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Brindley at Wet Earth Colliery: an Engineering Study.
by BANKS, A.G. and SCHOFIELD, R.B:
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Newton Abbot, David Charles,1968, pp.156,illustrated. The dust jacket has few marks and has been covered in sticky-back plastic to preserve it, the book is very good. With a presentation inscription signed by the two authors. Item Price
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A Treatise on Canals and Reservoirs.
by SUTCLIFFE, John:
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Rochdale, Hartley for the author, 1816, pp. (4), xiv, 414, (no page 311/312 as is correct). Modern half leather binding over cloth sides. Binding sound, paper browned with some foxing, especially heavy on pages 298 to 310.. Ink name on title and the previous owner has blind stamped his name to the corner of several leaves. As well as canals… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Compendious History of the Cotton-Manufacture; with a disproval of the claim of Sir Richard Arkwright to the invention of its ingenious machinery.
by GUEST, Richard:
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Manchester, Joseph Pratt, 1823, 4to, pp. (4), 70, 4, 12 plates as called for. Original boards neatly re-backed with a leather spine. Boards rubbed and stained, but still tight and sound. Please note that there is some foxing and browning throughout, as seems quite usual, but this is an acceptable copy of an important early work on the cotton manufacture.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Water-Spinners; a New Look at the Cotton Trade.
by ASPIN, Chris:
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Helmshore Local History Society, 2003., pp. (8), 508, illustrated. Original limp card covers, Reading creases to spine, lightly used, but good, sound condition. Item Price
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The Curse of the Factory System.
by FIELDEN, John:
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Halifax, Milner, [1836] small format, 13x8cm, pp. 96. Original cloth, rubbed and stained, neatly rebacked. Some heavy ink marks, mainly marginal, but some underlining, particularly to the early pages. Piece torn from margin of one leaf, not touching the text. Generally a rather used copy, but a scarce edition, Library Hub recording only copies at Oxford and Reading Univesities. Item Price
SGD 259.72
Annals of Coal Mining and the Coal Trade; The Invention of the Steam Engine and the Origin of the Railway
by GALLOWAY, Robert L:
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Colliery Guardian, 1898, two volume set, pp. xii, 533, xv, 409. Original maroon cloth, spines faded, else a very good and clean set of the original edition. Item Price
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The Silk Industry and Trade. A Study in the Economic Organization of the Export Trade of Kashmir and Indian Siks, with Special Reference to their Utilization in the British and French Markets.
by RAWLLEY, Ratan C:
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P. S. King & Son, 1919. pp. xiii, 172 plus adverts. Original cloth, good condition. Item Price
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The Cotton Industry of Japan and China; being the Report of the Journey to Japan and China
by PEARSE, Arno S:
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February-April 1929 pp. 254. Original cloth-backed printed boards. Very good, clean condition. Item Price
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George Stephenson and M. Ferdinand de Lesseps
by BOWES, Alderman I:
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Salford, 1893, 62 page pamphlet. Original card covers a bit dusty and foxed, but sound condition. The full title is Rails and Waterways. George Stephenson and M. Ferdinand de Lesseps. The men and their work: The First Public Railway in the World and the Suez and Panama Canals. Ottley 2466. Item Price
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The British Cotton Manufactures.
by GUEST, Richard:
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Manchester, Henry Smith, 1828, pp. [2], 230. Original boards with paper label. largely unopened. A little dusty, but in exceptional sound and original condition. Includes "a reply to an article on the Spinning Machinery contained in a recent number of the Edinburgh Review." Goldsmith 25498. Item Price
SGD 692.60
The Miner's Guide or Complete Miner.
by [ COTES, J. ]:
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Wirksworth, J. Cotes, 1810, 8vo, pp. xx, 150, with two illustrations and list of subscribers. Paper discoloured in places, but very good condition in modern quarter calf with marbled paper boards. Particlarly relates to lead mining in the High Peak of Derbyshire. Item Price
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The Lancashire Cotton industry. A Study in Economic Development.
by CHAPMAN, Sydney J:
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Manchester University Press,1904, first edition,pp.vii, 309. A few small marks to the front cover, head and tail of spine a bit bumped, but very sound in the original cloth. Stamp of the Free Trade Union on the front endpaper, but no other marks. Includes a useful and detailed bibliography. Item Price
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Cultural Contacts of Mining.
by HADDOCK, M. H:
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Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1949, pp. 144, original black cloth. Spine dull, some light foxing, but good, sound condition. Item Price
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Observations Addressed to the Coal Owners of Northumberland and Durham on the Coal Trade of those Counties: more especially with regard to the cause of, and remedy for, its present depressed condition.
by TAYLOR, T. John:
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Newcastle, Wm Heaton, 1846, pp. 56. Neatly bound in recent marbled wrappers with printed label. Very good condition. Goldsmiths 34634, COPAC lists only 3 copies. Item Price
SGD 216.44
The Jessop Family.
by WARREN, J. T. and P. J. K:
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Wimborne, 1971, 30 pages plus pages 17a to 17f, and appendices, printed from typescript on one side of the page only. Original cloth. Folding pedigree. A scarce privately printed account of the Jessops, best known for William, the canal and railway builder and one of the founders of the Butterley Company. There is also much detail on the succeeding generations. Item Price
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John Wilkinson, Ironmaster.
by DICKINSON, H. W:
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Hume Kitchin, Ulverston, 1914, 8vo, pp. 60, (5), with 14 illustrations. Original cloth, a little faded, but very good, sound condition. Scarce. Item Price
SGD 112.55
Cornish Mining Interviews, Copiously Illustrated, with Portraits of Celebrities and Photographs of Mining Scenes at Home and Abroad, including : Underground Scenes by J. C. Burrow.
by THOMAS, Herbert:
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Cornwall,The Camborne Printing and Stationary Co, 1896, pp. (12), 351, numerous illustrations. Original cloth with gilt lettering. Slightest of rubbing to extremities, but a very good, sound copy. Item Price
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The Laws of the Stannaries of Cornwall: with Marginal Notes and References to Authorities to which are added the Several Acts of Parliament, Schedule of Fees, Resolutions of the Judges etc.
by CORNWALL:
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Truro, Joseph Tregoning, 1824, 8vo, pp. 136. Original boards, edges uncut. Spine worn and defective, boards dusty, edges and corners rubbed, but still tight and sound. Name erased from front endpaper, leaving the date, but contents good and clean. Item Price
SGD 155.84
The Mines of Grassington Moor & Wharfedale.
by BIRD, R.H. (editor):
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Northern Mine Research Society, 1980, A4,pp.95, folding plan of the principal veins and other illustrations. Name on tile-page, but a nice,clean copy in the original illustrated card covers. British Mining No.13. Item Price
SGD 27.70