MEMORIAL OF DANIEL TREADWELL
by Wyman, Morrill
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Hardcover. MEMOIRS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, CENTENNIAL VOLUME, VOLUME XI. Fair. [FIRST EDITION] Cambridge: John Wilson and Son, 1888. Tall hardcover in half parchment and cloth boards. Pagination = 325-524 pp., illustrated with two original albumin photographs (frontis portrait and in-text plate of Treadwell's grave-site), as well as several line engraved drawings. Daniel Treadwell (1791 – 1872) was an American inventor, born at Ipswich, Massachusetts. Amongst his most important inventions are a hemp-spinning machine for the production of cordage, and a method of constructing cannon from wrought iron and steel (both of which discussed and illustrated here). A deaccessioned institutional volume with bookplate noting "Presented by The Author". Boards are worn with front hinge going and chipping to spine strip, text is thumbed here and there, but otherwise a sound example of this hard-to-locate title. (frnc)
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- Cloth
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