114306-01
Recherches physiques sur l'électricité.
Paris, Clousier, 1782. - (20,5 x 13 cm). VIII, 461 (richtig 467) (3) S. Mit 5 gefalteten Kupfertafeln. Moderner Halblederband im Stil der Zeit.
Erste Ausgabe. - "Accepted theories are attacked and 214 experiments described which are held to prove the author's own theories. Many complimentary references are, however, made to Franklin" (W-G). - "This, like the rest of the author's works, is full of original ideas and experiments. Pp. 345-53 contain an interesting chapter: 'Des Phénoménes électriques relatifs á l'Ebranlement de la Lumiére,' in which he attempts an explanation of the phenomena" (Sotheran). - "The future revolutionary Jean Paul Marat was born at Boudry near Neuchâtel in Switzerland... He became physician to the 'Garde du Corps' of the Count of Artois, the later King Charles X... Marat was soon the most fashionable physician in Paris with a selected clientele from the aristocracy. But - in the years before the revolution he gave up his social position, passionately entered politics, and became a horrible demagogue. As is well known, he was killed in 1793 by the idealistic young woman Charlotte de Corday" (Ekelöf). - Exlibris. Vereinzelt gering stockfleckig. Die Seiten 289-304 verbunden, sonst gut erhalten. - Ekelöf 557; Wheeler-Gift 509 (mit ganzseitiger Abbildung des Titelblatts); Ronalds 322; The Bakken 83; Sotheran 2nd Suppl. 5499.
Recherches physiques sur l'électricité.
Paris, Clousier, 1782. - (20,5 x 13 cm). VIII, 461 (richtig 467) (3) S. Mit 5 gefalteten Kupfertafeln. Moderner Halblederband im Stil der Zeit.
Erste Ausgabe. - "Accepted theories are attacked and 214 experiments described which are held to prove the author's own theories. Many complimentary references are, however, made to Franklin" (W-G). - "This, like the rest of the author's works, is full of original ideas and experiments. Pp. 345-53 contain an interesting chapter: 'Des Phénoménes électriques relatifs á l'Ebranlement de la Lumiére,' in which he attempts an explanation of the phenomena" (Sotheran). - "The future revolutionary Jean Paul Marat was born at Boudry near Neuchâtel in Switzerland... He became physician to the 'Garde du Corps' of the Count of Artois, the later King Charles X... Marat was soon the most fashionable physician in Paris with a selected clientele from the aristocracy. But - in the years before the revolution he gave up his social position, passionately entered politics, and became a horrible demagogue. As is well known, he was killed in 1793 by the idealistic young woman Charlotte de Corday" (Ekelöf). - Exlibris. Vereinzelt gering stockfleckig. Die Seiten 289-304 verbunden, sonst gut erhalten. - Ekelöf 557; Wheeler-Gift 509 (mit ganzseitiger Abbildung des Titelblatts); Ronalds 322; The Bakken 83; Sotheran 2nd Suppl. 5499.
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