NATIONAL MAP OF PENNSYLVANIA: Showing Counties in Different Colors ... Villages ... Post Offices ...Steam & Electric Railways.. by Pennsylvania - 1910

Hornellsville, NY: Tuttle & Bunnell, Printers, 1902. Original manuscript. Full-Leather. Good. pp: 45 + 97; engraving of locomotive. Bound in the original wallet-style case of cordovan leather; carried in a pocket and showing some signs of use. 6.5" x 4" Begins with 45 pages of printed text, "...giving the Proper Method of Firing both Bituminous and Anthracite Coal, together with Rules for Operating the Westinghouse Air & American Steam Brakes...also Rules regarding Accidents to the Locomotive." Following the text are 97 pages of handwritten time and cash accounts, kept by Engineer G.C. Northrop, giving day-by-day details of engine numbers, miles run, times, names of conductors and engineers/firemen, embarkation points and destinations. Also filled in is the section of cash accounts (dates, amounts owed and received, payees, etc.). Finally, several pages contain notes on railroad happenings in 1905-1906 (personnel hurt, killed, buried).

Tallis, John: Channel Islands. London. [ca.1851]. From the Montgomery Martin Illustrated Atlas. Map engraved by Rapkin. Size approx 360 x 260mm. Original steel engraved map with original outline hand colouring. 5 vignettes include St Peters Port, Castle Cornet, Druidian Alter near Lancresse, Mount Orgueil Castle and Jersey. Decorative border encloses 2 maps of the large islands of Jersey and Guernsey with an inset of the other islands. Single page unfolded map in excellent, clean condition. Associated text page of the Montgomery Martin Atlas included. A good Tallis Map.

Tallis, John: Northern Italy, London. [ca.1851]. From the Montgomery Martin Illustrated Atlas. Map engraved by Rapkin. Size approx 360 x 260mm. Original steel engraved map with original outline hand colouring. 4 vignette views including The Grand Canal Venice and St Peters Rome, Decorative border. Single page unfolded map in excellent, clean condition. Associated text page of the Montgomery Martin Atlas included. A Good Tallis Map.

Tallis, John: Turkey in Asia. London. [ca.1851]. From the Montgomery Martin Illustrated Atlas. Map engraved by Rapkin. Size approx 360 x 260mm. Original steel engraved map with original outline hand colouring. 4 vignettes include Jerusalem and the Castles of Europe and Asia. The map area covers modern day Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Iraq. Decorative Border. Single page unfolded map in excellent, clean condition. Associated text page of the Montgomery Martin Atlas included.

New Orleans: Selbstverlage, 1897. First Edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good. pp: (iv), 136, folding table at back. Spine neatly repaired, some edge wear to covers. Text in German. 9.25" x 6" The author of this history of the German society in New Orleans, Louisiana, has been described by scholars as the leader and "standard-bearer of culture for the German community of New Orleans.

Hornellsville, NY: Tuttle & Bunnell, Printers, 1902. Original manuscript. Full-Leather. Good. pp: 45 + 97; engraving of locomotive. Bound in the original wallet-style case of cordovan leather; carried in a pocket and showing some signs of use. 6.5" x 4" Begins with 45 pages of printed text, "...giving the Proper Method of Firing both Bituminous and Anthracite Coal, together with Rules for Operating the Westinghouse Air & American Steam Brakes...also Rules regarding Accidents to the Locomotive." Following the text are 97 pages of handwritten time and cash accounts, kept by Engineer G.C. Northrop, giving day-by-day details of engine numbers, miles run, times, names of conductors and engineers/firemen, embarkation points and destinations. Also filled in is the section of cash accounts (dates, amounts owed and received, payees, etc.). Finally, several pages contain notes on railroad happenings in 1905-1906 (personnel hurt, killed, buried).

Andover: Warren F. Draper Printer. Good+. 1859. Hardcover. Bound into this volume: 24 pp. Andover Catalogue, 6 issues of "THE MIRROR OF THE PHILOMATHEAN SOCIETY" + other pamphlets from Andover along with several peroiodicals from Princeton "NASSAU RAKE & MEMORIBILIA SOPHOMORUM" Clean marbled boards with leather spine & corners. Text tight, clean & intact . Approx 500 pp. Prior owners book plate. Front hinge starting on both ends with cover firmly attached. New England, New Jersey ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; approx 500 pages .

New Orleans: Selbstverlage, 1897. First Edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good. pp: (iv), 136, folding table at back. Spine neatly repaired, some edge wear to covers. Text in German. 9.25" x 6" The author of this history of the German society in New Orleans, Louisiana, has been described by scholars as the leader and "standard-bearer of culture for the German community of New Orleans.

Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 224pp; frontispiece, tissue guard. Blind-stamped, pictorial brick cloth, gilt-stamped spine; light wear to spine ends. 7.5" x 5" [Wright III, 6123: "Authorship not firmly established."].

New York: J.H. Colton & Co, 1855. 1855 edition. Original Cloth. Good. Full-color engraved map, colored by hand, scrollwork border on all sides, opens to 25" x 29"; repairable separations at the intersections of several folds. Folds into red cloth case with embossed all-over design on both covers, gilt lettering on front. 5.5" x 3.75" [OCLC locates three holdings of this edition: Grinnell Col, U Iowa, Stanford U. Decker 23:225--1870 edition.].