A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON RAIL-ROADS, AND INTERIOR COMMUNICATION IN GENERAL, Containing Numerous Experiments on the Powers of the Improved Locomotive Engines and Tables of the Comparative Cost of Conveyance on Canals, Railways, and Turnpike Roads.

Wood, Nicholas

Published by Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, London, 1838

About this Item

Contains introductions from the first and second editions (1825 and 1831, respectively), and a new introduction for this 1838 edition. Quarter leather, marbled boards, gilt rule/spine lettering, raised bands pp: xxvii, 760 (including appendix), [13 folded leaves of plates -- one as frontispiece, 12 at rear], four fold-out charts/tables, illustrated, errata slip bound in at page 1. Bookseller's tag (B. Kimpton, London) to top left corner of front pastedown. Bumped/worn corners/spine ends, some edgewear, light cover staining, small pieces of leather scraped off, dusty/lightly soiled edges, two numbers in ink to front pastedown, bookseller's tag off-set to top right corner of first end paper, moderate general wear.

Seller Inventory # 019399

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON RAIL-ROADS, AND INTERIOR COMMUNICATION IN GENERAL, Containing Numerous Experiments on the Powers of the Improved Locomotive Engines and Tables of the Comparative Cost of Conveyance on Canals, Railways, and Turnpike Roads.
• Publisher: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, London
• Publication Date: 1838
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Third edition, with additions.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket (as issued)
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Non-fiction
  • Vehicles (land, sea and air)
  • Science & Technology