On Thursday, December 14, 2017 at 2:50:35 AM UTC-8, N_Cook wrote:

...muchly prior to Google, there was a library there with a 2
volume pair of large books, perhaps 500 pages each, probably printed
about 1900 with each chapter devoted to one form of motion being
converted to or from another, the Manual of Mechanisms or something like
that, never seen them since.

Maybe the Hiscox books?
https://archive.org/details/mechanicalmoveme00hiscrich

Mechanical Movements: Powers, Devices, and Appliances
Mechanical Appliances, Mechanical Movements, and Novelties