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    By Nicholas Wood
    London   Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans
    8.5" by 5.5" [5] vi-xxvii, 760pp
    The third and thoroughly expanded edition of this 19th century treatise on railroads, illustrated throughout with numerous folding plates.
    By Nicholas Wood

    1838 A Practical Treatise on Rail-Roads

    London   Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans
    8.5" by 5.5" [5] vi-xxvii, 760pp
    The third and thoroughly expanded edition of this 19th century treatise on railroads, illustrated throughout with numerous folding plates.
    £750.00
    : 2kgs / : 829J18
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    Early Edition, Folding Plates, Illustrated, Rebound

    The thoroughly expanded third edition of this nineteenth-century treatise on railroads and interior communication in general, with detailed information on experiments on the powers of the improved locomotive engines, and tables of the comparative cost of conveyance on canals, railways, and turnpike roads. 

    Including chapters on rail road construction, iron rails, descriptions of motive power, turnpike roads, canals, and more. 

    Written by Nicholas Wood, colliery viewer and member of the Institution of Civil Engineers. 

    Including thirteen folding engraved plates, displaying diagrams of locomotive technology. Also including two folding charts. 

    Collated and complete.

    Condition

    In full cloth binding. Externally, sound, with some light shelf wear and bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. Internally, front hinge is strained. Pages contain the odd spot to the pages, but are otherwise bright and clean.

    Very Good

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