Details

Subject(s)

• Toy and movable books—Specimens [Browse]
• Mechanical engineering [Browse]
• Machinery—Models [Browse]

Related name

• Häntzschel-Clairmont, W. (Walther), 1860- [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Metamorphic pictures [Browse]

Notes

• Cover title.
• Atlas originally published to accompany Die Praxis des modernen Maschinenbaues : gemeinverständliche Darstellung der technischen Grundlagen und Praktiken des Maschinenbaues / von W. Häntzschel-Clairmont ; unter Mitwirkung von Frank Kirchbach ... [et al.] ; mit 9 zerlegbaren Maschinenmodellen auf 7 Tafeln gezeichnet vom Verfasser. (2 vol.).
• Each plate has numerous flaps that fold out in sections and when lifted reveal layers of machinery beneath the exterior; plates are mounted on cards and include numbered keys to the illustrated sections on verso of preceding plate; first and last plates mounted on binding verso.
• Cotsen copy: Includes illustrations of "Mercedes" Kraftwagen; 3/5 Gekuppelte Heissdampf-schnellzug Lokomotive; Aeroplan der Brüder Wright; Gleichstrom-Dampfmaschine; Drehstrom-Turbodynamo; Heinrich Lanz's Lokomobile; Steilrohr-Dampfkessel; Deutzer Schiffs-Brons-Motor.
• GAX copy with same title, different illustrations; 7 leaves of plates; cover design differs slightly.
• cover edges worn pages foxing

Binding note

blue ptd cloth.

OCLC

9180359

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