History of Propellers and Steam Navigation. With Biographical Sketches of the Early Inventors [with six-pages of manuscript notes on "Steam Boiler Trials"]
New-York: George P. Putnam, 1851. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's gilt-embossed pebble-grained cloth; 144pp.; illustrations throughout including frontispiece. Chipped with loss to spine ends; edgewear with exposure to corners. Binding sound. Spotting to endpapers, ownership inscription to front pastedown of C.W. Pusey dated Sept. 10, 1863 with "Wilmington, Delaware" written in pencil below; about Very..... More