Description des locomotives Stephenson, circulant sur les chemins de fer en Angleterre et en France, et sur celui de Bruxelles à Malines; Précédée d'un aperçu historique sur les chemins, les rails, la vapeur et les machines à vapeur. Avec six planches.

8vo: 72 pp.; 6 pl. (sl. browned).

Contemp. marbled paper wr.

Curious booklet about the locomotives designed by the English civil and mechanical engineer George Stephenson (1781-1848), renowned as the "Father of Railways". Rail transport, pioneered by Stephenson, was one of the most important technological inventions of the 19th c. and a key component of the Industrial Revolution. Ill. with 6 lithographs by Vandeville after Coppens showing technical drawings of the locomotives and their parts.
Ref. Opac KBR. - Worldcat (7).
Prov. C. Despret (stamp).