1. The Babcock & Wilcox Company Tublar Products division.

Methods of Working Seamless Tubes and Pipe of the Intermediate: B&W Croloys. Ferritic Air-Hardening Type 1/2% to 9% Chromium. Technical Bulletin 9C.

Pennsylvania, The Babcock & Wilcox Company, 1954. 13.5 cm x 20.5 cm. 46 pages with several figures, tables and black and white photographs. Original softcover with embossed lettering. White plastic comb-binding. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor rubbed on covers. [Technical Bulletins]

2. Dickson, R. W.

The Farmer’s Companion; being a complete System of Modern Husbandry: Including the Latest Improvements and Discoveries, in Theory and Practice. Illustrated by numerous Engravings. With 102 copper engraved plates (including two larger hand-coloured fold – out plates).

Second Edition. In two Volumes (complete set). London, Printed for Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1813. Large Octavo. Both volumes together contain 948 pages interleaved illustrations throughout the volumes (many of these plates are folding out) including a General Index. [Please ask for a full list of the illustrations]. Hardcover / Two modern halfleather / full leather bindings (see images). Volume I in octavo format and in a brown full leather with spinelabel / Volume II in large octavo and bound in an excellent green half morocco with gilt lettering on spine, marbled boards and leather corners. Both volumes with new endpapers. Some illustrations and text towards the end of Volume II with some faint dampstaining only. Three illustrations are present twice in these volumes (Plates 35, 54 and 84). Extremely rare publication in very good condition !!

3. [Robinson, Sir Joseph B.] Weinthal, Leo [Editor].

Memories, Mines and Millions. Being the Life of Sir Joseph B. Robinson, Bart. Compiled and edited by Leo Weinthal.

London, Simpkin Marshall, 1929. 19 cm x 25 cm. Frontispiece, 247 pages. Five high-quality, tipped-in, vintage monochrome photographs, including frontispiece on 4 plates. Besides the vintage photographs numerous illustrations throughout. Illustrations show for example action on the Pniel Diamond Diggings in 1875, Ferreira’s Camp in Johannesburg, 1886, Pretoria in 1875 / Caricatures of Robinson in “The Moon”, “Pretoria Press” “Truth” etc. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Lower corners slightly rubbed. Illegible name of preowner on titlepage. Interior is bright and clean. Pencilled underlining to page 35.

4. Watters, Mick.

Mechanical and Quartz Watch Repair.

Wiltshire, Crowood Press Ltd., 2010. 19.5 cm x 25 cm. 160 pages. Several black and white drawings, illustrations and photographs throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Fine / As New.

5. Mach, Ernst.

Die Mechanik in Ihrer Entwicklung – Historisch-kritisch dargestellt. Mit einem Vorwort zum Nachdruck 1988 von Gereon Wolters.

Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgeselschaft, 1988. 12 cm x 18 cm. XXXIV, 493 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.