Kitchens & cookery. 1799 On the Construction of Kitchen fire-places by Count Rumford

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Kitchens & cookery. 1799 On the Construction of Kitchen fire-places and Kitchen Utensils, together with Remarks and Observations relating to the various Processes of Cookery and Proposals for Improving that Most Useful Art. Essay X, Part I of Count Rumford's Experimental Essays, Political, Economical, and Philosophical. London: printed by A. Strahan for T. Cadell. Publisher's original printed boards, edgeworn, a mark to the front board and a few abrasions and losses to the edges, a wormhole to the rear board, with a few scuffs and marks besides. Boards loose (front board with endpaper and pages i-ii of the ads attached), disbound besides. Contemporary ink measurements for 'my iron oven' to the front pastedown, and to margin of p.72 (with measurements for a fire-flow added); three marginal pointers, one in pencil, two ink. Four pages of advertisements, 94pp, seven plates bound to rear (wormhole to final two plates). Scarce; Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, was a prominent American-British military officer, inventor and scientist, whose studies in heat and insulation led to the development of improvements for chimneys and ovens, and the invention of the modern kitchen range, the sous vide method of cookery, and the Rumford Fireplace. 8vo. (1) Publisher: A. Strahan for T. Cadel Publisher Location: London Publication Date: 1799 Binding: Hardcover