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NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. Good/Poor, dj in 2 pieces, spine of dj missing, front hinge cracked. 1st printing viii, 376 p., frontis, maps on endpapers, photos, illus, appendix, index, 8vo;
London, Eng.: Edward Stanford, 1876. Metallic Mining and Collieries by Warington W. Smyth; Coal by A. Galletly; Building Stones by Professor Hull; Explosive Compounds by W. Mattieu Williams. [2], iv, 211, [1], 16 p.; 17 cm. (7 inches). Brownish-red cloth with blind-stamped border and decorative center medallion on each board. Pale yellow endpapers printed in black with the contents of the series edited by G. Phillips Bevan. 16 pages of publisher's advertisements follow text. Front board also bears a blind stamp reading: Friends Library of Germantown. Front pastedown bears bookplate of the Germantown Friends' Free Library, with inscription noting that the book was withdrawn from that library and presented to Joseph H. Price in Jan. 1936. The title page also bears a faint ink stamp and a perforated stamp of the same library, with an accession number stamped at the foot of p. iii. Back pastedown bears remains of book pocket. This volume in the British Manufacturing Industries series discusses the state in the 1870s of the mining of gold, silver, lead, copper, tin, iron, and other metals, and of coal, in particular the techniques used in working coal mines and the current safety methods found in those mines, as well as the quarrying of building stones. Of particular interest is the lengthy section on the manufacture and use of gunpowder. In Fair Condition: cloth over spine is lacking; both boards are detached but present; fore-edges of boards are rubbed; back free endpaper is detached but present; pages are otherwise clean and tight. A scarce book from this important late 19th-century work on industry in Great Britain.. Fair.
Utica, N.Y.: William Williams, 1817. Comprehending a plain System of Directions, Applying to Those Arts and Other Branches Nearly Connected With Them in the Manufacture of Cotton and Woollen Goods; Including Many Useful Tables and Drafts, in Calculating and Forming Various Kinds and Patterns of Goods; Designed for the Improvement of Domestic Manufactures. First Edition. 204 p.: tables, 1 full-page engraving, patterns; 19 cm. (7½ inches). Full calf with six gilt-ruled spine compartments; gilt-tooled title on black leather spine label: Weaving & Dyeing. Errata slip attached to back fixed endpaper. On front free endpaper in an old hand: John Warners Book. Contains directions and patterns for weaving and dying wool and cotton; also contains a section of recipes, including that for gilt for the edges of books and paper. In Very Good- Condition: rubbed; one corner of leather spine label lacking; light soiling throughout; old ink stains on pp. 147-50, but text is legible; several tears, all without loss of text or pattern: 4½-cm. (2-inch) tear from fore-edge of pp. 86-87; small section lacking from lower edge of pp. 88-89; 2-cm. (1-inch) tear from fore-edge of pp. 88-89; 4-cm. (1½-inch) tear from lower edge of pp. 195-96 ; a solid copy.. First Edition. Very Good-.