£250
William Pole. 'A Treatise on the Cornish Pumping Engine,' 1844. In two parts, Appendix G. To the New Edition of Tredgold on The Steam Engine and on Steam Navigation. Part I. Historical notice of the application of the steam engine to the purpose of draining the Mines of Cornwall, and of its progressive improvement in that district. Part II. Description of the Cornish Pumping Engine and of its various peculiarities, as contrasted with the ordinary Boulton and Watt Single Acting Engine. First edition, with nine plates, in original green binding with filigree decoration and gilt lettering to the front cover, a very good copy, published by John Weale, 59 High Holborn, London, 1844.
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