Engravings of Plans Profiles and Maps illustrating the Standard Models

State Engineer and Surveyor

Verlag: Charles Van Benthuysen Printer, 1860

Beschreibung

Please find on offer here a very nice copy of a vintage book now quite scarce or even rare in the book trade--issued as an accompaniment to the Annual Report of the State Engineer and Surveyor on the Canals for 1859 . The book is more specifically titled: Engravings of Plans Profiles ad Maps illustrating the Standard Models from which are built the Important Structures of the New York State Canals. This book includes 15 fold-out engravings of the aforementioned contained in a blind-stamped hard cover book with embossed and once gilt titles on cover and spine. Please see the photo of the Table of Contents for your further information. Condition: This book is in very good condition. The hard covers are a bit faded and slightly bumped and the gilt titles muted but still legible. Inside a former owner has left his penciled name on the front endpaper. This book is ex-library and has a shelf label on the spine and is marked as such on the title page but I found no other library markings. All 15 of the fold-outs are present and folded and still attached and contained in this book. The first map cum diagram however and one not lettered as the others was torn from the book. It is still present and laid-in (please see the photos). There is some minor mis-folding to the many engravings but in general having seen other versions of this book this copy is in as good a condition as can be found in the book trade. There is some cracking or splitting at the seams of the folds but very little. Please see the photos. There is some darkening to some of the fold-outs but none that obscures the presentation in question. The hinges are intact, and the binding seems tight and sound. Despite all this I would say again that it would be difficult to find such a good copy of this incredible book of plans profiles and maps of the New York State Canal System. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 116

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Engravings of Plans Profiles and Maps ...

Verlag: Charles Van Benthuysen Printer

Erscheinungsdatum: 1860

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

Auflage: 1st Edition.