Lot 719
  • 719

BABBAGE, 'ACCOUNT OF THE REPETITION OF M. ARAGO'S EXPERIMENTS...', 1825

Estimate
100 - 150 GBP
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Description

  • "Account of the repetition of M. Arago's experiments on the magnetism manifested by various substances during the act of rotation" [from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 115, pp. 467-96] [London, 1825]
4to (290 by 235mm.), disbound, minor spotting, minor adhesive tape repair

Literature

not in Tomash & Williams; Origins of Cyberspace 35; Van Sinderen 24

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate.
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