RAILROADS from Franklin Gilliam :: Rare Books

[Chicago:: The Company, ,.. Many color illustrations; [36] pp. on different colored paper showing various configurations of sleeping cars available. Small 4to, scarlet stiff wrappers; bottom outer corner slightly bumped.

Manila, P.I.:: Central Station and Offices, ,.. Not illustrated; single sheet, printed on both sides, 10 33 inches, accordion folded to 10 4 inches. The Manila Railroad was founded by the Spanish in the 1880s. After the Spanish American War the Americans took over control and before WWII there was… Read more about this item

Constantine [Allègera]:: Imprimerie de L. Marle, Rue d'Aumale, ,.. Not illustrated; 104 pp.+ errata slip pasted to title. 8vo, original gray wrappers, front printed. OCLC lists three holdings.At the head of the front wrapper is the following unsigned presentation “M. Tanqueray, le Conseil Général d'Oran”.The errata slip informs the reader that the map and the longitudinal profiles which should… Read more about this item

Londoon:: [The Railrway],.. Not illustrated. Various sizes, see below. 1. LONDON & SOUTH WESTERN AND LONDON BRIGHTON & SOUTH COAST RAILWAYS. Time Table of the Train Conveying the Remains of Her Late Majesty Queen Victoria. His Majesty King Edward VII, his Imperial Majesty The German Emperor and Other Royal Personages. . .2nd February, 1901`. Small folio bifolium (11… Read more about this item

S.l.: [The Company] Passenger Department, [1912]. . Oblong 12mo, stiff color wrapper, front pictorial. No holdings found in OCLC

New York: Burr Printing House, 1887. . Small 4to, green publisher's cloth with pictorial front cover in gilt.

Denver, Colordo: [The Company], 1954. . Folio, maroon cloth, partially unopened. No other copy located although there is a 1950 publication with the same title and author, but with a different pagination which is held by five US institutions.The volume is a study for a proposed railroad to run from the east of Caracas and Barcelona on the Caribbean… Read more about this item

New York: S.n., 1872. . 8vo, dull pink wrappers, front printed; back wrapper and spine repaired with Scotch tape. Bookplate of Robert E. Allingham, Jr. on the inside front cover. One holding in OCLC: University of Chicago; there are 6 copies of the 1873 printing which appears to have the same number of pages.

[Oakland, Ca.: De Witt & Snelling, 1894]. . 12mo, navy-blue cloth; title in gilt on front cover. Bookseller's ticket of De Witt & Snelling on front pastedown and bookplate of Henry Byron Phillips tipped in on top of the bookseller's ticket lower outer corners slightly bumped; a very few leaves with minor dog-earing, INSCRIBED by Huss on the title… Read more about this item

Boston: [The Company], 1892. . Narrow 8vo, timetable format; self-wrappers. Not found in OCLC.

[Chicago]: Passenger Department of the Santa Fe, 1902. . Large 8vo, black printed wrappers, front with color illustration; spine badly chipped A collection of 19 articles by prominent authors of the period featuring the Grand Canyon. Included are Hamlin Garland, Harriet Monroe, Charles Dudley Warner, J. L. Stoddard and the artist Thomas Moran.

New York: [The Company] 362 Broadway. London: [The Company] 30 Fleet Street, ca. 1904. . Oblong 8vo, stiff card boards, front printed with a view of Ely cathedral with the river [Great] Ouse in the foreground A later edition, the first being in 1885 with 97 pp.

Washington, D.C.: [The Senate], 1879. . 8vo, self-wrapper; dampstained on the fore-edge; gutter shows evidence of previous pamphlet binding; now newly stapled. Five holdings in OCLC. Ex. Doc. No. 73.

S.l.: [The Company; printed by] Rand McNally, Chicago., [Oct. 1911]. . Large 8vo, pictorial stiff wrappers; very minor wear to edges and spine.

S.l.: [The Company] Passenger Department, [1902]. . 12mo, dark gray stiff wrappers, front with pictorial panel printed in black, red, and yellow Map is dated March 1902.Printing was carried out by the Corbett Railway Printing Company, Chicago (slug on outer back wrapper.

Chicago: [The Company] Passenger Department, 1909. . 8vo, pictorial wrappers, some chipping on back wrapper. A promotional piece reissued frequently from 1902 on.

New York: New York Journal of Commerce, June 1910. . Large 8vo, buff wrappers, front printed; has been folded vertically. Two holdings in OCLC Univ. of Missouri and the De Golyer.Offprint from the New York Journal of Commerce, June 1910.

S.L.: Pennsylvania Railroad; Southern Railroad and Florida Central & Peninsular R.R, Ca. 1897. . 4to, stiff cream wrappers, lacking 2 inch section at front gutter and spine; plus loss at back inner corner; rubberstamp of NYPL on front wrapper and title. Dating is based on the NYPL stamp, there was an edition in 1895.The Florida Short… Read more about this item

[Boston: The Company] Rand Avery Supply Co. [Printers], 1891. . Self wrappers, front printed in black and pink

Leipzig: A Deichertsche, 1931. . 8vo, stiff gray wrappers, front printed.