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1870rif. 354322San Francisco: Thomas Houseworth & Co 1870. Single stereocard 3½ x 7 inches. Stereo image mounted onto printed orange cardstock. Slight wear at edges. Very good. Single stereocard 3½ x 7 inches. A very attractive single stereocard image of the Central Pacific Railroad's "Long Ravine Trestle Bridge." The bridge is located in Nevada County California in the Sierra Nevada mountain range just west of the Nevada state line. The image comes from a set sixty-two stereocards created by Thomas Houseworth & Company for the railroad some time after the railroads completion in 1869. According to the website of the Central Pacific Railroad www.cprr.org the Houseworth company produced more than one hundred such stereocards for the railroad including more than a dozen views of the 878-foot long Trestle Bridge. A nice early stereoscopic image of an engineering wonder from an important American railroad. Thomas Houseworth & Co unknown
1870rif. 354322San Francisco: Thomas Houseworth & Co 1870. Single stereocard 3½ x 7 inches. Stereo image mounted onto printed orange cardstock. Slight wear at edges. Very good. Single stereocard 3½ x 7 inches. A very attractive single stereocard image of the Central Pacific Railroad's "Long Ravine Trestle Bridge." The bridge is located in Nevada County California in the Sierra Nevada mountain range just west of the Nevada state line. The image comes from a set sixty-two stereocards created by Thomas Houseworth & Company for the railroad some time after the railroads completion in 1869. According to the website of the Central Pacific Railroad www.cprr.org the Houseworth company produced more than one hundred such stereocards for the railroad including more than a dozen views of the 878-foot long Trestle Bridge. A nice early stereoscopic image of an engineering wonder from an important American railroad. Thomas Houseworth & Co unknown books
1839rif. 3117Salem: William Ives 1839. Folding map. 36 pp. 8vo. Stiff wrappers. Very good. Folding map. 36 pp. 8vo. The map shows the rail starting at the Merrimack River through Salisbury then Hampton to Portsmouth. Shaw & Shoemaker 55470; NUC 5 locations William Ives unknown
1839rif. 3117Salem: William Ives 1839. Folding map. 36 pp. 8vo. Stiff wrappers. Very good. Folding map. 36 pp. 8vo. The map shows the rail starting at the Merrimack River through Salisbury then Hampton to Portsmouth. Shaw & Shoemaker 55470; NUC 5 locations William Ives unknown books
rif. 19422This notable railroad was founded in 1865 by a group of San Francisco businessmen and in recent years merged with Union Pacific. Partly-printed DS 1p 5' X 7 3/4' Office of South Pacific Railroad Company letterhead St. Louis MO 1869 Sept. 27. Addressed to Joseph S. Wilson. Near fine. Invitation to attend opening of a new railroad line running between Little Piney and Lebanon Missouri. Signed by in ink at the close by the South Pacific Railroad Company president FRANCIS B. HAYES 1810-84 and below this by its resident and managing director ANDREW PEIRCE JR. -. Choice and attractive and scarce signed by this railroad's two major figures. This company merged into the Atlantic & Pacific in 1870. unknown
1920rif. 51079n.p.: WiebeckTurtly Compani n.d. ca 1920. ca 1920. 9" x 5" in pictorial wrappers. Printed in blue and gold. 24 pp. Illustrations. Advertisements. Map showing system map of the Buenos Aires and Pacific Railway from Valparaiso to Santiago and Mendoza on rear wrapper. Information and photographs of Buenos Aires Mendoza crossing the Andes Puenta del Inca Valparaiso Santiago etc. Light soiling on wrappers and edges of pages. Very good. Wiebeck,Turtly Compani n.d. [ca 1920]. unknown
1912rif. 60346London: Sir Joseph Causton & Sons Ltd. 1912. 4to. 10 x 12 in. 118 xli 1 pp. Colour-tinted frontisp. illust. border on title text border illustrations photo illustrations throughout elaborate illustrated advertising section at rear for “Celebrated Firms and Leading Companies” contracted with and using the CPR. Pebbled padded red cloth publisher’s binding gilt lettering embossed on front cover t.e.g. minor edgewear rubbing dustsoiling still VG bright copy w/ presentation printed slip on title w/ the Compliments of The Dominion Express Co. First edition of this lavishly illustrated travelogue on the Canadian Pacific Railway trains and steamships in the Edwardian era. He touts the advantages of traveling on their transatlantic ocean liners Empress of Britain and Empress of Ireland by rail across the prairies through the Rockies to Banff and onto British Columbia. Homer details sailing on the SS Princess Victoria to Vancouver Island staying at the newly built Empress Hotel and then onto Japan & China onboard the Empress of Japan. Sir Joseph Causton & Sons, Ltd., hardcover
1864rif. 39928Chicago: Dunlop Sewell & Spalding 1864. Original printed wrappers bit of spine wear. 38 2 blanks pp two folding tables. Stitched light old folds. Very Good. The Report describes all information on this busy Railroad. Much financial information and data on travel the stock and the growing success of the Company is provided. A comprehensive report. FIRST EDITION. Ante-Fire Imprints 790. Dunlop, Sewell & Spalding unknown
1864rif. 39928Chicago: Dunlop Sewell & Spalding 1864. Original printed wrappers bit of spine wear. 38 2 blanks pp two folding tables. Stitched light old folds. Very Good. The Report describes all information on this busy Railroad. Much financial information and data on travel the stock and the growing success of the Company is provided. A comprehensive report. FIRST EDITION. Ante-Fire Imprints 790. Dunlop, Sewell & Spalding unknown books
1902rif. 39839Denver: Smith-Brooks Company n.d. ca 1902. 1902. First edition. 7 1/2" x 3 1/2" doubled to 7 1/2" x 3 1/2" with beautiful pictorial cover showing a man and woman sitting on back of train and looking out over the mountains and with cameo of 3 miners in bottom corner of front cover. 24 pp. Brief information about the trip followed by a collection of captioned views with decorative borders on each page. View include High Bridge Ramona Falls Point Sublime Silver Cascade Falls St. Peter's Dome Rock Creek Loop near Duffields Devil's Slide Cathedral Park Battle Mountain Bull Hill Cripple Creek Victor Altman double-page view of the Sangre De Cristo Range at center etc. Light soiling and with light wear to the extremities along with rubbing to fold. Very good. Smith-Brooks Company, n.d. [ca 1902]. unknown
1915rif. 39830N.P.: Privately printed n.d. ca 1915. 1915. COLORADO. 7" x 5" in pictorial wrappers. 24 pp. illustrations advertisements. General information about the town. Mostly photographs of the town and areas around the town. Views include Pikes Peak schools numerous cottages scenery Green Mountain waterfalls the new automobile road to the summit of Pikes Peak Ute Pass the Terrace Hotel double-page panoramic view at center etc. Wrappers worn with some soiling. 1" splits to top and bottom of spine staples rusted with center page loose from staples and with name written in pencil to rear wrapper and to one page. Privately printed, n.d. [ca 1915]. unknown
rif. 3730953Np likely Massachusetts: np 1848. Large single sheet folded down to form 8pages; untrimmed as issued. One fold line expertly strengthened with tissue. Rare. Free Soil Party campaigning for Benjamin Franklin Newhall abolitionist politician self-made businessman stationmaster on the Underground Rail Road UGGR who helped formerly-enslaved African American fugitives seeking their freedom by moving onward from stations in Boston. Siebert Newhall was an unsuccessful Free Soil candidate for Massachusetts’s 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. This tract promoted Newhall and the Party’s “uncompromising hostility to the usurpation of Slaveholders—the Slave power—the power exercised by 30000 men owners of the 3000000 of Slaves.” p1 OCLC AAS Peabody NYPL Duke. unknown
1863rif. 30260Memphis 1863. Broadside 9" x 11". Lined paper with columns in blue and red inks entirely in manuscript. Two large stains at left edge moderate dusting to right edge on verso. A few small edge chips old folds with archival tape repairs of short splits on verso. Good to Good. The Mississippi Central Railroad Company was chartered in 1852; construction began in 1853 and was completed in 1860. The road ran from Canton Mississippi to Jackson Tennessee; it connected to the New Orleans Jackson and Great Northern Railroads at Canton; the Memphis and Charleston Railroad at Grand Junction Tennessee; and the Mobile and Ohio Railroad at Jackson Tennessee. The Mississippi Central Railroad was the scene of several military actions during 1862-1863 and was severely damaged. R.S. Taylor & Co. of Memphis Tennessee advertised as Cotton Factors and Grocers "We have a large and well selected stock of Groceries and Flour among which is the old favorite Grafton 000 and Reincke's Elegant." THE MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL VOLUME 31 NUMBER 67 FEBRUARY 22 1871 Page 1. unknown
1863rif. 30260Memphis 1863. Broadside 9" x 11". Lined paper with columns in blue and red inks entirely in manuscript. Two large stains at left edge moderate dusting to right edge on verso. A few small edge chips old folds with archival tape repairs of short splits on verso. Good to Good. The Mississippi Central Railroad Company was chartered in 1852; construction began in 1853 and was completed in 1860. The road ran from Canton Mississippi to Jackson Tennessee; it connected to the New Orleans Jackson and Great Northern Railroads at Canton; the Memphis and Charleston Railroad at Grand Junction Tennessee; and the Mobile and Ohio Railroad at Jackson Tennessee. The Mississippi Central Railroad was the scene of several military actions during 1862-1863 and was severely damaged. R.S. Taylor & Co. of Memphis Tennessee advertised as Cotton Factors and Grocers "We have a large and well selected stock of Groceries and Flour among which is the old favorite Grafton 000 and Reincke's Elegant." THE MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL VOLUME 31 NUMBER 67 FEBRUARY 22 1871 Page 1. unknown books
1871rif. 58202Kalama W.T.: William Walker March 12 1871. 4to. 7.5 x 9.75 in. 2 pp. on ruled paper approx. 180 words in clear crisp cursive retaining original mailing folds slight toning very slight dustsoiling NF. This letter reveals the setbacks engendered by poor construction materials in the Washington Territory as the Northern Pacific raced to extend its rail lines across the country hoping to become the second Transcontinental railroad after the Union Pacific. The letter from Walker to Sprague opens with “I herewith inclose sic a statement of the walking Boss in relation to the Powder which has been furnished thus far on the work & from personal inspection of several samples I think his estimate low. In all my former experience in public works I have never seen as bad powder attempted to be used. One keg examined seemed to be nothing but charcoal. It seems to have been damaged by dampness as nearly all is more or less caked solid.” He goes on to explain that he feels that the contract should be suspended with the powder company and if they have any complaints they can could come down and “inspect what is on hand. That which has been opened thus far has either been used or destroyed. . . .” Despite the setbacks Walker’s team managed to begin laying track on March 19 1871 a week later and by September the first 25 miles was completed and by the end of the year the Northern Pacific line extended to Tenino. Eventually after the Panic of 1873 bankruptcy in 1875 and other setbacks as well as purchasing majority interest in the Oregon Steam Navigation Company the Northern Pacific was able to complete the line from Kalama to Tacoma with connecting ferry the “Tacoma” which transported passenger cars across the Columbia River from Kalama W.T. to Goble Oregon up until 1909. See: Glenn Laubaugh & Ron McCoy The Northern Pacific PNW Chapter National Railway Historical Society 2021; Duane Denfield John Wilson Sprague 1817-1893 HistoryLink 11066 May 12 2015. William Walker, unknown
1855rif. 63044Washington: Beverley Tucker A.O.P. Nicholson & Thomas H. Ford 1855-1860. One coloured lithograph sized 11.25 x 8.5 in. extracted from the original Explorations and Surveys volumes a fine crisp copy. First edition of this view of Fort Vancouver Washington Territory while future General Ulysses Grant was stationed there as a quartermaster Captain. The original survey was one of the most important and massive compilations of exploration reports and scientific data ever published about the Trans-Mississippi West. Published by the Federal Government at the urging of Secretary of War Jefferson Davis and the result of numerous reconnaissance surveys of exploring four major routes surveyed for the Pacific Railroad -- these reports represent the first attempt at a comprehensive systematic geographical exploration of the Western regions of America and made possible the first reasonably accurate topographical maps of the West. Vols I & XII parts 1 & 2 are still considered some of the best early sources of information on the Pacific Northwest the Puget Sound and the tribes of Washington Territory. Of the eleven official expedition artists the most prominent is the renowned John M. Stanley 1814-1872 most widely known for his portraits of Native Americans and their way of life. Warren's Map of the Territory of the United States from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean Vol. XI was considered by Howe as the best cartographical work on the West up to its time and was used for 25 years following as the definitive reference. Graff 4435; Hill pp. 301-302; Howes P3; Sabin 69946; Taft pp. 4-9; Wagner-Camp 262-266a 267:1; Wheat Mapping the Transmississippi West IV pp. 67-91. Beverley Tucker, A.O.P. Nicholson, & Thomas H. Ford, unknown
1880rif. 11408Chicago: A.T. Sears & E. Webster 1880. Blue cloth decorated and titled in gilt on front cover brown end-papers. Internally clean spine sunned extremities rubbed a solid very good copy. A very nice copy of this railroad tourist guide covering from Colorado to Florida with numerous illustrations and maps. A.T. Sears & E. Webster unknown
1880rif. 11408Chicago: A.T. Sears & E. Webster 1880. Blue cloth decorated and titled in gilt on front cover brown end-papers. Internally clean spine sunned extremities rubbed a solid very good copy. A very nice copy of this railroad tourist guide covering from Colorado to Florida with numerous illustrations and maps. A.T. Sears & E. Webster unknown books
1852rif. 102298Pamphlet 8vo folding map 17" x 34" 16 3 pp. Rear wrapper detached with some chips and tears are extremities pencil notation and ink number on top of front wrapper with a few nicks large folding map difficult to open because of the way its attached to joint but in really nice condition; otherwise good to very good. This pamphlet presents the results of a survey between Phoenixville and Pinegrove for the purpose of building a railroad. The work includes considerable financial and survey information and an excellent folding "Map of Railroad Route from Phoenixville to Pinegrove 1852." King & Baird,
1852rif. 102298Pamphlet 8vo folding map 17" x 34" 16 3 pp. Rear wrapper detached with some chips and tears are extremities pencil notation and ink number on top of front wrapper with a few nicks large folding map difficult to open because of the way its attached to joint but in really nice condition; otherwise good to very good. This pamphlet presents the results of a survey between Phoenixville and Pinegrove for the purpose of building a railroad. The work includes considerable financial and survey information and an excellent folding "Map of Railroad Route from Phoenixville to Pinegrove 1852." King & Baird, books
rif. 3007New York: The Company 1833. . 8vo self-wrappers 3 holding libraries in OCLC New York: The Company, 1833. unknown
rif. 2938St. Louis Mo.: The Company 1872. . 8vo pale blue wrappers front printed This copy has been marked up for another printing by an unknown hand using the ititials "EW" St. Louis, Mo.: The Company, 1872. unknown
rif. 2987New York: The Company. Evening Post Steam Presses 1876. . 8vo brown cloth over limp boards front cover lacking INSCRIBED by James H. Storrs on the title New York: [The Company]. Evening Post Steam Presses, 1876. hardcover
rif. 2998S.l.: The Company 1857. . Single card stock printed on one side only 7 x 4 3/8 inches With the notation that this was to "be used only on the 2d June" and that "The regular Passenger and Freight Trains East and West will be run as usual upon this day. S.l.: The Company, 1857. unknown
rif. 2987New York: The Company. Evening Post Steam Presses 1876. . 8vo brown cloth over limp boards front cover lacking INSCRIBED by James H. Storrs on the title New York: [The Company]. Evening Post Steam Presses, 1876. hardcover books
