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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
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FARADAY (MICHAEL)
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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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