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FARADAY (MICHAEL)
Experimental Researches in Electricity, 3 vol., first collected edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, Richard & John Edward Taylor, 1839-1855

24 June 2015, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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FARADAY (MICHAEL)

Experimental Researches in Electricity, 3 vol., first collected edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on title-pages of volume 1 ( "Dr. A. Paris from his obliged friend the author") and 2 ("Dr. Paris from the author"), half-titles in volumes 2-3 only, 17 engraved plates (mostly folding), advertisements as called for by Horblit, some dampstaining to title of volume 1 (reinforced) and plates in volume 3 (severe in places), modern calf-backed boards, spines gilt [Grolier/Horblit 29; PMM 308], 8vo, Richard & John Edward Taylor, 1839-1855

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INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM OF 'FARADAY'S MAGNUM OPUS' (Horblit), containing the 29 papers published by Faraday in Philosophical Transactions between 1832 and 1852. The collection includes all of Faraday's most important contributions to the fields of electricity, electro-magnetic induction and magnetism.

Provenance: Dr. A. Paris (presumably John Ayrton Paris, 1785-­1856, doctor, president of the Royal College Physicians, and author of a Pharmacologica and The Life of Humphrey Davy, Davy being Faraday's mentor), inscribed to him by the author; Christie's, 20 October 1999, 'Printing and the Mind of Man' sale, lot 66.

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