Description
The Young Mill-Wright and Millers Guide : Illustrated by Twenty-Eight Descriptive Plates and a Description of an Improved Merchant Flour Mill with Engravings by C. and O. Eveans, Engineers, The Ninth Edition, With Additions and Corrections by Thomas P. Jones, Carey, Lea & Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1836, 392 pp, full original leather, 9 x 6”, 8vo. In fair condition. Light wear to extremities with scuffing to corners and edges. Leather slightly desiccated overall with light scratching to surface of leather. Corners rubbed. Spine lightly abraded. Leather remains rich in color. Old hand ownership of Thomas G. Clark on fly. Text block lightly toned with scattered foxing. Moderate at times. Rippling throughout text from previous humidity exposure. Some scribbling to plates. Folding plates are all present with slight irregularities in folds. Some are torn. No tape repairs. Binding tight and intact. Please see photos. Later edition, scarce in any edition. Oliver Evans (1755-1819) was an American inventor, engineer and businessman born in rural Delaware and later rooted commercially in Philadelphia. He was one of the first Americans building steam engines and an advocate of high pressure steam. COLN1836GIJR
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