[RAILROADS]. -- TREDGOLD, Thomas (1788-1829). A practical treatise on rail-roads and carriages, shewing the principles of estimating their strength, proportions, expense, and annual produce, and the conditions which render them effective, economical, and durable; with the theory, effect, and expense of steam carriages, stationary engines, and gas machines. London: Josiah Taylor, 1825. 8o.4 engraved plates, 1 folding (occasional, very minor spotting). 16 pp. publisher's catalogue dated 1826 bound in rear. Original gray boards, paper spine label, uncut. FIRST EDITION OF "THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE WORK IN RAILWAY ENGINEERING" (Dibner Heralds of Science 182); Norman 2092. -- WOOD, Nicholas (1795-1865). A practical treatise on rail-roads, and interior communication ingeneral; with original experiments, and tables of the comparative value of canals and rail-roads. London: Knight & Lacey, 1825. 8o. 8 pp. catalogue dated 1825 bound in at front. Engraved folding frontispiece and five folding plates, numbered I-VI. Original brown boards uncut (rebacked). Provenance: Albert du Thon (engraved armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION. With Tredgold (above), one of the first works on railway engineering, written and published at the same time as the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the first to carry paying load. The first passenger line began five years later. Norman 2260. -- WOOD. A practical treatise on rail-roads, and interior communication in general. Containing an account of the performances of different locomotive engines at and subsequent to the Liverpool contest; upwards of two hundred and sixty experiments; with tables of the comparative value of canal and rail-roads, and the power of the present locomotive engines. Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832. 8o. 9 folding engraved plates (2 detached), folding typeset table. Original brown boards, uncut (rebacked in cloth, preserving original spine label). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Norman 2261. -- ERICHSEN, John Eric (1818-1896). On railway and other injuries of the nervous system. London: Walton & Maberly, 1866. 8o (202 x 132 mm). Original blind-stamped maroon cloth, gilt lettered spine (spine sunned). Provenance: Smith Ely Jelliffe (1866-1945), neurologist (bookplate and signature). FIRST EDITION. The first book to discuss whiplash injuries, a result of the increased speeds of railway travel. Garrison-Morton 4538.1; Norman 708. (4)

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[RAILROADS]. -- TREDGOLD, Thomas (1788-1829). A practical treatise on rail-roads and carriages, shewing the principles of estimating their strength, proportions, expense, and annual produce, and the conditions which render them effective, economical, and durable; with the theory, effect, and expense of steam carriages, stationary engines, and gas machines. London: Josiah Taylor, 1825. 8o.4 engraved plates, 1 folding (occasional, very minor spotting). 16 pp. publisher's catalogue dated 1826 bound in rear. Original gray boards, paper spine label, uncut. FIRST EDITION OF "THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE WORK IN RAILWAY ENGINEERING" (Dibner Heralds of Science 182); Norman 2092. -- WOOD, Nicholas (1795-1865). A practical treatise on rail-roads, and interior communication ingeneral; with original experiments, and tables of the comparative value of canals and rail-roads. London: Knight & Lacey, 1825. 8o. 8 pp. catalogue dated 1825 bound in at front. Engraved folding frontispiece and five folding plates, numbered I-VI. Original brown boards uncut (rebacked). Provenance: Albert du Thon (engraved armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION. With Tredgold (above), one of the first works on railway engineering, written and published at the same time as the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the first to carry paying load. The first passenger line began five years later. Norman 2260. -- WOOD. A practical treatise on rail-roads, and interior communication in general. Containing an account of the performances of different locomotive engines at and subsequent to the Liverpool contest; upwards of two hundred and sixty experiments; with tables of the comparative value of canal and rail-roads, and the power of the present locomotive engines. Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832. 8o. 9 folding engraved plates (2 detached), folding typeset table. Original brown boards, uncut (rebacked in cloth, preserving original spine label). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Norman 2261. -- ERICHSEN, John Eric (1818-1896). On railway and other injuries of the nervous system. London: Walton & Maberly, 1866. 8o (202 x 132 mm). Original blind-stamped maroon cloth, gilt lettered spine (spine sunned). Provenance: Smith Ely Jelliffe (1866-1945), neurologist (bookplate and signature). FIRST EDITION. The first book to discuss whiplash injuries, a result of the increased speeds of railway travel. Garrison-Morton 4538.1; Norman 708. (4)