FFESTINIOG Railway
Uncommon Local Railway item. Draft(?) MS manuscript long section of a proposed (narrow gauge?) railway from Llanrwst to the Blaenau Festiniog Quarries nearly 14 miles long. Not titled or dated, but probably early 1860s. Size 60" x 17", ink on…
Motor Ways at Home and Abroad
ABRAHAM George D. 1872-1965
In quarter calf over calf cloth, gilt titles. Internally, half title, frontis, [5], (vi-x), 252 pp, 32 B&W full page illustrations, ink marks to lower cover. An ex-library copy with all the stamps and lib labels. (178*117 mm)
The Anatomy Of The Modern Motor Cycle (B3515)
AeroShell [Shell-Mex Limited]
c1930, in slightly soiled, soft paper covers, titles in red, 2 dramatic B&W photographs to covers by Maurice Beck. Internally, title page, 5 unnumbered pages of text and 3 large coloured plates (1 with 9 overlays which exhibit the inner workings of…
Coloured views on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, with plates of the coaches, machines, &c. with descriptive particulars, serving as a guide to travellers on the railway
BURY T.T. [Thomas Talbot] 1811-1877
This classic record of the beginnings of the railway age was also one of the last significant books illustrated with aquatints (Ray). Complete with Sixteen Hand Coloured Aquatint Plates, including the Three Very Scarce Folding Plates. Revised…
The Britannia and Conway Tubular Bridges, with General Inquiries on Beams and on the Properties of Materials used in Construction
CLARK Edwin Resident Engineer 1814-1894
2 * large paper text volumes with 18 plates. Plus the folio Atlas with 46 pls, a total of 64 lithographed plates (6 of which are tinted views after George Hawkins). Complete. Text volumes (274*180 mm) in contemporary quarter purple morocco…
Report from Select Committee on Carlisle and Glasgow Road
House of Commons Parliament TELFORD Thomas 1757-1834.
Uncommon, containing: The Report; Minutes of Evidence; Mr Telford's Report & Estimate; Plan and Section of the Road. In plain modern paper wraps, no title. Internally, [2], 3-20 pp, 4 maps (large folding), to be Printed 28 June 1815. (HC 463).…
Seventh Report of the Commissioners for the Further Improvement of the Road from London to Holyhead, and from London to Liverpool. WITH Eleventh, Thirteenth & Fourteenth Reports.
House of Commons Parliament. TELFORD Thomas. PARNELL Henry Sir.
Uncommon. 4 reports bound as 1. !830/34/36 & 1837. In modern plain paper wraps, no title. Internally, [3], 4-54. 11th Report, 1834, [3], 4-17, [1]. 13th Report, 1836, [3], 4-19, [1]. 14th Report, 1837, [3], 4-16 pp, [2]. This last report on…
Carte Routiere de la Suisse. Road Map of Switzerland. Reisekarte der Schweiz. No 367.
KELLER H [Heinrich] 1778-1862. AUDIN Jean Narie Vincent 1793-1851
VG, 1828. 16 panels, linen mounted, hand coloured in outline, each corner with boxed route 1 other, in custom folding case with the 2 text leaves mounted inside, title & publishers details to verso, with the repaired original cover with title…
County of Denbigh. Six Acts of Parliament relating to The Shrewsbury and Holyhead Road. (Bangor Ferry)
King George III King William IV Queen Victoria
VG, 1819-1840, Six Acts of Parliament relating to The Shrewsbury & Holyhead Road, 1819-1840.. In worn soft cloth covers, worn & frayed at edges, soiled white ms label to upper board, spine no label. Internally: 1824, George III, Road…
The Modern Motor Car (500)
Shell-Mex and B.P., Ltd.
c1933, in slightly soilef soft paper covers, with 2 dramatic B&W photographs by Maurice Beck to covers, blue ink title. Internally. (16) printed pages, including 6 coloured plates (5 full page, which have hinged flaps that disclose the interior of…
Holyhead Roads. First Report of the Commissioners.... for vesting in them certain Bridges now building; &c and for the Further Improvement of the Road from London to Holyhead (305)
The House of Commons
In the publishers blue printed, soft wraps, chipped at edges, spine worn & torn, some loss. Internally, [3], 4-39 pp, [1], 4 pls (some road colouring), with the errata bound in. (350*220 mm). Portion of Thomas Telford's report, details some of…
Reports from Committee on Holyhead Roads (197)
The House of Commons
In modern paper boards, printed title to spine. Internally, [3], 4-43 pp, [3], 6 pls (including 2 large folding and with roads outlined), new endpapers, with a single leaf dated 1812 signed by Rd Wharton with an estimate of the sum wanted in the…