Memoire sur la Distribution de L’Electricite a …

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1st Edition. 4to, modern blue cloth, gilt spine title on black label. 31×23.5 cm. De L’Imrpimerie Royale. Turin. 1845. 333 pp. Near fine, some spots to covers, uncut and unread. French text. Scarce first edition of this book on electrical theory by the famous Italian mathematical physicist and astronomer Giovanni Plana, a contemporary of Ampere and Faraday. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to Swiss astronomer Alfred Gautier of Geneva on the front endpaper. weight: Heavy book, may require extra shipping.3.0 lb.