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Scientific Instruments & Literature (Lots 38 - 75)
RUDOLF DIESEL (1858-1913)
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RUDOLF DIESEL (1858-1913)
Die Entstehung des Dieselmotors. Berlin: Julius Springer, 1913. 8° (270 x 192 mm). 3 folding plates and numerous illustrations in text. Original gilt lettered black cloth.
A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST ENLARGED EDITION of the inventor's chronological account of the origin of the diesel engine. A brief account of only 90pp. was published in the preceeding year. Both publications are EXTREMELY RARE: ABPC/AE record no copies of the 1912 edition, and only 3 copies of this present lot selling at auction, the most recent being a presentation copy in the Richard Green collection (Christie's New York, 17 June 2008, lot 88, $11,875). The work stands as testimony to Diesel's vision of using renewable energy sources like vegetable oils to fuel his engine.
Die Entstehung des Dieselmotors. Berlin: Julius Springer, 1913. 8° (270 x 192 mm). 3 folding plates and numerous illustrations in text. Original gilt lettered black cloth.
A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST ENLARGED EDITION of the inventor's chronological account of the origin of the diesel engine. A brief account of only 90pp. was published in the preceeding year. Both publications are EXTREMELY RARE: ABPC/AE record no copies of the 1912 edition, and only 3 copies of this present lot selling at auction, the most recent being a presentation copy in the Richard Green collection (Christie's New York, 17 June 2008, lot 88, $11,875). The work stands as testimony to Diesel's vision of using renewable energy sources like vegetable oils to fuel his engine.