to-do party of travelers from Kansas City through New Mexico Arizona Colorado California and up the West Coast to British Columbia and Alberta in 1925. The first photograph in the album is a panorama of a large group of well-dressed men and women at the Mission Hills Country Club in Kansas City captioned in the negative indicating the traveling party emanated from Kansas City as part of the "N.E.L.A. Red Special Delegation to San Francisco Convention" who were "Guests of K.C.P and L Co" presumably the Kansas City Power & Light Company. The second and much larger panoramic photograph is comprised of fifteen 5-x-8-inch photographs picturing the travelers posed outside the numerous Pullman cars that comprise the Red Special. The preponderance of the photographs are organized by location generally five or six photographs per page with a single printed caption per page mostly indicating the location. The body of photographs begins with facing pages of images featuring the travelers and some scenery in Colorado Springs and Garden of the Gods in Colorado. A sampling of subsequent groups of photographs feature the travelers at Pike's Peak Albuquerque the Grand Canyon San Bernardino Redlands Los Angeles Santa Barbara Del Monte Yosemite Valley Glacier Point Mariposa Grove San Francisco Shasta the Columbia River Victoria Vancouver Canadian Rockies Lake Louise Lake Agnes Moraine Lake Johnson's Canyon Banff and other locations. The album closes with four pages of photos picturing "Fellow Travelers Here and There" and a group photo of "The Train Crew." The latter photograph is the only one featuring African Americans who were likely working as Pullman porters on the Red Special. A wide-ranging series of photographs featuring much of the American and Canadian West before the Great Depression. unknown books
1921réf. 6148Various locations 1921. Very good. Twelve leaves with 106 photographs. Images a mix of 4.25 x 2.5 and 5.5 x 3.5 inches. Oblong quarto. Original black cloth string tied. Black paper leaves photos glued down. Images captioned in ink throughout on the photo. Minor wear. An interesting photographic record of drilling for oil in Wyoming and Montana. The images which are all captioned in a useful fashion depict oil rigs and wells the drillers at work and occasionally the family's on whose land they are drilling. The album opens with images from Upton Wyoming. Upton is located in the northeast corner of the state near Deadwood South Dakota; its newspaper offices burned down in 1926 leaving few early records of the town. Images depict the boiler "to go on School Sec 16"; the Gose home and oil field as well as the Goses; as well as rigs identified as ready to move from one site to another. Several images later in the album depict an accident on the Gose field which decapitated Vernie Moody -- two images show an X on the spot where he died under the depicted wreckage. Other images show work at Osage Gillette and Salt Creek Wyoming including one of a gushing well at Salt Creek in 1921. Images of work at the Broadview Dome near Billings Montana indicate "no oil near here" and "their well my test." There are also some nice views of Main Street in Harding Montana and Gillette Wyoming. A brief but fascinating and insightful glimpse of the oil life in the northern plains. unknown books
1905réf. 3538Copper River Valley Ak 1905. Very good. Forty-five printing-out paper photographs between 3.25 x 3.25 and 4 x 6 inches plus three real photo postcards. Minor wear a few creases occasional light soiling. A unique collection of almost fifty images capturing scenes in and around Copper Center in the Copper River Valley of Alaska in the years after gold was first found there in 1898. The images document pioneers panning for gold running dog sled teams posed in front of early wooden buildings in a bleak snow-covered landscape and more as well as capturing shots of a riverside mill a wooden bridge scenery on the Copper River and the majesty of the surrounding forests. A handful of the images capture pioneer women and children posed for the camera in winter clothing worn to combat the bitter Alaskan winters. One image pictures three men and two dogs standing outside the Hotel Holman an early Copper Center roadhouse that began in a tent but was opened in a wooden structure in 1899; the present image captures the post-1899 wooden structure. The Holman Hotel was established in July 1898 by Copper Center's first resident Andrew Holman in order to provide shelter for prospectors on their way to the Klondike gold fields. Copper Center is located northeast of Anchorage and served as a brief but important way station for gold prospectors in southeastern Alaska; one image here apparently pictures the early riverside settlement or is perhaps an early view of Anchorage. A rare view of Alaskan life in an uncommonly-seen settlement during the first decade of the 20th century. unknown books
1976réf. 2343986New York: Wolfe Publications 1976. Stapled Binding. Near Fine. Aeberli William. An excellent copy. 1976 Stapled Binding. Unpaginated. Cover and illustrations by William Aeberli. Bicentennial tour guide to Monroe County Towns and Villages and the City of Rochester with local advertisements throughout. Wolfe Publications unknown books
1977réf. 2335655Rochester New York: The Landmark Society of Western New York and Cornhill Neighbors Association 1977. Stapled Binding. Very Good. Surface tears to wrappers markings on Contents page. 1977 Stapled Binding. 35 pp. INDEX: Rochester's Old Third Ward--The Cornhill Area; Brewster-Burke House 130 Spring Street; 21 Eagle Street; 77 Atkinson Street; 345 Clarissa Street; 98 Adams Street; 102 Adams Street; Map; 94 Tremont Street; 81-89 and 91-99 Edinburgh Street; 56 Hubbell Park; 160 South Fitzhugh Street; 149 South Fitzhugh Street; Campbell-Whittlesey House 123 South Fitzhugh Street; Plymouth Park West 55 Troup Street; School Number 3 Recreation Building 85 Adams Street; Credits; The Sponsors. The Landmark Society of Western New York and Cornhill Neighbors Association unknown books
1978réf. 50722Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company Inc. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1978. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 038512709x . A Near Fine first edition/first printing in alike dust-jacket; is a collection of short stories that take place along the Colorado River. The stories are set in different parts of the river's basin and focus on the people who live and work there.Water Trails West tells the stories of people who live and work along the Colorado River. The stories are set in different parts of the river's basin and focus on the people who live and work there. Some of the characters are native Americans ranchers fishermen conservationists and tourists. The stories explore the ways that the river has shaped these people and the ways that they've shaped the river.; 271 pages . Doubleday & Company, Inc. hardcover books
1847réf. 90883New York: Snowden & Prall Printers 1847. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fair. 93p. Original marbled boards. 23cm. Lacks backstrip. Covers detached. Substantial foxing in large portions of book. DEFECTIVE -- one signature pages 57-64 present in duplicate while the next signature pages 65-72 is missing. Ex lib. Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts Library. Snowden & Prall, Printers hardcover books
