Description: The Uses and Abuses of Air: Showing Its Influence in Sustaining Life, and Producing Disease; with Remarks on Ventilation of Houses, and the Best Methods of Securing a Pure and Wholesome Atmosphere Inside of Dwellings, Churches, Court-Rooms, Workshops, and Buildings of All Kinds, By John H. Griscom, J.S. Redfield, New York, 1850, 252 pp plus publisher’s adverts [13], twenty-three illustrations, nine color lithographs, full original leather, 7.75 x 5”, 12mo. In good condition. Light wear to extremities with minor scuffing along edges and corners. Desiccation present at edges with light scuffing at surface of leather. Spine dried with cracking at bottom and top compartments. Bookplate of Penn State Architecture professor Maurice Robert des Marais on pastedown. Old hand ownership of Henry Lyman dated 1853 on title. Offsetting from signature on following leaf. Light toning throughout with minor instances of foxing. Some offsetting from plates. Free of known marginalia. Binding tight and intact. Please see photos. Second edition, first published in 1849. The author was a physician of the New York Hospital. He uses color lithographic diagrams to illustrate the flow of air through rooms; this was a convention that can be seen in other similar books of the later 19th-century, but this is quite an early instance. COLN1850ADED-923
Price: 175 USD
Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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Binding: Leather
Language: English
Author: John H. Griscom
Publisher: J.S. Redfield
Topic: Science
Subject: Engineering
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