A large group of hardcover reference books primarily focused on postal history and steam engineering. The collection includes multiple copies of Sierra Leone and History of the South African Army Postal Service, both featuring white pictorial bindings and spines. There are several copies of The Canadian Military Posts, Volume 3, bound in uniform tan cloth. Historical works include a two-volume set of History of His Own Time by Gilbert Burnet (Volumes I and II) in dark green cloth with gilt-stamped spines. Industrial history is represented by The Steam Engine Builders of Norfolk by Ronald H. Clark, MI MechE, Ploughing Engines in Focus by John Crawley, and The Postal History of German East Africa. The books are mostly modern reference works providing detailed accounts of colonial and military postal services alongside specialist monographs on British engineering history.
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