Published by D. Van Nostrand, New York, NY, 1900
Cloth. Condition: G/No Dustjacket. Black & White Illustrations (illustrator). New York, NY: D. Van Nostrand. G/No Dustjacket. 1900. . Cloth. 8vo., 339 pp., Cover frayed, stained and spotted; inside hinges cracked and gently shaken, ownership on titlepage .
Cloth. Condition: Collectible; Very Good. 1st. Solid, well-preserved copy of the 1901 1st edition. Tight and VG+ in its chocolate-brown boards, with bright gilt-lettering at the spine and decorative blindstamping to the panels. Octavo, 339 pgs. "Embracing the results of over one hundred feed-water tests and other investigations of various kinds of steam engines, conducted by the author".