GEORGE HOLLAND ACKERS

Universal Yacht Signals.

Hunt, 1851. 2nd Edition. Tall 8vo. pp. vi, [-] xxii, [2, blank, 264> colour illustrations. Full leather, Very Good. The first edition was issued in 1847, this seems to be a reprint with a cancel title page and amended prefatory material. With the signature of Edward Moore Gawne, speaker of the House of Keys, Isle of Man.

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Book number: 44333

Catalogue: Transport

Keywords: Transport

HYDE CLARKE editor

The Railway Register, and Record of Public Enterprise, for Railways, Mines, Patents, Inventions. Volume I. 1844 - 5.

John Weale, 1845. 8vo. pp. viii, 592> numerous folding illustrations and maps, mostly mounted on fine linen. Contemporary half calf, rubbed and corners slightly worn. With the signature and bookplate of Sir Edward Watkin. Uncommon. This periodical lasted for a few short years during the heyday of railway expansion and is notable for a number of rare railway maps for existing and proposed lines, including those for Aberdeen Railway, Central Kent Railway, Irish Railways, Cornwall Junction Railways, Churnet Valley Railway, London Salisbury, and Yeovil Railway, Armagh, Coleraine and Portrush Railway, Kentish Coast Railway, Welsh Midland Railway, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, Essex and Suffolk Railway, Wexford, Waterford and Velentia Railway, Bordeaux to the Mediterranean Railway, Overyssel Railway, South Midland Railway, London, Oxford, Cheltenham, Gloucester and Hereford Railway, Alto Duoro Railway [Portugal], Spanish and Portuguese Railways> in addition there are folding plates of a locomotive, a salvage vessel and a lifeboat among others. Edward Watkin [1819 - 1901] was a Railway King and Member of Parliament> a railway visionary who eventually chaired nine British railway companies.

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Book number: 45060

Catalogue: Transport

Keywords: Transport