A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON RAIL-ROADS, AND INTERIOR COMMUNICATION IN GENERAL; WITH ORIGINAL EXPERIMENTS, AND TABLES ON THE COMPARATIVE VALUE OF CANALS AND RAIL-ROADS. ILLUSTRATED BY ENGRAVINGS. BY NICHOLAS WOOD, COLLIERY VIEWER
by Wood, Nicholas
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London: Printed for Knight and Lacey, 1825. Later brown buckram, original gilt-lettered red morocco spine label [light chipping, affecting a letter] retained. 8 [publisher advts], [2 blanks], [4], 314 pp, plus six folding plates: frontis, and after pages 50, 84, 122, 144, 156. Occasional mild dusting; closed tear [expertly repaired, barely noticeable and without loss] at last leaf. Except as noted, Very Good.
The first edition of the first comprehensive book [with Thomas Tredgold's 'Treatise' published the same year] on railway engineering. An errata is at page [4]. As Wikipedia notes, Wood "analysed the various types of 'motive power' then in use: self-acting planes, fixed steam-engine planes, horses and steam locomotives." He also presented evidence on the superiority of railroads to canal transportation.
FIRST EDITION. Dibner, Heralds of Science 182.
The first edition of the first comprehensive book [with Thomas Tredgold's 'Treatise' published the same year] on railway engineering. An errata is at page [4]. As Wikipedia notes, Wood "analysed the various types of 'motive power' then in use: self-acting planes, fixed steam-engine planes, horses and steam locomotives." He also presented evidence on the superiority of railroads to canal transportation.
FIRST EDITION. Dibner, Heralds of Science 182.
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- David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (US)
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- Title
- A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON RAIL-ROADS, AND INTERIOR COMMUNICATION IN GENERAL; WITH ORIGINAL EXPERIMENTS, AND TABLES ON THE COMPARATIVE VALUE OF CANALS AND RAIL-ROADS. ILLUSTRATED BY ENGRAVINGS. BY NICHOLAS WOOD, COLLIERY VIEWER
- Author
- Wood, Nicholas
- Book Condition
- Used
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- Publisher
- Printed for Knight and Lacey
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1825
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- AMERICANA;
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David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC
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Woodbridge, Connecticut
About David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC
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- Errata
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- Morocco
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- First Edition
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