Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards

Date:
1939
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/5/49
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    390 391 392 393 394 395 396 TRANSPORT—continued. PARTINGTON (Charles F.) An HIsToRIcAL and DESCRIPTIVE Account of the STEAM ENGINE : comprising a General View of the various Modes of Employing Elastic Vapour as a Prime Mover in Mechanics, with an Appendix, with 8 plates, 8vo., original boards, UNCUT, Printed for 7. Taylor, 1822 £2 Including the progress of steam navigation in this country and America. ROADS.—An Essay on the PRESENT STATE of our PUBLICK RoaDs, shewing the Absolute Necessity of a Total Prohibition of the Use of Narrow Wheels on all Carriages drawn by more than One Horse Lengthways, &c., 8vo., hf. roan, Printed by R. Baldwin, 1756 £1 12s ROTARI (Giuseppe, Inventor) GEANAFORO ECONOMICO, per Tra- sportar Terra per Aria, a Qualunque Altezza, with 5 folding plates, 4to., original paper boards, Verona, 1822 15s ROWE (Jacob) All Sorts of WHEEL-CARRIAGE IMPROVED . . , that a much less than the usual Draught of Horses, &c., will be required, in Waggons, Carts, Coaches, all other Wheel Vehicles, as likewise all Water-Mills, Wind-Mills and Horse-Mills, with folding copper- plates, sm. 4to., hf. roan, Printed for Alexander Lyon, 1734 £2 10s Including experiments to avoid friction. [SIMONS (Mathew)] A DrREcTION for the ENGLISH TRAVILLER, by which he shal be inabled to Coast about all England and Wales, and also to know how farre any market or noteable towne in any Shire lyeth one from another, complete with the 40 tables and maps, 12mo., contemporary calf, Sold by Thos. Fenner, 1643 £5 5s Issued during the time of the Civil War. STEAM CARRIAGES.—Report from the SELECT COMMITTEE on STEAM CARRIAGES, with the Minutes of Evidence and an Appendix, 8vo., original boards, UNCUT (a few pages spotted), Birmingham, 1834 £1 15s STUART (Robert, Civil Engineer) A DESCRIPTIVE History of the STEAM ENGINE, with engravings of 47 engines, 8vo., original boards, UNCUT, 1824 £1 10s
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