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Auction No 422, Category: Engineering

8 Lots (displaying 1 - 8)

"Retrospect of Philosophical, Mechanical, Chemical and Agricultural Discoveries", J. Wyatt, London, 1806-1812, eight volume set,

Lot: 80

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £250 - £300
SOLD £120
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Retrospect of Philosophical, Mechanical, Chemical and Agricultural Discoveries, J. Wyatt, London, 1806-1812, eight volume set, half-leather, gilt, worn, marbled boards; occasional foxing, largely confined to title pages and endpapers. A good set. (8)

David Fishlock "Metal Colouring", Robert Draper Ltd, Teddington, 1962; orig. gilt cloth, fine, in a complete, slightly edgeworn d/jkt.

Lot: 83

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £40
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David Fishlock Metal Colouring, Robert Draper Ltd, Teddington, 1962; orig. gilt cloth, fine, in a complete, slightly edgeworn d/jkt. Illustrations in text. Adverts at rear. Colour frontispiece; xii,393,(14)pp 

Drawing and Precision Measuring Instruments: three well-illustrated trade catalogues for 1937, 1938 and one later. VG/Fine (3)

Lot: 85

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
UNSOLD
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Drawing and Precision Measuring Instruments: three well-illustrated trade catalogues for 1937, 1938 and one later. VG/Fine (3)   

"Herbert Morris Ltd, Loughborough, Manufacturers of Electric Cranes, Hand-Cranes, Pulley-Blocks and Overhead Runways", 1912 Trade Catalogue,

Lot: 86

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
SOLD £135
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Herbert Morris Ltd, Loughborough, Manufacturers of Electric Cranes, Hand-Cranes, Pulley-Blocks and Overhead Runways, 1912 Trade Catalogue, illustrated throughout, 472pp; together with illustrated catalogues for tools, castings, wire ropes, arc welders, switchboards and other equipment, 1916 to 1950s, various companies. Fair to fine. (19)

"W.& T. Avery Ltd: Weighbridges, Weighing Apparatus, Testing Machinery for Engineers, Railways, etc"., Birmingham, 1906,

Lot: 89

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £20
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W.& T. Avery Ltd: Weighbridges, Weighing Apparatus, Testing Machinery for Engineers, Railways, etc., Birmingham, 1906, octavo, publisher's printed cloth, small repair to spine, illustrated throughout, 128pp. VG; together with Leigh-Bennett Weighing the World, W. & T. Avery, 1930, a company history, in fine condition. (2)

C.F. Foy "The Principles and Practice of Ale, Beer and Stout Bottling", 1955; Wylie "Reed’s Iron and Steel Founding", 1905

Lot: 91

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £60
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C.F. Foy The Principles and Practice of Ale, Beer and Stout Bottling, 1955; Wylie Reed's Iron and Steel Founding, 1905; Copper Pipe-Line Services in Building, 1946; Nickel-Chromium Plating, Robert Draper, 1961, in d/jkt, and 3 others on electro-plating; A Treatise on Milling and Milling Machines, Cincinatti, 1916, worn wraps; and other technical, mainly VG/Fine. (13)

H. Gilbert Whyatt (Ed.) "The Highway Engineer’s Yearbook for 1924", Isaac Pitman,1923, publisher’s printed cloth, light wear to extremities o/w fine;

Lot: 111

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £36
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H. Gilbert Whyatt (Ed.) The Highway Engineer's Yearbook for 1924, Isaac Pitman, 1923, publisher's printed cloth, light wear to extremities o/w fine; 111 half-tone illustrations of road-rollers and related machinery. 238pp + index and 34pp of advertisements. Ownership details top of half-title.    

"London & North Western Railway Co’s Official Tourists’ Picturesque Guide", 1876, re-cased, 10 maps (3 with tape repairs) and litho plates;

Lot: 113

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £36
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London & North Western Railway Co's Official Tourists' Picturesque Guide, 1876, re-cased, 10 maps (3 with tape repairs) and litho plates; Larkman Brown's Marine Electrician for Sea-Going Engineers, 1914; The Railway Magazine, Vol.1, July-December 1897, gilt cloth, VG; and five others including Automobile Repair, Newnes, 1953, four vols. Railway Magazine lacks the original pictorial wraps but contains the b/w plates. Fair to Fine.  (8)