[Rarebooks] fs: 1884 Ship-Building Industry in U.S.A.

[Back Creek Books]

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We are pleased to offer:
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(No. 9810 )  Hall, Henry. REPORT ON THE SHIP-BUILDING INDUSTRY OF THE UNITED 
STATES [FROM THE 10TH U.S. CENSUS, 1880].
[Washington, D.C.]: [Government Printing Office], [1884]. Hardcover, Quarto, 
276 pages, black and white engraved plates, plans. Good.
      Very detailed statistics and information gathered for the 10th U. S. 
Census. The information was collected mostly by personal visits to the many 
shipyards in the United States rather than by correspondence. There are 
chapters on merchant sailing vessels, steam vessels, iron vessels, canal 
boats, shipbuilding timber, merchant sailing vessels, and more. There are 
scale drawings and plans throughout, along with a few plates, including a 
double page folded plate of the Mississippi River steamboat "Golden Rule." A 
tremendous amount of information on late 19th century shipbuilding in 
America. This report was separated from a larger census volume and bound 
separately here in tan cloth over boards. Title page has some soil and a 1" 
tear at bottom edge. A few leaves are beginning to pull loose at either top 
or bottom of inner margin, but all still attached. One plate has a large 
piece of one corner torn away. Prior owner bookplate on front 
pastedown....... $150.00
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