Bloomsbury Auctions Bloomsbury House 24 Maddox Street Railwayana, including the Collection of Michael Max London W1S 1PP United Kingdom Started 12 Jun 2014 12:00 BST Lot Description Ahrons (E.L.) - The British Steam Railway Locomotive 1825-1925, some light foxing, 1927; Locomotive and Train Working in the latter 1 part of the Nineteenth Century, 6 vol., Cambridge, [1951-54]; The Development of British Locomotive Design, folding plans, light water- staining to lower edge of f ...[more] Experiments on Rail Roads, in England, illustrative of the Safety, Economy and Speed, of Transportation , which this system, as now 2 improved, is capable of affording , first edition , 20pp., foxed and soiled, frayed at edges (repaired), correspondence with George Ottley concerning the item and ...[more] Report on Steam Carriages, by a Select Committee of the House of Commons of Great Britain , first American edition , errata leaf at 3 end, browned, title frayed at edges (partly repaired) modern wrappers, uncut, preserved in modern cloth drop-back box, morocco label on spine, 8vo, Washington, DC., ...[more] Ensamples of Railway Making, first edition , lithographed frontispiece and folding plates, a few marginal stains, ex-Office of 4 Commissioners of Railways library copy with one or two stamps, modern cloth preserving old cloth on boards and spine (faded), 1843 § Baker (J.Allen) The Rapid Transit ...[more] Report to the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Foreign... ( Capt. Douglas) Report to the Lords of the Committee of 5 Privy Council for Trade and Foreign Plantations, on the Railways of the United States , 2 vol. in 1 including supplement, folding lithographed plates and ...[more] Brown (William H.) - The History of the first Locomotives in America, first edition , plates, most folding, illustrations, folding plates with 6 light water-staining to lower margin, modern cloth, New York, 1871 § Larrabee (William) The Railroad Question, first edition , original pictorial ...[more] Bayley (C.W.) and O.Winder. - Report on a Visit to some American Railroads October & November 1901, 2 vol. in 1, Index at beginning, 7 contemporary calf, gilt, Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, 1902 § Yorke ( Lt.-Col. H.A.) Report on a Visit to America, September 19th to October 31st, 19 ...[more] Sherrington (Charles Ely Rose).- - [A collection of papers on American railways], 13 vol. in 1, all inscribed at head of upper wrapper by 8 C.E.R.Sherrington, bookplate of C.E.M.Sherrington signed and annotated "Railway Research Service" by C.E.R.Sherrington, contemporary cloth, rubbed, 4to ...[more] Great Western Railway Company. - Miscellaneous Memoranda, following Visit to the United States and Canada by Sir Felix Pole, Mr. 9 Jas. Milne, Mr. J.C.Lloyd and Mr. W.A.Stanier August 5th - 23rd 1927, duplicated typescript printed on rectos only, folding plans, plates, some photographic, some smalle ...[more] Loewy (Raymond) - The Locomotive, 1937 § Schönberger (A., editor ) Raymond Loewy: Pioneer of American Industrial Design, Munich, 10 1990 § Phillips (Lance) Yonder Comes the Train, New York & London, 1965 § Garver (T.H.) The Last Steam Railroad in America: Photographs by O.Winston Link, ...[more] Hungerford (Edward) - Transport for War 1942-1943, signed presentation copy from the author to Sir Felix Pole of the GWR , New York, 11 1943 § Turner (G.E.) Victory Rode the Rails: The Strategic Place of the Railroads in the Civil War, Indianapolis , 1953 § Johnston, II (A.J.) Virginia Railroads ...[more] Medhurst (George) - Calculations and Remarks, tending to prove the Practicability, Effects and Advantages of a Plan for the Rapid 12 Conveyance of Goods and Passengers upon an Iron Road through a Tube of 30 Feet in Area, by the Power and Velocity of Air , first edition , lacking half-title but w ...[more] Samuda (Joseph d`A.) - A Treatise on the Adaptation of Atmospheric Pressure to the Purposes of Locomotion on Railways, second 13 edition, 2 folding engraved plates, advertisement leaf at end, light browning to text, upper hinge reinforced, original green printed wrappers, rubbed and soiled, spine worn ...[more] Stephenson (Robert) - Report on the Atmospheric Railway System, first edition , large folding table of experiments on velocity (one or 14 two small tears at folds), 27 lithographed plates of graphs, later half morocco over old marbled boards, preserving part of old calf label, [Haskell 2653-54; Ott ...[more] [Mallet (Charles François)] - Report on the Railroad constructed from Kingstown to Dalkey, in Ireland, upon the Atmospheric System and 15 upon the Application of this System to Railroads in General, first edition , 3 double-page engraved plates, illustrations , [1844] bound with Gill (Joseph) ...[more] House of Commons. - Report from the Select Committee on Atmospheric Railways, some light browning, original blue printed wrappers, 16 uncut, rubbed, spine worn, wrappers laid down and repaired, damp-staining to foot of rear wrapper, preserved in modern cloth drop- back box, [Not in Ottley], folio, 18 ...[more] Jones (William) - A Popular Sketch of the Various Proposed Systems of Atmospheric Railway, first edition , frontispiece, illustrations, 17 frontispiece very lightly offset on title, original cloth, very slightly marked but a very good copy, preserved in modern cloth drop-back box, [Haskell 2895; Ot ...[more] Maus (H.) and Alf.Belpaire. - Rapport...sur le Chemin de Fer Atmostphérique de Kingstown a Dalkey, signed presentation copy from 18 Maus inscribed at head of title (partly erased), stitched in original printed wrappers, uncut, a little soiled, spine frayed, preserved in modern cloth portfolio, 8vo ...[more] Auction Catalogues.- - A small collection of railwayana auction catalogues, including the Henri Petiet, Sir William McAlpine, Coluzzi, 19 Salem and Sheppard collections, most original wrappers, v.s. , v.d. ( c.25) View on bloomsburyauctions.com Back Track: Recording Britain`s Railway History, vol.1-25 including Introductory Issue and Index vol.1-20 in 31 only (lacking only vol.25 20 no.9) and Special Issues 1 & 2, illustrations, many colour, vol.1-24 bound in green cloth with original pictorial wrappers bound in, vol.25 and Special Is ...[more] Badnall (Richard) - A Treatise on Railway Improvements..., first edition, presentation copy from the author to his brother inscribed at 21 head of half-title, illustrations and diagrams, advertisement leaf at end, spotted, modern half calf, spine gilt with red morocco label, uncut, [Haskell 147; O ...[more] Baker (Edward) - A Handbook to various Publications, Documents, and Charts connected with the Rise and Development of the Railway 22 System , 2 vol. in 1 including Supplement, first edition , advertisement leaf printed on blue paper bound in at beginning, original pictorial brown cloth, gilt, orig ...[more] Barman (Christian) - An Introduction to Railway Architecture, bookplate of Paul Edwards, 1950 § Meeks (Carroll L.V.) The Railroad 23 Station, reprint, Secaucus, N.J., 1978 Biddle (Gordon) Victorian Stations, 1973; Britain`s Historic Railway Buildings, 2003 § Minnis (John) Britain`s Lost Railways ...[more] Jun. The Locomotive Engine illustrated on stone, second edition Jun. (James) The Locomotive Engine illustrated on stone, second 24 edition, 4 double-page lithographed plates by Basire, a little foxed, all sheets mounted on linen stubs, small marginal tear to title and tear to central fold of fi ...[more] Belcher (Henry) - Illustrations of the Scenery on the Line of the Whitby and Pickering Railway..., additional engraved vignette title and 25 engraved plates after G.Dodgson, errata slip at end, light foxing, original cloth, rebacked, new endpapers, modern cloth slip-case, [Haskell 478; Ottley 7085; Sk ...[more] Bermuda Railway.- - A unique and important collection of Bermuda Railway memorabilia, collected by Gladys Eva Kitchen, wife of 26 Harold Jennings Kitchen who was Chief Engineer for the short-lived Bermuda Railway. The collection mainly comprises: 1. Seven issues of The Bermuda Railway Magazine fo ...[more] Betjeman (John) - First and Last Loves, folding plate, illustrations and dust-jacket by John Piper, 1952; London`s Historic Railway 27 Stations Photographed by John Gay, 1972 § Smithson (Alison & Peter) The Euston Arch and the Growth of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway, 1968 § Simm ...[more] Blackmore (John) and J.W.Carmichael. - Views on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, first edition, large paper copy with plates in proof 28 state , additional engraved vignette title and 23 plates after J.W.Carmichael, all proofs before letters printed on india paper and mounted, tissue guards, bo ...[more] A Treatise on the Steam Engine in its Application to Mines, Mills (John, editor ) A Treatise on the Steam Engine in its Application to 29 Mines, Mills, Steam Navigation, and Railways , second edition, 30 engraved plates, 9 folding, wood-engraved illustrations, frontispiece torn and repaired, or ...[more] Brees (Samuel Charles) - Railway Practice. First [-Fourth] Series, 4 vol., tinted lithographed frontispiece in vol.1 (North Church Tunnel, L 30 & B) and engraved frontispiece in vol.2 (Brunel`s bridge at Maidenhead), both after Brees and double-page, list of subscribers, 77 lithographed plates ...[more] Brees (Samuel Charles) - Railway Practice. A Collection of Working Plans and Practical Details of Construction in the Public of the Most 31 Celebrated Engineers, first edition , double-page tinted lithographed frontispiece of North Church Tunnel, London & Birmingham Railway after Brees,