Holden, Bryan; and Leech, Kenneth H.

Portraits of 'Kings': Portraits of Every Western Region 'King' Class Locomotive in Single and Double Chimney Form, with Footplate Comments. With Additional Research & Drawings by Richard S. Potts.

Waltham Abbey, Essex: Frazer Stewart, (1990). (1990). - Small quarto, green boards in color pictorial dust wrapper. A price sticker is mounted at the bottom of the front panel of the dust jacket. 50 leaves, including endpapers. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Near fine. Very good .

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Book number: 2597

Catalogue: Transportation

Keywords: TRANSPORTATION; RAILROADIANA; RAILROADS; LOCOMOTICES; KING CLASS; SINGLE AND DOUBLE CHIMNEY; BRYAN HOLDEN; KENNETH H. LEECH; ILLUSTRATIONS.

Langworth, Richard M.; and Poole, Chris

Great American Automobiles of the 50s

(Lincolnwood, IL): Publications International, Ltd. (1989). (1989). (Lincolnwood, IL): Publications International, Ltd. (1989). (1989). Very good. - Quarto [12-3/4 inches high by 10 inches wide], paper-covered boards, in a dust wrapper. The boards are rubbed & bumped with a few tiny dents in the rear board. There is some spotting to the spine & rear panel of the dust jacket with a price-sticker on the rear flap. Profuse color illustrations. Very good. Very good .

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Book number: 24029

Catalogue: Transportation

Keywords: TRANSPORTATION; AUTOMOBILES; CARS; MOTOR CARS; VINTAGE AUTOMOBILES; COLLECTIBLES; GREAT AMERICAN AUTOMOBILES OF THE 50S; FIFTIES; RICHARD M. LANGWORTH; CHRIS POOLE; ILLUSTRATIONS; PRODUCTION FIGURES; SPECIFICATIONS.

MacGill, Caroline E.

History of Transportation in the United States Before 1860.

Peter Smith, 1948. 1948. - Octavo, light tan cloth. Lightly soiled with a sticker removed from the spine. 678 pp. Illustrated with 5 plates, including a folding plate. Very good.

Reprint of an edition published by the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Very good .

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Book number: 6064

Catalogue: Transportation

Keywords: BOOKS-ON-BOOKS; REFERENCE; ART OF THE BOOK; BIBLIOGRAPHY; (Transportation). (American). HISTORY OF TRANSPORTATION IN THE UNITED STATES BEFORE 1860. MacGill, Caroline E.

(McCurry, Steve). Theroux, Paul

The Imperial Way: By Rail from Peshawar to Chittagong

(Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985). 1985). (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985). 1985). Very good. - Small quarto, cloth, in a pictorial dust wrapper. A price-sticker has been removed from the front panel of the dust jacket & there is a small crease to its top edge. The rear panel is very lightly rubbed & soiled. 143 pages. Profuse color illustrations from photographs by Steve McCurry. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper.

First edition. Very good .

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Book number: 32143

Catalogue: Transportation

Keywords: TRANSPORTATION; RAILROADS; RAILWAYS; IMPERIAL WAY; TRAVEL; TRAIN TRAVEL; PAKISTAN; INDIA; BANGLADESH; PAUL THEROUX; PHOTOGRAPHY; ILLUSTRATIONS; STEVE MCCURRY; PHOTOGRAPHER; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

Modelski, Andrew M.; compiler.

Railroad Maps of the United States: A Selective Annotated Bibliography of Original 19th-Century Maps in the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress.

Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1975. 1975. - Small quarto, pictorial wraps. Bottom corners very lightly creased. v & 112 pp. B&W illustrations. Near fine.

620 maps are catalogued. Very good .

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Book number: 36090

Catalogue: Transportation

Keywords: TRAVEL; TRANSPORTATION; RAILROADS; MAPS; CARTOGRAPHY; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; CATALOGUE; REFERENCE; ANDREW M. MODELSKI; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS; ILLUSTRATIONS. (Transportation). (Railroads). RAILROAD MAPS OF THE UNITED STATES: A Select

(General Motors)

'63 Oldsmobile: Ninety-Eight, Super 88, Dymanic 88, Starfire, F-85, Jetfire. Sales Catalog

Oldsmobile Division, General Motors Corporation, 1962. 1962. Oldsmobile Division, General Motors Corporation, 1962. 1962. Very good. - Quarto, 10-1/2 inches high by 10-1/2 inches wide. Softcover, bound in pictorial white wrappers. The covers are slightly soiled with minor faint creasing to the edges. 32 pages, with color illustrations throughout. Very good. Very good .

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Book number: 23762

Catalogue: Transportation

Keywords: TRANSPORTATION; AUTOMOBILES; CARS; OLDSMOBILE; GENERAL MOTOR; 1963; TWENTIETH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; CATALOG; DEALER SALES CATALOGUE; ILLUSTRATED; ILLUSTRATIONS.

Nock, O. S

The Railways of Britain Past and Present

London: B. T. Batsford Ltd. (Winter 1947-48). (Winter 1947-48). London: B. T. Batsford Ltd. (Winter 1947-48). (Winter 1947-48). Good. - Octavo, cloth, in a dust wrapper. The covers are bumped & rubbed & slightly warped. The dust jacket is lightly chipped with 2 small stains to the front panel & some foxing to the top edge & flaps. The dust jacket spine is slightly faded with a short tear to the head. vii & 120 pages. There is scattered light foxing. Color frontispiece & black-and-white illustrations. Good.

First edition. Good .

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Book number: 5089

Catalogue: Transportation

Keywords: TRANSPORTATION; RAILROADS; RAILWAYS; BRITISH; BRITAIN; HISTORY OF RAILROADS; TRAINS; O.S. NOCK; ILLUSTRATIONS; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

Parrish, Wayne W.; editor

Who's Who in World Aviation. Volume I: 1955

Washington, DC: American Aviation Publications, Inc. (1955). (1955). Washington, DC: American Aviation Publications, Inc. (1955). (1955). Good. - Octavo, cloth. The cloth is spotted & lightly stained. 345 pp. Good. Good .

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Book number: 5986

Catalogue: Transportation

Keywords: BOOKS-ON-BOOKS; REFERENCE; ART OF THE BOOK; BIBLIOGRAPHY; (Transportation). (Aviation). WHO'S WHO IN WORLD AVIATION. Volume I: 1955. Parrish, Wayne W.; editor.

Pendray, G. Edward; editor

The Guggenheim Medalists / Architects of the Age of Flight

NY: Guggenheim Medal Board of Award, 1964. 1964. NY: Guggenheim Medal Board of Award, 1964. 1964. Good. - Small quarto, purple wraps. Faded at the extremities & slightly bumped. 125 pp. Illustrated in B&W. Ex-library with a pocket in the rear & a label on the half title. Good.

An informative catalogue providing biographical sketches of the Guggenheim Medalists in Aviation from 1929 to1963. Good .

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Book number: 5983

Catalogue: Transportation

Keywords: BOOKS-ON-BOOKS; REFERENCE; ART OF THE BOOK; BIBLIOGRAPHY; (Transportation). (Aviation). THE GUGGENHEIM MEDALISTS / ARCHITECTS OF THE AGE OF FLIGHT. Pendray, G. Edward; editor.

Purdy, Ken

1904 Handbook of Gasoline Automobiles. Introduction by Ken Purdy

Chelsea House Publishers, (1969). (1969). Chelsea House Publishers, (1969). (1969). Fine. - Quarto, red cloth titled in gilt, in a dust wrapper. The covers are lightly bumped; the dust jacket is lightly soiled with the spine & extremities slightly darkened. Half-title, title, xii pages [introduction], [2] leaves & leaves numbered 8-83, each depicting an automobile in black-and-white with the specifications printed in black & red below the illustration. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper. Fine .

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Book number: 2942

Catalogue: Transportation

Keywords: TRANSPORTATION; AUTOMOBILES; CARS; CATALOG; 1904; SPECIFICATIONS; ILLUSTRATIONS; KEN PURDY.

Rehor, John A.

The Nickel Plate Story.

(Milwaukee, WI): Kalmbach Publishing Co. (1965). (1965). - 4to, dark blue cloth (very lightly bumped; 3 tiny marks to front cover; rear cover lightly rubbed) titled in silver on spine & in blind on front cover, in dw (lightly rubbed & chipped; top edge of front panel & head of dw spine lightly creased). 483 pp. Blue & black pictorial endpapers, B&W pictorial title & profuse B&W illustrations. Near fine in very good dw.

First edition.

"Throughout its tumultuous 83-year career the late Nickel Plate Road was never really regarded as an enduring institution..Constructed in a matter of 500 days, the Nickel Plate connected Chicago and Buffalo with a 513-mile road characterized by long tangents, mild grades, and impressive bridges. It was built at great cost through a well-developed region already tapped by many railroads..Lacking even a modest reservoir of captive business, the railroad grubbed out a living in an intensely competitive transportation arena purely on the strength of the service it rendered. Hence this became a proposition dedicated to the science of moving high-grade freight with dependability and dispatch."--From the author's Introduction. Very good .

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Book number: 490

Catalogue: Transportation

Keywords: TRANSPORTATION; RAILROADS; RAILROADIANA; RAILWAYS; LOCOMOTIVES; TRAINS; FREIGHT TRAINS; NICKEL PLATE ROAD; FIRST EDITION; ILLUSTRATED.

Tissandier, Gaston

Bibliographie Aeronautique: Catalogue de Livres, D'Histoires, de Science, de Voyages, Et de Fantaisie Traitant de la Navigation Aerienne Ou Des Aerostats

(Storrs-Mansfield, CT: Maurizio Martino), n.d. [1996]. n.d. [1996]. (Storrs-Mansfield, CT: Maurizio Martino), n.d. [1996]. n.d. [1996]. Fine. - Quarto, green cloth titled in gilt. Lightly soiled. 63 pp. B&W head- pieces. Near fine.

Reprint, limited to 100 copies, of the original 1887 Paris edition. Fine .

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Book number: 5984

Catalogue: Transportation

Keywords: BOOKS-ON-BOOKS; REFERENCE; ART OF THE BOOK; BIBLIOGRAPHY; (Transportation). (Aviation). BIBLIOGRAPHIE AERONAUTIQUE: Catalogue de livres, d'histoires, de science, de voyages, et de fantaisie traitant de la navigation aerienne ou des aerostats. Tissand

Vallance, H. A

British Branch Lines

London: B. T. Batsford Ltd. (1965). (1965). London: B. T. Batsford Ltd. (1965). (1965). Very good. - Octavo, cloth, in dw. The covers are bumped with the top edge of the front cover rubbed. The dw is lightly rubbed, chipped & soiled. 216 pp. B&W frontispiece, B&W photographic illustrations & B&W full-page & textual maps. Very good.

First edition. Very good .

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Book number: 1411

Catalogue: Transportation

Keywords: TRANSPORTATION; ENGLAND; SCOTLAND; WALES; BRITAIN; BRITISH; RAILROADS; RAILWAYS; BRANCH LINES; TRAINS; ILLUSTRATIONS; MAPS; H. A. VALLANCE; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

White, George Preston; civil engineer.

Letter to the Right Honourable Lord John Russell, on the Expediency of Promoting Railways in Ireland.

London: John Weale, 59 High Holborn, 1849. 1849. - Octavo, unbound, removed. 40 pages. There is some soiling & darkening to the title page & the last page. The last leaf is detached with a small piece out of its top corner. There are small pieces out of the top corners of 2 other leaves. Good. Goldsmiths' Kress library of economic literature No. 36429. Lord John Russell (1792-1878) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1846-52 and 1865-66. Civil engineer George Preston White's letter to Russell promoting railways in Ireland was written in 1849, in the last year of the Irish "Great Famine", a period of mass starvation, disease and emigration between 1845 and 1849. Russell showed very poor leadership during this disaster. Though he continued Sir Robert Peel's grain exports to Ireland, he generally maintained a laissez-faire attitude towards the plight of the Irish, shifting the emphasis of relief to reliance on Irish resources. The purpose of White's letter, he explains, is to point out how the enormous expenses that railway companies have incurred in England can be avoided in Ireland and to show how the construction of railways "may form a safe and desirable investment to capitalism whilst at the same time they would produce the happiest effects of improving agriculture,--in affording means of profitably reclaiming the waste and bog lands in extending that important but hitherto neglected branch of commerce, the deep sea fishery..and finally, by calling into existence new branches of trade peculiar to the quickness of railway transit.." There is no doubt, he maintains "that such works would prove an alleviation of many of the evils by which Ireland is now overwhelmed; that emigration and those other costly expedients which have been resorted to, to meet a temporary exigence, would be found unnecessary; and that so far from the country being overpopulated, all the labor she is capable of affording might be profitably and beneficially employed at home. Good .

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Book number: 37241

Catalogue: Transportation

Keywords: IRELAND; TRANSPORTATION; RAILROADS; THE GREAT FAMINE; LETTER TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD JOHN RUSSELL, ON THE EXPEDIENCY OF PROMOTING RAILWAYS IN IRELAND; IRISH AGRICULTURE; DEEP SEA FISHERIES; IRISH EMIGRATION; LORD JOHN RUSSELL, PRIME MINISTER OF THE U

Williams, Frederick S.

Our Iron Roads: Their History, Construction, and Social Influences.

London: Ingram, Cooke, and Co. 1852. 1852. - Octavo, 9-1/8 inches high by 5-3/4 inches wide. Rust brown cloth titled with a gilt vignette on the front cover. The rubbed and bumped covers are detached and the spine is lacking. 390 pages, illustrated with an extra engraved pictorial title page, a full-page frontispiece, 7 full-page plates and 30 textual vignettes. The first signature consisting of the frontispiece, engraved title and title page is detached but present. There is occasional foxing and soiling. Else, a complete copy which would be well-worth rebacking. First edition. An early study of the building of the British railways issued during the period of the railroad boom. The book is authored by the Congregational minister and railway historian Frederick S. Williams. Fair .

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Book number: 94682

Catalogue: Transportation

Keywords: RAILROADIANA; HISTORY; OUR IRON ROADS: THEIR HISTORY, CONSTUCTION, AND SOCIAL INFLUENCES; FIRST EDITION; 19TH CENTURY; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 1ST EDITION; ILLUSTRATED; ENGRAVINGS; PLATES; VIGNETTES; ILLUSTRATIONS; RAILWAYS; TRAINS.