Colburn Locomotive engineering 1871 2 vol.

RAILWAY (2). COLBURN, ZERAH. Locomotive engineering, and the mechanism of railways. A treatise on th eprinciples an construction of the locomotive engine, railway carriages, and railway plant, with examples. I-II. (Text and plate volume.). London - Glasgow, William Collins, 1871.

Folio (ca 385x280 mm.). XIV, 1-6, 9-320 pp. (probably due to wrong pagination). Numerous illustrations (240) to text vol. I, 64 double-page engraved plates to vol. II (irregular numbers).
Contemporary darkbrown half leather. Owner´s inscription in pencil on both first free endpapers, Alfr. Runeberg, dated Manchester July 1882.

The contents in both the text and the plate volumes include details from railways in several parts of the old world as well as America and even as far as New South Wales.

Several plates foxed, a few heavily, text with foxing in the beginning.