Thompson Benjamin Count Rumford (57 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition thus. Octavo, 9 1/8" tall, xvii + 503 pages, gray cloth. A very good, clean, sturdy hard cover overall with light shelf wear, but foxing color loss to the cloth at the top of the front cover ; hinges and binding solid, paper cream white. In a very good, moderately worn dust jacket with price clipped. …

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

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Price clipped. Out of print.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: Very Good. 8 pages as issued. Folio. (9.5 x 14 ins). FEATURING approx 500 line account of Pellico's ordeal. A crisp copy of the original Weekly Newspaper. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: Folio (23 x 33 cms). Category: Chambers' Edinburgh Journal; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket. 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. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket. 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.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book text block is solid clean and unmarked. Dust jacket shows wear, small closed tear on top front, shelf wear evedent, price clipped.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

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Paperback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

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.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good 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.…

Paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Vol. 2 ONLY. Half leather with brown marbled paper. Gilt decorated spine and label. Marbled end papers. Book plate of Samuel Hubbard inside front cover. Hubbard was a prominent Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Justice. Some wear along the joints, minor scuffs and light flaking to spine. Some wear to tips. Hinges firm. Offsetting of images on plates onto facing pages. Good solid copy of this desirable book.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

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. 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. 1 Kg.…

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.…