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	James Arnold, FARM WAGGONS OF ENGLAND AND WALES. Ref: 7211 Published by John Baker. Definitive book on the subject with full colour plates of the 24 waggons and several drawings featuring waggons from most counties from Yorkshire to Devon and Kent. First published in 1969, this is a 1978 reprint which includes the revisions from the 1974 edition. The book is in mint condition; very clean with sharp, bright pages and an unclipt jacket with six waggons illustrated on the front and nine on the back. Endpapers show the general arragements of an Oxford and a Hereford waggons. There is a twelve-page section on the stucture and equipment of waggons with very detailed drawings by the author followed by the 24 examples of different county waggons and their descriptions Landscape 240 x 310 mm. 72 pp. 24 full colour plates and a various b&w drawings including endpapers. hb. Jacketed. Click image for further information. Price: £60.00


	Arnold & Sons (John Bell & Croyden Ltd), CATALOGUE OF VETERINARY INSTRUMENTS AND APPLIANCES. Ref: 7315 Published by Arnold & Sons (John Bell & Croyden Ltd). This Catalogue (circa 1920) by the major English manufacturer of veterinary instruments contains every conceivable instrument and appliance that could be needed and used, and all are illustrated. At the time Arnold & Sons had just amalgamated with John Bell & Croyden. Both firms had now been established for 100 years. The firm held Royal Warrants from George V and also Queen Alexandria, the King of Spain and the Shah of Persia, and they were appointed manufacturers to The Army, Navy, The Honourable Council of India, Crown Agent for the Colonies, The Governments of Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Egypt and the Royal Veterinary College and His Majesty's Prisons. There are 4 pp. of advertisements in the front of the Catalogue The binding is rubbed in places, but all the pages are intact and undamaged. 275 x 215 mm. xvi + 172 pp. Over 100s of b&w illustrations, mainly engravings. hb. Click image for further details. Price: £65.00


	Barnard, SADDLERY, SHOE FINDINGS AND AUTO ACCESSORIES CATALOG No. 55. Ref: 7231 Published by Edward Barnard Co. 1930s Catalogue of this Rome (NY) manufacturer of harness and saddlery (110 pp.) and leather goods. Also a wholesaler of farm equipment and tools (20 pp.), shoe findings, and tools (20 pp.), auto supplies (4 pp.), luggage, dog accessories, bicycles electrical appliances, gift items, sporting goods (golf, tennis, fishing) and beds and metal furniture. Some rubbing on the spine and front cover. 275 x 195 mm. 238 pp. Profusely illustrated throughout with photographs and 100s of b&w drawings with some in colour. pb. Click image for further details. Price: £60.00


	Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, TYPES OF HORSES SUITABLE FOR ARMY REMOUNTS. Ref: 9301 H. M's. Stationery Office. 1909 specification for the horses required for: The Houseold Cavarly; Cavalry of the Line; Royal Horse Artillery; Royal Field Artillery (3 examples); Royal Engineers; Army Service Corps; Mounted Infantry (2 examples). All examples are given with photographs of the kind of horse required in each case with descriptions as to: age; colour; soundness in eyes, wind and limb. 245 x 152 mm. 8 pp. 10 b&w photograhs. pb. Price: £18.00


	Lewis, EARLY WOODEN RAILWAYS. Ref: 0316 Published by Routledge. This the 1974 paperback edition of the first edition 1970. Chapters include: an acount of continental railways including flanged wheel Eastern European railways; English railways before 1660; the Newcastle waggonway; the Shropshire railway; canal railways and the coming of th iron rail; miscellaneous railways; British railways underground; Appendix; glossary; abreviations. An owner's bookplate and a slight uplift of the lamination on the front cover and rubbing at the corners. 230 x 160 mm. xxiii +436 pp. 74 b&w photographic paltes and 56 b&w figures in the text. pb. Click image for further details. Price: £35.00


	Mason, THE UNIVERSAL SADDLERY ALBUM. Ref: 7237 Published by D. Mason & Sons Ltd. C. 1900 Catalogue of every conceivable piece to do with harness and saddlery from equipment for donkeys through omnibus and wagon horses. Every type of saddle from racing to wicker chair saddles. Bridles, kneecap & fetlock boots, harness funiture and ornments and brasses, bits, hames, stirrups, and whips of every description. Carriage lamps, brushes and curry combs, stable fittings and a section on saddlers' and curriers' tools. The majority of illustrations are engravings in colour. The corners of a number of pages a re turned are the corners of the front cover. However the contents are complete. The signsature in the front is of R. A. Salaman indiciting that it came from his collection. Cover corners frayed and edges of some pages turned, but contents undamaged. A very rare catalogue. 315 x 240 mm. 120 pp. (printed on one side only). Colour and b&w engravings fill every page. limp cover. Click image for further details. Price: £125.00


	Pfeil, Stedall & Son, CATALOGUE 1899. Ref: 7234 Published by Pfeil, Stedall & Son. This is the 5th edition of 1899 Catalogue of the Pfeil, Stedall & Son of Bloomsbury, London. Pfeil, Stedall & Son were iron and steel merchants, coach ironmongers and platers and this is the coach section of their catalogue. Everything required from accumulators for dashboard electric lamps to dog-cart door fasteners and brake-handle mudguards to dragon bolts. Every conceivable part for a horse-drawn coach is included. They were the sole agents for Hoopes, Bro. & Darlington's American wheels and wheel timber. Unusually, there is no mention of any early motor car ironmongery. 280 x 210 mm. 120 pp. 100s of b&w drawings and engravings. limp linen cover. Click image for further information. Price: £95.00


	J. Pearson Pattinson, BRITISH RAILWAYS. Ref: 7230 Published by Cassell & Co. Ltd. This is the 2nd edition 1893 and is subtitled: Their Passenger Services, Rolling Stock, Locomotives, Gradients and Express Speeds. Chapters are: Introductory Remarks; Speed and Punctuality, Passenger Rolling Stock; Safety; Locomotives, Train Loads and Timing: The Lines to the Continent: Seaside Lines; Lines to the West; Country Lines; The Express Lines; The Minor Lines. Drawn plates illustrate points in each chapter. Slight rubbing of the spine and an owner's stamp. Otherwise good . 220 x 140 mm. xvi + 252 pp. 35 b&w drawn plates and one photographic frontispiece. hb. Click image for further details. Price: £40.00


	Thomas Tingley Ltd., TRADE PRICE LIST FOR COACH AND MOTOR BODY BUILDERS. Wheelwrights, Smiths and Farriers. Ref: 7343 Published by Thomas Tingley Ltd. This is a 1935 catalogue unusually covering all aspects of motor and coach body-building plus equipment for horse- drawn vehicles: rein rails for milk floats; horse shoes; horse clipping machines,ash and lancewood shafts, American oak spokes, ash felloes turned elm stocks; car and van wooden wheels of all types, uincluding artillery wheels, and tyre measures. Some pages bent at corners. cover and pp. 28-31 loose, but nothing is missing. 280 x 210 mm. 40 pp. 100s of illustrations, both engravings and photographs. pb. stapled. Click image for further details. Price: £35.00


	Thos. Wittingham & Wilkin, CATALOGUE OF COACH AND MOTOR GOODS Ref: 7210 Published by Wittingham & Wilkin. A transitional Catalogue between the horse vehicle and the motor car. However, the bulk of the catalogue is taken up with goods to do with the horse coach. There are sections on motor car axles and springs, wooden car wheels, (artillery pattern), motor bonnets, aluminium doors, tires, radiatprs, generator cases, petrol densimeters (petrol could be too dense for some working motors). Many of the car parts have to be fabricated to order. Most of the catalogue is made up of every concevsable requirement for horse drawn vehicles. There are eleven pages of illustrations of elaborate carriage door handles amongst dozens of pages of various carriage furniture, lamps of every description, hearse rails and furniture and carriage ironwork of every description. Three pages of Valentines colour charts for their superground varnishes and a section on tools. Some minor tears in the colour pages and some abrading of the corners of the cover. Landscape 310 x 245 mm. vi + 208 pp.100s of b&w illustrtaions and 3 pp. of colour. Limp cloth. Click image for further details. Price: £110.00

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