[Transportation]
Three Volumes on Transportation
Reigart, J. Franklin
The Life of Robert Fulton
Philadelphia: C. G. Henderson & Co., 1856. First edition. Large 8vo. Illustrated with 26 lithographic plates, some chromolithographic. Publisher's brown cloth, light wear to corners, small losses to spine ends; stamped in blind and in gilt. With an old bookseller's catalogue label mounted to front free endpaper verso and with an ownership signature in ink below; scattered light foxing to text and plates.
With:
The Coach-Makers' Illustrated Hand-Book...
Philadelphia: I.D. Ware, 1872. First edition. 8vo. xiv, (17)-368, 32pp. ads. Profusely illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, woodcut designs and diagrams. Publisher's brown cloth, boards soiled, dampstaining to front board, spine sunned; decoratviely stamped in blind and in gilt; purple endpapers. Faint ownership signature in ink on front blank; scattered off-setting.
With:
Stimson, A.L.
History of the Express Business; Including the Origin of the Railway System in America, and the Relation of Both to the Increase of New Settlements and the Prosperity of Cities in the United States
New York: Baker & Godwin, 1881. Expanded and revised edition. 8vo. 388pp. Illustrated with a frontipiece portrait and 10 plates. Publisher's green cloth, corners lightly worn, light soiling to front and rear covers, spine ends lightly rubbed; decoratively stamped in blind and in gilt. Old ownership signatures in ink on front free endpaper. Howes S1008.