Auction 2209 Holiday Fine Art & Collectibles Auction - Day 1
By Worthington Galleries
Nov 19, 2022
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Day 1 of Worthington's Annual Holiday Auction includes fine art and collectibles from all major categories, including oil and watercolor paintings, rare etchings and engravings, bronze & stone Sculptures, antique furniture, porcelain & pottery, antique books & maps, and a large selection of rare ethnographic art and artifacts, including ancient, prehistoric, and pre-columbian (Chinese, Native American & Pre-Columbian) The ethnographic art comes from several important collections and estates, including the prominent private ethnographic collection from the Estate of Paul S. Hughey, all of which were previously on loan to the Mississippi Museum of Art and the large Reynolds collection of Prehistoric Native American Artifacts, Townsend, Tennessee. Day 2 of the auction is on November 26 at 10:00am.
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LOT 60:

Rare Antique Pocket-Book for Railroad and Civil Engineers by Oliver Byrne, 1856

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Auction took place on Nov 19, 2022 at Worthington Galleries
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Rare Antique Pocket-Book for Railroad and Civil Engineers by Oliver Byrne, 1856
Very Rare Antique Book / Pocket-Book for Railroad and Civil Engineers by Oliver Byrne | Published: New York: C. Shepard & Co., 1856 | Full Title: Pocket-Book for Railroad and Civil Engineers. Containing new, exact, and concise methods for laying out railroad curves, switches, frog angles, and crossings, etc. | Hardcover Cloth, gold gilt page edges, 163 pages, includes large foldout table | Approx. Dimensions: 4" W x 6.5" H | Condition: Very Very Good Antique Condition, book store stamp inside front cover.

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