12mo, 437 pages + ads, dark silk cloth, a.e.g., partial tear to the top joint repaired with library cloth repair tape. + Care of marine, stationary, & locomotive engines. Also pumping, hoisting, portable engines; gas, oil, & air engines. Hawkins was the editor of "Steam", and later of "Power", Note: his nom-de-plume was Theodore Audel ! "The reader is invited in the succeeding pages to examine down to almost microscopic detail the greatest physical thing on earth." - Preface. With more than 296 illustrations. Apparently this is the last of the Audel's editions on steam engines. "The subject matter .is not arranged in chapters, but according to the more natural order best designed to explain at greater or less length the different themes discussed. . There is also a description of the numerous types of the engines now in operation, such as the Corliss, Westinghouse, etc.".

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Title

NEW CATECHISM OF THE STEAM ENGINE With Chapters on Gas, Oil and Hot Air Engines

Publisher

Theo. Audel & Co. ( 1904 ), New York

Publication Date

1904

Binding

Flexible covers

Edition

New Edition.

Condition

Very Good

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Joyce And Company, established 1975, works out of an office near Chicago's Loop. There are usually 15-20,000 books on-site and available for browsing. Mr. Joyce was a founding partner of the former Chicago Rare Book Center, of Chicago and Evanston, Illinois. Proprietor Tom Joyce appeared regularly as the book appraiser on "The Appraisal Fair", seen on Home And Garden Television, HGTV. We still do appraisals on a wide variety of subjects, from literature to history, fine books, children's, presses, theology, law, medicine, maps, autographs. These topics are reflected in our inventory, and much more, including Sherlockiana. In addition to regional institutions nearby Chicago and Illinois, we have been able to place rare materials with the American Antiquarian Society, The Library of Congress, The Bodleian Library, Harvard and Yale Universities, the Presidential Libraries of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, et cetera.

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