[STEAM] SARGENT, John O. A Lecture on the late Improvements in Steam Navigation and the Arts of Naval Warfare with a brief notice of Ericsson's caloric engine, New York and London: Wiley and Putnam, 1844, 8°, FIRST EDITION, 64pp. including front blank (gathering 6 bound in twice, title spotted), original printed wrappers (extremities worn). [Scott 660] -- John STRANG. Progress, Extent and Value of Steamboat Building and Marine Engine Making on the Clyde, Glasgow: by James Macnab, 1852, 8°, FIRST EDITION, 14pp., Scott Library label. [not in the Scott Catalogue] -- F. E. PARIS. Utilisation Economique des Navires à Vapeur, Paris: Arthus Bertrand, [1858], large 8°, PRESENTATION COPY, half title inscribed by the author to "the master of the Antigone," [4] + iv + 100pp., 13 folding letterpress tables, 12 folding engraved plates, contemporary cloth, partly uncut, Scott Library label. [not in the Scott Catalogue; Polak 7325] With the following titles from the Scott Library: Sir John Ross A Treatise on Navigation by Steam (second edition, London, 1837, 4°), Robert Macfarlane History of Propellers and Steam Navigation (New York, 1851), William Hale Treatise on the mechanical means by which vessels are propelled by steam power (London, 1868), and a bound volume of mid-19th century pamphlets on steam navigation by Andrew Henderson and others. (7)

細節

[STEAM] SARGENT, John O. A Lecture on the late Improvements in Steam Navigation and the Arts of Naval Warfare with a brief notice of Ericsson's caloric engine, New York and London: Wiley and Putnam, 1844, 8°, FIRST EDITION, 64pp. including front blank (gathering 6 bound in twice, title spotted), original printed wrappers (extremities worn). [Scott 660] -- John STRANG. Progress, Extent and Value of Steamboat Building and Marine Engine Making on the Clyde, Glasgow: by James Macnab, 1852, 8°, FIRST EDITION, 14pp., Scott Library label. [not in the Scott Catalogue] -- F. E. PARIS. Utilisation Economique des Navires à Vapeur, Paris: Arthus Bertrand, [1858], large 8°, PRESENTATION COPY, half title inscribed by the author to "the master of the Antigone," [4] + iv + 100pp., 13 folding letterpress tables, 12 folding engraved plates, contemporary cloth, partly uncut, Scott Library label. [not in the Scott Catalogue; Polak 7325] With the following titles from the Scott Library: Sir John Ross A Treatise on Navigation by Steam (second edition, London, 1837, 4°), Robert Macfarlane History of Propellers and Steam Navigation (New York, 1851), William Hale Treatise on the mechanical means by which vessels are propelled by steam power (London, 1868), and a bound volume of mid-19th century pamphlets on steam navigation by Andrew Henderson and others. (7)