ON LIQUEFACTION and SOLIDIFICATION of BODIES, Generally Existing as Gases. by FARADAY, Michael. PRESENTATION COPY.:

London, from the Philosophical Transactions, printed by R. & J.E.Taylor, 1845.. 18454 - Part 1, PRESENTATION TO TOP OF TITLE PAGE: "REV. DR. ROBINSON (?) FROM THE AUTHOR". 4to, approximately 300 x 230 mm, 11¾ x 9 inches, 2 small text illustrations, pages: title page, 155-177, [1 - blank], bound in pale grey wrappers. Wrappers dusty and lightly stained, spine worn with loss of paper, old ink notes to top cover, 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.