1912 The Book Of Modern Engines
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Description
Folding Plates, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce
The complete six volume set of Rankin Kennedy's illustrated guide to the engine. Seldom found with all volumes.
Subtitled 'A Practical Work on Prime Movers and the Transmission of Power, Steam, Electric, Water, Gas and Hot Air', Kennedy explains that 'the term Modern Engine applies not only to engines of modern design, or invented in recent years, but also to early engines found to serve useful and efficient purposes to this date'.
With folding full colour technical diagrams to the front pastedown of volumes I and III, the first displays a model of a suction gas generator, and the second a model of a 8-15 H.P. motor car chassis. The work is further illustrated throughout with photographs and vignette illustrations.
Condition
In the publisher's original cloth bindings, with blind tooling and gilt detailing. Boards bright, with bumping to spine heads and tails. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright.
Near Fine
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