Locomotives and Locomotive Building, being a brief sketch of the growth of the railroad system and of the various improvements in locomotive building in America together with a history of the origin and growth of the Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works, Paterson, New Jersey, from 1831 to 1886

Rogers, Hughes, Headdon

Verlag: The Rogers Locomotive & Machine Works, New York, Gottsberger, Printer., 1886

Beschreibung

First edition; original editor's brown cloth binding, tight, slightly rubbed at edges, minors stains on board, upper corners bomped; gilt title on spine and first board; original dark brown pastedown in good condition with a bookplate of M.M.Doerr, former director of the french railway museum in Mulhouse;title page slightly loosened ; frontis. Portraits of the 4 authors and founders, two views of the Works, 200 pages with many engravings and technical details. Also 28 plates of locomotives with specifications. Index. Inside in good condition especially the locomotives catalogue, some light foxing on a few number of pages, heavier on the portraits and surrounding pages; Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6438

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Locomotives and Locomotive Building, being a...

Verlag: The Rogers Locomotive & Machine Works, New York, Gottsberger, Printer.

Erscheinungsdatum: 1886

Einband: Couverture rigide

Zustand: Assez bon

Auflage: Edition originale