Combustion engineering: A reference book on fuel burning and steam generation

1948. First edition. ca. ca. 900 pages. 23,5 x 16 cm. Blue cloth boards stamped in gilt. The book deals with various methods & equipment used for fuel burning, steam generation, & heat recovery. It aims to cover subject comprehensively, within limits of one treatment, & thereby to answer many questions that continually arise in classrooms, engineering offices & boiler plants, Illustrated with many photos, graphs, line & wash drawings, tables, & a fold-out Mollier diagram attached to rear fixed end paper. Extensive index, pages numbered in chapters (2-1, etc.), so overall page count difficult, but text block is 1-3/4" thick.