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.

Descripción

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.

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Título

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.

Editor

Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, London

Fecha de publicación

1838

Encuadernación

Hardcover

Edición

Third edition, with additions.

Estado

Very Good

Estado de la sobrecubierta

No Jacket (as issued)

Tipo de libro

Book

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• Non-fiction
• Science & Technology