Apr 03, 2014 - Sale 2343

Sale 2343 - Lot 19

Price Realized: $ 469
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
BECQUEREL, HENRI. Recherches sur une Propriété Nouvelle de la Matière: Activité Radiante Spontanée ou Radioactivité de la Matière. 13 photographic plates. 4to, 282x226 mm, original wrappers, spine cracked, some stains on front cover; minor marginal foxing on plate 4, contents otherwise clean; uncut and unopened; 1/4 morocco slipcase. Paris, 1903
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first edition. Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences de l'Institut de France, Volume 46. An extended account of Becquerel's investigations into radioactivity, for which he shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in physics with Pierre and Marie Curie. DSB I, 560; Norman 158; Printing and the Mind of Man 393.