Practical and Experimental Researches in Hydraulics
by Peacocke, R. A., C. E
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- Condition
- Good
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Topsfield, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Trent and Roberts (Bibliotheca Mechanica) seem unaware that this work was also published (pagination as here) in John Weale's "Quarterly Papers of Engineering", Volume 5, 1846. That serial's preface notes the intent to inform readers about "the first period of English mechanical and manufacturing ingenuity" noting that the cost to review patents was prohibitive at the time. A review of OCLC/Worldcat finds each of the other titles in Vol V also listed separately, and without reference to the specific publishing history. This supports the conclusion that each, as here, was apparently separately bound and sold without the original title page or references bound in. We have not been able to determine which was printed first (the separate works or the volume).
Regardless, it is rare in the marketplace and an interesting illustrated early work on British hydraulics. As of this listing there are 2 copies (as here) noted in OCLC/Worldcat (Cornell and University of Toronto) one of which is ex-Bibliotheca Mechanica. We have been able to trace only one other copy.
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- Kuenzig Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 23622
- Title
- Practical and Experimental Researches in Hydraulics
- Author
- Peacocke, R. A., C. E
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- [ John Weale ]
- Place of Publication
- n.p. [ London ]
- Date Published
- 1845
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