BEAUFOY, Mark.

Nautical and Hydraulic Experiments, with numerous Scientific Miscellanies. Vol. I [all published].

Engraved frontis. port., 16 engraved plates, & 8 double-page printed tables. 3 p.l., cxix, [1], 688pp. Large thick 4to, orig. patterned cloth (a bit worn at extremities), printed paper label on spine, entirely uncut. London: Printed at the Private Press of Henry Beaufoy, May 1834. First edition of these important experiments. Beaufoy (1764-1827), the first Englishman to ascend Mont Blanc, was a founder of the Society for the Improvement of Naval Architecture, the first such organization to exist. “Under its auspices an important series of experiments was conducted at the Greenland Dock during the years 1793-9 by the care, and in part at the cost, of Colonel Beaufoy. Many useful results in shipbuilding were thus obtained, as well as the first practical verification in England of Euler’s theorems on the resistance of fluids. The details were printed in 1834.”–D.N.B., II, p. 51. This copy has bound-in the extra engraved presentation leaf, inscribed to the Library of the Writers to the Signet, Edinburgh. A fine and clean copy of this handsome book. Ex Bibliotheca Mechanica. ❧ Roberts & Trent, Bibliotheca Mechanica, p. 28.

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