capt orde browne (2 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Dark red covers with gilt lettering on spine are lightly rubbed at corners, with wear at spine-ends. Covers, spine and front end-paper are almost detached. Title-page is loose, otherwise text-block binding intact with slight separation at some gatherings and previous taped repair to pages 82-83. Clean pages, darkened around edges. Fold-out plates are clean and intact. Library pocket and plate in front. Contents include: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting held in Westminster on 30th April 1884; On the Use of Raw Coal in the Blast Furnace, by I Lowthian Bell; On Gas Puddling and Heating Furnaces, with Special Reference to the Casson-Bicheroux System, by R Smith-Casson; On the Most Recent Results Obtained in the Application and Utilisation of Gaseous Fuel, by W S Sutherland; On Iron and Steel Permanent Way, by Walter R Browne; On the Behaviour of Armour of Different Kinds under Fire, by Capt C Orde-Browne; On Recent Improvements in Iron and Steel Shipbuilding, by William John; On Improvements in Apparatus for Gas Analysis, by J E Stead; Notes on the Progress of the Home and Foreign Iron and Steel Industries. Fold-out plates showing: Casson's Patent Direct Acting Gas System as applied to Heating Furnaces, to illustrate Mr R Smith-Casson's Paper; To illustrate Mr Sutherland's Paper. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 02617053134. All our books are sent by tracked mail.

1st. 129 + (3) pages, illustrations from photographs line drawings, gun breakdowns and diagrams, VG in DJ, dj the DJ has neat repair to closed tear to verso. First published in 1870 by the Royal Artillery Institution. This facsimile with the addition of four plates of photographs.