Exploitation des Mines (c.1880)

We are offering here a very scarce first edition exemplar of this title (only one copy of this title selling on internet).

List of Chapters (translated from French): Preliminary. Transport of the force. Survey. Research and General walk in operating system. The work of excavation and equipment of the abatage. Wells, galleries and tunnels. Ventilation, lighting. Underground transport. Extraction, travel of staff, lowering of the embankments. Dryer, pumping. Methods of operating system. The seats of operation, external transport, manipulation.

"Exploitation des Mines. Cours de Mr Couriot a l'Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures. Lithographies & autographies"; Collation complete - XII (Index of plates) + 164 lithographed double plates; Text in French; Binding is tight and firm. Leather spine and marbled cartonage boards scuffed and bumped, partly chipped to the extremities. Traces of wetting to the lower corner of back board and last few blank pages. Pages/text block in very good condition, with some age toning/yellowing and occasional light foxing.