Chertezhi i nazvaniia zapasnykh chastei dlia parovykh molotilok, fabrikuemykh firmoiu Ransom, Sims i Dzheferis, Orvelskii zavod, Ipsvich, Angliia (Drawings and Names of Spare Parts for Steam Threshers Manufactured by Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies, Ipswich, England) In English and Russian

Odessa: Tip. Tovarishchestva "Bratia Kulberg', 1884. Softcover. First edition, n. d. (ca 1884); 9 1/2 x 7 1/4; pp. 37; pink wraps faded to dark yellow, illustrated with wood engravings; small loss of paper to tips of spine; crease to upper right corner; illustrated with drawings; overall very good condition. In English and Russian.An uncommon survivor of the 19th century, the catalog was published strictly for the Russian market of one of the biggest British manufacturers of agricultural machinery and general engineering products from the late 18th until the end of the 20th century. The enterprise was started by Robert Ransome (1753-1830) in the 1780s, when he was casting ploughshares in a disused malting in Ipswich and discovered, entirely by accident, chilled casting - the process of hardening a metal's surface by initiating contact between molten metal and cold metal. By 1851 export trade was initiated, including opening a branch establishment in Odessa, and by the early 1900s it would become much more important than the home market, with more than four-fifths of the threshing machines and steam engines sales being exported abroad. The catalog contains drawings and descriptions, on facing pages and both in English and Russian, of spare parts for the company's steam threshers. Not in OCLC or in the trade (as of January 2015).