steam engine guide book engineers (2 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. ND. c.1860. Scare and anonymously written steam engine volume, apparently not held in any library collections. Stock toned, occasionally grubby, with some spotting and marking, but otherwise all in good internal order. Elaborate 1862 ownership inscription to first blank. Block firm but binding opening at hinges, thus some looseness to boards. Embossed semi-stiff cloth-on-paper boards heavily marked and worn. 12mo. 132pp.

Frontispiece of Brunton's portable Engine and Patent Fire Regulator, in the Appendix there illustrations in the text of the steam engine and various mechanical parts as well as a full page illustration of the locomotive engine. 24 pages publisher's advertisements at back dated New York, 1842. 1 vols. 8vo. In addition to the Steam Engine, chemical and mechanical engineering portions and the recipes not only for dyeing fabrics, there are also recipes for making inks, dyeing woods, glues, varnishes, water-proofing boots, curing hams, making hand lotion, candles and other sundries. Steam Engine and Locomotive. The two parts in one volume. Contemporary sheep, black label. Joints cracked, quite rubbed, some light marginal browning, ownership signatures, else a very good copy Frontispiece of Brunton's portable Engine and Patent Fire Regulator, in the Appendix there illustrations in the text of the steam engine and various mechanical parts as well as a full page illustration of the locomotive engine. 24 pages publisher's advertisements at back dated New York, 1842. 1 vols. 8vo.