(SCIENCE ENGINEERING) Oliver Evans The Young Mill Wright M

Sale 2546 - Lot 197

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(SCIENCE & ENGINEERING.) Oliver Evans. The Young Mill-Wright & Miller's Guide. 25 [of 26] plates, plus a duplicate. viii, 160, 178, 90, 10, [8 of 12] pages. 8vo, contemporary calf, worn; lacking free endpapers, lacking plate VIII from the final section but with duplicate of III, lacking final 2 leaves including errata and ad leaf, some plates worn or defective, moderate dampstaining, foxing and wear; owners' inscription on title page, pastedowns and elsewhere. Philadelphia, 1795

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First edition of one of the earliest American works on mechanical science, detailing improvements to the flour mill by one of early America's most important inventors. "The first American book on mills and milling machines, and a landmark of early American technology"--Reese, The Federal Hundred 50. Evans 28644; Rink 1482; Sabin 23182.
Provenance: passed down through 7 generations of the Evans-Smith family, with early signatures of millwright James Evans (1769-1849) of Pennsylvania, and later signature of his great-great-great-grandson Oliver Evans Smith (1911-1965) and son Brian Crawford Smith (1939-1996)--relationship to the author unknown.