Auction: January 21, 2024

Lot #29: Antiquarian Railway Book Assortment

(19) items including "Great Western Railway Running Powers" revised by Horsley and Gale, London 1927, full leather having marbled endpapers and hundreds of diagrams and maps, "Bridges, Structural Steel Work and Mechanical Engineering Productions" by Sir William Arrol, London 1909, cloth, illustrated, a GWR "Block Telegraph Line Clear" book for double, single lines form ledger complete in manuscript dated 1891-92, "Manchester Central New Signaling" G. Leedam, Liverpool 1935, stapled wraps, instructional circular, "Exceptional Loads by GWR" James Milne, London 1933, stapled wraps, illustrating specialty freight cars and "Ministry of Transport Railway Accident Report on the Derailment.. Between Holmes Chapel and Sandbach", London 1961, staple wraps having fold-out diagrams, "Great Western Railway Diagrams of Special Wagons" London 1926 edition, half leather over cloth, a 1939 edition of the same title in cloth-backed printed card stock, both illustrated throughout, a disbound "Old Types of Railway Carriages" dated 1845, illustrated with diagrams, "British Railway Rolling Stock" by H. C. Webster, London 1942, cloth in dust jacket, illustrated, "World Railways 1950-51" London 1952, cloth, illustrated, a 19th century scrapbook containing hand drawn caricatures of members of GWR Accountant's Clerks by Henry Fox dated 1897, a scrapbook containing Royal Mail 1960s - 1970s covers having railway interest and ephemera and (6) volumes written and illustrated by Roland Emett of Punch having railway interest, hardcovers in dust jackets