(Wilson-Snyder Manufacturing Co.). PUMPING MACHINERY FOR EVERY PURPOSE. Pittsburg, Pennsylvania: Wilson-Snyder Manufacturing Co., (1905). Oblong octavo, 6-7/8 inches high by 9-3/4 inches wide. Burgundy cloth titled in gilt on the front cover and the spine with the titled framed within gilt decorations on the front cover. The covers are rubbed and stained with wear to the corners. There are heavier white stains to the top edge of the rear cover. 144 pages, with profuse full-page illustrations from photographs and diagrams throughout depicting the company's line of pumps and pumping machinery. "For Sale by S.B. Whinery, 95 Liberty St, New York, N.Y." is boldly stamped in blue at the bottom of the title page as well as on the front endpaper and the date "May 1916" is penned at the top of the title page. There is some red dye bleeding from the covers onto the bottom edges of the front endpaper and title page with offsetting from S.B. Whinery's stamp on the verso of the front blank. White stains, likely paint spills, mar the book's top edge. Good working copy.
Among the pumps and pumping machinery depicted and described are the company's "Compound Duplex Pumps", "Duplex Steam Pumps", "Duplex Power Pumps", "Duplex High-Pressure Pump", "Direct Acting Pumps", "Tank or Light Service Pumps- Direct Action", "Direct-acting Air Compressor", "Vertical Cross Compound Pumping Engine", etc., as well as parts.
RARE.
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