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A HISTORY OF THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY ARCHITECTURE. Three Volumes.
Voume I: The Pioneers. Volume II: A Mature Art. Volume III: Bell and Beyond.
North Eastern Railway Association, 2001. Three volumes, the set, 4to.,pp. 184; 200; 256, pictorial hardcovers, b/w and colour illstrations, b/w figures, pictorial endpapers; sunned to spines, lettering visible, a very good, internally clean set. No dust-jackets.
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BENTLEY MOTOR CAR CENTENARY, 1885-1985.
Queste Magazines Limited, 1885. Oblong 8vo.,pp. unpaginated, black leatherette with red symbol to front board, b/w illustrations, centenary label to front free endpaper; a near-fine copy. No dust-jacket.
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BRADSHAW’S JULY 1938 RAILWAY GUIDE.
A new edition of the July 1938 issue of Bradshaw’s Railway, Shipping and Hotel Guide for Great Britain and Ireland.
Newton Abbot: David and Charles Reprints, 1969. 8vo., pp.liii,1138, green hardcover, gilt; light toning to endpapers, light bruising to head/foot of spine and front upper corner, a very good, clean copy, in price-clipped dust-jacket, which has chipping and closed tears to edges, with scotch-tape reinforcement to reverse.
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BUILDING THE HULL AND BARNSLEY RAILWAY: HULL AND BARNSLEY RAILWAY 100, 1885-1985.
Hull City Museums Bulletin Number 17.
Hull: Hull City Museums, 1885. 8vo., pp.32, paperback (stapled wrappers), b/w illustrations; marking to pale wrappers, a good+ copy.
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BY RAIL TO MILDENHALL: The Story of the Cambridge to Mildenhall Railway.
Bury St. Edmonds, Mildenhall Museum Publications. 8vo.,pp. iv,36, paperback, b/w illustrations; ownership autograph to title page, sunned and creased to extremities, light creasing to margins of leaves, a good copy.
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CANALS, BARGES AND PEOPLE.
London: Art and Technics, 1950. First edition, 8vo., pp.96, quarter red cloth, gilt, decorative paper-covered boards, endpaper maps, top edges red, colour frontispiece and plates (black and white with colour accents), b/w vignettes; foxing to fore-edges, a slight mustiness, else very good indeed, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has light loss from chipping to extremities, and foxing to pale paper, else very good, now in a protective cover.
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CENTENARY OF THE OPENING OF THE BELFAST AND BALLYMENA RAILWAY.
The Railway Executive Northern Counties Committee, 1948. Small 8vo.,pp. 71, pamphlet, b/w illustrations and figures, b/w fold-out illustration; rubbing along stapled spine, small ink annotation crossed out to upper margin of front wrapper, foxing to wrappers verso and lightly to margins, a good copy.
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COLOURED VIEWS ON THE LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY.
Oldham: Hugh Broadbent, 1976. Deluxe limited edition of 250 copies, folio, pp.xviii,8,(viii)adverts, publisher’s full red pictorial leather binding, gilt, a.e.g., 16 colour plates including 3 folding plates, b/w thumbnails; a fine copy, in red cloth slipcase, which has light marking to one side, and some rubbing to extremities, otherwise vg.
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CONSIDERATIONS ON RAILWAYS, PROVING THEIR UTILITY, WITH EXPLANATORY REMARKS, DEMONSTRATING GREAT ADVANTAGE TO THE AGRICULTURAL, COMMERCIAL AND MANUFACTURING INTERESTS, FROM THE PROJECTED LINE BETWEEN HULL AND SELBY.
Hull: Printed by George Lee, Rockingham Office, Bowlalley Lane, 1835. 12mo., pp.15, pamphlet in lilac paper wrappers; light surface soil and slight wear to wrappers, a good+ copy of this scarce treatise.
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ELECTRIC RAILWAYS 1880-1990.
The IEE History of Technology Series 31.
Stevenage: The Institution of Electrical Engineers, 2003. 8vo.,pp. xxi,452, pictorial hardcover, b/w illustrations; light rubbing to head of spine, a very good, clean copy. No dust-jacket.
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H.M. YACHT BRITANNIA 1954-1997.
Southsea, Hampshire: Bishops Printers Limited, 1954. 4to., pp.unpaginated, navy hardcover, colour and b/w illustrations; a very good, clean copy, in vg lightly shelfworn unclipped dust-jacket.
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IRELAND’S ROYAL CANAL 1789-1992.
Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 1992. First edition 8vo.,pp. vii,216, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations, pictorial endpapers; a near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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MEN, MINES & MINERALS OF THE NORTH PENNINES.
The Friends of Killhope, 1992. 4to.,pp. iv,94, paperback, b/w illustrations and maps; a very good copy.
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MORTON AND CO.’S OFFICIAL ILLUSTRATED RAILWAY GUIDES.
Metropolitan; London, Brighton and South Coast; Great Eastern; Great Northern; Midland; London and North Western; Great Western; London and South Western; London Chatham and Dover; South Eastern.
8vo., pp.328, brown cloth, gilt, b/w engraved illustrations; foxing to endpapers and adjacent leaves, o/w very occasional foxing throughout, cloth broken along lower external joint, wear to extremities, light marking to cloth, contents very good, a good copy overall.
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NORTH EASTERN AND GREAT NORTHERN: PEEPS AT GREAT RAILWAYS.
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1911. 8vo., pp.96,(iv)adverts, pictorial red cloth with inlaid colour plate, gilt lettered spine, colour frontispiece with tissue guard, 6 further colour plates, b/w line drawings to text, railway map to front endpapers; prize bookplate to front free endpaper verso, light foxing to edges, a very good copy.
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North Eastern Railway Branch Lines: NORTH YORKSHIRE & CLEVELAND RAILWAY.
North Eastern Railway Association, 2015. 4to.,pp. 96, b/w and colour illustrations, b/w maps, colour frontispiece; sunned to spine and margins, otherwise very good.
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NOTES ON THE GEOLOGY OF THE HULL, BARNSLEY AND WEST RIDING JUNCTION RAILWAY AND DOCK.
Hull: Privately printed by M.C. Peck and Son, 1886. 8vo., pp.60, bevelled brown cloth, gilt, t.e.g., frontispiece with tissue-guard, folding colour geological sketch map, b/w figures; toning to frontispiece recto, with ‘E4/5’ handwritten to frontispiece recto, rubbing to extremities, with light wear to head and foot of spine, a couple of marks to front board, otherwise very good.
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PEAKLAND AIR CRASHES.
The South.
Ashbourne: Landmark Publishing, 2005. Large 8vo., pp.192, paperback, b/w illustrations; very slight shelfwear, internally fine, a very good copy indeed.
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RAILWAY MACHINERY: A TREATISE ON THE MECHANICAL ENGINEERING OF RAILWAYS.
Embracing the Principles and Construction of Rolling and Fixed Plant; Illustrated by a Series of Plates on a Large Scale, and Numerous Engravings on wood. Volume Second - Plates.
Glasgow: Blackie and Son, 1855. Volume II only, folio, pp.iv,(numbered plates), half calf, five raised bands, gilt-lettered label, claret cloth boards, marbled edges, comprises 60 engraved plates, double-page, and a further 10 engraved diagrams; engraved heraldic bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, some foxing and occasional toning to plates throughout, light crease to lower corner of title, extremities rubbed, with light water-staining and superficial rubbing to cloth, a very good copy.
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RAILWAYS OF BLACKPOOL AND THE FLYDE.
Preston- Lytham- St Annes. Blackpool- Fleetwood.
Leeds, Martin Bairstow. 8vo.,pp. 104, paperback; a very good copy.
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