Nov 09, 2010 - Sale 2229
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Sale 2229 - Lot 178

Price Realized: $ 180
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Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
MICHELL, JOHN; and CANTON, JOHN. Traités sur les Aimans Artificiels. 4 folding engraved plates. [8], cxx, 160 pages. 12mo, contemporary mottled sheep gilt, spine and cover edges heavily worn; last 3 plates dampstained in blank lower inner corner. Paris: Hippolyte-Louis Guérin, 1752
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First edition in French of 2 important tracts on artificial magnets, translated by the Jesuit Antoine Rivoire, with a long preface by him on related experiments by Duhamel and Antheaume. DSB III, 51; Wheeler Gift 358b.