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Zustand: New. In English.

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Wraps. Zustand: Very good. First Edition, Plates. Quarto, [15pp]. Publisher's blue printed wraps, bound with steel staples along the spine. Tape repair to verso of front wrap, light soiling to wraps. Complete with 13 lithographed plates, containing all 14 numbered diagrams, several folding and printed in color. Issued to accompany Williams' The Combustion of Coal and the Prevention of Smoke, Chemically and Practically Considered. (Vincent, p. 203.). Published in 1841, "The Combustion of Coal and the Prevention of Smoke" was Charles Wye Williams' practical study of improving the efficiency of coal-fired furnaces while reducing smoke. Williams examined the chemistry of combustion and argued for the controlled admission and thorough mixing of air with combustible gases. His work addressed one of the central industrial problems of the period: the heavy smoke produced by inefficient coal burning in factories and steam vessels. This accompanying atlas of diagrams illustrates the chemical principles for cleaner, more complete combustion of coal. The first scientific explanation of clean coal technology. This is the first edition of the separately issued Plates Illustrative of the Combustion of the Gaseous Portion of Coal, and of the Modes by Which It May Be Effected in Furnaces by Charles Wy (illustrator).…

First edition. Tinted lithographic title; one typeset leaf of text (Navassa; Explanation of the Plates); six colored lithographic plates (Topographical Map; Low Beach; The Harbor; Lulutown and Old Diggings; Lulu Bay; Diggings). First edition. In the publisher's brown half cloth, embossed title on both boards, gilt on the front cover. [1] leaf tinted lithographic title, [2] pp., [6] leaves of colored lithographic plates. Folio (44 × 54 cm). Rare illustrated album documenting the exploitation of Navassa Island under the Guano Islands Act, with detailed visual evidence of nineteenth-century phosphate extraction, U.S. agricultural and imperial expansion, and the Black labor force on which it depended. Large-format illustrated album, a technical-promotional publication produced in support of guano and phosphate extraction on Navassa Island, a small Caribbean island located some thirty miles southwest of the Haitian coast. Comprising a geological and topographical text with a suite of six tinted lithographic plates executed by E. Sachse & Co., Baltimore, the work presents the island explicitly as the property of the Navassa Phosphate Company of New York. It combines the functions of scientific report and corporate prospectus, documenting the island's geological value, demonstrating the feasibility and efficiency of phosphate extraction, reassuring investors and managers at a distance, and legitimizing its commercial occupation under U.S. auspices. By the mid-nineteenth century, guano had become a valued fertilizer in the United States, as agricultural expansion and soil exhaustion drove demand for concentrated nutrients. Rising prices and fears of depletion led to the Guano Islands Act of 1856, which enabled U.S. citizens to claim unoccupied guano- and phosphate-bearing islands for the United States. As one of numerous small islands brought under U.S. administration through this framework, Navassa was claimed in 1857. Operating under this legal framework, the Navassa Phosphate Company undertook the exploitation of the island, accompanied by a series of publications intended to inform and attract investors. The present lavishly produced album is the most extensive and visually elaborate of these efforts. Its short text combines geographical description, geological explanation, and operational commentary, emphasizing both the quality of Navassa's guano in comparison with the widely used Peruvian guano and the exceptional scale of the deposits, while stressing favorable working conditions, a healthy climate with minimal sickness, and secure anchorage and shipping, presenting the island as well suited to sustained industrial activity. The lithographic plates, based on Gaussoin's sketches, form an integral part of the album's argument. A detailed topographical map and sectional profile present the island as a measured and manageable space, intended to facilitate the efficient control of distant operations. Coastal and harbor views depict calm seas and orderly anchorage, highlighting a well-developed industrial infrastructure-rail tracks, wharves, hoisting devices, workshops, storage buildings, and temporary shelters. Black workers are shown at different stages of extraction and shipment, digging phosphatic material-under the supervision of white guards-moving it on railway carts, and loading boats. Taken together, the images present Navassa as a fully organized working site, offering direct visual evidence of the conditions under which production was carried out. Alongside its industrial focus, the album also records elements of the island's natural environment. Vegetation appears selectively, with palms and scrub framing the worked landscape, while iguanas in the foreground of the digging scenes and seabirds in flight or along the cliffs recur across the plates. These animals directly reflect the text's explanation of the deposits as formed from the accumulated dung and bones of seabirds and large lizards over long periods. The album was produced by E. Tinted lithographic title; one typeset leaf of text (Navassa; Explanation of the Plates); six colored lithographic plates (Topographical Map; Low Beach; The Harbor; Lulutown and Old Diggings; Lulu Bay; Diggings). (illustrator).…

2 Bände in HlbLdr. Privateinband o.Pgn. Lederrücken mit Goldprägung. Im 1. Band 40 gestochene Tafeln mit 800 Portraits. Bei letzter Tafel sind 8 von 20 Portraits beschädigt/ beschmutzt. Im 1. Band ist der Deckel am Vorsatz gelöst, die Gelenke sind gelockert. Wenige Seiten hinterlegt. 2.Bd gut. Fotos auf Anfrage.…