Traites sur les aimans artificiels...
Paris.
Chez Hippolyte-Louis Guerin l'aine, 1752.
First French edition.
8vo.
cxx, 160pp. With four engraved folding plates. Contemporary gilt-tooled mottled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, all edges red. Extremities worn, recently rebacked and recornered, preserving contemporary spine panel. Marbled endpapers, very occasional light spotting.
The first edition in French of Michell and Canton's influential treatise on the production of artificial magnets, first printed at London in 1751
£ 150.00
Antiquates Ref: 26409
