Coal Viewer Engine Builders Practical by Curr John (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: 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.

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

Hardcover. Condition: 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. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG-. 2nd. High quality reprint of this classic 1797 book on Steam Engines and mining techniques. Contains one of the first detailed accounts of metal plateway type early railways with illustrations of trackwork and wagons. Also contains a detailed account of the Newcomen steam pumping engine at the hight of its development. New introduction by Charles Lee. 4pp, introduction, 96pp plus 5 fold out plates. VG clean copy in dw, just a little bumping to corners. Scarce even as a reprint.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 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. Condition: 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 half a century ago.

Hardcover. Condition: 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.

Hardcover. Condition: 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.

Condition: Gut. 96 Seiten mit 5 mehrfach ausfaltbaren Tafeln. Erste und einzige Ausgabe des Hauptwerks von John Curr (1756-1823) einem sogenannten coal-viewer, eine ursprünglichen Bezeichnung für einen Bergbauingenieurs. Curr war ein englischer Bergbauingenieur und Erfinder, der von 1781 bis 1801 als Inspektor der Kohlengruben des Herzogs von Norfolk im englischen Sheffield fungierte. Während dieser Zeit schuf er eine Reihe von Innovationen, die maßgeblich zur Entwicklung des Kohlebergbaus und der Eisenbahn beitrugen. Er beschreibt in diesem Buch erstmalig seiner Erfindung einer Bahn mit Eisenrädern auf Eisenschienen, die die Arbeit in den Kohleminen und weit darüber hinaus revolutionierte. In den von ihm entworfenen Kohleloren konnten bis zu 2000 zusätzliche Einheiten bewegt werden und die Arbeitsbelastung enorm erleichtert werden. Darüber hinaus veröffentlicht er seine modifizierten Dampfmaschinenkessel- Entwürfe. Zeitgenössischer Besitzvermerk auf dem Vorsatz. "Georg Geddes Property bought 23. July 1809 Townhill Colliery" einem kleinen Bergbaustädtchen nördlich von Dunfermline, File im Osten Schottlands. Gutes bis sehr gutes mit den üblichen Flecken, die Tafeln vollständig und wohlerhalten. Sehr sorgfältig und hochwertig in einem neuerem historisierenden Einband gebunden, von größter Seltenheit. Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 16968.1; OCLC, 22498277 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 2500 Mittelbrauner, blindgeprägter Halblederband mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel.

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.