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Lockert, Louis.
Petroleum Motor-Cars.
Publisher: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, London;
Date of Publication: 1898
Stock Code: 15610
First English edition, after Lockert’s four volume edition in French. Octavo, pp., xv, [1], 218, [6] of publisher’s advertisements, plus 92 wood-engraved illustrations of automobiles, engines, etc. within text. Publisher’s diagonal-grain forest-green cloth; titled in gilt to spine; black end-papers. Corners and spine-tips rubbed; a few spots and light scuffs to cloth. Occasional very minor spots to margins but generally internally clean. A very good copy. An incunable of English writing on automobiles, published two years after the deregulation of the Locomotive Act ‘emancipated’ motorcars on English roads. Although advertised as a volume on petrol-powered motorcars only, this book also discusses motorcycles, steam-powered vehicles, and the use of acetate as a fuel. £350.00