SOME COMPILED BY ROBERT FULTON'S RIVALSOME COMPILED BY ROBERT FULTON'S RIVAL FERDINANDO FAIRFAX (SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING.) Volume of pamphlets on steam power and other subjects. 19 volumes in one. 8vo, contemporary 1/2 calf, moderate wear, original spine title reading "Miscellany"; intermittent foxing and dampstaining, lacking front free endpaper; various early owners' inscriptions. Vp, mostly American imprints, 1793-1816pages, Washington City, 1816). Other highlights include: Strickland, "Observations on the Agriculture of the United States of America" (London, 1801) * Blanchard, "Journal of my Forty-Fifth Ascension, Being the First Performed in America," incomplete but with frontispiece ballooning plate present (Philadelphia, 1793) * Varle, "Topographical Description of the Counties of Frederick, Berkeley, and Jefferson, Situated in the State of Virginia," lacking map (Winchester, VA, 1810) * "Articles of Association of the Bank of Potomac," one copy in OCLC (Alexandria, VA, 1805) * Moore, "An Essay on the Most Eligible Construction of Ice-Houses, also a Description of the Newly Invented Machine Called the Refrigerator" (Baltimore, 1803) * and Munro, "A Description of the Genesee County, in the State of New-York," with map (New York, 1804). Ferdinando Fairfax did not sign the binding, but his signature appears on three title pages, many reflect his known interests, and they were bound in the early 19th century. The front pastedown is signed by a Confederate soldier, John P. Yowell of the 12th Virginia Cavalry, and the rear pastedown by Eliza Moreland. A more detailed inventory of the contents is available upon request.