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DESIGNS FOR FACTORY, FURNACE AND OTHER TALL CHIMNEY SHAFTS.      
   

RAWLINSON, Robert.  DESIGNS FOR FACTORY, FURNACE AND OTHER TALL CHIMNEY SHAFTS.

London: Weale, 1858. Tall folio. Publisher's cloth. (ii), 8, (2) pages, 25 plates. First edition.

A handsome book on industrial designs illustrating chimneys that pre-date the skyscraper, with twenty-two chromolithograph plates. Uncommon.  While OCLC locates ten copies in American libraries, we could find only two worn copies at auction during the past thirty years.  Rebacked; covers slilghtly sunned.

$4,500.00