La Mechanique du Feu oder Kunst Die Würckng des Feuers zu vermehren, und die Kosten davon zu verringern
by Gauger Nicholas
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Condition
- Seller
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Roslindale, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Hanover: Nicholas Förster, 1717. First Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Very Good Condition. Early leather backed marbled boards, recornered in vellum. Wear at edges, front hinges a little rubbed but binding sound. Old ownership marks to title, scattered foxing and browning, heavier in spots. With the frontis from the French edition (1714) and 15 folding plates. [14],318,[10]pp. The first German edition, first published in French in 1714 (with only 12 plates). An important book on fireplace design and ventilation. Gauger's advances formed the underpinnings of the designs of Benjamin Franklin and Count Rumford. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; Cooking, Wine & Dining. Inventory No: 045346.
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- Bookseller
- Pazzo Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 045346
- Title
- La Mechanique du Feu oder Kunst Die Würckng des Feuers zu vermehren, und die Kosten davon zu verringern
- Author
- Gauger Nicholas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Quarter Leather)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Nicholas Förster
- Place of Publication
- Hanover
- Date Published
- 1717
- Keywords
- Science & Technology; Cooking, Wine & Dining. NOISBN
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Pazzo Books
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About the Seller
Pazzo Books
Biblio member since 2003
Roslindale, Massachusetts
About Pazzo Books
For years an open shop in the Boston neighborhoods of Roslindale and West Roxbury, now by appointment only and back in Roslindale. We carry a range of rare and out of print books with strengths in literature, cookery and early printing. We are members of the ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...