Sep 29, 2022 - Sale 2615

Sale 2615 - Lot 216

Price Realized: $ 375
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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(NEW YORK CITY--BROOKLYN.) Group of printed power-plant specification books for the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Co. and related works. 7 volumes. 8vo, various contemporary bindings, worn, the two later volumes in publisher's cloth with only minor wear; generally minor wear to contents. New York, 1900-1922
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These works were all written by Thomas Edward Murray (1860-1929), a nationally important inventor and engineer in the generation following Thomas Edison; he designed numerous power plants in the New York area. This lot includes:

"Report on the Power Station Possibilities of the Kent Avenue Property of the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company." 12 plates plus 22 pages, April 1903.

Another copy of the same, bound with: "Estimates of Cost, Proposed New Kent Avenue Power Station, Brooklyn Heights Railroad Co." [67] full-page plans, 16, [1] pages, 1905.

"Specifications for the Williamsburg Power House of the Transit Development Company." Numerous illustrations, 277, [14] pages, June 1905.

Another copy of the same, with moderate wear.

Bound volume of 11 sets of specifications for power stations built for the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company and other firms. No illustrations, paginated separately but also with ink-stamped page numbers through 253, 1900-1902.

"Electric Power Plants: A Description of a Number of Power Stations." Numerous illustrations, 337 pages, 1910.

"Power Stations." Numerous illustrations, 178 pages, 1922.