[STEAM] STEVENS, John Lee. Description of a new method of propelling steam vessels, canal boats, &c. A relation of recent experiments and copies of letters received by Mr. John Lee Stevens, the patentee, London: for R. Glynn, 1828, 8°, 17pp., lithographed frontispiece (spotted), modern boards, original front wrapper bound in [Scott 585] -- A Circular explanatory of Skene's Patent as applicable to steam navigation and undershot water-mills, London: for the author, 1828, 8°, 22pp., folding lithographed frontispiece and one folding plate (both spotted), 22pp., modern boards, preserving original drab wrappers -- An Account of the Origin of Steam-Boats, in Spain, Great Britain, and America, and of their introduction and employment upon the river Thames between London and Gravesend, London: by Effingham Wilson, 1831, 8°, FIRST EDITION, 75pp., lithographed frontispiece and one plate, modern boards, original drab wrappers bound in. [Scott 595] With 4 later pamphlets on the introduction of steam. (7)

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[STEAM] STEVENS, John Lee. Description of a new method of propelling steam vessels, canal boats, &c. A relation of recent experiments and copies of letters received by Mr. John Lee Stevens, the patentee, London: for R. Glynn, 1828, 8°, 17pp., lithographed frontispiece (spotted), modern boards, original front wrapper bound in [Scott 585] -- A Circular explanatory of Skene's Patent as applicable to steam navigation and undershot water-mills, London: for the author, 1828, 8°, 22pp., folding lithographed frontispiece and one folding plate (both spotted), 22pp., modern boards, preserving original drab wrappers -- An Account of the Origin of Steam-Boats, in Spain, Great Britain, and America, and of their introduction and employment upon the river Thames between London and Gravesend, London: by Effingham Wilson, 1831, 8°, FIRST EDITION, 75pp., lithographed frontispiece and one plate, modern boards, original drab wrappers bound in. [Scott 595] With 4 later pamphlets on the introduction of steam. (7)

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