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Auction No 363, Category: Technology

5 Lots (displaying 1 - 5)

Comte F.M.G. De Pambour "A Practical Treatise on Locomotive Engines" John Weale, 1840, 2nd Edition,

Lot: 2

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Nov 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £15
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Comte F.M.G. De Pambour A Practical Treatise on Locomotive Engines John Weale, 1840, 2nd Edition, original blind-tooled cloth, gilt, worn at hinges, uncut 2 sides, binding rather slack, some light browning to text & the 5 folding-plates at rear (one detached), old ownership signature top of title page, another ownership handstamp to page 1; some light pencil annotations. xlviii + 583pp + plates + 36pp of advertisements.

K. Hinde "Fenland Pumping Engines" 2006; Gale & Nicholls "The Lilleshall Company Ltd: a history" 1979;

Lot: 44

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Nov 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
UNSOLD
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K. Hinde Fenland Pumping Engines 2006; Gale & Nicholls The Lilleshall Company Ltd: a history 1979; Stephen Hughes The Brecon Forest Tramroads, 1990; J.R.Harris The Copper King: Thomas Williams of Llanidan, 2003; all in d/jkt, together with other Industrial History titles. (10)

Cornish Mining selection including Jenkin "Mines and Miners of Cornwall" Vols. I and XI, 1961-65;

Lot: 45

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Nov 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £44
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Cornish Mining selection including Jenkin Mines and Miners of Cornwall, Vols. I and XI, 1961-65; Bartlett The Mines & Mining Men of Menheniot, 1994, in d/jkt; and Moissenet The Mechanical Methods of Dressing Tin Ore Etc: Excursion in Cornwall 1857, 2010. Fine lot (10)

Collection of UK Mining titles including Trinder & Cox "Miners & Mariners of the Severn Gorge", 2000, d/jkt;

Lot: 46

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Nov 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £68
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Collection of UK Mining titles including Trinder & Cox Miners & Mariners of the Severn Gorge, 2000, d/jkt; John Bentley Ingleton Coalfield, 2005; Bryan Chambers Out of the Pennines, 1997; Lindsey Porter The Copper & Lead Mines around the Manifold Valley, 2000, in d/jkt; and others, especially Yorkshire and Wales.  (25)

Thomas Andrews "A Paper on the Strength of Wrought-Iron Railway Axles" Sheffield, 1890, 38pp,

Lot: 47

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Nov 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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Thomas Andrews A Paper on the Strength of Wrought-Iron Railway Axles Sheffield, 1890, 38pp, bound with 9 related essays by Andrews 1886-96, complete with the folding half-tone plates referred to in the text, fine; in a very worn half-leather & gilt 19th Century binding.