Description: The Young Mill-Wright and Millers Guide : Illustrated by Twenty-Eight Descriptive Plates and a Description of an Improved Merchant Flour Mill with Engravings by C. and O. Eveans, Engineers, The Ninth Edition, With Additions and Corrections by Thomas P. Jones, Carey, Lea & Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1836, 392 pp, full original leather, 9 x 6”, 8vo. In good condition. Light wear to extremities with scuffing to corners and edges. Leather slightly desiccated overall with light scratching to surface of leather. Corners rubbed. Spine lightly abraded. Leather remains rich in color. Old hand ownership on fly. Dampness staining to end papers and preliminaries at edges. Pages 50-100 chewed at top right corner. Text block lightly toned with scattered foxing. Moderate at times. Free of known markings. Folding plates are all present with slight irregularities in folds. No tape repairs. Binding tight and intact. Please see photos. Later edition, scarce in any edition. Oliver Evans (1755-1819) was an American inventor, engineer and businessman born in rural Delaware and later rooted commercially in Philadelphia. He was one of the first Americans building steam engines and an advocate of high pressure steam. COLN1836BHJX
Price: 250 USD
Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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Binding: Leather
Language: English
Special Attributes: Illustrated, Ninth Edition
Author: Oliver Evans
Publisher: Carey, Lea & Blanchard
Topic: Engineering
Subject: Science
Original/Facsimile: Original
