A Practical Treatise on Rail-Roads, and Interior Communication in General ; with Original Experiments, and Tables of the Comparative Value of Canals and Rail-Roads by WOOD, Nicholas - 1825

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Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

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Carey & Lea, 1832. Hardcover. Good. . First US edition. Original 1832 textblock professionally rebound c. 1920s in navy cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Binding is VG with only light shelf wear, spine looks very nice on a shelf. Deckled edges, foxing to pages throughout but still totally readable. Original owner's name in pencil on first blank page after ffep. Foldouts at back foxed but totally intact. Binding tight. Protected in removable archival plastic sleeve.

London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1838. vi-xxvii, 760pp; fep. missing, frontispiece numbered XIII; 2 fold-out tables and 13 fold-out plates; green cloth boards with stamped border, gilt title to spine, one brown spot to bottom edge of spine; 3rd edition with additions; edgeworn and shelfworn, scuffed boards, book intact.. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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.