A treatise on ventilators
Subtitle: Wherein an account is given of the happy effects of the several trials that have been made of them, in different ways and for different purposes: which has occasioned their being received with general approbation and applause, on account of their utility for the great benefit of mankind. As also of what farther hints and improvements in several other useful ways, have occurred since the publication of the former treatise. Part second
By: By Stephen Hales, D.D. Clerk of the Closet to her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, F.R.S. and Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris and Bolognia
Contributors: Jefferys, Thomas, -1771, engraver; Manby, Richard, -1769, bookseller; Samuel Johnson and William Samuel Johnson Libraries (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: Printed for Richard Manby.
Published: 1758
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
Subjects: Ventilation; Early works to 1800; Air quality management; Ships; Heating and ventilation; Seawater; Distillation
Other titles: Treatise on ventilators. Part second
Notes: Continuation of the author's A description of ventilators, first printed in 1743.

Plates are numbered III-V; the first part, of which this is a continuation, contains two plates numbered I-II.

The plates signed: T. Jeffreys sculp.

Signatures: [A]¹ B-Y⁸ Z⁸( -Z8).

Includes index.

Final page blank.

English short title catalogue (ESTC), T100918

Gift; Johnson family; 1914.