Rare Earthmoving Book,1931 Caterpillar,Best -Holt pics
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Rare Earthmoving Book,1931 Caterpillar,Best -Holt pics Vintage like Caterpillar Performance Handbook 1300 + pg Very scarce, rare earthmoving fundamentals text from 1931 featuring vintage photos of Best and Holt equipment (predecessors to todayâe(tm)s Caterpillar) and over 1,300 pages of the basics of civil engineering. Titled, âeoeEarthwork and Its Cost: a Handbook of Earth Excavationâe; Fourth Edition; Author: Gillette, Halbert Powers; published in New York by Gillette Publishing Co. ., 1931, very thick, 1346 pp. with hundreds of illustrations and photos. Measures 4-1/2âe x 7âe x 1-1/2âe. Full of diagrams, photos, charts, data. Limp black cloth , embossed letting on spine with slight edgewear, contents are excellent, spine is tight with inside back cover slightly releasing from back cover, ever so slight stains, covers have slight wear, overall very good condition for a gem such as this (let alone an 77 year old classic like this). Profusely illustrated, excellent handbook for civil engineering with particular interest is expansive sections on heavy equipment, mining, and earthmoving equipment in the 1920âe(tm)s , early âe~30sera. Features vintage earthmoving equipment of the era with great b/w photos of classic Caterpillar Tractor (Holt), Shovels, Traction Engines, Hayward company, Keystone Shovel, Bucyrus Dragline, Stockton
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