Sir Benjamin, Count Rumford (1753-1814). THOMPSON

New Experiments upon Gun-powder, with occasional Observations and practical Inferences; to which are added, an Account of a new Method of determining the Velocities of all Kinds of Military Projectiles, and the Description of a very accurate Eprouvette for Gun-powder. Extract: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. LXXI, Part II, pp. (229)-328.

      Small 4to (234 x 174 mm) pp. (iii)-vi, (229)-328. Numerous tables; pages 231-234 mis-bound, but present. Modern boards, printed paper spine label. Bookplates of Haskell Norman/University of Texas, and Andras Gedeon. Fine. [Publisher: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]