Lot 18: FARADAY, MICHAEL

Experimental Researches in Electrictiy. London: Richard Taylor, 1832

4to (11 5/8 x 9 1/4 in.; 296 x 233 mm, uncut ). 2 engraved plates comprising 39 figures; title-page soiled and skilfully restored about the edges. Original blue wrappers; upper wrapper spotted and faded, some offsetting from Garden morocco ticket. Quarter blue morocco folding-case.

Dibner 64; Grolier/Horblit 29 (citing the 1839 reprint); PMM 308 (citing the reprint); Sotheran, Bibliotheca chemico-mathematica 1:1287. Not in the Horblit or Honeyman sale.

César M. Depretz (1792–1863), the French physicist and chemist, from the author — Jeremy Norman & Co., booksellers (their catalogue 5, no. 97 [1978]) — The Garden copy (bookplate and sale, Sotheby's New York, 9–10 November 1989, lot 179)