Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362

Sale 2362 - Lot 309

Price Realized: $ 422
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
FARADAY, MICHAEL. Experimental Researches in Electricity. 17 folding plates. [iii]-viii, 574; [iii]-viii, 302; viii, 588 pages, including half-title in Volume 3 only. 3 volumes. 8vo, 218x142 mm, 1/2 green calf gilt by John Bumpus, scuffed; infrequent light foxing. Armorial bookplates of Sir David Salomons, Bart. London, 1839-44-55 [i. e., reprint, 1855 or later?]

Additional Details

19th-century facsimile of the first edition in book form of Faraday's papers on electricity and magnetism. Grolier/Horblit 29; Printing and the Mind of Man 308 (citing the original edition).