[Pressure Cooker] PAPIN, Denis. La Manière d'amolir les os et faire cuire toutes sortes de Viandes … Continuation du Digesteur ou Manière d'amolir les os Seconde partie.Amsterdam, Desbordes, 1688.
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Description
2 parts in 1 vol. 12mo, mm. 150x90; Contemporary full velum binding, title written on the spine, sprayed edges; pp. 12, 127, 2 copper plates out text; pp. 13, 240, 2 copper plates out text.
A total of 4 copper plates.
RARE AND IMPORTANT FIGURATIVE WORK that describes the invention of the pressure cooker.
The first part is the SECOND ÉDITION of the French translation of the "New Digester", while the second part is the first translation of the "Continuation of the New Digester"; translations are of the same Papin Very beautiful wide plates with the "digester", the details of the pump and the famous Valve Papin, who had discovered that the boiling temperature of water increases with increasing pressure, used this his invention for cooking the meat and to extract the gelatin from bone; to avoid the explosion of the container Papin invented the "pressure valve", which gives detailed description here•Zeitlinger, II Suppl., nn. 5828 & 5830; Poggendorff, II, 355; Partington, II, 520; Walleriana, 20073 a & b.
Nice specimen.
A total of 4 copper plates.
RARE AND IMPORTANT FIGURATIVE WORK that describes the invention of the pressure cooker.
The first part is the SECOND ÉDITION of the French translation of the "New Digester", while the second part is the first translation of the "Continuation of the New Digester"; translations are of the same Papin Very beautiful wide plates with the "digester", the details of the pump and the famous Valve Papin, who had discovered that the boiling temperature of water increases with increasing pressure, used this his invention for cooking the meat and to extract the gelatin from bone; to avoid the explosion of the container Papin invented the "pressure valve", which gives detailed description here•Zeitlinger, II Suppl., nn. 5828 & 5830; Poggendorff, II, 355; Partington, II, 520; Walleriana, 20073 a & b.
Nice specimen.
