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Your search:Books»The Steam Engine Familiarly Explained and Illustrated: With an Historical Sketch of Its Invention and Progressive Improvement(18 available copies)
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780548159767ISBN:0548159769
Description: BRAND NEW HARDCOVER. 9 by 6 inches. This book is printed on demand [allow 1-2 weeks for printing]. (00324 pages) illustrated lang=english accessory: no accessory (Hardcover ) read more
Edition: 16th Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: London: Crosby Lockwood and Son
Date Published: 1893
Description: Near Very Good. Original 1893 hardcover. Near Very Good. 16th Edition. 4.5x7. This book has a tan cover with dark brown lettering. Some minor soiling on the covers. This is a good book of steam engines for the use of beginners. Part of the Weales scientific technical series. Illustrated in drawings and engravings. 135 pages. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: KESSINGER PUB LLC
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781430455219ISBN:1430455217
Description: New. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional... read more
Edition: Fifteenth Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Crosby, Lockwood and Son, London
Date Published: 1888
Description: Fair. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Fair condition HB with wear and fraying on top of spine. Soiled covers, fep and page edges. An explanation of the facts and mechanical principles on which the structure and operation of steam engines depend. 32 pages with advertisements. read more
Description: Lardner, Dionysius. The Steam Engine, Steam Navigation, Roads, and Railways. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly, 1851. 8th ed., revised and improved. frontis, illustrations, index, xi, 422p. Hardcover (green cloth). 19cm. Backstrip rather worn with some chipping, browning and joint tears. Front hinge weak. Former owner's name. Contents moderately age-toned but otherwise sound and clean. Fair. read more
Edition: Sixteenth Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Crosby Lockwood and Son, London
Date Published: 1893
Description: Very Good. [No dustjacket] ________ Bibliographical Details: Sixteenth Edition (Edition identified by: Publishers imprint information), Crosby Lockwood and Son, London, 1893, Hardcover, 12 mo (17.5-20 cm high). x, 3 to 135 & 48 (advertisements) printed pages in publisher's original brown cloth with black lettering and decoration, with black and white illustrations, diagrams and tables. ________ Contents: A brief summary of the content is available on request. ________ Condition Summary: (Very ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: A. Hart, Philadelphia
Date Published: 1852
Description: Good. Cloth hardbound with spine-label, clean unmarked text, illustrated (including many fold-outs), 324 pp. + ads., Good copy only with owner's ink signature and some pencil-notes to the endpapers, foxing/soil to some pages of the text (especially outer pages), rear flyleaf torn, minor soil to covers, some rubbing and wear to the covers (especially the tips, edges, and spine-label) with some loss to the tips and spine-ends. 1852. read more
Description: 1851. Taylor, Walton & Maberly. Eighth. Hard Cover. Book-Good, gilt titles on spine, green boards, blind impressed decoration on boards, spine sunned. 8x5. 422pp. Tissue-guarded frontis, some b/w illus. First published in the 1820s, this is among the earliest attempts to present the history of the invention of the Steam Engine, with an exposition of its structure and operation. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: London: Taylor and Walton, 1840
Description: Very Good-/No Jacket. 8vo Very Good. Seventh Edition. 3/4 Morocco leather expertly rebacked with original backstrip. Minor foxing and soiling. Binding is tight. Wood engravings throughout. read more
Description: With additions and notes, by James Renwick. Third American, from the fifth London edition, considerably enlarged. 13 engr. plates, some folding, 67 text illus. 324pp, + 6pp. of ads. 8vo, orig. cloth, paper spine label; light foxing throughout. Philadelphia, 1836. One of many works by the Dublin-born popularizer of diverse scientific knowledge, best known for his editorship of the "Cabinet Cyclopedia". Although "not an original or profound thinker, [Lardner] was a man of great and versatile ... read more
Edition: 10th Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Strahan & Co., Publishers, London
Date Published: 1869
Description: Very Good Plus (VG+) 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. 10th Edition published in 1869 135 pages Exterior very clean with minor edge wear/spine cloth fading. Interior previous owners name on title page, small dampstain in margin to frontspiece, text very clean. read more
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