FARADAY MICHAEL Brief Autograph Letter Signed MFaraday to IY

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FARADAY, MICHAEL. Brief Autograph Letter Signed, "MFaraday," to I.Y. Harman: "I am very much obl'ged for your present & am also very glad to hear you are likely to succeed in obtaining better water for your Engine[?]." 1 page, 8vo, with integral blank; marked but marginal discoloration from prior matting, hole and tears along center vertical fold from inexpert removal of prior mounting (not affecting text). "R[oyal] Institution," 25 April 1839

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with--Group of 15 portraits, many engraved, of European, mostly 18th-century, men of science, philosophy, and medicine: Faraday, Eilhard Mitscherlich, John Dalton, Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, Sir David Brewster, Dugald Stewart, William Hyde Wollaston, Sir John Leslie, Samuel Crompton, John Heaviside, William Thomas Brande, Francois Arago, Michel Eugène Chevreul, J. Norman Lockyer, and Davies Gilbert.