Heat: its sources, influences and results.

(London): The Religious Tract Society, 1941.  First edition.  Hardcover.  14cm by 11cm.  196 pages.  Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, a further 15 engraved plates, and numerous illustrations in the text.  The work explores the significance of heat in both natural phenomena and daily life. Chapters delve into topics such as the importance of heat to vegetable and animal life, sources of heat, expansion of solids by heat, the thermometer, conduction and radiation of heat, discovery of latent heat, ebullition, evaporation, capacities of bodies for heat, solar phosphori, and combustion, the “negro” skin. The 16 engraved plates depict various scenes, including tropical landscapes, Indian cottages, storms in the Pyrenees, icebergs, polar scenes, water-spouts, Mount Etna, fiery ships, and earthquakes, enhancing the text’s exploration of heat-related phenomena.​ A good copy, heavily foxed, in original green cloth elaborately stamped in gilt and blind, all edges gilt; wear at junction of spine and front board, some rubbing at corners.