24mo; 178pp, profusely illustrated. Original brown cloth with title gilt on top board (only). Binding shows some mild soiling and wear commensurate with age but very good overall. Contemporary owner name in a fine hand on ffep, old bookseller pencil price and numerical notation on prelims, contents else very good, clean and unmarked. No edition stated on title page (subsequent editions so state above imprint) and no copyright information on verso title page. First edition. First printing.

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Title

The Practical Engineer's Pocket Guide: Containing a Concise Treatise on the Nature and Application of Mechanical Forces; Action of Gravity; the Elements of Machinery; Rules and Tables for Calculating the Working Effects of Machinery; of the Stength, Resistance, and Pressure of Materials; with Tables of the Weight and Cohesive Strength of Iron and Other Metals

Publisher

Saxton and Kelt, Boston

Publication Date

1847

Language

English

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Printing

1st Printing

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

No Jacket (As Issued)

Weight

0.12 kilograms

Seller catalogs

Engineering

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Plunder and Salvage deal in books, ephemera, maps, prints, and the occasional flotsam and jetsam. We are registered in the United States in the State of North Carolina as: Ether Media LLC | dba Plunder and Salvage | 101 Airstrip Road, #379 | Kill Devil Hills, NC, 27948 | USA.

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