Views of the Collieries in the Counties of Northumberland and Durham, Davis Books, 1987. first published in 1844, a coal mining history facsimile reprint, hardcover, illustrated, folio sized (26.2 cms x 36.3 cms), condition: new.

In 1839 artist Thomas Harrison Hair of Newcastle issued :

"A Series of Views of the Collieries in the Counties of Northumberland and Durham. With Descriptive Sketches and a Preliminary Essay on Coal and the Coal Trade by M. Ross. "

This volume included 42 engravings after watercolors of coal mines in North East England with extensive text about each mine. As Ross wrote in the beginning of his essay:

"The characteristic appearance of no district in the world is more strikingly marked than is that of the North of England, the peculiar features of which are its collieries and their necessary adjuncts. The face of the country is thickly studded with the engine -houses and coal-heaps attached to respective pits The fields and roads are crossed are crossed and intersected in every direction by the waggon-ways connecting the pits with their respective places of shipment The margins of our noble rivers are fringed with the staiths and machinery, often constructed on a gigantic scale, necessary for effecting for effecting the shipment of the jetty treasure The sea itself is blackened with our fleets of colliers, bearing the precious source of warmth and comfort to distant districts and countries, and thus diffusing wealth and happiness around"

ALSO INCLUDED IS A COMPLIMENTS SLIP FROM ROLLS-ROYCE INDUSTRIAL POWER GROUP (RRIPG) AND A SIGNED & DATED LETTER FROM DIRECTOR OF RRIPG (SA OFFICE), TO THE MD OF A MAJOR SA COAL MINING COMPANY.