10 865 résultats
1841réf. 19688np 1841. Folded folio sheet. 3 1 address page in ink to Hon. D.B. Appleget pp. Several old folds spotted and moderately worn. Good. Expenses exceeded estimates. "The country through which the Road passes being densely populated and the lands especially in the neighborhood of the cities and towns highly cultivated and valuable great difficulty and expense were incurred in procuring the right of way." The document is signed at the end in type by J. Worthington Treasurer. Not located in Felcone American Imprints Sabin or on OCLC. unknown
1841réf. 19688np 1841. Folded folio sheet. 3 1 address page in ink to Hon. D.B. Appleget pp. Several old folds spotted and moderately worn. Good. Expenses exceeded estimates. "The country through which the Road passes being densely populated and the lands especially in the neighborhood of the cities and towns highly cultivated and valuable great difficulty and expense were incurred in procuring the right of way." The document is signed at the end in type by J. Worthington Treasurer. Not located in Felcone American Imprints Sabin or on OCLC. unknown books
1836réf. 22874New York 1836. 11 1 blank pp. Folding chart. Stitched untrimmed. Scattered light foxing Very Good. The pamphlet includes 'Report of the Receipts and Expenditures .up to and including the 31st day of December 1835'; 'Copy of the Petition of the New-York and Erie Rail Road Company' seeking State support for the Road; and a folding chart by James Seymour Division Engineer with a detailed list of 'Engineer's estimate of quantity and Contractor's prices'. James G. King was President and Samuel B. Ruggles Comptroller of the Road. Thompson 1419. OCLC 39255517 2- NYPL Princeton. Not in American Imprints. unknown
1836réf. 22874New York 1836. 11 1 blank pp. Folding chart. Stitched untrimmed. Scattered light foxing Very Good. The pamphlet includes 'Report of the Receipts and Expenditures .up to and including the 31st day of December 1835'; 'Copy of the Petition of the New-York and Erie Rail Road Company' seeking State support for the Road; and a folding chart by James Seymour Division Engineer with a detailed list of 'Engineer's estimate of quantity and Contractor's prices'. James G. King was President and Samuel B. Ruggles Comptroller of the Road. Thompson 1419. OCLC 39255517 2- NYPL Princeton. Not in American Imprints. unknown books
1859réf. 18458np New York 1859. Original printed front wrapper with wrapper title as well as caption title as issued. Stitched. 39 1 blank pp. Light dust and wear Good. An analysis of litigation between the Railroad and a supplier demonstrating the incompetence of the New York Central's management team. The author warns the Company's stockholders that the case ought to galvanize them to elect new directors in order to avoid disastrous financial consequences from further bad decisions. FIRST EDITION. Not in BRE Sabin Eberstadt Decker Harv. Law Cat. Marke. unknown
1859réf. 18458np New York 1859. Original printed front wrapper with wrapper title as well as caption title as issued. Stitched. 39 1 blank pp. Light dust and wear Good. An analysis of litigation between the Railroad and a supplier demonstrating the incompetence of the New York Central's management team. The author warns the Company's stockholders that the case ought to galvanize them to elect new directors in order to avoid disastrous financial consequences from further bad decisions. FIRST EDITION. Not in BRE Sabin Eberstadt Decker Harv. Law Cat. Marke. unknown books
réf. 4031Hoboken:: The Railroad. . Single sheet 9 3/8 7 1/4 inches printed on one side only. Hoboken Hoboken The Newark and Bloomfield Railroad was chartered in 1852 and opened in 1855 as a short branch from the main line at Roseville Avenue/Bloomfield Junction northwest to Montclair via Bloomfield. It was built by the Morris & Essex Railroad and largely owned by them. The M&E leased it on April 1 1868. At this point the lessee was The Delaware Lackawanna & Western Railroad a.k.a. The Lackawanna.Signed in print by S. Schoch Superintendent. Samuel Schoch 1835–1895 started his career with the Morris and Essex and then the Lackawanna; he was with that company for twenty years resigning in 1872 when he went to Texas and became the General Superintendent of the Houston & Great Northern Railroad. He spent one year in this post moving to the Midwest in 1873 to join the newly formed Marquette Houghton & Ontonagon Railway where “he has had the management. . .and the successful condition of the affairs of the company are owing to him”—From History of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan 1883. Hoboken:: [The Railroad],. unknown
réf. 4031Hoboken:: The Railroad. . Single sheet 9 3/8 7 1/4 inches printed on one side only. Hoboken Hoboken The Newark and Bloomfield Railroad was chartered in 1852 and opened in 1855 as a short branch from the main line at Roseville Avenue/Bloomfield Junction northwest to Montclair via Bloomfield. It was built by the Morris & Essex Railroad and largely owned by them. The M&E leased it on April 1 1868. At this point the lessee was The Delaware Lackawanna & Western Railroad a.k.a. The Lackawanna.Signed in print by S. Schoch Superintendent. Samuel Schoch 1835–1895 started his career with the Morris and Essex and then the Lackawanna; he was with that company for twenty years resigning in 1872 when he went to Texas and became the General Superintendent of the Houston & Great Northern Railroad. He spent one year in this post moving to the Midwest in 1873 to join the newly formed Marquette Houghton & Ontonagon Railway where “he has had the management. . .and the successful condition of the affairs of the company are owing to him”—From History of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan 1883. Hoboken:: [The Railroad],. unknown books
1899réf. 127865The Railway 1899. Good. 8 ratesheets issued between July 10 1899 and December 20 1899. 28 cm. Single and folded sheets. Some ink and pencil notations. Tears to edges on some pages. Tariffs pertaining to lumber and wood products. Joint freight tariffs of the Railway and Baltimore Steam Packet Company Merchants & Miners Transportation Co. Old Dominion Steamship Co. other railways etc. Listings of stations and rates. Alphabetical list of railways from Allegheny Valley to York Southern. The Railway unknown
1856réf. 29362Massillon Ohio: James E. Wharton Printer 1856. Disbound 22pp. Light wear Good. The Company was chartered in 1848 by the legislatures of Ohio and Pennsylvania. Its mission beginning at Pittsburgh where the Pennsylvania Central Rail Road ended was to link that Road with the railroads of Ohio which would then connect with other roads westward and thus become it was hoped a crucial part of the rail transportation system. Unfortunately the Company "sustained heavy losses from various causes" in seeking to accomplish this mission; an Investigating Committee was appointed to figure out what caused the calamity. This pamphlet -- signed in type at the end by Thomas W. Bartley Dwight Jarvis and W. Bagley-- is the Stockholders' review of that Report. They give it a grade of "unsatisfactory." The Investigating Committee treated the Company's managers with excessive deference and tenderness ignoring or minimizing their shocking cost overruns defalcations and mismanagement. OCLC 16315711 1- OH Hist. Soc. as of September 2012. BRE 247 related pamphlets. James E. Wharton, Printer unknown
1856réf. 29362Massillon Ohio: James E. Wharton Printer 1856. Disbound 22pp. Light wear Good. The Company was chartered in 1848 by the legislatures of Ohio and Pennsylvania. Its mission beginning at Pittsburgh where the Pennsylvania Central Rail Road ended was to link that Road with the railroads of Ohio which would then connect with other roads westward and thus become it was hoped a crucial part of the rail transportation system. Unfortunately the Company "sustained heavy losses from various causes" in seeking to accomplish this mission; an Investigating Committee was appointed to figure out what caused the calamity. This pamphlet -- signed in type at the end by Thomas W. Bartley Dwight Jarvis and W. Bagley-- is the Stockholders' review of that Report. They give it a grade of "unsatisfactory." The Investigating Committee treated the Company's managers with excessive deference and tenderness ignoring or minimizing their shocking cost overruns defalcations and mismanagement. OCLC 16315711 1- OH Hist. Soc. as of September 2012. BRE 247 related pamphlets. James E. Wharton, Printer unknown books
1906réf. 41955Passenger Department the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Very Good. 1906. Paperback. B&W Drawings with toned borders; car diagrams map; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 20 pages; 1906 Passenger Department the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Paperback in original tan card stock covers with 3 color pictorial title design. Saddle stapled binding. The annual descriptive brochure for Santa Fe's legendary 1st class train service connecting Chicago and Los Angeles. Descriptive text of the train's many 1st class features and comforts illustrated throughout with handsome drawings signed Williams with toned borders and decorative flourishes. Includes diagrams of the sleeper compartment observation and dining cars schedule tables and map. Covers lightly rubbed at edges with mild furring to the front edge of the front cover. Solid and clean; a nice copy of this increasingly difficult to find California Limited piece. VG . Passenger Department, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway paperback
réf. 4062New Orleans:: The Railroad. Not illustrated; 29–30–32 pp. 12mo white stiff wrappers printed in purple front pictorial and very badly faded. OCLC lists 6 holding libraries June 2021.Date is arrived at by a short notice in the September 1898 issue of Sunset the railroad’s monthly magazine; Vol. I No. 5 p. 78 of the first nine titles of a uniform library entitled “Sunset Library”. This volume is No. 8 in the series. Sunset started publication in May 1898 in the earlier issues only the first five titles are listed. Of the 6 institutions listed in OCLC AAS is the only one giving the 1898 date. New Orleans:: [The Railroad],. unknown
réf. 4062New Orleans:: The Railroad. Not illustrated; 29–30–32 pp. 12mo white stiff wrappers printed in purple front pictorial and very badly faded. OCLC lists 6 holding libraries June 2021.Date is arrived at by a short notice in the September 1898 issue of Sunset the railroad’s monthly magazine; Vol. I No. 5 p. 78 of the first nine titles of a uniform library entitled “Sunset Library”. This volume is No. 8 in the series. Sunset started publication in May 1898 in the earlier issues only the first five titles are listed. Of the 6 institutions listed in OCLC AAS is the only one giving the 1898 date. New Orleans:: [The Railroad],. unknown books
1885réf. 039474St. Paul Minnesota: Pioneer Press 1885. First Edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good. 48pp; complete with 9 full-page views map on back cover. Bound in salmon wrappers title printed on cover. 8.75" x 5.75" The letters are datelined at various places along the route: Sauk Centre Stearns County Minnesota; Lockhart Farm Norman County MN; Crookston Polk County MN; Devils Lake Ramsey County Dakota Territory; Dunseith Rolette County D.T.; Moose Island Stevens County MN; Jackson Farm Kerkhoven Swift County MN Numbering jumps from Letter VI to Letter VIII as issued. The seven letters are followed by a two-page explanation of where the Railway can take you and by a two-page Catechism for the Free Home Seeker. Statistics of Dakota and Minnesota occupy the final two pages of this booklet. Streeter Americana III:1878. Eberstadt 105:242. Pioneer Press unknown
1910réf. 123732Canadian Pacific Railway c 1910. Hardcover. very good. 1st edition. Folding portfolio with flaps 12 1/4" X 10 1/2" with two-tone brown cloth gilt titles and decorations. Contains Twelve offset lithos of photographs of views in Canadian Roky Mountains. Images are clean and flat. Outer cover is lightly rubbed internal areas very good with small loss of paper where flaps fold over. No prev owner markiings. very good Views are on heavy paper stock 12" X 10" Views approx 7 1/2" X 5 1/2" Views are: the Three Sisters from Canmore; Bow River Valley at Canmore; Banff Springs Hotel from Tunnel Mountain; Bird's Eye View Lower Kicking Horse canyon Rocky Mountains; Hermit Mountain Near Glacier Station; Roger's Pass from the Glacier House; Ice Grotto Great Glacier of the Selkirks; Great Glacier of the Selkirks near Glacier House; Albert Canyon Selkirk Range; Fraser Canyon near Spuzzum; Indian Salmon camp Fraser Canyon; Mouth of the fraser canyon at Yale B.C. 1910 Canadian Pacific Railway hardcover
réf. 28503London. G.F. Cruchley Map-Seller & Globe Maker. N.d. c.1850's. Soft cover. Very Good. Large folding coloured map 56x 50cm 22" x 20" folded to 12mo18cm in printed wraps with titles on the upper cover in frame border slight wear to creases & wrapper edges else very good to fine rare n12. London. G.F. Cruchley, Map-Seller & Globe Maker. N.d. c.[1850]'s unknown
1985réf. 2111902158400943Keihan Electric Railway 1985. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 1 book Keihan Electric Railway paperback
1958réf. 108342Bangui, Société Civile d’études du Chemin de Fer, impr. Presses de l’Imprimerie Saint-Paul, à Brazzaville 1958 In-4 28 x 21,5 cm. Reliure pleine basane vert-foncé, dos à nerfs, VII-325 pp., 23 cartes et plans, table des matières. édition tirée à 1000 exemplaires. Celui-ci, N 7 des 20 exemplaires sur papier registre Rex des papeteries de Montevrain, numérotés de 1 à 20. Reliure légèrement frottée, intérieur très frais.
1935réf. 97113Paris, Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée 1935 In-4 27 x 21 cm. Sous reliure éditeur, dos toile bordeaux, couvertures illustrées, en pagination continue 176-CXXIV pp., environ 40 pp. par numéro, nombreuses illustrations de matériels, vie de la compagnie, pages de publicités diverses. Accrocs en pied de dos. Ensemble en bon état.
1837réf. 127921Bruxelles, Meline, Cans et Compagnie 1837 In-8 21,5 x 13,5 cm. Reliure demi-chagrin bleu-marine, dos à nerfs ornés de filets dorés avec roulette en pied de dos, XXIV-407 pp., 4 planches contenant 33 figures repliés in fine, table des matières.
1867réf. 797865St. Paul: Ramaley & Hall 1867. Paperback. Used-Good. Orig. wraps 15 pp. incluidng folding map. Wraps somewhat creased and soiled. Institutional stamp on rear cover. St. Paul: Ramaley & Hall paperback
1898réf. 311876Connecticut: Lockwood & Brainard Company 1898. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Good in boards. Front hinge cracked. Soiling throughout rear panel and spine crown. Foxing on panels and spine. Tearing on edges of inserted map. Lockwood & Brainard Company hardcover
1947réf. 43084Paraît tous les mois, 11 numéros in-8 br., Loco-Revue. La Revue des Modèles Ferroviaires, 1947, Montchauvet, circa 20 ff. par numéro
1950réf. 4308711 numéros in-8 br., Loco-Revue. La Revue des Modèles Ferroviaires, 1950, 365 pp.