Item #24759 NOTES FOR A HISTORY OF STEAM NAVIGATION. REPRINTED FROM "THE UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE." George H. Preble.
NOTES FOR A HISTORY OF STEAM NAVIGATION. REPRINTED FROM "THE UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE."
NOTES FOR A HISTORY OF STEAM NAVIGATION. REPRINTED FROM "THE UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE."
NOTES FOR A HISTORY OF STEAM NAVIGATION. REPRINTED FROM "THE UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE."

NOTES FOR A HISTORY OF STEAM NAVIGATION. REPRINTED FROM "THE UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE."

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1881. Original printed front wrapper [spine wrapper gone]. Removed from a damaged modern binding. 271, [1 blank] pp. Blindstamp at upper blank forecorner of title leaf; accession number at blank upper margin of page [3]. A clean text. Very Good, with compliments slip signed by Preble to the New Hampshire Historical Society.

This is No. 12 of only 25 printed copies: "25 copies printed" [OCLC]. The Notes precede by two years Preble's more common 'Chronological History of the Origin and Development of Steam Navigation.' Preble's work is a detailed chronological narrative of the development of steam navigation, with explanations of noteworthy occurrences, beginning with Blasco de Garray in 1543, continuing with detailed information on the era of Robert Fulton through the 1870's.
FIRST EDITION. OCLC 20924480 [8]. Not in Eberstadt, Decker. Item #24759

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