Apr 03, 2014 - Sale 2343

Sale 2343 - Lot 78

Price Realized: $ 344
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
GUILLEMIN, AMEDÉE-VICTOR. Le Monde Physique. 113 plates, including 31 chromolithographs; 2042 text illustrations. [4], xxxii, 872; [4], 668, [12]; [4], 1007, [1]; [4], 772; [4], 1024 pages, including half-titles. 5 volumes. 4to, 266x187 mm, publisher's red morocco-backed cloth elaborately blocked in gold and black, white textured paper endleaves; scattered foxing, generally not affecting plates. Paris: Hachette et Cie., 1881-85

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Expanded edition of a secondary school textbook dealing with the physical world originally published in 1867. The 5 volumes deal, respectively, with gravitation and sound; light and optics; magnetism and electricity; heat; and meteorology and molecular physics. BEA, page 449-50.