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Lot 2558
An old oil lamp with pottery font. COLLECT ONLY.Hole drilled in the pottery base, front stack firm in urn base. When viewed inside the collar sharp edges of the glass font can be seen. Not suitable for oil use. Burner winder insert has been lifted. Everard & CO on the collar. A shade is later and undamaged.
Lot 391
Mining safety.- Davy (Sir Humphry) On the Safety Lamp for Coal Miners; with some researches on flame, first edition, folding engraved plate by Lowry, lacking half-title, plate lightly foxed and with some offsetting, [Norman 613], Printed for R. Hunter, 1818 bound with Davy (Sir Humphry) The Papers... communicated to the Royal Society on the fire-damp of coal-mines, and on methods of lighting the mines so as to prevent its explosion, folding engraved plate, this with some dust-soiling and spotting, text with occasional light foxing, lightly browned, Newcastle, Printed for Emerson Charnley, 1817 and Buddle (John) The First report of a Society for Preventing Accidents in coal mines, comprising a letter to Sir Ralph Milbanke, Bart., on the various modes employed in the ventilation of collieries, 10 engraved plates, 1 full-page engraved plan, final f. with list of principal offices of the society recto and a list of subscribers and errata verso, Newcastle, Printed by Edward Walker, 1814 and 4 others related, together 7 works in 1 vol., occasional spotting or light foxing, contemporary half calf, covers detached, the upper taking with it first 2 ff. of an unmentioned work, worn, 8vo⁂ A very good group of works on mining safety. The first mentioned is the first edition of 'a full description of Davy's wire-gauze lamp ... and a preliminary account of his researches on flame' (Norman).
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