Auction Of Canal Books 4th November

[Tim Lewis]

Mark Baldwin is selling his book collection, I doubt if a better selection of canal books has ever been sold off in one go before:

 

http://www.chiswickauctions.co.uk/catalogues/151104/

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Tim

Edited October 17, 2015 by Tim Lewis

[frangar]

I have to say that just having pictures of the lots.....and small ones at that is not condusive to looking through the list to see what might be of interest,...and some probably are! Surely when listing books it would be better to list title, author, edition, condition etc? Or am I missing something?

 

It's a shame he's selling off the books.....used to love looking through his stall when it was at various waterway rallies.....it would be nice if they could be brought for a museum but given the lack of funds I'm guessing that's out of the question.

 

Cheers

 

Gareth

[David Schweizer]

I have to say that just having pictures of the lots.....and small ones at that is not condusive to looking through the list to see what might be of interest,...and some probably are! Surely when listing books it would be better to list title, author, edition, condition etc? Or am I missing something?

 

It's a shame he's selling off the books.....used to love looking through his stall when it was at various waterway rallies.....it would be nice if they could be brought for a museum but given the lack of funds I'm guessing that's out of the question.

 

Cheers

 

Gareth

 

If you click on the "Show text only catalogue " button at the top of the first page, a very long list, identified by author comes up. Several hours of reading!!

Edited October 17, 2015 by David Schweizer

[Québec]

Complete, readable and downloadable versions of some of the older books, and other canal related books not in the auction, can be found online at the Internet Archive.

Examples:

John Phillips (1803) A general history of inland navigation

https://archive.org/details/generalhistoryof00philrich

 

Priestley (1831) Historical account of the navigable rivers etc.

https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_eUqIucVmZjwC

 

James Brindley and the Early Engineers, by Samuel Smiles (1864)

https://archive.org/details/jamesbrindleyear00smilrich

[valrene9600]

I have to say that just having pictures of the lots.....and small ones at that is not condusive to looking through the list to see what might be of interest,...and some probably are! Surely when listing books it would be better to list title, author, edition, condition etc? Or am I missing something?

It's a shame he's selling off the books.....used to love looking through his stall when it was at various waterway rallies.....it would be nice if they could be brought for a museum but given the lack of funds I'm guessing that's out of the question.

Cheers

Gareth

Press on lot no. and there is a description.

[OldGoat]

Complete, readable and downloadable versions of some of the older books, and other canal related books not in the auction, can be found online at the Internet Archive.

Examples:

John Phillips (1803) A general history of inland navigation

https://archive.org/details/generalhistoryof00philrich

 

Priestley (1831) Historical account of the navigable rivers etc.

https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_eUqIucVmZjwC

 

James Brindley and the Early Engineers, by Samuel Smiles (1864)

https://archive.org/details/jamesbrindleyear00smilrich

 

 

Oooo - that's a good link, thanks for that.

 

A greenie due....

[Pluto]

Complete, readable and downloadable versions of some of the older books, and other canal related books not in the auction, can be found online at the Internet Archive.

Examples:

John Phillips (1803) A general history of inland navigation

https://archive.org/details/generalhistoryof00philrich

 

Priestley (1831) Historical account of the navigable rivers etc.

https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_eUqIucVmZjwC

 

James Brindley and the Early Engineers, by Samuel Smiles (1864)

https://archive.org/details/jamesbrindleyear00smilrich

If you do a search via Google Books, listing ebooks only, you can find many pre-1900 books are available. The main problem with these ebooks is that they rarely digitise the plates if they have to be folded out. However, they are excellent at finding out which books are worth chasing up to see an original. I have copied a good number of old canal books digitally whilst researching aspects of canal history. The availability of books on the internet has made research much easier, though you can spend hours looking. In the Google Books search fields, try using foreign canal terms, as in the early nineteenth century and before there were far more books published on waterways abroad than in England.