Pittsburgh: 1836-1841. [48]pp. Large folio. Contemporary half reverse-calf and blue paper boards. Wear to corners and spine ends, boards soiled. Leaves reinforced at gutter margin with tape, some light soiling. In a clear and legible hand. This ledger records the register and pay information for approximately thirty-five men who worked..... More

San Jose: 1898. 160,[4]pp. plus folding plate. 12mo. Original yellow cloth, stamped in black. Corners lightly bumped, spine ends lightly worn. Internally clean. First of four editions. "Buchanan's last and perhaps oddest book" - Atwater. An unusual work on numerological and occult cycles, based on the number seven. Buchanan (1814-1899)..... More

Los Angeles: California Corrugated Culvert Company, 1922. 44pp., plus folding plate. Original pictorial wrappers, stapled. Spine reinforced with cloth tape; Light oxidation and loosening around staples. Light wear and dust soiling to wraps; Light toning internally. Contemporary ink ownership inscription on title page. A detailed and mathematically elaborate promotional for..... More

Placerville, Ca. 1929. Five blueprints, measuring from approximately 24 x 34 to 29 x 41 inches. Tipped onto modern cardboard backing at left edge, overlaid with brown paper. Light wear, a couple of archival repairs at edges. Contemporary blind stamps. A group five large and fascinating blueprints that delineate proposed..... More

Washington, D.C. 1939. [5],238pp. Folio. Original dark green printed covers. Light wear to covers. Internally clean. A rare typed and extensively illustrated manual for automobile mechanics belonging to the Civilian Conservation Corps. This work, according to the title page, was revised and corrected from an edition originally published in 1937..... More

Chicago: Hays & Thompson, 1854. Broadside, 15 x 6 inches. Minor soiling. A rare and unusual broadside newspaper extra advertising Evarts’ Shingle Mill, with a handsome woodcut illustration of the mill itself occupying a third of the sheet. The Christian Times was a Baptist newspaper published in Chicago from 1853..... More

Cedar Rapids: 1894. Small broadsheet, 10.5 x 6.75 inches. Previously folded. Minute closed tear at top edge. Light tanning. With accompanying transmittal envelope. Ephemeral, illustrated broadsheet advertisement for two agricultural machines for sale by the Hamilton Bros. company of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in the mid-1890s. The "Sweep Feed Mill" promises..... More

San Francisco: Waters Company, [ca. 1915]. 393 silver gelatin photographs, each 8 x 10 inches. Each image annotated in pencil on verso, corresponding to numbered index sheet. Formerly mounted with remnants of glue on verso. Images generally clean, with minor wear and soiling. Several images lightly creased. An extensive photographic..... More

Boston: Geo. Ellis & Co., [1911]. 19pp. Oblong quarto. Original pictorial wrappers, stitched and stapled. Minor wear. "Reprinted from an article in the Engineering News. Illustrated with many special views." An illustrated account of the reconstruction of the Hauser Dam on the Missouri River in Montana. The original dam failed..... More

New York: 1902. [4],58pp. plus five plates (three folding). Folio. Original black publisher's cloth, cover gilt. Light wear and soiling to covers. Internally clean. "Prepared by the committee representing property owners of Park Avenue and Vicinity." Report stemming from several incidents of detrimental blasting and tunnel collapse in the subway..... More

Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 1936. Twenty-seven leaves, illustrated with twenty-six photographs, each 4.75 x 6.75 inches, each with a manuscript caption in white ink beneath the image. Oblong quarto. Contemporary black cloth photograph album, string tied, string partially perished. An exceptional album of vernacular photographs capturing scenes in and around Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania..... More

[Iowa: ca. 1900]. Four cyanotypes (one duplicative), 10.5 x 13.5 inches. Light wear and soiling, heavier to third image. Manuscript notation to verso of one image. Slight toning. Three large cyanotype photographs depicting a railroad trestle near Council Bluffs, Iowa, belonging to the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad. Per..... More

Syracuse: 1910. [24]pp. manuscript, 10pp. typescript, [19]pp. correspondence, plus a map, blueprint, five leaves of technical drawings, and thirteen original photographs. Together with two pamphlets on the subject. Folio. Original green binder, manuscript paper labels. Most items hole-punched into the binder, a few laid in. Wear at edges, two of..... More