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ESQUISSE HISTORIQUE des Principales Decouvertes faites dans L'ELECTRICITE depuis quelques annees.
by De la Rive, Auguste 06b
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG book. 1st thus. 8"x5", 239 pages, errata slip on last page.
- Seller
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Lyndonville, New York, United States
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About This Item
Geneve: Bibliotheque Universalle. VG book. 1st thus. 8"x5", 239 pages, errata slip on last page.. 1833. 1st thus. Hardcover. VG book. Modern rebind in half brown morocco & marbled paper boards. Lightly foxed text; pre & postlims a bit more so, . Published by the Bibliotheque Universelle in 1833, who published most of de la Rive's papers. Publisher's full name was "Bibliotheque universelle des sciences, belle-lettres et arts". He became its head in 1836. Book is cited on p.241 (shown on PIX 5) of Soret's 1877 "AUGUSTE DE LE RIVE Notice Biographique". The book is a survey of the knowledge of electricity up to 1833. Rive wrote another comprehensive survey in the 1850s titled "Traite d'electricite theorique et appliquee" It's as widely known as "Esquisse Historique" is not. The Concise Dictionary of Scientific Biography has three sentences on de la Rive, the last being "Was a leader in the Swiss scientific community ...". Uncommon. WorldCat finds the hard cover book in only 14 libraries. Rare Book Hub records have no listings. American Book Prices Current show none ever auctioned. ABPC records go back 100+ years. Nor has a copy ever been sold on . .
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- Bookseller
- Quiet Friends
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001608
- Title
- ESQUISSE HISTORIQUE des Principales Decouvertes faites dans L'ELECTRICITE depuis quelques annees.
- Author
- De la Rive, Auguste 06b
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG book. 1st thus. 8"x5", 239 pages, errata slip on last page.
- Edition
- 1st thus
- Publisher
- Bibliotheque Universalle
- Place of Publication
- Geneve
- Date Published
- 1833
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- VG book. Modern rebind in half brown morocco & marbled paper boards., Lightly foxed text; pre & postlims a bit more so,, electricity, magnatism, Faraday
- Bookseller catalogs
- science;
Terms of Sale
Quiet Friends
Visa, M/C, MO, Check. Shipping is free for a "regular" weight book. But for heavier books, and multi volume sets, we ask for any additional postage. Basically we pay the first $3.
About the Seller
Quiet Friends
Biblio member since 2008
Lyndonville, New York
About Quiet Friends
We sell about 75% internet, 25% book fairs. We have been in business since the early 90's. We pack extremely well. We describe very conservatively and have only a few returns in the 5000 orders we have mailed.
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- 1st Thus
- This indicates that this is not the first appearance of a book in print, but that this is the first appearance in a...
- Worldcat
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
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