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Auction No 351, Category: Engineering

5 Lots (displaying 1 - 5)

William Pettigrew "A Manual of Locomotive Engineering" Charles Griffin 1909, and another

Lot: 67

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd Jun 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £20
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William F. Pettigrew A Manual of Locomotive Engineering, Charles Griffin, 1909, 3rd Edn (revised), original cloth, gilt, worn, rear hinge frayed, front hinge weak internally; b/w frontispiece; clean text, complete with fold-out diagrams and charts; together with Hutton The Practical Engineer's Hand-Book....on Modern Engines and Boilers, 1911, faded cloth, 560pp, many illustrations.

James Weir French "Modern Power Generators" Gresham 1908, 2 vols

Lot: 81

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd Jun 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £28
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James Weir French Modern Power Generators, Gresham, 1908, 2 vols, folio, original decorated cloth, gilt, near fine; complete with all sectional models and other diagrams; some damage to pages 66/67 as a result of adhesion but the sectional models all fine. 

Byrne & Spon "Spons' Dictionary of Engineering" 1874, 3 vols, and the rare "Supplement" 1881

Lot: 82

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd Jun 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
UNSOLD
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Byrne & Spon Spons' Dictionary of Engineering, 1874, 3 vols, and the rare Supplement, 1881, original gilt cloth, spines worn at top & base (the Supplement badly frayed); fine internally. Numerous illustrations. (4) 

David Thirlby & Tony Bancroft "The Frazer Nash 1923-1957" 2000 in d/jkt

Lot: 142

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd Jun 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £30
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David Thirlby and Tony Bancroft The Frazer Nash 1923-1957, Thirlby Publicity, 2000, fine in VG dustjacket (the d/j with closed tear at foot of front panel), signed and inscribed by Thirlby; together with David Thirlby's unpublished Typescript for When the Going was Good to Soft, an autobiography

"The Mechanical Handling of Mails in Large Sorting Offices" January 1952

Lot: 308

  • Auction Date: Wed 3rd Jun 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £80
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The Mechanical Handling of Mails in Large Sorting Offices, January 1952, quarto, cloth-bound, gilt, fine; a report produced by the joint postal administrations of Great Britain, Netherlands and Switzerland. 154pp with many illustrations, plus 22 fold-out Diagrams and charts. Also British Postal Engineering, 1971, proceedings of a conference hosted by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1970, hardback in dustjacket, 390pp, many illustrations.