first edition
1868 · Boston
by DERBY, George (M.D.)
Boston: A. Williams & Company, 1868. First Edition. 12mo. Printed wrappers; 46pp. Embossed stamp of Bussy Institute (defunct) to title page; faint vertical crease; Very Good. Presentation inscription from the author to J.H. Stoner; this later amended, crossed out, with a new presentation by Stoner to the Bussy Institute, dated 1875.
Pennsylvania anthracite, so-called "stone coal," was first used as a domestic heat source in the 1830s; however, it wasn't until the later decades of the 19th century that anthracite supplanted the more available and cheaper bituminous coal common to the southern coalfields. By the turn of the 20th century it was the most widely used heat source in American homes. This brief treatise, by one of the major figures in post-Civil War American sanitary science, is one of the earliest serious studies of the public health implications of this newly-popular heating source. (Inventory #: 83561)
Pennsylvania anthracite, so-called "stone coal," was first used as a domestic heat source in the 1830s; however, it wasn't until the later decades of the 19th century that anthracite supplanted the more available and cheaper bituminous coal common to the southern coalfields. By the turn of the 20th century it was the most widely used heat source in American homes. This brief treatise, by one of the major figures in post-Civil War American sanitary science, is one of the earliest serious studies of the public health implications of this newly-popular heating source. (Inventory #: 83561)
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