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(ARCHITECTURE). RUTTAN, HENRY. Ventilation and Warming of Buildings. Illustrated by Fifty-Four Plates, Exemplying the Exhaustion Principle, to which is added a Complete Description and Illustration of the Ventilation of Railway Carriages, for Both Winter and Summer. New York: G.P. Putnam, 1862. 1st ed. Sm. 4to. 12, 106 pp. Plate 36 is a large folding plate; plate 35 is not published (as per NUC). Orig. cloth, outer spine splitting, but sound. $375.00
A pioneering work on ventilation upon "the exhaustion principle," and a very scarce work, with fine plates.