EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCHES IN ELECTRICITY. Offprint from The Philosophical Transactions. (TWENTY-NINTH SERIES).
by FARADAY, Michael. PRESENTATION COPY.:
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London, 1851.. 1852, PRESENTATION AT TOP OF FIRST PAGE "REV. DR. ROBINSON (?) FROM THE AUTHOR". 4to, approximately 300 x 230 mm, 11¾ x 9 inches, pages: 137-159, [1 - blank], engraved plate at end, some pages uncut, bound in pale grey wrappers. Wrappers dusty with some pale browning, pale stain to margins of engraved plate, light foxing to plate, pale age-browning to last blank, pencil and old ink notes to top cover, faint vertical crease to covers and text, edges of covers showing slight wear and handling, otherwise a very good copy. See: Hook & Norman, The Haskell F. Norman Library of Science & Medicine, Volume 1, page 279, No. 760. "Virtually all of Faraday's contributions to electricity and magnetism were published in this series of papers in Philosophical Transactions. Faraday presented individual offprints from the series, as well as various collections of offprints, before the publication of the papers in book form"; Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Volume iv, pages 527-540. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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- EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCHES IN ELECTRICITY. Offprint from The Philosophical Transactions. (TWENTY-NINTH SERIES).
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- FARADAY, Michael. PRESENTATION COPY.:
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