Fan Engineering. An Engineer's Handbook on Air, Its Movement and Distribution in Air Conditioning (etc.)

Buffalo, NY: Buffalo Forge Company, 1948. Fifth Edition. A gift copy, with front cover personalized in gilt (see scan). Tri-fold foldout psychometric graph-chart, two-sided, at pages 39 & 40. 12mo, black leatherette flexible boards with gilt imprinting on cover and spine, gray endpapers, light orange page edges, 808 pp. Fine; an outstanding example of its type and genre. Flawless but for micro-touches at places on perimeter. See scans. Collected by Richard Madison (with the project overseen in earlier incarnations by Willis H. Carrier - the "Father of Air Conditioning"), this is as collectible an example of this information-dense handbook, famous within its field, as you'll ever see. There seem to be enough varieties of this classic for it to be a collector's focus in itself. L-40n