Books

Picturesque Europe: The British Isles, 2 volumes c1860
Item number: BOO09041707

Price: $320

Two lovely old books titled Picturesque Europe: The British Isles", comes in 2 parts/volumes, published in c1850....no author....with steel and wood engravings....some 280 pages each part....has a bit of foxing first and last few pages, around some engraving, but not significant....print is clearly legible....most engravings are in very good condition....cover is leather....edges rubbed a bit....binding intact, no repairs....book are about is 33.5 cms x 26 cms x 5 cms....latge heavy books....gilt lettering on spine, gilt on edges of all pages....overall in very good condition. Internet booksellers value given below.

#	Bookseller	Notes	Total Price
1	Amazon.co.uk [United Kingdom]	Hardcover Publisher: Cassell & Company Limited, 0000 Collectible, very good, Cassell & Company Limited Unknown published date Hardcover Very good condition with no wrapper. Volumes I and II covering the UK. Large format. All edges gilt. B/w illustrations. Green decorative cloth, gilt titles. Corners lightly rubbed. Contents fine., Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days	A$264.46

vintage book,

vintage book
"Modern Practical Carpentry:
For the Use of Engineers, Builders, Architects and Engineers",
Volume II, by George Ellis

In very good aged condition, please see photos, no foxing, no tears, very good binding, cover very good, carpentry for architects, engineers, builders etc. Includes descriptions of Dams, Bridges, Gates, Tunnels, houses etc. 396 pages, second edition of volume II, so all errors corrected, c1921, has fold out illustrations/plans. Size of book is: 26.5 x 19.5 x 2.5 cms, hardcover. Interesting subject.

old colonial WA surveyor's maps c1880
Item number: BOO26101721

Price: $950

early colonial photo-lithographic surveyor's maps
Western Australia c1880's
Murchison region
Austin's track
Surveyor General Office, Perth, WA 1881
C. Woodhouse

above shows close up of one of the maps

There are about 20 maps in this old cannister I found as is, with some 20 odd hand-drawn photo-lithographic surveyor's maps of some region in outback Western Australia. Some have "Austin's Track" on them, and the Murchison River. I believe these are loctaed east/inland of Kalbarri, and Kalbarri National Park. I have photographed one of these maps below, actually 2 maps stuck together. Some of the other landmarks in the photographed map include Geraldine Mine, which I believe is close to the town of Yarranda. Western Australia was not settled until 1828 so these are rather early map. That reagion was basically explored between 1850 and 1890. The maps are generally in very good condition, just a couple of foxing spots on some of them, a few with bent over corners etc. The photographed map shown below is signed C. Woodhouse, Feb 1881. Each part of 2 in this photograph was priced at 2/6 (2 shillings and 6 pence) which would have been a lot of money in its time. The size of the photographed map (two joined as one) is about 98 cms x 37 cms. Some of the otehr maps are bigger than this and soem smaller. The material is like paper on cloth. In very good condition for age.