Rare books from Mill Race Books (IOBA)

Wright, Roy V., et. al. Locomotive Cyclopedia of American Practice: Definitions and Typical Illustrations of Railroad and Industrial Locomotives, Their Parts and Equipment; also Locomotives Built in America for Operation in Foreign Countries – Including a Section on Locomotive Shops and Engine Terminals. (New York: Simmons-Boardman, 1938) - 10th edition
Quarto. 1232 pages, profusely illustrated. Hardcover. Bound in black cloth-covered boards stamped in gilt on spine with title and date and blind stamped rules on covers. All edges stained red.
Condition: VG+. Spotting on cover, corners bumped. Bookplate on front pastedown of Thomas Townsend Taber, a prolific author of railroad histories.
Provenance: From the collection of Thomas Townsend Taber III.Only one copy of this edition in OCLC

Thomas Gent. Annales Regioduni Hullini: or, The Entertaining History of the Royal and Beautiful Town of Kingston upon Hull (Sold at the Printing-Office [of T. Gent] near the Star in Stone-Gate, York ; By Ward and Chandler, Scarborough, and at their shop in London ; by George Ferraby, Hull ; and by J. Wilford, London, 1735)
Octavo. 201 pages plus index, addenda, postscript and list of subscribers. Six plates including frontispiece. Hardcover. Rebound in the late 19th/early 20th century in a green armorial leather binding stamped in gilt with what appears to be all maps and plates present. Marbled endpapers. Five raised bands.
Condition: VG with some edge wear and wear to hinges. Top edge of text block slightly darkened with age. Handwritten list of plates tipped in on blank page in front. Nice condition.
Provenance: Armorial binding of a lion rampant crest with shield containing three lions rampant and the motto: "Dum Clavum Rectum Teneam" or "If only I go steady", an invocation to do your… Read More