History of the American Steam Fire-Engine

Chicago: Owen Davies, Publisher, 1960 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. Facsimile edition. One of 500 copies. A reprint of the very rare 1896 edition. Quarto. x, 150pp. Illustrated throughout with many reproductions of photographic plates and engravings of engines, parts, plans, etc. Maroon pictorial cloth stamped in white. A very fine copy with edge-chipped pictorial beige dust jacket stamped in red. Beyond the abundance of plates and detail engravings, this fine work is full of dimensions, specifications and performance records of the steam fire engines of about forty eight builders. Provides information on every steam fire engine built in the U.S.A. from the Paul R. Hodge engine of 1840-41, the "Joe Ross" engine, the 1852 steamer built by Moses Latta, and all the other builders to the time of publication of the original (1896). .