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Engelmann, p. 35 ; Recke/Napiersky III, p. 367 ; ADB XXV, 184 ; Poggendorff II, 365 ; not in Tomash Library Cat. First and only edition. The book contains two chapters, the first covering pages 1-90 with a detailed description of this mathematical instrument, the second its mathematical derivation with numerous examples. After starting his career as a teacher in southern Germany and France, Parrot (1767-1852) was very successful as a professor of physics and rector of the University of Dorpat from 1795. One folding plate with the various parts of the instrument.

Woodcut title-vignette, XXXIV (recte XXXVI), 47 pages, XLIII pages with tables of which four folding, 22 (one folding) engraved plates. Cont. calf, richly gilt spine with red morocco label. All edges gilt. Multipe coloured shell marbled end-papers. Engraved book label of one Thihavsky - Lieutenant Colonel d'Artillerie pasted onto front paste-down. Folio. (405 x 265 mm). Extremeties rubbed, three tiny traces of worming to covers. First and only edition. A report of a commission initiated by the Austrian archduke Charles to investigate effective wood-burning stoves in public and private premises. The furnaces for military facilities, hospitals and schools, prisons and bathing establishments, as well as cooking hobs for public facilities, laundry kettles and stoves for industrial purposes of dyeing and cloth manufacture are shown on the plates, together with thorough tabular listings of production costs, maintenance and consumption data. Furthermore recommendations for furnaces for private use with a… Leer más

(3) pages letterpress text, 6 lithographed plates. Publisher's wrappers with printed blue title shield to front cover. Uncut. Folio (480 x 320 mm). Slightly soiled. Engel. Bibl. Faustiana 1822 ; cf. Sammlung Kippenberg 1903 ("Verlag von Otto Humburg & Co." no date (obviously a remainder copy without the original wrappers; the Otto Humburg publishing house started its business around 1865) ; Rümann. 19. Jahrhundert 635. First edition. One of the rarest and at the same time most unusual suites to illustrate Goethe's Faust, and also one of the largest in size. Only a few copies with the original wrappers can be found; this is important because the suite was issued without a title page, so the title and imprint can only be found here. "(Er) wurde bekannt durch seine Illustrationen in Arabeskenform zu Goethes Faust und ebensolche zu Ossians Gedichten (Berlin, 1835)" (Thieme/Becker XVI, p 47). - "Carl Harnisch, born in Altenburg, Germany on January 1, 1800, worked as an artist and created designs for… Leer más