American Steam and Hot-Water Heating Practice.

The Engineering Record, New York, 1895. Scarce. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt lettering on spine and front board, 11 x 8 1/4 inches, 317 pp., 585 illustrations (engravings: engineering and architectural drawings). Ex-library (Cooper Union) with usual markings. Else just good (stain, rear board; substantial edgewear; moderate soiling, edges of book block; some tears in the first four pages, mostly near the spine --- pages still firmly attached, and not affecting text; binding tight and pages otherwise clean). Interesting architectural drawings of numerous buildings, including the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the William J. Syms Operating Theater. "The Engineering Record (prior to 1887 The Sanitary Engineer) has for sixteen years made its department of Steam and Hot-Water Heating and Ventilation a prominent feature. Besides the weekly illustrated descriptions of notable and interesting current work, a great variety of questions in this field have been answered. In 1888 Steam-Heating Problems was published. This was a selection of questions, answers, and descriptions that had been published during the preceding nine years, and dealt mainly with steam-heating. The present book is intended to supplement this former publication, and includes a selection of the descriptions of hot-water, steam-heating, and ventilating installations in the different classes of buildings in the United States, prepared by the staff of The Engineering Record, besides a collection of questions and answers on problems arising in this department of building engineering, covering the period since 1888, in which the heating of dwellings by hot water has become popular in the United States." (3214017). Hardcover.