The Steam Engine Familiarly Explained and Illustrated; with an Historical Sketch of Its Invention and Progressive Improvement; Its Application to Navigation and Railways; with Plain Maxims for Railway Speculators.
Philadelphia: E.L. Carey and A. Hart, 1836. With additions and notes, by James Renwick. Third American, from the fifth London edition, considerably enlarged. 13 engraved plates, some folding, 67 text illustrations, 324 pages plus 6 pages of advertisements. 8vo, original cloth, paper spine label; light foxing throughout, corners rubbed, inner hinge weak. Philadelphia, 1836. Good. One of many works by the Dublin-born popularizer of diverse scientific knowledge, best known for his editorship of the "Cabinet Cyclopedia". Although "not an original..... More