A real joy to spend some time with. Ex library from The Franklin Institute of Philadelphia with early to mid 19th century lending rules bookplate.
Contents include: Engravings of Lake's Patent System of Canal Navigation [Series]; Engravings of Applegath's Victoria Printing Machine; Engravings of Addenbrooke's Patent Envelope Making Machinery; On the Probable Influence of the Rotation of the Earth on Locomotion by Sea and by Land; On the Manufacture of Hydrocarbon Coal-Gas from Horhead Coal by Andrew Fyfe; Engravings of Archibald's Patent Brick-Moulding Machinery; Juvenile Pauper Emigration [to Australia; Cape of Good Hope]; Developments in Photography; Engravings of Manceaux's Patent Rifling Machine, Firearm Sights and Projectiles; Industrial School for Wives; Engravings of Roberts's Patent Digging Machine; A New Design for a Lighthouse tower by Alexander Gordon of Bermuda; Mr. Talbot's Photographic Patent Rights; Engravings of Captain Walker's Patent Mariners' Compass; A Gigantic Telescope at Wandsworth Common; Engravings of Stenson's Patent Steam Boilers; The Telegraphic Lines of the World by Dr. L. Turnbull; American Patent Law Cases; American Reaping Machines; Spherical and Conical Shot [Bullets]; Engravings of Sir George Cayley's Governable Parachute; Crockford's Patent Brewing Apparatus; Bourcart's Patent Machinery for Preparing, Combing, and Spinning Wool; Captain Norton on Shot and Projectiles; Engravings for Trotman's Improved Fountains; Pontez's New Submarine Foundations; Engravings for Richard J. Gatling's Seeding-Machine [in which we already see the "kernel" of his Gatling Gun designs]; Engravings for McBride's Scutching-Machinery, etc. etc.
p.161; 241; 281; 301; 361; 381; 501
Brooman, R. A. [Ed.] The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette, July 3rd - December 25th, 1852. London. Robertson and Co. 1852. 520 + xx [index].
An approriate period half calf binding, beautifully and extensively illustrated throughout. Moderately to heavily rubbed as shown with breaches at hinges and hinges very tender. No external indications of ex library, but interior retains a very attractive period bookplate of the Franklin Institute and punch hole ex library ownership on title page. Else very good.
