Lot 374
Faraday, Michael
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 31 August 2016 at 12:00 BST
Description
Experimental Researches in Electricity... reprinted from the Philosophical Transactions of 1831-1838. London: R. & J.E. Taylor, 1839. First edition, 8vo, 8 folding plates, contemporary calf gilt with gilt stamp of The University and King's College of Aberdeen, initial blank leaf with 1841 Aberdeen University award inscription [not from Faraday] to G. Smart, plates and margin of title slightly dampstained
Footnote
Note: "Between 1832 and 1852 Faraday published twenty-nine series of papers in the Philosophical Transactions under the title "Experimental researches in electricity"; it was through these papers that his major discoveries relating to electricity and magnetism were first published. These papers, along with pertinent papers and letters published in other scientific journals, were collected in three volumes published in 1839, 1844 and 1855. " (PMM).