c1871 American Locomotive Engineering and Railway Mechanism

Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Original Binding

The very scarce expanded variant, undated and with the 'Industrial Publishing Co' imprint as called for. Only one copy held institutionally. A very rare variant of a scarce work, with an extra forty-three illustrations compared to the original edition, which was published in 1861 with fifty-three plates. 

Illustrated with ninety-five monochrome engraved plates, including three hand coloured plates, and most being folding plates. Collated, complete. 

An important engineering work, being an impressive collection of engravings from Gustavo Weissenborn, a talented mechanical engineer, featuring diagrams, plans, working drawings and illustrations depicting the construction of American locomotives. This impressive collection of plates provides insight into the engineering and mechanical construction of American locomotives of the nineteenth century, including the newest developments in locomotive engineering.

Lacking the original title page and index, collated against a matching copy held institutionally. 

Volume II (The plate volume) only.