Author: DADDOW, Samuel Harries & BANNAN, Benjamin.:
Title: Coal, iron, and oil, or, The practical American miner. A plain and popular work on our mines and mineral resources, and a text-book or guide to their economical development.
Description: Pottsville, Pa.: Benjamin Bannan; Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1866. Large 8vo. Pp. 808, wood-engraved figs., 1 large chromolithogr. fold. "map of the anthracitic coalfields of Pennsylvania" (55x85cm) with decorative border, index. Orig. cloth gilt. Recently expertly re-set in re-backed binding retaining original backstrip, new end-papers, neat repair to some folds of map, very good otherwise. - Rare early mining and oil handbook. The section paginated 675-808 is called "Appendix" with a separate title-page with imprint: "Philadelphia: King & Bird, 1866." It includes an interesting illustrated chapter entitled "Description of mines" with some nice wood-engraved views of collieries, covering pages 731-779.

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