Books

Lot 2803    SESSION 9 (11.30am Thursday)    Books

Estimate $140
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $140

CATALOGUES, all for the period c.1910-1930, Ingersoll-Rand Pneumatic Riveting Hammers, New York, 20pp., March 1925; Overall, McCray Ltd, Merchants, Blacksmiths, Boilermakers and General Engineers, Sydney & Balmain, 63pp., 1913; E. & B. Holmes Machinery Co, Cooperage Machinery, Buffalo, New York, 169pp., 1920; The Ohio Blower Co., Power Plant Foundry and Factory Equipment, Cleveland, Ohio, 46pp., C.1920; Mackintosh, Hemphill & Co, Rolling Mills, Engines, Miscellaneous Machinery for Iron and Steel Works Heavy Steel Castings, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 110pp., 1916; The Lackawanna Leather Co, Patent Enamel Leathers, Hackettstown, New Jersey, 71pp. plus 2pp. of sample hides, 1915; Raymond Concrete Piles, New York and Chicago, 56pp., 1915; R.E.Arnold, plumbers, ironworkers, contractor, Perth, 44pp., 1929; Prospectus of the Country Golf Club, Plumpton, c.1918, one page missing; Adelaide and Environs, photographic tourist brochure, c.1920; various Patents and Assignments for Australia, Canada, New Zealand, U.S.A., stamped and sealed; report, one being a treatise on explosives with particular reference to "Annihilate", all except the first two and last five are in the format of expensive books and profusely illustrated. Very fine and very scarce. (17)

Many of these books were acquired by an Australian engineer, Arnold Barrett, while he was working in America at different times in the period 1916-1925. While there he also acquired shares in The American Salvage Company, see Lot (3152).