Bidspirit auction | A Group of Books Related
A Group of Books Related to the Roebling Family, Trenton, New Jersey - Comprising: Diary of My Journey to America in the year 1831 by Johann August Roebling, Privately Printed 1931 Opening Ceremonies of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, May 24 1883. Printed by the Brooklyn Eagle Job Printing Department. The Roeblings: A Century of Engineers, Bridgebuilders, and Industrialists by Hamilton Schuyler, Princeton University Press, 1931 (two copies) Whose Who in Trenton? A collection of cartoons depicting the foremost citizens of Trenton. Published in 1908 by Harry B. Salter. The Journal of the Reverend Silas Constant by Emily Warren Roebling. J.B. Lippencott, Philadelphia 1903. Number 75/100. Choisy by James P. Story. Signed by W. A. Roebling. Published by James R. Osgood, 1872. Dimensions: 8” x 5 1/2” to 12” x 9 1/2” Provenance: Mary G. Roebling (1995-1994), Trenton, New Jersey. Acquired from above by present owner. Property from a Bucks County, Pennsylvania Collection. Footnote: Mary G. Roebling (New Jersey, 1905-1994) was the first woman to serve as the head of a major commercial bank in the United States when she became president of the Trenton Trust in 1937. Condition: All bindings show wear and minor losses. Contents are in overall good condition.