Search Results: Titles starting with U from WILLIAM ALLISON BOOKS

Nashville Saddlery Company. Net Price List. No. 7. 1895 1896. [Cover title]. Nashville, Tenn.: Nashville Saddlery Co. [1895] Tan illustrated wraps. 15 cm. Illustrated. 204 [i-iv Index] pp. Wraps chipped. Covers completely separated, else very good.
OCLC shows no holdings for this catalog. There are two holdings for other catalogs [9 and 15] (U. NC ST-Raleigh & UVA).

[Railroad] Map of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway and its Connections. Chicago: Corbitt & Burnham. 1896. Color map 44 x 78 cm folded to 10 x 22 cm. Panel title: Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railway St. Louis, Louisville. Cincinnati to Columbus, Pittsburg, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and the East in Pullman Vestibuled Trains Parlor – Drawing Room – Sleeping Cars. A few small splits at the folds, else very good. OCLC shows no holdings for this map. The Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railway Company was incorporated December 20, 1889 as a result of the merger of 4 lines, Cincinnati, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company; Baltimore Short Line Railroad Company; Ohio and Mississippi Railroad Company and Cincinnati and Baltimore Railway Company.

[Railroad] Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. The National Capitol. Philadelphia: Press of Eagles Herald. 1888. Orange pictorial wraps. 10 x 13.5 cm. Illustrated. Timetables. 32 pp. Near fine.
OCLC shows no holdings for this item. There is no obvious title for this booklet, but the first entry is for The National Capitol, pictured on the cover. There are also sections and illustrations on the White House; Corcoran Art Galleries; Treasury; Pension Office; Interior Department; National Museum; Washington Monument; War, State and Navy Department; and Points of Interest. Lists of hotels, excursions and other information. Great advertisements. Timetables for B&O Railroad. A charming and informative look at Washington in the late Nineteenth Century.

South St. Joseph, Missouri. A Comprehensive Pictorial Souvenir with Facts and Figures Showing the Magnitude of its Live Stock and Packing Industries. St. Joseph, Mo.: Lon Hardman Print. For South St. Joseph Live Stock Exchange and the South St. Joseph Business Men's Club. 1904. Gray and red pictorial wraps. Illustrated. 13.5 x 22 cm. 57 [5 photos & ad.] [2] pp.
OCLC shows no holdings. Not in Adams, Herd. Great black and white photographs, including a double page shot of the stockyards, branding on the range and many of the town, meat processing and more.

[Ranching][Montana Territorial Imprint] Antelope Basin Sheep Company. Stock Certificate. Ft. Benton, Montana Territory: River Press. 1886. One page color printed document with manuscript insertions. Embossed seal. 13 x 26 cm. Signed by the President Timothy E. Collins and the Secretary Chas. E. Severance. Has been folded, stain to verso, else very good.
OCLC shows no holdings for this company. Collins came to Montana during the gold rush in the 1870s, had success finding gold and then turned to law, banking and politics, serving in the Territorial legislature and as State Treasurer and State Bank Examiner. He was a founder of Great Falls and introduced the bill creating Cascade County. His mansion in Great Falls is on the National Register of Historic Places. Charles Severance came to Montana in 1870 and had a ranch near Oka and Ubet. He was a major sheep raiser in Meagher County, running some 24,000 sheep in this period. See, Stearns, History of the Upper Musselshell Valley (1966). Made out to… Read More

[Mexican War] Verdadero Alcance al Semanario politico del jueves 8 de Mayo de 1845. [Monterrey]: Imprenta del gobierno, á cargo de Froila y Mier, [1845]. Broadside in three columns (43 x 31.5 cm). Creased where formerly folded, small burn hole.

OCLC shows no holdings. No auction records. Jóse de Jesús Dávila y Prieto Jóse Maria Martinez were Congressional representatives for Nuevo Leon in 1845. Here are printed a series of letters they wrote regarding their inability to travel to attend the 1845 session of Congress without payment of their travel expenses as they were promised. Reflective of the turmoil in Mexico during this period immediately prior to the start of Mexican War. Prieto was later named the first Mayor of Monterrey and in 1847 published a book on astronomy.

[Texas] Texas Land and Colonization Company. Read! Read! If you read this it will surely induce you to secure a home for nothing. Hundreds have already found pleasant and profitable homes within the Lone Star State, such as no other could give them. Oxford, Milam County, Texas follows the example set by old cities of the West nearly a century ago. … [Cincinnati, Ohio?]: Texas Land and Colonization Company. [1875] Broadside. A few fold splits, small hole, stains. Has been folded. Good.
OCLC shows no holdings for this item or this company. Milam County is in east central Texas and is bordered by Robertson, Burleson, Lee, Williamson, Bell, and Falls counties. Cameron, the county seat, is sixty miles northeast of Austin and 140 miles south of Dallas. Until the first railroad arrived in the 1870s, the county was without a cheap and reliable way to ship or receive products. The International and Great Northern Railroad was built from the Brazos River to Rockdale in 1874 and from Rockdale to Austin in… Read More

[Texas][Galveston] USA Military Tournament. 2nd division U.S. Army. August 5-6-7-8-9, 1914, Galveston, Texas. [Cover title] [Galveston, Texas]: [No publication information] 1914. Tan printed wraps. 23 cm. Illustrated. [16] pp. Has been folded. Cover wear, corner bends. Last page loose. Good.
OCLC shows one holding (SMU). Program for the Army military tournament. Twelve blue tone images, including: Infantry Tent Camp; Artillery Battery; Pyramid Tents; Firing from the Saddle; Pack Train; Wireless in the Field; White Horse band; Physical Exercise Drill; Field Artillery Unpacking; Troop of Cavalry at Inspection; Infantry wall scaling; & Second Division Pack Trail. Advertisement on back cover for the Galveston Commercial Association promoting Galveston as the "Second Port of America."

Great Northern Railway. A United States Survey Ordered. Twenty New Townships to be Surveyed from the Free Government Lands of the Milk River Valley, Montana. N.p.: Great Northern Railway Company. [1890s?] Pictorial wraps. Maps. 8.5 x 11 in. Illustrated. 4 pp. Full page map is Great Northern Railway Line and Connections, Poole Bros., Chicago. Also map of Free Government Lands in the Great Reservation of the Milk River Valley. Agent rubber stamp on rear cover. Has been folded. Edge chipping, some small edge tears, else very good.
OCLC shows no holdings. Great Northern Railroad promotional for Milk River Valley, east of Chinook. The St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Manitoba Railway was the creation of James J. Hill. Hill and three other investors purchased the nearly bankrupt St. Paul and Pacific Railroad in 1878, renaming it the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company the following year. In 1890 all properties and operations were leased to the Great Northern Railway Company and the Great Northern… Read More

[Cartography] United States and Mexico. Constructed and Engraved by W. & A.K. Johnston. Edinburgh and London: W. & A.K. Johnston, Engravers and Printers to the Queen. [Circa 1892-1899]. Color map 106 x 124 cm on sheet 122 x 130 cm. Canvas backed in maroon board covers. Very good.
OCLC shows no holdings for this map. The British Library has a smaller format version [63 x 105 cm] with the same title by this publisher they date 1902. Rare Book Hub shows no auction or catalog records for this item. Impressive large-scale folding map of the United States and Mexico, issued by preeminent British map publishers W. & A.K. Johnston. Scale, 1: 4,180,000 ... or 66 miles to an inch. Shows the Dakotas as states, so post 1889. Shows Oklahoma during the short-lived period where it was divided into two Territories, Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory. The Oklahoma Panhandle shown as part of Oklahoma Territory so probably post 1891. Inset of Alaska Territory but not Hawaii, which became a territory in 1900.

[Railroads] United States and Canada Hotel Directory. With color folding Map Showing The Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway and Principal Connections. [Chicago?]: [No publication information] [Circa 1874] Wraps. 17 cm. Illustrated. Maps. Index to railroads. General index. 336 pp. MKT map is by Rand McNally & Co., Relief Plate Map Eng.'s of Chicago. 30.5 x 26 cm folded to 10.5 x 13 cm. Front cover is missing. Corner and edge wear. Light water stains to top inch of the last 56 pages. Map has fold split with tape repair to verso. Good.
OCLC shows no holdings for this directory. Date is from time table information. The folding map shows in bold the main M. K. & T. line connecting Denison, Texas, to Hannibal, Missouri. The other connecting lines are less bold, and the routes become less emphasized as one gets further from the M. K. & T. main line. A relatively early Rand McNally publication. Notes the Texas Panhandle (rather narrowly drawn) is "Fine Grazing Country." In addition to the folding map, there… Read More

[California] San Francisco. Cal. 187_. [San Francisco?]: [No publication information.] [Circa 1870.] Illustration 13.5 x 6 cm on sheet 9.5 x 22 cm. Engraving of cowboys on horseback and cattle at the waterfront, with a dock, the bay and ships in the background. A few wrinkles and light wear. Unevenly cut at bottom. Very good.
OCLC shows no holdings. Too late for Baird. Not in the Dorothy Sloan catalogs. "Pictorial lettersheets are illustrated with lithographs or wood engravings depicting California and Western themes. Intended to be used as stationery during and after the California Gold Rush, these lettersheets served as a kind of reportage, depicting important events and popular stories of the day." – Online Archives of California. Unusual early depiction of California cowboys and cattle.

1850S SONG SHEET – DEATH OF A SLAVE
[Slavery] [Music] Edwin Pierce Christy. Unlucky Dinah Crow. Salem, Massachusetts: Joshua Peckham. [Between 1852 and 1858] Broadside. 23 x 15 cm. Ornamental border.
OCLC shows ten holdings for this Salem printing (AAS; NYU; Univ. of KY; Cornell; Stanford; Boston Public Lib.; Univ. Maryland; Lewis & Clark Col.; Old Dominion & Brown Univ.) Library Company, Amer. Song Sheets, 2658b. Song sheet about an unlucky Dinah Crow, a slave from Kentucky found drowned in the Ohio River. Song in three stanzas; first line: "Now darkies, I will tell you." Published and sold, wholesale and retail, by Joshua Peckham, dealer in watches, clocks, jewelry, etc., 187 Essex Street, Salem, Mass. The same as Witching Dinah Crow, substituting "unlucky" for "witching" in the title and chorus.

[World War II] Grand Duchess Charlotte. Proclamation. Printed broadside. Approx. 51 x 53 cm. [London?]: [No publication information] 1944. Black printing on white paper. Old fold lines and small marginal tears, otherwise very good. Text repeated in French and German.
Rare. OCLC lists no holdings. No copies at Library of Congress, the Eisenhower Presidential Library or the National Archives online listings. A very emotional appeal to the citizens of Luxembourg from the Grand Duchess: "By saluting in this historic hour, in our walls, the liberating armies of our Allies, we express our deepest gratitude to them. We are proud of ours who fought in their ranks. Honor to them and to the Luxembourgers, who on the soil of the country have loyally and courageously resisted the most cruel of oppressors. We salute with emotion the memory of our compatriots who died for their country or victims of German crimes." The date 9/44 is in the lower left corner. This coincides with the date for the Allies liberation of… Read More

Decree of General Pedro Lemus. Broadside. El General en Gefe de la tercera division federal, a las tropas de su mando. Monterrey, Mexico. May 18, 1839. 22 x 31 cm.
No copies on OCLC (Yale has a copy of an April 28, 1839 broadside denying charges of treason from General Pedro Ampudia). General Pedro Lemus was an important general and member of the new government junta in Saltillo, immediately after Mexican independence was declared. During the war with Texas, he served as Commandant General and Inspector of the Eastern Interior Provinces. Lemus later joined the Canales cause at Matamoros in October 1838, rebelling against Valentín Canalizo and Martín Perfecto de Cos. Together Canales and Lemus laid siege to Matamoros. In rebellion with Federalist sympathizers against the Centralist government, General Lemus was occupying Monterrey for a second time when he issued this broadside addressed to his troops. Lemus points out "the impotence to which our weak enemies find themselves reduced,… Read More

[World War II] Prime Minister Hubert Pierlot. Proclamation. Printed broadside. 50.5 x 52 cm. [London?]: [No publication information] 1944. Black printing on white paper. Old fold lines and small marginal tears, otherwise very good. Text repeated in French and Dutch.
Rare. OCLC lists no holdings. There are no copies at the Library of Congress or the Marshall Center, the Eisenhower Library or the National Archives online listings. The Prime Minister invokes the fight to come: "Alongside our Allies, Belgian Air, Land and Sea forces are taking part in the decisive battle for the independence of our country. Soon they will give the hand to the Fighters of the Inner Front and to all those who, braving the inhuman rigors of the occupier, have contributed to the use and destruction of his power." The date 9/44 is in the lower left corner. The liberation of Belgium began in September 1944, when the British Second Army liberated Antwerp, the US First Army liberated the region south of Brussels and… Read More