Author: Hoiuse of Commons
Title: Report from Select Committee on Steam Carriages ; with the Minutes of Evidence and Appendix. : Ordered, by the House of Commons, to Be Printed, 12 October, 1831. First Edition
Description: London: House of Commons, 1831. Folio. 21 x 35cm. 117, [1] pp. (4to) 35x21.5 cm (13¾x8½"), quarter-sheep and marbled boards (original wrappers bound in). First Edition.Waterstains on first few pages. Rare. An interesting pre-cursor to government regulation of the motorized vehicle. "The Select Committee appointed to inquire into, and to report upon, the proportion of Tolls which ought to be imposed upon Coaches and other Vehicles propelled by Steam or Gas, upon Turnpike Roads; and also, to inquire into, and to report upon, the Rate of Toll actually levied upon such Coaches or other Vehicles under any Acts of Parliament now in force. .
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Title: Report from Select Committee on Steam Carriages ; with the Minutes of Evidence and Appendix. : Ordered, by the House of Commons, to Be Printed, 12 October, 1831. First Edition
Description: London: House of Commons, 1831. Folio. 21 x 35cm. 117, [1] pp. (4to) 35x21.5 cm (13¾x8½"), quarter-sheep and marbled boards (original wrappers bound in). First Edition.Waterstains on first few pages. Rare. An interesting pre-cursor to government regulation of the motorized vehicle. "The Select Committee appointed to inquire into, and to report upon, the proportion of Tolls which ought to be imposed upon Coaches and other Vehicles propelled by Steam or Gas, upon Turnpike Roads; and also, to inquire into, and to report upon, the Rate of Toll actually levied upon such Coaches or other Vehicles under any Acts of Parliament now in force. .
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Price: US$ 450.00 Seller: Wittenborn Art Books
- Book number: 51-6361
- Book number: 51-6361
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