CARNOT, Essai sur les machines en général, 1786

First edition, second issue.
Only two copies of the first edition, dated 1782, are known. This 'Nouvelle édition' is, in fact, the first edition, second issue: it differs from the first only by a cancel title and the addition (in some copies) of an errata leaf.

The Essay was a precursor to the concept of conservation of work (or "motive power"), predating the formal formulation of the first law of thermodynamics.
The Essay on Machines, by the father, is the crucible in which Sadi Carnot, the son, would found a new science in 1824: thermodynamics.

Bound with :
- CARNOT, Principes fondamentaux de l'équilibre et du mouvement, Paris, Deterville, 1803
xxii-262-(1) pages et 2 planches.
- BIOT, Analyse du traité de mécanique céleste de P.S. Laplace, Paris, Duprat, An IX [1801]
(2)-93 pages.
- BIOT, Essai sur l'histoire générale des sciences pendant la révolution française, Paris, Duprat, 1803
(4)-83 pages
- Discours prononcé à l'ouverture du lycée de Clérmont, Clermont, Landriot, 8 février 1808
23 pages.