Oct 20, 2009 - Sale 2190

Sale 2190 - Lot 99

Price Realized: $ 480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
GRAPENGIESSER, CARL JOHANN CHRISTIAN. Versuche den Galvanismus zur Heilung einiger Krankheiten anzuwenden. 2 folding engraved plates (foxed). 8vo, contemporary marbled boards; minor foxing on preliminaries and plates, contemporary stamp of the ducal library of Neustrelitz on title verso. Berlin, 1801

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first edition of an early work on electrotherapy. "Grapengiesser was the first physician to use Volta's 'pile,' the first battery, which Volta first described in print in 1800"--Garrison-Morton 1988.1. For Volta's paper see lot 192.