Sales catalogue 273: Grafton & Co.

Date:
1949
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/91
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 273: Grafton & Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Railways published during the Railway Mania and insisting on the necessity for Government control. 15s 274 Urquhart (T.) On the Compounding of Locomotives burning Petroleum Refuse in Russia. 1890. Orig. wrapps. 31 plates. In Proc. Inst. Mech. Eng. No. 1, 1890 15s 275 Vincent (W.) Seen from the Railway Platform. 50 years’ Reminiscences. 1919. 8vo. Orig. cloth, back faded. Portrait. Reminiscences of the Railway Bookstall 10s 6d 276 Vulcan Foundry. The “ Liberation ” 2-8-0 Type Locomotive with Double-Bogie Tender for European Use. 1946. 4to. Wrapps. Folding plate and illus. Extract from Railway Gazette, June 28, 1946 8s 6d 277 Walker (G.) Road and Rail. An En- quiry into the Economics of Competition and State Control. 1942. 8vo. Orig. cloth. 4 folding tables. Author’s inscription on dedication leaf 15s 278 Waterford, Limerick and Western Railway. Notice of Special Trains and other arrangements for fortnight ending Sat., 21 April, 1900. (2nd June, 8th Sept., 1900). 1900. 3 pts. 8vo. Unbound 15s 279 Waterford, Limerick and Western Railway. Map of the W. L. and W. R. with Lines worked by it and connections. Water- ford, {¢.1905]. Folding map, 19 by 15 ins. 8s 6d 280 Way (R. B.) Mixed Traffic. 1937. 4to. Orig. cloth. 28 illus. on 9 plates 12s 6d 281 Webb (F. W.) On Compound Loco- motive Engines. 1883. 8vo. Orig. wrapps. In Proc. Inst. Mech. Eng., No. 3, 1883. 4 plates 17s 6d Railways 282 West (T.) An Outline of the Growth of the Locomotive Engine and a few early Rail- way Carriages. [Darlington], 1885. Print 27 by 40 ins. With 76 illus. and descriptive notes £1 1s 283 Williams (A.) The Romance of Modern Locomotion, containing interesting Descrip- tions (in non-technical language) of the Rise and Development of the Railroad Systems in all parts of the world. 1904. 8vo. Orig. pictorial cloth. 24 plates 10s 6d 284 Williams (W. E.) Transit over Road- ways, Waterways and Railways, in its re- lation to the commercial development of the country, with a special reference to the Co. of Glamorgan. Swansea, 1907. 8vo. Orig. cloth. 15 plates. Rare 15s 285 Williamson (J. W.) Railways of To-day Oxford University Press, 1942. 8vo. Orig. cloth. 23 plates and folding diagram 4&1 ls 286 Winchester (C., ed.) Railway Wonders of the World, [1935]. 50 parts. 4to. Orig. coloured pictorial wrapps. Worn. 18 coloured plates and numerous illus. £1 15s 287 Wohl (P.) and Albitreccia (A.) Road and Rail in forty Countries. Report prepared for the International Chamber of Commerce. Oxford, 1935. 8vo. Orig. cloth. 3 folding tables 15s 288 Wolverhampton and Cannock Chase Railway. An Act for making a Railway in the County of Stafford from Wolverhampton to Gt. Wyrley, etc. 1901. La.8vo. Unbound. Pp. 36 10s 6d 289 York Newcastle and Berwick Railway. ReEr1D’s Monthly Time-table and Advertiser. No. 1, April, 1849. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1849. 1925. Sm. 8vo, Orig. wrapps., worn. Reprinted 1925 for Railway Centenary. No. 1 of the series. Very scarce £1 Is 290 Agriculture. ALAMANNI (Luigi) La Coltivatione. Stampato in Parigi da Roberto Stephano, 1546. Sm. 4to. Vellum. Title repaired. Contains -the Letter to the Dauphiness:and the Privilege of Francis I. Some stains. Brunet I., 125. Printed in the fine italic type of Robert Stephanus. Rare. First Epition. Rothamsted Cat., p.170 £4 15s 291 Agriculture. Parker (T. N.) Leaves out of the Book of a Country Gentleman. 1847. Folio. Half calf, back stripped, loose. 100 copies only. 27 plates (5 folding). Very rare. Agricultural buildings and gates £1 15s 292 Agriculture. Les SUFFRAGES UNAN- IMES sur les Moyens de rétablir une Contrée inculte. [N.p.], 1764. 8vo. Vellum, back damaged, hinges weak. A _ collection of extracts from various authors on the impor- tance of agriculture 15s CATALOGUE No. 273 293 Amazons. Petit (P.) De Amazonibus dissertatio. Amstelodami, 1687. 12mo. Half calf. Folding map and illus. in the text. 3 leaves torn but no text missing £2 2s 294 Ancona. Saracini (G.) Notitie His- toriche della Citta d’Ancona gia termine dell’ Antico Regno d’Italia con diversi avvenimenti nella Marca Anconitana et in detto Regno accaduti. Roma, N. A. Tirrasst, 1675. Folio. Vellum, worn. Portrait and plate of arms. Manzoni II. 1.50 £3 3s 295 Anglo-Saxon Literature. THoRPE (B., ed.) Analecta Anglo-Saxonica. A selection in prose and verse from Anglo-Saxon Authors of various ages; with a glossary. 1834. 8wvo. Orig. bds., cloth back, slightly torn. Contains Aelfric’s Preface to the Book of Genesis, Extracts from the Saxon Chronicle, and from
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