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Publicado por The University of Chicago Press., Chicago IL., 1956
Librería: Hedgehog's Whimsey BOOKS etc., Newport, NH, Estados Unidos de America
Hard cover. 396+ p. Includes: illustrations, index, bibliography. Copper cloth covered boards. Red title box and front titles. Gold titles on spine box. Glossary. Appendices. 36p. plates with notes at back, pen&ink engineering drawings. Clean text pages. Fine quality materials used. Renà Antoine Ferchault, knight and seigneur of Rà aumur, 18th century France, is connected with a thermometric scale, as well as a station stop on the Paris Metro. Smith's introduction runs p. vii-xxxiv, on both Rà aumur's life and work, and his position in the history of science. Sections: Steelmaking; Softening Cast Iron. Publication funding by The American Iron and Steel Institute. Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Inside covers: age darkening particularly to glued areas interior spine, bleeding into front spine edge fold. Slight top corner bumps LOCN: 56-6637. Presumed first Chicago edition. 1 0.0.