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220 - 2 works, 7 volumes:
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Estimate €50 - €80

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2 works, 7 volumes: - PECLET (E.). Treatise on Heat Considered in its Applications. Fourth edition published by A. Hudelo. Paris, Masson, 1878, 3 in-8 volumes, VII pp. – 624 pp. – 2 pp. – 1 separate plate – 1 folio – 583 pp. – 1 folio – 618 pp. – 3 double-page plans. - Numerous technical woodcut illustrations throughout the 3 volumes. Publisher’s binding in red half-shagreen, ribbed spine, wide fillets. – A few faint foxing spots or faint water stains. Combustion and fuels; flow of compressed gases; chimneys; air movements produced by machines or by jets of steam; fireplaces; emission and transmission of heat; vaporisation; distillation; evaporation; drying... Also included: - NADAULT de BUFFON (Benjamin). Course on Agriculture and Agricultural Hydraulics, comprising the general principles of rural economics, and the various works aimed at improving water management in the interests of agriculture... Paris, Carillian-Gœury, widow of Dalmont, 1853–1858, 3 tomes in 4 volumes, in-8, 2ff.–VIIIpp.–480pp.–2ff.–pp. 481 to 974 – 2ff.–508pp.–2ff.– 9 folded maps – 2ff.–606pp.– 9 folded technical plates. Stapled. - Copy largely uncut. Some foxing; volume IV is detached, spine broken, and its first few leaves are creased.

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220 - 2 works, 7 volumes: See original version (French)

220 - 2 works, 7 volumes:
See original version (French)