Stowage of Ship Cargoes (Miscellaneous Series No. 92)
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1920. Softcover. Pale stapled wraps. 350 pp. Several bw ills., maps and charts. More
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1920. Softcover. Pale stapled wraps. 350 pp. Several bw ills., maps and charts. More
Salem, Massachusetts: The Peabody Essex Museum, 1995. Softcover. Dark green, glossy wraps with color illus.; white lettering on spine. 77 pp. with 39 color plates and additional bw illus. and maps. Wow, this is a fascinating catalogue! With a title essay about the history of shipping across the Atlantic and..... More
Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1997. Softcover. BW pictorial wraps. 116 pp. 173 bw photos. A lovely history of the French Line, one of the world's most successful passenger ship lines. Extensive text. Well illustrated. More
Toronto, Ontario: Stoddart Publishing / Boston Mills Press, 1992. Hardcover. Pine green cloth with silver lettering on spine, green & illustrated dust jacket, illustrated flyleaves, 216 pp., 180+ B&W illustrated. "Here, for the first time, is the full story in word and picture of a truly remarkable ship, the Empress..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887. Hardbound. New green fine-woven cloth with gilt embossed yacht. Leather black goat spine with gilt title and several devices. New end-papers. (2), 14 pp. Introductory Text, List of Plates, then 50 bw plates (most of them one-image to a sheet) and accompanying descriptive text..... More
London: The Royal Automobile Club, 1909. Full leather with small gilt embossed emblem in center of front cover,Gilt ruled edges front and back and along spine, which has five raised bands and gilt title, author, date at base. Gilt tooling around inner edges of both covers. All edges gilt. Color..... More
London: Printed for T. Osborne and J. Shipton et al, 1756. Hardcover. Red mottled boards; 3/4 brown leather; 8 slightly raised bands; burgundy leather title block, with gilt lettering, between bands 2/3. Stamped Greek key motif at bands and cover leather. Contiguous text with the following pagination: iv, (6), 1-576..... More
Chicopee Falls, Mass. Stevens-Duryea Company, circa 1907-1914. Hardcover. Small black leather ringed notebook, gilt letters on front cover, 94 pp., line drawings. What a find! It's a nifty little spec book on the six-cylinder model cars produced by the short-lived Stevens-Duryea automobile company, located near Springfield, Massachusetts. The company was..... More
New York City: The Automobile, 1906. Softcover. White & color illus. wraps, 150 pp., many ads., with additional 4-pp. brochure. On spine: Dunlap's Celebrated Hats. A whole 25 cents bought you this program for the third international race founded by William Kissam Vanderbilt II in 1904, and held on Long..... More
France: Draeger, IMP, 1926, circa. Hardbound. Art deco silver bordered stiff board covers, with geometric design and color plate of a 4 door Renault sedan (green) in middle. A portfolio that opens up to reveal four folded sheets, each containing a tipped-in color plate of the particular model featured in..... More
Coventry, England: SS Cars Ltd., [1939]. Hardcover. Burgundy flexible leather, 32 pp., 10 line drawings. On cover: Jaguar, 1939 Data. Contains all types of spec data for these Jaguar models, released in 1939. Includes 10 line drawings with measurements of interiors and exteriors. Devotes space to road speed data, going..... More
NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1854. 4th edition. Hardcover. Blue library buckram. 420 pp + 32 bw plates. More
London: Motoring Illustrated, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Beige cloth with orange title block on front cover, 350 pp., BW illus. "Including: World's Motor Records, Who's Who in the Motoring World, Motoring Directory, Dealers in Motor-car Supplies, Laws on Motoring, etc. etc." A terrific dip into early automobile use and fandom..... More
Kempen, Germany: teNeues, 2012. Hardcover. oversized, square black cloth boards w/ blind-stamping. 215 pgs w/ color illustrations. text in English, German & French. thick paper, black & emerald green pictorial dustjacket. A tight, clean copy that appears lightly read. Lavishly illustrated with vintage images by famed Formula 1 photographer Rainer..... More
Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Company, 1899. Hardcover. Burgundy library buckram. 418 pp + 323 pp. Many bw illustrations--photographic plates and line drawings. It is said elsewhere that this edition was limited to 250 copies, but that limitation is not found in this set. More
Wilton, California: Signature Press, 2011. Hardcover. blue cloth boards w/ white spine printing. 296 pgs w/ bw & color illustration. glossy, blue pictorial dustjacket. Some 298 photographs, mostly unpublished, enrich this book, in addition to 44 drawings. More than 50 period dfocuments and graphics enliven the text, accompanied by extensive..... More
Philadelphia: E. C. and J. Biddle, 1855. 7th ed., enlarged and improved. Hardcover. Three-quarter leather, black and green, with leather corners, gilt decoration, red page edges, 869 [34] pp., 23 plates, some col. Includes chapters on The Atmosphere, Red fogs and sea dust, The wind, On the geological agency of..... More
London, England: The Railway Times, 1849. Hardcover. marbled paper boards w/ leather spine & corners. 1316 pgs w/ bw illustrations; triple column printing. This compendium of The Railway Times for 1849 begins with No.575 Volume XX-No.1 from Saturday, January 6 to No.626 Volume XII-No.52 Saturday, December 29 1849. This is..... More
Washington, D.C. H. B. Russell & Company, 1900. Hardcover. Leather boards, with black and red title blocks and gilt letters on spine, 713 pp., many line drawings. A compilation volume of early American patents having to do with the production of automobiles. "A Complete Exposition of the Patented Art of..... More
Paris: Editions Norma, 2011. Hardcover. Gray & illus. glossy boards with crimson cloth spine, 415 pp., many BW & color illus., weighs 5 lbs. Text is in French. Profiles the interior design of 14 of France's largest transatlantic ships across five decades: France (1912), Paris (1921), Ile-de-France (1927), Lafayette (1930)..... More
San Francisco, Ca: Butterfield & Butterfield, 1976. Softcover. Illustrated card cover. (36) pp., 1215 lots and 13 bw photographs + cover illustration. The majority of the items were pistols and shotguns, but the stagecoach on the cover was a highlight, as were some paintings in the second session by Robert..... More
Florence, OR: Pier Books and Dupont Communications, 2007. Hardcover. Dk. blue cloth over boards; gold lettering on front and spine; glossy royal blue/gold color illustrated dj; 215 pp; profusely illustrated with color figures. A compelling look into 17th century ships which is portrayed through wonderfully photographed models and thoroughly researched..... More
Chattanooga, Tennessee: National Model Railroad Association, 2006. Hardcover. black boards w/ gilt printing. book v, 240 pgs. glossy, red pictorial dustjacket. A very nice and clean copy. Wonderfully illustrated and annotated. More
Greenwich, Conn. New York Graphic Society, 1972. Hardcover. Light blue cloth boards, dark blue cloth spine, gilt letters on spine, white & blue & illus. dust jacket, various paginations, many BW illus., 8 fold-outs. "The story of the Normandie is almost as much American as it is French. Her last..... More
Staten Island, NY: Maurizio Martino Publisher, 1963. Hardcover. Dk. Brown cloth over boards; 154 pp; 56 b/w plates. Detailed examples of various types of instruments; preface written by M.V. Brewington, Curator of Maritime History; foreward written by Ernest S. Dodge, Director of the Peobody Museum of Salem. More