Live auction - Lot 460
[Industry]
Portefeuille John Cockerill [...] dans les etablissements de Seraing, d'Anvers et de Saint-Petersbourg, sous la direction de E. Sadoine.
Paris, Liége, J. Baudry, 1876 and later
Hammer price: €
550
€ 300 / 400
Live bidding (Drouot*) Live bidding (Invaluable*)Bidding is closed
Lot description
Engr., 35 x 52,5 cm, 84 pl., numb., with incomplete text sections (occ. soiled and tr. of wear, text n.c.).
Loose.
Collection of 84 machine drawings (steel engravings) from the 3rd (44 pl). and 4th instalments (40 pl.) of J. Cockerill's "Atlas du portefeuille" with descriptions of all sorts of machines. The successful and long-lived manufacturing enterprise specialised initially in supplying railway companies with rails, locomotives, wagons and constructional ironwork.