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BABBAGE, Charles.
On The Economy of Machinery and Manufactures. 1832
£12,500
First edition. Large-paper presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front blank, "To Mr. Bartholemew with Mr Babbages Compliments". On The Economy of Machinery and...
Octavo (222 × 140 mm). Original purple cloth rebacked to style, new printed paper label to spine. Cloth a little mottled and rubbed, rebacked as noted and with... Read more
GORRINGE, Henry H.
Egyptian Obelisks. 1882
£1,000
First Edition. Largely an account of the removal of the New York obelisk from Egypt and its transportation to America, written by the captain of the Vanderbilt steamer Dessoug who...
Folio. Original tan smooth calf de luxe binding, rebacked, large gilt block of a temple gateway with obelisks in place to the upper board, one of the tilting of the... Read more
GILBRETH, Frank B.
Bricklaying System. 1909
£750
First edition of one of the pioneer works in time and motion studies, preceding by two years Frederick Winslow Taylor's better-known The Principles of Scientific Management (PMM...
Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt and with two-line gilt rules at head and tail, covers with two-line border blocked in blind. Illustrated... Read more
BEAMISH, Richard.
Memoir of the Life of Sir Marc Isambard Brunel. 1862
£500
Second edition, revised and corrected, following the first of the same year. Uncommon biography of the engineer father of the great engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, written by their...
Octavo. Neatly recased in the original green pimple-grained, blind-stamped cloth, title gilt to the spine, pale yellow surface-paper endpapers. Engraved portrait... Read more
BURNEY, Commander Sir Dennis.
The World, The Air and The Future. 1929
£300
First edition. Sir Charles Dennistoun [Dennis] Burney, 2nd Baronet was the son of a former Admiral of the Fleet Sir Cecil Burney, and an English aeronautical engineer, private...
Octavo. Original blue buckram, with gilt lettering to spine. Publisher's blind stamp to tail of lower board, blue top-stain. With a supplied dust jacket. Photographic... Read more
WHITNEY, Charles S.
Bridges. 1929
£250
First Edition.
Quarto. Recent half blue morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, blue cloth boards, top edge gilt. 400 illustrations. A few small marks to edges. A very good copy. Read more
DELAFIELD, Richard, Colonel.
Report on the Art of War in Europe in 1854, 1855, & 1856. 1861
£150
First edition of this important report on the Crimean War, compiled by the Delafield Commission which included George B. McClellan, who had issued his own report in 1857. Delafield...
Quarto (289 × 220 mm) Modern black diced cloth, green leather labels. Tinted lithographic decorative title and 23 other lithographic plates, most tinted, 2... Read more
TARBOTTON, M. O.
History of the Old Trent Bridge, 1871
£100
First edition, first impression.
Quarto. Original red cloth, titles and ruling to upper board gilt, brown coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Tipped-in frontispiece and 11 plates from photographs.... Read more
ROLT, L. T. C.
A Hunslet Hundred. One Hundred Years of Locomotive building by the Hunslet Engine Company. 1964
£85
First edition. first impression.
Octavo. Original blue green boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout with black and white plates and fold-out plans. Gift inscription... Read more
