Hudson river e (10 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. No Edition Noted. Dark green cloth binding with black print on front coverVery light wear at spine ends. Serial numbered property bookplate on front paste-down (#10754. One employee name filled in. sound and otherwise unmarked. 18 pages. Railroad Rules.

Etat : Very Good. 18 pages, illustrated in black and white. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 16 x 24 cms. Category: National Geographic Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Unframed Print. Etat : Very Good. A single sheet print, image area approx. 18 x 28 cms. The illustrations found in leading architectural journals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, such as The Builder, Building News, and The Architect are masterpieces of visual craftsmanship. These illustrations capture the elegance, intricacy, and stylistic flair of the periodÃ"ÃÃs architecture. Rich in ornamental detail and atmospheric depth, they reflect not only the buildings themselves but the artistic sensibilities and design discourse of their age. THIS IS AN ORIGINAL PAGEâ" áFROM THE JOURNAL, PRINTED AT THE DATE SHOWN IN THE TITLE, NOT A REPRINT OR COPY. Category: Builder & Building News; PRINTS : Buildings & Places; Unframed Prints : Old. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years of taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.…

4to. pp. 112. many illus. wrs. (exhib. cat.).

4to. pp. 128. numerous illus. (some colour). wrs. Exhib. Cat.

4to. pp. 111. profusely illus. (many colour, some full-page). wrs. Exhibition Catalogue.

Photography. Etat : Good overall. A stereoview image of the ice flow in Garrison, New York, with two men standing on uneven ice and the West Point Ferry docked in the center. This image shows the Landing well before the park area was filled in, with the ice flows butting up against the buildings at the Garrison Landing. A very underdeveloped West Point is viewed across the Hudson. From the 'Beauties of the Hudson River" series No. 6686. Albumen images on front, text label laid on on verso. Image & verso are dusty and card corners are rubbed.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very good condition. Much material on Hudson River steamers and the construction of iron clad war vessels relevant to the US Civil War. The Hudson River steamers are included in the section, "Eastern River Boats", with information including: general description, mechanical structure, masts & guys, hull, frame, engines, condenser, walking beam, boilers, paddle wheels, and management and appliances for the economical navigation ("everything is managed from the wheel-house", p119). With three large folding plates titled, "Eastern River Boat, "Commonwealth" (plates 9, 10 & 11), and three large folding plates, "Western River Boat, "Memphis" (plates 12, 13 & 14). This volume contains 22 engraved plates, plate 5 missing but never present, likely the H. M. iron clad ship 'Warrior'. The second volume of a series still in print in 1992, which includes an article by Norman S. Russell titled "On American River Steamers", pp 105 -127. Tall 4to. Original green gilt cloth covers, rebacked and recornered with tan buckram, gilt title only on front cover. Slight chipping to top and bottom cloth edges of front board; internally bright and clean. OCLC: 606595780.…

Oblong 12mo. 6 x 4.25 in. [13 leaves (unnumbered).] Printed title. With 12 colour chromolithograph plates. Raised-embossed decorated & illustrated softcovers, cover art on front cover of Native American paddling canoe, and Hudson sidewheeler steamship in raised embossed gilt lettering, advertisement for Kimball's Straight Cut tobacco and High Grade Cigarettes on back cover, punch-sewn w/ white silk braid (minor age toning to fore-edges, dustsoiling & minor crease on back cover), interior NF bright chromos. First edition of this very rare tourist's colour chromolithograph souvenir viewbook, including images of the "Entrance to the Highlands, The Dunderberg," "Adirondacks Highlands," "Mount Taurus and Breakneck," "West Point," "Washington's Headquarters at Newburgh," and the "Sunnyside Home of Washington Irving." Of particular interest is the view of the original barrel vault of the tomb of Ulysses Grant erected within 10 days of his entombment, and later replaced with the 8000 ton granite tomb erected from 1892-1897. No copies in Worldcat.…

8vo. [2], 50, [4] pp., with 2 additional inserted leaves of colour-tinted advertisements on blue & lavender-coloured papers, numerous woodcut engravings, 1 woodcut-engraved map of New York City, birds-eye view of New Amsterdam on verso, 1 large folding hand-coloured woodcut engraved map following the route of the Hudson River Valley sized 8.75 x 38 in. Lightly colour-tinted softcovers, printed advertisements on front & back (minor chipping, edgewear to corners, minor creasing, large Hudson River map w/ 1 small closed tear at first fold), still a VG exemplar. Revised edition (additional ads dated 1869, larger folding map dated 1864, print advertisements), of this classic guide to the Hudson River Valley, without the Principal Railroad Routes to the Great West map called for in the table of contents, but not referred to in contemporary advertisements, which only refer to the Gaylord Watson Hudson River Guide as with "map." Originally issued by Humphrey Phelps in 1857, the guide continued to be updated, and maps revised by Gaylord Watson the successor to Humphrey Phelps. Worldcat locates 6 copies.…