James Watt
by Andrew Carnegie
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Used - very good
- Seller
-
San Diego, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1905. Presumed First. Hardcover . Used - very good. 8vo. (both copyright and title page dated 1905). <b> Inscribed to Iron Industries executive, 'Thomas F. Cole, Esq.,</b> With best wishes, Andrew Carnegie December 19, 1905.' A square, tight and unmarked copy. Brick-red cloth covers mildly scuffed, more so at head of spine. Corners lightly bumped. The last three letters (white) in 'Carnegie', on front cover, are partially rubbed out and the embossed lettering on spine, if once white, is no longer (although the embossed lettering is still legible).
Synopsis
The essential improvements that Scottish inventor James Watt (1736 - 1819) made to the steam engine were fundamental to the Industrial Revolution. It would be hard to overstate the value of this invention to technological and social change - it gave us the modern world we live in today. This is his biography as written by Andrew Carnegie, the Scottish-born American industrialist, businessman, and philanthropist.
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Details
- Bookseller
- La Playa Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26808
- Title
- James Watt
- Author
- Andrew Carnegie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Presumed First
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1905
- Keywords
- association copy, celebrity autographs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Collectible;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
La Playa Books
Biblio member since 2017
San Diego, California
About La Playa Books
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