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Hegardt, G.B.; Ebey, H.; Gilman, D.H.; Closson, C.C.MareMagnum

Railway & Marine News, A Semi-Monthly Publication Devoted to Pacific Coast Transportation Interests, February 1, 1912, Vol. X, No. 2 - Portland's Proposed Harbor Front Development / Bogue Plans for Tacoma Harbor

1912Features: Big Improvements by Northern Pacific During 1912; Through Service Seattle to Texas; O.-W. R. & N. Enter Vancouver; Will Carl Gray Succeed L.W. Hill? - article with photo of Gray; Dangers Attending Hauling Explosives; New H-H-1 Locomotive Design; Seattle's Greatest Opportunity; Bush Terminal Company to Build on Harbor Land - article with photo of Model Loft buildings at the New York Bush Terminal, similar to those to be built on Harbor Island; Portland's Proposed Harbor Front Development and the Commission of Public Docks - major article; South and Central American Trade; Great Prospects for Vancouver, B.C.; The Official Statement of the [Seattle] Port Commission re: improvements and facilities; Economy of the [Seattle] Municipal Plan (part 4) - major article which includes official map of Grand Trunk Pacific Railway showing proposed extension to Vancouver and Seattle, plus map of new thoroughfare donated to Seattle by Great Northern Railway with franchise for Interbay-Ballard Route; Bogue Plans for Tacoma Harbor Are Impressive - major article with map showing City section of harbor plans; Casualties to Pacific Coast Shipping for Year 1911 - Four full pages of fine print document the voluminous incidents of the year including the vessel and damage it sustained; Photo of Strathalbyn's bow after collision; Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law; Big Company to use Panama Canal - International Mercantile Marine; and more. 44 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine

RareNonFiction.com · Canada750,00 €

(BINDINGS - PUBLISHER'S BOARDS). (ENGINEERING - ROAD BUILDING). MCADAM, JOHN LOUDONBiblio.com

REMARKS ON THE PRESENT SYSTEM OF ROAD MAKING

1823rif. ST20595London: Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown 1823. Seventh Edition. 237 x 145. 9 3/8 x 5 3/4". 3 p.l. vii 1 viii 1 6-236 pp. Publisher's blue paper boards and brown paper backstrip original printed paper label EDGES UNTRIMMED AND MOSTLY UNOPENED. A Large Paper Copy. Just the faintest evidence of foxing at very beginning and very end corners with slight wear as always superficial chafing to covers but AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPY the binding remarkably clean and with no significant signs of use and the wide-margined text unusually fresh and nearly as white as snow. In its original boards untrimmed and partly unopened this is a wonderful contemporary copy of an important later edition of the magnum opus of a man whose name came to be synonymous with road improvement. DNB tells us that Scottish-born John Loudon McAdam 1756-1836 was "the first systematic builder and administrator of roads in Britain since Roman times" and his impact was so great that his name lives on to the present day in connection with paved surfaces. The use of "macadam" or "macadamized" to mean a good road surface began in the 1820s and continued through the invention of the automobile when dusty roads began to be improved with tar. At first "tar" was combined with "macadam" producing the term "tarmacadam" when referring to these improved roads; eventually this became shortened to "tarmac" which still is broadly understood to refer to road surfaces and more specifically to airport runways. Our author first published "Remarks on the Present System of Road Making" in 1816 to deliver his suggestions for an improved paving method following his extensive survey of the roads of Britain. His system--in which roads were built with a cambered surface for drainage using layers of consistent sizes of stones and gravel--soon caught on both within Britain and abroad. The present seventh edition features a variety of new material much of which deals with McAdam's efforts to encourage legislation for improving roads; this includes a new preface and advertisement as well as the "Minutes of Evidence" given by witnesses regarding turnpike improvement from March to May 1819 and the report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on McAdam's system from June 1823. As evidenced by its appearance in multiple printings McAdam's "Remarks" was a widely used book but our remarkably well-preserved copy in its publisher's boards--obviously and decidedly--was not. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown unknown

Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts · Stati Uniti988,00 USD≈ 880,96 €

(BINDINGS - PUBLISHER'S BOARDS). (ENGINEERING - ROAD BUILDING). MCADAM, JOHN LOUDONABAA

REMARKS ON THE PRESENT SYSTEM OF ROAD MAKING

Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts · Stati Uniti988,00 USD≈ 880,96 €

ESTRADA (Famiano)Biblio.com

SEGUNDA DECADA DE LAS GUERRAS DE FLANDES

rif. 1306JC097Desde el principio del Govierno de ALEXANDRO FARNESE Tercero Duque de Parma y Placencía. Escrita en Latin Por el P. Famiano Estrada de la Compañia de Jesus. Y traducida en Romance Por el P. MELCHOR de NOVAR de la misma Compañia. Corregida y enmendada Por el Doctor de BONNE-MAISON. EN COLONIA Con los Privilegios de necessarios. Año M D C L X X X I I 1682. In 4.º de 29x185 cm. Com iv 576 i.e. 578 págs. Encadernação da época em pergaminho flexível com título manuscrito a pena ao longo da lombada e vestígios dos atilhos. Rosto impresso a preto a vermelho com o trigrama sagrado geralmente usado pela Companhia de Jesus à cabeça e florão ornamental. Obra ornada de florões de remate no final dos capítulos e iniciais decoradas ao início. Inclui notas marginais com cronologia. Exemplar com falhas de material na pasta posterior que está descolada do miolo e no pé da lombada; pequenas falhas nas folhas de guarda estando a posterior descolada da respectiva pasta e contendo diversas anotações e assinaturas de posse a pena na guarda posterior. Apresenta manchas de humidade no canto inferior das folhas junto ao corte mais proeminentes a partir da página 303. A partir da 483 tem também pequenos rasgos e falhas de papel que atingem as notas da 556 em diante. Pequenos picos de traça na margem inferior das páginas 403 a 428 que atingem levemente as últimas linhas e as assinaturas das folhas sem condicionar a leitura. O corte das folhas muito justo afeta a mancha tipográfica do cabeçalho das páginas 173/174. Apresenta os seguintes erros de paginação: as págs. 197-198 constam em duplicado; gralha na paginação da 439 constando ao invés 389. Primeiras páginas não numeradas com prefácio do autor. Este é o segundo volume da obra constituída por três. Cada um aborda uma década dos primeiros trinta anos da Guerra do Oitenta Anos c. 1568-1648 conhecida em Espanha como Guerra de Flandes. O presente volume debruça-se essencialmente sobre o período desde o início do governo de Alessandro Farnese Duque de Parma Roma 1545 Arras 1592 em 1578 até ao final da década de 80. Estes anos constituíram uma fase do conflito marcada inicialmente pelas Uniões de Atrecht e Utrecht. Esta última resultaria na criação da República das Sete Províncias Unidas dos Países Baixos que durante esta época foi fortemente atacada e reconquistada pela bem sucedida ofensiva militar e diplomática levada a cabo por Alessandro Farnese. Com o aproximar do fim dos anos 80 as suas reconquistas perdem força e chegam a um término quando Filipe II ordena que ele intervenha nas Guerras Religiosas Francesas setembro de 1589 para evitar a Sucessão de Henrique IV e que a França se tornasse um reino protestante. Os dois primeiros volumes da obra foram publicados pela primeira vez em Roma em 1632 e 1647 sob os títulos De bello Belgico decas prima e De bello Belgico decas segunda. O terceiro volume foi continuado por Guglielmo Dondini publicado também em Roma 1673 sob o título Historia de rebus in Gallia gestis ab Alexandro Farnesio Parmae et Placentiae duce III. Famiano Strada 1572 - 6 de setembro de 1649 foi um jesuíta italiano e historiador das guerras nos países baixos Bélgica e Países Baixos durante a primeira parte da Guerra dos Oitenta Anos desde a abdicação de Carlos V em 1556 até à tomada de Rheinsberg em 30 de janeiro de 1590. Foi admitido na Companhia de Jesus e ocupou a cadeira de Retórica no Colégio Romano. A obra de Famiano foi criticada pelo Cardeal Guido Bentivoglio d"Aragona que escreveu uma história sobre os mesmos acontecimentos e foi criticada por Scioppius que escreveu um panfleto intitulado Infamia Famiano em 1623. EN In quarto. 29x18.5 cm. iv 576 i.e. 578 pp. Contemporary binding in flexible parchment with handwritten title in the spine. Title page printed in black and red with the sacred trigram generally used by the Society of Jesus at the head and ornamental fleuron. The work is decorated with finishing fleurons at the end of the chapters and decorated initials at the beginning. Marginal notes with chronology. Copy with flaws in the rear folder parchment which is detached from the core and at the foot of the spine; signs of tying laces; small flaws in the endpapers the posterior one being detached and containing several annotations and handwritten ownership titles in pen on the rear endpaper. Moisture stains in the lower corner of the leaves near the edges more prominent from page 303. From 483 onwards there are also small tears and paper flaws that reach the notes from 556 onwards. Small moth holes in the lower margin of pages 403 to 428 that slightly affect the last lines and signatures of the leaves without conditioning the reading. The very tight edges affects the text area of the header of pages 173/174. Presents the following typographical errors: pages 197-198 are in duplicate; typo in the pagination of 439 instead of 389. First unnumbered pages with a foreword by the author. This is the second volume of the work which consists of three. Each deals with a decade from the first thirty years of the Eighty Years" War c. 1568-1648 known in Spain as the Guerra de Flandes. The present volume focuses on the period from the beginning of the rule of Alessandro Farnese Duke of Parma Rome 1545 - Arras 1592 in 1578 until the end of the 80s. These years constituted a phase of the conflict marked initially by the Unions of Atrecht and Utrecht. The latter would result in the creation of the Republic of the Seven United Provinces of the Netherlands which during this time was heavily attacked and reconquered by the successful military and diplomatic offensive carried out by Alessandro Farnese. As the late 1580s approached his reconquests lost momentum and came to an end when Philip II ordered him to intervene in the French Wars of Religion September 1589 to prevent the Succession of Henry IV and France from becoming a Protestant kingdom. The first two volumes of the work were first published in Rome in 1632 and 1647 under the titles De bello Belgico decas prima and De bello Belgico decas segunda. The third volume was continued by Guglielmo Dondini also published in Rome 1673 under the title Historia de rebus in Gallia gestis ab Alexandro Farnesio Parmae et Placentiae duce III. Famiano Strada 1572 - 6 September 1649 was an Italian Jesuit and historian of the wars in the Low Countries Belgium and the Netherlands during the first part of the Eighty Years" War from the abdication of Charles V in 1556 to the taking of Rheinsberg on 30 January 1590. He was admitted to the Society of Jesus and held the chair of Rhetoric at the Roman College. Famiano"s work was criticised by Cardinal Guido Bentivoglio d"Aragona who wrote a history of the same events and was criticised by Scioppius who wrote a pamphlet entitled Infamia Famiano in 1623. Referências/References: Iberian Books C84256. Palau III 163. M-6-D-1 hardcover

Livraria Castro e SIlva · Portogallo900,00 €

[US SERVICEMAN'S WWII BURMA ROAD PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM].Biblio.com

China Burma Road Photograph Album.

rif. 177650154 black and white snapshots held in place with photograph corners in a patterned fabric covered photograph album. Sizes of the photographs vary from 5 x7.5cm to 8.5 x 12.5cm. Black and white folding map of Burma 34.7 x 24cm loosely inserted two insets on the map show an elephant carrying teak a mahout on his back and a small map showing Burma's location within the region. Although the photographs are not individually captioned the album is divided into sections titled in white ink. Some blank leaves towards the rear of the album a separate section of 10 photographs titled "Burma & China" fills the last leaves. Six photographs are evenly browned all others are in excellent condition. A very interesting photograph album in excellent condition. A fascinating photographic record of events on the crucial Burma Road in southwestern China during and immediately after the Pacific War. An inscription on the final leaf gives the name John Barry Williams and the date 6/23/42 to 1/15/46. The Burma Road was constructed in 1936-1937 mainly to enable the allies to send material to China which was then at war with Japan. After the occupation of Burma by Japan in 1942 the flow of goods was cut until 1945 when in the last months of the war allied troops reconnected the transport corridor from Burma to China. Meanwhile war materiel continued to be transported by plane between Yunnan in China and India over the section of eastern Himalayas known as 'The Hump'. The owner of this album appears to have been a US serviceman stationed at Tsuyung Airfield in the Chinese province of Yunnan - the main transport hub at the Chinese end of the Hump route. The first photos in the album show scenes of the Burma Road and the Salween River on the border of Yunnan and Burma. There are a number of fine black-and-white photos of everyday life in the area including a village street a local salt mine a farmer ploughing with water buffaloes a street scene in Tsyuyung town women and children repairing the road and a train of pack ponies taking goods to market along the Burma Road in China. There are also images of a serviceman named Washburn holding up a captured Japanese flag. The following series of photos is labelled '780 Engineer Petroleum Distribution Co. Pipeline India-Burma-China 1944 and 1945' and shows scenes of the contruction of this vital fuel link with photos shot in India in the jungles of Burma and in southwestern China. The photos give a vivid image of the magnitude of the construction task showing teams camping out in rugged terrain and crossing rivers on makeshift bridges. A final group of photos labelled 'Burma and China' includes shots of a parachute drop from a plane and an image of allied soldiers with local villagers. A small map of Burma and Tibet published in 1948 has been loosely inserted in the front of the volume. . unknown

Asia Bookroom · Australia1500,00 A$≈ 934,23 €

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