Sale 2455 - Printed & Manuscript Americana, September 28, 2017

246 c   (SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING.) Electrical Experimenter. Volume VI, complete. [2], 936, [2] pages. 12 issues in one volume. 4to, contemporary cloth gilt, moderate wear, with original color pictorial wrappers bound in (slightly cropped); rear hinge cracked, occasional wear to contents including a few short tears, final wrapper detached. NewYork: May 1918 to April 1919 [300/400] Notable for content on Nikola Tesla: an article on pages 614-5 titled “Nikola Tesla and His Inventions”; a cover article by Tesla in the February 1919 issue titled “Famous Scientific Illusions,” pages 692-4; and two articles byTesla in the March 1919 issue,“Tesla’s Egg of Columbus” and “My Inventions,” pages 774-7. IN ORIGINAL PARTS 247 c   (SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING.) Weissenborn, Gustavus. Amer ican Engineer ing, Illustrated by Large & Detailed Engravings Embracing Various Branches of Mechanical Art. 16 (of 52) oversized folding engravings, 24 x 30 inches, unbound. 4to text leaves [1]-8, 17-24, 49-56, 65-96, 105-112 (of 212). 8 parts (of 26?) in original illustrated wrappers, including Parts I, III,VII, IX, X, XI, XII, and XIV; moderate foxing and soiling to the first wrapper only, otherwise just minor wear. NewYork: G. & E.Weissenborn’s Engineering Office, 1857-58 [800/1,200] This majestic series was issued in parts from 1857 through 1861.The introduction states that this work was conceived to give young engineers and machinist without draughtsman skills “clear views of mechanism and mechanical relations . . . and to enable them to apply those principles as well to the structure as to the laboring force of machinery.” Each part is largely devoted to a single important contemporary engineering project, and includes two double-folio plates of detailed engineering drawings. Represented here are a beam engine for the NewYork Steam Sugar Refinery * an oscillating engine for the Steam Ship Knoxville * the locomotive Talisman built by the New Jersey Locomotive Machine Company * a beam engine for the Steam Boat Francis Skiddy * the steam fire engine Missouri * geared screw propeller engines of the Steamship Caroline of Havana * and a patent mill ofTrenton Iron Co. Each of the 16 unbound plates would be of interest on its own. Hitchcock,American Architectural Books, 1363. No other example of this series is known at auction since 1976, and we are aware of none extant in parts with wrappers. 246 247