Sales catalogue 20: Henry Stevens, Son & Stiles

Date:
20th century
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/50/5
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 20: Henry Stevens, Son & Stiles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    930 [Brindley (J.)] The History of Inland Navigations. Particularly those of the Duke of Bridgwater, in Lancashire and Cheshire; and the intended one promoted by Earl Gower and others in Staffordshire, Cheshire, and Derbyshire. 1766.—THE SAME. Part the Second. Containing the different Essays which have been lately wrote, some to establish, others to prevent, a Navigable Canal being made from Witton Bridge to Knutsford, Macclesfield, Stock- port, and Manchester. 1766. 2 Paris Complete, with the 3 folding plans, 88 and 104 pp. New papered boards. FINE COPY. 8vo £1 10s “931 Brougham (Rt. Hon. Lord) Speech of, in the H. of L., May 7, 1849, on the Navi- gation Laws. 1849. 54 pp. 8vo 7s 6d 932 Case (The) of Dover Harbour. 1756. [Privately Printed (1756)]. Caption title, i leafy.” Fo. 1 Is Setting forth its importance and usefulness to the Trade and Defence of Britain; and urging favour- able consideration to the proposals on foot for its improvement and maintenance. .? Cort (R.) Rail-road Impositions Detected ; or, Facts and Arguments to prove that the Manchester and Liverpool Railway has not paid One per cent. Nett Profit; and that the Birmingham, Bristol, Southampton, Windsor, and other Railways, are, and must for ever be, only Bubble Speculations. 1834. Folding Statements, 195 pp. 8vo £1 12s 934 Davy (John, Jum.) Practical Hints for the Improvement of Parish Roads in General, more particularly those in the West of England, with Tables annexed, by which, the Value of Land, and the expenses or repairing a road, may be ascertained. 1830. 26 pp. 8vo 10s 935 Denman (Rear-Adm. Jos.) The Pressing Necessity for increased Docks and Basins at Portsmouth, with some Observations Cobden’s ‘‘Three Panics.’’ 2ND 1862. 34 pp. 8vo 5s 6d i EpN. of, in the H. of L., on the Navigation Laws, May, 1849. 1849. 18 pp. 8vo 5s 5937 Extracts from the Minutes of Evidence given before the Committee of the H. of C. on the Great Western Railway Bill. Bristol, 1834. 52 pp. 8vo 10s 938 Fairbairn (Henry) A Treatise on the Political Economy of Railroads; in which the New Mode of Locomotion is con- sidered in its Influence upon the Affairs of Nations. 1836. Boards, cloth back, uncut. 8vo £1 5s 939 Fingerpost (The); or, Direct Road from John-O-Groat’s to the Land’s End: Being a Discussion of the Railway Question. Printed for Wm. Cole (c. 1825). 48 p., ovig. printed wrappers, uncut, one leaf neatly mended, scarce. 8voO £1 5s ol 940 Hartlepool’s Shipowners’ Society. Analysis of the Loss of Life at Sea from ‘‘Wrecks’’ and ‘“‘Casualties’’ for the year 1883. West Hartlepool (1884). 7 pp.4+6 folding tables. 8vo oS 941 Hugill (John) An Address to the Inhabi- tants of Whitby and its vicinity: shewing the present declining state of the Town, and the great necessity of some exertions being made to improve it; with a practi- cable ... plan for forming a Company to ascertain whether there is a bed of Coal under our Alum Rock; . . and, in case of success, other observations on extending our Commerce, by Constructing a Railway to Pickering and Malton. Whitby [Yorks.| 1830. 70 pp. 8vo £1 Is On Shipping, Whale Fishery, Roads, and the general trade of the locality. 942 Maceroni (Francis) Expositions and Illus- trations, interesting to all those concerned in Steam- Power, whether as applied to Rail-roads, Common Roads or to Sea and Inland Navigation. 1835. Frontispiece (Common Road Steam Carriage), 126 pp. 8vo £1 10s 943 Moorsom (Rd.), Speech of, from the Hustings, Dec. 11, 1832. Whitby, 1833. De pe. OVA 6s Relates entirely to the Shipping Interest of the country. 944 Observations on Railways, particularly on the proposed London and Birmingham Railway. 1831. 20 pp., scarce. 8vo £1 Is 945 Observations on the Case of such of the Inhabitants of Kingston as apply to be included in the Turnpike petitioned for, in order to repair the Road from Kingston upon Thames in the County of Surry toa Place called Sheet-Byidge near Petersfield in the County of Southampton. [Privately Printed (c. 1750)]. Caption title, 1 leaf. Fo. 10s 6d 946 Perry (Capt. John) An Answer to Ob- jections against the making of a Bason, with Reasons for the bettering of the Harbour of Dublin. Dublin, 1721. 28 pp. 8vo 15s 947 Pim (James, Jun.) Irish Railways. A Letter to the Rt. Hon. Frederick Shaw, VER ersnoe 16 pb ** SVvo 6s 948 Plain (A) Disquisition on the indispen- sible Necessity of Fortifying and Improving Milford-Haven; containing likewise an Attempt to demonstrate the Advantages that will arise from it to this Nation. With Some Hints on the Prosecuting Scheme. ' 1759. 2 folding maps, 55 pp. 8vo 18s 949 Railway Companion (The), describing an Excursion along the Liverpool Line, accompanied with a succinct and popular History of the Rise and Progress of Rail- roads. Illustrated by several Lithographic Views. 1833. 5 folding plates, 47 pp. 8vo 18s,
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