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Roscoe (Thomas). The London and Birmingham Railway; with the Home and Country Scenes on each side of the line; including Sketches of Kenilworth, Leamington, Warwick, Guy's Cliff, Stratford, &c., London: Charles Tilt, [1839], folding engraved map frontispiece (closed tear to central fold), additional engraved title, 16 engraved plates and one single-page engraved plan, wood engraved vignette illustrations, occasional spotting, contemporary calf, moroon morocco labels to spine, some wear, lower board scratched, 8vo, together with: Belcher (Henry), Illustrations of the scenery on the line of the Whitby and Pickering Railway, in the North Eastern part of Yorkshire, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1836, engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title and 11 plates, some toning, spotting and offsetting, bookplate of Sir David Salomons Bt. to upper pastedown, top edge gilt, early 20th century brown half morocco by John Bumpus, upper joint cracked, 8vo, Walker (James), Observations on the Comparative Merits of Locomotive & Fixed Engines, as applied to Railways; being a reply to the Report of Mr. James Walker to the Directors of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, compiled from the Reports of Mr. George Stephenson, with an Account of the Competition of Locomotive Engines at Rainhill, in October, 1829, and of the Subsequent Experiments. By Robert Stephenson and Joseph Locke Civil Engineers, Liverpool: Printed by Wales & Baines, [1830], folding lithograph frontispiece, modern antique style half calf, maroon morocco title label, 8vo, Great Western Railway, The Official Illustrated Guide to the Great Western Railway, by George Measom, [1860], wood engraved illustrations, bound with [London], The Illustrated Hand-Book to London and its Environs, London: Ingram, Cooke & Co., 1853, wood engraved illustrations, folding wood engraved panorama of the river Thames from Windsor to the Nore, and folding map, bookplate to front free endpaper, contemporary black half calf, gilt and blind decorated spine, thick 8vo, Osborne (E.C. & W., Publishers), Osborne's Guide to the Grand Junction, or, Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester Railway, Birmingham, 1838, engraved folding map strengthened to folds at verso, wood engraved illustrations, two plans (one folding), late 20th century dark brown morocco, maroon morocco title label to spine, 12mo in 6s and two others, A Practical Treatise on Rail-Roads..., by Nicholas Wood 3rd edition, 1838, and Permanent Way. The Story of the Kenya and Uganda Railway, by M.F. Hill, 2nd edition, 1961 (Qty: 7)