Mauch Chunk: First Edition (11 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Stiff pictorial wraps. As issued. 1st ptg. 128 pp., illus. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Plastic Comb. Condition: Near Fine. First printing. Near fine with light wear around the extremities of the cover. Z3A.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 16pp. REDBOURNE CHURCH and VICARAGE Lincolnshire, (Cover article & engraving),+ MONTE CAVELLO, - residence of the Popes.+ CHATEAU ROCHERS - residence of MADAME DE SEVIGNE, (with engraving), + AMERICAN RAILROADS pt 1 - inc description of THE QUINCY RR, HUDSON and MOHAWK, CAMDEN and AMBOY, MAUCH CHUNK. An original complete 16 page edition of this weekly magazine. 8.5 x 5.5 inch. It is c200 years old and may have occasional light foxing or age discolouration. In the title I have listed articles or pictures of specific interest in this issue. It has been disbound from a compilation and is still unfolded and in nice clean condition. It will be despatched in a board back envelope. If ordering more than one issue reductions on postage apply. …

NEW. WHEN PAPPY DRANK THE HORSE LINIMENT ANDMANY OTHER TALES.

Hardcover. Condition: Used: Like New. Used: Like New. First Edition. 1st edition. A FINE Hardcover with a NEAR FINE Dustjacket. Just a few small rubs along the dj edges. A Clean, tight, and bright copy.

Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Limited edition of 500 copies. This is #443. Comic book. 24 pp. Bound in stiff, colorful wraps. The town is now called "Jim Thorpe". Limited Edition.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ; 580-H. = USGS 580: p 147-151. Buch.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First edition. Oversized hardcover in black cloth lettered in gilt. Signed by both authors on the title page. Fine in fine dustjacket. Map endpapers. 192 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated with vintage photographs, maps,a nd reproductions. An abundance of anthracite coal from the mineral rich Appalachian Mountains of eastern Pennsylvania furnished industry in the Northeast with a seemingly inexhaustable supply of energy. To bring that supply to market, a system of canals was set up in the 1830s, later replaced by railroads. The Lehigh Valley and Mauch Chuck was one of the major rail routes. Here the authors supply the story of the legendary road that eventually ran all the way from the Pennsylvania coal country to New York City.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. As new copy with sharp corners, firm hinges. DJ has nominal wear to extremities o/w NF condition. BP/Railroads.

Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket - As Published. First Edition. Bound in stiff glossy, illustrated wraps. 133 pp. with photographs, facsimilies, portraits throughout. Subtitled, "the story of the Packer children, Lucy, Mary, Robert and Harry, and their spouses". Linderman, Lucy Packer, 1832-1873, Packer, Robert Asa, 1842-1883, Packer, Harry Eldred, 1850-1884, Cummings, Mary Hannah Packer, 1839-1912. Handsomely produced volume. Scarce -- only one copy on OCLC/Worldcat. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. …

Aquatint engraving by Weber after Bodmer. From the scarce Leipzig edition printed from the original copper-plates. Limited in number, the prints from the Leipzig edition are more scarce than, and compare favorably to, the first edition. (David C. Hunt, "Karl Bodmer and the American Frontier," Imprint/Spring 85, p.18) Bodmer and Prince Maximilian had left Dreidoppel to prepare and pack zoological specimens in Bethlehem, and on the evening of 30 August 1832 arrived at Mauch Chunk. The following morning they set out to explore in the company of some friends, visiting scenes of interest. The present view shows the colliery, situated about nine miles from the town: in the mid-ground is the dock where the anthracite coal is being loaded onto boats for transportation. An ingenious system of railed trucks connects the site of the mining with the dock itself. A scene of inustry that has not yet overwhelmed its environment. Karl Bodmer's images show great versatility and technical virtuosity and give us a uniquely accomplished and detailed picture of a previously little understood (and soon to vanish) way of life. Swiss-born Bodmer was engaged by Prince Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied (1782-1867) specifically to provide a record of his travels in North America, principally among the Plains Indians. In the company of David Dreidoppel (Prince Maximilian's servant and hunting companion), their travels in North America were to last from 1832 to 1834. They arrived in Boston in July 1832, traveled on to Philadelphia, where they stayed with Napoleon Bonaparte's elder brother Joseph. From here they headed west across Pennsylvania across the Alleghenies to Pittsburgh and the Ohio country, visiting all the important German settlements en route. Their most important stop on their route west was at the utopian colony of New Harmony in Indiana. The Prince spent five months there in the company of some of the country's leading scientific men, and studying all the relevant literature on backcountry America. On 24 March 1833 the party reached St. Louis, Missouri, and the start of the journey into Indian country. David C. Hunt, "Karl Bodmer and the American Frontier," Imprint/Spring 1985, p.18. Cf.Graff 4648; cf. Howes M443a; cf. Pilling 2521; cf. Sabin 47014; cf. Wagner-Camp 76:1. …