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1912Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Photo of new office in Victoria; Advances in rates; Increased Rates in Manitoba; Telephoning across the Atlantic; Exchanges ranked in order of per cent good toll calls, November 1911; Statement of development - number of phones operating in each exchange as of 1 December 1911; Cover photo of Grand Forks Switchboard; Photo montage of underground work at Victoria; Birth of the Telephone - 3 page article; Mr. F.J. MacGougan; Photo of types of protected terminals; Vancouver Switchboard photos from 1908 and 1898; Great 2-page photo of the huge 'A' switchboard at Seymour; Load Curve Graph of Seymour Office; Cut-over of Victoria Plant - new epoch in phone history of B.C.'s capital; Vancouver Island Toll Rates; Special Victoria Issue - photo montage of city and district officials; Photo of New B.C. Office; Table showing # of phones in Victoria since 1880; Photos of underground work in Victoria; May 1880 list of Victoria subscribers; 1890 list of subscribers; cable-laying scenes from last September; Nanaimo and Sidny facilities; New Gulf Cable Ordered by William Farrell in England; Miss Mina Kerr; Record work at Highland; New Plant Department Building; How a Directory is Produced; Jolly moonlight excursion to Nanaimo aboard the steamer Princess Patricia; Great photo of 5 new auto wagons of the construction department in front of the Seymour Office (horses having been recently displaced); Some Victoria cable troubles; Photo montage of the Royal visitors, the Duke of Connaught, the Duchess of Connaught, and Princess Patricia; Training school for operators; interior and exterior views of the Royal trolley coach; 3-page Kamloops feature with photos; Functionalization of Plant - reorganization of the department; laying North Vancouver Cable; Photos of large buildings under construction in the Fairmont exchange - the Lee Building, the hospital buildintgs, Steel plant in G.N.R. yards; Fairmont feature - 4 pages with photos; Instructions for Operators; North Vancouver Cable Ready; Importance of Transmission; and more. Half-leather binding. Hinges tender but intact. Backstrip very rough. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon top edge. Mr. LaBelle's signature upon front free endpaper and his initials are penned to top edge. He is mentioned on page 8 of the July issue as being the new Plant Engineer. Binding intact. Please note: small article clipped from page 18 of the December issue. Book
réf. elala5884np: 1940. The photographs depict 10-ton factory box cars 5 nitro-cellulose cars 4 wet powder cars 2 and magazine cars 2 manufactured for use in World War II. 195 x 276 mm. contemporary pigskin joints damaged. elala5884 np: 1940 unknown
1900réf. 013582305 Flinders Lane Melbourne: The Thomson Motor Car Ltd 1900. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Printed by Syd Day 16 Wrights lane Melbourne. Covers crisp and fun faded to rear cover for 2cm around the top and stapled edge. Map of Australia on rear cover with picture of the Thomson car in the center. Sketch of the New light model to inside of rear cover. A Day by day account of the first cross country journey in Australia. To be followed by such greats as Francis Birtles and Michael Terry. The Thomson Motor Car Ltd paperback
réf. 57813Antwerpen -, WAFT Gallery, 2021 4 hardcover books in a luxury slipcase, 30 x 30 x 10 cm, 770 pages, fine set! Strictly limited to 300 numbered copies. 35 35 14 cm : 9.5kg. ***THE PRESS SAYS BEST BOOK EVER!!!! .
réf. 42696London 1795. Folio 410 x 160 mm 19 pages of inventory verso of last leaf blank stitched in contemporary marbled wrappers corners a little dog-eared. A fascinating insight into the stock of a late eighteenth-century coach maker. The inventory was taken by Spurrier & Phipps of Copthall Court Thorognorton Street at which they valued the entire stock at £27824s. It supplies details of items in the coach makers workshop timber lofts harness loft painters loft wheelers shop blacksmith shop and stables. All the various pieces for making a coach are listed along with harness etc. Mr Waterfield also hired horses and an inventory of these and the people who hired them are also listed. London, 1795 unknown
réf. 15226Technical manuscript in French describing in great detail turn-of-the-century automobile technology and car engine mechanics contained in an 8" x 10" notebook 54 pages early 20th century. The manuscript is illustrated throughout with hand-drawn schematics and diagrams and headings. The notebook covers the basic concepts necessary to understand an automotive engine "Elementary Mechanical Concepts" "Elementary Concepts of Electricity" etc. This notebook includes handwritten descriptions of the Hispano engine a groundbreaking vehicle maker which begun production in 1902. "In the engine of the Hispano 12 cylinder in V with each of the rows composed of a single aluminium block which includes the combustion chamber. The valves are adjusted when warm and are made of nitrided steel." Other notes include vehicle anatomy such as "Vehicle crank shaft for 12 cylinder engines" "Carborators" "Cooling systems" "Starting system including spark plug and magneto" coachbuilder including a Hispano-Suiza. Automobile early manuscript with detailed explanation and drawings of engine carburetor magneto etc. unknown books
1974réf. SBBI-mon0000065887Academic Press Inc 1974. paperback. Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing fanning inscriptions margin notes yellowing staining on edge or cover or pages bumps scuffs etc etc sometimes multiple of these. It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Academic Press Inc paperback
1812réf. 117961812 toile saumon. (un manque de qq. cms à 1 des pliures de la f. 4). Carte en 6 feuilles, 164x 164 cms, P. P.A.F. Tardieu, 1812,
1907réf. AE4-1821907. Silver prints 22. A fascinating collection of photographs documenting the first year Camp Moodna a "street car colony" in Mountainville New York which served as a summer camp for impoverished New York City women. Under the auspices of the Downtown Ethical Society Camp Moodna was founded in 1907 by social worker Rose Gruening "The Angel of Grand Street" and it consisted of about twenty "old horse cars taken from the barns of the Metropolitan Street Railway to the mountains of Orange County" housing a different group of women each week. Camp Moodna was named for a nearby body of water seen in a number of the present photos and its genesis was described in a lengthy 1907 New York Times article "Abandoned Horse Cars Make Summer Hotel". After the success of a similar summer camp for NYC's young men Gruening wanted to create a similar program for young women. However "tent life wouldn't do; for a tent has no guardian doors that girls could lock at night and all manner of crawly things could creep under the canvas and bring on attacks of the fidgets." So "twenty perfect specimens of the classical age in New York transportation were unearthed from beneath a deep strata of dust and cobwebs in one of the barns of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company carried into the mountainland of Orange County and set upon a hillside near a beautiful babbling brook." Transporting the trollies was "no Lilliputian task." The trollies had all been stripped of their wheels before being donated so they were each 3800 pounds of dead-weight. However a flat low-bodied wagon a big team of horses and a gang of husky men with crowbars and jackscrews finally got all the potential Summer homes loaded upon Erie Railroad flatcars." And when they got to Mountainville they were transformed into two-room apartments of parlor and bedroom. Two of the others were made into diningrooms another into a kitchen and still another into a hospital. In 1925 Camp Moodna was donated to the Grand Street Settlement in 1925 and remained in Mountainville until 1955 when flooding from Hurricane Diane forced it to relocate to East Stroudsburg Pennsylvania. It was later sold to fund Grand Street's Lower East Side community center located at 80 Pitt Street. From 4 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches to 6 x 8 inches ; A few printed 1930s. unknown
1940réf. 49051Greenville: Tri-State Coaches 1940. 1940. MISSISSIPPI DELTA BUS TRANSPORTATION. 8 1/2" x 7" in saddle-stapled printed wrappers. 10 pp. including wrappers. Illustrated. Route maps. Rare booklet from Tri-State Coaches promoting Greenville Mississippi as a transportation hub for their bus service in 1940. This piece is printed from entirely hand-drawn copy giving it a naive and charming feel from the ice-encrusted lettering of "AIR CONDITIONED coaches" to cursive treatment of certain key words to the drawing of one of the buses on the back cover. Centerfold map printed in red and black. It's intriguing to imagine who was riding these routes around and out of the Mississippi Delta in 1940--blues musicians Negro league baseball players African Americans headed north in the Great Migration etc. An amazing survivor and tangible bit of history. Some minor extremity rubs minor soil and a horizontal crease across midsection from booklet being folded long ago. A bit of rust around staples otherwise clean and sound. Tri-State Coaches, [1940]. unknown
réf. 060-Eo.J. Aquarell über Bleistift, auf Zeichenkarton, rechts unten signiert ?C. Buseck?. 25,8:19,4 cm.
1719réf. 62401New York NY Stamford CT & Reading & Chambersburg PA: Victor Page Motors Corporation 522 Fifth Ave. Zollinger Motor Car Co. N. Lazarnick Commercial Photographers; Leland G. Evans 24 N. Main St. Photographers 1917-1923. 4to. 67 leaves unnumbered or separately numbered in sections including 38 silver gelatin photographs a couple are reproductions of documents nearly all are linen-backed some mounted on stubs at gutter margin sized from 8 x 10 in. up to 8.5 x 11 in. 4 technical drawing blueprints for engine 2 smaller photos inserted in mylar pockets Supplementary Stock Issue announcement dittoed TLS on blue-tinted letterhead for the Beadon Service Inc. dealership indicating 5 sales assorted other ephemera including dittoed TLS announcements for Smith Motor Truck Corp. dated 1917. Flexible black calf 3-ring binder gilt lettering stamped on front cover wear rubbing front hinge split interior thumbing occasional dustsoiling still VG exemplar w/ signed introduction by Victor W. Page; together with two mounted silver gelatin photographs sized 8 x 10 on 11.5 x 13.5 in. studio mounts w/ embossed photographer’s imprint in lower right corner depicting future Zollinger Motors Co. dealership locations w/ billboards for Dodge Bros. and Buick minor edgewear some minor warping still VG bright images. An historically important survivor dealership sales brochure and album for the short-lived Victor W. Page Motors Corp. developed and built with the patented innovations of Victor W. Page 1885-1947 a pioneering automotive and aeronautical specialist and inventor. Following World War I Page left his position as the chief Aeronautical Engineering Officer in France to found the Victor W. Page Motors Corp. intended to produce over 300000 automobiles a year including the Aero-Type Four featuring his patented air-cooled motor suspension system chassis and cutaway seats. By January 1922 he was able to exhibit at the New York Auto Show with original photographs included in this dealership album of two couple sedans two convertible speedsters a display chassis and a body for the Aero-Type Four. The automobiles targeted the $ 1250- $ 1750 price range and featured steel dixc wheels contoured shell hood and fenders built with liberal amounts of aluminum.The first 15 automobiles were built in a Liberty Engine Factory including the ground-breaking 30 horsepower 4-cylinder engine featured his patented tilted steering wheel system and disc brakes. The body and chassis were built in Farmingdale MA and the engines were assembled in New York for an eventual production of just 15 cars and none survived after the liquidation auction in 1927. Page had prior experience with automobiles and had actually built 25 total cars with his earlier company the Page Motor Vehicle Co. of Providence RI which closed at the entry of the U.S. into World War I. Page in his second company as shown here intended a huge stock offering but unfortunately trusted the less than scrupulous grifter Charles Beadon to sell the stock whose salesmen ended up embezzling all dividends and profits. Some of the eary investors traveled to the Stamford CT plant to get their money back and Beadon sued him. After years of litigation the company was dissolved and all properties equipment and assets sold off. Unfortunately none of the Victor W. Page automobiles survive and this cataloguer could find no similar surviving piece of sales literature or photographs as this item. Lazarnick 1879-1955 was a pioneering automotive photographer whose images captured the development of motor vehicles form the early 1900’s to the late 1920’s and covered many of the Vanderbilt Cup Races photographed the presidential campaigns of Taft McKinley & Roosevelt as well as capturing such notables as Steinmetz Edison Oldfield and Rickenbacker. See: Frank C. Derato Victor W. Page Automotive and Aviation Pioneer 1991; John Brockmann Victor W. Page’s Early Twentieth-Century Automotive and Aviation Books: “Practical Books for Practical Men” Jounral of Business and Technical Communication Vol. 10 No. 3 July 1996 pp. 285-305; Howard Kroplick Nathan Lazarnick: The Pioneer of Automotive Photography Vanderbilt Cup Races March 9 2013. Victor Page Motors Corporation, 522 Fifth Ave., [Zollinger Motor Car Co., N. Lazarnick, Commercial Photographers; Leland G. Eva hardcover
193840 pages. Features: Great cover photo of wild-haired Albert Einstein in leather jacket; Photo of swastika atop smoke stack of New York hospital power plant on the East River between 70th and 71st; Photo of Mr. & Mrs. David Hearst; photo of Pinky Tomlin and his bride; Photo of Joan Bennett wounded on movie set by a bayonet; Great photo of FDR in limo in Gainesville, Georgia surrounded by crowd; Concern over Japanese fishing off Alaska; Photo of Dr. Seyss-Inquart with Hitler; One-page article on Einstein includes photo of his relaxing chair, work desk and Princeton home; Five photos of famous racehorse Man o' War; Nice one-page photo ad for the Chrysler Royal car; Nice one-page, two-color Chesapeake and Ohio ad features Ohio's "Cheese Corridor"; Photo of crowd of Akron Goodrich workers protesting wages; Photo of a 42-passenger 'Ensign' built for Imperial Airways; Handsome color Packard auto ad on back cover features illustration of well-dressed couple. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Articles clipped from pages 15, 16 and 39. One-third of table of contents page has been removed. A worthy vintage copy Book
1939réf. 1594941939. AUTOMOBILES. ACME Production Colors. WITH Rogers Automotive Color Mixing. 2 volumes. Thick 4to. 270 x 210 mm bound in original embossed black and maroon expandable binders respectively with company logos. Detroit: Acme White Lead & Color Works 1939-48. First Edition of two scarce automotive colour sample books recording automobile colours in the years preceding and following World War II with hundreds of paint samples arranged in sections separated by tabs for various cars: Buick Cadillac Chevrolet Chrysler Dodge Lincoln Oldsmobile Packard Plymouth and more. The Acme White Lead & Color Works was a pioneering developer of the first automotive lacquers besides black a repertoire of colour that made the company an auto industry leader. Sherwin-Williams acquired Acme in 1920. unknown books
1955réf. 008624Paris Tériade 1955 in folio En feuilles, couverture rempliée, chemise et étui éditeur
