| Description | There is a manuscript letter pasted facing the title page, which reads: 'The Batavian Society of Experimental Philosophy at Rotterdam, having made up an History of the Steam-engine in Holland, thinks it proper and dutifull to offer an Exemplar of this work to the principal Constructor and Improver of that important machine who had so great a share in its establishment in this Land, the celbrius James Watt Esqr. member of said Society Gerh. Gysb. Den Haaff Pres. Director. O. C. Eickman Secretaris.' |