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1851rif. 30464Portland ME: Printed by Order of the Directors 1851. 64pp stitched. Wrappers absent else Very Good. A.P. Robinson was removed from the office of Chief Engineer of the York and Cumberland Rail Road Company in May 1851; F.O.J. Smith was removed as President in August. Each was removed after discovery of financial discrepancies. Smith retaliated with a pamphlet assailing the Board's conduct. This Statement by the Board thoroughly explains the reasons for his dismissal with detailed lists of costs and estimates and reports from Board meetings. Page 29 begins the thirty-page "Reply" to Smith's pamphlet by Daniel Emery of the Company's Treasury Office. He elaborates on the facts which led to Robinson's and Smith's dismissals. Sabin 82569. BRE 280. OCLC 13636503 9 as of August 2013. Printed by Order of the Directors unknown books
1858rif. 30039New York: Benjamin Corlies 1858. Original printed glossy wrappers light fading to lettering. Stitched. 10 2 blanks pp. Near Fine. Founded in 1847 as the Rock Island and LaSalle Rail Road Company the Chicago and Rock Island reincorporated in 1851 and adopted these bylaws in 1858. In 1880 the Company was reorganized as the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railway. 131 Eberstadt 354. Benjamin Corlies unknown books
1839rif. 28837Washington 1839. 25th Cong. 3d Sess. H.Rep.322. 167pp disbound. Six folding maps and chart. Several text leaves browned Very Good plus. Reviewing proposals and data for a canal route including a memorial from Matthew Carey. Morrison 5 noting only 3 maps. unknown books
1837rif. 28840Washington 1837. 24th Cong. 2d Sess. H. Rep. 135. 38pp disbound folding sketch of wire suspension bridge across the Ohio River at Wheeling. Some leaves browned else Very Good. unknown books
1837rif. 228771837. 4.75" x 7.5" folded. 1 3 blank pp gilt edges. Old wax seal remnants with small blank edge tear caused by opening the seal. 'Hazzard Esq. New Port' in script on back. Very Good. A rare ephemeron of this railroad and early American railroad travel. The printed invitation is on the first page. The ticket is loosely affixed to blank page 3. It is printed 'Excursion Over the New York Providence and Boston Rail Road. November 10th 1837. 'Mr. Hazzard' is written in script on its verso. unknown books
1840rif. 10777New York: Bryant and Boggs. 1840. Original printed wrappers with wrapper title as issued. pp 157-217 as issued. Several rubberstamps spine reinforced. Disbound. Good. With the first annual report of the directors of the Housatonic Rail Road Company its engineer's report and the report of the engineer of the Berkshire Rail Road Company. The Joint Special Committee's Report examines the feasibility of links between the Housatonic Road-- via Bridgeport CT and Stockbridge MA-- and New York City and its system of railroads. FIRST EDITION. Thomson 2535 7. AI 40-4958 no locs. or collation. Not in Sabin. Bryant and Boggs. unknown books
1853rif. 16365Philadelphia: John C. Clark 1853. Original printed wrappers stitched 20pp. A bit of edge chipping to the wraps else Very Good. Statutes beginning with the Act of Incorporation under Pennsylvania law in 1850 relating to this railroad with the Act of the Virginia legislature authorizing a right of way through that State. FIRST EDITION. Haynes 13907. Not in Sabin Eberstadt Decker BRE BEAL. John C. Clark unknown books
rif. 11489Written on all four sides of each sheet. 22 sheets each folded length-wise 460 x 153 mm. in half stitched at head allowing it to be hung on the wall. Japan: on label on upper cover in trans.: dated "1804-29." The 53 relay stations on the TÅkaidÅ road between Edo and Kyoto were required to keep careful ledgers recording the fees and assignments for packhorses and porters. The prices were regulated by the shogunate and were charged station-to-station and by weight and season. This fascinating document submitted to the bakufu stating so on final leaf details these prices at many of the stations along the road during the time of the first great travel boom in Japan ca. 1800-30. For each job details are given regarding number of horses and porters and prices with a seal and date of the innkeeper or horse wrangler. The seals give the names of the stations. Minor worming but a nice copy preserved in a chitsu. ⧠Constantine N. Vaporis "Caveat Viator. Advice to Travelers in the Edo Period" in Monumenta Nipponica Vol. 44 No. 4 Winter 1989 pp. 461-83. unknown books
1982rif. 347449Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia Departamenteo de Antropologia Fisica 1982. Paperback. 69 3 pages 2 folding maps illustrations bibliography paperback. Torn creases to top portion of front cover near spine otherwise Very Good. Coleccion cientifica 124. Study of a Totonac community in Puebla Mexico with an emphasis on description of physical anatomy eye shape nose mouth ears fingers etc. Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, Departamenteo de Antropologia Fisica paperback books
1943rif. 346478Publicaciones del Gobierno del EStado de Sinaloa 1943. Paperback. 2 39 1 pages paperback. Covers soiled and torn at edges. Study of newspapers and journalism in Sinaloa. Issued to coincide with state book fair. Publicaciones del Gobierno del EStado de Sinaloa paperback books
1974rif. 346212Guayaquil Ecuador: Archivo Histórico del Guayas 1974. Paperback. xiii 290p. wraps tables illus. very good condition. Text in Spanish. Colección Monografica Publicacion No. 5. Archivo Histórico del Guayas paperback books
rif. B306546-1Kamakura-shi Shiruku Rodo Kenkyujo 1990-2004. Vols. 3 - 5 7 - 9. Lrg. 4to. Cloth. With: Festschrift Ikuo Hirayama. Studies in Silk Road Coins and Culture: Papers in Honour of Professor Ikuo Hirayama On His 65th Birthday. Edited by Katsumi Tanabe Joe Cribb Helen Wang. Silk Road Art and Archaeology. Special volume 1997. 332pp. Prof. illus. Lrg. 4to. Cloth. Kamakura The Institute of Silk Road Studies 1997. Kamakura-shi (Shiruku Rodo Kenkyujo), 1990-2004. hardcover books
1902rif. 44481México: Tip y Lit. "La Europea" de J. Aguilar Vera y Compañia 1902. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. Wrappers and spine soiled and worn front wrapper partially detached rear wrapper with owner's rubber stamp title inked in on spine contents clean overall about very good. 67 pp. 13 leaves of plates. Illus. with b/w photos and drawings. 4to. Pelvic abnormalities in Mexico. OCLC locates only one copy Univ. Texas at Austin. Tip y Lit. "La Europea", de J. Aguilar Vera y Compañia unknown books
1852rif. 40966New Haven: T.J. Stafford Printer 1852. First edition. Disbound. Removed from a larger volume else a very good copy chips to last three leaves of which two are blanks without loss of text. 24 pp. Sm. 8vo. To avoid ruinous rate wars railroads began to collude in earnest in the 1850s the first recorded meeting being that of the New England railroad companies in the winter of 1850-1851 followed then by this general railroad convention at Springfield Mass. called for by the principals of the New York and New Haven railroad to consider uniform train rules exchange of reports timetables and abuses in the issuance of free passes. The Ohio Railroad Convention thereafter met annually in the fifties. OCLC shows only eight locations: Lib. of Congress Amer. Antiquarian Soc. Harvard 2 Univ. Missouri Linda Hall Lib. Dartmouth and Univ. Denver. T.J. Stafford, Printer unknown books
1966rif. 39542México: Libreria de Porrua Hnos y Cia 1966. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good copy with top edge clipped. 60 pp. 8vo. Featured book is Bernardo J. Gastelum's La Revolucion Mexicana. Interpretacion de un espiritu. Libreria de Porrua Hnos y Cia unknown books
1912rif. 35822Montevideo: Libreria Cervantes 1912. First edition. Cloth. A very good copy original wrappers lightly worn. 318 pp. Sm. 4to. Palau 84328. Jones 2829. Libreria Cervantes hardcover books
1994rif. 162186Caracas Venezuela: Museo de Bellas Artes 1994. Softcover. VG- Only light age seen with very slight soiling to white covers. White paper wraps French flaps 52 pp. 18 BW illus. Text is in Spanish. Issued in conjunction with a 1994 series of exhibitions of depictions of nudes in drawings photography and prints portrayed by a variety of artists. With essays by Marco Rodriguez del Camino Tomas Rodriguez and Corna Michelena. The exhibition checklist cites 69 pieces and about a dozen and a half are pictured here. One of 1500 copies. Rare. Museo de Bellas Artes paperback books
2006rif. 151258Col. Tizapan San Angel Mexico: Museo Soumaya 2006. Hardcover. VG. Light bumping to corners on top edge. Otherwise a nice clean copy. Quarto. Dark turquoise stamped cloth bluish pictorial dust jacket 183 pp. profusely illus. chiefly in color. Text is in Spanish. Issued in conjunction with an exhibition that featured work by Mexican painter sculptor and theater designer Juan Soriano 1920-2006. With six thematic and illustrated essays. The catalogue cites 158 pieces and all are pictured here; if not just in small catalogue size then also in color and nearly full page. A terrific overview of the breadth of this artist's work. One of 2000 copies. Museo Soumaya hardcover books
1992rif. 129921Madrid Spain: Museo Naval 1992. Hardcover. VG gift bookplate inside cover. Blue cloth boards gilt titles and decoration Black dust jacket with color illustration and gilt titles. 308 pp. Profusely illustrated in color. Jewels of Madrid's Naval Museum. Large and lovely illustrations. Museo Naval hardcover books
1850rif. List2416Great Britain 1850. Broadside measuring 9 ⅞ x 15 ⅜ inches. Some chipping and wear to edge ink number written in corner two small section of loss due to improper mounting very good overall. Coat of arms of the United Kingdom above printed text. Very Good. A scarce broadside relating to British postal rates across the Panama Route through the Chagres River which supplied mail to California and Oregon beginning in 1848 before eventually being replaced by the Overland route in 1860. The service was characterized by long delay times as steamships on either side of the isthmus were often not coordinated causing major delays in the delivery. Several different steamship companies operated privately some carrying express mail. The letters were transported by canoe or pack animal across the isthmus. Postmaster General Cave Johnson began establishing post offices in California in 1848. Johnson also oversaw the transition to the prepaid delivery system. The broadside here of which we find no other records does state that postage must be prepaid and that the route can be accessed by writing “via New York” on the letters. A scarce postal history item relating to the expansion of mail services to California. We find no other records of this institutionally or in the trade. unknown books
1932rif. 12800Washington DC: Claude T. Clements Press 1932. 14362pp. Profusely illustrated. Publisher's tan cloth with titles stamped in brown on spine and front board. In original unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Minor edge wear light insect damage to boards. Dust jacket either trimmed a bit short or originally produced a half-inch shorter than boards. Minor dust-soiling to jacket with minor insect damage to rear flap. Internally clean. Overall very good. The rare autobiographical travel narrative by one of the most important Filipino-American political leaders in history especially notable for retaining the original pictorial dust jacket. Hilario Camino Moncado established the Filipino Federation of America in 1925 in Los Angeles California. It was also known at various times as the Filipino World Federation and the Filipino Crusaders World Army. As one of the fraternal organizations appealing to the small but growing Filipino immigrant community the FFA distinguished itself from competitors by accentuating "clean living" and rules of moral conduct. Moncado earned a law degree and also edited and published Filipino Nation. Through his work Moncado sought to portray the immigrant community as responsible and healthy in contrast to the then-prevalent depictions of them as uneducated gamblers. Much less publicly the FFA developed a set of religious teachings that held Moncado to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ by way of José Rizal the Filipino patriot executed in the waning days of Spanish rule. Moncado's birthday was changed to make him appear to have been born after Rizal's death so that his identity as Rizal's reincarnation would be more plausible. In the present travel memoir Moncado focuses on political and social issues encountered on a trip around the world conveying an impression of worldliness which burnished his reputation within the Filipino-American community. He visits England Holland Germany France Italy Egypt India China Japan and "Home Sweet Home Philippines." A sampling of chapters focus on London his visit to Oxford University the refusal of Germany to pay reparations from the First World War mentioning the German people's and particularly Hitler's stance against paying them any further his visit to the League of Nations "Mussolini - Benevolent Despot or Tyrant" Gandhi and "India's Revolution" China "The Awakening Giant" "Americanized Japan" and the betrayal of the Filipino independence movement by the American Congress. OCLC records just eight institutional copies including one in the Philippines one in Singapore and six in the United States at NYPL UC-Davis the University of Hawaii Michigan Washington and Wisconsin. Claude T. Clements Press unknown books
1965rif. 359284City of Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press 1965. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. 234pp. Blue cloth with gilt stamping on front board and spine. Spine ends and corners bumped owner's name penned on front pastedown else near fine. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology: Volume 1 Whole Number. Smithsonian Institution Press hardcover books
rif. B305431-1New York/Boca Raton 2000. 10pp. 15 color illus. Oblong 4to. Wraps. New York/Boca Raton, [2000]. paperback books
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 books
1971rif. 535791Austin: University of Texas Press 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Translated by Alain Swietlicki. Tall octavo. 415pp. Remainder mark on bottom edges textblock edges lightly foxed near fine in lightly worn near fine dust jacket with two tiny tears on the lower panel. The Texas Pan American Series. University of Texas Press hardcover books
