Item #55013 Safety apparatus for steam boilers ... with an account of the experiments made upon it, by the ccommittee on explosions of the Franklin Institute [wrapper title]. Alexander Dallas Bache.

Inscribed by Franklin's great grandson

Safety apparatus for steam boilers ... with an account of the experiments made upon it, by the ccommittee on explosions of the Franklin Institute [wrapper title].

Franklin Institute, 1832. First separate edition (originally published in the Journal of the Franklin Institute, volume X), 8vo, pp. 11, [1]; one table and 2 small illustrations in the text; original green printed wrappers. Inscribed "Phillip H. Nicklin Esq. from A. D. Bache" at the top of the front wrapper. Nicklin (1786-1842) was an American bookseller, publisher and writer, and served as a trustee at the University of Pennsylvania. Four copies in OCLC: Pisa (Italy) without wrappers; plus Harvard, Edinburgh and Utrecht. Item #55013

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