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No Binding. Condition: VG. T. Muller (illustrator). Sized about 9 x 5, printed on light-gauge glossy paper, from an engraving by Muller.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 507 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Very good dust jacket not price clipped. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 523 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Very good dust jacket not price clipped. NOTE: Light foxing to page edges. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Xi, 507 Pp. Light Blue Cloth. First Printing. Fine In Ner Fine Dust Jacket Priced $10.00. No Marks. Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, Frs (German: Reichsgraf Von Rumford; 1753 - 1814) Was A British Physicist, Born In Colonial Massachusetts,[1] And Inventor Whose Challenges To Established Physical Theory Were Part Of The 19Th-Century Revolution In Thermodynamics. He Served As Lieutenant-Colonel Of The King's American Dragoons, Part Of The British Loyalist Forces, During The American Revolutionary War. After The End Of The War He Moved To London, Where His Administrative Talents Were Recognized When He Was Appointed A Full Colonel, And In 1784 He Received A Knighthood From King George Iii. A Prolific Designer, Thompson Also Drew Designs For Warships. He Later Moved To Bavaria And Entered Government Service There, Being Appointed Bavarian Army Minister And Re-Organizing The Army, And, In 1792, Was Made A Count Of The Holy Roman Empire.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Good dust jacket. First Harvard Edition. Cambridge, Massachusetts:: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969. A clean, square copy. Corners are NOT bumped. The Dust Jacket is lightly soiled, and has closed tears that have been reinforced on the blank side with clear tape. NOT price clipped (10.00). No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated with a few old engravings. From the Dust Jacket: "In this new edition, Mr. Brown has rearranged the papers according to subject matter Of particular interest are his papers on the propagation of heat in liquids, the heat of combustion of many substances, and the management of fire and the economy of fuel. His recognition of convection currents led him to the design of chimney fireplaces which have not been improved upon since." Appendix: Facts of Publication (a bibliography that identifies the various editions and translations of Count Rumford publications). Index. Bound in the publisher's gray cloth, lettered in white and black on the spine. . First Harvard Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good condition./Good dust jacket. 8vo. viii, 523pp.

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First three volumes of five volume set of the work of scientist/inventor Benjamin Thompson- AKA Count Rumford. All three volumes and unpriced, unclipped dust jackets are near fine plus, if not fine with only light shelf-wear. NOTE: DUE TO SIZE/WEIGHT, PRIORITY AND INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING WILL BE SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER THAN ABEBOOKS' QUOTE; IT WILL REFLECT ACTUAL COSTS. Time Tested Books has been located in the same place and owned by the same people for over 20 years. We have an excellent rep. We also have tens of thousands of titles in stock and are an open shop, so when in the Sacramento area, stop in.

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ii, 68pp, 14 bw illustrations on fold out plates 21x14, unbound Covers and title page missing, contents page missing substantial pieces only slightly impacting text, edges of plates rough, a couple of pencil marks. Damaged copy of Rumford's classic work. The pagination matches the description of the third edition, but without the title page and imprint it is difficult to be sure. Rumford (he became a Count of the Holy Roman Empire in 1791 in recognition of his work for the Prince-Elector of Bavaria) was a polymath, whose achievements ranged from furnaces to nutritious soup for the poor. Born in America, he was a Loyalist in the War of Independence, and ended up in London, then Paris and Munich. As well as solving the problems of inefficient fireplaces he helped to found the Royal Institute, and - apparently - invented thermal underwear. One of the great Enlightenment figures.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 4 volume set. Bound in publisher's green cloth. Hardcover. Library stamps and markings. Illustrations, 52 plates, tables. Ships daily.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offprint from: Bibliotheque Britannique, Sciences et Arts. Vol. 5 [Geneva, 1797]. 8vo (199 x 127 mm). iv, 104 pp. One folding engraved plate. Printed on blue paper. Inscribed and signed by Rumford on title-page ("to the right honorable Lord Sheffield, from his most obedient servant Rumford"). Provenance: Lord Sheffield (dedication by Rumford on title-page); Walter Scott Thompson (his bookplate to front pastedown). Later cloth (extremities little rubbed). Internally only little age-toned, title page with glued residue of flyleaf paper at gutter margin (not affecting text), inscription slightly trimmed at top and fore-margin. ---- DSB XIII, p.351. FIRST EDITION of Rumford's essay on the propagation of heat in fluids. Rumford is best known for his contributions to the theory of heat. At the end of the 18th century the predominant theory of heat was the so-called caloric theory, according to which heat was a fluid substance that flowed into bodies when they were heated and flowed out of them as they cooled. The success of this theory in explaining then known phenomena is reflected in many terms, such as "heat flow" and "calorie," still used by physicists today. "In 1797 he published the description of a device for proving gunpowder, which was generally accepted as the standard method by both the British and the Bavarian armies. It was during his investigations of cannon that he was impressed by the large amount of heat generated in cannon barrels by the explosion of gunpowder even when no ball was being fired. He was thus led to accept the vibratory theory of heat, which he championed actively all his life. Thompson¿s most famous experiment in this area was his demonstration of the process of boring cannon with a dull drill, which he carried out in the arsenal at Munich. Because the heat generated in this process seemed limitless, he reasoned that a fluid caloric did not exist. Thompson carried out many other experiments to demonstrate the reasons for his disbelief in the caloric theory. He unsuccessfully attempted to determine whether heat had weight, which would be an attribute of a fluid; he weighted, at different temperatures, fluids that had markedly different specific heats and heats of fusion. He studied the anomalous expansion of fusion. He studied the anomalous expansion of water between 4°C and 0°C to show that the concept that thermal expansion is caused by fluid caloric taking up space was false. He never realized the connection between heat and energy, although he did carry on experiments to demonstrate spontaneous interdiffusion of different density liquids at constant temperature, and he postulated that fluids are in constant random motion." (DSB). Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 4to, from Phil. Trans., 1797, p222-292, 3 tables, 2 fldg plates including one of a cannon. (Preceded by 3p 'On the action of nitre upon gold & platina' by Smithson Tennant). Neatly rebound at some time in cloth, gilt lettering on spine, by Henry Sotheran. Sl browning to first page & plates, red edges. DNB: Count Rumford founded the Royal Institution in 1799. He made mechanical inventions with a view to ameliorating domestic life, and was the first to determine that 'heat is a mode of motion', after observing 'the immense amount of heat generated when cannon were bored'.

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Third Edition. Very good copy in the original pictorial-printed, stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked as with age. Internally crisp and fine. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 1 pages; Description: 1 vol. (continuous paging) ; 22 cm. Subject: Poor --Germany --Early works to 1800. 3 Kg.

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Third Edition. Very good copy in the original pictorial-printed, stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked as with age. Internally crisp and fine. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 1 pages; Description: 1 vol. (continuous paging) ; 22 cm. Subject: Poor --Germany --Early works to 1800. 1 Kg.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. xxiv, 390, [2] pages plus 14 engraved plates. 8vo. Brown library buckram with library label on spine. Library bookplate and deaccession stamp on front endpapers (US Patent Office surplus) otherwise clean internally (noting minor foxing throughout). Although marked Volume I, this was the only volume published under this title. Cloth. Contains various papers including Experiments on Gunpowder, Experiments made with Cannon and some attempts to improve Field Artillery, Experiments on Production of Air from Water, Intensities of Light emitted by Luminous Bodies, Experiments on Coloured Shadows, Conjectures respecting the Principles of the Harmony of Colours, Enquiry concerning Chemical Properties attributed to Light, etc. Thompson was well known for his technological innovation, and he studied gunpowder and illumination throughout his life. (DSB) In 1798 the same publisher issued a collection of Rumford's works called "Essays Political Economical and Philosophical" but we are unclear how much overlap there is in content. Under this title, this is the only volume issued.

Frontispiece portrait, 13 engraved plates, 12 folding; xxiv+390pp. 8vo contemp. calf, spine gilt, front cover detached, Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford of the Holy Roman Empire [1753-1814] natural philosopher and philanthropist, was born at North Woburn, Massachusetts. In the War of Independence, he remained loyal to the British and raised a regiment , the King's American Dragoons. In 1785, at the request of Elector Karl Theodor of Bavaria, he left England and settled in Munich. This volume of thirteen papers is dedicated to Elector Maximilian Joseph. The major part of the book are accounts of experiments on gun-powder and cannon, lifetime interests of Rumford. One paper is on the absorption of moisture in different clothing materials.The portrait is a stipple engraving, head and shoulders, to left, oval, in uniform, after Kellerhofen, by Joseph Rauschmayr. This engraving is not in the British Museum or NPG.

8vo. xi, [16], 498, ads [2] pp. 7 engraved plates, numerous woodcuts. Original full gilt-ruled calf; spine heavily restored, extremities worn, hinges neatly mended. Bookplates of James T. Bland, and Anne Willan. Very good. This is an early text on the kitchen and all heating implements relating to equipping the room for usage. Rumford, the noted physicist and inventor, describes kitchen fire-places, the roaster, dripping-pan, heating an iron oven, construction of boilers, steam cooking, warming rooms, saucepan heaters, portable furnaces, tea-kettles (p.301), kitchen utensils for the poor, "account of a concealed kitchen," chimneys, warm bathing, management of fires, use of steam as a vehicle for transporting heat, etc. Thompson is known also as the inventor of the coffee percolator (1806/1812), published in a later volume. PROVENANCE: Anne Willan (born 1938) is a recognized authority on French cooking, with more than 35 years of experience as a cooking teacher, cookbook author and food columnist. She is the founder of the prestigious Ecole de Cuisine La Varenne, which operated in Burgundy France from 1991 until 2007.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. RUMFORD, Count (Benjamin THOMPSON). "Sur la manière dont la chaleur se propage dans les fluides; sur une loi remarquable qui s'observe dans la condensationde l'eau par le froid, lorque ce liquide approche du terme de la congelation.avec des conjectures sur la cause finale de la salure de l'Ocean"and other papers in pp 97-198, with one folding plate in "Bibliotheque Britannique, ou Recuell extrait des Ouvrages Anglais periodiques et autres." Geneva, Imp. De la Bibliotheque Britannique, 1797, volume 5, 392pp and three folding plates and tables; in the Science et Arts series. Paper-covered boards and spine. There is a little wear and rubbing to the boards, though overall the binding is quite nice. VERY GOOD. The text is very crisp and bright. [++] The "Bibliotheque Britannique" provided translations of significant and important papers (mostly extracts, or reviews, though with some complete article translations) that were written primarily in English and then translated into French to reach a wider audience in Europe many of these translations were the first exposure to the papers on the Continent. Many of the leading lights were published here including Jenner, Davy, Thomson, Wollaston, Waterhouse, Gay-Lussac, Pictet, and many others. The journal was active 1796-1815 after which it changed direction somewhat and renamed "Bibliotheque Universelle". For more on the significance on the BB, see: "The Transmission of Culture in Western Europe, 1750-1850: Papers Celebrating the Bicentenary of the Foundation of the 'Bibliothèque britannique' (1796-1815) in Geneva" by David Bickerton and Judith Proud.[++] On RUMFORD: "Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford, 1753-1814, American) describes experiments leading to his discovery of convection currents in the essay "On the propagation of heat in fluids." He proceeds to examine the possible role of convection in the world ocean, concluding from his own theoretical work and from the 1751 deep water temperature measurements of Henry Ellis that the existence of cold water at depth in the tropics implies a meridional circulation transporting deep water from the polar regions toward the equator. Water cooled at the surface in high latitudes gets denser and hence descends. This cold, dense water spreads along the sea floor toward the equator, forcing a countercurrent from equator to pole at the surface. Thompson furthermore supplements this large-scale model of ocean circulation with an explanation of how in high latitudes a smaller scale vertical circulation can take place which results in significant heat transfer to the atmosphere: cold winds cool surface waters, which consequently descend, initiating a vertical circulation that brings to the surface warmer waters which in turn transfer heat to the atmosphere, cool, and descend, continuing the vertical circulation pattern."--Claire Parkinson, Breakthroughs, 1797. [++] Also in this volume is a review/observation of James HUTTON's great classic "Theory of the Earth, etc. Theorie de la Terre, avec les preuves et des eclairisemens, en quartre parties."(published in 1796) on pp 53-73 and 262-273. [++] Rumford makes a second appearance in the volume in "Count Rumford's Experimental Essays, etc. Essais politiques, economiaues et physiques du Comte Rumford. Vie essai, sur la conduite de Feu et l'economie du Combustion" pp 201-244, pp 297-355.