Faraday, Michael | Experimental Researches in Electricity, London, 1839, first edition

Michael, Faraday

Experimental Researches in Electricity. London: Richard and John Edward Taylor, 1839

First edition.

Two (of 3) volumes bound as 1, 8vo (212 x 133 mm). Engraved folding plates at rear of vol. 1, and 5 engraved plates, 2 of which are folding, at rear of vol. 2; pale spotting to plates and very infrequently in the margins of the text. Early full calf, gilt supralibros to boards, gilt decorated spine, red spine label, marbled edges; boards detached, rubbed and worn, spine label chipped.

PROVENANCE

William Steele (Second prize bookplate and gilt supralibros from Glasgow University, the bookplate signed by Scottish mathematician, physicist, and engineer William Thomson, Lord Kelvin and dated May 1st, 1847) — Robert S. Dunham (acquired from Scientific Library Service in 1977; Sotheby's New York, 11 December 1993, lot 665, part)