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PAP. Zustand: Used - Very Good. Used - Like New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: Acceptable. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A readable copy. All pages and the cover are intact (dust cover may be missing). Pages can include considerable notes--in pen or highlighter--but notes cannot obscure the text. A fair copy with spne covering and front board completely detached but still present. Contents are tanned but overall clear.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New.

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Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Zustand: New. In.

IV, 310, (2)pp. With frontispiece and numerous text-illustrations. Orig. cloth. Title-page with 2 old stamps, else very good.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A complete four volume set of S. C. Brees's impressive study of railway engineering and construction in the nineteenth century, illustrated with over 250 folding and double paged plates. Present here are the third edition of volume I, the second edition of volume II, and the first editions of volumes III and IV.This work is considered to be of the foremost sources of contemporary information on civil engineering issues relating to early railways and rolling stock. The First Series mostly concerns the London & BirminghamRailway; the Second Series includes aspects of the Great Western, the London & Croydon, and specifications and contracts for works on the Birmingham & Gloucester, while the Third and Fourth Series's are mostly devoted to French railways.Volume I is illustrated with a double-page lithographed frontispiece after Brees, and sixty-nine double page plates. Collated, complete.Volume II is illustrated with a double-page lithographed frontispiece and seventy double-paged plates. Collated, complete.Volume III is illustrated with sixty-nine double-paged plates. Collated, complete.Volume III is illustrated with sixty-nine double-paged and folding plates. Collated, complete.With the bookplate of Arthur Elton, who himself authored a 1940s work on the British Railways, to each front pastedown.Not present here is the 1839 appendix volume.The author was involved in engineering the London to Birmingham line under Stephenson. He later went to New Zealand, and produced a topographical work on the country. Volume III in the publisher's original cloth binding. Volume I rebacked, with majority of original back strip laid down and boards restored, with endpapers renewed. Volumes II and IV rebound in cloth, with endpapers renewed. Externally, excellent. Loss of cloth to back strip tail of volume IV. Bookplate to each front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages significantly age toned due to paper type, with significant handling marks throughout. Spotting and instances of foxing to plate and page perimeters. Very Good. book.

London, John Williams, 1847. 4to. Uncut in contemp. full blindtamped cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Tear to lower part of first hinge. A paperlabel psted on top of spine. Stamps on foot og title-page. XV,247 pp. and 69 double-page engraved plates. Some brownspots to the first few leaves, otherwise clean and fine. A few scattered brownspots to plates. This volume contains the first English translation of August Perdonnet and Polonceau: "Portefeuielle de Ingenieur des Chemins de Fer".

London, John Williams, 1839. 4to. Uncut in orig. full cloth, gilt lettering to spine. First inner hinge loose. Wear to top of spine.Spine faded. Stamps on foot og title-page. VII,373 pp. and 6 engraved plates (3 double-page and folding). Text clean and fine, some foxing to plates.

Zustand: Very good. 1841, London, Tilt and Bogue, pp309 + 32, black and white engravings, green cloth.

Paris, 1840. Folio-oblong. Cont.hcalf. Back worn. Lithogr.frontisp. (Chemin de Fer de Londres á Birmingham) and 77 lithogr. plates. A little brownspotted.