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Title continues, ".Relating to stationary, marine and locomotive engines; steam fire engines; pumping, hoisting and portable engines; gas, oil and air engines; explaining their principal points and their care and management." 437 pages, plus sixteen pages of ads in the rear. Copiously illustrated with pictures and diagrams of all types of engines and parts. All edges in gilt. Bound in very dark green cloth with lettering in gilt. A fine and bright copy. Seller Inventory # 35913
Title: NEW CATECHISM OF THE STEAM ENGINE WITH ...
Publisher: Theo. Audel & Co., Publishers, New York
Publication Date: 1904
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Book Type: Book
Seller: Valley Books, AMHERST, MA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Reprint of 1904 Edition. 437pp. Numerous illustrations and engravings. Slight wear Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 061226
Seller: Slack's Book Barn, Zanesville, OH, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Additionally subtitled, 'Relating to Stationary, Marine and Locomotive Engines; Steam Fire Engines; Pumping, Hoisting and Portable Engines; Gas, Oil and Air Engines. Explaining their principal points and their care and management. Green cloth with gilt title, worn and somewhat soiled, binding is tight, G. Seller Inventory # 000396
Seller: John M. Gram, Port Huron, MI, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Reprint. moderate damp stain to lower fore corners and fore edges of boards, otherwise a clean, sound, gently used copy, octavo, 437 pages, olive green cloth with gilt titles, all edges gilt. Seller Inventory # 033732
Seller: Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Books have very mild rubbing to edges of spine, mild rubbing to corners of cover, mild scuffing to cover, mild toning to edgeblock, very small creases to top corners of pages 341-354, very mild bumping to corners of cover, a modest rip to front endpage (just surface of paper), a small tear to edge of front endpage (~ 1/2"), 2 mils creases running length of front endpage, a mild crack to hinge (pg.132, 228, 340, & 356) dust jacket has modest toning throughout, modest tearing to hinge of spine and spine, modest tearing to hinge of front insert, and mild chipping to edges of spine. otherwise book is in good condition with clean pages and a clean cover, and dust jack is now protected in an archival cover. *Photos available upon request. Seller Inventory # 1018492
Seller: Novel Ideas Books & Gifts, Decatur, IL, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Minor light staining to covers. Faint musty odor. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 437 pages. Seller Inventory # 610709
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Flexible covers. Condition: Very Good. New Edition. 12mo, 437 pages + ads, dark silk cloth, a.e.g., partial tear to the top joint repaired with library cloth repair tape. + Care of marine, stationary, & locomotive engines. Also pumping, hoisting, portable engines; gas, oil, & air engines. Hawkins was the editor of "Steam", and later of "Power", Note: his nom-de-plume was Theodore Audel ! "The reader is invited in the succeeding pages to examine down to almost microscopic detail the greatest physical thing on earth." - Preface. With more than 296 illustrations. Apparently this is the last of the Audel's editions on steam engines. "The subject matter .is not arranged in chapters, but according to the more natural order best designed to explain at greater or less length the different themes discussed. . There is also a description of the numerous types of the engines now in operation, such as the Corliss, Westinghouse, etc.". Seller Inventory # 230099
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop / Ruffolo Enterprises, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
HARDBACK BLUE. Condition: VG. Rubbed cover, gilt lettering on spine and cover, gilted foredges DATE PUBLISHED: 1904 EDITION: 437. Seller Inventory # 121803
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Green cloth with gilt title, worn and somewhat soiled, binding is tight, G. Additionally subtitled, 'Relating to Stationary, Marine and Locomotive Engines; Steam Fire Engines; Pumping, Hoisting and Portable Engines; Gas, Oil and Air Engines. Explaining their principal points and their care and management.'. Seller Inventory # 296
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Black cloth, beveled edges, lettered in gilt. Modest surface rubbing, small spot of surface cloth loss at top front corner. Firm binding, mended hinges, clean interior. 438,[9] pp., illus. 1st or early printing, copyrighted 1897, this copy dated 1898 on lower main title. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book. Seller Inventory # 058444
Seller: Chiron Media, Wallingford, United Kingdom
PF. Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 6666-IUK-9781016441360
Quantity: 10 available