Beschreibung:

London and Birmingham Railways. ‘Extracts from the Minutes of Evidence given before the Committee of the Lords on the London and Birmingham Railway Bill’, 1st edition, London, 1832, Those giving evidence included Stephenson himself and John Rastrick, John Moss, Joseph Pease and Henry Booth bound with Bradshaw, Lengths and Levels to Bradshaw’s Maps of the Canals, Navigable Rivers, and Railways, in the Principal Part of England. Dedicted to Thomas Telford… , printed by E. Ruff, 1833, 15pp., a good copy with neat library stamp on verso of title, bound with Bradshaw, Lengths and Levels to Bradshaw’s Maps of Canals, Navigable Rivers, and Railways from Actual Survey, T.G. White & Co., 1832, 15pp., misbound with pp. 9-15 bound before title, with a large folding map showing the London & Birmingham Railway ‘George Stephenson & Son Engineers’, some neat repair where folded, 55 x 43 cm, contained in a pocket at end, with a folding plate in two halves showing (1) the continuation of the Lea Navigation and River Stort and (2) continuation of the Grand Junction Canal and the proposed London and Birmingham Railway, trimmed on right-hand margin, also bound in starting on A3 (page 5) ‘Canals and Navigable Rivers’ pp. 5-20, showing distances between locks and basins on various midlands canals, neat library blue cloth binding, 8vo (Qty: 1)