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A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON RAIL-ROADS, AND INTERIOR COMMUNICATION IN GENERAL, Containing Numerous Experiments on the Powers of the Improved Locomotive Engines and Tables of the Comparative Cost of Conveyance on Canals, Railways, and Turnpike Roads.
by Wood, Nicholas
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket (as issued)
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Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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About This Item
London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1838. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Third edition, with additions. Contains introductions from the first and second editions (1825 and 1831, respectively), and a new introduction for this 1838 edition. Quarter leather, marbled boards, gilt rule/spine lettering, raised bands pp: xxvii, 760 (including appendix), [13 folded leaves of plates -- one as frontispiece, 12 at rear], four fold-out charts/tables, illustrated, errata slip bound in at page 1. Bookseller's tag (B. Kimpton, London) to top left corner of front pastedown. Bumped/worn corners/spine ends, some edgewear, light cover staining, small pieces of leather scraped off, dusty/lightly soiled edges, two numbers in ink to front pastedown, bookseller's tag off-set to top right corner of first end paper, moderate general wear..
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- Augustine Funnell Books
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- 019399
- Title
- A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON RAIL-ROADS, AND INTERIOR COMMUNICATION IN GENERAL, Containing Numerous Experiments on the Powers of the Improved Locomotive Engines and Tables of the Comparative Cost of Conveyance on Canals, Railways, and Turnpike Roads.
- Author
- Wood, Nicholas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket (as issued)
- Edition
- Third edition, with additions
- Publisher
- Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1838
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- NOISBN, railroad engineering, railroads, railroad infrastructure, train, trains, railways, turnpike roads, locomotives, locomotive engines
- Bookseller catalogs
- Non-fiction; Vehicles (land, sea and air);
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