Henszey (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. ORIGINAL catalogue from Baldwin Locomotive Works published in 1885 by J. B. Lippincott & Co. This historic catalogue has a dark purplish silken cloth cover on this hardback. Measures 8 x 5.5 inches and contains 100 pages. Amazing illustrations throughout. Has the name of another company in old brown cursive ink and is dated 1888. Copyright of Burnham, Parry, Williams and Co (Philadelphia) 1884, but title page has the date of 1885. Cover has some slight shelf wear, but interior is immaculate. (BR) Shelf 331.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Crisp, clean copy, some rubbing on the spine. Has a book plate inside the front cover from the library of Henry Jones. Book.

134 pp. T.p. printed in red & black. Text within rectangular red-rule border. Illustrated with wood engraved frontis depicting the 'Baldwin Locomotive Works' factory, 11 intratextual cuts & 16 pasted-in photographs of divers Baldwin locomotives. 4to: 11" x 7-5/8" The Baldwin Locomotive Works, an American builder of railroad locomotives, was located in Pennsylvania, originally Philadelphia, then moving in 1906 to nearby Eddystone. The company was the largest US producer of custom, made-to-order steam locomotives. Founded in the early 1830s by Matthais Baldwin, the firm stopped producing locomotives in 1956, ceasing business in 1972, having produced over 70,000 engines, the vast majority powered by steam. This one of the firm's first photograhically illustrated catalogues, a lavish production, issued in the ealy 1870s as Baldwin overtook Rogers as the premier locomotive manufacturer in the United States. Herein will be found photographs of their divers products. While not a particularly rare catalogue, it's importance & desirablility lies in documenting the ascent to prominence of this significant US heavy equipment manufacturer, as well as being an early trade catalogue illustrated with actual photographs. Overall VG (slightly shaken/some shelfwear). Original publisher's pebbled terra-cotta cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine & front board. Beveled edges 1st edition (Romaine, p. 301). Ca 1871 - 72.

Condition: Near Fine. Rachel Wilson Moore, a Quaker from Philadelphia who had strong anti-slavery views, traveled to the Caribbean and South America in the 1860s to try to save her ailing health. She published her journals from the trip under the title Journal of Rachel Wilson Moore, Kept During a Tour to the West Indies and South America, in 1863-64 With Notes from the Diary of her Husband; together with His Memoir. The book described the conditions of the enslaved people in the Caribbean, which she considered to be worse than the conditions in the American South. Offered here is a photograph of Moore, identified on the verso, from the Philadelphia studio Henszey & Co., likely from the late 1860s, showing an elderly Moore in a bonnet. We find no other records of the image. Albumen photograph measuring 3 ½ x 2 ½ inches on mount. Excellent condition with clipped corners and minimal wear.