Treatise on Mills and Millwork. Part II. On Machinery of Transmission and the Construction and Arrangement of Mills

Beschreibung

A very scarce treatise on mills by pioneering engineer William Fairbairn, the first edition of this illustrated work. The first edition of this very scarce work.An engineering treatise on machinery transmission and the construction and arrangement of mills. This detailed work explores all aspects of mills, from engaging and disengaging gear, architecture, as well as the different produce of mills, such as corn, cotton, paper, and wool.Illustrated with seven folding plates, three plates, and in-text engravings throughout. Collated, complete.By the Scottish civil engineer and structural engineer William Fairbairn, who was the third president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.Volume II only, lacking Volume I.Forty pages of adverts to the rear, dated August 1863. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. Dampstain to the tail of the boards. A small amount of loss to the head of the spine and top edge of the front board. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. A few light marks to the cloth. Bookseller's label to the rear paste down. Tidemarks to the paste downs and endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with a few scattered spots, and the occasional small tidemark. Good.

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Bibliografische Details

Titel

Treatise on Mills and Millwork. Part II. On Machinery of Transmission and the Construction and Arrangement of Mills

Verlag

Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, London

Erscheinungsjahr

1863

Einband

Cloth

Illustrator

Not Stated

Auflage

First edition.

Zustand

Good

Buchtyp

book

Verkäuferkataloge

• Engineering