Science & the Enlightenment - Rumford ([Sir] Benjamin, Count...

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Science & the Enlightenment - Rumford ([Sir] Benjamin, Count of, LL.D., F.R.S., &c. &c.), Philosophical Papers: Being a Collection of Memoirs, Dissertations, and Experimental Investigations, Relating to Various Branches of Natural Philosophy and Mechanics/Together with Letters to Several Persons on Subjects Connected with Science and Useful Improvement, volume I (of all published), first edition, London: T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1802, lacking portrait frontispiece, pp: xxiv, 390, [2] (advert/binders' direction), 13 diagrammatic plates (12 of which fold, XI full-page and with a trimmed fore margin), one in-text illustration, further in-text mathematics and tables, early 20th century red morocco over cloth, 8vo, [1]

Provenance: 1) Malton Subscription Library; 2) and then Nottingham Reference Library, institutional binding and stamps in places.