coal viewer engine builders practical de curr john (9 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 2nd Edition. 96pp, folding diagrams, tables, d/w sl worn at edges, previous owner's address label on half-title page. Facsimile reprint of original 1797 edition on the author's cast iron railway and Newcomen pumping engine with new introduction by Charles Lee.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 2nd. Very good hardcover, as pictured. 1970 reprint of the 1797 second edition, with all manner of Curr's inventions and innovations in the creation of a "cast iron rail road" to accomodate vehicles capable of being used apart from the railway. It is the earliest known engineering work on railway track. This reprint is published as the Cass Library of Railway Classics No. 4. Fold out diagrams. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. 2nd edition. A 1970 facsimile of a rare 1797 title. Original green cloth gilt VG (would be graded fine but for a number of light scrapes across the back cover). Pages very clean & tight. No inscriptions. 5 folding plates. 96 pages.Industrial archaeology publishing from 51 years ago.

HC. B&W illustrations (illustrateur). 96pp ISBN 0678051046 First published in 1797. very good, black cloth (hardcover).

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Cass Library of Railway Classics No. 4 , second edition with a new introdution by Charles Lee, 96pp, illustrated, folding plates, , contains a description of a Newcomen pumping engine as in use in Newhaven in 1716. Original black cloth with gilt lettering and illustration to front cover . Facsimile of the 1797 edition ; quarto.

First thus edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, gilt title, author and maroon block lettering to the spine and to the upper panel. Quarto 10'' x 7½''. A Facsimile of the 1797 edition with new introduction. Contains [vi] 96 printed pages of text with five fold-out monochrome plates. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as published. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 678051046 MINING & GEOLOGY.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine with no dust jacket. Reprint of 1797 Edition. Reprint with new introduction by Charles Lee, "Cass Library of Railway Classics No. 4." Curr devised for the coal mining industry a form of "cast iron rail road" to accommodate flat-tyred vehicles capable of being used apart from the railway. The earliest known engineering work on railway track. 96 pages; 6" very faint scuff line on front cover.; 7 1/2 x 10 1/2".

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. SCARCE: Publisher: New York: Kelley, 1970; Black Cloth with Gilt Titles. 2nd edition, (The first was printed in 1797). 8vo - over 7 3/4 " - 9 3/4 " tall. 96 pp. pull out diagrams, tables etc. About Fine. Cass Library of Railroad Classics #4.

4to. pp. 96; 5 folding plates. Contemporary boards, later sheep spine and corners, coloured leather spine label. Clean and fresh internally. With the bookplate of The Society for Promoting Arts and Commerce, Instituted London, 1753.