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HERTZ (HEINRICH RUDOLF)
Untersuchungen ueber die Ausbreitung der elektrischen Kraft, FIRST EDITION, Macmillan, 1893, 8vo (2)

24 June 2015, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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HERTZ (HEINRICH RUDOLF)

Untersuchungen ueber die Ausbreitung der elektrischen Kraft, FIRST EDITION, diagrams in the text, contemporary green half morocco, spines lettered in gilt, faded [PMM 377], Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1892; Electric Waves. Being Researches on the Propagation of Electric Action with Finite Velocity through Space, first English edition, diagrams in the text, publisher's cloth, Macmillan, 1893, 8vo (2)

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The original German and first English editions of Hertz's experiments in wireless telegraphy.

Provenance: Norbertt F. Henn, ownership stamps on title and dedication of first volume.

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