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OUP, 1999-03-15. paperback. Very Good. 5x0x8. Priority Mail is available on this item. No international shipping.
The Peabody Atlas - Shipping Mines and Coal Railroads in the Central Commercial District of the United States, Accompanied By Chemical, Geological, and Engineering Data de Bement, A - 1906
de Bement, A
The Peabody Atlas - Shipping Mines and Coal Railroads in the Central Commercial District of the United States, Accompanied By Chemical, Geological, and Engineering Data
de Bement, A
- Usado
- good
- Tapa dura
Chicago: Peabody Coal Company, 1906. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. (1906), hardcover, elephant folio, no dust jacket; double-page color-keyed map of the U.S. showing coal territories; double-page coal production map of territory covered by this atlas (upper midwest, Great Lakes to KY on the south); tables of coal production, coal mine operators, location of mines, followed by 25 monochrome maps with red numbers denoting mine locations, followed by list of hundreds of coal railways; photos and drawings of improved methods for smokeless furnaces and smoke suppresion and thermal efficiency; 149 pages; original binding worn at corners and spine extremities with moderate losses of cloth; letter glued to front pastedown from principal author A. Bement, Chicago mining and mechanical engineer, to Baird Halberstadt, with rubber stamp of his name and ink inscription from Bement "the author" on front blank, letter giving Halberstadt credit for table of coal measures of a portion of the Appalachian coal field; gilt lettering on front cover lightly rubbed; binding sound, maps and text quite clean, very few marginial edge tears repaired with archival tape; numerous drawings illustrating text, a few text notations in pencil; a clean, sound, complete copy of a rare atlas.
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- Formato/Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Estado del libro Usado - Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta No Jacket
- Cantidad disponible 1
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Editorial Peabody Coal Company
- Lugar de publicación Chicago
- Fecha de publicación 1906
- Palabras clave ATLAS, PEABODY COAL COMPANY, GEOLOGY, MINES, ENGINEERING