A Short Treatise On The Application Of Steam Whereby Is Clearly Shewn From Actual Experiments That

by James Rumsey

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Philadelphia: printed by Joseph James: Chestnut Street, 1788 but actually 1849 . 8vo, pp. 3 , 1014-1038 i.e. 28 pages ; engraved frontispiece; removed from binding; last leaf loose but present; all else very good. Originally published with title: A Plan Wherein the Power of Steam is Fully Shewn, and here extracted from The Documentary History of the State of New York, Albany, 1849. See Rink 2924, Sabin 71427, and Evans 21442 for the 1788 edition. Item

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