Lot 158
Steam Engines & James Watt.- Falck (N.D.) An Account and Description of an Improved Steam-Engine, first edition, 1766; and 33 others by or about Watt and on steam engines (34)
Hammer Price: £3,500
Description
Steam Engines & James Watt.- Falck (N.D.) An Account and Description of an Improved Steam-Engine, first edition, folding engraved plate, advertisement leaf at end, library half morocco, 1766 § Wicksteed (Thomas) An Experimental Inquiry concerning the Relative Power of, and Useful Effect Produced by, the Cornish and Boulton and Watt Pumping Engines, and Cylindrical and Waggon-Head Boilers, first edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author to W. Cubitt on front free endpaper, tables, one printed in red and black and linen-backed, 40pp. publisher's catalogue at end, original cloth, sunned, head of spine nicked, 1841 § Bramah (Joseph) A Letter, to the Rt. Hon. Sir James Eyre...on...Infringement on Mr. Watt's Patent for an Improvement on the Steam Engine, first edition, errata leaf at end, lacks half-title, library morocco-backed cloth, 1797; and 31 others by or about Watt and on steam engines, 4to and 8vo (34)
Description
Steam Engines & James Watt.- Falck (N.D.) An Account and Description of an Improved Steam-Engine, first edition, folding engraved plate, advertisement leaf at end, library half morocco, 1766 § Wicksteed (Thomas) An Experimental Inquiry concerning the Relative Power of, and Useful Effect Produced by, the Cornish and Boulton and Watt Pumping Engines, and Cylindrical and Waggon-Head Boilers, first edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author to W. Cubitt on front free endpaper, tables, one printed in red and black and linen-backed, 40pp. publisher's catalogue at end, original cloth, sunned, head of spine nicked, 1841 § Bramah (Joseph) A Letter, to the Rt. Hon. Sir James Eyre...on...Infringement on Mr. Watt's Patent for an Improvement on the Steam Engine, first edition, errata leaf at end, lacks half-title, library morocco-backed cloth, 1797; and 31 others by or about Watt and on steam engines, 4to and 8vo (34)
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