1851 1st PROPELLERS & STEAM NAVIGATION History, Ships, Scientific American

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1851 1st PROPELLERS & STEAM NAVIGATION History, Ships, Scientific American:
$95.00

HISTORY OF PROPELLERS and STEAM NAVIGATION \"with Biographical Sketches of Early Inventors\": Robert MacFarlane, first editor of the Scientific American, recounts the colorful history of steam navigation and also records the development of devices designed to propel ships -- apparently the first published book to do so. For sale is the rare first edition, first printing, published in New York in 1851.The book is in good shape for its age. The covers are somewhat faded and show minor general wear, including a little bumping at the top corners, also affecting the text; strong binding; a child\'s scribble in pencil on the endpapers; torn owner bookplate inside the front cover; owner impress stamp on two pages; the text otherwise has only minor signs of age or handling.
Not perfect but certainly still an above-average copy of this extremely scarce volume, at a very low price. Measures about 5\" X 7.5\", 144 pages, illustrated with 80 drawings. Ships promptly & securely