Lot: 1
William F. Pettigrew A Manual of Locomotive Engineering Charles Griffin, 1909, 3rd Edition (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.
Lot: 92
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.
Lot: 93
Byrne & Spon Spons' Dictionary of Engineering, 1874, 3 volumes, and the rare Supplement, 1881; original gilt cloth, spines worn at top and base (the Supplement badly frayed); fine internally. Numerous illustrations. (4)
Lot: 94
Pictorial Certificate of Membership for the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners, early 20th Century, unissued; coloured chromolithograph with multiple vignettes. 24 x 17". Small tape mark upper left otherwise VG
Lot: 96
Morgan Richards Slate Quarrying and How to Make it Profitable. Bubble Companies - Bribery - Swindling - and Incompetent Management Exposed, Watts & Co, London, and Evan Williams,Bangor, 1865; original pictorial boards, some wear, front inner hinge weak; fold-out hand-coloured Plate and two other illustrations. 149pp. Also G.L. Kerr 1200 Mining Examination Questions. London, 1910, printed wraps.
Lot: 309
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.