Engineer's Pennsylvania Manuscript Notebook: Railroad Work and Construction

Pennsylvania, 1886. Hardcover. Very Good+. Contemporary quarter sheep, marbled paper over boards; 112 x 176 mm; with 123 numbered and lined leaves, mostly filled. Rather early and rare American railroad treatise made by one, Isaac Dox, chief engineer in the building of a rail line from Delano to Hazelton, Pennsylvania, 1886-1887. Covers all aspects of railroad construction and the working of railroads, exceptionally well accomplished in a small, precise hand, with frequent illustrations and diagrams done in pen and ink. Spine chipped and scuffed; edges of boards scuffed.