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Goslin, Samuel B. The relative advantages of wind, water, and steam as motive powers, compared with each other, and a description of the motors the most suited for utilising them
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Kirkpatrick reference: 1354
Description: 50 pages
Imprint: London : John Warner & Sons
Ownership notes: Autograph: R.F. Burton. Occasional ms. annotations and underlinings by Burton.
Correspondence: Ms. letter to Burton by James Irvine, dated 22 Oct. 1881, on his gift of this work, pasted on verso of t.p.
Kirkpatrick reference: 1992
Description: iv, 72 pages
Imprint: London : Harrison
Ownership notes: Autograph on title page: R.F. Burton. Occasional ms. annotations by Burton.
Insertions: Clipping of an image of carvings pasted on t.p. verso. Clipping of an article titled "Aden news-letter" pasted on page iii. Leaf with list of steamers leaving Bombay pasted on page 72.
Kirkpatrick reference: 1654
Description: 52 p., [2] folded leaves of plates: maps
Imprint: Exeter : William Pollard
Ownership notes: Autograph: R.F. Burton.Occasional ms. annotations by Burton. Visiting card of "Mr. G. Peacock" pasted on frontispiece. Clipping from an envelope with Burton's address care of "James Irvine Esqr. ... Liverpool" pasted on frontispiece. Presentation inscription: Captain Burton ... with Captain Peacock's respectful compliments.
Insertions: Two clippings [from the Liverpool Daily Press?] on gold mining in Africa at Axim pasted on t.p. verso. Leaf with an illustration of the "Great African python" tipped in on page 50.
Kirkpatrick reference: 516
Description: 11, [1] pages
Imprint: Damascus
Notes: Title, translation of title and author from Kirkpatrick
Ownership notes: Autograph on title page: R.F. Burton. Occasional ms. annotations by Burton.
