Memoire sur les Bateaux a Vapeur des Etats-Unis d'Amerique, avec un Appendice sur Diverses Machines Relatives a la Marine. by Marestier, (Jean Baptiste) - 1824

Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1824. First edition of a major work on early American steamboats. One of the most important works on the historic steamboats; many chapters on small boats, the first steamboats; their engines, the experiments of Fulton, boats from Boston, New York, Philadelphia, steamboats on the Mississippi, the Ohio, the Missouri, etc.Polak 6384. Howes M-282 (b item). Sabin 44523. The atlas, measuring a generous 19 x 24 inches, features 17 full and double-page engraved plates of steamboat plans, propulsion plants and apparatus. Bound in matching 1/4 calf over marbled boards with spine labels and spine decoration stamped in gilt. The gutter margin of the title page to the Atlas volume has been professionally repaired, with the nearly invisible repair not intruding on text. Occasional water staining in atlas volume, not affecting images. Otherwise, a fine set, and scarce to the market.. Text volume 28 cm. (4), 290, (1 errata) pp. Elephant folio atlas, 60 cm. Title page plus full and double-page b/w plates.