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Lot 143:
Sold for: £24
Description
Weale’s Quarterly Papers on Engineering Volume One Twenty Five Engravings on Copper and Wood Edited and published by John Weale, London. 1st edition 1844. This volume contains in part one some folding plans of raising mud at Blackhall and Hull docks and also many drawings of the Russian steam Frigate ‘Kamchatka’, constructed at New York for the Russian Government. The drawings are 16½” x 11½” on thick paper. With many other drawings on engineering machines. Now RARE. 9¼” x 12″. Loose in binding, with many large folding separate plans Quarter leather binding, titled and decorated in gilt. Front board detached. From single vendors book collection. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99. 30kg box UK £15, EU £40, ROW £60
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