When Horses Walked on Water: Horse-Powered Ferries in Nineteenth-Century America Tapa dura - 1998

Smithsonian Books. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, [, 1998. Hardcover. Top edge slightly foxed; otherwise very good condition in very good dust jacket. ]. 292p. Illus.

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Smithsonian, 1998-04-17. First Edition, first printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. Signed by Author. Inscribed by Cohn on the dedication page. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some very light handling, a touch of sunning on the spine, in a mylar cover. 8vo. 292pp.

Smithsonian. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's cloth. First edition inscribed to the half title page by Crisman, with his doodle and laid in business card, also signed. Two tipped-in photos opposite signature. Else fine in sunned DJ in mylar. ; 6.5 X 1 X 9.75 inches; 292 pages; Signed by Author .

Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. Signed Dedication copy. Near book in a jacket with spine sunned. First printing, full number line. Bibliography with notes, index and appendices. The "dedication copy" signed by Cohn on the title page with an inscription to the dedicatee on the appropriate page. The authors "show how a confluence of geographic, technological, economic, and social conditions in the United States and Canada turned an ancient idea into a practical alternative to more expensive and dangerous steamboats. Reviewing evidence from travelers' memoirs, regional histories, pictorial records, and the only horseboat ever studied by archaeologists - a wreck on the floor of Lake Champlain's Burlington Bay, in Vermont - the authors trace the evolution of horseboats from early mechanisms that forced the animals to walk in tight circles to "endless floor" treadmills that resembled modern exercise machines. In a lively narrative… Leer más

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