Transportation

Transportation

James Cummins Bookseller is proud to present a catalogue of rare and antiquarian books and ephemera related to transportation, from a scarce study on the development of the omnibus in the 17th century to one of the first authoritative treastise on aerial navigation. Highlights include an inscribed photograph of Wilbur Wright at dusk during one of his seminal exhibitions, signed original art by Cecil Aldin, a rare photograph of the London Underground before it opened with Fowler, Engineer and M.P. Gladstone et al, and a superb aa. 1880 railroad engineering drawing. 

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Item #28208 Essai sur la construction des routes et des voitures ... augmenté d'une Notice sur...

Public Roads and Transportation

Essai sur la construction des routes et des voitures ... augmenté d'une Notice sur le Système Mac-Adam.

Paris: Anselin et Pochard, 1827. First edition in French. Public Roads and Transportation. Barbier attributes the translation to "Bailliet, maître des requêtes,"who perhaps also authored the substantial, original section (pp. 285-469) entitled "Considerations et Recherches sur Les Voies Publiques de France." Edgeworth (1744-1817), the father of novelist Maria Edgeworth, first..... Read More about Essai sur la construction des routes et des voitures ... augmenté d'une Notice sur le Système...

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Item #316367 Description des Expériences de la Machine aérostatique de MM. de Montgolfier et de...

The first standard work of an aerostation, UNCUT

Description des Expériences de la Machine aérostatique de MM. de Montgolfier et de celles auxquelles cette découverte a donné lieu...

Paris: Chez Cuchet, rue & hôtel Serpente, 1783. First edition. The first standard work of an aerostation, UNCUT. Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond (1741-1819), was a very successful lawyer whose interest in natural history led him to become a geologist. He developed his own theory of volcanoes in the massive folio..... Read More about Description des Expériences de la Machine aérostatique de MM. de Montgolfier et de celles...

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Item #40490 Autograph Note Signed to Alfred Eisenstaedt, n.p., November 1955. Henry II Ford

Henry Ford II Praises Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt

Autograph Note Signed to Alfred Eisenstaedt, n.p., November 1955.

Henry Ford II Praises Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt. Henry Ford's grandson and Chairman of the family firm, writes, “I enjoyed very much sitting for the pictures which you have taken...”. Eisenstaedt's 1955 portrait of Ford appears on page 202 of his WITNESS TO OUR TIME. Read More about Autograph Note Signed to Alfred Eisenstaedt, n.p., November 1955

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Item #315008 G. & D. Cook & Co.'s Illustrated Catalogue of Carriages and Special Business Advertiser

G. & D. Cook & Co.'s Illustrated Catalogue of Carriages and Special Business Advertiser.

New Haven: Baker & Goodwin, printers, New York, 1860. superb copy of a landmark trade catalogue. "Excellent tinted lithographic plates of every American carriage of the day" (Romaine).   Founded in the 1850s, G. & D. Cook & Co. quickly became among the most successful northeastern U.S. carriage makers of..... Read More about G. & D. Cook & Co.'s Illustrated Catalogue of Carriages and Special Business Advertiser

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Item #313022 The Log of the Automobile. Records and Observations by the Owner

From the library of Charles Edison

The Log of the Automobile. Records and Observations by the Owner.

Boston: Bookcraft Company, 1902. From the library of Charles Edison. From the library of Charles Edison (1890-1969), son of Thomas A. Edison and Governor of New Jersey from 1941-1944. This was probably Thomas's Log book A relic of the early days of the automobile, the log consists of printed forms..... Read More about The Log of the Automobile. Records and Observations by the Owner

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Item #318195 The First London Underground Trip. London Underground

Rare photograph of the London Underground before it opened

The First London Underground Trip.

London: May 24, 1862. Rare photograph of the London Underground before it opened. "Edgware Road Station" along with an open railroad car filled with dignitaries including Lord Richard Grosvenor, Earl (Sixth) Macclesfield, Mr. Chas Wood, Amsburey, Lord Werlock(?), Sir Stephen Elgin, Mr. Gladstone, M.P., Mr. I Fowler (Engineer) in white..... Read More about The First London Underground Trip

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Item #307594 Manuscript journal of a bicycle tour in Devon and Cornwall, July - August 1904

"The jolliest tour..."

Manuscript journal of a bicycle tour in Devon and Cornwall, July - August 1904.

1904. "The jolliest tour..." An entertaining manuscript journal of a bicycle tour in Devon and Cornwall taken during the summer of 1904. Compiled by the otherwise unnamed G.A.C. (‘My unworthy self’), whose companions for the trip are named as Sydney G. How (‘Syd’) and Robert W. Mace (‘Jim’), the journal..... Read More about Manuscript journal of a bicycle tour in Devon and Cornwall, July - August 1904

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Item #237214 Original drawings for "Men Against the Rule": three comparative diagrams...

Original drawings for "Men Against the Rule": three comparative diagrams illustrating the evolution of yacht design: Puritan - Reliance, Reliance...

[New York: 1937]. Published in Men Against the Rule. A Century of Progress in Yacht Design, 1937, at pp. 121, 127, 131. Poor was professor of astronomy and celestial mechanics at Columbia University, and author of works on astronomy and yachting. These three drawing are the only original illustrations for..... Read More about Original drawings for "Men Against the Rule": three comparative diagrams illustrating...

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