Cloth, no dj. Octavo. [2 ads], 324 pp., [4 ads], illus. Plates 1-3 present; plate 4 missing; plate 5 present but detached from binding; plates 6-13 present. Heavy wear to boards, with scuffs and soil to front and rear, fraying to spine ends, bumping to corners, and partial loss to title plate on spine (title all but effaced). Age-toning and foxing to paste downs and pages. Otherwise sound. Sold as is. Fourth American edition, from the fifth London edition.

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Title

The Steam Engine Familiarly Explained and Illustrated; with an Historical Sketch of Its Invention and Progressive Improvement; Its Applications to Navigation and Railways; with Plain Maxims for Railway Speculators [Carey & Hart, 1848]

Publisher

Carey & Hart, Philadelphia

Publication Date

1848

Binding

Hardcover

Condition

Good

Weight

1.29 pounds

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