BECQUEREL, Antoine César. Traité expérimental de l'électricité et du magnétisme, et de leurs rapports avec les phénomènes naturels. 1834-1840.
BECQUEREL, Antoine César.
Traité expérimental de l'électricité et du magnétisme, et de leurs rapports avec les phénomènes naturels.
Paris, Firmin Didot, 1834-1840.
Eight parts in four 8vo (216x134 mm), (4)-563-(1) pages / (4)-517-(2)-(1 bl. Errata. Without the addition leaf to the errata) pages and 6 folding plates / (4)-xvi-450 pages and 6 folding plates / (4)-xxv-(1 bl.)-333-(3) pages and 3 folding plates / (4)-316 pages and 2 folding plates / (4)-iv-288 pages and 5 folding plates / (4)-440 pages and 5 folding plates / (4)-547-(1 bl.) pages and 18 folding plates. The 28 plates of the atlas are bound at their place, at the and of the three last parts.
Bound after, xvi-300 pages (Becquerel. Résumé de l'histoire de l'électricité et du magnetisme. 1858). binding : Moder quarter limp vellum, flat spine, title and volume number in gilt on lettering-pieces.
Rare first edition of ono of the most important work of Becquerel.
references: Wheeler Gift [882 : "Comprehensive treatise on electricity and magnetism, theorical, practical and historical (...). The first thorough treatise on modern electricity"], DSB [I, p. 557 : one of "his most important books"], Honneyman [I, 261], Sotheran [I, 6091 : " containing the results of the author's important discoveries in electricity and magnetism"].
Price : 2200 €
