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BARTLEET, H.W: Bartleet's Bicycle Book.
London: Ed. J. Burrow, (1931).
First edition. Plates. 8vo, pp.186, original purple
cloth; pencil notes on endpapers. Spine faded, generally
good.
Quote Item No. 8519
Price: £35.00
DICKINSON, H.W: James Watt, Craftsman & Engineer.
Cambridge: University Press for Babcock & Wilcox, 1935.
First edition. Plates. Tall 8vo, pp. xvi:207, original
red cloth; spine a little faded else good.
Quote Item No. 5498
Price: £20.00
DODGSON, G. and BELCHER, HENRY: Illustrations of the
Scenery on the Line of the Whitby and Pickering Railway, in the
North Eastern Part of Yorkshire from Drawings by G. Dodgson.
With a short Description of the District and Undertaking by Henry
Belcher.
London: Published for the Proprietors, 1836.
First edition. Engraved additional title and 11 engraved
plates together with vignettes in the text. 8vo, pp.viii:115,
original blindstamped green cloth lettering decoratively blocked in
gilt on upper cover, errata slip tipped-in at end. Lacking one
plate. Joint between engraved and printed titles crudely
reinforced with paper tape, backstrip detached and in two pieces.
Plates foxed, some browning to the text.
Quote Item No. 4358
Price: £30.00
ELLIS, HAMILTON: British Railway History . An Outline from
the Accession of William IV to the Nationalisation of the Railways
1830 - 1876 & 1877 - 1947.
London: Allen & Unwin, 1956 & 1959.
Two volumes. Vol. 1 a reprint, Vol. 2 a 1st edition. Plates.
8vo. pp.443 & 416, original cloth; very good in very good d.w's.
Tape marks to inside of d.w's. where originally brown paper outer
protective wrapper fixed; this brown paper outer wrapper having done
a very good job at protecting the d.w. but of course has left these
marks which are however not visible apart from very light
show-through to face of wrapper.
Quote Item No. 6335
Price: £20.00
FAITH, NICHOLAS: The World the Railways made.
London: Bodley Head, 1990.
Plates. 8vo, pp.360, original cloth; some browning of
the text else very good in d.w.
Quote Item No. 4211
Price: £10.00
FILSON
YOUNG, A.B.: The Complete Motorist, being an Account of the
Evolution and Construction of the Modern Motor-Car; with Notes on
the Selection, Use, and Maintenance of the same; and on the
Pleasures of Travel upon the Public Roads.
London: Methuen 1904.
First edition. Numerous plates from photographs of early vehicles
and engines. Lacking the frontispiece "L'effroi" from a painting by
Paul Gervais. 8vo, pp. xxiv:338, original brown cloth; lower outer
joint split, binding very rubbed, some marking to title. Bookplate
on front pastedown.
Lacking the frontispiece hence the price. Rare.
Quote Item No. 10395
Price: £55.00
HACKNEY COACHMEN: An Ordinance for the Regulation of Hackney
Coachmen in London. And the places adjacent. Fryday June
23, 1654. Ordered by his Highness the Lord Protector and His
Council, That this Ordinance be forthwith Printed and Published.
Printed by William du-Gard and Henry Hills, Printers to His
Highness the Lord Protector, 1654.
Folio, partly black letter. Title and pp.409-413.
Quote Item No. 915
Price: £90.00
HARPER, CHARLES G:
Stage-Coach and Mail in Days of Yore. A Picturesque History of the
Coaching Age. Illustrated from Old-Time Prints and Pictures.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1903.
First edition. Two volumes. 8vo, pp. xii:360 & xi:368, original
crimson cloth pictorially blocked in gilt, top edges gilt. One inner
hinge pulled but very firm, spines uniformly faded. Bookplates.
Generally a pleasing and clean copy.
Quote Item No. 9041
Price: £85.00
NOCK, O.S: Locomotion, a World Survey of Railway Traction.
London: Routledge, 1975.
Oblong 8vo, pp.280, original cloth in d.w. Signature on
endpaper, dustwrapper worn at headband, some browning to the text
else very good.
Quote Item No. 4213
Price: £10.00
OSBORNE, E.C. & W: Osborne's London & Birmingham Railway
Guide.
Birmingham: E.C. & W. Osborne n.d. but ca. 1840.
Engraved frontispiece, engraved title, engraved plates and
vignettes, single page map of Birmingham. Small 8vo,
pp.viii:270, contemporary cloth; very good.
Bound without the folding map of England, as is often the case.
Quote Item No. 3181
Price: £90.00
TONKS, ERIC S: The Southwold Railway.
Birmingham: by the author, 1950.
Illustrations. 8vo, pp.32, original printed wrappers; small
pieces of tape on inside of wrappers else very good.
Quote Item No. 6322
Price: £25.00
TRISTRAM, W. OUTRAM:
Coaching Days and Coaching Ways. With Illustrations by Herbert
Railton and Hugh Thomson.
London: Macmillan, 1888.
First edition. 4to, pp. xiii:367, original green cloth elaborately
blocked in gilt; inner hinges pulled but quite firm, a few tape
marks to free endpapers, short tear into blank margin of one leaf
but generally a very good bright copy.
Quote Item No. 9048
Price: £45.00
WHITEHEAD, R.A. and SIMPSON, F.D: The Story of the Colne Valley
Railway.
Brentwood: Francis Ridgway, 1951.
First edition. Plates, folding chart. 8vo, pp.82, original
cloth; lightly marked in good d.w. Tape marks to inside of d.w.
where originally brown paper outer protective wrapper fixed; this
brown paper outer wrapper having done a very good job at protecting
the d.w. but of course has left these marks which have some
show-through to the front of the wrapper.
Quote Item No. 6338
Price: £21.00
WILLIS, JIM [Compiler]. Frank Patterson: The Frank
Patterson Picture Book.
Cyclists Touring Club, 1978.
First edition. Upwards of 130 illustrations by Frank Patterson.
Folio, original grey grained boards in dustwrapper; dustwrapper with
creasing at top of spine and two small nicks to top edge; in all
other respects, extremely good.
Quote Item No. 8527
Price: £35.00