CARNOT, Nicolas Léonard Sadi. Reflections on the motive power of fire and on the machines capable of developing this power. Paris, Bachelier, 1824. In-8° of 118 pp. 1 folding plate in fine. Paperback, blue dust jacket, title label on spine, untrimmed.
First edition, as issued, of great rarity, printed in only 600 copies. The only book published by the physicist in which he lays the foundations of thermodynamics.
Some foxing.
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