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Wilmington, DE: E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co., [1938]. 12mo. 252 pp. 234 text illustrations, diagrams, numerous charts. Quarter mustard-coloured cloth over black boards, yellow lettering & Du Pont logo on front cover, black lettering to spine (minor rubbing, slight bumping to corners, minor darkening to spine), VG copy. Seventh, revised & expanded, edition of this excellent handbook on using explosives for mining, quarrying stone, road building, and improving farmlands. La Motte describes and discusses the types of blasting powder, dynamite, safety fuse, electric squibs, blasting caps, operating a push-down blasting plunger machine, and much more.