Mountford E P (9 results)

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Vol 86, pp. 205-218, Illus, 4to, Extracted from orig vol, begins with title page, stapled & trimmed, thus is like a pamphlet, VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Oblong 12mo 7" - 7½; 118 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Amsterdam, Elsevier, 1996. Second edition. 19x27cm, ix + 712pp. Ex-library. Very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2001 Newcomen Society hardcover edition. Some reading wear, lean to spine else good condition. Contents: (1) Introduction, (2) Keynote address, Sir Neil Cossons, (3) Railways in the Greek and Roman world, (4) A rediscovered early rail waggon, (5) Pre-1840 trackways in south Wales, (6) Transitional technology: the Nantlle railway, (7) The railways of James Watt, (8) An engineering assessment of the Kilmarnock & Troon railway (1807-46), (9) Early railways in Dorset: the industrial railway of Purbeck, (10) North eastern locomotive pioneers 1805 to 1827; a reassessment, (11) The strange story of the Steam Elephant, (12) Rope haulage: the forgotten element of railway history, (13) An alternative railway technology: early monorail systems, (14) Rings, springs, strings and things: the national collection pre 1840, (15) The first steam locomotives on the European mainland, (16) The origins of the St Etienne rail roads, 181-38; French industrial espionage and British technology transfer, (17) The transfer of pioneering British railroad technology to North America, (18) The Albion mines railway of 1839-1840; some British roots of Canada's first industrial railway, (19) Learning through restoration; the Samson locomotive project, (20) Coal, banks and railways, (21) Early railways and regional identity, (22) The Stanhope and Tyne railway; a study in business failure, (23) Reflections on the iconography of early railways.

Condition: New.

pp.xv, 286 with colour photos. throughout, illus. and figs. Small 4to. Fine softback. An account of Lady Park Wood, which was set aside as an unmanaged reserve for ecological research in 1944. A unique record of how a woodland develops under the influence of natural factors.

pp.xv, 286 with colour photos. throughout, illus. and figs. Small 4to. Fine softback. An account of Lady Park Wood, which was set aside as an unmanaged reserve for ecological research in 1944. A unique record of how a woodland develops under the influence of natural factors.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO20215570: 1998. In-4. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 69 pages augmentées de nombreux graphiques et tableaux en noir et blanc dans le texte. Texte en anglais. . . . Classification Dewey : 570-Sciences de la vie.

Hardback quarto, no jacket asissued, very good plus condition, burgundy cloth cover, black & white photos (including frontispiece), foldout map inside rear cover, typewritten text, endpapers minimally toned & foxed, minor edgewear. 320 pp. In 1940, Lauri Sheard accompanied Charles Mountford as his assistant on an Adelaide University Field Expedition to Ernabella, the Musgraves, Mann Ranges, Ayers Rock and Mt Olga. Sheard died shortly afterwards during the war in an aircrash in New Guinea. This book reproduces Sheard's diary of his trip, which is held among the Charles P. Mountford material in the State Library of South Australia.