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Auction No 350, Category: Technology

6 Lots (displaying 1 - 6)

William F. Pettigrew "A Manual of Locomotive Engineering" Charles Griffin, 1909, 3rd Edition (revised)

Lot: 1

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
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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.

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

Lot: 92

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
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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 plus supplement, 4 vols

Lot: 93

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £80
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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) 

Pictorial Certificate of Membership for the "Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners"

Lot: 94

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £36
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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

Morgan Richards "Slate Quarrying and How to Make it Profitable" 1865

Lot: 96

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £40
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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.

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

Lot: 309

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Apr 2015 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
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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.