SEGUIN Marc, Aîné

De L'influence  des Chemins de Fer et de l'art de les tracer et de les construire.

PRESENTATION COPY

First edition. 6 engraved folding diagramatic plates. 8vo. Modern dark maroon half morocco. xix, 501pp. Paris, Carilian-Gœury, 1839.

£250.00

With the author’s signed inscription to the Minister of Public Works.

Marc Seguin was one of the foremost engineers of the day, his boiler had been used on Stephenson’s Rocket engine, and he was one of the two principals behind France’s first railway between St Etienne and Lyon.

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240097