BENJAMIN COUNT OF RUMFORD (8 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 4th Edition. largecr8vo, [x], 464; [iv], 196pp, 6 full page engraved plates by Neele at end, and a further 6 wood engraved plates containing 14 figures, with an attractive engraved view of the Military Workhouse at Munich before essay one. Nineteenth century green binder's cloth, gilt. Name cut from title Vol. 1 not affecting text, old oval stamp of Kilmarnock Infirmary on title o/w VG+ tight and clean copy containing essays I through VI as often found.

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.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 8vo. First Edition, 498 pp + ad, 7 engraved plates, and many wood engraved ills in text. This 'new edition' of Vol 3. is in fact the first and only appearance in print (London) and supplements the 2 vols of Essays (first published 1796-7). There was a fourth volume published in 1812 (essays 16-18). In these essays (10-15) Rumford turns his attention to kitchens and cooking where, along with essays on warm rooms, warm bathing etc, he demonstrates his observation and theories on heat and heating. ESTC T148699. aeg, some foxing, mainly to to foredges, marbled eps. good tight copy in full straight grained red morocco, extremities worn, boards a little scuffed, corners lightly bumped but good. Please see photos supplied. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cloth. Zustand: 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. Zustand: Gut bis sehr gut. Rumford, Benjamin Count of. Essays, political, economical, and philosophical. Bde. I u. II. London, T. Cadell / W. Davies, 1796 u. 1798. Vortit., Tit., 2 Bll., 11 Bll., 464 S., 1 Textabb. (Ansicht München, Arbeitshaus der Armee) u. 14 Fig. auf 6 Kupfertafeln; Tit., 2 Bll., 496 S., 11 Kupfertafeln mit 23 Fig. (bez. S. Neele, um 1758-1824) sowie 1 mehrfach gefalt. Kupfertafel. 2 Hldr.-Bde., Saffian, mit Rückenvergoldung. - Gefolgt ab 1802 von Bdn. III u. IV. Zusammengefaßt Erfahrungen und Taten des vielseitig in Bayern aufklärerischen und reformierenden Verfassers, ab 1784 in München, zunächst General-Leibadjutant des Kurfürsten Karl Theodor, dann Oberkommandierender und Reorganisator der bayerischen Armee, 1788 Kriegsminister (1785 bereits Ehrenmitglied der Kurbayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften), 1796 Vorsitzender des Staatsrats in Verhandlung mit den kriegführenden Nationen. Als Sozialreformer hat sich Rumfort (ab 1792 Reichsgraf) mit der Einrichtung von Armenhäusern, Werkstätten und Schulen in Bayern denkwürdig gemacht, die Erinnerung an Rumford'sche Suppe hat sich erhalten. Ausführliche Beschreibung der sozialen Zustände in Bayern, insbesondere München, ausführlich 299 Seiten in Bd. I: »The Poor in Bavaria«. Das erfolgreiche Verbesserungswerk erfuhr angemessene Resonanz, die 5. Auflage bereits 1800 in London aufgrund seiner praktischen Hilfestellung bei der Einrichtung von Großküchen und Verbesserung von Massenverpflegung mit handfesten Rezepten sowie Wareneinkauf und Umgang mit Energiekosten, jeweils von ausführlich dargestellten Experimenten begleitet. Die Exemplare der Erstausgabe in gutem Zustand, jeweils Namen auf Titel, Vorsatz und Vortitel von Bd. I (dort Wasserzeichen 1794) mit handschriftlichen Anmerkungen. Hier und da gemäßigt stockfleckig.