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TESLA, NIKOLA. 1856-1943. Autograph Presentation Signed ("Nikola Tesla") to "To my friend J.L. Mott, With wishes for a happy voyage,"
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TESLA, NIKOLA. 1856-1943.
Autograph Presentation Signed ("Nikola Tesla") to "To my friend J.L. Mott, With wishes for a happy voyage," on the half-title page of A'Beckett, The Comic History of England, London: Punch Office, 1864, Illustrations by John Leach, contemporary half-morocco over marbled paper boards, some wear, front hinge tender.
COPY INSCRIBED BY NICOLA TESLA to J.L. Mott of J.L. Mott Iron Works, originally of New York but who moved to Trenton in 1902. Interestingly, in 1917, artist Marcel Duchamp found an old urinal in a J.L. Mott showroom in New York, and signed it "R. Mutt" as a play on the name. A wonderful Tesla association in a rare format.
COPY INSCRIBED BY NICOLA TESLA to J.L. Mott of J.L. Mott Iron Works, originally of New York but who moved to Trenton in 1902. Interestingly, in 1917, artist Marcel Duchamp found an old urinal in a J.L. Mott showroom in New York, and signed it "R. Mutt" as a play on the name. A wonderful Tesla association in a rare format.

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