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CHABANNES, Jean Frédéric de, marquis de Curton (1762--1836)
[On conducting air by forced ventilation. Appendix]
Appendix to the Marquis de Chabannes' publication, on conducting air by forced ventilation, and equalizing the temperature of dwellings; published in 1818. Being a continuation of the description of the patent apparatus for warming and cooling air and liquid; and containing an account of the new water calorifere, and other apparatus: and also of the manner in which the following places have been warmed and ventilated this year: viz. the House of Commons, the Hospital, in the Marylebone Fields, adjoining the Regent's Park, ... the Hospital for Insane Patients of the Army, Fort Clarence, Chatham; and the Olympic Theatre. Illustrated with copper-plate engravings.
London (Place), to be had at the Patent Calorifere Fumivore Manufactory and Foundry, and of all booksellers in town and country,, [1819].
[36] p., [7] fold. pl. ; 20.4 cm. (8º)

Chabannes's substantive report On conducting air by forced ventilation, referred to as 'my publication of last year' on p. [35] of the present pamphlet, was published in 1818 (q.v.). Includes a description of the 'New Patent Water Calorifere' and a plan for its installation at 36 & 37 Burlington Arcades. The two plates of the Olympic Theatre are numbered. BAL Early printed books, no. 593.

Copy Notes In this copy the two leaves forming pp. [9--12] are uncut and bound as a folded leaf. Bound in a collection of pamphets.

Binding C19th half maroon roan, blind double-rule borders, marbled-paper boards, gilt double-ruled spine, gilt-lettered 'Letter to / B. West P.R.A.'. Numbered '93' in a series of pamphlet volumes.

Reference Number 5541

Additional Names Olympic Theatre; House of Commons; Patent Calorifere Fumivore Manufactory and Foundry; Opthalmia Hospital in Regent's Park; Hospital for the Insane Patients of the Army; 36 & 37 Burlington Arcades


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