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A QUANTITY OF BOOK INCLUDING EARLY PROPELLER DEVELOPMENT


A Treatise on the Screw Propeller with Various Suggestions of Improvement by John Bourne [and the second edition of the same]. 2 vol. Numerous folding engraved plates, titles a little discoloured, original cloth, bookplate of David Ian Moor. 11 x 8½in. (27.8 x 21.5cm.) – London, Longman [and others], 1882; De l’état actuel de la navigation par la vapeur, par A. Campaignac, 5 large folding engraved plates, a little foxing, contemporary half roan, lacking top compartment of spine, 10½ x 8½in. (26.7 x 21.8cm.). Paris, L. Mathias, 1842, bookplate of David Ian Moor; Report on Waves by J. Scott Russel, engraved plates, one folding, portrait of the author loosely inserted, 2 plate numbers cropped, plates rather foxed, contemporary blue polished calf, hinges rather rubbed, 11¼ x 8¾in. (28.7 x 22cm.). London, Taylor, 1845. Large paper copy, bookplates of John Scott Russell and David Ian Moor; and another volume.


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